The last few weeks I’ve gotten to attend a few cool things for work. A few weeks ago I got to talking with one of the reporters about his partner’s cousin, who happens to be a professional wrestler. She goes by the wrestling name ODB. It’s sort of a white-trash gimmick, complete with flask! She was going to be wrestling at First Ave and we thought it would make for a great “local girl done good” kinda story. Unfortunately, the good folks in charge didn’t really want to give up Maury for a night to go shoot it and put it together, so I went to First Ave and shot her match and some interviews. I even put a mic on her mom while ODB wrestled. Her mom might truly be the “original ODB”! It was a complete blast! I think it’ll make for a great story whenever we get a chance to put it together. Hopefully that will happen sometime in the next month. 
Then, this past weekend I shot the Barack Obama rally at the Target Center. Personally, I hope he gets the nomination. But either way, it was pretty friggin’ insane to see 20,000 people show up for a political speech. I have a feeling people are gonna be pretty burned out on politics by the time we get to November. Tomorrow, I cover the republican caucus in Bloomington. I think it might see a slightly more sparse attendance.
Feb 05