For those of you in parts of the country where “Ebert & Roeper” airs on Saturdays, please accept my apologies as I tell the rest of us that tonight, Peter Sagal will be standing in for Roger Ebert on America’s best-loved motion picture review programme!
I know, that’s exactly what I said when I heard: “!”
Click here to find out times in your neck of the woods.
If only Richard and Peter were reviewing movies written by and starring “Wait Wait” panelists, our dominance of that piece of the airwaves would be complete.
Fanny Roborat
34 comments
YLlama
December 3, 2006 at 11:43 am
1Now I wish I hadn’t gotten rid of my television.
hedera
December 3, 2006 at 12:20 pm
2Stand firm, YLlama. Maybe they’ll podcast it, or whatever they call it when it’s video.
Rebecca
December 3, 2006 at 1:43 pm
3I found out about it yesterday when I went to the Wait Wait website to find out who the guest was (and to listen to it before it aired here in the very chilly Twin Cities), so I made sure that last night I watched both Ebert & Roeper and Talkshow with Spike Feresten (because I’ve only been able to stay up late enough to watch Talkshow once before). Both shows were wonderful!
Maximum Bob
December 3, 2006 at 1:48 pm
4No need for a television; you can listen to the podcast. Just install iTunes, go to the podcast directory, and search for “ebert”.
I’ve already listened to the Roeper/Sagal episode (the show usually downloads on Friday) and it was, how you say, excellent.
YLlama
December 3, 2006 at 5:38 pm
5Ah, Apple came through again. Lovely. Thanks, Maximum Bob and hedera.
Dale
December 3, 2006 at 6:29 pm
6Off topic, but I just realized: Yllama, you and I together make the Daleyllama!
another YLlama
December 3, 2006 at 7:39 pm
7Okay, Dale, but what about me?
another Dale
December 3, 2006 at 7:46 pm
8Solved.
David
December 3, 2006 at 9:07 pm
9Dallying with llamas? Any videos?
Balzac
December 3, 2006 at 11:18 pm
10Cool blog. You guys should appreciate this:
Pelosi 2007 - Freedom can’t wait ’til 2008!
waterfowler
December 4, 2006 at 1:37 pm
11Thanks Balzac for the inanity.
David, Go ‘Gators!!
David
December 4, 2006 at 5:04 pm
12waterfowler,
The Lone Star Mojo is much appreciated by Swamp Lizards everywhere.
It's Pat!
December 4, 2006 at 6:23 pm
13Hey Rebecca,
Do you know how they say in Phoenix during the summer, “sure it’s hot, but it’s a dry heat!”
Well, us Minnesotans can say “but it’s a dry cold!”
And all I can think is “I DON’T CARE - IT’S COLD!”
There is not a drop of snow on the ground, and it’s brutal outside.
Whaa!
tess
December 4, 2006 at 6:44 pm
14I just used almost 3/4 of a liter of Maker’s Mark for aged egg nog. I’m wondering if that’s considered a legitmate use of bourbon, or if Adam would like to wring my neck.
dee
December 4, 2006 at 7:00 pm
153/4 liter? Umm..just how much egg nog did you make?
And if I leave now will that allow enough time for the “aging” process?
Rebecca
December 4, 2006 at 7:30 pm
16Pat!I KNOW. If we’re going to have winter, I’d much rather have snow and almost “warm” temperatures (as in … oh, 35 degrees, maybe 40) than this freezing-my-behind-off drought thing that’s going on.(Although I did see some pellet-esque snow clumps on the road here in Eagan this morning on my way to work, but I think they all got blown away during the day. I wanna plaaaaay in the snooooooow!)
tess
December 4, 2006 at 10:35 pm
17dee,
It’s a recipe I found through a food&wine blog that happens to have an article on why aged nog is safe — apparently the recipe calls for enough booze to fell a small whale, and since I had a gallon jug, I made a gallon’s worth (because I figure that if I have to, I can turn it into instant gifts with a few mason jars and labels saying “egg nog”).
Kjell Mikkelsen
December 5, 2006 at 5:47 am
18Rebecca, It’s Pat - Ja, sikker det er vakker forbanner kald alright !
YLlama
December 5, 2006 at 8:45 am
19Tess, Maker’s Mark might be a little high end for egg nog. Next time, you might want to consider Ezra Brooks, my new inexpensive best friend.
David
December 5, 2006 at 3:24 pm
20Jim Beam, the working man’s Jack Daniels, or Ancient Age, the poverty-stricken college student’s Jim Beam (actually, I no longer know what any of them cost, but I always liked the name Ezra Brooks, and always thought Jack, Jim, and Ezra would make an interesting triumverate).
gillian
December 5, 2006 at 4:24 pm
21Balzac, you’ll have to forgive waterfowler. He is our resident curmudgeon and wing nut. Nonetheless, he kind of grows on you after a while, like fungus on a toenail or rust on your Lamborghini. He enjoys a good argument and if there’s not one handy, well, then, by God, he’ll find one. We all love him here and think he’s just the cutest thing!
tess
December 5, 2006 at 11:18 pm
22Ooops. I probably could’ve saved myself a whole. . . $3. The local supermarket only has a few dollar’s difference between most of the brands, and I wasn’t sure what was good so I went with Adam’s favorite.
Besides, it’s going to mellow and age in the back of my fridge until pretty much christmas comes and I can sit back and call it my gift to the family.
David
December 6, 2006 at 5:35 am
23tess,
You can buy whiskey in a grocery store?
Landis
December 6, 2006 at 10:07 am
24David, you can’t?
Liquor laws in the rest of the country really astound me. Especially the laws in Massachusetts. I just wanted to get some beer to take to a bar-b-que. Who would’ve known how downright hilarious that is on a Sunday evening?
Jim (OJNTNJ)
December 6, 2006 at 12:54 pm
25David,
I think Tess is in California. The last time I was south of the border, one could buy hard liquor in grocery stores.
In Oregon hard liquor is only available in liquor stores (which are indeed closed on Sunday) and designated hard liquor drinking establishments. Beer and wine though, are available through most grocery and convenience store retailers, as well as taverns and bars.
Dale
December 6, 2006 at 2:27 pm
26In NY I can get liquor at the grocery store and pot at the newsstand, but from now on, no Crisco in the 5 boroughs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/06/nyregion/06fat.html?_r=1&oref=slogin (sorry I don’t know how to make links)
tess
December 6, 2006 at 2:50 pm
27I just find it entertaining that every time school either starts or ends another quarter, all the cheap stuff gets cleared off the shelves, lickety-split. One of the supermarkets near campus devotes about 1/3 of its shelves to liquor.
Dale
December 6, 2006 at 6:07 pm
28I’m hoping this isn’t an elementary school campus, Tess.
Landis
December 6, 2006 at 8:55 pm
29Have you ever met an elementary school teacher? I’d be clearing out those shelves too.
siobhan
December 6, 2006 at 9:23 pm
30My sister worked in an elementary school during student teaching and loved it. Then she taught high school German in South Carolina and the south side of Chicago. She’s ready to clear out the shelves, too.
tess
December 7, 2006 at 12:04 am
31Well, there’s a daycare near campus which is within walking distance from the boozy supermarket that caters to drunken college students.
David
December 7, 2006 at 7:21 am
32My personal favorite is Henderson County, NC, which is dry, while Hendersonville is wet, so you have to go to town to get your hooch. Like Oregon, the hard stuff is available only in state stores (or on tree stumps - can you still get the home made in Oregon?)
When I was a kid in Florida, my parents had to drive over to the beach to get beer on Sunday. We liked that fact, because it meant we got to go to the beach. Whiskey was a luxury my family mostly eschewed, although Dad was not averse if it was in the room.
Is drunken college students still redundant?
Dale
December 7, 2006 at 1:25 pm
33No, not redundant at all. You’ve got to differentiate them from the stoned, tripping, speed-freak, and coked-out students somehow.
David
December 7, 2006 at 1:59 pm
34I stand properly corrected, Dale - well, when I can stand.