Episode 207: Shout-outs, New Favorite, Pet Stories, What’s Up With That – Celine Dion’s Twins and Has-Beens on Reality Shows, fuck-offs and you-rules, Five Reasons Why Facebook Sucks and Five Reasons Why Facebook Doesn’t Suck.
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by Sierra Rein, Lee Rocker, and Frank Sinatra.
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I don’t know if you got to it this week, but here’s one for you all. What’s up with Randy Quaid? Just saw that story this morning (Canadian asylum). WTF?
I loved your has-beens. Here’s some I’d like to see:
* Traci Lords as choir director in a snake handling church
* Pauly Shore as a driving instructor
* Joan Rivers as a Walmart greeter
* Ozzy Osbourne working in a day-care center
* Charo teaching english at a school for latino immigrants (cuchi-cuchi !)
* Kim Basinger at a dog walking service
* Margot Kidder at the Psychic Friends Network
I think another Facebook plus was not having me around pestering the crap out of everyone, but you’re right. It’s the primary way buds keep in touch. I’ll flip it open again.
Lily, I agree about Quaid. What a great story. He’s apparently being stalked by nefarious Hollywood accountants. We all know how bloodthirsty they are.
On the Nelson Eddy/Jeanette MacDonald thing (whom I am very well aware of thank you), I call your attention to Judy Garland’s intro to the song “San Francisco”:
http://s0.ilike.com/play#Judy+Garland:San+Francisco:79810:s53827921.13132730.22887297.0.2.173%2Cstd_36a306a966ef489ea499ec4b18b05220
I just read that Marie Claire blog. All I can say is “wow”. To get back to your earlier point of “I’m not a …. but”. She writes “I’m not some size-ist jerk”. Um, yes you are. And then there are the usual platitudes about “well, if you just eat lots of carrots, you’ll be thin like me, you lazy jerks. It’s sooooo easy!” Shut up. I have no idea whether I’ll watch this show, but not because they’re fat, but I have a feeling it’s really bad and poorly written. But people spent a lot of time watching Roseanne, and there wasn’t a lot of thin going on around there. Now, I wasn’t surprised to find out that she had anorexia issues. No kidding. Her mindset is completely what happens to your brain when you’re in the throes of anorexia, because you’re chemically imbalanced. She needs to get back into treatment, ASAP.
If this link doesn’t work…try this one…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ypR1x8q2Qo
Thanks again Bet..details on the HB to follow….
Oh Marla – will you ever live this down?
So ok, last week’s comments were two hearts. I did post from my iPhone, and maybe emoji don’t translate. Sorry. I was just expressing my love.
Where I have been: asleep. Sometimes the dishy just gets tired.
Ok – what is it with the “little red cookbook?”
Message about the coffee received and duly noted.
I’m watching the early election results and see Rand and Rubio have been elected to the senate. They’ve done it – the bastard tea partiers are in the government! It is time to move to the Netherlands, ladies. And I’m hoping your choice of country has a little something to do with my blog about the hot Dutch men several years ago.
Five GOOD things about Facebook
1. The “hide” button
2. Videos and pictures of peoples pets
3. Some eCards
4. Friends who contribute news stories I care about
5. Easiest way to stay in touch with the niece and nephews. They don’t talk on the phone or answer emails – but they’ll Facebook me in a heartbeat!
Five BAD things about Facebook
1. Ads/applications/friend finder – LEAVE ME ALONE
2. Facebook application for the iPhone. It crashes constantly and never shows all my news.
3. Photo memories – please don’t show me pictures of friends I don’t know or particularly care about
4. People who tag me in photos – invasion of my privacy!
5. It is a major time suck
One comment about the Hucklebug shop – didn’t there used to be a Highlight of the Week mug? I want to buy a HB mug, but can’t bring myself to drink out of something that implies that its contents suck.
Ditto to Dishy on the photo tagging thing in FB. I don’t tag myself or certainly anyone else in my photos. I don’t want to be tagged in anyone else’s photos, either.
And yes, my biggest pet peeve about FB is the same — stop changing it around all the time! Another one is the way to search for people. They’ve made trying to find someone without allowing it access to your e-mail book or some other information that is none of their damn business. I finally figured out that if you put a name in the search bar, you have to let it sit there before you hit return, and a pop up window will pop up to say “see other results with this name”.
Nice thing — it’s like a year-long Christmas holiday letter (I know some might say that’s a bad thing, but I digress). It’s the perfect way to keep in touch with those people that you used to only write to once a year and you can keep up with what’s going on. And just like the original letters that you could toss, you can also just “hide” the annoying person who always sends the smug bragging letter.
I guess y’all will be setting off for The Netherlands. I hate to see you go, but look forward to transatlantic broadcasts of Den Hukelbaag. I assume you’ll add a segment called New Favorite Cheese.
Bet, I don’t know if meant this ironically (in which case I’m over-reacting) or just said it off-handedly, but I think your comment about “backwards” people who have their babies at home merits a response.
Maybe it was missed or glossed over in all the general excitement and the whole “we were expecting a girl, but Pinkie’s a boy” accompanying his birth, but I would point out/reiterate that Pinkie was born at home—by design—and delivered (or “caught” as we prefer to say) by no less a person than yours truly, guided via telephone by the inbound midwife who arrived about 10 minutes after the baby. The last part was not part of the plan, but ended up being a pretty sweet bonus: How many guys can say they caught/delivered their own baby?
I did a blog post about the experience, (adrinkingsong.blogspot.org) including a detailed discussion of how we decided to have a home birth. Along with a Monty Python clip (as an enticement) I reference “The Business of Being Born,” which I highly recommend watching, if only to disabuse yourself of some common misconceptions about home births and the relative sophistication of the people who opt for them. If you read the blog and/or watch the movie (the trailer is in the blog) you’ll see that, as with most other parenting/child-rearing decisions (circumcision, breast-feeding, immunizations, discipline, nutrition, public vs. private vs. home school, etc.), birthing is something we take very seriously. But just because we choose an unconventional path or deviate from the mainstream—after much deliberation and weighing of pros and cons—that doesn’t make us backward; in fact, I’d argue that we’re quite the opposite.
Now, I know that you would never think of me when using a term like “backward,” but I wanted to point out that the overwhelming majority of home-births (at least the ones that happen on purpose) are undertaken by intelligent, sophisticated, well-educated, well-informed parents who want what’s best for their children and themselves. [Here ends the scolding.]
The thing I like most about Facebook: getting to be the overlapping area in the Venn diagram.
My life can be divided into relatively discrete temporal and geographic segments. So my circles of friends tend to be grouped together by time and place. Facebook enables me to take something one of my Hucklebug friends posts and share it with my early-90s SoCal friends or my early-oughts ad-agency pals or late-oughts law school classmates—people who would likely never cross paths, on FB or otherwise, but for their common connection through me. I am the white stuff the holds the bologna together.
This will better explain my comment last week about coked up squirrel monkies. It is an ad from Americans for Job Security designed to attack Governor Joe Manchin and tie him to the more outlandish-sounding projects via his support for the Recovery Act. See the video…. http://politicalcorrection.org/adcheck/201010220015
Also, please mark November 4th, 2010 as the date when the citizens of SWVA chose to back track towards building a 19th/20th Century economy, and ignore the potential for building a 21st Century economy. Boucher is considered royalty within the Telecom industry, and SWVA was on the fringe of benefiting from his rock star image.
Too political?
If so, then today is Lori Singer’s birthday. She is best known as a mean cellist, and for her Oscar worthy performance in The Man with One Red Shoe.
One more observation:
Boy, that Marla is a fast talker…..