Friday, July 30 2010

Dustin

    Listener Jon clued us in, back on Monday, that the comic strip Dustin was doing a whole, week-long series on parrotheads.  Or more specifically, middle-aged parrotheads.  Here are all five panels (from July 26 to July 30).
    Update: we uploaded too quickly, forgetting about the Saturday strip.  Here’s the newly-corrected, complete run:

Dustin, from King Features

    As a middle-aged parrothead, I frankly don’t see the humor in this.

Wednesday, July 14 2010

Mike in 3D

    Playing around with the 3D Camera phone app at Joe’s Prime Time tonight.  Got your red/blue anaglyph glasses handy?

Mike in 3D

Saturday, June 26 2010

Ad for the July 1 Concert

    Update: errm, according to late-breaking news on June 28, make that the “Ad for the July 11 Concert”...

Scanned from Entertainment Weekly #1109, page 64

Wednesday, June 23 2010

News From the Front

    Back home from another great Buffett show at Pine Knob.  Here are a few images from our amazing Row A seats.  I shot some video too but the quality is quite poor (my phone is two years old); I at least used it for the freeze-frames of Bret Michaels surprise duet on “Margaritaville” and when Jimmy came by us at the end of the show.  The pictures have been upload to our Photo Gallery, or you can also check them out at my Flickr page or my Mobile Me gallery.

Nadirah singing “Creola”

“GOOOOAALLL”

Bret Michaels guesting on “Margaritaville”

Fins to the left

The laying on of hands

    Update: our tailgate video was edited late in the afternoon and uploaded to Vimeo and YouTube:

Sunday, June 13 2010

Pier 500 Parrot Head Cruise

    Just back from tonight’s Parrot Head cruise, up and down the Detroit River.  This was what we were talking about back in Episode 127, the cruise where Mike’s brother Jim (the singer of our theme song) was going to perform acoustic versions of Buffett songs.  I shot video, recorded some audio, and also shot some photos with my cellphone.  Some notable highlights included a pole dance to “Changes in Latitudes” — which I’m pretty sure has to be a world-record, history-making first — and that the drawing for the free concert tickets was won by our very own Schmoe!
    After Mike’s news from two weeks ago, it’s almost getting to the point where we have more tickets than we know what to do with!  ...Not really, but close.  And not that we’re complaining.
    Hopefully I’ll be uploading the video soon, but until then here are the cellphone pictures, which I uploaded to our Photo Gallery.
    Update: here’s the video .

Friday, April 30 2010

Top Ten

    Just catching up on old shows on my DVR, and caught this oblique Buffett reference in Wednesday’s Late Show with David Letterman.  Not one of his best, but it fits the criterion to be included here.  I’ve included the whole ten for the sake of completion…and for the huge belly laughs, of course…

First screen

Second screen

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Thursday, April 22 2010

Episode 126: Dagadagadagadagadannnng!

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, April 21 2010 (9:30 PM - 11:00 PM) at Joe’s Prime Time, Gibraltar MI
    “Season 9 already?  The boys share their initial reactions to Encores, and Schmoe ... well, the less said about his subplot the better”

    Dank!  (Can’t forget that little stinger after the big final chord.)
    00:09 - Martian Invasion of Races
    00:33 - Body Glide
    01:01 - I bet I know why! Cactus Boy and Cactus Boy 2
    01:31 - if you still want to after seeing the following photo, you can befriend Schmoe on Facebook

Yaaay!   ....Eewwwww!

    04:09 - “Fun Run” was the two-part fourth season premiere of The Office.  Read about it at the Office Tally fan site.
    05:27 - a reference to a story Schmoe told at the end of Episode 113B
    05:56 - we did brainstorm some nipple-related show names, but ultimately rejected them.  Besides, it was likely the names would’ve been censored by some podcatcher programs and sites.
    08:30 - “Buffett to Expand Business Empire to Middle East”, from Buffett World
    10:12 - Hollywood FL opts for Margaritaville over Planet Hollywood: Buffett News mention | Buffett World mention
    10:24 - the World Beer Cup site.  (The competition was held in Chicago, not Colorado.  Either my eyesight has really gone or the article I read originated from Colorado.)  List of World Beer Cup 2010 winners.  And the winners’ sites: Tiger Crystal, Quilmes Cristal. and Landshark Lager
    11:04 - GAC’s The Collection link
    11:37 - I wish the levels were better, so it would be easier to make out what Alan Jackson is saying, but that audio mix is straight from the TV show
    12:38 - “Jimmy Buffett” on South Park #200 and #201.  (“Jimmy” shows up in both but only speaks in the first.)
    13:09 - play the Where’s Jimmy?© game:

South Park 200 in HD

    13:51 - “Buffett Lecture at University of Miami”, from Buffett News
    14:15 - National Record Store Day
    14:40 - Dearborn Music link
    14:52 - Encores at Walmart.com and at M’ville.com
    17:07 - my obligatory Whedonesque reference
    21:23 - Hits Daily Double prediction: Buffett News mention | Buffett World mention
    22:40 - I’m in error here, evidently getting my tours confused.  Tim Krekel passed away June 24 2009, a year after most of Encores was recorded.
    28:45 - added four videos to our VHS Tape Library on April 1: the Today show (1998), Larry King Live (1998), Charlie Rose (1999), and the Tonight show (1999)
    29:05 - split the RSS feed, early in the morning on April 2: link for the up-to-date feed, link for the archive feed.  (Paste those links into your podcatcher software.)
    30:54 - iTunes link to archive feed (and, what the heck, here’s the iTunes link for the up-to-date feed too)
    31:30 - Skype us at NorthCoastCast
    32:06 - added photos from 1997 and 1998 on April 16 to our Gallery, and photos from May 1996 and June 1996 on April 17

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