For this podcast The Dude on the Right talks a lot about music, although he begins by welcoming the International visitors to the website where the folks in Ireland are close to overtaking the fans in Canada. But back on the music side, The Dude explains who the new lead singer of Journey is and how it came about, which reminded him of the movie “Rock Star,” and continuing with the music theme, with “Hey There Delilah” getting nominated for a couple of Grammy Awards, The Dude is once again tormented and hates Delilah. But the Grammy nominations also lead him into a weird direction, wondering about obscure categories, and past Presidents of the United States of America vs. a maybe future President of the United States of America, all competing in a category of spoken word where it might be Oprah who decides who the Grammy goes to. It’s too bad The Grammy Awards are after the Iowa caucus!
Author: Andy Labis
Canada Better Watch Out, Journey’s Got a New Singer, and Grammy Award Nominees.
By:
The Dude on the Right
As I’m flying solo for this podcast, on the day before the day that will
live in infamy, I would like welcome our international readers and listeners
where my stats are showing that the folks in Ireland are close to overtaking our
fans in Canada, and our Australia visitors better watch out for the folks in
Argentina. Don’t worry, U.S. readers, you’ve got the #1 spot pretty much
locked up for a while.
Also for this podcast, in the spirit of my interrupting
Stu Gotz while he was listening to the radio about the announcement, the band
Journey has a new lead singer, and you’re not going to believe who it is!
To find out you’re just going to have to take some time and listen, especially,
since today, as of 4:50 PM, CST, the page 1 Google listings are wrong if you
search for "Lead singer of Journey."
And continuing with the music theme for
this podcast I had to resurrect my parody of "Hey There Delilah," simply titled
"I Hate Delilah," because The Plain White T’s version got nominated for a
couple of Grammy Awards. And sure, I could have hipped you to some of the
more popular Gammy Nominations, but your not going to believe who was nominated
in the "Surround Sound Album" category. Yup, you’ll just have to listen to
the podcast to find out. And if you think a couple of past Presidents of
the United States of America or a person running for President have a chance in
the "Spoken Word Album" category, well, we’ll have to see if Oprah Winfrey puts
her support behind someone near and dear to her heart or someone she has helped
raise millions of dollars. The Grammy’s have the chance to be even more
exciting than the Presidential race, especially in the "Banda Album" and "Choral
Performance" categories, unless, well, I suppose Mitt Romney shows us his
Mormon Underwear and Dennis Kucinich has photos of a UFO.
Thanks for listening!
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
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30 Minutes to The Christmas Spirit!
By:
The Dude on the Right
Normally, by now, I’m sort of getting into the Christmas spirit, and you would
think that with the blanket of snow we got last night it would kick that feeling
into high gear (I’m Catholic so for for me it’s Christmas – If you want me to be
in the "Holiday" spirit, well, screw you), but for whatever reason I’m still in
"Bah-humbug!" mode. I’ve got no gumption to set up my Christmas display,
the only gumption I do have is to at least set up my Christmas Tree, maybe, and
the dude-pad could also use a good cleaning. My December TV viewing is
coming to a crashing halt thanks to the writer’s strike, and my excitement about
football is nearly over as the Chicago Bears are pretty much out of it while
their only use this week is in screwing up my Thursday night TV viewing thanks
to their being the Thursday Night Football game on the NFL Network which no one,
except me (and maybe The Dude on the Left), can view, because I am insane and
need to have every cable channel I can get.
Normally a Christmas movie or two
might get me into the spirit, but I didn’t like
"Fred Claus" that much, and as my weekends finally get back to a little
normalcy I could really care less about
"The Golden Compass" which opens this weekend, even though I know I should
review it to at least get something new posted entertainment-wise. Sure, I
could catch up on some movies I haven’t seen yet, but I’m thinking neither "Hitman"
nor "The Mist" will make me want to bellow "Ho Ho Ho," or as they are supposed
to do in Australia now, "Ha Ha Ha!"
But
you know what? Chicken butt! Actually, as I’ve been writing this
blog, I’ve also been going back and forth between my typing and my looking for
pictures of my Christmas display from last year, and then I remembered I posted
a blog about it, with pictures, and now I’m sort of sorry for that "screw you"
earlier in this blog because the pictures made me laugh, like the one in this
blog where it looks like my mountain is the giant head of a snow monster,
looking to eat my Christmas village! And you know what twice? Fried rice!
Actually, in a span of about thirty minutes I’m almost getting into the
Christmas spirit. I just remembered the gifts I want to buy for my niece
and nephew as they will be visiting the old homestead for the wondrous holiday
celebrating the birth of my Lord, Jesus Christ (and please people, quit stealing
him away from his manger), maybe it’s actually a blessing that the Bears might
wrap up any hope of continuing their season tomorrow, thus leaving my Sunday
with football I don’t care about (unless the Cleveland Browns might be on my
airwaves, but that will wait for Sunday to find out), movies I don’t care about,
and maybe it will now be a weekend of music and seeing if I can make my
snow-mountain look like a snow-mountain, rather than a snow monster.
And
suddenly, thirty minutes later after I started typing this blog, I’m almost
totally into the Christmas spirit, or the Holiday spirit, or just hoping you
celebrate something this month by being with friends, family, or maybe just your
pet. I think I know where my obsession with creating a Christmas display
came from, and it was during my days as a manager of a Radio Shack where I
actually had a working waterfall complete with goldfish in the "lake" of the
display. I couldn’t find the picture of that display (yet), though I still
see it in my head, and now I also wonder whatever happened to Mitzi, my one
sales associate.
Alright, I’ve got to finish this blog now before it totally
ends up being a novel because, as I am now getting into the Christmas spirit, a
lot of past Decembers are flooding into my head, with most of those Decembers
bringing a smile to my face.
I’m back with the Christmas spirit. Now if
only I could find that picture of my "stunning" Radio Shack display.
That’s it for this one!
I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
What’s New? A Podcast of: Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! A Weekend with Friends, Sports, and TV.
Stu Gotz and The Dude on The Right both survived an annual weekend of seeing old friends so they were able to do another “Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up!” podcast. Stu gets a little “blue” in his talking, but The Dude is just blue about the latest loss by the Chicago Bears. They do talk about their meeting old friends, The Dude talks some about new drinking and eating establishments, and even with a weekend of The Dude on the Right humoring himself in his head, suddenly Jennifer Love Hewitt comes into the picture, and even though that picture isn’t that flattering, Stu and The Dude don’t care, they both like her boobies.
Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! A Weekend with Friends, Sports, and TV.
By:
The Dude on the Right
Both Stu Gotz and I survived a weekend of seeing old friends, although for this
episode of
"Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up!" podcast, well, I’m feeling blue about
the latest Chicago Bears’ loss while Stu just lets his talk lean to the blue
side. Podcasts like this are why sometimes I wish I had never gotten my Mom a
computer so she couldn’t listen. Don’t blame me, Mom – it’s Stu!
So we
reminisce about a weekend of seeing old friends, some new bars, and Whammy’s sex
life, but we also talk some about a Jennifer Love Hewitt controversy and Stu’s
liking her curvy body and boobies, how I think James, whom I originally wanted
so much to win the latest
"Survivor,"
is an idiot even if he could bury me, and yes,
"American Gladiators" is returning for your TV viewing pleasure – thank you
writer’s strike! And me, I fill Stu in on how I humor myself in my mind,
this time because of smelly perfume and smelly soap.
This week is a little more normal so I should also have a new, solo, podcast
this Thursday, but for now we just have a podcast showing why we probably will
never get a show on terrestrial radio even though Don Imus is still there.
Maybe Stu and I are too edgy for terrestrial radio anyway? Maybe Howard
Stern could use a new radio show on Channel 101? Maybe I’m still just
humoring myself in my head? And no, Mom, I never slept with a hooker in
Las Vegas.
Thanks for listening!
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
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A Selfish Weekend with Friends.
By:
The Dude on the Right
I wish I had a good reason for the lack of postings the last few days, but
really it was all about selfishness. As happens every early December, this is a
weekend that a bunch of friends from college, including myself, get together for a
weekend in Chicago. Folks fly in from New Jersey, some people brave lousy
driving conditions, but the weekend is culminated with a fancy-shmancy, or at
least just a nice dinner, at one of the many fine-dining establishments in the
Chicago area (this year is happened to be an Italian place called
"Scoozi!").
I won’t go into too much about the weekend as I think Stu Gotz
and I will go into some things tomorrow for our Weekend Wrap-Up! Podcast, but
the weekend always gives some interesting events, and sometimes things for
future blogs. A few years ago a group of us came up with a new religion, which
if I could ever find the bar napkins we wrote most of our core beliefs on, well,
if you thought the story of
Xenu and Scientology
is a little bit out there, well, our religion has that beat, and might be a
little more fun. But this weekend wasn’t about religion, and as I reminisce this
evening of a fun weekend filled with seeing old friends, it was also exciting
because for a group of us as we broke out of our predictable selves and
discovered a couple of new establishments, namely
"Reagle Beagle"
(Nice meeting you, Andie!) and
"English",
both places being enjoyable, different in their own right, and hopefully longer
reviews will follow at a later time.
For Stu I think I will fill him in on how I tend to humor myself in my own
head with different scenarios I came up with over the weekend, but for some
future blogs there might some topics like:
Sure the weekend kept me away from some important news and rumors like
Britney Spears being pregnant, mourning the death of Evel Knievel, and paying
attention to college football where, depending on the latest BCS standings, The
Ohio State Buckeyes might find themselves in the BCS Championship Game after
all, leaving The Rose Bowl for USC and Illinois, and the folks at FOX are close
to breathing a sigh of relief of the ratings disaster of a West Virginia v.
Missouri match-up. Oh well.
As being selfish can sometimes cause I am now left with so many things to
catch back up on, so many things to post, and I still don’t know who got booted
off of Survivor last Thursday, though I hope to fire up my TiVo later and at let
the catching up begin.
It was great to see some old friends again, and in about a year from now I
will most likely be selfish once again because sometimes old friends are more
important than posting things on the internet.
That’s it for this one!
I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
Quit Sending E-Mails that just Disappoint your Friends.
By:
The Dude on the Right
At first I was going to do a blog about "Dancing with the Stars" and how I was
so happy Helio Castroneves and Julianne Hough won, but then, by the time I
started writing, I figured it was old news and really, what is there to blog
about other than he won, Julianne is still hot, and I was happy Marie Osmond and
Scary Spice didn’t win.
So I decided to write this blog about an e-mail I
received from my Mom a few weeks ago.
As much as I try and prod her to do so, my Mom keeps resisting my urging her
to write editorials, quips, and just general thoughts for this website.
She’s a wife, a mother, and a grandmother, she’s a cancer survivor, and she has
grown up through lots of things in this world and has an opinion on just about
anything going on in the world of today. When I go home to visit, and even
when I call on the phone, she comments a lot about professional athletes getting
paid too much money, saw from the beginning the quagmire of invading Iraq (which
I have to apologize to her, because as much, at the beginning, I tried to
convince her it was a good thing to do as I bought into the political propaganda
being spewed about, but she didn’t buy it for a second and stood her ground and
never has been a George Bush fan), and questions the proliferation of sex and
violence on TV and what it is doing to society, especially our youth, who don’t
have parents to both stop them from watching it, nor be role models around it.
But in a bass-akward way she wrote something for the web site, in the form of an
e-mail to me and some of her friends a few weeks ago. She told me I could
use it here, so here goes…
Mom received an e-mail with the following text,
complete with a lot of cute graphics that I’m not going to post here, that
said…
8 angels are sent to you,
You must send them to 8 people including me.
In 8 minutes you will receive something you have long awaited.
Have faith!
Have a good day
Now my Mom, being in a persnickety mood that day, did what the e-mail said,
and waited. And then sent this:
Well – – the 8 minutes came and went and there has not been any changes or
events to make a difference in my day. When I first got my computer in 2000 I
was gung ho for all the so-called miracles, healing, etc. that were to happen,
but never did.
So – – – – – if I don’t send anything back to you, it just never made
things different in my life, and I am just content to hear from my e-friends
even if I don’t answer back.
Prayers are beautiful to receive and hear, but I figure that for all my
problems that I would have cured and helped, there are so many more people who
need more help than I do and if they were to be answered, God would answer them.
But then at times, I believe He figures I should be able to figure some of my
problems out without His help. After all, He is a very busy God with the mess in
this world (that I’m sure He just shakes His head over that) and with the free
will that God gave us, it certainly is up to us to help ourselves more and be
thankful for all that we have.
May God bless each and every one of us.
I can’t divulge it here, but my Mom’s e-mail inspired a sort of social
experiment I might try at a later date, but I also so love when Mom gets
opinionated because she can do so in a nice way, yet still questioning why some
people probably don’t actually read the e-mails they forward along, just doing
so because it is the thing they do. My Mom actually took the challenge the
e-mail asked for, and I can only imagine what she awaited for in those 8
minutes, but she didn’t get something she long awaited for.
So, please, don’t
send an e-mail that will lie to my Mom. I so much like her complaining
about sports’ figures not living up to their multi-million dollar potential than
not receiving something she has long awaited. And you also know what –
quit sending e-mails that, if they follow the e-mail rules, just disappoint your friends, too.
That’s it for this one!
I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
What’s New? Stu & The Dude’s Weekend (and Thanksgiving) Wrap-Up! The Dude Calls 911 Twice, Stu Sees Movies and a Parade.
For this podcast episode of “Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up!”, The Dude on the Right and Stu Gotz wrap the weekend into talking about their Thanksgiving doings also. The Dude had hospital stories, but did watch “March of the Penguins” (and a lot of commercials) with his Mom, while Stu was Mr. Busybody, seeing “Enchanted,” “August Rush,” “The Guardian,” and taking the family to see a parade. Stu tells The Dude all about it, while The Dude is now just looking forward to watching the “Dancing with the Stars” finale and hoping Helio (and Julianne Hough) win the coveted mirror ball trophy.
Stu & The Dude’s Weekend (and Thanksgiving) Wrap-Up! The Dude Calls 911 Twice, Stu Sees Movies and a Parade.
By:
The Dude on the Right
No one should have to get good at it, but my Thanksgiving weekend honed my
skills at dialing 911, which I briefly explain why to Stu Gotz during our
"Weekend (and Thanksgiving) Wrap-Up!" I did get to see "March of the
Penguins" complete with 40 minutes worth of commercials, but Mom laughed at some
of my jokes during the movie so it was okay.
Stu, though, had a hugely busy
Turkey Day weekend filling me on his seeing "Enchanted" and "August Rush" on the
big screen, seeing
"The Guardian" on the small screen, and taking the Gotz family to see the
Chicago Thanksgiving Day Parade from the comfort of a hotel room. Stu can
be very ingenious at times.
Thanks for listening!
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
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A Story for a Future Thanksgiving Dinner. A Teaser.
By:
The Dude on the Right
I had every intention of posting a few things between my last post about
Oprah’s "Favorite Things" episode and today, namely a podcast because I took
my mobile podcast studio home to the Heartland, a movie review or two by seeing
some movies on the North Coast, but then my Thanksgiving weekend trip to the old
home of the
Ford Econoline Van turned into, well, a story for future Thanksgiving
dinners. For now I will only give this teaser as I hope to fill Stu Gotz
in tomorrow of my Thanksgiving weekend during our
"Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up!" podcast.
Today, though, my Chicago
Bears are still alive because other teams actually kick to Devin Hester and his
team, my Cleveland Browns are still alive because of Derek Anderson and his
team, and I was able to hear the Browns thanks to my Sirius satellite radio in
my car and watch the Bears while listening to the audio team of Jeff Joniak and
Tom Thayer when I got home, synched up because I have TiVo. God bless
technology!
Sometimes I’m such an audio geek, and today was one of those days
when I liked being a geek, especially, since yesterday, a nurse at a hospital
nearly ruined my secret identity. She thought I was a movie star, but
thankfully I kept her thinking I was a superhero!
Oh, wait, umm, I was never
at a hospital, at least not as Spixxx-xxx, nor at least TxBxx Mxxuxxx. I’m
just Drew. Oh, wait, my, well, something is tingling. Never mind. At least
for now.
That’s it for this one!
I’m Drew, I mean The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!