"When The Whiskey Was Gone, The Show Was Over!"

I’m not even sure what the name of the episode is- “was” or “is”? But here was the notes for that show.

I wasn’t at this, but here’s Shane McGowan at a concert in 1991, in Japan. This would have been just a couple of years after I met the Pogues’  “road manager” (or whoever she was). I believe at the time I was in class with her, The Pogues were opening on the road for U2.  The whole concert is there, but I’ve specifically linked to one of my favorite Pogues songs, The Sickbed of Cuchullain.

 I’m not a cockroach fan, but they’re pretty interesting. Here’s an article about how they “represent some of the most bewildering diversity on planet Earth.” There’s so much about them we don’t know.

One time I was travelling with some college pals in Australia, and a couple people made us change hostels one day, whole big production, because one of them saw a roach. So we spent a whole day finding a new place to stay, a place with a couple bedrooms and a kitchen in the middle, and that night somebody wandered into the kitchen and turned the light on and it was like Roach Woodstock.

Carvel was THE ice cream place where I grew up. Every birthday you got a Carvel cake, half chocolate half vanilla with chocolate somethings in the middle. Can you blame us for being excited about it, with a pitchman like this? The dulcet tones, the elevated elocution… to be clear ,that’s Tom Carvel himself. He was one of those rich guys, you know? Like, my Mom talks about seeing him at a fancy restaurant once in the 50’s or 60’s, and “he walked in in his stocking feet.” That kind of rich guy. You think Letterman wouldn’t get a kick out of an old-school New York character like this? Of course he would.

And look where those old school New York rich guy characters have gotten us since then.

I was thinking about dumbwaiters, then about dumb waiters, and then I remembered this Oscar-nominated Steve Martin short film you probably haven’t seen and maybe didn’t even know about. You’re welcome.

Here’s the rock steady normal fella Michael Wolff explaining why Trump will be hard to prosecute (and to be clear, I think he’s right- I go back and forth between “it’s all an act” and “he’s batshit fucking crazy,” but either way he’s making millions off elderly people’s $5 donations:

Here’s that scene I was talking about from Way of the Gun.

And finally, here’s the Biz video for Just A Friend- what stands out to me is how closely affectionately Biz is seated with his friends- nobody trying to be all hard or macho, they’re just comfortable with each other- just friends.