Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 396 – the episode that comes before Episode 397!
This week on the show: our newest podcast; forehead; tattoo suggestion; out of work; ruminations; pitiable artists; old computer vs. new computer; weird dreams; a horror of horror; deeper sleeper; nightmares; the pleasure of worry; two good sleeps; morning hate; empty gyms; fuck off, circadian rhythms; morning is just a state of mind; pet manipulation; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; fishing blues; Chinook tongue; bee sting queries; interrupting cat; professionalism personified; Under the Silver Lake and other unpaid endorsements; scary rides; and, finally, remembering Flintstones Village.
Question of the Week: What’s the best time of the day for you?
Sub-question: What’s your favourite ride at the amusement park?
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I don’t know if it’s technically an amusement park ride, but I loved Toy Story Mania at Disneyland. It’s a virtual shooting game where you wear 3-D glasses and ride through a series of Toy Story-themed midway games. You shoot wacky virtual ammo at various hilarious targets and see who can get the highest score. I liked it because it’s more active than just sitting on a ride and getting whipped around. I even bought the T-Shirt.
We have no problems viewing Fleabag through Amazon Prime. We’ve only seen one episode so far but it’s pretty funny. I’m glad I wasn’t familiar with Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s work before seeing Solo: A Star Wars Story. I would’ve been picturing her face instead of the droid she voiced and motion-captured. My sister and I enjoy her producing and writing on Killing Eve so hopefully the screenwriting she did on the next Bond film will bring some edgy humour to the franchise.
I wanted to Thank You guys for the head’s up on the upcoming Fanspainers! Knowing you’re covering the film “Yesterday” in advance gave me time to see it this past weekend! I will not listen to Fanspainers until I see the film featured first so now I don’t have to miss the next episode!! Looking forward to it.
I’m a night owl, I always have been. So I tend to be most comfortable late at night upstairs with my cat Charlie and my old radio receiver tuned quietly to our local Dallas classical station. I never turn it off, I think it soothes Charlie who lives upstairs where I work on my computer. I get up for work about 7:30 every morning and I get there around 9:00. As for the weekends, I have no problem sleeping until 11 or Noon. I cherish this only because it wasn’t that long ago when my kiddos were young and up on weekend at the ass crack of dawn, and me with them. I have a few friends who are in their 50’s with three and five year-old kids that never let them sleep in. Can I change my favorite part of the day to the part where I’m happily sleeping in?
Answers to questions of the week:
Best time of the day for me is MORNiNG!! The day is full of promise, I have boundless energy, everything is quiet with the exception of the birds, who are singing so joyfully – all’s right with the world, and all that rot…
As far as best amusement park ride, most definitely it is the wooden roller coaster at the PNE. I don’t like rides that spin, as they make me feel ill, but fast and forward is awesome, and the wooden roller coaster delivers that in spades.
Add to that the rickety look of it, and the minimal harness (actually just a simple locking bar/handle), and the jerky motor that pulls you to the top of the first hill… it’s all so wonderful.
And it’s an engineering marvel, really, to have everything run just on gravity, because once you’re over that first hill, you’re just coasting: there’s no motor, no brake, no nothing but pure science behind you to ensure that you don’t go flying off the tracks on a corner, or stall out part-way up a hill, or make it to the end at just the right speed for a smooth and measured stop in exactly the right location.
It’s one of the oldest wooden coasters in the world, and I have heard that the actor Patrick Stewart is a wooden roller coaster aficionado who has trekked to the PNE just to ride our coaster. There’s just so much to love about it. Brilliant.