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Friday, November 17 2006

Episode 24: ¡Turquila!

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, November 15 2006, (9:00 PM - 11:00 PM) at the Zodiac Racquet Club in Southgate MI
    “Another FourCast: holiday dining tips, and favorite Fingers solo, Buffett shirt, and Buffett-influenced song. With special guests Hud, Larry, and Jennifer. Happy Thanksgiving!”

    It’s a Thanksgiving miracle.  The oft-mentioned Hud finally joins us for some choice comments.  Also, Larry, proprietor of Zodiac Racquet Club, makes a couple appearances.  The gang discusses the latest four questions (itemized in the preceding blog entry) while discussing the latest Buffett news and making fun of each other.
    There will not be a show next week, because of the holiday, but we’ll be recording again on the 29th (...I think).  Scott requested going back to doing album reviews, and I suggested Floridays.  Feel free to send your own reviews to podcast at northcoastcast.com or send us an audio message at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or via Skype at 1-774-221-7346 or shortfatguyonline.
    11/28 Update: unfortunately, some household matters are preventing us from all meeting up this week.  We’ll be recording next week instead.  Thanks for your patience.

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Saturday, November 11 2006

This Week’s Assignment

    We will podcast this week (11/15).  Then we will take at least one week off for the holiday.  That means, this week is our Very Special Thanksgiving Episode™.  As always, there is homework.
    Another FourCast:

  1)  Idea to add just a bit of Buffetty-ness, if at all, to your Thanksgiving holiday
  2)  Favorite Fingers solo of all time
  3)  Favorite Buffett clothing (of your own, not Jimmy’s wardrobe)
  4)  Favorite songs by other artists that mention Buffett

    Send your responses to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), Skype us at shortfatguyonline, leave us a voice mail message at 1-774-221-7346, or send us audio feedback at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Friday, November 10 2006

Episode 23: Covers Charge

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, November 8 2006, (9:30 PM - 11:00 PM) at the Zodiac Racquet Club in Southgate MI
    “Scott’s back, in time for another FourCast: favorite lyric, live song, and covers (song or art). Plus talk of a Buffetty Thanksgiving.”

    Sorry about the delay in getting this week’s podcast up.  I was busy celebrating my birthday and getting the place ready for the arrival of my big-ass TV.
    The boys are back from their Roger Clyne break (photos soon come, maybe?) and even Scott returns for tonight’s show.
    For those whose interest was piqued by my live song descriptions, you can hear those very recordings at my Buffett setlists page.  Or get them here: specifically, “Chanson Pour Les Petits Enfants” and “He Went to Paris”.  One song I completely failed to mention was when Jimmy sang “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” at Buckeye Lake following a drenching torrential all-day rain.  It was most notable for containing the new verse

        So here we are in Central Ohio
        On a very rain night.
        Well we got ourselves a party,
        What a wonderful sight.

        We’re going to do it all this evening.
        We’re going to do it till we’re dead.
        So we’d just like to thank each and every one of you
        Crazy fucking Parrot Heads!

    Sorry about them being in RealAudio, but that was the thing back when I made those pages.  I discussed “Livingson Saturday Night” back in August.
    Scott and Joe and Mike were at the Roger Clyne concert on November 2, at The Magic Bag.  They enjoyed the concert a great deal and got to meet the band after the show.  Some of their photos were added to the Gallery, but the stories behind these photos were edited out of this week’s podcast.  Instead, I’ll add them here as a bonus audio file.  (The audio isn’t the greatest since I was only just setting the mics up.  You can hear Jennifer, our waitress, in the background, admiring the desktop wallpaper on Scott’s laptop.)

    P.S.: I don’t recall the Buffett news sites mentioning this, but “Here We Are” is finally available as a downloadable single (in stereo!) from iTunes.  [iTunes link]   Evidently this was announced on Mailboat Records a week ago but I only discovered it last night.

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Saturday, November 4 2006

More Homework

    It’s another four-question quiz for this week’s podcast—or, in this case, what you might call a “FourCast”.  What are your responses to the following?

  1) Favorite Buffett line/lyric
   2) Favorite Buffett cover song or remake
   3) Favorite Buffett live song (from CD or heard in-person)
   4) Favorite Buffett album cover

Share your thoughts with us at podcast [at] northcoastcast.com.

Friday, October 27 2006

Episode 22: Best of Lists, Worst of Lists

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, October 25 2006, (9:30 PM - 11:00 PM) at the Zodiac Racquet Club in Southgate MI
    “The long awaited best/worst discussion; and fueled by pizza and beer (’Roni Rage?) the trio even pick fights with their listeners!”

    The wait is over!  And oh is it worth it!
    Not our show of course.  I was actually practicing my announcing for when something good or of interest happens.  Until then, it’s just another episode of our podcast.  A little longer show than planned; but then again, we’re taking another break next week, so it can tide you over till November 8.  (Joe and Mike will be seeing Roger Clyne next week and I’ll be eating my Halloween candy.)
    By the way,  I created an iTunes iMix (yeah, I know; I’m a couple years behind) of the Buffett cover versions we sometimes discuss.  You can reach the page here, and of course you need iTunes to use it.

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Tuesday, October 24 2006

Changes

    Over the last several days, you’ve probably encountered this —

— rather than the usual blog template.  Evidently this site’s server host, iPowerWeb.com, has been throttling SQL queries to 50,000, which I hear is quite low.  With the growing interest in our podcast and constant hits from searchbots and the usual phentermine spammers, the blog has been going offline every other day.  Often, I can catch this and repair it, but the more it happens the more irritating it gets.
    Thus, I have moved the blog to our other domain, hosted at Bluehost.com.  All the entries should be intact and all the comments should have been retained.  The blog also has a simpler URL than the old convoluted “http://www.shortfatguy.com/blog.php/jbcast/index” one from before.
    Hopefully waters should be less choppy here.

Saturday, October 21 2006

Episode 21: The Greeks Don’t Want No Freaks

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, October 18 2006, (10:00 PM - 11:00 PM) in the Zodiac Racquet Club parking lot in Southgate MI
    “Admittedly, this is not the show we intended. Two guys didn’t show and our recording studio was double-booked. We’re holding off on the best/worst lists we planned, and instead we’ll just stick with the usual crap.”

    Like we said, Schmoe and Mike and I assembled at Zodiac in order to record a show, but our private room was occupied by a group of Hellenic gentlemen.  I can only assume they’re part of some Downriver Greek-American Club or the like.  They took their time in leaving and we ended up just recording the show elsewhere, in Schmoe’s Freestyle.  The audio might sound a little different, not only because we’re inside a vehicle.  Due to space restrictions I used my recorder’s built-in mics rather than stringing out my cool Core Sound mics.  —Oh, and I better not hear anything about us kidding Greeks.  I’m half-Greek and I was only one-eighth offended.
    Because Greg is in Chicago and Scott couldn’t make it, we decided to hold off in discussing our best/worst lists.  (And it has nothing to do with my failure to print out any of the listener submissions before going to the racquet club.)  This means there’s still time to send us your responses to the questions in the entry below.
    If I listened to radio, I would’ve known these are the Bud commercials Mike was talking about.  The Corona WAV probably came from the COB,O.org Vault or maybe the old SOASOAS archive.  I can’t remember any more, as it was downloaded long ago in the olden days when people used 1.44 MB diskettes.
    As with the last episode, we’re discussing the original versions of “Cinqo de Mayo in Memphis” by Guy Clark and “Wheel Inside the Wheel” by Mary Gauthier.
    Hopefully Schmoe can provide some images of his iPod Nano knockoff “MP4 Player”.  For now, it kind of looks like this one.  What is really galling is that the eBay auction was full of images right from Apple’s site and assurances that the item was “genuine”.  And this from a presumably trustworthy power seller.  Too bad Schmoe didn’t read this warning first.
    Just to help Schmoe schedule his physical violence, here’s a reminder for him (with most of the quote, in the comments).
    P.S.: Yes, I know my HDTV buying habits have little to do with Jimmy Buffett (though it will make watching the Wrigley Field concert even nicer), but I left the comment in to set up Mike’s joke.  By the way, this is the TV I might be getting.)

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