Super Doom Unit Draft

Last night, my second fantasy football team, The Super Doom Unit, held their live draft over there at Yahoo! I had the fifth pick, and overall, my draft was fairly lame, I think, starting with my first round selection, Rudi Johnson, RB for the Cincinnati Bengals...I mean, I could have taken Willie Parker, my second favorite running back in the NFL for my second favorite NFL team, the Pittsburgh Steelers...WHY? Why did I take Rudi Johnson?

Anyways, like I said in a previous Super Doom Unit post, I probably wouldn't comment much about this team because the Winona Rough Ryders are my main fantasy football team, so here's a quick rundown of my Coleco League draft, perhaps the most substantial post about The Super Doom Unit this season...

01: Rudi Johnson: RB: Cincinnati Bengals

Rudi's a power back, so we've got the DOOM thing happening, but WHY? Why didn't I take Willie Parker?

02: Marvin Harrison: WR: Indianapolis Colts

Wide Receivers are just as potent as running backs in the Coleco League, and at this point, Marvin Harrison was the best player available...Marvin, along with Donovan McNabb, were the two bad boys on my championship Rough Ryders team in 2004, so it's good to have him back on one of my teams this year...

03: Drew Brees: QB: New Orleans Saints

Brees should throw for a ton of yards and plenty of touchdowns this year, as the Saints must be considered one of the frontrunners for the NFC crown...Again, the best player available when I made this pick...

04: Calvin Johnson: WR: Detroit Lions

Plenty of so-called experts consider Calvin Johnson the most promising rookie in the NFL this season, which is why I picked him in both of my fantasy drafts...Plus, I don't think his counterpoint in Detroit, Roy Williams, is as good as everyone thinks...He dropped a shitload of passes two years ago when he was on the Rough Ryders...

05: Adrian Peterson: RB: Minnesota Vikings

This is a potentially disastrous pick...It's also a potential blockbuster...Peterson is a big, impressive rookie back who will likely be sharing carries with Chester Taylor up der in Minnesota, hey...However, Peterson just might turn into an undeniable monster who ends up owning the Viking backfield...Chester Taylor's good, but he ain't a monster...I should note that a couple of guys in the live draft chatroom laughed at this pick...I laughed along...

06: Vernon Davis: TE: San Francisco 49ers

This just seemed like a good time to grab my tight end.

07: Isaac Bruce: WR: St. Louis Rams

Another questionable pick. Isaac Bruce is ancient, and he doesn't score many touchdowns anymore...I guess I picked him based on his career, and the fact that he's presumably still the #2 receiver in St. Louis' rather potent offense. Even though Bruce was my third WR picked, he will probably sit on my bench, at least at the beginning of the season...

08: Dallas Cowboys: DEF

The Cowboys' new head coach, Wade Phillips, is considered a defensive specialist, and they've got a good, strong defensive unit down there in Dallas, so why not? I wanted the young, potentially impressive Green Bay defense, but they got snagged three picks ahead of me...

09: Julius Jones: RB: Dallas Cowboys

Didn't I mention in my Rough Ryders draft post that I have a man-crush on Julius Jones? You bet I did, babycakes, and so here we are, with Mr. Jones on yet another of my fantasy teams...Indeed, this is the fifth fantasy team of mine he's played for over the past four years...Unfortunately, he loses TDs to Marion Barber...Still, Julius will likely start for me, until Peterson takes over in Minnesota...

10: Devery Henderson: WR: New Orleans Saints

So, I've got Drew Brees as my starting QB, and when I saw the Saints' #2 WR, Devery Henderson, still available, it seemed like a wise and lucky choice...Henderson is a bit unpredictable, and lately his knee's been bothering him, so who knows how this will work...Right now I've got him starting as my #3 WR ahead of Isaac Bruce...That may change...

11: JP Losman: QB: Buffalo Bills

Buffalo has improved their O-line this year, which means Losman should have more time to hook up with Lee Evans for plenty of long, long TDs..."So, c'mon former Wisconsin Badger, Evans, it's time to elevate yr game to the A-level"...Nonetheless, Losman sits on my bench unless Brees goes down...

12: Warrick Dunn: RB: Atlanta Falcons

Warrick Dunn is getting old, and had back surgery during the offseason. Plus, he's sharing carries and might end up playing backup to Jerious Norwood. A silly, stupid pick, in all likelihood...

13: Matt Jones: WR: Jacksonville Jaguars

Traditionally, I take my kicker in the 13th round, but this time I didn't. Matt Jones is presumably the #2 WR in Jacksonville, though he sat on my bench all last year, and will likely do the same again this year...Why did I pick this guy? He'll likely get hurt. He gets hurt every year.

Ride the Doom Unit pines, Matt Jones...Ride the Doom Unit pines...

14: Olindo Mare: K: New Orleans Saints

Another Saint...Mare came from Miami, and now he gets to kick inside a dome for at least half the season, so he should do better than he did in his Dolphin days...Whatever...

15: James Jones: WR: Green Bay Packers

My last round pick had to be a Packer because I always have a Packer on every fantasy football team...Jones is a rookie, and currently the #3 WR in Green Bay, but he's big, and has great hands, and showed very good chemistry with Brett Favre this pre-season...He could quickly become the #2 in GB, ahead of Greg Jennings, and if Donald Driver gets injured, which is a 50/50 bet, Jones suddenly becomes Favre's #1 target...And that would be a great big HOTCHA!

Hotcha! Hank

Keepon Sideways Maneuvering

I suppose this video was inevitable. A dancing robot named Keepon, dancing as he do to Spoon's "Don't You Evah", this weekend's something...

You know...Streaming below...

Hotcha! Hank

Sideways Veronica Maneuver

Ask YouTube, and ye shall receive...

This is the aforementioned Britt Daniel appearance on Veronica Mars...Oh sure, this clip is mostly Veronica, Logan and Weevil sassing each other and sussing out a plotline, but Britt's brief performance is cool, and here's something ya gotta be pretty old to know:

When Britt takes the stage, he requests B-17, which is an obvious reference to Olivia Newton-John's 1975 hit single, "Please, Mr. Please" in which Olivia sings, "Please, mister please, don't play B-17, it was our song, it was his song, but it's over..."

Hotcha! Hank

Something 4 The Weekend # 40

One of my favorite television moments in recent memory is when Britt Daniel, singer and songwriter for Spoon, appeared in a Season Two episode of Veronica Mars.

Veronica is working at Java The Hut...Yes, a coffee shop...One that featured a karaoke night, and in this particular episode, Mr. Daniel has a quick customer-server moment with Veronica, before taking the stage and belting out the song "Veronica", originally written and performed by Elvis Costello and Paul McCartney.

The thing is, Spoon's last 4-5 albums have been consistently good to stellar, and Spoon, before long, might end up with a catalog, and longevity, to rival Costello's, if not McCartney's...And Britt Daniel has quickly established himself as one of the finest pop/rock songwriters working today, and a writer of mostly silly love songs at that...Hyperbole? Meh.

Spoon: "Don't You Evah": 128k mp3

Take this song..."Don't You Evah"...The simplicity hooks me instantly...A bass line I swear I've heard a dozen times before, but maybe not quite...Handclaps...A slow, snaky guitar melody winding around that bass, and ten seconds in my head is bobbing and my shoulders are swaying side to side...

Just a clean, groovy song...Spacious production, uncluttered arrangements...Britt Daniel's voice up front, singing something about silly love, I think...Who knows? It probably doesn't matter.

"Famous sounding words make yr head feel light."

Hotcha! Hank

The (100%) Super Doom Unit

So, recently I joined my second fantasy football league of the year...It's the Coleco League, and one of my co-workers, General To-Do, is the commissioner...

12 teams, draft next Wednesday...

The name of this team is The Super Doom Unit. Originally, when the league was still hosted at AOL, the name of this team was The 100% Super Doom Unit, but now the league is at Yahoo, and they don't allow enough characters in the Team Name Field, and I figured dropping the 100% was better than calling the team The 100% Super Doo...

Although 00% Super Doom Unit isn't that bad...

Anyways, It's a stripped-down roster - no DBs or DLs, and no "wildcard" WR/RB position...And because it's not my main team, The Winona Rough Ryders, I won't be taking it quite as seriously, and probably won't be blogging about The Super Doom Unit quite as much here at HOT POOP...Maybe just giving the score and standings each week, no commentary...

Unless they're winning, and the Rough Ryders aren't...

Oh, and I may be joining a third fantasy football league tomorrow...It's over at ESPN, which is a crappy fantasy host, but WTF? Why not?

Hotcha! Hank

HOT AUGUST BEEFCAKE!

"Putin strong! Virile! Russia strong! Virile!"

"Now who's up for some Appletinis?"

But seriously, if I were to compile a Beefcake Man-Crush Laminated List, I think I'd have to put Vladamir Putin at #4 or 5...

If nothing else, I find this picture to be hilariously abfab...Quite stylish...

Of course, it could also work as a print ad for Timberland Boots, or possibly a top shelf vodka, but who cares?

BEEFCAKE! Shiny, hairless beefcake...

You're welcome, ladies...

Hotcha!

Hank

What about the farting ducks?

Scientists in Norway are reporting that the average adult moose belches out 100 kilograms of methane gas annually. 100 kgs of methane equals 2100 kgs of carbon dioxide, which is more CO2 than a single round trip flight between Norway and Chile generates.

Quite frankly, I find this news utterly shocking and completely unacceptable. Firstly, I find it hard to believe that we did not know this information until 2007. We've known about cow flatulance for several decades now, and I gotta believe we've known about moose belches for nearly as long. So, the question is - who knew, and for how long? And why didn't they tell us until now?

But more importantly, what are our political leaders going to do/say about this?

Until we solve this inexcusable moose problem, things like "Homeland Security" and "Socialized Medicine" are moot. Or ought to be.

And yet, I have my doubts that any of the US Presidential candidates are going to address this environmental disaster. America has thousands of moose roaming the northern half of the country, belching at will and making life difficult for those who must endure the endless scorn of the liberal left for driving SUVs and yachts.

The same liberal left who will undoubtedly side with the moose in all this...

All I know is that if our leaders are unwilling to confront the moose problem directly, we will have no choice but to form armed militias across this land, take to the woods, and solve this problem ourselves, once and for all.

Al Gore - where you at?

Hotcha! Hank

Something 4 The Weekend # 39

Here's what I've been doing at 8am every morning at work in order to get myself charged and ready to dive into Oracle 11i...

Pound a can of Coke, eat a pair of strawberry Pop-Tarts, and play Dan Deacon's brutally infectious longplayer, Spiderman Of The Rings...

Dan Deacon: "The Crystal Cat"

You have no idea how soul-killing compiling bills of material can be...Writing purchase orders...Rolling up costs...Blahblahdroolblahtwitch...

Or maybe you do...

Hotcha! Hank

HOT POOP POST # 254

I thought long and hard about HOT POOP POST # 254, because it's an important, landmark post in the history of this blog. According to Doris, my numerologist, and I never second-guess Doris...

Would I perhaps post another YouTube Sideways Maneuver ™, so popular with the kids these days? You know, some old Bad Seeds video, maybe their performance piece in Wings Of Desire...

Or maybe HOT POOP POST # 254 could have been another one of Fudgie's Beard Indices, or a funky-fresh Kieth The Perpetual Teen™ comic strip...

Maybe a Laminated List Supplemental...A wicked-sweet picture of Karen O, or Kate Winslet...Ann Curry, Uma Thurman, Tori Amos, Maura Tierney, Jodi Foster, Marisa Tomei, Janet Weiss, Megan Mulally, Scarlet Johannson...

Ahh, sweet, soft misogyny...

Etc...

Or mayyyybeeee another semi-random mp3 of some semi-random band that is either classic geezer mold or some and blog-buzzed wonder band of the moment, 14 minutes away from being stuck with a pitchfork and declared done...

Um, yeah...Okay...

Oh, hey, I saw The Simpsons Movie last Saturday afternoon, and that would be a worthy topic for HOT POOP POST # 254...

In the end, I went with this picture...It is a MUCKO!™ in the grand MUCKO!™ tradition, and also a sorta promo-shot for our beloved Winona Rough Ryders, the once and future champions of the AcidPlanet Fantasy League...As such, it may also be considered a Sideways Maneuver of the Non-YouTube Variety™...


If yr new to this, the mighty and magical unicorn is the mascot of our beloved fantasy football team...If yr old to this, you already know how it feels to get stomped by The Winona Rough Ryders...

Fuckin' A...

Hotcha!
Hank

WINONA ROUGH RYDERS 2007 DRAFT

The AcidPlanet Fantasy League (APFL) held it's 2007 draft this past Sunday night, and wouldn't ya know it, my internet connection was down, so I ended up racing over to my office so I wouldn't have to rely on Yahoo's Autodraft to fuck up my entire season before it even began...

So, biggest news first - our beloved Winona Rough Ryders won the lottery, meaning I had the #1 pick in the draft for the first time in my fantasy footballin' life, which spans about four years and six teams...If you follow professional football, I think you know who I had to pick with that coveted #1 selection...

Hold on tight, this is a rather long post...About football...and fantasy football...

Without further ado...

Round One: #1 = LaDainian Tomlinson: RB: San Diego Chargers
Big surprise. LT has been the biggest fantasy football scorer for the past two, maybe three, years. He's also been relatively unscatched and injury-free. All indications are that he will be thee #1 fantasy stud again this season. HOTCHA!

Round Two: #20 = Chad Johnson: WR: Cincinnati Bengals
Draft strategy question - Do I draft another RB (conventionally seen as the most important position in FF) with my second pick, or do I go for a WR or QB? I went with Chad Johnson, who I had pre-ranked as the #1 WR...Playing in Cincinnati's powerful offense, Johnson should put up impressive fantasy numbers all year.

Round Three: #21 = Vince Young: QB: Tennessee Titans
Oh man, this might be my first big draft mistake of the year...Ideally, Carson Palmer would have been a stellar pick here as the #2 QB in the league, and Chad Johnson's teammate in Cincinnati, but he was already gone, so I pulled the motherf*cking trigger on Vince Young, the young hotshot that some call "Vick Lite", which is 100% about his rushing prowess, and nothing to do with dogfighting...Young is, well, young, and still a bit unproven, and he's got a unremarkable supporting cast around him, so he's either gonna go big and carry his offense, or sit on my bench...Time will tell if this was a genius move on my part...

Round Four: #40 = Tony Gonzalez: TE: Kansas City Chiefs
Draft mistake #2??? Anthony Gates was long gone by this point, so Gonzalez was definitely the best TE left in the draft. Rather than snag another RB or WR, I decided it was in my best interest to grab the #2 TE, cuz after Gates and Gonzalez, the drop-off in fantasy value at the TE position is fairly substantial...

Round Five: #41 = Chicago Bears Defense
This pick garnered a couple of mocking laughs in the live chat accompanying the APFL draft, but here's the way I see it - Last season, the Bears' defense scored more fantasy points than alot of the elite running backs and wide receivers in the NFL...And if you look at this Rough Ryder team I've just drafted, the Bears' defense score more fantasy points last year than all my other players with the exception of Tomlinson...Again, my thinking was, rather than go for my #2 RB or WR, why not grab the team defense that is nearly twice as potent as any other team defense in the NFL?

Round Six: #60 = Marshawn Lynch: RB: Buffalo Bills
This pick, on the other hand, garnered a couple of kudos in the chatroom...With Willis McGahee gone to Baltimore, the rookie Lynch stands to inherit the starting RB position in Buffalo, and quite probaby have a very good inaugaral season...Again, if Lynch lives up to expectations, I'm gonna look like a genius...Fools rush in...

Round Seven: #61 = Hines Ward: WR: Pittsburgh Steelers
Another questionable pick, seeing as Ward is getting a bit old, and is becoming more of a short-yardage possession receiver, and less of a deep threat...Plus - which Roethlisburger is gonna show up at QB in Pittsburgh this season?

Round Eight: #80 = Calvin Johnson: WR: Detroit Lions
This pick might be my redemption for the Hines Ward pick...Calvin Johnson was considered the #1 rookie prospect by many so-called "experts", and when I grabbed him this late in the APFL drafts, there were gasps of surprise..."How did we miss this guy?" Hotcha!

Round Nine: #81 = DeAngelo Williams: RB: Carolina Panthers
Another pick that surprised a few people, since Williams is considered the starting back in Carolina, and he's showed plenty of talent and fantasy scoring potential last year...A very solid pick this late in the draft...

Round Ten: #100 = Julius Jones: RB: Dallas Cowboys
An emotional pick for me, rather than a logical, intellectual one...I love Julius Jones...I love Julius Jones because he reminds me of Julius Erving, my all-time favorite basketball player...I love Julius Jones because he and Donovan McNabb carried the Winona Rough Ryders to the APFL crown in 2004...I had Julius on our beloved team again in 2005, but he battled nagging injuries through half the season, and just didn't live up to his stellar rookie season...This season, he's definitely going to be platooning with Marion Barber, and my only hope is my favorite running back in the NFL returns to his fantastic and entertaining rookie form...

Round Eleven: #101 = Bernard Berrian: WR: Chicago Bears
Hmmm...Berrian is considered the #1 WR in Chicago, but QB Rex Grossman is a huge question mark, making Berrian himself a bit of a question mark...In the end, Berrian was the only remaining #1 WR on any team, so I grabbed him...Better to be the main target in Chicago than the #2 target on most other teams...

Round Twelve: #120 = Tony Romo: QB: Dallas Cowboys
Tony Romo has alot of good weapons surrounding him in Dallas, and last year he showed he could put up big fantasy numbers more often than not...Right now it looks like I'll be starting the season with Romo as my #1 QB, and not Vince Young, my third pick that will either be boom or bust...Better to trust Romo at the beginning of the season, I think...

Round Thirteen: #121 = Neil Rackers: K: Arizona
Traditionally, I select a kicker with my 13th pick every year. In this case, I bypassed Denver's Jason Elam, who I've had on the Rough Ryders in three past seasons...I don't know why I did that...Alot of folks consider the kicker irrelevant in fantasy football...I'm apathetic about it, really...

Round Fourteen: #140 = A.J. Hawk: DL: Green Bay Packers
Teams in the APFL have 14 starters, including two defensive lineman (DL) and two defensive backs (DB)...Plenty of folks consider these four positions irrelevant in fantasy football, and so they leave these four players in their lineups on their BYE weeks or when they're injured...I would estimate that my four starting defensive players account for 20 to 40 points per week...That's the difference between second and eighth place in the APFL...Anyways, I picked AJ Hawk because he might already be an All-Pro linebacker in his second NFL season, and more importantly, I always have a Green Bay Packer on every Rough Ryder roster...

Round Fifteen: #141 = Troy Polamalu: DB: Pittsburgh Steelers
The Steelers have been my second favorite NFL team (after the Packers) since I was a boy in their heyday of the mid-1970's, so I always try to have at least one Steeler on my fantasy teams...Plus, Polamalu is one of the most exciting players in the NFL at any position, and this is the third year in a row he's played for our beloved Rough Ryders...

Round Sixteen: #160 = Lance Briggs: DL: Chicago Bears
Lance Briggs put up huge fantasy numbers for me last year, and I expect he'll do the same this year...One of the best two or three linebackers in the NFL...

Round Seventeen: #161 = Asante Samuel: DB: New England Patriots
Conventional wisdom says that DBs have alternating good and bad seasons...Last year, Asante Samuel had 10 interceptions...We'll see how this wisdom plays out, but I'm expecting good things from this young playmaker...He's a cornerstone of New England's exceptional defense.

Round Eighteen: #180 = Drew Bennett: WR: St. Louis Rams
At this point, I now have all my starting positions filled, so these last three picks are bench material...Drew Bennett is currently the #3 WR in St. Louis, but Isaac Bruce is practically ancient at this point, and Torry Holt isn't far behind, so this tall, sure-handed receiver might put up better numbers than anyone expects...Potential trade-bait, but right now, it's maybe better that he sits on my bench than start for somebody else...

Round Nineteen: #181 = Anthony Thomas: RB: Buffalo Bills
Remember my #6 pick, Marshawn Lynch, the rookie RB in Buffalo? Well, Anthony "A-Train" Thomas is ostensibly Lynch's backup, and a powerful short-yardage back who threatens to steal TDs from Lynch...Picking the real-life backup RB to one of yr starting fantasy RBs is called a "Handcuff", because if Lynch goes down to injury or bad play, Thomas is a lock for me to step in and put up comparable numbers...Not a bad pick at #19...

Round Twenty: #200 = Desmond Clark: TE: Chicago Bears
I'm a die-hard Green Bay Packer fan...Desmond Clark is the fourth Chicago Bear I picked this year...At this time I would like to apologize to the ghosts of Curly Lambeau, Vince Lombardi, and Chester Marcol. Despite the four Bears on this year's team, may you help guide our beloved Rough Ryders to another APFL crown...

Stay tuned - the season starts a mere month from now...Weekly updates to follow...Even with the #1 pick in this year's draft, I can't say with 100% confidence that LT will be quite enough to carry the Rough Ryders back to the crown...Will the mostly unproven youth of my team shock and awe my opponents?

Sure. Why not?

Hotcha!
Hank

Something 4 The Weekend # 38

Nick Cave is a pretty intense performer, and so it was a hoot seeing him on Letterman's show, fronting Grinderman, an overtly racous RAWK band, laden with noise, serious facial hair, and Cave himself, the prowling preacher grinding out a big organ sound with one hand, while summoning angels or demons with the other, his voice, as always, larger than life...

And in the bridges, there he was, bless his heart, buzzing into his microphone like a honeybee...

Grinderman: "Honeybee (Let's Fly To Mars)": 188k mp3

It was a hoot because I'm guessing that Letterman's audience skews pretty heavily towards the retired community and cornfed tourists who fear God in a slightly more innocent way than Nick Cave does, and I can only imagine the looks on their faces while Cave & Co. were laying it down...

A heavy gospel that night, yeah...

Hotcha! Hank

HOT ROD!

HOT ROD is HOT POOP!

That's my easily digestible soundbyte for Andy Samberg's new Comedy, Hot Rod...

To get a bit (or alot) more longwinded about this, check it out >>>>>

Ten minutes into this movie, I leaned over to Taber and said, "This might be the dumbest movie I've ever seen in my life", which I meant in a complimentary way. In fact, when all is said and done, Hot Rod may have replaced Dumb & Dumber as my favorite Dumb Comedy of All-Time...

And by Dumb Comedy, perhaps I should say Smart Dumb Comedy, because this sort of nonsense is intentially dumb, as opposed to any of Ice Cube's last three or four comedies, which are just plain dumb. Movies ignorant of their own stupidity.

Andy Samberg and his friends (director Akiva Schaffer, co-star Jorma Taccone) know Hot Rod is a dumb movie, full of dumb people saying and doing dumb things, and it takes a bit of smarts to make it work and make it funny, as this film so often and so convincingly is...As they daringly do...

Pam Brady wrote the script. She's also written several episodes of Fox's recently-cancelled sitcom, The Loop, as well as episodes of South Park, the South Park Movie, and Team America: World Police...That's a damn solid resume, cuz really, The Loop was pretty funny, and well, South Park, dude...

So what all these smart and funny people have done with Hot Rod, is fashion as silly and dumb a film as they possibly could...They took the Anchorman: Ron Burgundy template, and turned it inside out...Stretched the gooey dumb as far as possible and gave us something as oftentimes borders on the surreal. Small explosions of dada from time to time...Small moments of tender mercies, allowing us to catch our breath...

Speaking of...I heard rumor that this was originally supposed to be a Will Ferrell movie, but he's just too old for the role...It had to be about teenagers and/or indeterminate 20-somethings, and Samberg, in particular, performs the lead role with 100% goofy abandon...

Oh, the plot? Samberg plays Rod Kimble, a young Evel Knievel-kinda stuntman, who is an achingly awful stuntman, who gives up his pathetic career and his fake moustache, only to have love and probable head traumas bring him back for one last jump to raise $50,000 dollars for his step-dad's operation...

The step-dad is played fucking brilliantly by respected UK actor, Ian McShane, and the hardcore "issues" between Rod and his step-dad provide a seriously dark streak of black comedy to all the dumbness...Meanwhile, Sissy Spacek plays Rod's mom as a flighty, granola kinda woman, oblivious to the anger and violence between her husband and son...and possibly medicated...

Interesting and successful casting to say the least, althought If I have one complaint, it's Wil Arnett's role as Jonathan, the smarmy tool kinda character that is quickly painting Arnett into a very small corner...Is this the only thing Wil Arnett can do, or is this the only thing Hollywood is handing him? Either way...yawn...And I yawn while telling you that I'm a bonafide Arrested Development freak, and his role as GOB was singularly great. He perfectly nails this smarmy tool kinda guy, so now, leave it alone...Everything I've seen him do since has been an emptier and more meaningless take on GOB...

Oh, and Isla Fisher as the sweet eye candy love interest, and newcomer Danny McBride as one of Kimble's crew, who turns in my favorite character/performance in the whole film...

Anyways...this is all just to say (Arnett aside) that I laughed louder and more often during Hot Rod than any other movie I've seen in a long, long, long time...I also groaned a fair amount, and said "awww, Geezus" on occasion...

Of course, I was also hopped up on kind and 24 ounces of Cherry Blast Icee, but still, this movie is epic in it's stupidity, an instant comedy classic that should stand up pretty well to repeated viewings...Your opinion may vary...

Oh, plus, I saw a FREE advanced screening of this movie, so take that any way you want...

5 out of 5

Hotcha!

Hank

EVERYTHINGATHON! August 2007

Cake is an American band...

Indeed, they are from Sacramento, but really, they're a true American band...

They sing about cars and girls, mostly, but really they sing an awful lot about cars, and it has always made me wonder if the band has always aimed to stockpile a catalog of tunes for future licensing to General Motors and Ford...

Selling out AND cashing in are pretty damn American...

My point is, automobiles are 100%, pure American(a), and any true American band worth it's salt sings more than a song or two about cars, driving, and the road...Bruce Springsteen...Tom Petty...Bob Dylan...REM...Tom Waits...The Hold Steady...

And not only does a true American band need at least a handful of songs about cars and driving and whatnot, but these songs about cars and whatnot gotta sound really good when blasted from a car stereo...

Gotta...and whatnot...

Cake, the band from Sacramento, sound pretty damn good in the deck of a creamy yellow 1977 Ford LTD Landau Edition...

Plus, their implementation of the trumpet into American Rock Music is unparalleled.

Cake.

The Motorcade Of Magic Fashion Eagle Chiefs: 128mp3

Cake are reliable as hell. You can count on Cake to release a new album every 2-3 years, and you can bet those 10-12 new songs are gonna sound alot like the Cake you already know, but it's fucking Cake, you know? so it's gonna sound good and solid, and catchy as hell...You know there's gonna be plenty of thick, groovy bass riffs, plenty of solid, dependable mid-tempo boombip, guitars that boogie with a clever simplicity, and plenty of wry lyrics about cars...And girls and whatnot...

So...Right about now, in the dog days of summer, on a long drive through the countryside, windows down, trying to catch whatever cool breeze you can find in this oppressively hot, humid summer of 2007, take a listen to Cake...

Take a listen to this month's EVERYTHINGATHON! It's a solid hour of good ol' American Rock'n'Roll Music...

Plus, I've been busy as hell, so one of these single-artist podcasts without narration or serious mixing can be whipped together in an hour or three...

That's 100% cake, babycakes!

Hotcha! Hank

Another Round of Apologies

I have never been a prolific blogger, as any regular HOT POOP regular can attest, but I must apologize to the faithful for being nearly 100% MIA as of late.

In a nutshell, I've been insanely busy at work, not that I ever blogged much from my office (yes, dear readers, Hankypanky has an office, and a CORNER office, at that)...

And at home, well, let's just say that CHARTER COMM is a pretty fucking lame ISP, and I've had ongoing connectivity issues for about 2-3 weeks now, and Charter can't seem to figure out what the problem is...The problem IS Charter, plain and simple, and I'm currently shopping for a new ISP...

Anyways, that's the skinny on the inactivity at HOT POOP lately, and all I can say is what I always say - if you like, or even love, this blog (WTF is wrong with you?), please be patient, and try to remain loyal, and hopefully this will all be sussed out soon enough, and I can get back to sharing completely useless posts full of mp3's, YouTube lumpen, and all the other stuff that makes HOT POOP utterly unremarkable and indistiguishable from 2 million other blogs you could be wasting your workday perusing right now.

In the meantime, here's a picture of a Santa Claus vacationing in Sweden, nevermind the filename, to tide you over until...Whenever...

Hotcha!

Hank