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Sharples - 2004-05-24 10:00:20
Nothing goes with summer readin' like iced coffee. Now, did you know June 8 is Free Iced Coffee Day at DuDos?? Yes!https://www.dunkindonuts.com/contests/
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Paula - 2004-05-24 10:04:28
Now, did you know June 8 is Free Iced Coffee Day at DuDos
Yowza!!! That is good news.
Plus I have a coupon for a free iced latte.
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amyl - 2004-05-24 10:12:55
Hey, no fair -- MA is the home of DuDos and we don't get no stinkin' free iced coffee? What a rip.
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Sharples - 2004-05-24 10:20:06
I may take the day off work, get a map of all the area DuDos, make a day of it. Probably end up in the cardiac unit.
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Paula - 2004-05-24 10:23:16

MA is the home of DuDos and we don't get no stinkin' free iced coffee

It's just that NYC has squandered its inheritance in wild living and in other iced coffee places. Now we are back, and DuDos is welcoming us back with silken robes and fatted lattes. Whereas MA has always been with DuDos, and everything that DuDos has is yours. DuDos had to celebrate because NYC was dead and has come back to life.

Ya see?
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Garrigus Abu Garrigus - 2004-05-24 11:02:22
Late recommendation. If you like experimental, believe the hype on Danielewski's House of leaves. If you like lol, roflmao, 17th century funny, Barth's The sot-weed factor. A piece of genius.
For what it's worth, we rented Stiller a few weeks back. I didn't think it was executed so well, especially given all the talent. Then we rented KitH, & that was that. First season is out on DVD.
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Paula - 2004-05-24 11:11:12

Garrigus: The only thing that irks me about Stiller is that the sketches are so big-budget and over-produced, sometimes out of proportion with the subtlety of the humor. But in the comic ideas, you can see the germ of what Mr Show would become.

I am gleeful, though, about KitH on DVD, I await its arrival in my mailbox any day now.
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Miles - 2004-05-24 22:36:17
Garrigus, whoever you are, I delight in both your opinions if I read them correctly: Stiller as far, far less than the sum of its parts, and Kids in the Hall as Da Bomb.
After its third season, KitH gets a little less funny-ha-ha and a lot more about longish pieces that aren't quite as laugh-out-loud funny -- but if you're the sort of person who loved SCTV skits like "The Making of Francis Ford Coppola's 3-D Stake From the Heart, you'll still enjoy it lots. Just warning you that the belly laughs are almost all in the early going.
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Tom Ronca - 2004-05-25 00:35:33
I have to disagree -- I always thought KitH got funnier, season sfter season, because it got more experimental -- the first season seems almost like standard-issue comedy improv (expertly performed, of course) compared to the longer filmed pieces they did in later seasons. And yes, Stiller does seem like just a dry-run for Mr. Show, but I got it anyway so I could gaze upon Janeane Garofalo whenever I felt like (without actually becoming a stalker). An anecdote; I live in Los Angeles and once, purely by happenstance, rode down to the first floor of the Arclight theaters w/ Scott Thompson -- I think he got un-nerved because it was completely clear that I recognized him, but did not acknowledge him in any way. As a rule I never talk to celebrities in public (except for Joel Hodgson of MST3k fame, because that was, well . . . Joel! Besides, I ran into him at my workplace, so it doesn't exactly count as a public place)
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Miles - 2004-05-25 00:48:44

Onlookers should notice that we're only disagreeing over which KitH seasons are better, i.e., which are very good and which are damn great. I was just making sure that the shift to longer, less laugh-out-loud-funny skits was anticipated. If I'm comparing the latter-day KitH to SCTV, it's gotta be high praise. And I can't wait for those SCTV DVDs to get here -- just a matter of days now. Give me those and Hill Street Blues on DVD, and I'll happily live in the past the rest of my days.

And looking at Janeane at that time in her life is a delight and an entirely valid reason to buy the Stiller set. Though the last few times I've seen her, she's looked haggard, thinner, and more willfully dowdy than I've ever seen her, so my Janeane jones isn't what it used ta be...

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