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Rubio arrives, the media goes nuts.

​As if baggage claim wasn't enough of a pain in the neck for travelers under ordinary circumstances, Ricky Rubio waded into the area Monday at Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport, greeted by a mad sea of media and fans, and shut the place down.

Yes, the Timberwolves savior has arrived. You want to know just how unreal the pressure is going to be on this scruffy, 20-year-old Spaniard to work miracles with the worst team in the NBA, listen to the guy with the microphone in this video:

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Riley Meester on the jumbotron.

​Most Americans don't even know all the words to the Star Spangled Banner, and once they open their mouths to try and span its octave and a half of perilous notes, they're stymied. [See Aguilera, Christina.]

But it's not a problem for Riley Meester, a 14-year-old kid from Ellsworth with cerebral palsy and autism, who sang the National Anthem on Sunday to open the Twins-Padres match at Target Field. He nailed it, right through the high notes for "land of the free."

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Owen Kosevich: This kid is going places.

​In these dark and uncertain post-Oprah times, we'll take a little inspiration wherever we can find it. And boy have we found it.

Check out little Owen Kosevich and his gloriously over-the-top speech after finally learning to ride his bicycle. It's the perfect way to round out Bike Walk Week.

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Tue Quang Tran, post cartwheel.

​The days of simply walking to the podium in a dignified manner to accept your college degree are rapidly fading. It's sort of sad to see the pomp and circumstance fall by the wayside.

On the other hand, thank god, because otherwise we wouldn't get to see moments like this one, where Macalester graduate Tue Quang Tran attempts to cartwheel onto the stage, crashes into the podium, knocks over a water pitcher and gives everyone a good laugh.

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John Kreisel, Iraq war veteran, patriot, and opponent of the gay marriage ban.

​A 2012 ballot question that aims to ban gay marriage via the state constitution has now been approved by both the Minnesota House and Senate, in a mighty demonstration of how lawmakers really know how to prioritize our problems.

All that pesky second-tier legislative work, like job creation and budget balancing, definitely needed to be pushed aside in favor of mission-critical work -- supported by Bradlee Dean -- that seeks to ban something that's already banned.

But Republican Rep. John Kreisel had other priorities.

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A documentary on super fans gets a boost from a super awful season.

​Just when we'd relegated the Vikings' epic 2010 implosion to the far reaches of our collective craniums, University of Minnesota journalism student Elizabeth Giorgi has come along to remind us of the whole, sorry affair. But in a good way.

"SKOL" was dreamed up as a thoughtful look at Vikings super fans from the perspective of a friendly Minnesotan, rather than some leering outsider treating Ragnar and his cohorts as bizarre zoo animals.

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Kitty wants a big house.

​Minneapolis-based design studio MAKE usually churns out work for national clients like Target, Cabela's, Indy Car and Best Buy, but an opportunity to make cats talk in a PSA for the Animal Humane Society proved to be a temptation they couldn't resist.

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What's with this obsession over Obama's teleprompter?

​Michele Bachmann is definitely on the radar at the White House.

Barack Obama not only mocked her mating dance with birthers by suggesting she was a crypto Canadian at the White House Correspondents Dinner; his media gurus put together a video satirizing the weird right wing obsession with Obama's teleprompter -- with Bachmann featured up front.

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Everybody in the house of love.

​No one who's seen it can forget Jill and Kevin Heinz's epic wedding dance video from 2009, in which the entire party dances down the aisle to Chris Brown's "Forever" in a carefully choreographed but totally genuine ode to joy.

The video went viral and spawned many a copy-cat, but none like this new one, an ad for T-Mobile, in which royal look-a-likes do the dancing in homage to the upcoming wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. The music: East 17's "House of Love."

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Down with Cuddyer, Up North.

​James Erickson and Zach Finney, UMD homies, produced an awesomely geeky birthday rap for Twins right fielder Michael Cuddyer a few weeks ago that went from viral video to ESPN.

Cuddyer himself praised the video via Twitter, and pretty soon the Twins came asking for more. So the two students dubbed themselves "The Official Birthday Boys," brought their A game to Target Field, and came up with The Joe Mauer Birthday Rap.

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