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This week: bummer beginnings; unnatural union; overwhelming banana; dirty mouths; when space plants aren’t enough; gentle burblings; city of thieves; stolen hate; humanophobia; gay bashing; love in the closet; secret lives; I’m coming out; workplace safety; dismay December; generational shifts; dirty work; I’m all out of love; work it off; the importance of being earnest; unhealthy relationships; the 1980 Year in Film game; nude bomb; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; salty tales; a Toy Story Christmas; serial fatigue syndrome; a Moomin in time; dirty, hairy Dave; mistaken identity; and, finally, bursting at the seams.
Question of the Week: Has there ever been a time when you worked when you shouldn’t have?
Sub-question of the Week: What’s the best movie – subjectively speaking – that came out the year you were thirteen?
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The subjectively best movie that came out when I was thirteen was Jaws. I didn’t see them at the time, but two big cult hits from that year were Monty Python and the Holy Grail and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Speaking of drag…when I used to act in live shows, we’d drag ourselves onstage no matter how sick we were because there were no understudies. If I had a cold, I’d tuck anachronistic Kleenexes up my fancy sleeves so I could catch the drips from my runny nose. One time during a performance of The Importance of Being Earnest, the actress playing Gwendolyn had the flu. She had to slip off stage during the last act to throw up. I remember knowing her line was coming up. So I said it for her and everyone’s heads whipped over to my side of the stage with a look of surprise, then relief that the scene could continue on. She slipped back onstage in time for the big wrap up which included all the couples kissing as the lights went down. Yuck. Another time, a bunch of us who were in Kiss Me Kate came down with food poisoning after a late night afterparty. Some even had to go emergency. But the next night we all went on. At least no one was contagious that time. And on that infectious note, Happy Christmas to all and to all a good Sneak!
Question 1: I think this very moment might qualify – I’m hacking my lungs out with a cold but at work. 70% of my class has been doing the same for the last two weeks so if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. Other times included when my Dr. felt I was okay during my first pregnancy and in fact I wasn’t – I kept working when I should have been resting; this probably contributed to the issues I currently have with my retinas.
Question 2: Louise and I are twinseys, so Monty Python and the Holy Grail, RHPS, and Jaws were all big movies that year – as was Three Days of the Condor, Dog Day Afternoon, and One Flew Over the Coocoo’s Nest.