More on Nick Coleman. I always thought he'd someday be found out ripping off the wit and wisdom of Jim Klobuchar or at the very least, the back catalog of Katherine Lanpher. Reader Tom Rolfes speculates that he may be leaning on another crutch for inspiration:
In Minneapolis on business this week and read the Coleman article in black and white. Two thoughts: First, I shared your opinion...for a $100, Coleman could bring 20 homeless to see the Ice Palace. Second, Coleman was channeling Red Sovine.
Minneapolis isn't near Appalachia, so you may not know who Red Sovine is. Red was famous for such spoken/not sung hits as "Phantom 309" (a truck-driving ghost story) and "Giddyup Go" (a US country number 1 about a truck-driver being reunited with his son). His all time best though was the million selling saga "Teddy Bear". It gets a lot of play on the C&W/trucker stations around here because (I think) it is a tear jerker about a crippled, fatherless kid at Christmas time. The kid is orphaned because daddy was a-high-ballin a load and got in an awful wreck. The kid somehow winds up in Red's truck and drifts peacefully off to death without the Teddy Bear daddy was supposed to bring him. Yikes.
I have to admit, I thought Red came back through Coleman. Don't actually do anything about the problem Nick, just let the homeless long for the thing that they cannot have, it makes a better story.
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