Wouldn’t this just depress the children? Your hero is the other-worldly, beyond-human Spider-man but he’s also gotta wash windows for a living? Dafuck? Wouldn't it just make it seem like you're more fucked than you thought - "if even Spider-Man has to do this shit to pay his bills then what the fuck hope's there for me out there?" π€π€·♂️
Friday, June 30, 2023
I Fucking Hate the "Supreme Court"
Fab Four Friyay!
#BigBeatlesBlether
— Raoul Duke (@batcountry1980) June 29, 2023
194. Strawberry Fields Forever(1967)
Part 1
‘When he finished, there was a moment of stunned silence, broken by Paul, who in a quiet, respectful tone said simply “That is absolutely brilliant”’
Although this is Geoff Emerick recalling the first time 1/22
EGG FOO WHAT?! Newest Single!
In America.
Thursday, June 29, 2023
Incredibly Enough, More Rick Wise
Here's a Thought
What if in the middle of a guitar player's lead the singer suddenly throws his hand up for a high five and the guitar is helpless to not react instinctively and return the high five, thereby killing his face-melting lead? π€π€·♂️
State du Moi
EGG FOO WHAT?! Episode 52
HEAR IT ALL HERE!
THIS Is Some Bullshit
I guess YouTube knows I'm an easy target for Indiana High School Basketball Tournament footage but WHEN SHOWING FOOTAGE OF SCOTT SKILES' CLASSIC 1982 UPSET WIN YOU CAN'T SAY "INCLUDED IN THE GAME WAS A FUTURE MEMBER OF HOUSTON'S PHI SLAMMA JAMMA!" WHEN THAT FUTURE MEMBER OF PHI SLAMMA JAMMA TURNS OUT TO BE (CHECKS NOTES)...Renaldo Thomas. Grrrrr. GRRRR!
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
My Sitcom White Whale Moment Has Been Found
A hundred years ago, I know it was my Manny days, I saw a moment in an All in the Family episode that had me curled up on the floor laughing my head off. Somehow I never was able to find it again; for 15 years I'd randomly think of it and spend like maybe 10 minutes trying to figure out which episode it was from, and then give up for another year. But it was always on the back of my mind, and now, tonight, ladies & gentlemen, I present you with that moment from that scene: Archie, frantically trying to hurry along the wedding ceremony, bangs on the piano at Edith. π€£π€£π€£π€£
Oh, You Guys
Shared this at a work meeting today so thought I'd let y'all have a laugh with it too. My old days with Xmastime buddy Fashion Herald, 2009! π€πΊ
New Macca Book!
I finally stopped playing hardball with Paul McCartney and bought his newest book of photographs:
What's different about the photos in Paul McCartney's book 1964: Eyes of the Storm is the point of view of the photographer: McCartney himself.I thought I'd seen every picture of The Beatles so I was prepared to be kinda so what? about it but I stunned to realize of course he'd have taken pictures of the plane ride over to America;
McCartney says an archivist brought the photos out of his archives. He hadn't seen them in decades. "Most of them I don't remember taking because it was a whirlwind," he said.
Questions. I Have Them.
The Internet is Always Teaching
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023
EMERGENCY LIVE YOUTUBE PODCAST ALERT
Oh FFS Already
Pepsi will launch a Pepsi-infused condiment called Colachup at Yankee Stadium and three other ballparks on the Fourth of July in what it's calling a "complete reimagining" of hot dog toppings.
First of all, you people know my policy on ketchup: it's for children and Midwesterners only.
Secondly, why wouldn't you call it "Pepsup"?
Ideas. I Have Them.
In America.
Democracy, indeed.
Applying Cologne for the First Time in Like a Freaking Decade, a One-Act Play
INT. Bathroom
1. Just a little dab will do fine, no need to overpower myself like I'm 19 & spraying on a keg of Axe body spray
2. Hmm. Can't really smell it. Should I put on more?
3. Dump the rest of bottle on my face
4. I think someone's going to ask me to leave the building
END SCENE
The One Good Thing About the DC Metro
EXCEPT.
I've always LOVED the carpets on DC Metro trains! "Oh but Xmastime," people tell me when I mention this, "those carpets are disgusting!" to whit I always say well what the fuck are you doing on these carpets, are you licking soup up off them? Or are you walking on them the same as you would anywhere outside no matter what, with shoes on your feet?
I feel like there's fewer & fewer train cars with these carpets left as the Metro is determined to suck out whatever last bit of soul it has remaining, so my promise to you people is that every time I come upon one (heh heh heh, still got it!) I'll let you know with a photo YOU'RE WELCOME!!
Monday, June 26, 2023
The Internet is a Crazy Thing
Imagine you were born in 1929 and you make it to the year 2023 and then you stumble into this and see footage of a game you played in the goddam year 1947. Unbelievable.
UPDATE: you don't have to imagine, the star of that game was Clyde Lovelette, who went on to a Hall of Fame career before dying in 2016. Crazy.
She Loves You at 60...60!!!
Like many early Beatles songs, the title of "She Loves You" was framed around the use of personal pronouns. But unusually for a love song, the lyrics are not about the narrator's love for someone else; instead the narrator functions as a helpful go-between for estranged lovers:
You think you lost your love,
Well, I saw her yesterday.
It's you she's thinking of –
And she told me what to say.
She says she loves you ...
This idea was attributed by Lennon to McCartney in 1980: "It was Paul's idea: instead of singing 'I love you' again, we'd have a third party. That kind of little detail is still in his work. He will write a story about someone. I'm more inclined to write about myself."Looking back, engineer Norman Smith admitted to not thinking much of the song at first -- or at least the lyrics, anyway. "I was setting up the microphone when I saw the lyrics on the music stand," Smith recalled. "I thought I'll just have a quick look. 'She loves you yeah yeah yeah, she loves you yeah yeah yeah, she loves you yeah yeah yeah yeah.' I thought 'Oh my God, what a lyric! This is going to be one that I do not like.' But when they started to sing it -- bang, wow, terrific. I was up at the mixer jobbing around."
The Unconquerable Eric Idle
Following the success of Holy Grail, reporters asked for the title of the next Python film, despite the fact that the team had not even begun to consider a third one. Eventually, Idle once flippantly replied "Jesus Christ and His Lust for Glory", which became the group's stock answer once they realized that it shut reporters up.
No matter how great Life of Brian is - and it is - Eric Idle cracking "Jesus Christ and His Lust for Glory" has to be the single funniest thing ever said out loud. I mean, I couldn't have come up with that in 100 years, and Idle just tossed it off like that. Fucking incredible. I say that over and over, and it fucking kills me. What a line. I can't imagine anything that could be funnier.
Doc Ideas. I Have Them
Hey, Bobby Plump is still alive & kicking after all!!!
Sunday, June 25, 2023
Garfield du Jour
Unfortunately, comic references to trans folks & anti-vax fears hit a bit too close to home these days. Thanks, Garfield! π‘
Good Old Days? Maybe Not.
Time of Death: Right Now
Which is doubly a shame, since I'd just finished a hot streak of 3 books that were not only fantastic & enjoyable to read, but any of the three could find themselves on a short list of Books That Really Made Me Think About How to Live My Life. Unlike the aforementioned flop, I can't recommend these three incredible books enough:
The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski
Mother, Maxim Gorky
Spill Simmer Falter Wither, Sara Baume
Ah well.
UPDATE: I just realized, it's four books in a row not three, thanks to Flaubert's fantastic Memoirs of a Madman which I read right before The Painted Bird. Damn you, A Passage to India!!!
Happy Birthday Dairy Queen!
"But Xmastime", you say in the voice of Craig “Ironhead” Heyward from those soap commercials (RIP), “didn't you once point something much more interesting you did at a Dairy Queen years ago??"
Sigh. Yes I did, faithful readers, YES I did!
It Was 25 Years Ago Today
Rock on, Dish! :) We will rock again someday, somewhere.
LEARN ALL ABOUT/ROCK OUT TO THE HAPPY SCENE HERE
Wings, Beatles & More Oh My!
1. it's genuinely funny
2. we see the beginning of Brian getting against the wall vis-a-vis the new politics of Joe & Helen being married
3. plays into an old, lazy trope, that Yoko broke up The Beatles (since debunked!!)
4. Brian's "album" line is legit LOL
5. Helen whispering into Joe's ear plays perfectly into what people thought for years Yoko & John were like in the studio (since debunked!)
6. Brian actually says the words "Wings", which could be a play on the name of the show and the name of Paul McCartney's band after The Beatles broke up...
7. ...seconds before he nails a fantastic Liverpool accent...
8. ...which I think honestly cracks Tim Daly up, which is the cherry on top
Shew! All in a matter of seconds, people! YOU PEOPLE NEED TO WATCH MORE WINGS DAMMIT!
Ray Davies Birfday Week Rolls On!
I'd never even heard of this show but the setlist - as well as his stories in between - is just off the charts; I've never seen VGPS represented so much in the set. 5 stars, no notes. Just wow.
1. Dead End Street
2. 20th Century Man
3. Village Green
4. Picture Book
5. Big Sky
6. Do You remember Walter?
7. Sunny Afternoon
8. I Go To Sleep
9. All She Wrote
10. Other People's Lives
11. Muswell Hillbilly
12. Oklahoma USA
13. The Getaway (Lonesome train)
14. After the Fall
15. Harry Rag
Saturday, June 24, 2023
Ray Davies Birfday Week Rolls On!
Sometimes I worry that as a human race we don't pay enough attention to the fact that he once brilliantly rhymed "vernacular" with "Dracula":
We are the Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium
God save the George Cross and all those who were awarded them
We are the Sherlock Holmes English Speaking Vernacular
Help save Fu Manchu, Moriarty and Dracula
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Statements. I Have Them.
ANNOUNCEMENT
If I find out who’s been hiding this absolute treasure from me all these years I’m gonna flip the eff out.
The Days of Wine and Roses
I never did a radio show in college without playing the Dream Syndicate's Halloween - XMASTIME
Get thee over to Spotify now and treat yourself to the fantastic 40th anniversary of The Dream Syndicate's classic, The Days of Wine and Roses! Great album to begin with, and tons of great extra shit.
Also, making up Steve Wynn's set list shortly after moving to New York City in 1998 is still one of my all-time favorite memories π€:
Shortly after I moved to Brooklyn in January of 1998 GodIHateYourSteveWynn, Lux and I went to some basement in the city, where Steve Wynn of the Dream Syndicate was playing a solo acoustic show. He was trying to plug his latest album, of which he releases about 50 a year, and nobody was really giving a shit, everybody kinda milling around chatting. After I had partook in a few warm Heinekins I thought I'd do Mr. Wynn a favor, and I started shouting out Dream Synicate songs I wanted to hear, and he simply shrugged "fuck it" and played whatever I shouted out over the next 45 minutes or so.
I've always hated that "Only in New York, kids!" saying, but later on while standing there talking to Steve Wynn I remember thinking "there's no way I'd be standing here talking to Steve Wynn after picking out his set list anywhere else." Here's Burn, a super-slice from Medicine Show.
Also cool: Steve Wynn is in The Baseball Project.
VivΓ‘ la Dream Syndicate!
Strange Currencies & Bear Fever
One more thing I'd like to say about the soundtrack for the second season of The Bear, which as I mentioned yesterday may be the best season soundtrack ever, is that I've spent 30 years saying REM's Strange Currencies is a better version of Everybody Hurts and for 30 years everyone said I was crazy and now we see it played at least three times this season on The Bear and so I feel sweet, horrible vindication!
Just Finished the Season 2 Finale of THE BEAR
Even as a fan of the 1st season I’m blown away by the 2nd (last?) season of the show. Unbelievable. Just fantastic. I started out just being happy they let us breathe while watching an episode, and I still can't stand the way the actress plays Sydney, that acting style just drives me bananas, but then by the Christmas episode the show somehow hit another gear and just launched. I can’t think of a better season for a drama in recent memory.
Also - has there been a character less capable of enjoying himself than Carmy since Matt Saracen?
Friday, June 23, 2023
A Note on Season 2 of THE BEAR
The following episode was almost as good - first of all I welcome as much Ebon Moss-Bachrach screen time as I can get and you're goddam right I bawled like a baby at his moment of triumph π
Da Bears
I'm only on episode 6 but does the second season of The Bear have the best soundtrack for any tv season ever?
Questions. I Have Them.
Huge if True.
BREAKING NEWS: Mike has generously offered to shoot a video recreating Brandon’s fake punch from BH 90210’s opening credits if we reach 1 million Twitter followers!!!!! Let’s make this happen, everybody!! #eggfoowhat pic.twitter.com/3PrnBmV7WS
— Egg Foo What?! (@EggFooWhat) June 23, 2023
Your Friday Bonus, People!
Thoughts. I Have Them.
Your Friday Xmastime Inspiration du Jour
Rick Wise!
OFAH du Jour: Dare to Dream?
Only Fools And Horses could return for a new TV run, if Paul Whitehouse has anything to say about it. The 65-year-old actor plays both Grandad and Uncle Albert in the West End retelling of the classic comedy, and he’s hoping to bring the new version to television after the production ended its run at London’s Theare Royal earlier this year.
‘Our story involves both Granddad and Uncle Albert, Del Boy meeting Raquel and Rodney and Cassandra getting married so we basically condense the seven television series into two hours and 10 minutes.’
Paul knows any potential remake wouldn’t be able to ‘compete’ with the iconic original, he thinks fans would respond well.
While there would no doubt be hope original stars like Sir David Jason could make a guest appearance, his co-star Nicholas Lyndhurst has previously dismissed the idea of returning for a revival. Although Sir Jason, 83, is still alive, Only Fools writer John Sullivan died aged 64 in 2011, while Roger Lloyd Pack (Trigger), Kenneth MacDonald (Mike the Landlord) and Buster Merryfield (Uncle Albert) have also died since the show ended its run 30 years ago. Nicholas previously said: ‘We can’t. John is no longer with us. John was the driving force of the show and we have also lost quite a few cast members now.
#XOTD2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Ed McMahon
In early 2004 I started using my now ubiquitous signature "heyooooooooooo!!"; channeling Ed McMahon via Phil Hartman. I hafta say my favorite instance ever was at a dinner party I had; I was throwing out my "heyoooooooooo!!!"s with impunity. Clocking in about one every 60 seconds, killin mugs with it. Was on fire. Til GodIHateYourMarriage mentioned to his wife that he was gonna be outta town for her birthday. She cut him a look to kill as the room collapsed into "oh oh" silence...until from the silence lifted a barely audible "heyooooooo." Brought the house down. Sigh. Memories!!
8 Years Ago Today
It's almost hard to remember now how incredible the original BBC version of the show was, having since been trampled by the shitty Americanized version:
Premiering in 2004, the U.K. Kitchen Nightmares provided an intimate, borderline meditative look inside businesses with a fighting chance of survival helmed by not entirely delusional owners. (The central quandary in the episode set at an upscale restaurant in Inverness is that the food is just too fancy.) The editing and sound are far less concussive than in their American counterparts, while Ramsay’s seismic eruptions feel more like natural phenomena; he achieves a fond rapport with many of his charges, even easing into the role of ad-hoc therapist.
And yes, I will remind you once again why the American version of the show suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks. You're welcome, Earth.
- Opens with fat, loud Italian guy braying to the camera about how amazing his food is. "The best there is!!" he says, beaming....
- ....seemingly oblivious to the fact that there is a camera crew filming him in preparation for a visit from Chef Ramsay, which you think would signal to him that his restaurant is in such shit that a television network deems that it's return to any level of success will be so incredible it's worth filming....READ MORE
OK After This I'm Gonna Try to Have a Fun Friday, People
OH FFS
Mark Zuckerberg has apparently agreed to fight Elon Musk in a cage match that would feature the billionaire leaders of two giant tech companies. Whether the two tech moguls are joking remains to be seen. While replying to a user discussing Meta's plans to build a Twitter rival, Musk challenged the company's founder on Wednesday to a "cage match" if he's up for it. Zuckerberg responded to a screenshot of the tweet and said, "Send me location".
First of all, I for damn sure haven't crafted my life in such a way so that one day I wake up & I'm the only adult in the goddam room π‘π‘π‘π‘. Secondly, I guess this is just the next level of the bored billionaire nonsense we're all being forced through, presumably culminating in some rich motherfucker deciding he's Marcus Licinius Crassus.
What the fuck happened to just being happy to be outrageously rich?
The Craziness That is Graham Chapman
Thursday, June 22, 2023
Ray Davies Long Birthday Weekend Rolls On!! π€πΈ
If you don't wanna hear it from me how awesome Ray Davies is then I'll just let Bowie/Costello/Weller et al have a go.
The Wonder Years
OFAH du Jour
He’s been on the Bob Martins! pic.twitter.com/d0yypHPUjg
— Only Fools and Horses Lines (@OnlyFoolsLines) June 22, 2023
XMASTIME CONFESSIONS:
Happy Birfday!
Our basketball home away from home was my friend Michael’s house, "The Chinn Dome." He had a big outdoor light, so we could play there after dark. I had a spot about 18 feet out that I shot from so much it was called “Xmas’ fucking crater," I wouldn’t be surprised if my footprints were still there. Usually we’d play 2 on 2, I must’ve run the only 2-man zone defense in the history of basketball – “you got the left side, I got the right.” Cause like I said before I ain't...READ MORE
























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