For this podcast of Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up!, The Dude on the Right had a pretty boring weekend, seeing “Rush Hour 3” and cleaning his fish tank. Stu Gotz, though, got to go on what he calls a “White Trash Picnic” in his new, used RV. The Dude also questions Stu on proper etiquette when you are running late, Stu has his idea of how the late-ee should make it up to the wait-ee, and Stu is afraid he won’t be able to control himself in a “Second Life,” so he limits his porn to the normal internet, like most of us.
Oh, and they also talk about some TV stuff.
Category: General Musings
Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! Being Late Etiquette, “Rush Hour 3,” A White Trash Picnic, and More.
By:
The Dude on the Right
So much to talk about and yet so little time, and with Stu Gotz around for this
podcast of our weekend wrap-up sometimes I have to pray my mother doesn’t
listen. In any case this podcast delves into something near and dear to my
heart, "being late etiquette," and how our friend Whammy doesn’t seem to have
it. I tell Stu about my seeing "Rush
Hour 3" and cleaning my fish tank. Stu, in the meantime, enchants me
with his story of the family’s white trash picnic, and we both wonder if
Wal-Mart still lets you park an RV in their lot overnight. I let Stu know
our
location in Second Life is coming along and might be ready for visitors in a
couple of weeks, but Stu is afraid of Second Life because he read a story
(involving a lawsuit – kind of like real life) where you can get virtual body
parts that let you have virtual sex, and he really just wants to limit his
perversions to searching out normal internet porn because he fears if he went to
Second Life, well, he might cross the line looking for virtual world sex.
And
would a weekend wrap-up podcast be complete without some TV talk? Of
course not, so we’ve got some talk of "Rescue Me" and how I hope I don’t see
David Duchovney’s ding-dong during "Californication."
Thanks for listening.
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
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At Least Lorain, Ohio, Gave Me a Lazy Squirrel.
By:
The Dude on the Right
I
thought I would get an old blog thought off my plate, still relating to
my last trip home to Lorain, OH, and it’s about a lazy squirrel.
Sure it’s summer now, but my folks still like to feed the birds and even the
neighborhood squirrels. I’ve tried to tell them that it’s not necessary when
it’s warm, the birds might need water more than food so a birdbath might be in
order, and that by feeding the squirrels all they are doing is making the
critters lose their ability to scavenge for food and become lazy. Little did I
know how lazy one squirrel had become until I was able to capture these pictures
as he proceeded to plop himself (or maybe it’s a herself, I didn’t get that
close of a look) on the ramp in front of our house. The kicker isn’t the fact
that the squirrel was lazing around on our ramp, but mom tells me that many
times when he’s eating the peanuts they leave, he doesn’t even bother to eat in
the normal squirrel eating position, sitting up, he just lies there on the
ground, nibbling away. I’ve tried to tell my folks to quit spoiling the varmint,
but since when will they listen to me 🙂
Lazy
squirrel aside, I thought about writing a little more about my hometown, but
figured I would leave it at a funny picture of a squirrel because sometimes when
I write about the old country it leaves me a little bummed because of the
potential that is there. It has the location, with a lot of lakefront and a
river, although it occurred to me lately, and I know it was probably necessary
and helped the Ford plant, that whomever let the railroad build on prime real
estate wasn’t a complete visionary for the area. But now as its infrastructure,
including, as I’ve read, its sewer system, is falling apart, how their mayor is
bailing on the town for a new job, thus leaving the city leadership in a bit of
turmoil, how every time I visit
it’s still like driving on the moon, and it looks like the final dagger
might be an imploding educational system, I wonder, after my parents someday
pass on, if I’ll ever come back to visit, even to see some old friends, and if I
did, where I would stay since my mom told me the Spitzer hotel, where a vision
of a casino danced in some heads, closed a couple of years ago? At least
the
American Slovak Club still has a good fish fry, and if that goes away I’ll
know the city is really dying.
See, now I’m a little bummed. Enough writing. Better look at those
pictures of that lazy squirrel, again, to give me a smile.
That’s it for this one!
I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
What’s New? A Podcast of: Seeing the Wienermobile, Chickening Out, And Obsessed with Tay Zonday and “Chocolate Rain.”
For this podcast The Dude on the Right was happy to see the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, but was sad that he chickened out and didn’t sing. He does sing, though, for this podcast, thanks to his latest obsession with Tay Zonday and his song, “Chocolate Rain.” None of that is important though since Angelina Jolie has arrived in Chicago.
Seeing the Wienermobile, Chickening Out, and Obsessed with Tay Zonday and “Chocolate Rain.”
By:
The Dude on the Right
On
a day when you need a smile there is nothing that might bring yourself a smile
quicker than the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. It was there, at the grocery
store where I needed to pick up some grocery type stuff up, so I took some
photos with my iPhone. But as happy as seeing the
Wienermobile made me, at the end of the day I know I chickened out, because
the giant wiener was there as a promotion for the
"Sing the Jingle"
competition, and I didn’t sing the jingle.
And I was also sad that I figured
out how I would have actually sang the "Bologna Song," thanks to
Tay Zonday and
his singing "Chocolate Rain," later, as I was driving back to the dude-pad, and
although I didn’t sing it for the Oscar Mayer wiener folks, I sing it for you
here,
during this podcast.
Wienermobiles and "Chocolate Rain" aside, here in
Chicago, though, Angelina Jolie’s showing up in town seems to be the most
important thing in the world right now because the
Chicago Sun-Times said so.
So this podcast gives you a plethora of things,
like the Oscar Mayer wiener song, my singing, Tay Zonday talk, and Angelina
Jolie. What more could you want?
Thanks for listening.
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
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Budding Engineers Giddy as Little Schoolgirls, Thanks to “Calvin and Hobbes.”
By:
The Dude on the Right
I had a lot of topics I was thinking of blogging about today, and I suppose if I
started at the beginning of today, through my typing now, you would have been
enlightened by my thoughts on how I thought Barack Obama could have
vaulted himself into "everyman" territory at yesterday’s Democratic debate at a
sweltering Soldier Field (let’s just say "dressing for the weather" rather than
"dressing Presidential" – hell Bill Clinton played a saxophone!), how Stu Gotz
figures the New York City council is on the verge of over-goofing the Chicago
City Council with their supposed proposal to ban the words "bitch" and "ho,"
and how I still get excited watching a Space Shuttle take off.
And so, instead
of intellectual things, this blog is about a comic strip – "Calvin and
Hobbes."
Sure, "Calvin and Hobbes" has been out of print for quite some
time now, but thanks to the internet, and the site
gocomics, I get to
again relive the fun Calvin and his stuffed tiger, Hobbes, have, on a daily
basis. I guess I have Google to thank for this because it was when I set
up my Google home page that I found the gocomics site, and sure enough, they had
a "Calvin and Hobbes" RSS feed, providing me a link, everyday to a classic
strip.
Now sure, that’s not that compelling, but yesterday was one of the
strips that even made budding engineers giddy as little schoolgirls. I
vaguely remember the day, it was back in college, at the fraternity house where
I was a member, and Stevie gathered some of us together to test something
seen in a comic strip. I don’t remember exactly who was there, it might
have been Odie, Gumby, or maybe Shithead, along with
myself, but I don’t think Yoda, Tosh, Elmer, Markie,
nor Hammy were around. T.P. was probably back in New Jersey,
Flange might have been at 7-11, and Laughing Boy was probably
sleeping. But there we were, some of us, with Stevie, in probably the 2nd
head, to see if maybe the world’s most brilliant engineer, Calvin, had stumbled
onto something of utmost importance in the world of toilets and toilet paper.
And, as budding engineers, we had to test the scientific experiment over and
over again, at different toilets, do some modifications to our own control
groups, and sure enough, Calvin found a way to make young adults giddy as
schoolgirls.
Not wanting to infringe on some copyright things I won’t post the
actual comic here, but if you want to do your own scientific experiment at home,
thanks to Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes,
this link should take you to the comic that brought a giant smile to my
face yesterday. As stressful as college can be, something as simple as
toilet paper can bring good times. Good times. Go ahead, try it at
home, but depending on your toilet and toilet paper, be sure to have a plunger
around, just in case.
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! “The Bourne Ultimatum,” Debating – Gladiator Style in Chicago, Chocolate Rain, and Poo.
For this podcast episode of “Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up!”, The Dude on the Right saw a couple of movies, and Stu Gotz just tried to stay cool. Stu wanted to know if The Dude was going to cover the Democratic Debate at Soldier Field, and even though The Dude is skipping it the both of them have some grand ideas, including Gladiator fighting and wet t-shirt contests, that might make the debate more exciting. The Dude, also, has sounds of “Everything Comes Down to Poo” and “Chocolate Rain” running through his head, but sometimes poo and chocolate rain are one in the same.
“Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! “The Bourne Ultimatum,” Debating – Gladiator Style in Chicago, Chocolate Rain, and Poo.
By:
The Dude on the Right
We had some slight audio issues to start
this podcast, or at least Stu Gotz and I thought we did, but maybe we’re
just suffering from heat exhaustion since the both of us did so much work
outside this weekend. We happily share all of our outdoor exploits with
you during this episode of "Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-up!", and along with
all of our outside activities, I thrill Stu with my talk about "The
Bourne Ultimatum" and "Hot
Rod," two movies that I caught this weekend, and I actually overtook Stu in
watching "Rescue Me," ruining a couple of plot points for him from the last
episode.
Stu, though, is ahead on the "Entourage" viewing and loves "Who
Wants to Be a Superhero," but that isn’t nearly as important as our
discussion on how to make the
Democratic debate at Soldier Field more exciting (think "Gladiator" combined
with a wet t-shirt contest when it starts to rain, complete with Pay-Per-View).
And as exciting as that might sound just remember,
everything
"Comes Down to Poo" and "Chocolate
Rain," because sometimes there isn’t anything as compelling as poo, which, I
suppose, could sometimes be chocolate rain.
Thanks for listening.
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
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Dear Stu Gotz, I’m Sorry. It is My Fault for your Chubbiness, and for Introducing You to “Snyder of Berlin” and their Cheese Curls.
By:
The Dude on the Right
Sure the Chicago Tribune and other news outlets reported that your weight might
be directly related to the people you hang out with, and
in a podcast last week I blamed my buddy, Stu Gotz, for my chubbiness.
Now I realize that I owe Stu an apology because he isn’t the reason for my
chubbiness, and in fact, I might be the reason for his. I realized this
after a two day battle with the best cheese curls in the world.
You
see, a few weeks ago I took a trip to the old country, Lorain, OH, to visit the
parents, and prior to my departure I mentioned to Stu how the best cheese curls
in the world were sold there. They are from
"Snyder of Berlin"
(not ever to be confused with "Snyder’s of Hanover"), and they make, in my mind,
the world’s best
cheese curls. The cheesiness flavor is fantastic, above the flavor of
many other brands, but what makes these cheese curls almost the best, unless you
want total crispiness (in which case you could buy the "Cheese Crunch" version),
is if you chomp down on them right away you get a nice, fluffy, crunchy feeling
without seeming to tear up the inside of your mouth. But what makes them
the world’s best cheese curls, and is the the ultimate joy in eating them, is
that if you let your mouthful of cheese curls rest on your tongue, for a couple
of seconds, they suddenly melt in your mouth, nearly disintegrating, with a
giant explosion of cheesy flavor. You swallow, easily, with minimal
chewing, it’s on to your next handful of curls, and if you are sort of careful,
all of a sudden, you have eaten at least half the bag. If you aren’t
paying attention, eight ounces with 1,360 calories of cheesy, airy, goodness has
made its way into your belly.
Then last Tuesday I opened up the eight ounce
bag of cheese curls I brought home with me, and by Wednesday night they were
gone, and as I was joyfully licking the orange, cheesy crumbs from my fingers I
realized Stu wasn’t the blame for my chubbiness. That didn’t stop me from
finishing the finger licking, but I realized that maybe I’m the reason Stu is
chubby because as much as he puts me in some situations where proper dietary
functions could be done if I just picked the right things off of the menu, and
he might actually follow, I brought Stu a bag of the world’s best cheese curls
from Ohio, and he and Mama Gotz ate them, and liked them, and if I didn’t bring
home that bag of cheesy curl goodness, Stu wouldn’t have 680 calories of
goodness he has never known before.
So Stu, I am sorry for making you be
chubby, and your being chubby isn’t the reason for my being chubby because maybe
I should set a better example and not tell you that, if you ever get a hankering
for the world’s best cheese curls, you can
sort of order them online, but sadly they want cash upfront and it might
take a week for the delivery. But, if you want instant gratification for
your cheesy-curl goodness, they’re only about a five hour drive away, somewhere
in Ohio.
That’s it for this one!
I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
What’s New? A Podcast of: Prayers for Bridge Victims, Analyze a Horse Dream, Lame Cub Fans, and Funny Items in the Newspaper.
Since it is Thursday The Dude on the Right is flying solo for this podcast and is looking for some analysis help as to why he had a dream about a horse that went crazy, how he ended up with keepsakes from the jockey of the horse, and who might be his perfect girlfriend. He also has friends who are supposed Chicago Cubs’ fans but questions their allegiance. The Dude also reads a newspaper column called “QT” in the Chicago Sun-Times, lets you know why, and might let Stu Gotz off the hook a little bit for his being chubby. He has so much to talk about, in under 15 minutes, but yet The Dude on the Right fits it all in. His perfect girlfriend would like that, at least in his dream.