Hucklebug, Episode 124: Happy Birthday Venice, shout-outs, movies (Stennie: Quantum of Solace, Out of Sight, Paper Clips; Bet: Good News, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, That’s Dancing), highlights & lowlights, fuck-offs and you-rules, Bet & Stennie Get Vetted, Pt. 1.
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by (respectively): The Birdies, Clifton Chenier, Paul Williams, The Chicks, Frank Sinatra.
My Mug is here, My Mug is here…I’m going to listen while drinking a hot toddy!!!
YAY! Bet saw movies this week!
Mel Torme was in a few movies:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0868123/#actor
Most notably, for me, he was in the film “Girls Town” which was featured on MST3K and starred Mamie Van Doren
Re: QoS, Strawberry Fields NOT forever?
I just want to know when we’ll see the return of Sylvia Trench.
I really love the theme, too—the score sucked, I thought. Skipped the movie though. Just didn’t care for the script choices in “Casino Royale” overall. Craig was great and the action was fun, but I just don’t think I care anymore. My wet dream is for them to actually set the movies back in time, during the cold war. I’m sick of Bond in modern times. It just isn’t interesting. We don’t even get SPECTRE any more.
Glad you mentioned John Phillip Law, Bet! I saw him at the Egyptian back in LA, just a couple of months before he died and recorded a good chunk of his Q&A;after we saw “Danger Diabolik”. The sad thing is, he was right behind me in line for popcorn and I didn’t say anything to him. ME=LAME.
Will have to dig up that recording and post it someplace.
I think the Gods of Ones and Zeroes are mad at us, Stennie. My 1.5 yr old MacBook was running reeeally slowly—until I deleted 82 gigs of crap on the HD (after copying it off). I had 5 gigs free before that, which I always thought was enough. But now it’s back to normal. Go fig. Of course, copying off 82 gigs of files took about five hours to do since the damn machine was running so slowly.
Hey can I be too small to fail?
I’m with you guys about the car company bailout—I was against the banks’ bailout, too. I don’t understand why I’ve been avoiding debt all these years and going without things I couldn’t afford only to see these guys totally fuck themselves and suddenly get bailed out. What pisses me off even more is that *I could have told them not to buy up those mortgages!!!* Only an idiot would buy mortgages up—people get foreclosed on all the time!! Idiots. Same with the car companies—people don’t want to drive dirty cars anymore you fools!
I’ve seen the word hinky all over the place lately, but the first time I ever heard the word was from Bet. TREND-SETTER-BET!!
I applied for a gig with the Obama administration, but I’ve heard the full application is quite daunting. 63 questions… that’s a lot! I’m putting it off until I feel like attacking it.
Looking forward to pt 2 of the Obamplication!
I left comments on last week’s show, too, btw.
HAPPY TURKEY DAY!
Okay, recipe sites:
http://www.allrecipes.com —They have recipes for everything. The key is to read the reviews and see what people have done to adapt them. I do find some of the funniest are the reviews where someone has said “this is the BEST recipe” and then proceeds to change the amounts and types of just about every ingredient. But read the reviews, not just the recipe. There are a lot of clunkers on there.
If you want something decent for the food geek, try; http://www.americastestkitchen.com . That’s the free site from the geekiest food show on teevee (it’s like an unhip Alton Brown). If you’re willing to join, there’s also http//www.cooksillustrated.com
E-mail me when you want the winner to the “name that tooth” contest so you can reveal it on air. The tooth has evolved its own name, and so far, one person has come very close. Even though we put the boy in his flannel shirt and overalls today and damn if he isn’t an Earl. His dad asked me where the little can of Beech-nut dip was.
See, I wouldn’t even bother rating a Bond movie. They have their own natural rating “Bond”. You know what you’re getting and it’s not going to change all that much. If you like Bond movies and you want a mindless movie that goes “boom” a lot—see it. If you’ve never liked one, you’re not going to like the next one.
And yes, Clooney was brutally hot in Out of Sight. May have to toss it in the DVD player at some point.
My wife enjoys Simply Recipes (http://www.elise.com/recipes/) and Slashfood (http://www.slashfood.com/), both of which are foodblogs and can be followed with your favorite feed reader.
I like Cooking with Rockstars, because it rarely has much to do with food preparation: http://cookingwithrockstars.com/
Russian Roulette on TAR: only if I can watch it on a repeating loop starring Dan & Andrew. However, they also just provided me with the laugh of the season with Dan’s military march. I can find no words to describe how wretchedly funny I found it to be. See for yourselves, as it’s just like a car accident and you won’t be able to look away: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H62VUclX6mI
Happy Turkey Remembrance Day. Gobble gobble.
Oh my God. Dan’s inability to march almost made it worthwhile having them on the race all this time. Watch all the soldiers around him dissolving into laughter. Watch the contortions on his face as he tries to concentrate on mastering this seemingly simple task. Between that and Andrew’s inability to put his socks on, it’s amazing they ever finished the leg. Or indeed have gotten this far in the race.
They did have a few rare moments of self-awareness last night, though. I liked when they said they should put together an outtake reel of all of their blunders for the entire season, and Dan said it would be as long as Braveheart.
Thanks for all the recipe sites…I didn’t realize I was opening a can of worms!! (hmmm, has anyone tried a good worm recipe?)
It being Thanksgiving, I wanted to tell you my favorite story. My niece was collecting stories for school, and it took me a while to extract this one….
http://qoatip.blogspot.com/2008/11/thanks-for-giving-1998.html
I just wanted to let you know that Firefighters, although known for their amazing chili concoctions, do NOT sit on thier asses when not fighting fires. Oh no they do not. The men (and occasional woman) firefighters who are housed across the street from my house, jog past my house through the park, around the neighborhood and back. It is a SIGHt to be seen.
And even though I didn’t say so, my favorite muppet is Zoe, for obvious reasons. Mine is older than theirs.
Hope you all had a great week off.
ps mike, I am sending the shirt to you. do with it as you will.
The caption, from the Russian: “We lost the Cold War to THESE guys? Inconceivable!”.
I have new HATED commercials. The Overstock.com campaign with the bad country singers buying loads of cheap crap and giving it out as presents. The song is killing me. The other one is the Snuggie—the blanket with sleeves, for those of us too uncoordinated to pick up the remote and use a blanket at the same time. Of course, I have heat.