Author: Andy Labis

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The Dude on the Right

It’s our first podcast for 2008 and I, like billions and billions of other
people, are probably wondering about the Iowa Caucus results, or probably just
wondering why Iowa has this caucus thing and not just normal, everyday, voting. 
At first I wonder about why Iowa is so important with the caucusing, but then I
flip-flopped to a different side of why having a caucus might actually be a lot
more fun that just heading to your polling place and filling in a circle or
punching a card.  In the end we’ll find out if Barack Obama, Hillary
Clinton, or John Edwards had the biggest group of people standing around
supporting them, but at least the Republicans just write a name on a piece of
paper.  That’s what I read they do for caucus, the Republicans write a name
on a piece of paper, and the Democrats stand around in a group, supporting their
main man, or main woman, and try to get other folks to turn from their crappy
side and join their group.  For Democrats it looks like peer pressure at
its core.

In simpler podcast talk the late night talk show hosts returned to
the airwaves last night, with Jay Leno spouting his going back to his roots
(let’s hope Mavis has a good sense of humor), and David Letterman letting his
hair, or actually his beard, grow out.  I also question who the jackass was
that gave Lindsay Lohan a bottle of champagne on New Year’s Eve, and on a
lighter note for this podcast, lions and tigers like to eat people.  Go
figure.

Thanks for listening, thanks for you support, and Happy New Year!

That’s it for this one!  I’m The Dude on the Right!!  L8R!!!

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The Dude on the Right

What
better way to start a new year, albeit a day late, than with a new blog! 
At first I was going to work on the transformation of Entertainment Ave! to
2008, which pretty much just means a global search and replace of the website
thus changing the copyright information from "1996-2007" to "1996-2008," and
also including a link to our sister site,
mostlyentertainment.com, but
then I wondered why would I link to the sister site yet when I haven’t begun one
of my New Year’s Goals, namely consistently updating story links over at Mostly
Entertainment.  I did create the graphic for the link, have to admit it’s
kind of lame, but hey, go ahead and click on it if you want to link to some old
headlines from back in October of last year (at least as I post this).

Updating the website aside, the second day of January also made me realize
something, especially after the food meltdown I had on the 1st day of January,
and that is I just need to order and ship the damn things to my friends rather
than bring them back from the old country to distribute later, but then my
question is if any of my friends actually deserve a case of them.  That’s
right, I’m talking, again, about cheese curls.  I blogged about them
before,

the best cheese curls in the world, from "Snyder of Berlin", and as my
never-ending quest at losing weight was just ready to begin yesterday, with a
new plan for just losing 1 pound a week and trying to get inspired by “The Biggest Loser: Couples,” out of the corner of my eye, high on a
shelf, the glorious bag caught my eye.  There was only one bag left of the
three originally purchased because I did at least dish one off to Stu Gotz. 
The other two were supposed to be for another buddy I know, a dude, who if you
met you would never think he was a cheese curl kind of guy, but at a lunch one
day he told Stu and me about his Achilles heel of snack food.  I promised
him I would bring the best cheese curls back for him for the next time we met. 
This was actually back in early November, and when I went home for Thanksgiving
I brought back a couple of bags to give to him but those never made past the
first week in December (yup, I ate those two bags), and then at Christmas I
brought back three bags, quickly dispensed one to Stu, quickly ate one for me
(even though that one was originally planned for my buddy), and did my best, for
four days, to save that last bag for my buddy.  But as the bag of glorious
cheesiness beckoned me I could no longer resist, and now, half a bag gone, I was
tempted to throw the rest of those orange, curled, baked goodness into the
garbage, but no, there they are, waiting for my next moment of weakness which
will probably be about four hours from the time I am typing this blog.

Herein
lies my next dilemma – From the

Snyder of Berlin order form I can only order my beloved cheese curls by the
case, which would contain 14 bags of cheese curls, and even I feel bad about
dumping 14 bags of cheesines onto only one of my friends.  The thing is
that if I ship the case to myself I know I could unload a couple to Stu, if I’m
prompt about it I could re-ship two bags to my local buddy and two other bags
could go to a staff member’s girlfriend in New Jersey.  That leaves me with
8 bags of the World’s best cheese curls which I could probably eat in a span of
about 12 days, which I really, really, really, really would like to do, but for
my weight loss goal is probably not a good idea.  So here’s what I’m
proposing and there is no guarantee you will get a bag.  If you would like
me to send you a bag of what I consider the best cheese curls in the World, send
me an e-mail to

blog@entertainmentavenue.com with your name, age and shipping address
stating you would like a bag of cheese curls.  If I do, in fact, order a
case, and I do not, in fact, eat them all, and if they do, in fact, have
expiration dates later than when you would get the bag, I will ship you a bag of
cheese curls.  I’ll do my best to package them nicely but make no promise
they won’t arrive crushed and broken, Birds Eye Foods has absolutely nothing to
do with my sending you a bag of cheese curls nor this blog, and don’t blame me for one, free,
taste, that might make you an addict.  In any case, if this cheese curl
giveaway happens because I don’t eat them all, I really just want to know what
you think of them.

Here’s to your weight loss in 2008!

That’s it for this one! 
I’m The Dude on the Right!!  L8R!!!