It’s raining like a mother-fucker again today. Oh well, ‘April showers bring May flowers’ I suppose. Whenever it rains in New York I’m reminded of that final scene from Breakfast at Tiffany’s where Holly and the dude from A-Team are frantically searching for a cat in a rain swamped alley. Then I’m reminded of Mickey Rooney ruining the whole movie with his racist depiction of a Japanese man: “Miss Gorightry! Miss Gorightry!”. Dreadful. He was much better in the movie Bill; I think that that role came pretty natural to him. Jesus. It’s not even lunch time and already I’m taking swings at Mickey Rooney. Well, he’s had it coming since the roaring 20′s. He started his career in a monkey-sized tuxedo, performing in his parents vaudeville act age 17 months (no shit), and he hasn’t had a break since. The guy has literally been working since 1921. Naturally, he got into drugs and gambling somewhere along the way (cool), but then he had an encounter with an angel in a coffee shop in 1970 and became a born again Christian (gay). So, besides the Jesus thing and the slapstick-jap thing, he’s actually pretty awesome. He’s made like 500 movies! Two of them are in post production right now! That’s insane. He should be filling his pockets with mothballs, loading his pants, and smiling at the ceiling by now.
Anyway, that’s Mickey Rooney. What we’re really here to discuss is podcasts. My buddy Ed texted me the other day to see if I wanted to do a podcast with him; just he and I, drinking a few beers, perhaps smoking a bowl or two, talking about whatever. This isn’t the first time I’ve been approached to do something like this. Last year Wendy James emailed to suggest that her and I do a radio show at EVR. She was friends with the station manager, and had already sorted out a slot if we wanted. I felt a bit weird about it because I don’t really dig the sound of my own voice, and I’m also very shy; you might even say I’m a touch farouche, if you had a thesaurus handy.
So nothing ever happened with the EVR radio show… But now I’m wondering if we should be doing a radio show. I’ve got a face for it (that’s a joke. I’m handsome).
Anyway, Penis-Beachers, I’m really waffling hard now. Do you want some stickers? We got stickers coming. We’ll send you some.
Stay tuned for Wooooo Radio? Maybe. See what happens.
New issue in the works. More name dropping tomorrow.