Episode 61: Hucklebugging for the Blogathon (but not officially), Bargain Hunt revisited, shout-outs, movies, lowlights and highlights, fuck-offs and you-rules, Amazing Race—All Celebrity Version, return of $25,000 Pyramid. NOTE: The Hucklebug is unexpectedly back in mono this week, but we should be back in stereo for Episode 62.
Watch this space for more information about Hucklebug’s Podcastathon, coming Saturday, August 11th. And please leave us topics! Thanks.
Some early comments on the first part, as I’m still on weird jetlag time and listening to the early part before falling over asleep again. Am I understanding correctly that Stennie has never seen Blazing Saddles? Please say you’re kidding me. If it’s true, stop what you’re doing and immediately go get it. Do not pass go, do not collect $200. If it’s not true, then I’m unclear about your comment about getting Bet’s reference to BS.
Now, if you haven’t seen it, here’s a suggestion for the Podcastathon—watch it simultaneously real time, and every half hour give a quick update on your opinion or some aspect of the movie. That should eat up an hour and a half or so. Heck, tell us when to start and it can be a community activity.
And Ina Garten? NOT sexy—she’s up there on the world’s most annoying people. I hate that show.
Okay. Off to bed.
About the only way I could stand to see Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie for one more second on TV (just typing their names makes me want to pluck my eyes out) would be for them to wind up in a Turkish prison. Or maybe sold into white slavery. I’d pay to see that.
How about Jason Bateman and Michael Cera, reprising their roles from Arrested Development? God, I miss that show.
BTW, I don’t know if it’s cool to do this or not, but on my blog *cough*http://adrinkingsong.blogspot.com/*cough*
I recently did a list of 100 movies—originally they were nominees for the OFC list that’s in the works. But then I got a wild hair and came up with 100 movies that I could connect somehow. Long story short, Bet, #62 and #63 are for you.
Bargin Hunt is a hoot isn’t it? People running around like it means something. 99% of them lose money. That sleazeball Dickinson hitting on everyone in the slimiest way possible. He started on a young girl right in front of her mother. She was squirming around on camera and you could tell she wanted to slam David in the head with something. He just kept it up and putting his arms all over her. What a work of art he is. Bargin Hunt is the best 30 min on TV. Too bad it’s been cancelled on the BBC. We’re getting the reruns from several years ago. I’m gonna get me a Dickinson T-shirt myself.
It’s great about the blogathon. I’ll be here. At least till I fall asleep and roll out of the chair. At my age that’s about 7 pm. Some topics? How about:
1) If you could only ask one question to these people, what would you ask?
Gary Grant
Richard Nixon
Stennie’s Intended from Dirty Jobs
2) Favorite road food for car trips
3) If you were boss at work for one day, what would you do first?
Stennie must have a thing for Richardo Montalban and his rich, corinthian leather covered chest. I love Wraith of Khan too though.
Is it possible to have a hucklebug without Alan Arkin? Even Stennie is getting into it. Very creepy.
Tell us LillyG is wrong and Stennie has seen Blazing Saddles. The universe is tilting off center.
You’re doing the blogathon! WOOHOO!!! I’ll be thinking of topics between now and then. Will you be accepting comments/answering topics during the blogathon? Please be sure to give us Bet’s dad’s name so that we can make donations in his honor, if we so choose.
I think today’s hardest laugh came from Stennie’s very quiet “vodka cranberry” announcement. Stenns, did you think nobody would hear you?
On the Amazing Race, I’d like to see the recent big former celebrity weightloss girls – Barbara (Valerie Bertinelli) and Marcia Brady.) Or maybe we could see Marla Thomas and Valerie Harper.
So sorry for your loss, Bet.
I, too, hate cancer. I got this idea in my head that instead of chasing phantom terrorists that probably won’t kill any of us, why don’t we spend $1+ trillion on a cure for cancer? I bet we’d find one (or several) long before we spent the whole trillion…
And sorry I didn’t get to post more last week, but things got hectic and I couldn’t find a moment to get back to post anything. Working on a screenplay and still have my stupid dayjob (TOO MUCH CANCER!) and there’s that whole “wife” thing.
I did listen to the whole show, though and yeah, I figured Bet meant Fredo from “The Godfather” because she mentioned he was in “Dog Day Afternoon” too. I guess I didn’t know he was dead 🙁
Speaking of Fritos, the Frito-Lay company recently changed their packaging temporarily to a “vintage” look, slapping an old mascot of theirs on the smaller bags of Fritos (I’ve mainly seen them at Subway). This isn’t Frito the Bandito, but some little cowboy fellow that I’ve never heard of. Check out shots of it here: http://flickr.com/photos/thepete/444376488/
and here:
http://flickr.com/photos/thepete/444376422/in/set-72157600044542840/
Isn’t it neat how we rewrite our own past to make it seem like we’re much cooler than we really were?
Sorry, I’m in bitter-mode today. Must be Friday the 13th or something.
SHIT, IT IS!
Holy crap—Mike Rowe should TOTALLY try White House Spokesliar out for his show! There’s no dirtier job in America than lying for the Bush Administration.
Well, maybe telemarketers…
Lawyers specializing in debt acquisition?
Televangelist?
OK, White House Spokesliar is ONE of the TOP most-dirty jobs…
OH and before I forget—2 things:
1) Topics for the blogathonette: favorite drug(s) (legal/illegal/prescription/OTC), favorite spice, favorite color, favorite talk show host, favorite game show host, favorite news anchor (ever)… I’ll keep thinking.
2) A friend of mine pointed me to a site called BlogTalkRadio.com. It’s a site that lets you do live call in radio shows over the ‘net. Once you record them live (no editing!) you can then make the shows available to your listeners in podcast form. I think they encourage you to take calls from listeners while recording the show, but I don’t believe it’s a requirement. I could be wrong, though. I’m thinking about returning to audio podcasting through them and thought you guys might enjoy doing a show live
Maybe not every week, but once a month? Just a thought.
Amazing Brokeback Mountain Race <—wouldn’t miss an episode!
Frances McDormand *is* gutsy—she was in the “Aeon Flux” movie!
o_O
My ideas:
Ewan McGregor and Christian Bale – Amazing Velvet Under-Race
Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson – Amazing Breasts (Race)
Johnny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton – Amazing Angelina Jolie Ex-Husbands Race
and finally:
Mike Rowe and Claude Brodeser Ackner – Amazing Stennie’s Instant Orgasm Race
YAY PYRAMID!
Actually, these days Democrats pretty much suck, too…
MUST SHAKE FUNK OFF MY BACK…
Oh and I like Lily’s idea for periodic updates to Stennie watching Blazing Saddles (or any movie, really). Sort of a new way to review movies—as you experience them.
I think it’s a great idea.
One last thing: the reason we don’t see more positive female buddy movies or shows is because Hollywood sucks.
I just found this at the blogathon website’s FAQ regarding not being able to make the regularly schedule blogathon:
I have a committment during the standard Blogathon schedule that cannot be rescheduled. Can I still participate?
Yes! As of last year, we have a B-Schedule, an alternate time frame for those observing religious traditions (such as the Sabbath) or who cannot participate in the main schedule due to a commitment that cannot be rescheduled.
Bloggers on B-Schedule will begin at 9pm Pacific Time on Saturday, July 28th, and finish at 9pm on Sunday the 29th. We’ll have Monitors, a Team Leader and the B-Schedule Coordinator online during this time frame, as well as a separate navigational system for those who want to see who is still online and blogging.
Another thing also struck me. Can’t you guys (or anyone taking part) just write up a bunch of posts in advance over the span of many days and just post-date them for every half-hour during the ‘thon? They say in the rules that you must be awake, but how could they prove such a thing? Hell, you could even automate a webcam to upload pre-shot images to make it look like you’re awake.
Maybe I should do it—I don’t think I have plans that Saturday that I can’t squeeze blogging every 30 minutes around…
So where can we donate, already???
I just heard that the Pants Judge is appealing!!
http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=63624
But I also found this:
http://blog.nam.org/archives/2007/07/pants_motion_fo.php
Which says he’s had his appeal turned down but that Judge Judith is expecting Pearson to appeal again within 30 days.