Episode 203: Happy National Punctuation Day, shout-outs, movies (Stennie: Dead Like Me), TV shows, Pet Stories, What’s Up With That?, more Would You Rather?
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by Sierra Rein, Lee Rocker, and Frank Sinatra.
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What you mistook as “fear” or “anxiety” in my swearing-in shot was actually “appropriate deference to the tribunal.” Just wanted to clear that up.
Still listening, and hope to comment more later, but I’m tired of bringing up the rear. Firsties!
Hey Bet & Stennie!
Do you have any good ideas for signs specifically for Jay & Kay to “carry”? Thinking we could make little ones that they could hold while interviewing people!
I once drunkenly praised Zoe Dechanel on doing the Hitchhiker’s movie! She has a nice singing voice, as demonstrated in Elf (coming to Broadway in a few weeks…) Rhis was in Hollywood, I hope she forgot the slightly tipsy fan that talked to her!
Mobile Hucklebug would be awesome!!! It would make posting comments so much easier as I’m on the go in NYC. Although, I’m posting this now on my iPhone and the new design is very iPhone-friendly. You make
I came up with “Crapsolutely” for those cases where you have to answer in the affirmative but would really like to hit someone in the face….
Guacamole recipe please!!!! Can you post publicly?
We have Big Gay Ice Cream Truck here in NY that we follow on Twitter – they have Bacon-Ice cream cookie sandwiches to die for.
If you wanted to, you could make a rally sign that just said “This sign intentionally left blank.” It’s a bit of a word processing joke…I’m spending too much time at my day job 🙁
I tried to get into Dead Like Me, and even with Mandy in it, I just couldn’t get into the tone. Maybe I didn’t give it a chance.
Pete and I found “The Gates,” which is totally a guilty pleasure. Vampires, werewolves, witches and other ghostly things in a Desperate Housewives/gated community setting. Our kind of soap opera, and I usually hate soap operas.
Diabetes from cats….Lol!
For 5 minutes, Colbert can do anything. And watching the clip, it was nice to see him break character at the end, when he was honestly answering why he was concerned with this matter (he quoted the bible in the clearest “this is how Christians should behave” example that I’ve seen). And Elmo has spoken o Congress, so I don’t see anything wrong with it.
I got a you rule?!?! That *was* a long time ago! 🙂 you guys are totally welcome!
For the guy who actually *could have* farted When the Saints Go Marching In, look up “Le Petomane” or Joseph Pujol! There’s a new musical about him called The Fartiste!
I’d sneeze out of my butt, wearing Depends if I got a cold. I’ve sneezed in Pete’s face before, and I don’t want to think about farting in it, that’s rude!
Definitely not blur my face – I need that to act!
I’d totally do the 6 million dollar man sound.
For Siskia, who rules (and for anyone else reading, because chances are very high that you also rule): the guacamole recipe comes from the same place I get damn near ALL of my recipes: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Fresh-Guacamole/Detail.aspx ENJOY
Food trucks are huge in NYC and I have a feeling LA borrowed the trend from here since @BigGayIceCream is in it’s 2nd or 3rd year now, I think? And there are so many food trucks they have the Vendy Awards–in fact, they just held them last weekend.
Oh and you know who reminds me of Zooey? Katy Perry. She’s another one I just don’t get. She’s beautiful, but in such an uninteresting way. Every pic/video I see her in she just does nothing for me, much like the Zooey Unit. Ah well. Maybe it’s because Perry always looks so fake and made-up. Every photo looks posed and unreal. Oh, but hey, here’s a pic of Perry looking HUMAN (and still attractive IMO): http://goo.gl/4VlF Maybe she’s not a flesh-based mannequin after all?
As for Colbert, we’re unsnapping on that completely–as Siskita said above, fricken Elmo testified once, for crying out loud. And with the partisan, spineless bullshit going on in DC these days even Elmo honors them with his presence. He’s got ostensibly good work to do, unlike Congress.
It’s funny Sten, you gave the Republicans and Democrats fuck-offs, the last two EFFYOUs from my partially-hucklebug-fuck-off-inspired blog http://effyou.org were for the Republicans and the Democrats before them. I still need to decide who gets one this week. But yeah, they deserve it, big time. Actually, I think it’s going to be Obama. Remember when you guys asked us what Obama had to do to keep us happy? My sights were set so low, I was like “nothing.” This was because I had a sneaking suspicion he was going to prove all those racists wrong–that a black man could be just like a white man–in that he can be just as spineless and corruptible as the last white guy in his spot. Sure, he’s not as idiotic as Bush, but he has carried on too many of Bush’s policies. The most depressing one is probably the one about the American citizen who is under suspicion of terrorism–but they don’t want to arrest him, Obama has kept the same policy as Bush: assassinate him if they have the chance to. The suspect’s dad is now suing to force the Obama Administration to release their criteria for determining what an American citizen has to do in order for him to get assassinated.
I won’t even go into how Obama brought in some of the same people who broke the economy to fix it. >_<
Obama's the first black president. You'd hope he realized how lucky he is and take full advantage of it to do some crazy good stuff. He can pretty much do what he wants and his honorable place in history is secure. Instead he plays it safe. Bleh…
Let me just wish you luck in passing this week by without a RIP. They are dropping like flies.
B’ham is in the news. the universe is ripe with the negative payback…don’t know what we did to deserve it. “Bellingham State of Mind” was not bad enough to have us deserve the sadness in Stennie’s old stomping grounds. A missing college freshman and toddler killed by a high school senior in a car accident after school yesterday. ugh.
Life is short. Hug your loved ones. I got to spend time with good friends this week, and some of my favorite people had birthdays yesterday. so it’s not all bad.
Marla
ps. Zoe and I were ADDICTED to Dead like Me and HAAATED the movie. Mandy was missed. I dont’ think he could have saved it, unless he was the original writer…doubful. Is anyone watching “The Event” Could it be more contrived?
re: kids in your building…Stennie, I hate to break this to you. You are the old lady with the cats….
and BTW I would never judge you…but where is my Kazoo??
The Colbert thing in Congress was weird. But it does get back to who the heck invited him? What did they think they were getting? And it’s also fitting because they always invite celebrities to testify when about 2/3 of them have ZERO credentials other than having made a movie once. But it didn’t really bother me because most politicians make a greater mockery of our government and legislature than Colbert ever did.
I judge you, Bet. You’re guilty, guilty, guilty. Not sure of what, though. But this is America in 2010. I don’t have to know anything to come to a conclusion.
I judge people because it’s fun. The easiest way to feel better about yourself is to trash those around you as opposed to actually improving yourself. You’ll look better in comparison, at least in your own mind, which is all that counts.
Colbert’s response to the last question was powerful, and House leaders missed the point of his message. Colbert’s last statement reminded us that there are no simple solutions to complex situations. Furthermore, that good, honest, and hard working people are often caught in the middle of political hay.