Even though it’s normally a day for a Weekend Wrap-Up Podcast with Stu Gotz, The Dude on the Right and Stu couldn’t figure out how to meet up today so The Dude on the Right handles the podcast duty flying solo. The Dude apologizes for his choice of words in yesterday’s blog, which he has since edited, but doesn’t apologize for liking the new “Rambo” movie. But mostly TV is on the mind of The Dude and he thinks it’s time for MTV to change its name because seriously, what do constant “America’s Next Top Model” marathons have to do with music?
Author: Andy Labis
An Apology, Movie Talk, Some New TV and MTV, but No Stu.
By:
The Dude on the Right
Stu Gotz and I couldn’t get our schedules to meet today so I’m flying solo for
this weekend wrap-up podcast. Starting off I do some apologizing to my mom
and anyone else who might have read the early version of yesterday’s blog where
my writing got a little blue, and not blue as in being sad. Personally I was
grumpy, and I probably should have just written about my grumpidom, but instead
the f-bomb and s-bomb showed up. Oh well. There’s also a little bit of analysis
on my movie viewing over the weekend, namely seeing “Rambo”
and “Meet
the Spartans,” but a lot of this podcast deals with TV stuff, and maybe it’s
finally time for MTV to change its name, maybe to something like ANTMMTV
(America’s Next Top Model Marathon TV). You know, thinking about it as I type
this, maybe MTV is appropriate, but instead of Music Television maybe it’s time
for them to rebrand it to Marathon Television. I wish I had thought of that as I
was recording this podcast. C’est la vie!
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
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Missing the Award Shows, Movies and Movie Previews, and an iPhone WebClip.
By:
The Dude on the Right
With this weekend coming to a close, and my having "The Screen Actors Guild
Awards" on my TV, I realize that as much as I have been hating not getting new
TV shows, other than the reality ones, I do miss the award shows that propagate
the airwaves at the beginning of the year. Why? It’s not the crap in
between the awards because who really wants to hear bad jokes that can’t offend
anyone, but I do miss the speeches from those that win the awards, especially
from those who are surprised they actually won the award. We missed the
drunken ones that might have happened during "The Golden Globe Awards," but
damn, I hope the writers and the TV and whomever folks need to do it come to an
agreement so that "The Academy Awards" can be the exploited award show we have
grown to know and love, and maybe just give us that one speech, from one
surprise winner, to make us dream (I’m cheering on Ellen Page).
On another
note, this weekend saw me getting to see a couple of movies, namely
"Rambo," which I really liked, and
"Meet the Spartans," not so much. I also got all of
my movie
previews up to date, thanks mostly to Tiger Woods making The Buick
Invitational one of the most boring golf tournaments ever by beating the crap
out of the competition, and the CBS announcers sounding like little schoolboys
trying to call a golf outing, with one already pronouncing that this will be the
year Tiger Woods wins the Grand Slam of golf and another (or maybe it was the
same dude, I get them confused) upset because no one was able to get a birdie
on the hole he was covering. I know Tiger was so far ahead that it was
nearly impossible for him to lose the tournament, but for goodness sake, can’t
you golf announcers control yourself? He skipped Hawaii; it’s only
January; 2008 is the same length as any other year; with 320 days left, on any
given day in 2008, Tiger might lose a tournament; but where is the dignity that
is golf? CBS folks, please go back and listen to your broadcast and boot
the crap out of the broadcast of those who have already lost their minds in January.
And finally, on a last geek note, I have said before that I have an iPhone.
Fine, I’m a geek. With the Macsomethingorotherconference, the world of
Apple gave me another iPhone update, still leaving me without the ability to cut
and paste, but that’s another blog for another time. What they did do, for
the firmware update of 1.1.3, was give the iPhone the ability to add a WebClip
to your iPhone. Pretty much it means that on your iPhone homepage you can
have a cute little graphic that when you touch it, well, it will open the web
page associated with that WebClip. Hell, that’s too complicated
to explain. Look, if you have an iPhone, and you like our web site,
Entertainment Ave!, go to our home
page on your iPhone, click the "+" at the bottom of your iPhone screen and
add us to your homepage. We, unlike other non-cool sites, will have a cool
icon on your iPhone that looks like our favicon, that when you touch it on your
iPhone (and it also works for your iTouch, I think), instantly logs you onto
Entertainment Ave!, keeping you informed of what’s new.
Be smart, be safe, and
if you like TV pray that the TV folks give in to the will of the writer folks,
otherwise 2008 will be the year of reality, and who wants that, unless, of
course, the dudettes on "Survivor: Where Ever They Are." are hot and
get hotter with losing weight.
That’s it for this one!
I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
What’s New? A Movie Review of “Meet the Spartans.”
The Dude on the Right went to see “Meet the Spartans,” and he even wrote a review about it. Although the movie did make him chuckle at times, there were only three things he used to give his final rating. Actually there were four things, but since two of them belonged to Carmen Electra, he left it at three. He also has grown very tired of Paris Hilton being the go-to fodder for spoof movies because there just isn’t any more originality there.
What’s New? A Movie Review of “Rambo.”
Darn
do-gooders. There John Rambo is, relaxing and getting on with his life in the
jungles of Thailand, and they want to help people in Burma. Now Rambo has to
kill people again.
Anyway, The Dude on the Right thought Sylvester Stallone did some nice
closure with the Rocky character when he put out "Rocky Balboa" last year, and
now, for this movie review of "Rambo," The Dude thinks the same has been done
for one John Rambo. The movie gives you exactly what you probably expect from a
"Rambo" movie, but he does say they up the violence quotient a lot, maybe to
make some of you realize just how brutal some of the violence is in places like
Burma. The only Sylvester Stallone character that now needs some closure is John Spartan.
What’s New? A Podcast of: Get Me To Hollywood, Amy Winehouse, and TV is Back, Sort Of.
For this podcast The Dude on the Right admits that this one is kind of lame, but he does do a short parody of “Rehab” in honor of Amy Winehouse. He’s also a bit flustered with “American Idol,” is looking forward to the return of “Lost” and “Survivor” to fill up his Thursday nights, and wonders about the writer’s strike and will it ever end.
Get Me To Hollywood, Amy Winehouse, and TV is Back, Sort Of.
By:
The Dude on the Right
Fine, this might be
my lamest podcast ever, but the things in life that should excite me, or
rather the thing in life that should excite me right now, namely "American
Idol," I am almost getting bored with. It’s the audition portion, and other than
the "I Am Your Brother" dude, it’s sort of boring. I am looking forward to the
return of "Lost" and "Survivor," so at least I’ve got that to look forward to,
and I do a quick parody of "Rehab," in honor of Amy Winehouse.
Go ahead, comment on my lameness for this podcast – I probably deserve it.
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
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What’s the Deal with Food? And, Oh Yea, My Niece is a Rocker!
By:
The Dude on the Right
With the passing of my father, and not wanting, yet, to get into some of the
philosophical questions an event like that can bring, there was something that
came up prior to his funeral that I suppose I can understand was important in
the older age of funerals, but in this day and age, especially when my dad
wanted a small, private funeral ceremony, why do some people assume that you
need food and just show up with it, unannounced? And why am I conflicted with
this topic because in the same gesture (by a different family friend) I was able
to remember a dish I love?
Now I’m not saying the bringing food gesture isn’t
nice, but shouldn’t the gesture start with a quick phone call offering
condolences and then tossing in a "If you’d like I can bring you a ham dinner,
complete with vegetables, coleslaw, and a store-bought jello mold in case you
need something to eat?" But no, there it was, the night before, or maybe it was
the night before the night before the funeral (they blend together right now),
that a friend of the family showed up with half a ham, vegetables, coleslaw,
store-bought jello mold, and lots of conversation for my sister to hear. The
issue was that, in the land of the "on the Right" family, we had already planned
for a small gathering of family following dad’s burial by securing a party tray,
which, fine, for this occasion should probably be called a remembrance tray, but
in any case the family refrigerator was already ready to be packed. Somehow, and
God bless Sis on the Right, she found a way to stack, move, renegotiate, and fit
everything in there, including the ham dinner, so that no one would get sick,
and let me tell you, she knows all about the importance of refrigeration and
reheating with
her job in Lunchlady Land!
My confliction on this issue comes because even though the gesture on the
part of our one family friend was nice, but wasn’t necessary, well, a neighbor
baked a small dish of Noodle Pudding, and oh my God, it was so good. I forgot
about Noodle Pudding, haven’t had it in years, and after getting back home found
some recipes on the internet to try (although I should probably just call our
neighbor and get hers, because, can I say it again, it was so good), so even
though one family friend went a little overboard with her food gesture, that
small dish of Noodle Pudding really hit the spot, and as more important in the
time of comfort food was necessary, my mom loved it.
I guess I’m just really confused about sending food to the families of those
going through the loss of a loved one, especially with the joy and
tastefullyness of the Noodle Pudding that came our way, so to alleviate my
confusedness, and because it’s really not long enough for a blog, and because,
during my
"A New Chapter for the "on the Right" Family" blog, I mentioned how my
niece is a rocker, I thought I would include in this post, my niece being a
rocker. Sorry for the sort of crappy video, but I think it really shows
that my niece ROCKS!
BFF and favorite niece – YOU ROCK!
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! Lots of Movies, Mama Gotz’s Issues, A New Ringtone, and Peeing on a Stick.
Being away from each other for a week sure doesn’t put a kink in the conversation Stu Gotz and The Dude on the Right can put together for a “Weekend Wrap-Up” podcast, and they get right back into things for this episode. The weekends usually include a lot of movie stuff so they talk about that, Stu got a picture from Mama Gotz so they talk about that, Stu saw a pregnancy test commercial so they talk about that, The Dude has a new favorite ringtone so they listen and talk about that, and even though The Dude on the Right doesn’t give a damn about the upcoming Super Bow, they talk about that anyway. And if that isn’t enough they have other things to talk about, and they talk about that, too.
Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! Lots of Movies, Mama Gotz’s Issues, A New Ringtone, and Peeing on a Stick.
By:
The Dude on the Right
After my being away for a week
for some sadness, Stu Gotz and I are back
together for some happiness, and what better way to be happy than with a
"Weekend Wrap-Up!" podcast. My return to normalcy has been all about movies
so I tell Stu about
"Cloverfield,"
"27 Dresses,"
"Jimmy and Judy," and my attempt to keep my niece innocent and wholesome by
taking her to see
"The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything." But while I was attempting to promote
wholesomeness it seems Stu got a provocative photo from Mama Gotz, and he also
describes a commercial he saw about a pregnancy test.
We also talk some
football during the podcast, what with the upcoming Super Bowl and all, and I
also let Stu know what I’ve changed my ringtone to for him (it’s also the new
ringtone for my nephew and sister). And, oh yea, Stu wants you to watch
"psych"
on the USA Network, and I still don’t know why.
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
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