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Thursday, July 02, 2009

Cheeseburger in Caseville 2009

    During tonight’s visit to Key West Coffee & Café (as discussed in Episode 104), we got to wondering whether we should try going back to the Cheeseburger Festival in Caseville MI.  It runs this year from August 7 to August 16, which means it’s possible we could go there immediately following our Pine Knob concert and make it one helluva Buffetty weekend!
    Once we saw the new logo for this year’s festival, their 11^th annual, we knew we had to go.
    For Greg’s sake….

Monkeys!

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Wednesday, July 01, 2009

A Word From Our Sponsor

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Sunday, June 28, 2009

Episode 104: Wednesdays, Sundays, Hearing Aids

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, June 24 2009 (9:30 PM - 11:30 PM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “The deaf are leading the deaf as the guys review Buffett Live: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays.  (Cameos by Nathan, Jennifer, and Lee.)”

    Key West Coffee & Café‘s not exactly up-to-date website.
    And the establishment itself…

Key West Coffee & Café, Taylor MI

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Friday, June 26, 2009

Guinea Pigging

    The Boston Globe interviewed Jimmy, in advance of his two Mansfield shows (Thursday and Saturday).  The interview is available at Boston.com, and midway through he mentions us northcoasters.

Q. How has the recession affected your tour?  Is this the year the bubble bursts and some people will not come to see you?

A. No, we’re doing great.  Thank God there are people out there who like what we’re doing.  They haven’t put us on a list of things they’re not going to do because of the economy.  This is their vacation and they’re not going to give it up.  They may not go to Florida or buy a new car, but they won’t miss our show.  I wanted to find out right away, so we went on sale early with a Detroit show—they’ve been as hard hit as anywhere—and it sold out in 20 minutes.  I’m very grateful.

    Happy to be your test kitchen, Jimmy.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Baby’s New Formula

    Nabbed from FAIL Blog.org.

    (Note: if you can’t figure out why we included this on our site, focus on the center of the photo .)

Monday, June 15, 2009

Summerzcool Art Projects

    We’re used to seeing Buffett references in “Arlo & Janis”, but we never expected him to show up in, of all things, “Blondie”!
    This is the strip from Friday, June 12.

    Also, Buffett World calls attention to an iPhone app designed for Jimmy Buffett fans and concertgoers.  It’s called iEncore and is available in the iTunes App Store [link opens iTunes].

    We’ve tried to keep tabs on other Buffett-inspired and -related apps, check out the ever-growing list here.
    Update: here’s another multimedia mention, from one podcast to another.  The guys of the 24 Cast are now doing a podcast called The Complete Guide to Everything*.  Their latest episode is about “Hamburgers” which leads to an extended segment on Jimmy Buffett.  The clip is too long to include in one of our shows, so we’ll just link to the episode.  The Buffett segment is 7:10 in and runs over four minutes (with a callback at 13:15).  [Added 6/16]

Sunday, June 07, 2009

Episode 103: Hud Don’t Know and Hud Don’t Care

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, June 3 2009 (10:00 PM - 11:30 PM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “The latest headlines, highlights from the last two May concerts, and not much change in attitude.  (Cameo appearance by Jennifer.)”

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Saturday, June 06, 2009

Someone at TRMS is a Parrothead

    When worlds collide.  All three “Weak in Review” stories from Friday’s Rachel Maddow Show have a remarkable connection to our podcast.

Monday, May 25, 2009

Episode 102: Peacemakers of the Lost Ark

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, May 20 2009 (10:00 PM - 12:00 AM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “In the wake of the recent concert at The Ark, the Roger Clyne podcast takes over at 24:08 and doesn't let up till morning; but before that, the boys rehash the first two of May's Summerzcool concerts.  (Special guest: Jennifer.)”

    This episode is almost an hour which can only mean the guys are rhapsodizing about Roger Clyne again, fresh from seeing him in Ann Arbor on May 16.
    Not sure how the Ark is "lost", but it seemed a better parody title than "Ark of the Contraband".
    Audio levels are quite bad at the start of the episode but even out after a while.  This was an unforeseen effect of using the same recorder for the Clyne concert and stupidly (oh all right, drunkenly) forgetting to normalize the levels before starting our podcast session.
    Special thanks to SunLover, at the Buffett News discussion board, for providing a copy of the Las Vegas concert, as the RCPM concert was that same night.
    The October/November tour dates which disappeared from Margaritaville.com have already been reinstated, with slight emendation.
    It appears the PDF of Memorial Day shows is no longer available.
    Our Ann Arbor photo album can be viewed here in our Photo Gallery.
    The two Ark recordings mentioned can be downloaded here or here.  (The first link was the source of this episode's sound clips.)

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Saturday, May 09, 2009

Episode 101: An Anemone in the Space/Time Continuum

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, May 6 2009 (9:30 PM - 11:30 PM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “The gang tries to rescue Schmoe from imprisonment in a temporal wormhole while also discussing the 'Summerzcool' single, a Landshark Stadium, and the last three April concerts.  (Special guest: Jennifer.)”

    02:55 - oops.  I say Buffett World but I was actually reading off Buffett News
    02:57 - "Possible St Barth's Show in November", "Rumor: Newport Folk Festival", "Buffett's Today Show Appearance Canceled"
    03:28 - gotta give Buffett News credit for that.  Still haven't bought Swine Not?  Get it from Amazon.
    03:58 - as expected, it's official as of Friday, May 8
    04:18 - the new logo
    04:35 - okay, now I'm reading off Buffett World
    09:40 - "Buffett will help pay for the deal by playing two shows at the stadium at little or no cost", from South Florida Business Journal, via Buffett World
    10:56 - purchase it in iTunes or purchase it at Amazon
    16:50 - try "pattern"
    21:09 - oh what the heck, here's the obligatory link to Susan Boyle's performance
    31:59 - iPickupLines iPhone app [iTunes Store link]
    34:45 - Barney Stinson's Barney's Blog

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