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  1. Posted

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

     

    Flying Burrito Brothers were so good. "Hot Burrito #2" is one of my all-time favorite songs. #1 gets all the credit, but I really think #2 is better.

     

    Here are three albums I've been listening to a lot lately. Links are to streams of each album.

    Warm Soda - Someone for You Their first and the the better of the two they've released so far, but the third one, which comes out in May, is also very very good.

    Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives One of the most notoriously "difficult" albums of all time, it is also one of the sexiest.

    Ausmuteants - Order of Operations I don't have a link to a stream of this, but here are

    . I think this was one of the three best albums of last year, along with Neil's Generator by Mordecai and Poor People Are Revolting by the Gotobeds. (Ha ha, I got five in there!)
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  2. Posted

    RanRan, I like your album. BUT, while it is good and does technically rock, the song called "Movies" is obviously an encroachment on the audio properties of me and Mister Hayes. Please change the song to either be about something we haven't already taught everyone at the libarry everything about already or make it mention me and Hayes before every time you say movies. I do NOT wanna have to get LegalZoom involved. You know I have their number cuz another podcast I do commercials on is friends with them. I rest my case and it's s-staind.

    I am so sorry sir, will rectify ASAP.

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  3. Posted

     

    Haha! That might be a weird conversation. Also, I haven't talked to them for about a year, so who knows if they remember me. They used to play with my husband Paul's band Primitive Hearts a bunch. But Primitive Hearts broke up and Cool Ghouls got more popular, so we don't see them much any more.

    Oh, I've heard such good things about Primitive Hearts! That's too bad they broke up.

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  5. Posted

     

    In San Antonio? Fun! They are a very sweet group of guys.

     

    Also, you should come to the Burger Boogaloo in Oakland in July. It's right next to my house and I will be there and we can hang. Plus lots of great bands to see this year. It's nuts!

    I wish I could! Fe Fi Fo Fums are one of the bands I most regret never seeing in the last 10 years.

     

    Practicing my dialogue for when I introduce myself to Cool Ghouls.

    Me: Hey, I heard you Cool Ghoul fools are friends with Staz!

    Them: Who?

    Me: Anastahhhsia Vigo!

    Them: What?

    Me: Anastasia Vigo.

    Them: Oh yeah, she's so great! How do you know her?

    Me: We both listen to a podcast.

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    This was a fantastic episode. Can't wait to play Fight Haver (Fast Drive.) Not really a video gamester but nerds is cool now so I'll do what I have to. Popcorn Gallery was great and good job to everybody for not asking name-based questions, even though you could have said Kumail Orangutan. Also got to feel smug when we were all told to have our parents listen to the show, because my mom is the only person I've been able to convince to listen.

     

    Speaking of which -- what episode do you guys use to try to get people to listen? I feel like I have to pick exactly the right one.

     

    Hayes and Sean please have that guy on who Veebs wants so I don't have to be named WalkWalk. Thanks in advance.

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  14. Posted

    She found herself in Austin, Texas in a bar, dancing her past life away. She went home with a nice man that night. Happy for a place to stay and some sweet loving. The next day she saw the sights, rode horseback, ate some good barbecue, saw a few bands play, and went home with a different man. Early Sunday morning she crept out of this stranger's house before he woke up, got back in her car, and headed home.

    Good choices, Cindy.

     

    "What do you think will happen if I shove a fork into this toaster?" Frank asked. Frank was a squirrel.

    "I don't know. Let's both try it at the same time and see," said Jamal. Jamal was also a squirrel. They did it and they both got electrocuted and died. Everyone else in their social circle acted very sad about it but secretly felt a little relieved because Frank and Jamal had been very mean squirrels.

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  16. Posted

    Can one of you "classic" style forum members (I'm thinking maybe Chanson) please make a podcast about all the stuff that happens here in the HH forums and at your crazy "hangouts" and call it "The Popcorn Gallery" and can someone please make a theme song for that?

     

    It would be helpful as a sort of a "guide" or "handbook" for people looking to make a name for themselves in the HH forum community.

    Look, man. It's not that hard. Here's what you do.

     

    1. Listen to every episode of Hollywood Handbook, starting with #1.

    2. After you finish each episode, go on the forums and read the thread for that episode, start to finish. This can take a while so you might want to do it at work. If your job doesn't let you do that, find a different job.

    3. Listen to every episode of Reality Show Show, starting with #1.

    4. After you finish each episode, go on the forums and read the thread for that episode, start to finish.

    5. Watch all the hangouts.

    6. Remember all the details of everything you have heard and read.

     

    That's it! Follow those steps, and you'll be throwing around some "vibes, Andy?"s in no time.

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  19. Posted

    Also, I've written a bunch of quote-acrostic puzzles (also known as the much more complicated and less popular cousin of the crossword puzzle), and those require some serious anagramming. I can expound at length about making puzzles if anyone is interested. Or if nobody is interested, I can save it as a punishment for a future time when I'm mad at everyone.

    Whoa, I am very interested in this.

  21. Posted

    Can't even explain how happy I was to hear that Smoothies ad. I have needed razors for weeks, but without a Hollywood Handbook razor promo code, I've been forced to order Loot Crate and hope it comes with something sharp enough to drag against my skin and scrape the hair off. And how smart and clever of the boys to repeatedly insist that the promo code was Hollywood, even instructing us to write that down, when in fact that's not a working promo code at all! Can't wait for the treasure hunt that will lead me to the real Smoothies promo code for Hollywood Handbook. I have a suspicion that it might be the same as that other promo code, but I guess I'll have to wait to find out.

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  23. Posted

    Wait, one other thing while I'm here:

     

    Chicago Style has it "Hayes's" (except, I think, in certain situations like Biblical names in which the s+apostrophe construction is standard.) That's also what Strunk and White says. I guess they reserve the s+apostrophe construction for plural possessives.

     

    Usually I'd agree, because simplicity and clarity are the main goals, and it's nice to separate overlapping rules. But I like the look of s+apostrophe as a singular possessive for a word ending in s. Especially with proper nouns, where confusion is unlikely.

     

    Words are fun.

    Though I disagree with your stance, this was a great post.

     

    I keep forgetting to post my opinion on this: names that end in an s should be made possessives by adding an postrophe and another s, as far as I'm concerned, largely because it's just simpler and it doesn't make sense to me to create an exception to this rule. (The thing about Biblical names is confusing and frustrating to me.) I agree that confusion is unlikely, but I dunno...it just looks neater to me. Hayes's.

     

    More importantly, I can't believe that Mean Detective is betraying his city by breaking from the CMOS.

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  25. Posted

    On Tuesday night I was waiting for my friend at a bar and overheard a girl at the next table name-dropping Harris Wittels. I was surprised for a second, and then I remembered that he is an actual famous person. I can see a similar attitude in a lot of people's reactions. He was one of the funniest people I've ever heard, so much so that everything he did felt very special and personal to me. I think he had that effect on a lot of people, and that's part of why this is so hard to take.

     

    The other part, of course, is that it really felt like he had so much left to do. Obviously he'd done an incredible amount for his age, but it still felt like the best was yet to come. When that girl at the bar name-dropped him, her friends were like "Who?" and I remember thinking, "You'll know who he is soon." And now he's not gonna do anything else fuck fuck FUCK

     

    And the other other part is that there are a lot of people I'm close to who have struggled with substance abuse and I'm sure I'm not the only one in that position so just a reminder to appreciate those people and tell them you love them and make sure they know you're there for them no matter what ok I'm crying at work gotta go bye

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