Author: Andy Labis

By:

The Dude on the Right
Another solo podcast.  It’s Labor Day Weekend and as much as I sort of wish
I had gone to New Jersey for a quick vacation, thanks to Tropical Depression
Ernesto, I’m not so bummed about it.  Football season is coming (Yay!),
baseball season is coming to a close (Boooo!), and I have a couple of new
MySpace friends.  I
would like to congratulate all of the women out there on their Labor duties, and
remember when
Bill Cosby
was funny.

I have also realized I say "so" and "in any case" way too much during these
podcasts, so I apologize and will work on that for the future.  Sorry if
that annoys you.  Hell, it even annoyed me.

Thanks for listening.

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

By:

The Dude on the Right
Sometimes I drive myself nuts.  Case in point was this morning.

So this
morning I got up a little later than normal because I was up the night before a
little later than normal.  Driving to get my #2 breakfast with a large Diet
Coke for $4.04, I was debating on seeing another movie today, namely
"Invincible," or skipping the film, even though I did want to see it, and use
the extra time to working on the animation for our next "Stu & The Dude" episode
of "Snakes on a Plane."  My decision was to skip the movie.  So I got
back home, reading my Sunday paper and enjoying my breakfast, with "Harry Potter
and the Prisoner of Azkaban" on the TV.  I finish reading the paper,
breakfast was done, but there I sat, on my couch, missing a new movie and
spending most of the time I should have been animating by watching Harry Potter
get his ass kicked by the Dementors.  Needless to say our "Snakes
on a Plane" review isn’t done yet.

But I did see "Beerfest,"
and it was okay, pretty much most of what I expected, although it did have one
flaw because anyone who has tried to drink out of a yard glass would know that
the secret to "Das Boot" is rotating the glass, or so I’m told.  The movie
also had me recall some college memories where I was a kickass "Thumper" player. 
There are a couple of secrets to being a kickass "Thumper" player, but those
will rest me me.  I was never good at the chugging thing, couldn’t open my
throat, and I preferred to consider myself a distance drinker, able to just hang
out on the roof of the fraternity house waiting for the sun to rise.  I
suppose being good at drinking games is good in one respect, because you don’t
get as drunk, but being good at drinking games is bad in another respect,
because you don’t get as drunk, which is really the goal of most drinking games. 
What a dilemma.  In Kamikaze Checkers, however, there is no winner,
although it does lead to laughing your ass off when it precedes
Jesse
Jackson reading "Green Eggs and Ham" during Saturday Night Live, or so I’m also told.

Well,
enough reminiscing and probably giving my mom some chest pains about my college
days, it’s back to some animating and watching the
Emmy Awards.

Thanks
for reading!

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

By:

The Dude on the Right
Just a couple of quick things to blog about while I take a break from animating
our "Snakes on a Plane" review…

If you listened to

my latest podcast you already know about my latest dilemma, but in case you
didn’t listen, I wrote what I think is a cute parody song concerning the demise
of Pluto, but right now it isn’t the criticism of the funniness of the song that
is stopping me from recording it, but the making fun of my singing by everyone
in internet-land, especially by those of my immediate family.  I suppose I
should just suck it up since I know I’m no

Pavarotti, or even
Weird Al.  We’ll see how the weekend goes if "The Dude on the Right’s"
singing debut goes public.

It was also an exciting week in The Dude household
as I’m a new dad (sorry mom for telling you this way)!  Ever since

Bill’s passing last December, my other two "kids," Steve and Ashley, just
haven’t been the same.  I think they are too young to understand the
concept of death, but they seemed to always sense that someone was missing from
their home.  And so, needing a replenishment of snails and crabs, and since
my fish tank seems to have stabilized after my

last cleaning debacle, I decided it was time for Steve and Ashley to get
some new siblings.  I could have replaced Bill with another Bill, but
decided on something different on the swimming side, and also added a couple of
starfish.  I’m trying not to get too attached to them right now, waiting to
make sure they end up nicely adapting to their new home before dying on me, and
so they don’t have names yet, although one of them is close to being called
either Bam, Betty, or Becky.  I don’t have pictures yet, either, because
they are still kinda skittish about coming out in the open.  One of the
starfish, as it is want to do, also just likes to bury itself in the sand, so my
only hint it is still alive is that the sand looks to move.  More on my
growing family at a later date.

And finally, I don’t want to give my
commentary on this right now, other than I found it interesting and odd, but one
of the sport’s talk radio stations pointed out something very interesting about
a quote by Cubs’ Manager Dusty Baker as printed in the Chicago Tribune. 
I’m listening to "The Boers and Bernstein Show" on
The Score here in
Chicago yesterday, and they pointed out that while Dusty was discussing pitch
counts, the Tribune wrote "Baker pointed to Greg Maddux’s high pitch counts
early in his career, claiming Maddux had thrown 167 pitches in one start. 
‘If I left somebody out there 167 pitches, you’d [criticize] me,’ Baker said." 
You might be saying something like "Fine, so Dusty might have said something
like "shit all over me" and the Tribune decided to replace that phrase, in
brackets so you knew it wasn’t exactly what Dusty said, with "criticize." 
Only the boys at The Score played the tape of the interview and what Dusty Baker
actually said was "If I left somebody out there 167 pitches, you’d lynch me."

Boers and Bernstein weren’t criticizing Dusty Baker’s choice of words, they
actually had their reasoning for Dusty’s using the word "lynch."  Nope,
they wondered why the Chicago Tribune, who own the Chicago Cubs, would seem to
decide to replace an inflammatory word with one not so inflammatory?  My
question is simply in what thesaurus can you find "criticize" as an appropriate
replacement for "lynch?"  Nothing in my mind, nor my online source,

www.thesaurus.com, comes close.

Anyway, back to animating!  Thanks
for reading!

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