Perhaps it's fitting that I missed the show like Jeff George missed the 53-man roster.

i'll never be able to read an a.l. harper review without blushing. phew!

I have absolutely no idea where the MoveOn.org stuff came from. That was off the wall.

Good conspiracy juju is off the wall, Ken.

Indeed it is.

Saleski, go take a cold shower. Sussman, you got preempted but you are slated for the #2 slot behind EO this week.

Did I scare you Saleski? Don't blush it's all very natural!

1. I love the REM intros.
2. Olive Garden overpriced and sucks.
3. Labor Day - The origins of the American Labor Day can be traced back to the Knights of Labor in the United States and a parade organized by them on September 5, 1882 in New York City. They were inspired by an annual labor parade held in Toronto, Canada.
Labour Day is celebrated around the world in May.
4. Read-ing, PA? (pronounced redd'-ing)
5. Sexual thrill ride???
I wish I was so moved...maybe I'll just have a drink and try again. ;)
6. I don't think you praised The Duke enough. LOL
But I did enjoy Cliddyplomp.

An overall entertaining episode. I look forward to next week.

1. Thanks! I wonder how I got the idea to use them this week...
2. I used to only think they were overpriced. Now I agree on the suckage.
3. Thanks for the background! I could have looked it up but then it might have ruined my joke. I was kind of proud of this week's monologue.
4. I thought it was redd'ing, but since Ken actually went there I followed his lead. Way to go, Gameboy!
5. Uhhh.... I don't think I should touch that one at all. No. I'm going to stay away from it.
6. Good thinking. I'll sing more of his praises this week.

Thanks for checking it out, S.Rod.

3. there has just got to be a real italian restaurant in huntsville.

corporate food sucks.

It looks like slim pickings for DJR. There are 11 Italian restaurants in Huntsville, AL according to citysearch.com:
#1 is Romano's Macaroni Grill (Out of DJR's price range) ;)
#2 is The Olive Garden

Macaroni Grill blows. The Wife to Whom I'm Married and I have eaten there twice and didn't enjoy it either time. Carrabba's is here- another chain- and they're not bad. This is the first time we've gotten fucked by Olive Garden. We have generally had good luck and liked the food.

Corporate food... listen at you, Saleski. I don't like going to dives to strike a blow against the proletariat or whatever the fuck that pinko rhetoric says. Besides, diners and independent food joints are just as likely to suck as the land of corporate stupid and good food and bad food looks exactly the same when it swirls around the bowl.

geezuz, remind me not to cook you dinner if you visit the northeast.

i'll just heat up a tv dinner.

sheesh.

Oh, shut up! I was mostly poking holes in the silly romantic notion of "the noble independent." I've gotten good service and bad service in corporate stores/restaurants and the same can be said of independents. Neither has a monopoly on either.

And if we come visit the northeast, we're going to be too busy listening to vinyl on your stereo system and drinking beers to actually cook anything to eat!

when the country turns into a coast-to-coast strip mall, at least it won't be my fault.

DJR: Silly question...
I see that there are 5 different types of "asian" cuisine restaurants in Huntsville. Do you know of any "spanish" restaurants that are not mexican? The citysearch list says there are 45 mexican restaurants in your area. Just curious.

djr doesn't go to mexican restaurants, he just puts on a clean wifebeater and pops open a new box of rice-a-roni.

or so i'm told.

Clean, you say?

My question was not if he visited any mexican restaurants...but was, if there are (to his knowledge) any spanish non-mexican restaurants.

Huntsville, being the great bastion of culture that it is (ask Suss), is full of people who probably don't realize that "Mexican" and "Spanish" are two different things. I think Taco Bell qualifies as a Mexican restaurant around here.

Attempting a serious answer to your question, I don't know of any such places. I think the restaurants in Huntsville serve "Mexican" (or rather, Tex-Mex) food.

Sussman, just because you didn't clean up before visiting me here in Culture Mecca doesn't mean the rest of us have to be slovenly.

Saleski, you're too late, it is already a coast-to-coast strip mall and it is your fault.

oh really? i've never eaten at an olive garden, so n'yah to you. ;-)

Thank you for asnwering my question. My curiosity has been satisfied.

It does seem like every bit of free space has been occupied by one more useless strip mall after another...although, I'm not sure if its all Saleski's fault. LOL

Hmmm, this thread has foretold my future... I will open a chain of non-Mexican Spanish food restaurants throughout Alabama that caters to disgruntled podcasters who want to pay fast food prices. :o)


I like the premise of EO getting cut off like in True Lies when the head terrorist is making his big speech, and the batteries run out on the guy filming him.

Sorry if I've been scarce in commenting the last couple weeks. But this was a fun listen. I look forward to the days when the East German equipment gets retired.

I love the East German equipment. It makes me sound much further away than I am. Like the moon.

No one could praise The Duke enough. The man is a brilliantly talented, mental behemoth (and a genital pygmy, to hear him tell it) and such talent and superiority of mind deserves all the praise you can heap.

If it wasn't a sexual thrill ride for you, maybe you aren't doing it right. Let me know if you need tips.

By the powers vested in me, I am closing this thread before it turns into a- who the fuck am I kidding? I'll stay and watch. Besides, I have no powers. Other than the power to preempt Sussman and clip EO. And those powers are kind of cool.

By the way, Reading, PA is pronounced "redding."

..unless you're reading it...

Gameboy gets a one-week bannination for leading the host astray!

Cha-ching!

S.Rod - the good folks of Reading PA pronounced it about three different ways. Including like "reading a book."