Wednesday, May 15 2013

World’s Dumbest

    I’m already regretting uploading this video, but I like sharing Buffett mentions in pop culture—even if it might reinforce certain stereotypes about Buffett fans by showing a few concertgoers at their worst.
    Here’s a clip from TruTV’s World’s Dumbest.  It originally aired November 20 2008 but I caught a rerun of it on May 10 (and finally saw it tonight).
    Enjoy at a distance ... and please, don’t be like these guys.

Tuesday, May 14 2013

Blanks and Empty Spaces

    I admit it: I have been terribly remiss in maintaining show notes for the podcast.  In fact, we barely had any show notes for all of 2012 and almost half of 2011!  In trying to correct this, I discovered twenty-three episodes are still needing show notes, covering a span of almost two years.  Talk about slacking.
    I’m confessing this now, not only to beat myself up about it, but as preface to posting a two-year old video.  While going back to do the show notes for Episode 152, I was reminded how we did not have a tailgate video for 2011.  We’ve got parking lot videos for 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2012 (as well as 1999 and 2000, and a 1998 roadtrip), but I never did post one for 2011—mainly because I had never gotten around to editing it.  I had my reasons, however.  The footage wasn’t so great, for one thing; it had been so hot that day I hadn’t gone around and shot as much as I’d wanted to.  Plus there’s an actual sweat stain on the camera lens, and I never noticed it all day since the sun was so bright.  I was so dissatisfied with the footage I kept avoiding working with it.
    But, in going through the episode again, I decided to go ahead with the edit anyway, just for the sake of it.  So, here’s the 2011 tailgate video, out of the archives…

    Update: That’s what happens when you impulsively start a video project.  I did the edit so fast I completely forgot to include my concert footage.  It wasn’t till I was doing the show notes for Episode 156 that I remembered the shot of the pirate ship on the lawn.  It’s been added in now, plus a few other shots, making the video forty-five seconds longer.

Wednesday, May 1 2013

The Colbert Resort

    Seen Tuesday night, April 30 2013…

    (Yes, a lot of build-up, I know; but we needed to include some context.)

Sunday, March 24 2013

2013 TV Ad

    Recorded at around 3:00 PM this afternoon, on Fox Sports Detroit…

    Note: although recorded off an HD channel, the commercial itself was in window-boxed standard-def.

Friday, January 11 2013

Brown Eyed Boy

    All due respect to Jimmy (and Van Morrison), but this might be my new favorite version of “Brown Eyed Girl”...

Wednesday, November 14 2012

Episode 168: A Four Story Slide

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, November 7 2012 (10:30 PM - 12:00 AM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “Listener Ed’s in-depth Alpine Valley review plus concert roundups from the other three shows from this leg of the tour (Camden, Jones Beach, Bristow).  (Guests: JoeMaj and Annie.)”

    00:00 - Daily Show clip from November 6.
    01:17 - the title track (courtesy of someone’s home movies):

    08:06 - Want to read along with us?  Here’s the document he sent us…

    13:00 - ummm, no (...as you can hear at 27:34)
    14:16 - due to a conversion glitch in going from a DOC file to a TXT file, double quotation marks showed up as ì or î, apostrophes showed up as í, and ellipses showed up Ö.  Mike and I are reading off the DOC on my iPad; but Schmoe is stuck reading the plain text version emailed to his phone.
    14:49 - actually this is due to the 12-string guitar change for “Son of a Son of a Sailor”
    23:14 - It was the same day as the concert.  “Armstrong died in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 25, 2012, at the age of 82, after complications from coronary artery bypass surgery.” (From Wikipedia.)
    30:29 - “shows”; not “songs”, “shows”
    45:55 - as heard at 05:21
    47:30 - First 30 Rock clip, featuring Bryan Cranston, from “Governor Dunstan”, broadcast October 11.
    48:34 - Second 30 Rock clip from “Unwindulax”, broadcast October 25.  The song is not the best quality, but it was ripped from the rear surround channels.

      >  Download Episode 168

Tuesday, July 31 2012

Comerica Park Parrothead Video 2012

    Cellphone footage from around Comerica Park, Detroit MI.  From Saturday, July 28 2012.  My apologies for the shakiness; I didn’t have a real camcorder with me.