Frankly, we haven’t been getting much material from the “Department of People Are Pretty Great” lately, but it made up for it today with this nugget.
In Montreal, fans of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros helped a young man in a wheelchair crowd surf at the Osheaga Music and Arts Festival.
He was helped on stage as the band performed, “If I Were Free.”
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins