Listener comments!

Mon. 3/30/09 9:09am From: annie

wooohooo!

Mon. 3/30/09 9:12am From: boss says to me...

boss: why do you get in before 9am on Mondays?
me: because i wanna start the week off right
boss: really?
me: no, there is actually a 9am radio show i don't wanna miss out on.

Mon. 3/30/09 9:14am From: bw

hi everyone!!!

I missed you all last week -

man oh man you don't want to know what my boss says to me!!

Mon. 3/30/09 9:14am From: annie

see what good citizens fmu has made us?? .. no please tell us bw..

Mon. 3/30/09 9:20am From: Parq

We missed you too, Benj, but the "Day of Subs" was a big success, and a lotta fun.

Mon. 3/30/09 9:21am From: BW

my boss wonders where I am every monday morning! hah

Mon. 3/30/09 9:26am From: backdrifting

Listening in from Frederick County, MD. Love the Tim Hecker. Thanks for playing that.

-backdrifting

Mon. 3/30/09 9:29am From: richard

Yes that Hecker piece was a heck oh a piece

Mon. 3/30/09 9:31am From: jason

hecker? I hardly know her!

Mon. 3/30/09 9:33am From: Parq

Remarkably, Dick Cheney was also hoping to harness the power of giant vultures to conquer the earth.

Mon. 3/30/09 9:34am From: bw

its tax time once again and once again I am totally screwed.. any one got any accountants in nyc area to recommend?

Mon. 3/30/09 9:35am From: annie

why do the french only have one egg for breakfast?

Mon. 3/30/09 9:37am From: Nick vdK

I think Stardust's superpower is the ability to have a neck larger than his head.

Mon. 3/30/09 9:43am From: backdrifting

Forgive me for asking - but what are "drop-outs"?

backdrifting

Mon. 3/30/09 9:45am From: bw

dropouts are fade outs in songs put in on PURPOSE

Mon. 3/30/09 9:45am From: J'ai curiosite

Dites-moi le reponse.

Mon. 3/30/09 9:45am From: karao

yeah! it's kind of like stardust has a permanent neckbrace!

mornin' nick and bw

Mon. 3/30/09 9:46am From: Joe Steele

Crime detectors, thought recorders, view plates, has Stardust ever heard of a warrant?

Mon. 3/30/09 9:46am From: Nakedfoul

The new Bill Callahan promo has these weird honking sounds that pop up every song.
Also, Fletcher Hanks rules.

Mon. 3/30/09 9:48am From: Boss Ken

Parce que one egg, c'est en oeuf.

Mon. 3/30/09 9:49am From: annie

ok. ok i'll tell you. because in france one egg is un oeuf. hahaha you win boss man

Mon. 3/30/09 9:56am From: Nat King Cole

And now the purple dusk of twilight time,
Steals across the meadows of my heart at terrific speed on accelerated supersolar lightwaves...

Mon. 3/30/09 9:56am From: martynique

ça suffit!

Mon. 3/30/09 9:59am From: Cecile

mornin'

Mon. 3/30/09 10:00am From: Cecile

man, benjy, if you could post some Alex Raymond era Flash Gordon strips some Monday, that would be awesome. What a stylist!

Mon. 3/30/09 10:00am From: BW

mornin karaoooo mornin cecile
and boss man! how goes the squirlls?

Mon. 3/30/09 10:00am From: Nick vdK

mornin' kare!

Mon. 3/30/09 10:02am From: Nakedfoul

I totally thought that guy was saying, "Ducks."

Mon. 3/30/09 10:05am From: Doug from DC

I paint ducks on my toothbrush.

Mon. 3/30/09 10:08am From: Cecile

great! Ben, are you having a theme in the comments this AM?

HOMAGOD - is there are tribute album for the Sounds of Science series?

Mon. 3/30/09 10:10am From: Cecile

i mean, is there a ?
I'm talking like a lolcat this AM.

Mon. 3/30/09 10:11am From: bw

Cecile
the only theme I got is how scared I am of the tax man this year... due to 1099

Mon. 3/30/09 10:12am From: Cecile

dude, write everything off.

Mon. 3/30/09 10:14am From: Cecile

well, next week can be stupid bar pick up line comment discussion, maybe? Because I heard a doozy of a soliliquy this weekend.

Mon. 3/30/09 10:14am From: bw

yes Cecile
I think I will stress out less when I actually get to it...

Mon. 3/30/09 10:14am From: still b/p

Theory of Writing Off Everything.

Mon. 3/30/09 10:15am From: Cecile

yis!

Mon. 3/30/09 10:16am From: north guinea hills

i've never heard rosswell rudd so jaunty!

Mon. 3/30/09 10:18am From: annie

hehe cecile, i was told by a young italian stud sunday that i looked like i graduated high school in 2000!!!! what a hoot! he was sporting this white turtle neck which he says attracts the girls like fly paper,.along with the fact that he wears three shirts at a time..

Mon. 3/30/09 10:19am From: Cecile

BWAH.
Awesome Annie.
Did he just graduate from Italian Gigolo School?
(line totally stolen from the NY Daily News of last week)

Mon. 3/30/09 10:22am From: bw

yes... I never mastered anything besides Hello!

Mon. 3/30/09 10:23am From: Joe Steele

I haven't even mastered "Hello" yet.

Mon. 3/30/09 10:24am From: annie

he was among a group of four who were up from the city with their four-wheeler. he was not a small man either.. lots of "manly girth" yet he and his chums just thought they were the cats pajamas.. mid 30's i'd say...we had a good laugh ...seein' as i'm old enough to be their mom...

Mon. 3/30/09 10:25am From: Parq

As Woody Allen put it (you see, I don’t only steal from the best), I’m out of practice, and when I was in practice I was out of practice.

Mon. 3/30/09 10:26am From: annie

hey parq, have you finished the doctor who set yet??

Mon. 3/30/09 10:28am From: Cecile

aw, that sounds hilarious. If my computer will please stop crashing, I will post that soliliquy for you.

Mon. 3/30/09 10:28am From: still b/p

"like fly paper" -- a poet as well. I'm sure such terms generate all kinds of southern humidity. You sure he was genyooine Italian? Once saw a couple of guys at a bar working a phony French-guy-and-American-friend routine, worthy of Archie and Jughead, Richie and Potsie, Dobie and Maynard.

Mon. 3/30/09 10:30am From: Parq

The daughter has gone back to school, leaving us to make our way through the discs at our own pace. No hurry. The last thing we saw was something about a group of farting aliens taking over the Brit government with a view toward inciting a global nuclear war and then selling the charred cinder of the planet for scrap. Radioactive scrap. To fuel low-end flying saucers. Did I mention they farted?

Mon. 3/30/09 10:33am From: annie

oh he was italian.. and there were a group of women off to my right who must have been late 40s or so' the challenge to the guys heritage was strong.. they were out-italian-ing each other.. what a hoot!

Mon. 3/30/09 10:36am From: Pearlÿ Sweets

I could very easily hear ween performing this song if you skewed the lyrics some.

Mon. 3/30/09 10:36am From: Cecile

Annie, that's comedy gold.

So. me and two girlfriends enjoying a refreshing adult beverage at the back bar of the Local on Friday and this dude rocking the Pat Riley look ca '90 (gelled hair, dark suit, mock turtleneck) and he goes to to my elegant, blond-haired friend something like:

"I know how guys are and how they say lines and blah blah blah and I have no filters and I'm a salesman and I always go up and talk to strangers but (looking at her) you have totally classic features. Completely classic features. Like the Greeks would have sculpted you".

I go "Grace Kelly" . Helpfully.

And he goes, "yeah, but you should smile, I'd bet you look beautiful."

She kind of gives a WTF kind of sick smile, and then he goes "look, isn't she beautiful?"

And I go "yeah, I'm totally gay for her". Which I thought that would make him go away. Even though he was personally cracking me up with
his Tourette's Syndrome-like courtship style

Then he comes back and starts going on about how he's not like other guys. Like "My friend just called me and said "hey, blahblah, come
out with us. We got a Hummer and we're gonna go out and get some p****! And I didn't go with them because..."

and my friend up from Florids goes "Look, this is all great, but I flew up from Florida to see these guys".

And he was all flustered and left.

There was lots more talking in between about seizing the day, but ugh. I was going to tell him to put on a fake British accent and work the Hugh Grant thing with his stammering, but just, yuk.

Mon. 3/30/09 10:36am From: Rob W

B-Walker, this sounds like an African (?) take on "Oh Sweet Nuthin'" by the Velvets! Quite lovely, and allow me to steal this for a future segue...

Mon. 3/30/09 10:39am From: Parq

This is a good point to invoke the viral video, "My New Haircut". Which see.

Mon. 3/30/09 10:39am From: Cecile

hola, Rob!

Mon. 3/30/09 10:39am From: annie

i love these vain-glorious attempts, so pathetic sometimes.. and sooo transparent.

Mon. 3/30/09 10:39am From: 1mckers

The hands thing was seriously creepy.

Mon. 3/30/09 10:40am From: Cecile

He had pluck, I'll give him that.

Mon. 3/30/09 10:41am From: Cecile

we saw a Hummer go by, and were tempted to go, "hey go over to the Local, your boy needs some help."

Mon. 3/30/09 10:42am From: Carmichael

Good Monday mornin ... Cecile, the word is not "pluck" but "schmuck".

Mon. 3/30/09 10:43am From: annie

must have been mating season. had to pull out the big guns like hummers and four-wheelers with huge tires and big shiny rims...

Mon. 3/30/09 10:43am From: Cecile

lmao, Carm. you're probably right, but nothing ventured (even though if he had two braincells to rub together, he would have seen we are all wearing wedding rings)

Mon. 3/30/09 10:44am From: Cecile

I mean, Annie.

It's spring and young men's thoughts turn to a little something something...

Mon. 3/30/09 10:45am From: Carmichael

Speaking of romance, I wonder how PostmanPaul's tryst this weekend went??? He was preparing the love nest, last I heard.

Mon. 3/30/09 10:45am From: Cecile

he was getting a little loopy of the paint fumes, I remember.

Mon. 3/30/09 10:46am From: annie

word up charmichael, see i was gonna just drop the subject... wow,,,, did he feather the nest well enough i wonder............

Mon. 3/30/09 10:47am From: annie

he can dispense opening lines advice to our studly italians..

Mon. 3/30/09 10:47am From: Carmichael

Cecile, I knew a real live goombah who was actually named "Vinnie". his goal in life was to score with every female on this planet, and he didn't care who knew it. His *knockout* line, upon seeing a wedding band, was "Hey, you can't plug a hole with a ring." He was a class act.

Mon. 3/30/09 10:49am From: bw

this one is for spring fever!

I have to ride my bike down prince street to work every morning.. oh man.. its in full effect now

Mon. 3/30/09 10:52am From: annie

is stardust italian?

Mon. 3/30/09 10:52am From: Cecile

aw, yeesh, Carm.
Anyhoo, off to meeting, hopefully catch all ya'll later.

Mon. 3/30/09 10:54am From: still b/p

"Stardust suddenly notices that one of the vultures in a turtleneck has a beautiful girl in its talons and is claiming he's not like other blindly destructive super-nourished vultures."

Mon. 3/30/09 10:55am From: Cecile

*crying with laughter*

Mon. 3/30/09 11:05am From: Parq

Still, Check it out! "The girl begins falling." Oh, if only . . .

Mon. 3/30/09 11:06am From: north guinea hills

droids reminds me of the 70's synth-boogie band, 'space'...

Mon. 3/30/09 11:10am From: Carmichael

Back to the tax thing, BW. I take it, since you mentioned 1099s, that you are self-employed. You can either opt for the taxes taken out by your client, or itemize the hell out of your business deductions and take your chances.

Most people who opt for earning the untaxed amount, with the intention of paying back the Feds, usually spend it on something else. Just human nature.

Mon. 3/30/09 11:11am From: Sean Daily

Not even close to first comment! Woo hoo!

Mon. 3/30/09 11:11am From: bw

it was only half the year of 1099

the other year was 1040

but thanks Charm! I have to figure out if Ican take out for the whole year.. hah thats the issue

Mon. 3/30/09 11:16am From: Carmichael

You're going to have to file 1040a. That way you can itemize. Hope you kept your receipts.

If you currently have a job where you get a W2, make certain your withholding levels are dialed in. You don't want to pay the Man a ton of $ at tax time, and you also don't want them to be your bank and pay you a buttload of money.

Mon. 3/30/09 11:24am From: dc pät

just checking in--whoa, why did Stardust turn Kaos into a worm??

Mon. 3/30/09 11:25am From: Joe Steele

Why didn't he just do it in the first place I wonder. woulda saved the earth a lot of trouble.

Mon. 3/30/09 11:26am From: Pearlÿ Sweets

dc pät, so that the vultures can eat Kaos, that fiend!

Mon. 3/30/09 11:26am From: Joe Steele

And now Stardust with the pickup line.

Mon. 3/30/09 11:26am From: Pearlÿ Sweets

The last time I invited a girl back to my private star I got slapped.

Mon. 3/30/09 11:27am From: dc pät

yeah, "restful"

Mon. 3/30/09 11:27am From: Joe Steele

Stardust couldn't possibly fit into a white turtleneck by the way.

Mon. 3/30/09 11:28am From: bw

what an ending !!! private castle...

Mon. 3/30/09 11:28am From: dc pät

I actually wanted to see this comic--I went to an Art Spiegelman talk once and he mentioned this.

Mon. 3/30/09 11:29am From: Carmichael

"Would you like to come to my private star for awhile?" Best line ever.

Mon. 3/30/09 11:29am From: bw

there are TWO fletcher hanks books now.. well one comes out next month.. so great

Mon. 3/30/09 11:30am From: Joe Steele

It's a star, so you know it'll be hot.

Mon. 3/30/09 11:30am From: annie

hey baby, i got my four-wheeler in the garage.... wanna see it? it has chrome wheels and i drive it all over my private castle..

Mon. 3/30/09 11:30am From: Pearlÿ Sweets

The Baltimore strip is current my new background.

Mon. 3/30/09 11:32am From: Stardust

Liz, would you like to come to my private star for a while?

Mon. 3/30/09 11:33am From: Parq

Liz, you would get along just swell in our house. On weekends, we are usually still in our PJs at three. ("Oh, there's the Cherry Blossom Clinic theme; I should think about getting in the shower.")

Mon. 3/30/09 11:34am From: dc pät

wait until you have kids bw and liz--if you don't get them out of the house by 10am, they tare the place up!

Mon. 3/30/09 11:38am From: Doug from DC

I tuned back in just in time for Wonderful Subdivision (an old favorite).

Mon. 3/30/09 11:39am From: Parq

dc pät, how was your trip to NY?

Mon. 3/30/09 11:40am From: north guinea hills

rock 'n roll is rock 'n roll

Mon. 3/30/09 11:42am From: dc pät

Great Parq--we did a lot of touristy crap. Neither the wife nor I ever did any of that stuff before. The kids loved it. We had a huge-assed room a block south of the central park, they're giving rooms away right now folks.

Mon. 3/30/09 11:45am From: detroitdave

Great tunes to end the show Ben! All of a sudden I'm hungry.

Mon. 3/30/09 11:45am From: Carmichael

Guess this song set settles where I'm going for lunch.

Mon. 3/30/09 11:45am From: Parq

Glad you had a good time. My wife, daughter and I always do touristy stuff when we travel, too. I just wish the weather had been better. Oh well, it's March.

Mon. 3/30/09 11:55am From: d¢ pät

Yeah, we were a little cold running around town. But it was cool.

Tue. 3/31/09 7:16am From: Paul Karasik

Glad you guys like Fletcher Hanks! Me too...in fact the story that you posted will be included in my new SECOND volume of Fletcher Hanks, "You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation," out early this Summer. For more Hanks, slide over to the Story page of my Hanks website for another twisted tale.

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