Hucklebug Episode 169: Year-End Show! RIP Brittany Murphy, Arnold Stang, Vic Chesnutt, RIP’s of the Year, shout-outs of the week and shout-outs of the year, movies (Bet: none; Stennie: The Trouble With Harry, Shop Around the Corner, It’s a Wonderful Life, Julie & Julia, Up, The Thin Man), movies of the year, 2010 in Bluefield, highlights and lowlights of the week and of the year, fuck-offs and you-rules of the week and of the year.
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by Otis Redding, Lee Rocker, and Frank Sinatra.
I loved Arnold Stang too. He did the voice in literally hundreds of cartoons from the 50’s on. He had a distinctive voice. He was also a pretty funny guy. I remember him mostly from TV panel shows like The Name’s The Same. He always cracked me up.
I’d like to give a big decade F.O. to Cheney. I wish somoneone would pull him out into the sunlight so we’d finally be rid of his mouth.
Bet is the only person I know who can drive into a house.
I agree, Obama has let a lot of people down. I think my biggest surprise is how even his own party won’t support him. You’d expect the republicans to oppose anything he did but with a majority of democrates he still can’t seem to get anything done. I’m not sure there’s any real excuse for that. Obama should have smooth sailing just like Bush had in a similar position but he’s struggling.
Yes, indeed my brown beans are tasty and I even published the recipe. Go for it Stennie!
It was nice to hear the podcast-a-thon was one of your highlights. It was a lot of fun. I hope you do more.
As everyone knows, Wall-E and Up are two of my favorite movies too. I’m not sure I’d trust anyone who put together a “best of” list without them. It would show pretty poor judgement. The rest of your movies were fine picks too. I liked them all a lot.
I’d like to wish both of you and all the Husklebuggers a Happy New Year!
Even with all the difficulty with Bet dealing with the health and well-being of her parents, somehow I still expected her 2009 lowlight to be finding out that the giant rubber stamp wasn’t actually made of rubber.
The Vic Chesnutt death had an effect on me personally. For a few years I was friends with this guy Mike Wolf who was a huge Vic fan. Mike, like Vic, was from Athens, GA, and like Vic, was confined to a wheelchair. Unlike Vic, though, he had a pretty decent outlook on life. When he moved up to NYC, he would hear about Elvis Costello events around town and e-mail me asking in all earnestness if I knew what the wheelchair accessibility was of whatever venue was hosting Elvis. I got a kick out of that. Here I am in rural eastern Washington giving him info on how he’d be able to get in some studio in the city of all cities.
Anyway, about 4 or so years ago Mike passed away pretty suddenly from some unknown medical condition. It was literally just waking up one morning and reading an e-mail with the subject “devastating news.” And now Vic’s passing brought all that back again.
And now to raise the mood, I can assure you that you can add Michael Stipe to the “celebrities who smell” list.
I should add that Mike and Vic were acquainted with each other, though maybe not close friends.
And listening to the last third of the roundtable reminded me that as a kid our friends next door consisted of a very nice Philipino woman who made great custard flang.
My eff-off for the year has to go to Sarah Palin, because as this year ends, unfortunately there are no signs that she is going away, when her fifteen minutes should have ended on 20 January 2009. I find myself rooting for Levi Johnston on so many things, because even though I suspect he’s no prince and probably a dumbass, I applaud him for going after his and sticking it in her eye.
My year has pretty even, as my life is one big schedule. No huge highs, no deep lows. Thankfully I ended the year with a bit more sleep. Boy is getting more fun as time goes by, but he also has just discovered that high-pitched shriek think that only little kids can do.
Finally starting to catch up!! I will keep this short—so sad Ken Ober died—I hadn’t heard! WTF! Also, I had not heard about Maurice Jarre, either—Siskita and I were just watching “Dreamscape” the other day on Netflix. Can you believe Jarre scored that one? 🙁