Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! Rain, Movies, TV, and A Loud Starbucks.

By:

The Dude on the Right

So Stu Gotz calls me and says, "Dude, I can’t meet you at my place, so let’s do
our

‘Weekend Wrap-Up!’ podcast
at the Starbucks in Bolingbrook, IL."  I
should have known better, because I’ve met Stu at that coffee shop before, and
the music is always WAY loud, but rather than doing another solo podcast, oh, I
thought, "What the hell?  Let’s give it a try!"  At least we get
background music.

But loud, Starbucks’ music aside, our podcast deals with
talk of rain, because here in the Midwest we got tons of rain.  Sure, it
wasn’t as much rain as those folks in Texas, with Hurricane Ike making landfall
over the weekend and my sister almost getting thrown out into the storm (a topic
for a future podcast with The W.G.N.), but one must wonder if God, or maybe the
Devil, or who is Mother Nature anyway, might be pissed at us, and I think those
people who "stuck it out" in Galveston should be left to fend for themselves. 
Sure, that’s a segue into some religion talk, but with the rain, both of our
weekends dealt with some movies having Stu catch "3:10 To Yuma" via his Netflix
queue, and my seeing "Burn After Reading" at the theater and "I Want Someone to
Eat Cheese" thanks to my Netflix queue, both with my BFF.  Stu is freaked
by a "Joe’s Crab Shack" commercial, I got to see Carlos Zambrano pitch a
no-hitter, and Stu is excited about his cable TV shows finishing up while I have
TiVo setting up to do as "The Biggest Loser," "Heroes," "Chuck," and nearly
every other show I love to watch on TV starts up in the next couple of weeks.

And we both thought

Tina Fey was great as Sarah Palin
, yet Michael Phelps, not so great as most
of anything (except
his "diet" skit
) on Saturday Night Live this past weekend.

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Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! Cheese Curls, Google Chrome, A Favorite Shirt, and More!

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The Dude on the Right

I
was a little worried about seeing Stu Gotz for

this "Weekend Wrap-Up!" podcast
because as much as my Labor Day weekend was
very fulfilling, well, it wasn’t that much exciting, and I figured Stu was going
to be the person to show that my weekend vacation exploits were lame. 
Little did I know that Stu decided that painting projects around the house were
the order of the weekend for the Gotz family, that seeing Stu in his "most
comfortable shirt" from Long Beach Island, NJ, might give me ideas for "easy
access" nightwear for both dudes and dudettes, and while I got my BFF addicted
to the tastiest cheese curls in the world, those "Snyder of Berlin Cheese Curls"
(and I still can’t believe the Snyder folks haven’t sent me a free case to eat,
I mean give away, thus solidifying my legend as the Midwest "dealer," giving the
rest of the world their "free" taste), Stu recommends some musical accompaniment
for the podcast when I have "trips to the ‘Old Country.’"

Sure, we talk about
snacks, we talk about Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, and we talk about
things left in hymnals at church, and we even talk about Google Chrome. 
I’d like to say we don’t talk about "Tropic Thunder," but Stu just can’t resist,
and please, send all comments about "Slut or Whore" to stu@entertainmentavenue.com

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Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! The Democratic Convention, Dancing With the Stars, and Disney Disappoints a Gotz.

By:

The Dude on the Right

I
have to admit that new postings got derailed a bit with my trip to the old
country, but I’m not apologizing, I’m just saying.  I’m also saying that
Stu Gotz and I got back together for a

"Weekend Wrap-Up!" podcast
, and in the last couple of weeks there has only
been a couple of things to witness in the mainstream media, namely The Olympics
and talk of the upcoming Democratic Convention.  Wouldn’t you know it, both
of us are happy that The Olympics (and Michael Phelps talk) are over, and now we
both wonder if Hillary Clinton can pull off total "C"-word-dom during the
convention (a word Stu heard this weekend, from an unlikely source).  Me,
though, I really hope that Barack Obama stops drunk texting me at odd hours in
the morning with his "pick" for Vice President of Joe Biden, and he would
finally text me the truth – that Hillary Clinton is his running mate, if only
for the shear newsworthiness for the next five years.

Politics aside, Stu
ruins my pronouncement of the latest contestants of

"Dancing With the Stars"
for this podcast, there’s a marriage that was done,
I had to pee and didn’t want to cut my wiener, and one of the Little Gotz’s gets
some disappointment and doesn’t understand how the "movie" world works thanks to
the changing of the release date of Disney’s

"Beverly Hills Chihuahua"
  from his birthday weekend, to, well, October
3rd.  With Little Gotz’s dreams now crushed, the next thing you know he’ll
be asking Daddy Gotz to watch "The Bad Lieutenant.  Like Father, Like Son.

Even with my trip to the old country, both of our weekends were kind of boring. 
Since I don’t know if I’ll get a podcast posted this Thursday (we’ll see if I
can get things together with The W.G.N.), I hope your upcoming Labor Day weekend
is more exciting, especially, well, if you end up in labor.  Screw the
workers – birthing babies is really about labor, at least so I’m told, read, or
see in the movies.  Happy labor!  Or just enjoy the day, and think
about working, or having a baby.

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Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! A Long Life, Beautiful People, Car Crashes, and More!

By:

The Dude on the Right

The Blue Angels at the Chicago Air & Water ShowThis

podcast episode of "Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up!"
opens, and sort of
closes, with how to live a long life, care of Ernest Borgnine, although it might
not cause you to prosper.  But living a long life wasn’t a part of mine nor
Stu Gotz’s weekend, instead, I risked my life, and the life of my BFF, by going
to the "Chicago Air and Water Show," where I sort of wished I were part of "The
Beautiful People" crowd, though I’m also happy that I wasn’t a part of "The
Beautiful People" crowd, because, well, they can be assholes.  Thankfully
no airplanes crashed on us, and thanks to my BFF my feet only got a little red
because I’m starting to think she might be the smart one of our duo.

Meanwhile, in risking lives, Stu risked his life, and learned a lot about car
crashes, boobs, and mullets, by taking the Gotz family to a Demolition Derby, he
still has dude-love for Minor League Baseball with a bachelor party night out
with Officer G, and of course is still watching cable TV series, and comments
about "Psych."

Buckingham Fountain in Chicago, at NightWe
are both tired of The Olympics and Michael Phelps, although Stu is still
watching women’s beach volleyball while I’m watching fencing, I recommend The
Buckingham Fountain light and music show in Chicago to Stu, and the both of us
recommend seeing the movie "Tropic Thunder."  Stu also thinks if you are
totally dedicated to Starbucks, well, getting a tattoo of their logo on your arm
might just show your love for your coffee, though might not advance you in the
company.

And lastly, Stu found out about the new Lara Croft (although, as I
researched her for this podcast after we recorded this episode, Alison Carroll
is not the new "movie" Lara, she’s the new "video game" Lara – Stu, get your
story straight before you try and brag about something I try to think I know
about), and I tell Stu that there is one reason why I don’t like my iPhone, and
Stu found out why.


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Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! RIP Chef, Calliope Music, and Stu Doesn’t See “The Scorpions” but Does Eat Tamales!

By:

The Dude on the Right

For this

"Weekend Wrap-Up!" podcast
with Stu Gotz, we do a different kind of tribute
than most folks did to Isaac Hayes, especially since we are bigger fans of
"South Park" than we are of "Shaft."  R.I.P. Chef, we’ll miss your
"Chocolate Salty Balls."  And other than tributing to dead people, we also
do some movie talk, namely my seeing

"Pineapple Express"
with my BFF, and I might just get struck down my
lighting yet with my observations of attending church at what is right now the
church of Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago.

I do explain to Stu that my BFF and
I also watched "Blazing Saddles" on DVD, but Stu has his own movie, and also TV
talk, with his Netflix queue (not really liking "Someone To Eat Cheese With"
yet) and cable TV viewing of shows like "In Plain Sight," "Psych," and "Burn
Notice."

Stu apologizes about his making fun of me about my
Twittering thanks
to Twissney, and renews
his loves for not-so-hot tamales, instead of the hot tamale girl he found, when
his normal tamale girl was missing.

I didn’t realize Stu was such a fan of The
Scorpions when I got clearance to cover their show, so sadly he wasn’t my +1 for
seeing the show (that review should be posted in a day or so), and what would
the end of this summer be without some talk about the 2008 Olympics.

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Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! Movie-ing, Salespeople-ing, Turtle-ing, Food-ing, but No Twittering (yet).

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The Dude on the Right


This podcast of Stu & The Dude’s "Weekend Wrap-Up!"
begins with Stu Gotz’s
explanation of what

"turtling"
is, which he had going on at a Starbucks, to which I incorrectly
reference it as something about a gopher when actually I meant

"prairie doggin"
it, a term I was introduced to during the movie

"Rat Race."
  But enough about animals, my weekend, as has been
happening lately, included time with my BFF where car shopping was the order of
the day, I ordered a pork chop with some fufu when we went to dinner at
Carnivale, and
with no time to watch the "Blazing Saddles" DVD, we did go and see

"Swing Vote"
together.  Stu is becoming delighted with my BFF and her
influence on me.

Stu’s weekend wasn’t very exciting, just catching up on some
things around the Gotz house, but he tries to entice me to visit the Apple Store
near him for a total "why I should buy an Apple" class, and also temps me for
lunch at
Ricobene’s
for a breaded steak dripping with red sauce, mozzarella, and for
me, sweet peppers, with of course, their fabulous fries.  Do I cave in? 
The podcast might answer those questions.

And finally, I try to explain to Stu
why I’ll be seeing

"Pineapple Express"
this weekend, and hope an

old review of Melissa Etheridge
doesn’t ruin my chances to cover one of her
shows this week in Chicago.  I also tell Stu that maybe I should be
twittering, because, well, I ran into a dudette in the elevator who was
twittering and asked me if I twittered, and lately it seems likes blogs and
podcasts aren’t cool anymore, that the hip people twitter, and I so want to be
hip.  If I were twittering, right now I could twitter that I’m writing my
podcast synopsis and it includes talk about twittering.  Then later I could
twitter how I posted this podcast which included talk about twittering. 
And then later than that, if the weather forecast holds, I could twitter that we
are getting deluged by a big thunderstorm.  And then later still, I could
twitter that I survived our big thunderstorm.  And then later than later
still, I could twitter that I am going to bed.  And then during the night,
if I have a dream, I could wake up and twitter about it.  Now I’m almost
wishing I was twittering because I would twitter about how I’m wondering how I
could incorporate my tweets (those are Twitter postings, as if you didn’t know)
instantly into Entertainment Ave!  What the hell am I thinking?  I
haven’t even finished building our virtual

"Entertainment Ave!" in Second Life
yet, and now I’m thinking of twittering? 
Although if I were twittering I could twitter about wondering if I should be
twittering instead of building our virtual bar in Second Life.  Maybe I
should just concentrate on reviewing concerts again, although if I were
twittering I could twitter about how I should concentrate on reviewing concerts
again. Ugh!!!!

Please just listen to the podcast.! I promise I don’t talk nearly as much about twittering as I have written in this synopsis.

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Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! Baseball, A Carnival, and Dogs.

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The Dude on the Right

Well
this is different.  Normally the

"Weekend Wrap-Up!" podcast
with Stu Gotz talks a lot about movies, but,
oddly enough, this weekend had neither of us actually going to see a movie, and
both of us are tired.  Yup, there’s only a little "Step Brothers"’ talk and
a little "The X-Files: I Want to Believe"’ talk, instead my weekend started by
being spent in the old country (that’s Lorain, OH, for those of you who don’t
normally follow my blog or our podcasts) where I comment on how, if the
residents of Lorain shoot down a $20 fee to improve the roads, well, they
deserve to live in a ghost town, and wonder why they are going to lengthen Tower
Blvd. rather than rebuild the original Tower Blvd.

But this podcast isn’t
really about a town that has tons of potential but right now is just a giant
speed bump, nope, a lot of this podcast is about baseball, namely seeing a
Chicago White Sox game last Monday where my BFF got to meet Stu and Mama Gotz,
and then yesterday where she got to meet
The
Dude on the Left
,
Trash,
Slick, Boner, and Stinky, saw Stu in a slightly different light than when she
met him last Monday, and her not being mortified at meeting four, slightly
over-served, college buddies of mine.

Stu,
though, did get to have some family time over his weekend by attending a local
carnival where he found out one of the Little Gotz’s might be a future roller
coaster enthusiast, Stu’s family has a new puppy that was almost dead, and I
explain to Stu why I have fish and have never gotten a dog.

And, oh yea, this podcast also gives Stu’s scientific analysis/theory of why he
thinks teenage girls are being endowed with larger boobies.

Finally, we do discuss the upcoming movies of next weekend,

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
and

Swing Vote
, and both agree that our significant others will probably want to
see Kevin Costner as a schlub rather than see another mummy movie.  The
strange part – both Stu and I, also, would rather see Kevin Costner as a schlub
instead of another mummy movie.

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Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! Nakedness, Lottery, Movies, and a Noid.

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The Dude on the Right

Sure, normally

the "Weekend Wrap-Up!" podcast
with me and Stu Gotz is posted on a Monday
night, but even though we recorded this episode yesterday, a trip to the Chicago
White Sox game (where the White Sox lost – bummer) got in the way of getting it
out in the internet for all to hear, although my BFF did
get to meet Stu and Mama Gotz at The Cell for the game, and that might be a topic of
conversation for next weekend’s wrap-up.  For this weekend wrap-up, though, I
tell Stu about my walking around naked on Saturday, thanks to my BFF getting me
some sandals to show off my "pedicured" feet, and I also tell Stu about a story
missed from the weekend before where my BFF and I won the lottery.

As is
normal for Stu and I, we do a lot of movie talk, with me discussing
"Mamma
Mia!,"
and both of us talking about "The Dark Knight," the Batman sequel where
Christian Bale is great as Bruce Wayne/Batman, except for his vocal affectations
when he is Batman, and the, as everyone else also professes, fantastic
portrayal that Heath Ledger gives The Joker.  Stu has some issues with the
movie, I have none, but then again, Stu also got to see "Space Chimps," because,
well, Stu’s got kids.

TV talk is also present in this podcast, Stu is becoming
a Mac guy, and I state my case to, well, Stu, as to why I still have a "Noid,"
and why no one should ever underestimate the power of
The Noid, and
although not part of this podcast, you also shouldn’t underestimate the power of
an M&M dude getting a sun-tan, nor a wind-up Mr. Potato Head, nor a purple
armadillo, nor a plastic chick with a big sword, nor Partying Smart, nor Normy
for President, and in no way, ever, a Transformer. 

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Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! The BFF Meets the Family, Lots of TV Talk, and an iPhone Update.

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The Dude on the Right

In an anomaly of a weekend during the summer movie season, I explain to Stu
Gotz,

during our "Weekend Wrap-Up!" podcast
, that I didn’t see any new movies over
the weekend, although Stu and Mama Gotz did get a chance to see

"Get Smart."
  My reasoning for not seeing any new movies was because of
a trip to the old country,
Lorain, OH
, with my BFF, to visit some of the members of my family. 
Sadly it was a trip with my mom not feeling well (Mom, get well soon!), but I
think mom meeting my BFF did help lift mom’s spirits a bit.  I also tell
Stu of my taking some of the family to
Applebee’s,
giving my girlfriend a tour of the old country that she hasn’t seen in nearly 20
years, how we went to get some ice cream sundaes (thanks to my observant
nature), and played some miniature golf (thanks to my iPhone, which wasn’t even
updated to my having a lightsaber yet), with both the getting sundaes and
playing miniature golf not happening in Lorain :-(.  I did forget, though,
to mention to Stu about my BFF and I winning the lottery, thus necessitating a
trip back to Ohio.  If The WGN and I have a podcast on Thursday, well, I’m
sure he will want to know the portion of the winnings he might be getting!
(Don’t hold your breath The WGN!)

Stu Gotz, along with his movie viewing, did
have a lot of excitement over his weekend, some of it family related which
caused him to miss a Cubs’ game, but also some of it dealing with his love of
SCUBA.

The podcast also talks about the Mr. Men show, Stu’s love of cable TV
shows on USA, and how Deanna on "The Bachelorette" picked the snowboard dude,
Jesse, even though I keep referencing him as "the skateboard" dude.  Oh
well. 

We also talk about new movies coming out this weekend, even though there is
really only one movie for everyone to see, and me to review, namely

"The Dark Knight,"
though the dudettes can go and see

"Mamma Mia!"

You know what, chicken butt, but this podcast synopsis is
already too long, just go and

listen to it
for yourself!

And because I can, because this is my website, another shout-out to my mom – “Mom, get well soon!”

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Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! “Hancock,” Fireworks, Cars, Church, and More!

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The Dude on the Right

I am happy to say that both Stu Gotz and I made it through the 4th of July
weekend with all of our appendages attached, however, during

our "Weekend Wrap-Up!" podcast
, Stu regales me with a story of some friends
who are sort of lucky to have done the same!  But this podcast isn’t all
about danger – though my going to mass over the weekend did bring thoughts of a
lightning bolt occurring on a sunny day – in any case, nope, we talk about
simpler things like the movie

"Hancock."
  I tell Stu of my time with my BFF which included my making
her dinner, going with her to test drive some cars (showing I don’t really know
BWM models, but that doesn’t matter because I preferred the VW Eos anyway), and
putting my life into her hands as we stepped through the church doors.  I
also want to know where my Netflix movies disappeared to.  Stu lets me know
that he liked the movie

"Nancy Drew,"
and gave some bombshell news about one of our friends.

And
what podcast would be complete without talk about Pringles and my realizing,
because I’m slow sometimes, that they aren’t really potato chips.

And lastly, a shout-out to my Mom to get well soon!


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