Hero cop guns for polka Grammy

Michigan police detective Mike Zawojsky calls his Grammy nomination a "once-in-a lifetime experience." His record, Solecktions, didn't take home the award for best polka album, but what a moonlighting success!

Nessie's Sibling Surfaces in Champlain

Looks like we'll have to change the lyrics to Deathbed Confession to include a reference to Champy!

Chile, here we come!

Suzanne and me, not TDA as a whole. We're heading for the land of lapis lazuli (ring a bell?) and Pisco. Wall of Wheeze updates may be infrequent -- but they may boast a certain international flavor. (And of course Paul could always remember his user name and password and step into the fray.)

We'll be on the lookout for accordions and other amusements. Cheers!

He ain't heavy, he's my fatty feline

A Chinese cat tips the scales at 33 pounds and boasts an impressive 31-inch waist. Guess it's the 6 pounds of chicken and pork it wolfs down each day. Looks kinda cute, actually.

It's official: 'TDA' stands for 'Those Darn Accordions'

TDA alumna Patty zings in from Hawaii with this alphabet-soup update:

"Call me nerdy with a little extra time on my hands (not really), but I was on the Acronym Finder site looking up something and decided to look up TDA. The band wasn't listed so I submitted it and they added it! You're official now."

It's true. "TDA" now stands for "Those Darn Accordions." (And "The Dark Arts." And "Toonami Digital Arsenal.")

Thanks, Patty!

EBDz get some love from the Village Voice

Rock critic extraordinaire Chuck Eddy lumps that other band in with "obscure CD Baby treasures" in a Village Voice Eddytor's Dozen roundup of groups with a similar sound.

The Electric Boogie Dawgz definitely qualify as "even more obscure than the unknowns." Eddy labels the Boogie Dawgz sound "bar-band cowpunk boogiebilly." We'll drink to that!

Unlucky stiff gets parking tix in Peoria

A black Mercedes SUV was ticketed three times by meter weasels in Peoria, Ill., before a passer-by figured out that the car contained the dead body of a Decatur man.

The Peoria Journal Star delivers the scoop on the strange demise of Decatur contractor Michael T. Hudson, 46, who was reported missing on Feb. 6 and found dead three days later in the back seat of his ticket-laden vehicle.

Talk about adding insult to injury. What a way to go.