well …
at least it was warmer today.
and nader is still alive.
and i figured out how to access the pool on the third floor of the downtown hilton. not much to figure out, really. take the elevator to the third floor. jump in pool. sorted. talk to me in about four months …
and i found a cool graffiti clad perch to watch the sunset over the mississippi.
and lady of the barge has new songs.
and it is what it is.
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a little artie for y’all. recent artie, which is weird … as recent as december. the guy was fucking killing it very, very recently. freakish …
the premise in the first one is they’re doing a news story on chaz bono. artie and howard start fucking around, and finally feel their way to a scene where artie becomes chaz and howard starts to interview him. artie pulls all his longshoreman idioms out of his ass to demonstrate chaz’s newfound masculinity.
start it around 4:11.
‘i’ve got a fifty timer on michigan state … i’ve got michigan state parlayed with the over with iowa … i’m framing a house in newark … i’m enforcing for a lone shark … the other day i shit in a spackle bucket on the construction site.’
alright … this one … ‘the guy who laughs at everything’ … artie just dropped into this one after jd admitted to loving the films ‘look who’s talking’ and ‘the shaggy da.’
anyway … a little artie.
sleep tight.
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Since New Years, I’ve gotten into the bad habit of staying up doing reading/work ’til midnight or so.
Then I obsess on the jigsaw puzzle we started during break for an hour or so to unwind.
In the background is usually the History Channel or a movie on HBO.
Last night I found Beer League (only the very end, unfortunately.)
Not exactly The Godfather, but not a bad ending for a movie about a slow pitch league.
The soundtrack was good classic rock tunes, and I noticed a couple by Robert Pollard during the credits.
Best of all was seeing Artie. He looked so young. I would have sworn this was from the Mad TV days, but it was released in ‘06, during what I assume was a dry period for him.
He ran spritely (for Artie) around the bases and even hit a couple of bombs. (He may have had some help from the cameras, but his swing was smooth and he made good contact.)
Heroin is a bitch.
dude, artie was all state baseball in new jersey. and a good basketball player, too. two of my favorite artie moments (both involving his hyper-masculine, jersey schtick): 1) the show was in las vegas, and there was a woman trying to become a major league baseball pitcher. artie made some bet that she couldn’t strike him out or something. so they send artie and her out to a baseball field with a remote camera and mic. artie sets his jack and coke down on home plate. digs in. takes the first pitch. hits the second pitch over the left field wall. 2) wnba player comes in to the studio. artie challenges her to a little one on one. she accepts. artie beats her 11-1.
oh, and the best scene in beer league is the bachelor party. about midway through. hide the kids …