* Cawker City's Biggest Attraction: World's Largest Ball of Twine

References to the disease are still present ( from " Jocelyn ": I decided in my head / That I would come back from the dead ), but songs like the title track, " Ball of Twine ," and " Born Human " are more upbeat than Hearn's previous album, both in tempo and in message.

#" Ball of Twine "

Twine Ball in Darwin, Minnesota

It is currently housed in a specially made gazebo across from the town park on Main Street (), and the town celebrates " Twine Ball Day " the second Saturday in August every year.

*" Weird Al " Yankovic's album UHF-Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff has a song called " The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota ".

** In a case of life imitating art, postcards that read " Greetings from the Twine Ball, wish you were here ," a fictitious invention of Yankovic's, is now an attraction in Darwin.

* The Sam & Max Hit the Road adventure game by LucasArts includes a stop at a Biggest Ball of Twine, which is about 50 feet ( 15 m ) tall with a rotating restaurant on top-this fictional ball of twine is located at Central Dis, Minnesota.

* In one episode of Beverly Hills, 90210, Susan Keats ( Emma Caulfield ) mentions the Cawker City Ball of Twine to her boyfriend, Brandon Walsh ( Jason Priestly ) while they are planning a cross-country trip for that summer.

* In Nora Ephron's film Michael, a hedonistic angel badgers two reporters into taking him on a road trip under the pretense of seeing the World's Biggest Ball of Twine.