Hucklebug, Episode 123: Happy Veteran’s Day, shout-outs, movies (Stennie: 51 Birch Street, Follow the Fleet; Bet: none!), highlights & lowlights, fuck-offs and you-rules, questions from Smileage and The Book of Questions.
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by (respectively): Jacques “Saxman” Johnson, Los Reyes Del K.O., Floyd Cramer, Johnny O’Keefe, Frank Sinatra.
Okay, you asked for it. The “Name That Tooth!” competition is now up over at my blog for Nick-the-child-not-the-cancer’s first tooth. Make your calls and a winner will be announced somewhere—either here, there, or maybe in a world-wide simultaneous telecast! Using a hologram! In stereo!
Okay—finished listening to it now. Some answers;
Favorite ice cream—mint chocolate chip
Favorite Monopoly piece—the car. Only one that stayed upright on the board.
Favorite SNL actor—Bill Murray always cracked me up.
Favorite muppet—hard to say, but I liked Statler and Waldorf, but in the small doses that they were on there. Also, the Swedish Chef.
Favorite sandwich, with instructions. BLT—White toast, mayonnaise, iceberg lettuce, one slice of tomato and bacon. Mmmmm.
I had that exact thought about the removal of a finger to prevent major diseases—you get hit by a car the next day. And I laughed my butt off at the Russian Roulette Fast Forward. And you know at least half of them would choose to do it. The only reason I’d do it on the show is that I’d assume that actually all ten of them were unloaded because CBS wouldn’t be willing to incur the lawsuit.
Re: Don’t Fear The Reaper
There is indeed cowbell in the song, but it’s fairly buried in the mix. I only hear it when I’ve got headphones on. It’s usually over on the left side, right on the 4/4 beat. I think the joke is that Will Farrell is really going to town on the cowbell, which plays into his forte of looking really stupid.
And that’s as far as I’ve gotten.
Bruges – rhymes with “luge” – by far the silliest thing you can win an Olympic medal for.
In Distant Relative Updates, my uncle in Colorado is still an asshole. I hope the Moms continue to thrive.
Zachary and I foolishly thought we were being discrete. In my bones, I must have suspected taking tango lessons at the Y would lead to this.
Lily, consider yourself only mostly crushed: There IS cowbell (or similar percussion) in DFTR. I was beginning to think that, being accustomed to hearing it so prominently in the sketch, my mind makes me think I’m hearing it. I’m glad Mike validated my belief and verified that, at least on that score, I’m not crazy.
As for me, I’m more of a glockenspiel guy:
http://adrinkingsong.blogspot.com/2007/02/happy-ending.html
And, Bet, it’s not that unusual for a rock band to get its cowbell on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DprNY0mmRuQ
Beaker is my favorite Muppet, too, especially after seeing these:
He’s not only hardest rocking Muppet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K0e9NIOjmM, but also the most versatile: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpcUxwpOQ_A&feature=related
God, I miss Phil Hartman. Maybe the greatest sketch comedian ever. So brilliant; so sad.
My favorite sandwiches are the classic Reuben or a little grilled Italian number I like to call ‘Panino al Mezzofronte’ (pronounced “broozh”; translation: Middlebrow sandwich)
Panino al Mezzofronte:
Layer ham, sopressata, capicola, Asiago or pecorino cheese (or anything your local cheese shop hasn’t run out of, including camembert if it’s not too runny) and roasted red pepper on some kind of good Italian country bread. The cheese should be between the meat and the bread, acting as a sort of adhesive.
The key preparation tip is to warm the innards, either under a broiler or in the microwave, because grilling doesn’t usually heat it through sufficiently.
ALSO: it _has_ to be grilled (griddled?)—brushed with butter and fried to a crispy golden-brown on a griddle or skillet—NOT just toasted. Nothing brings on a psychotic episode like a Rueben on warm dry bread.
I also enjoy a nice MLT, but it’s so hard to find suitably perky mutton. I’ve learned to stop getting my hopes up.
Technical question: why can’t we do hyperlinks? Did someone abuse the privilege and spoil it for the rest of us? *cough*Patrick*cough*
Hi there. Just for the record, I declared myself Jewnitarian many years ago…all of the holidays, none of the guilt. My elevator speech (20-30 seconds to describe what I believe…) is that I believe in the inherent worth and dignity of everyone. That the world, (environment and people) are all interconnected and if you (or they) believe and practice differently, just do no harm. OK, not a perfect speech, but close enough.
Elevator speeches are hard. What do you do for work? If you are spiritual, why or why not? What do you believe? Assuming there are only five flights, you don’t have a lot of time.
I am off bread and crackers, no really good reason. And I am in charge of Thanksgiving pie. We are experimenting with every-other day new found recipe sample pies at my house. BTW, recipes off the internet sometimes really suck.
Finally, I checked on Zazzle, and I was a little perturbed that there was no highlight of the week mug. Then, I thought about it. If my lowlight is to be drinking out of a Hucklemug, then I must be having a pretty awesome week! I ordered it today.
Oh, and p.s. no takers on the shirt. Wow, you can’t give anything away here, can you?
Lily – I LOVE the cowbell sketch. More Cowbell!! And we snap on Mint Choc Chip!
Stennie – I miss Stormy.
Bet – way to go with moving Virginia to Blue!
Fav, Muppet – Kermit – I just love “it’s not easy being green.”
Fav. Sandwich – Roast Beef & Ketchup
Monopoly – shoe & Orange spaces (nice price yet good payback if someone lands there)
Obamarific!
hot off the presses…my hukelmug has shipped!!!! Now that is service!!
I just want to give a Fuck Off to Twilight because I’m fed up with being bombarded by this damn film everywhere I go. Enough already.
Has Bet ever performed on the Hucklebug? I seem to recall she did, but I can’t remember which episode. I’m still waiting to hear Heidi sing.
Do you mean—SHUT THAT BLOODY BAZOUKI UP!
Do you mean direct links are no longer working?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3KBuQHHKx0
What a senseless waste of human life.
That’s what I love about the Hucklebug—it’s certainly uncontaminated by cheese.
The direct links work fine, but they aren’t as clean as embedded links.
I’m thinking that since the United Federation of Planets is headquartered on Earth, I think I’m still kinda right.
Obamanomics is AWESOME, Stennie. Great word-coinage! Will use that as soon as I can.
Sarah Palin still won’t go away! I saw an article someplace just today by a “journalist” who thought it was important to talk about how far back women have been shoved thanks to Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin running for office. Apparently, this “journalist” believes that Hillary was a witch and Palin was a bimbo. Personally, I think it’s the media’s fault for trying to make such a stupidly simple argument out of something so important. It’s like I was watching “Iron Jawed Angels” all over again.
But yeah, the media should STOP COVERING SARAH PALIN NOW.
Bet, could you maybe talk about any TV shows you watch instead of movies since you haven’t seen many lately?
12 second video of me voting for Obama:
http://12seconds.tv/channel/ThePete/45210
Stennie, congratulations on installing Linux and on getting the laptop you installed it on! How do you like Linux? I keep pretending I’ll install it someplace and use it but I never do.
I likes me some freedom toast, too.
Kermit is my fave, too…
All right, that’s it from me! Sorry I’m late this week. I’ll have to cry myself to sleep without a shout-out in the next episode. 🙁