Look-alikes for Ozzy and purple Santas are seen:
– A bartender at Hefty’s Roadhouse in Bayport has a father who is a dead ringer for Ozzy Osbourne, is about the same age and draws lots of attention for doing his songs in karaoke. That’s much like the ultimate Ozzy tribute-band singer, Michael Ault, who used to bring his act to Dibbo’s and is endorsed by Ozzy himself. Ault even has all the same tattoos in all the right places and would stay in character and BECOME OZZY even throughout his set breaks. And now that Ozzfest is basically defunct for this area, maybe that’s the closest we’ll get to him, after back in the day Ozzy was known to stay overnight at the Best Western Hudson House Inn.
– Two Viking sightings stood out when Minnesota had their big win over the highly ranked Houston Texans. A fan left Dick’s Bar and Grill dressed to the nines in suit and tie, but that tie that was shown off by an open jacket and was totally Viking purple. He also had a Santa hat that was much the same color and style. Then, just outside Historic Casanova Liquors, a customer had her picture taken with a lifesize, inflatable Viking player — and leaned over too far and partially collapsed it. Casanova’s has for several years posted both an inflatable Viking and Packer right next to one another during football season. If one team or another has an especially bad loss, that player is turned around to show their back, as if to hang their head in shame.
– Late in the evening of the day when the awful news was aired about the scores of elementary school students being gunned down, a worker who deals with such things was especially struck by the tragedy. She works as an advocate with the state of Minnesota to provide counseling in such situations, and was pondering the events of the day at Guv’s Place in Houlton. She said that if the shootings had been done anywhere in the state of Minnesota, she wouldn’t be at Guv’s during the course of that weekend, rather logging lots of time on the site so she could work with the grieving.