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This week: no blow, no go; Goldman sucks; let it Belushi; stood-up comedy; bio shock; helpful facial hair; jes’ circus folks; the blind; Capone-ing it in; cannibal run; mind your own business; political corner; a bad day at BlackRock; ear ye, ear ye; old laughing lady; flag nuts; a day at the racism; Dogan error; togetherness; replacement theory; pasta sausage; talking about Rome; Bernice sass; cocksuckers; we ran out of show; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; character studies; it’s a mall world; fuel for thought; divisive devices; replican or replicant; puzzling; rabbiting on; Pole position; poop dreams; triple threat; stunning cunts; and, finally, identity crisis.
Question of the Week: What’s an activity you do in the newspaper?
Sub-question of the Week: When it gets really hot, how do you cool down?
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Greetings from 42 degrees celcius Texas gentlemen! I must write this before my computer melts…
Dave, you asked two episodes ago if my studio designed the Evergreen font for the Evergreen Air & Space Museum. That would be a negative, we weren’t tasked with any proprietary designs or branding for the museum itself (i.e.: the font…which looks like Eurostile). We only designed some retail items and fun ancillary promotional swag. If anything, we probably used their logo on these items as branding but It was a short lived project, I’m shocked I remember anything about it at all…just that it was fun!
My boss Will at Lone Star Comics (yes, again), was a fan of the Jumble in the paper. When I rolled in for work every afternoon I’d see the paper with his Jumble solved sitting behind the counter. I think I tried to finish it one day and he nearly took my head off, he was obsessed. I’ve never been much of a newspaper puzzle solver but my Dad takes part in everything the Dallas Morning News has in their puzzle section. The crossword, bridge, sudoku and jumble, everything is finished before lunch on a good day. Like Ian mentioned his Grandfather enjoying crosswords, my Grandmother (Dad’s Mom), would do the crossword every day as well as the New York Times crossword…in pen! Grandma and Dad were also cutthroats at Scrabble, so it’s easy to see where Dad got his love of solving puzzles. I guess the closest I’ve come to any of this is doing the daily Wordle from time to time. Ah, I’ll stick to the AFI Get the Picture they send me in my email every day. And that’s a pro-tip everyone, if you don’t want to miss the daily AFI Get the Picture you can set it up for them to email it to you daily!
When it gets really hot here in Texas, what do I do? Consider moving. Yes, this is discussed every summer right around this time too. Not kidding.
In the interim though, to stay cool, just stay inside man. My Alexa warns me daily about the ongoing excessive heat warning, extended until…November.
I think I saw a lady who baked cookies on her car’s dashboard, again not kidding.
Loved the segment about Pollack and Italian jokes! I took no offense whatsoever and believe me, I’ve heard them all my entire life. When we moved to Texas from Chicago (use the accent) nobody here knew what a Pollack was! The similar jokes down here made fun of the Aggies, they were the butt of all these jokes. Aggies are graduates of Texas A&M University and for as long as I can remember, they’re made fun of through the use of these jokes and I have no idea why. I can remember seeing local Aggie joke books in the bookstore as a kid, Aggie jokes are a Texas thing. My wife is an Aggie alumni and she doesn’t even know why they’re made fun of, I asked her so I could write it here…no idea. My best guess is that the university goes way, way back to 1871 as a farming institution, the A&M stands for “Agriculture & Machinery”, so maybe the joking is aimed at them for being farmers.
Okay, that’s mean then, we need our farmers, I’ll switch over to Chuck Norris jokes.
My fingers are sticking to the melting keyboard and Susan wants to move to Portugal…I’d better handle this, we have a few hot months left.
Stay Frosty everyone, meet you at Wendy’s.
I wholeheartedly agree with you about the “Slide Whistle Car Jump” from 007’s “The Man with the Golden Gun”…still cringeworthy today, even John Barry regretted it. I loved Moore, he was and still is my 007 and the one I grew up with but his films were so hammy sometimes. Imagine a slide whistle with a scene from a Daniel Craig 007 film! Anyway, I found this on YouTube in case anyone wants to see the scene as it was presented in the final film and an attempt to also fix the problem! Watch until the end. Surely Dave, you didn’t think you were the only one…
https://youtu.be/eD_5Gg-i3BM?feature=shared
I do all the puzzles in my mom’s newspaper except the Sudoku. I do a different number puzzle that’s in TV Week. It’s called “Go Figure!” and it exercises your ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide. Finally, knowing the factors of 56 or 63 has come in handy! The real puzzle is predicting how long our daily newspaper will continue to publish a print edition. I put ours on a kitchen scale today and it weighed 48 grams — which is great if you enjoy a little light reading. About a third of that is sports and ads so really, we’re down to about 30 grams of comics, games and yesterday’s news.
When it gets really hot, I pour cold water on my hair, tie a wet bandana around my neck and sit under the overhead fan, thus creating my own micro-climate as the water evaporates.
When I first saw Moonraker, I thought it was so unrealistic. A pretentious wealthy private citizen with a strange accent launching their own ships into space? How preposterous!