Hucklebug Episode 188: RIP Dennis Hopper and Rue McClanahan, shout-outs, movies (Bet: Art & Copy, Hobson’s Choice, Blazing Saddles; Stennie: Diner), lowlights & highlights, fuck-offs and you-rules, This or That.
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by Otis Redding, Lee Rocker, and Frank Sinatra.
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Bet: here’s another case in which we snap, movie-wise: If I were to say my favorite Mel Brooks movies are Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, The Producers, High Anxiety, and Blazing Saddles, you would say_____________. To which I would reply_______________.
Stennie: If you ever make it to NC and we’re able to meet up, I’ll hook you up with your choice of some fine and dandy BBQ or my world-famous-in-Chapel-Hill fish tacos. Better still, if we met in Asheville, which would make an excellent HuckleCon site, IMO, we could go to Mamacitas. (Ooooh, mamaCITAS!)
Bet, Blazing Saddles is also a favorite of mine. How could it not be with dialog like:
Y’know, Nietzsche says: “Out of chaos comes order.”
Oh, blow it out your ass, Howard.
I’m glad there’s a cease fire in the hot dog wars. I was expecting an embargo preventing me from obtaining any hot dog related materials of mass destruction, although I swear I only develop hot dogs for peaceful purposes.
Back an episode where you were discussing what belonged in chocolate – who are you kidding? We’d all eat a tennis shoe if it were covered in chocolate. I’d at least chew on it till the chocolate was gone.
Art & Copy sounds interesting. I’ll toss it in my queueueueue.
Thanks for the birthday wishes, ladies! Sadly, with the Internet down at home and my MacBook six feet under, there was no puppet joy to be had. However, birthday sushi was enjoyed (http://tumblr.com/xenb3geju ) as was a thick, delicious, chocolatey Shack Attack shake (http://tumblr.com/xenb3m52d ) from the Shake Shack—a NYC staple (http://tumblr.com/xen857ddq ). In some ways it’s reminiscent of Skooby’s—if either of you visit the Big Apple, I would happily take you to Shake Shack—it’s much too awesome in unhealthy ways.
That last link has pics of the original Shake Shack along with the ingredients of the Shack Attack. They switched stuff around when we went to the Shake Shack on the upper west side (I think there are 3 Shacks in all) but all of the cateogries of the Chocolate Food Pyramid were represented.
So I was in chocolatey heaven. This week it’s back to the no sugar diet. Yay health!
Oh and one more good birthday moment came about while I was listening to this ep—the mail arrived and in it came a birthday card from TheDad and TheStep-Mom. It was so cool I had to shoot a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7kn0Y779q4
Hey Sten, do you record the show in Windows or Linux? Since my Mac died I’m now back in Windows Vista/Ubuntu 9.04 on my netbook so I’m wondering just how much stuff I can do. And what iTunes alternative do you use in Ubuntu?
Bet wins the award for lowest fricken lowlight ever…
Sten, back in the day, my little brother and I were at some timeshare our parents took us to someplace in Virginia I think (probably not far from Bet!) and it was so much in the boonies, we looked up and saw Mir pass over. We knew it was Mir because there was nothing else big enough in orbit to be seen from the ground at the time. The ISS is probably super easy to spot, assuming it passes through your field of vision. I read recently on Gizmodo that there were some amateur astronomers that were able to spot that super secret military space plane that launched recently.
But Skooby’s and Joshua Tree are definitely two things I miss about living in LA. For a while there, Siskita and I were going out to JT a few times a year. We even spent our first anniversary camped out there.
Chee-tohs are the only choice I’m willing to venture an opinion on. Doritos have little redeaming value to me. My dad fed me Chee-tohs as a baby. However, I switched over to (I knew it was you) Frito’s when I went healthy in 2003.
Stennie, I’ve enjoyed your warbling. You’ve an impressive command over your vibratto 😀
And here’s a quick sound clip that I am linking to here after being inspired by the stinger Stennie put at the end of this ep: http://thepete.com/a/people It’s from The IT Crowd and will hopefully be amusing even if you haven’t seen it.
Just for the record, Nicholas does like bluegrass. He really wants to be a guitar player right now, though. Everything is a guitar to him.
I’m going to miss the underwater sound. It adds character.
Ladies!
Yah , @thepete & I for our 1st anniversary threw our Papasan in the back of our Honda CRV and slept on that, very cramped but it was our version of camping. Another time, we went out with our hand-carried grille with a few other friends and cooked salmon my parents had caught & frozen for me, plus veggies. We spent the entire night there, eating and running around – the full moon was so bright, we couldn’t see any stars but we were able to climb the giant white rocks and do moon shadows on them. We drove back to LA, sans sleep and exhausted, but that was memorable!
Yay to you Bet on your good health data! Your actions and dedication remind me of a good quote that I should try to live better by: “Discipline is a form of self love.”
if Scooby’s & Shake Shack had a baby, it wouldne the true Messiah.
-Siskita
This is for Siskita—we could see stars—planets even—I remember our friend Tim bringing his telescope. I think there are pics on my Flickr someplace… but you’re right—the moon was so bright we had waaaay too much fun doing shadow puppets on the rocks
Company I (used to) work for, this is Marla, Can I help you?
Yes, hello Monica..
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Morons….
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Got to give a “you rule” to Eric from DataLink West for making me a stereo to mono converter..I knew they existed but could never find one in the store..now I can listen to my Itunes and never miss a word of Stennie again.(sometimes, my computer splits you into right and left channel) NEVER AGAIN!!
Hi ladies! By the time you read this I will be on a plane to NC for vacation. Won’t be much of a vacation now due to a colossal screwup at work. Everyone is taking their vacations at the same time next week. No one is told no, so seniority doesn’t matter. They’re shipping me a wireless card so I can work remotely during the week. There better be a big fat raise coming my way come Christmas time. 🙁
On a high note, I want to thank Stennie for inviting me to Joshua Tree. We really did have the most awesome time. It really was my highlight because I had a dear friend pass away the day before. So, the trip totally lifted my spirits.
Bet-you and I can share some buttery salty popcorn anytime as we sit and look at the stars. Glad your cholesterol is getting under control.
Oh, and my dad told me one time never to mention to anyone that you’re going out of town for fear that they’ll come and break into your house.
So, ya know, don’t be stealing my stuff!
Pepsi, which for some reason I’ve been drinking a lot more of lately. (Did you know the inventor of Pepsi is a Carolina grad? Probably explains the ubiquity of Pepsi/paucity of Coke vending on campus, which is fine by me.)
7Up on pure nostalgia grounds
Magazines – Don’t be so quick to condemn them all as “junk food.” (Or conversely suggest that all books are great literature.) I suspect Patrick and Lily will back me up when I say that pubs like The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and The Atlantic are the only way for a parent to get some kind of literary sustenance in small doses.
Italian over Mexican (very close call)
Winter if in NC; summer in the PNW
I’ll take the most humble cut of Beef over any kind of chicken.
Drink – make it a scotch and have it both ways