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10/19/2005: Blueberry Beer! (Salem Part III)

So ends the Salem Series with Part 3, which is about beer or about food or about something else. I dunno, I just wanted an excuse for the animated blueberry beer image. You’ll see. You’ll wish you were drinking along.

In other news, I’m officially addicted to HBO’s Rome, or if you’re on the other side, BBC’s Rome. Granted, the progression of time is really understated in a bad way (some episodes seem to span a timeframe of about two hours, while others cover a year), but screw me if this isn’t Melrose Place with helmets and bloodletting. It’s also clever how they play it mostly by the book as far as history goes, banking on the less-legendary main characters of Lucius and Titus to keep things unpredictable. Plus, the guy who plays Pompey starred in Hellraiser 2 as Dr. Channard. I’ve yet to see Kenneth Cranham in a role that doesn’t require him to go headless. I can’t imagine that it’s been too critically heralded, as you’ve got to think this would be a huge turkey if the cast wasn’t so terrific. Don’t be a critic, be a watcher. You’ll like it. You’ll hate the little kid, but you’ll like it otherwise.

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Discussion Thread: 91 comments

Wine from Transylvania? Well, I’ll be damned!

Chestnuts roasted by eight-bit @ 10/19/2005 9:37 PM EDT

Hee hee hee. Early post.

Chestnuts roasted by Unknown Stranger @ 10/19/2005 9:41 PM EDT

There’s a place called Chicago Brewery here in Las Vegas that has an excellent blueberry microbrew. It doesn’t actually have blueberries floating in it like that though.. err.

Incidentally, did anyone catch that ABC Family is going to have a halloween marathon for 13 nights? Granted that the movie titles kind of _suck_ (Ghost??).. just the same, it’s something. Tonight is the Sixth Sense:

http://abcfamily.go.com/13nights/main.html

Chestnuts roasted by Pawel @ 10/19/2005 9:58 PM EDT

only thing better? booberry beer!

Chestnuts roasted by gerv @ 10/19/2005 10:02 PM EDT

Not sure I’m sold on the idea of blueberry beer. I guess it could be good, but I tend to like a spicy/hot contrast with my brew as opposed to a sweet/sour one.

That said, I am a big fan of sweet potato beer, so I may give it a shot.

Chestnuts roasted by The Wukong Effect @ 10/19/2005 10:03 PM EDT

slightly off topic but still a weird food combo and good in the fall season: my parents used to own an upscale restaurant where one of the dishes was "maple angus" basically a steak with syrup on it instead of A1 sauce…might sound weird but trust me…its friggin good!…i suggest all to try it

Chestnuts roasted by gerv @ 10/19/2005 10:12 PM EDT

Hmm, blueberry beer. Interesting…

What’s with the guy with a sword sticking out of his chest?

Chestnuts roasted by marioshoku @ 10/19/2005 10:19 PM EDT

Someone mentioned the Halloween marathon on ABC family…if your into that, you would also probably want to check out the Disney channel Halloween marathon. But if your into un-sanitiszed Halloween marathons like myself, check out the one on AMC all next week (http://games.amctv.com/Monsterfest05/Horrorfest/final_pdf.pdf ) It looks like they have a pretty decent selection and also "I Love the 80′S 3D" is on next week…all in all, it’s going to be a great week for television!

Chestnuts roasted by Kevin @ 10/19/2005 10:44 PM EDT

Wow - didn’t know about the AMC one. That is a far superior line-up! Thanks for the tip, Kevin!

Chestnuts roasted by Pawel @ 10/19/2005 11:06 PM EDT

Mmmmmmmmm…..Beer…..Spent most of yesterday killing my friends in Quake 4 deathmatch. Yeah we’re a bunch of dorks. We LAN up every tuesday and do dorky things. We make lots of Beavis and Butthead refrences and immitate Meatwad a lot too. We are dorks and we are proud. My friends will certainly get a kick out of The Bunghole. It has officially become my desktop….

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 10/19/2005 11:17 PM EDT

You shouldn’t worry about relating your tales of drunkin revelry (sp) but man WINE?

Chestnuts roasted by Deuce232 @ 10/19/2005 11:21 PM EDT

Wine is the big new thing, man. It’s a huge friggin business.

Chestnuts roasted by The Wukong Effect @ 10/19/2005 11:26 PM EDT

But it hurts, not the booze for a drunk, more of a with dinner kind of a thing.

Chestnuts roasted by Deuce232 @ 10/19/2005 11:27 PM EDT

Well, I finally ventured into a Costco here on Long Island, and I found…

Nothing. No Frankenberry, no Monster Triple Pack, no nothing! I think I should give up this search once and for all!

Great articles Matt!

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 10/20/2005 1:15 AM EDT

Great trio of articles! The trip articles are always my favorite.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff Mack @ 10/20/2005 1:20 AM EDT

I order 4 bottles of Vampire wine every Halloween! It really does make the holidays seem special :) Highly recommended.

Chestnuts roasted by b-log @ 10/20/2005 1:25 AM EDT

That blueberry ale looked good, but that Pumpkinhead stuff is awful.

Chestnuts roasted by celluloid_droid @ 10/20/2005 1:43 AM EDT

:O does the beer taste like blueberries??

Chestnuts roasted by lindsay @ 10/20/2005 1:54 AM EDT

Hey Matt, good news then. The classic He-man series is finally out on DVD. A six-DVD set with the 1st 33 episodes of the first season is released with apparently perfect sound and video quality. It also bears a 50-minute documentary and 50 character bios. It seems like a really good set.

http://dvd.ign.com/articles/659/659754p1.html

Chestnuts roasted by Jordy @ 10/20/2005 2:21 AM EDT

Who would have expected that He-man would get such top of the line DVD treatment?

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 10/20/2005 2:46 AM EDT

I didn’t know anyone was watching Rome, considering it falls into the perilous category of Historical Thing Set In Epic Times, a category that’s been met with yawns in the past 24 months. Maybe HBO can sell ice to an eskimo.

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 10/20/2005 3:36 AM EDT

Houston Astros
2005 National League Champions

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally…The World Series has COME BACK (er came at all) to HOUSTON!!!

We now return you to your regularly scheduled X-E Blog entries.

Semper Fi,
Erik Majorwitz

Chestnuts roasted by Erik Majorwitz @ 10/20/2005 5:08 AM EDT

You ate Apple Cinnamon buns with ice cream… while standing around in Salem. I’m so jealous that my head is about to explode.

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 10/20/2005 5:10 AM EDT

Had a History Club meeting at school yesterday and I got a chance to tell the students about the GILES ROCKS stickers.
Happy B-day Allison!! It was Mrs. Manimal’s birthday yesterday too.

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 10/20/2005 5:37 AM EDT

Squee — I meant Octavian, but I guess I don’t mind him so much.

Good news on the MOTU DVDs…will definitely be picking those up. Saavy web users have been spoiled by the countless downloads available, but for "normal" folks, it’s going to be a thrill to see that again.

I also remember hearing something about the He-Man & She-Ra Christmas Special coming to DVD. That almost warrants rewriting my review.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/20/2005 9:35 AM EDT

Just to update my post in the last entry:

I have just recieved word that the Path of Neo will be released on the 8th of Nov!

Three Big Tuesdays in a row. Woohoo!!!

So will ‘Come Back to Texas’ be the theme song for the World Series? Bowling For Soup 4 Life!! God, I am a dweeb.

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 10/20/2005 10:06 AM EDT

Awesome trip, bummer it poured on you guys though. Can’t wait for the next Halloween article :). Happy Be-lated bithday Manimal’s wife.

Chestnuts roasted by Texican @ 10/20/2005 10:13 AM EDT

Im in salem everyday!! That place sucks, so many weird people.

Chestnuts roasted by Jared @ 10/20/2005 10:20 AM EDT

Does anyone know if they will be showing a marathon of the Halloween episodes of Roseanne anywhere? those are the best ever!

Chestnuts roasted by bitchpants @ 10/20/2005 10:24 AM EDT

I’m in Salem *almost* every day, and it’s my favorite city as well. Always got a laugh out of ‘Bunghole Liquors’ (especially back in the Beavis and Butt-Head days), though I don’t drink myself. Still, glad you got a chance to come out there, Matt. If I knew you were coming, I would have baked a Shrek Twinkie.

Chestnuts roasted by Frostor @ 10/20/2005 11:23 AM EDT

"Does anyone know if they will be showing a marathon of the Halloween episodes of Roseanne anywhere? those are the best ever!"

Boy, those have to be the best Halloween-themed episodes for a sitcom ever. I always envied the Conner’s ability to go all-out for Satan’s Birthday.

Chestnuts roasted by Monte @ 10/20/2005 11:33 AM EDT

Roseanne halloween episodes will be marathoned on Nick or TVLand on Halloween.

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 10/20/2005 11:38 AM EDT

Does anyone else have the feeling of the downhill slide to halloween? I’ve bought Hi C, cheetos, mini snickers, gum and temp tattoos for the trick or treaters bags I’m making. But something is missing. what neat thing would you have been delightedly surprised to get in your bag. I only get about 50 trick or treaters so I’m willing to spend up to 50 cents on each item. Throw ideas my way. 11 Days and counting!

Chestnuts roasted by bloodybrilliantme @ 10/20/2005 11:43 AM EDT

Last week’s Rome was so awesome. I like Octavian though…that’s who you mean by kid, right? Cause there’s also the little slave boy named after the dead bird but he’s not so much hateable as forgettable. I thought it was kind of neat to speed forward in time the way it did, too, especially when they use a segue like they did

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 10/20/2005 12:00 PM EDT

Depends on what kind of wine you’re drinkin’. If it’s the stuff that costs less than five dollars then yeah, you’re getting a headache. I’ve had the Vampire wine, btw. Not bad, but kind of disappointing as far as having pretty much nothing to do with vampires beyond the label and color goes. I guess if it’s from Transylvania that’s kind of a bonus. But you can’t help but feel there should be more.

Chestnuts roasted by GrrrArrgh @ 10/20/2005 12:04 PM EDT

Pumpkin Pie is my favorite. In fact, MCD’s is selling those pumkin pies again.

Am I the only one that finds it depressing that not just the department stores that are gearing up for Christmas before Halloween, but that those specialty Halloween Stores are already discounting stuff. Saw a life-size motion activated talking Freddy at one, but it’s expensive. Also saw costumes where you can dress up like poop, a condom, and a fat chick falling out of her bikini.

Rome does indeed rock. Although I do kind of get confused of who’s who due to the numerous characters.

Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is on this Tues on ABC. That seems to be the only Halloween special anyone is willing to show now. Everyone else does theme episodes or marathons. AMC is doing a pop-up trivia version of the first Friday the 13th on Sunday.

Tried Strawberry Slime today and liked it. Tasted like Big Red Soda, which is weird since I don’t really like cream soda.

Speaking of blueberries, I finished off my box of Booberry Cereal today. It was ok. Wish it had a more blueberry taste to it though (although fruit cereals rarely taste like fruit anyway).

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 10/20/2005 12:09 PM EDT

bloodybrilliantme, add at least one bag of the pinata filler they sell at Wal-Mart. Candy and little plastic toys are a never-fail.
I don’t drink alcohol, but dammit! The animated pic makes me want blueberry beer.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 10/20/2005 12:14 PM EDT

bloodybrilliantme Halloween underwear - that’s what’s missing from your trick or treat bags.

I roadtripped my weekend to the midwest and stopped at a huge ass Walmart. There, to my delight, I found Halloween underwear in the standard run-of-the-mill Halloween candy aisle. It was SOOOooo misplaced and funny to see it there.

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 10/20/2005 12:25 PM EDT

I have *fond* memories of wandering around Salem on our 9th grade trip. Yes, in the POURING RAIN.

Chestnuts roasted by Piscez @ 10/20/2005 12:40 PM EDT

"Shut your bonghole, you filthy hippy!"
~Prof. Farnsworth

Matt, let me just say that I have yet to watch one of your mini-movies where the music didn’t strike me as both perfectly fitting and much funnier than it probably should be. Tell Nickelodeon that I authorize a substantial pay raise for you on these grounds. If they refuse, tell them I said "DON’T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?" over and over while a vein in my forehead pulsed ominously.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 10/20/2005 12:57 PM EDT

Nick at Nite has their schedule up to the 29th posted and no signs of the Roseanne Halloween shows

Chestnuts roasted by bitchpants @ 10/20/2005 2:03 PM EDT

"I don’t drink alcohol, but dammit! The animated pic makes me want blueberry beer."
My thoughts exactly.

I also find it odd that the Apple Cinnamon Bun booth sold only three things that weren’t beverages:
- Apple Cinnamon Buns (obviously) w/ice cream
- Cookies
- and…pickles?!
I can’t say too much, though, because I’m just the type that would order a cinnamon bun with a pickle on the side (to cut the sweet.)

Chestnuts roasted by Lori @ 10/20/2005 2:21 PM EDT

I only just found out Octavian’s place in history…I must shamefully admit that my only source of knowledge about the whole era comes from Shakespeare. I think Octavian is a total ass but I love the way he deals with his mom so he grew on me. I originally totally hated on OctaviA but I warmed up to her in recent episodes, even before the sapphic hijinks. Atia still stands as my fav female character, but Cleo is quite charming as well.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 10/20/2005 2:23 PM EDT

Incidentally, did anyone catch that ABC Family is going to have a halloween marathon for 13 nights?

ABC Family has done this ever since it was Fox Family way back when.

Speaking of which, does anyone else remember the exclusive cartoons Fox Family used to air? I’ll list the ones I can:

-Donkey Kong Country
-Bad Dog
-Monster Farm
-Walter Melon (which probably had the most original premise for a cartoon: a fat bald man and his skinny sidekick are temp workers for pop culture & historical characters)
-as well as reruns of Heathcliff & The Catillac Cats and Mr. Bogus

I know these shows all existed and they all disappeared when ABC took it over, but they’re so obscure that they don’t even have pages on either TV.com OR IMDB! I know I’ve been lurking at the right site for about 2 years to know that at least 1 other person will remember these too!

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 10/20/2005 2:24 PM EDT

I remember the Computer Generated DKC, but nothing else from that list…

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 10/20/2005 2:29 PM EDT

This weekend is the night parade in Anoka (the place claiming to be the Halloween capitol). They have the downtown pitch black and the only lights come from decorations. Then next weekend is the day parade, which is much bigger. AND THEN I can crack open my Christmas decorations boxes! Yes, I’m one of those.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 10/20/2005 2:32 PM EDT

The place where you tap a keg is a Bung-hole, and the stopper is called a Bung. It’s also the name of the drunken court jester of Id. Bung, I mean, not Bung-Hole. Deposed imaginary Central American dictator Cornholio needs TP! TP for his bung-hole!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 10/20/2005 2:34 PM EDT

We steal monkeys all the time! BUNG!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 10/20/2005 2:46 PM EDT

Invader Norbert- I remember all of those shows except for Bad Dog and Walter Melon. I never really watched any of em though.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 10/20/2005 2:56 PM EDT

Invader Norbert, the Heathcliff cartoon is available on dvd now. I saw it at my Target. Click my name for a link to the Amazon page. I’ve been thinking about picking it up, since I loved it as a kid.

I just bought He Man though, and Tripping the Rift is coming out Tuesday, so Heathcliff will have to wait.

Chestnuts roasted by Elfinlady @ 10/20/2005 4:02 PM EDT

Fox Family also had Angela Anaconda, which ruined many, many days for me. How I hated that show. Oh, how I hated that show.

Maybe you liked it, world. Maybe that’s why it was on. Maybe you hate me world. Screw you world.

Chestnuts roasted by The Wukong Effect @ 10/20/2005 4:25 PM EDT

Fox Family also had Angela Anaconda, which ruined many, many days for me. How I hated that show. Oh, how I hated that show.

Oh that’s riiiight, I remember that now! I hated that one too.

And I’m fully aware of the Heathcliff dvd set, I just wanted to bring that show up in my earlier post.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 10/20/2005 4:37 PM EDT

Ah, finally caught up on the Halloween posts. I just started reading them this week. Being a hurricane evacuee is awesome in some ways, such as Cal Poly giving you tons of stuff, but sucks in other ways, such as not having internet except in the crappy lab on campus. But anyway, great set of articles this year so far.

Carri: that Halloween underwear was the first seasonal thing I bought of the year, way back at the beginning of September. I got the ones with the glow in the dark eyes on the butt, it seemed somehow right.

Chestnuts roasted by Mara @ 10/20/2005 5:17 PM EDT

Thanks Manimal!!! Birthday greetings to Mrs. Manimal as well!

Blueberry beer–sounds quite fascinating. But, I’m not a beer drinker. But, I’m willing to try things once, so I’d probably try it if someone enticed me to.

MOTU is great, but I think that cartoons of the 80s should be watched the way they were intended–in other words, the way we watched them. Bad sound, bad picture, original closing logo intact. The Best of DVDs kept the Filmations logo intact–what a treat!! My boyfriend just got M.A.S.K on VCD from Ebay. I think he said the commercials were intact and everything. YESSSS!!!!

Invader Norbert, my bf and I found Heathcliff on DVD at Suncoast. Glad to know that we spend out Saturday nights doing pretty much the same stuff you guys do–scoping out the TV section of video/DVD retailers. Of course, this is not EVERY Saturday night, but it was this past weekend…

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 10/20/2005 6:04 PM EDT

Blueberry beer = very yes. Boston Beer Works (which I imagine Salem Beer Works is not too far removed from) makes a great blueberry beer as well, with blueberries in it. And the carbonation makes them float up and down like a lava lamp in a pint glass.

Also, I’m seeing that the people that weighed in on the Shipyard Pumpkin ale didn’t like it. Pity. To me that stuff tastes like pumpkin pie in a bottle. Pumpkin pie in a bottle that gets you drunk. Now really, what’s wrong with THAT? I look forward to that hitting the shelves here in Boston every year.

Chestnuts roasted by The Greater Gatsby @ 10/20/2005 6:55 PM EDT

Uh. Fruit and beer don’t mix, kids.

Chestnuts roasted by Red @ 10/20/2005 7:55 PM EDT

I loathe beer, but the blueberry beer DOES sound interesting. It sounds like you had a pretty good time at Salem despite the weather, which is always a good thing. Actually, what I’d love to try are the Apple-Cinnamon buns. I love sweet buns, and those sound divine.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 10/20/2005 8:17 PM EDT

FYI: There will be a Thursday entry, but you’re not getting it till Friday. And no, that does not mean that there won’t be a Friday entry.

This has been an FYI.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/20/2005 10:31 PM EDT

Thank you for your support of my show. I will think of your article while watching Titus bang my hot Itallian wife. This will bring a smile to my face.

Chestnuts roasted by Lucius Vorenus @ 10/20/2005 10:38 PM EDT

Boston Beer Works? Wow… I’m a 5 minute walk from there… something tells me we need to have an X-E get together in Boston sometime soon! We could get bad horror movies and kick back or something

Chestnuts roasted by Vegan Mike @ 10/20/2005 11:59 PM EDT

"Speaking of which, does anyone else remember the exclusive cartoons Fox Family used to air? I’ll list the ones I can:

I only vaguely remember Monster Farm and Mr. Bogus. Didn’t the latter have something to do with mirrors? And I remember all the others except Walter Melon.

As far as Angela Anaconda goes I used to despise that show when it first started. But for whatever reasons eventually it kinda grew on me. I think it was in part because she always referred to everyone by their full names.

Chestnuts roasted by GrrrArrgh @ 10/21/2005 2:44 AM EDT

Monster Rancher was cool. Angela Annaconda hurt my head. I’m sorry but the cg-Donkey Kong didn’t do it fo me. mind you i dig the "country" games, and whatnot, but i remember the old Donkey Kong from the saturday supercade, and his 1st tv apperainces on my atari 2600, and now, emulators.

Chestnuts roasted by Oliver Obelisk @ 10/21/2005 4:39 AM EDT

Where the bloody hell is MADD MATT??????? nothing , nada Zero this year……im gonna fuckin cry!

Chestnuts roasted by Evlash3 @ 10/21/2005 6:27 AM EDT

Is anyone interestred in hearing the English view of 100 old American toys? http://tinyurl.com/aqpr9
I’m not, but I like seeing the crazy stuff we sold and bought decades ago. smoking monkey anyone?

Chestnuts roasted by RAS @ 10/21/2005 11:46 AM EDT

i heard rudolph the red nosed reindeer on the radio today. i’m not kidding

Chestnuts roasted by bitchpants @ 10/21/2005 11:59 AM EDT

Wow the HBO site says Octavian is 11 when we meet him? Now I’m really confused about the timeline.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 10/21/2005 12:25 PM EDT

There’s a gif image of a beer and blueberries serving glass and there’s a mistery too: How could you take photos with fractions of second between them for making that gif?
It’s incredible!!
:O :O :O :O

Chestnuts roasted by Yelinna @ 10/21/2005 2:34 PM EDT

If I’m not mistaken, digital cameras can typically record short amounts of video footage.

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 10/21/2005 2:47 PM EDT

I read a newpaper item that stated that a live stage production of the musical episode of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" was to have a performance of Hallowe’en Eve. I never really watched the show, so the only thing that crossed my mind is: Would you say Hallowe’en Eve as Hallowe’en’en?

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 10/21/2005 2:55 PM EDT

Anybody else catch "Real Ghostbusters" and the cartoon "Beetlejuice" on Teletoon this week?

Brings back so many memories.

Chestnuts roasted by Robert @ 10/21/2005 3:12 PM EDT

Hallowe’en Eve? Wouldn’t that make it All Hallows Eve Eve?

They could just say, like, October 30th.

Or Mischief Night.

Chestnuts roasted by Monte @ 10/21/2005 3:49 PM EDT

Those were great cartoons, Robert.

And yes, Knegative, digital cameras CAN record a short amount of video footage. Mine records up to 15 seconds.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 10/21/2005 3:54 PM EDT

I’ve had watermellon beer before. It was pretty good in small doses; pretty kitchy though. I’ve been too lazy to try pumpkin beer this season - maybe I’ll pick up some this weekend. Blueberry beer sounds interesting though.

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 10/21/2005 3:54 PM EDT

Heck even my phone takes video clips. I mostly use it for capturing my dog’s spazziest moments, but I like the idea that if anything newsworthy ever broke out than I’d be Johnny on the spot.
I still can’t convince myself to drink and enjoy beer, but I think I’d be into the purple, bebaubled version. I thought Orbitz was the grossest invention ever, but berries are a whole different deal.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 10/21/2005 6:56 PM EDT

I once got some Orbitz because I’d seen someone drinking it on TV and was like "Well holy crap, it’s a drink with…THINGS in it!" so I got it.

It was so disgusting. The little orbs were so slimy and gross, it felt like you were chugging fish eyes. I ended up throwing the rest of that crap away. I bet a homeless guy took it and drank it and magically became a millionaire.

Oh well.

Chestnuts roasted by The Wukong Effect @ 10/21/2005 7:02 PM EDT

I actually liked Orbitz…of course, I was around twelve when it originally came out, so I would put almost anything unconventional into my mouth.

Well, except for man-tinkin. I ain’t putting them in my mouth.

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 10/21/2005 7:36 PM EDT

I never heard of Orbitz. When did it come out? Is it a soda or something?

I saw something really funny on my Saturday Night Live Best of Jon Lovitz DVD the other night. It was a sketch of 3 Jerry Seinfeld-esque comedians (guest host Tom Hanks, Jon Lovitz, and Dennis Miller). This, of course, was in 1988, and Jerry Seinfeld was really not all too well-known on television yet.

Lovitz and Miller get into a heated argument about half-and-half. Miller says "Why don’t they just call it crilk?" Lovitz says "No way, they should call it meam." "Crilk!" "Meam!" And so on, and so forth, until they get in this fake fight–possibly some of Miller’s better acting skills on display here. The audio commentary by Lovitz says that they used to do this often as a joke, and Miller always tried to throw Lovitz to the ground.

Classic.

So, gang, why do they call it "half and half"? Should they call it "crilk" or "meam"??????? I wanna know!!!! Sorry had to throw in a little Jerry Seinfeld there.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 10/21/2005 8:13 PM EDT

Orbitz was a soda, or mabye juice drink with little BB sized peices of fruit flavored goo. Kinda like Fun Fruits. It was pretty gross, I thought. But, it looked so cool in the bottle so I bought it. Once. I totally forgot about that stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 10/21/2005 8:23 PM EDT

Anyone else see the faces in the wood patterns, it reminds me of EL&P’s cover art for Brain Salad Surgery. nuts? hmmm? Orbitz Sucked. for me, Tequiza sucked too. One of my fave beer stores has 32 ouncers of Bud Ice, though, like, we don’t get the cool icey-patterened glass on the upper part of the bottle, but it still rox, eh. on my list of shit to do, it includes, going pumpkin shopping, goto buddy’s concert tonite. maybe get blastered later on, i want to be Shaggy from scooby doo this year. my wife wants to go trick or treating. i don’t know waht to do, as i wanted to carve jack o lanterns and listen to spook music from x-e and maybe rip a halloween cd, and mix my techno over it.

Chestnuts roasted by Oliver Obelisk @ 10/21/2005 8:46 PM EDT

So, gang, why do they call it "half and half"? Should they call it "crilk" or "meam"??????? I wanna know!!!! Sorry had to throw in a little Jerry Seinfeld there.

Kinda reminds me of the Stand Up & Win sketch from the SNL ep Jerry Seinfeld hosted. It was a jeopardy-like game show hosted by Jerry and the 3 contestants were Seinfeld-esque comedians (played by Dana Carvey, Adam Sandler, and Rob Schneider), and the questions were jokes and the comedians provided the punchline. And all 4 of them talked in an exaggerated Seinfeld voice.

ex:
for the Gilligan’s Island category: "A 3 hour tour?! A 3 hour tour?!"

Dana Carvey’s Response: "I know, and what’s up with the Professor? He can make a radio out of a coconut, but he can’t fix a hole in the damn boat!"

and it also coined the phrase "Who are the ad wizards who came up with this one?" by Sandler

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 10/21/2005 11:59 PM EDT

okay, I’ve been out of it for a couple days, so I will say:

Fun, great as usual, trip articles, Matt! I love me some good trip articles!

Allison!! Happy Birthday, a little late!! Hope you had a good one!

Um, yeah, that’s about it. Yeah.

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 10/22/2005 2:13 AM EDT

Hee. I still have a bottle of Orbitz sitting on my desk. It would make a great conversation piece, if anyone ever came into my room and could pick one artifact out of the overwhelming clutter. It’s held up extremely well over the years. One or two of the little red globes have started to deform, and the liquid looks a bit more like glycerine than it used to, but all in all not bad. I’d drink it for a substantial but not outrageous amount of money.
Lookit me, I’m Crazy Keeps Failed Drink Gimmicks of the Early Nineties in my Workspace Man. Gimme some candy!
Sigh. I miss SNL.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 10/22/2005 8:13 AM EDT

Thanks Knegative for clearing up the mistery!

Beer + Blueberries… I like rum + raisins ice cream

Chestnuts roasted by yelinna (help me, my car isn't fast enough!) @ 10/22/2005 1:30 PM EDT

Sigh. I miss SNL.

What are you talking about…SNL is (suprisingly) still on! Tonight’s host is Catherine Zeta-Jones and musical guest is Franz Ferdinand.

But if you’re talking about the days when Sandler, Hartman, Carvey, etc were on, I miss it too.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 10/22/2005 2:26 PM EDT

It’s perfectly okay to mourn a loved one when they’re dead. Even if they’re still staggering around, moaning, and eating peoples’ brains. And especially if Jimmy Fallon now seems to be an inextricable component of their ravaged soul.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 10/22/2005 2:44 PM EDT

Cool, now I know what to do with my Unicron and camera! I need to get those Marvel figures with the Galactus pieces so I can do some pictures of the Eater of Worlds and the Monster Planet coming to blows over a game of checkers. Or playing my Coleco Donkey Kong tabletop game. Maybe get an extra head and try to do a custom job to make Amalgam’s Galactaic.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 10/22/2005 2:52 PM EDT

At this rate, you’re gonna beat Hemingway to the grave by a good thirty years, Matt.

Chestnuts roasted by Mel. @ 10/22/2005 8:39 PM EDT

Re: the picture

It looks like those pirate ghosts finally got old Fred. I hope that Scooby and the other survivors will get to the bottom of this mystery in his memory.

Also, for a good pumpkin ale, try Post Road pumpkin ale from the Brooklyn Brewery. It’s about the best I’ve yet had.

Chestnuts roasted by Jack Gladney @ 10/23/2005 12:34 PM EDT

Hey Kidneyboy, never too late!! We were still celebrating on Saturday. The parents took me and my brother out to dinner w/my boyfriend and his girlfriend.

My boyfriend got me and my brother tickets to Radio City Music Hall’s Christmas Spectacular (4 tix, so it’s gonna be a double date), got my brother a Donald Trump bobble-head (my brother works at Trump Marina), got me Muppet show Season 1, a VHS of Scooby-Doo Original Mysteries (I famously like watching vintage cartoons on VHS), the soundtracks for the 40 Year Old Virgin and Charlie Brown Christmas, and xoxo earrings custom-made by my dad’s jeweler friends (I have a gold-white gold xoxo bracelet he got me for our anniversary this year). They got one back that was damaged (probably by the owner–how rude), so the friends made a pair of dangly earrings from the bracelet. They are really cool!!!

I liked that Stand Up and Win sketch–I’m a HUGE SNL fan, and I prefer the 80s/early 90s seasons the best (86-92). Awesome stuff. The Carvey/Hartman era is the best!!!! Hardly a dull moment!

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 10/24/2005 5:21 PM EDT

You said everything I wanted to say about Salem after my trip back on October 6th-10th. It’s so touristy, that you feel bad you didn’t learn more. I heard about seven versions of the same story at all the pseudo walks and tours and museums we took in. Best place to eat, hands down, is Red’s Sandwich Shop right off the Pedestrian Mall. I still had a fuckin’ wicked pissa good time though.

Chestnuts roasted by Crystal @ 10/25/2005 2:54 PM EDT

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