Mr. J's usual posting isn't
here today because he's out throwing away the last remnants of
his masculinity test-driving minivans with his wife.
Tuesday 5.29
If you've got a baby who's
still riding around in one of those infant carriers, check the latest
recall of a certain type of Evenflo seat. The problem is that the
handle occasionally comes loose. While you're carrying the baby.
Mr. J brought his family to
the Rhinebeck Memorial Day parade yesterday, and would like you people
in all the parades to stop it already with the candy-tossing. There's a
satchel with a pound and a half of Tootsie Rolls in it, which Miller is
going to use in the Hyde Park 4th of July parade. If you know of any
alternatives to candy-tossing, we're open to suggestions - we're at
morningmix@mix97fm.com.
Miller, meanwhile, is bewildered by the people who show up at 8:30 for a
10 o'clock parade. Says he, Pour moi? You shouldn't have.
Here comes the end of the
school year, and if you're inclined to get a gift for your kids'
teachers or day-care providers,
here's some great suggestions.
A new study indicates New
Yorkers are the nation's least knowledgeable when it comes to the rules
of the road - to which we say well,
duh. Still, all the book-learnin' in the world doesn't make anybody
a good driver, and so for sheer driving obliviousness we're still going
with Massachusetts and Florida drivers. And that guy in the white pickup
Mr. J gets stuck behind every morning on his way in.
Weekend 5.25-28
We're back Tuesday - look
for Miller at the Hyde Park Memorial Day Parade.
All you need now is to hook
it up to your local water main.
Wednesday 5.23
Here's Miller's Magnificent
Bratwurst recipe (the non-fire-hazard version):
1 six-pack Milwaukee's Best
beer for marinating the beer
1 six-pack of any other beer for enjoying with the brats
Bratwurst (it might be too late to get 'em shipped from Wisconsin in
time for the weekend, so you'll have to make do with corporate
bratwurst)
A stick of butter
Thin-sliced white onions
French rolls
Marinate the brats for
approximately 2 hours. Don't throw away the beer after you're done
marinating.
About 15 minutes before cooking, get the grill going and pre-heated. And
for pete's sake, don't be like Miller - scrape that nasty crud off the
grill from the last time you used it.
Resist the temptation to
consume any of the beer at this point. Miller recommends having a cold
one at this point, but then he's the guy who burned his house down, so
take his advice with a grain of salt the size of a bowling ball.
Brats should grill up nicely
on medium heat after about 8-10 minutes, turning them occasionally to
get the grill marks just so.
As for that beer you used to
marinate the brats, toss that and the stick of butter into a frying pan,
melt it up and use it to saute the onions. Dip the french rolls' bread
side into the butter-beer mixture and grill them briefly on high heat.
Into the rolls go the brats and the onions, and slather on some mustard
if you want.
Consume with the other beer,
and relax as all that sumptuous fat coats your arteries!
Tuesday 5.22
If you've got a big Memorial
Day cookout planned and will be running out to the store for a package
of cheese for those burgers, be sure what you're getting really is
cheese and not
american
pasteurized prepared cheese product, which may
have many things in it - but cheese isn't necessarily one of them.
Eww. Just...eww.
Monday 5.21
Apologies for the lack of
posts. Mr. J was away on family business on Friday. Something about that
nastiness with Sonny at the toll booth.
Nerd alert! It's a computer
programming language for kids, called Scratch - available from the
brainiacs at MIT.
Here's the link, but be aware they've been getting a lot of traffic.
Monday 5.14
Congrats to Dennis from
Wappingers - he won the seventh-row Genesis tickets! Those songs in the
montage? Pretty easy. No Reply At All, Throwing It All Away, Follow You
Follow Me and I Can't Dance.
(Just for giggles, here's
the montage Mr. J wanted to use but didn't. First person who knows it
gets a cookie, or bragging rights around the office:
click here to listen)
New Five Question Quiz
today! Now with extra unfairness!
Congratulations to Tammy
from Rhinebeck, who won $637 from the Morning Mix for knowing all
five answers to our Five Question Quiz...and here they are!
Q
A
1
Ony six percent of women between the ages of 55
and 64 do this:
Wear a bikini (the "bomb" hint referred to Bikini
Atoll, the island where the first hydrogen bomb was tested. The
"SpongeBob" hint referred to his home town of Bikini Bottom)
2
You walk into a room, and the first two things
you see are a telephone and a red balloon. What color are the
walls?
Green (it's from the beginning of the children's
book Goodnight Moon - "In the great green room / there
was a telephone / and a red balloon...)
3
This singer's biggest hit single knocked his
former band's biggest hit single out of the #1 spot
Peter Gabriel ("Sledgehammer" knocked Genesis'
"Invisible Touch" out of #1 in 1986)
4
17 percent of Americans say they have a lucky one
of these
Pair of underwear
5
What is Mr. J's shoe size?
12
Congratulations again to
Tammy, and get ready for a brand new set of five evil and completely
unfair questions on Monday!
Send all homespun
sore-throat remedies for Mr. Jones to
morningmix@mix97fm.com. He's already tried the one with the
habañero sauce and oatmeal...no
luck there, just a lot of (barely audible) screaming.
You'll want to stop by the
Morning Mix page on Monday, because right here is where we'll be posting
the special audio clue you'll need to win seventh row seats to
the
Genesis concert coming up this September
in Albany.
And a happy Mother's Day
to the amazing Mrs. J.
Thursday 5.10
10 Attributes of Really Lazy People:
1.
Inability to put forth the effort required to complete any task.
And strangely, that's the only thing we feel like posting today.
Wednesday 5.9
If you're not keen on alarm
clocks beeping or buzzing or blaring Bob Miller's voice at you first
thing in the morning, there's a more gentle and refined alternative: the
Voco Clock. Check
out the audio demos voiced by Stephen Fry in the role of the ultimate
valet.
Here's the Times
crossword puzzle with clues contributed by Bill Clinton (PDF).
Tuesday 5.8
A moment, if we may, to plug
our colleague Joe Limardi's afternoon show:
this week he's got win-before-you-can-buy tickets for
Genesis (Mr.
J's favorite band) at the Times Union Center in Albany, coming up
September 12. The last time Genesis played anywhere in the Hudson Valley
was 1978...at Rockland Community College in Suffern, if you can believe
it. And if you happened to have been at that show, Mr. J would love to
hear the stories -
morningmix@mix97fm.com, as always.
Monday 5.7
For the medieval history nut near you:
the Bayeux Tapestry, animated:
And in case you ever wanted
to bore impress people with your knowledge of minute
pop-culture details, we are delighted to inform you that Cap'n Crunch's
first name
is...
Here's the
ripening cheese
site. There's a YouTube video with it to show you that the cheese really
has been ripening.
John Mayer has a
peculiar blog.
Unless he's got a ghost writer, he's not your typical celebrity idiot.
Every time we think we've
seen everything in the world of sports memorabilia, we're proven wrong -
here are $150
cufflinks made from parts of Yankee Stadium seats.
Can't afford a house here in the Hudson
Valley? Check out this handyman's special in St. Louis - and
to think it can be yours for just
$2850!
(No, we don't know why
they bothered, either.)
And finally, something to ponder all
weekend: what the heck IS this?
According to this story, a
stay-at-home mom's work is worth
138 grand a year. It doesn't say what a stay-at-home dad might be
worth. Hmm.
Tuesday 5.1
Caffeinated soap. Miller thinks it's the
bee's knees, Mr. J smells snake oil.
Timewaster: the site Maria's
been playing with for the Swedish kids' show
Högaffla Hage.
(Anybody here speak Swedish?) You don't need to know Swedish to have
lots of mindless fun with it. Miller's hooked.
Monday 4.30
Yes, Mr. J's kids are still
cute. Him, not so much:
That's Daniel and Maria, in case you're
new 'round these parts.
And check out the eerie resemblance:
In our next installment, Maria will
re-enact the cover of Sgt. Pepper's with her collection of My
Little Pony dolls.
Weekend 4.27-29
Nerd alert! It's the
alphabet, as sung by Capt. Jean-Luc Picard:
And this may be the best pre-movie
turn-off-your-cell-phone warning ever!
Might as well do three nerd-alert stories, at this point: here's
Stephen
Hawking in zero-g yesterday. With video.
Here's the science on our news story about how moving your eyes back
and forth can help your memory.
