Episode 243: Shout-outs, Pet Stories, What’s Up With That?, Oh My, How Times Have Changed, New Favorites, Fuck-Offs and You-Rules, Desert Island Discs.
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed Sierra Rein, Lee Rocker and Frank Sinatra. “New Fave” bumper by Krizzer.
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First? That’s never happened.
I’m not done listening, but I don’t want to miss my shout out! I love the new words to my song!
I’m still researching the toothpaste thing. Basically, you want a toothpaste that’s silky and non-abrasive. After that, just pick one you like. But I’m trying to find a good non-minty, non-aftertastey one. I’ll let you know what I find out. Meanwhile, Aim is perfectly fine.
Heidi – I actually thought as I started to listen to this week’s episode, “I should text her and remind her to start the timer!” Never mind that I was listening to it on Monday. I get confused real easy.
Topic idea: Top 5 Romantic Comedies.
Marla’s play opens this weekend – I don’t think it’s exactly a “hands on the monitor” type situation, but everyone send her good vibes! It’s going to be cute as hell!
More later. Maybe. Love you ladies!!!!
Hmm. That’s a weird HB page. But the comments page is fine.
And I’m guessing your pre-determined eff-off is to Facebook. I’m just an effing luddite, but honestly, how hard is it to just have everything show up on your feed in reverse order so I can just scan what’s been posted since I last logged in? I’m not even sure if I have any idea of what I’m not seeing now. And everyone go check through all your privacy and account settings — I called them up, and there were a whole bunch there I’d never seen before and they were all set to something I didn’t want, like “allow people to check me in to locations”. The only people who need to do that are stalkers and no thanks. And the worst part of it is that they’re always telling me it’s what I want and they know what I want to see. I think that’s what really hacks everyone off — the arrogant paternalistic attitude.
I haven’t had BBC America for a while. It’s “second tier” on my cable, and I’m not paying to get it. I do actually like Top Gear and Doctor Who, so I simply buy them off of iTunes. I think I pay for all year of those for what one or two months of paying for the extra cable would cost. And then I get to watch when I feel like it and can put it on my iPod for later.
An addendum to Bet’s What’s Up With That — Have you seen these stories about people who believe Nicolas Cage is a Vampire? There’s an old 19th-century photo of someone who looks a lot like him, so there’s this huge narrative out there that he’s a vampire who pops up every few years. Even though vampires can’t be photographed. Duh.
You can actually teach a lot of linguistic theory with invented languages, and it’s a heck of a lot more interesting than doing it by trying to read Noam Chomsky’s books.
Oh Betster, do I have a TV show to put in your “must not miss” category…
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/gary-busey-ted-haggard-swap-spouses/story?id=14580497
Sorry we didn’t post any comments last week; we were in Nags Head battling mosquitos; they multiply like, well, mosquitos, after a hurricane and boy were they bad. Janet and I tried going for a bike ride one morning and I’m sure the neighbors thought we were nuts when we went for the shortest bike ride on record, riding about 6 houses away before making abrubt u-turns back to the cottage and just throwing down our bikes before hustling indoors. We did have fun hosting Janet’s nephew and his wife from London but now I have to post some catch-up comments, too. By the way, Stennie, Sam, the nephew agrees with you about how addicting the football manager game is!
Bet, you wanted me to tell our earthquake story but it seems so old now. Just suffice it to say that one of my aunt’s house’s three chimneys came tumbling down and my civil engineer brother was in the parking lot of a nuclear power plant when the quake hit but after assessment of our home, we only had an empty aluminum pan and a plastic bowl fall off the shelf in our laundry room! We also later found a folding umbrella on the floor and we blamed that on the earthquake, too.
Bet, saying that Chincoteague is in eastern Virginia is akin to saying that you live in Bluefield, West Virginia. Chincoteague residents would not be happy with you. Yes, technically, you are correct — it is east; but they would stomp their feet and their hooves to demand that you say it is on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. They have quite (I’m trying not to screw up and type quiet again; I can’t take the public humiliation!) the ugly step-sister complex because many maps of Virginia don’t include the Eastern Shore of Virginia. So here’s your geography lesson. The Delmarva (DElaware, MARyland, VirginiA) peninsula drops down from the north, forming the outer edge of the Chesapeake Bay. The bottom of the peninsula is part of the Commonwealth of Virginia and Chincoteague is one of the communities in that part of Virginia. The wild horses actually live on the island of Assateague (Assateague Island National Seashore, part of our National Parks!), east of Chincoteague, and every year, on the last Thursday(?) of July, the volunteer firefighters round up as many horses as they can and at low tide, they make them swim/walk over the tidal marsh in to Chincoteague. Vets vacinate them, check their general health and as a way of keeping the population under control, auction some off. It is a unique experience. (Janet hates the word unique, thinks it is almost always misused but I think it fits here.)
On the toothpaste front, we had a split household growing up but Mom and I used Gleem and guess what? I still do. It is hard to find but I order it from Drugstore.com. You can only get the big tubes so I can’t travel with it if we’re doing carry-on only. I absolutely crave it though when I don’t have it and my teeth just never feel clean without it. (Okay so I’m sure my teeth are clean; they just feel different.) Our household remains split as Janet refuses to use Gleem and says it doesn’t have enough “stuff” in it. My teeth are pretty sensitive so some of those additives actually hurt my teeth so the heck with it.
And my final comment is actually a question. Bet, why are you not hinky about air shows?
Ah crap, I just noticed I misspelled abrupt and vaccinate. Oh, the pressure.
I need a retroactive Fuck-Off for the North Carolina General Assembly. More precisely the Republican majority which, in its infinite wisdom, voted to put a Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage on the ballot. Because that’s way more important than, you know, trying to get people back to work or whatever. But here’s the thing (two things, actually): 1) Same-sex marriage is already not recognized in NC; all they’re doing is twisting the knife and rewriting discrimination into our constitution. 2) The vote is not going to be on the General Election in November 2012, but the Republican Primary in May 2012–when Dems have no reason to go to the polls. So, there’ll be this great get-out-the-vote effort to defeat the Amendment, but which will accomplish nothing more than maintaining the status quo–WHICH SUCKS ASS.
If this shit keeps up, people aren’t going to be able to tell NC from South Carolina.
Hi, I’m back. Heidi – I stole a sample size of a toothpaste from work for you to try. It’s very gentle and it doesn’t have the same overpowering minty-ness of most toothpastes. I’ll bring it to Vegas. But the thing about toothpaste is this: you don’t need it at all. Or you could dip your toothbrush in mouthwash if you want fluoride or anti-bacterial properties. It’s the bristles of the brush that do the work, not the paste. And you’d be much MUCH better off to floss every day and never brush, than to brush every day and never floss. True story.
That said, I use Colgate Total myself!