Hucklebug, Episode 72: Stennie’s birthday, shout-outs, movies (Bet: A Canterbury Tale; Stennie: Tristram Shandy), lowlights & highlights, fuck-offs & you-rules, Hucklebug Academy Awards 1954 – 1962, erudite car washes and tattooes.
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Woo hoo! Down with Staples! No inventory, unhelpful, can’t find stuff and only ever has one cashier open, who will always ask me if I want to open a Staples account. NO!
I was just thinking about the convertible thing yesterday, when I saw some middle aged man on a cold morning with the top down, sitting there blowing and wiping his nose incessantly at the stoplight. Umm, maybe if you put the top up and got out of the wind, you might not need to do that.
You’re welcome for the birthday presents. I’m glad you liked them. They looked like fun to me. However, a minor fuck-off can go to Amazon’s wish list. It’s a wonderful function, but they don’t seem to do so well on removing things that other people have purchased, so duplicates can arrive. But it’s still a nifty thing.
And my CDs will be there soon, honest. I had to make a trip to the dreaded Staples to get mailers (which they finally had) and more blank CDs. They’re now all nice and burned and in their addressed envelopes. Don’t think I’ll get around to making inserts, though. You’ll just have to check the blog at the right time and find out.
Debarge had a few big hits, namely: Rhythm of the Night, Who’s Holding Donna Now & All This Love.
And YES, YES, YES… “F” off to phone calls when I’m trying to watch a movie. GOD I HATE THAT!!!!
I don’t know why but I find it very sweet that Sal said “f” off…awwww
Just to get caught up in the Oscars game…
1939: The Wizard Of Oz
1940: The Grapes Of Wrath
1941: Citizen Kane
1942: Pride Of The Yankees (write-in: The Palm Beach Story)
1943: Casablanca
1944: Double Indemnity
1945: The Lost Weekend (write-in: Brief Encounter)
1946: The Best Years Of Our Lives (you made the right choice, Stennie)
1947: Great Expectations (write-in: Out Of The Past)
1948: The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
1949: Twelve O’Clock High (write-in: Stray Dog—here come the Kurosawas)
1950: Sunset Blvd. (write-in: Rashomon)
1951: Oh, Streetcar! (write-in: The Day The Earth Stood Still)
1952: The Quiet Man (write-in: Singin’ In The Rain)
1953: Shane (write-in: Tokyo Story)
1954: On The Waterfront (write-in: The Seven Samurai)
1955: Mister Roberts (write-in: East Of Eden)
1956: Giant (write-in: The Burmese Harp)
1957: 12 Angry Men (write-in: Throne Of Blood)
1958: The Defiant Ones (write-in: Mon Oncle)
1959: Ben-Hur (write-in: North By Northwest)
1960: The Apt. (write-in: Psycho)
1961: West Side Story
1962: To Kill A Mockingbird (write-in: Jules & Jim)
I actually appreciate the economy of a dog eating whatever it throws up. Saves me time, effort and paper towels.
My problem is with convertible drivers who don’t fulfill their duty to put the top down on a top-down sort of day. Though I suppose if it’s because they don’t have a shirt on, or some other disqualifying circumstance, that’s cool.
I’ve always thought Stennie sounds a bit like Jodie Foster. Your Ss have the same slight “sh” quality. Never noticed the ‘dis’ and ‘dat,’ but now that you mention it, try saying “Shut up, rabbit” and “Button your lip, Mugsy” just to see if you sound like Rocky from the Warner Bros. cartoons.
In the interests of full disclosure (and this goes back a few episodes), like Dennis I grew up in Oregon and so for most of my life said “may-zhure” and “Warshington.”
ok… let me say that I am so sorry for taking so long to mail out my CD’s. I’ve been tied up with other matters that were much more pressing and could not be avoided.
Good news is I just dropped them off at the post office so you all receive them shortly… I hope. I have had the chance to listen to a few of yours and I have to say that they are all very, very interesting. I had great fun making my music mix for the bunch of you. This may sound weird but in all honesty the only source I used to create the CD was the music library on my iPod. Some time ago I found it so much easier to load up a large majority of my music collection to my iPod so I could avoid the pain and heartache of shuffling thru my jewel cased collection.
If your thinking that it’s impossible to remove songs from your iPod without deleting them, I used to think that as well. So here’s a hint on how to do it. Search for a program on the net called “Podworks” which which will allow you to remove or copy files from your iPod back into your iTunes library. At the time the price for Podworks was $8. Find it at
http://www.scifihifi.com/podworks/
I have a strong feeling Hillary with be in the White House next and she’ll be doing plenty to earn fuck-offs. And the entire Bush-clan should get fuck-offs forever. We know what W has done, his dad was less retared but probably more evil (does anyone really think Iran/Contra was Reagan’s idea?) and Prescott (W’s grand-dad) was a banker to the Nazis—I shit you not. BUSH CLAN FUCK-OFFS FOREVER AND EVER, I say
Oh yeah and Barbara referred to her mixed-race grandkids as her family’s “Little Brown Babies”.
If it weren’t for my iPod I would almost never watch TV/movies ever. If the screen is too small then get the iPhone or iPod Touch (both have
bigger screens) or just buy a cable and output the signal to the TV. Seriously, unless the subs are just stupid small (most aren’t) they are
perfectly readable. I’ve watched hours and hours of anime in Japanese on my iPod with no eye-strain or headaches to report.
As for getting movies onto your iPod w/o downloading them, you can use an app for XP called Videora to rip DVDs into iPod format. At least, that’s what I’ve heard works well for PC. Just go to download.com and do a search for “iPod DVD rip” and you’ll likely find some freeware to do the trick.
The probable reason you had all that trouble setting up your iPod is because you’ve got a PC—Apple and MS are shit at working on each
other’s platforms. I use both XP and OSX on my laptop and everything’s cool until the apps from each other’s company cross over.
Did you actually expect me to miss the chance to show off my iPoddian wisdom?
I think I say ‘elts’ too. Damn Jersey thing.
Sorry, Sten, no giftie for you from me—just started a few very cool part-time gigs (no temping!) and have been paycheck-free for almost 2
months 🙁