The Now Sound of Nothing: Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie

Listener comments!

11:26am People Like Us:

Afternoooon, Nothing is my favourite subject.

11:39am Charlie:

It's an inexhaustible subject.

11:41am Uncle Michael:

Nothing doing.

11:44am Charlie:

Here's a lyric from a song you'll hear on today's show:
Misery is funny
'cause misery is nothing
and nothing is funnier
than nothing
(it's from the album that features the picture at the top of the playlist.)

11:51am Michael:

Nothing from nothing leaves no thing. Howdy Charlie, Uncle and Vicki.

11:57am Doug Schulkind:

Busy Doing Nothing = Where Dada meets nada.

11:57am listener james from westwood:

good thursday, fans of nothing!

11:58am Charlie:

hello, Vicki, Uncle M, Michael, Dada Doug, and LJFW.

12:02pm Charlie:

Here goes nothing!

12:02pm listener james from westwood:

excellent, i wouldn't want to miss nothing.

12:03pm Uncle Michael:

Nothing to it.

12:03pm Charlie:

This is exciting.

12:03pm ndbob:

morning Charlie and everyone!

12:04pm Uncle Michael:

And *this* is exiting. But, I'll be back.

12:04pm People Like Us:

Nothing mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu...

12:06pm Art Critic:

The disembodied ping pong paddle represents China swatting away the rest of the free world, especially the imperialist running dogs. The chick with the pixelated face is showing the futility of trying to be analog in a digital age. The elephants are on their way to the watering hole to sleep off all the banana beer they drank.

12:08pm still b/p:

Sartre meets Billy Preston in the happy midday Thursday conversation.

12:09pm Charlie:

yo, Bob, Glenn, still b/p!

12:11pm pacific standard simon:

Hey, OK. No, wait. Woops, uh... now then. I mean, really! Yeah, so:

12:11pm Carmichael:

Hiya Charlie. Hi everyone.

12:12pm Katya:

Tattoos are dumb. There I said it, America.

12:13pm Carmichael:

Unless you have one. Then they're cool.

12:15pm glenn:

i don't know. tattoo removal services are booming. i suspect there's a lot of drunk buyer's regret going on.

12:15pm Charlie:

Agreed, Simon!
No tattoos on you, Katya!
Hi, Carmichael.

12:15pm fleep:

Search on the lyrics yields TV Girls from San Diego. I was busy doing nothing so I looked.

12:18pm Charlie:

hiya busy fleepin' sumpin

12:18pm duke:

I used to think tattoos were cool until everyone and her sister had one. Now I think not having a tattoo is cool.

12:19pm Katya:

Sometimes nothing is way better than a tattoo.

12:19pm duke:

Although a WFMU tattoo might be ok

12:19pm pacific standard simon:

It would cool to get a mole tattooed on yr cheek. And by "a mole", I mean A MOLE.

12:20pm Brian in UK:

Hello Charlie, how's the haircut?

12:21pm listener james from westwood:

an fmu tattoo ought to get you free lifetime record fair entry.

12:25pm Carmichael:

I don't like the "tramp stamp", or dozens and dozens of tats on a person. But 1 or 2 tasteful works of art are OK. I have a single small tattoo, not normally visible.

12:27pm Charlie:

which cheek, simon?
hi duke.
i've got a devil's haircut, brian.
The advantage of having a nothing tattoo is you can have it in a different place whenever you want it, Katya.

12:27pm Doug Schulkind:

@duke
When hipster-flipster me showed up in New York in '83 and saw that (male) cops and wall street traders were sporting earrings, I knew it was time to stop wearing mine.

12:31pm still b/p:

I went in the kitchen where local radio was still on and "Paper Roses" was playing. I didn't catch enough to know if it was the Anita Bryant or Marie Osmond version, and not knowing has left me unsettled and edgy.
But this Tipsy is just the thing for it.

12:31pm jan:

Just checkin in. All good! thanks for broadcastin.

12:33pm fleep:

A little They Might Be Giants in there.

12:33pm pacific standard simon:

Dealer's choice, Charlie.

12:34pm Brian in UK:

....in the windmills of my mind

12:35pm gary mitchell:

like a wheel within a wheel

12:36pm Charlie:

thanks for saying hi, jan

12:36pm ndbob:

good one here Charlie!

12:37pm duke:

I like this version of telephone

12:39pm Charlie:

it's an ever-spinning reel, @gary!

12:42pm ndbob:

heya gary!

12:43pm gary mitchell:

buffalo bob

12:45pm gary mitchell:

jaunty little number here

12:52pm Uncle Michael:

I've never regretted my tattoo. t2.gstatic.com...

12:53pm pacific standard simon:

Today's special at the Pacific Standard Luncheonette is seaweed, brown rice, and a dirty hot dog.

12:54pm pacific standard simon:

I want Candy!

12:55pm Charlie:

the bob dylan diet, eh simon?

12:55pm gary mitchell:

Brother what a version!

12:56pm pacific standard simon:

Hai, dozo.

12:56pm Uncle Michael:

I've got tacos al pastor from the carneceria. Vegans, turn away.

12:57pm still b/p:

Remember, in Papillon, the guy the escapees run into in the jungle with the serious face ink?
"You like this?"
"Oh, very much."
"I did too, at the time, but I was drunk"

12:57pm pacific standard simon:

MmmMMM, pastor.

12:58pm Wendy del Formaggio:

CHARLIE!

12:59pm Charlie:

Hi Wendy!
Reprazentin' the pro-tattoo side, I might add.

12:59pm Charlie:

How 'bout tattoos of tacos?

1:01pm pacific standard simon:

Actually, it's mushroom and chicken sausage and Burmese rice in a piece of flatbread, with salsa.

1:01pm People Like Us:

yayyy

1:01pm Uncle Michael:

I'm Harry...the guy with taco on his face.

1:01pm Wendy del Formaggio:

Oh, I didn't know there was a debate. Yes, I have seven tattoos. (I had to count them. I often forget.) Only one, so far, is related to cheese.

1:02pm pacific standard simon:

So the cheese stands alone?

1:02pm Uncle Michael:

The one that says "The Big Wheel?"

1:05pm Uncle Michael:

The fire from that last bite of roasted serrano isn't gonna go out any time soon.

1:06pm Wendy del Formaggio:

My cheese tattoo is of a Holstein cow. My next tattoo will be the label that comes attached to wheels of Montgomery's Cheddar. Here's a sorta crappy picture of one, scroll down to the third photo. gardenista.com...

1:06pm pacific standard simon:

It's a known fact that alcohol extinguishes chili heat.

1:08pm Uncle Michael:

I don't think there's any alcohol in the fire extinguishers here at work.

1:08pm pacific standard simon:

I have zero tattooes, but I might be willing to consider a laughing cow tat.

1:09pm duke:

alcohol can also lead to tattoos

1:09pm Wendy del Formaggio:

The Laughing Cow label is pretty cute.

1:10pm still b/p:

Please tell me you'll keep the British spelling with the 's' on the cheese label. Makes a wheel of difference.

1:10pm glenn:

la vache qui rit.

1:12pm Uncle Michael:

Wendy, that article I mentioned from my Mazda magazine talks about a slew of Vermont cheesemakers. I have it right here.

1:13pm Wendy del Formaggio:

Still b/p, I wouldn't dream of changing the label. That would defeat the purpose!

1:13pm glenn:

u.m., i tried listening to hinky dinky radio, but the flash player keeps causing safari to crash.

1:14pm Wendy del Formaggio:

Uncle Michael, which cheesemakers? I hope it's not all about VT Butter & Cheese, or VT Creamery, or whatever they're calling themselves these days. They get enough press.

1:15pm pacific standard simon:

ocupado haciendo nada

1:15pm Michael:

"Cheddar?" “Well, I'm afraid we don't get much call for it around these parts.”

1:16pm Uncle Michael:

Let me go through it...Vermont Shepherd...

1:16pm Charlie:

sorry, we're fresh out.

1:16pm Uncle Michael:

von Trapp Farmstead...

1:17pm Wendy del Formaggio:

Oh right, I keep forgetting you can play curse words on the Internet. Hooray for cursing!

1:17pm Michael:

It's a bit runny...

1:17pm Uncle Michael:

Shelburne Farms...

1:17pm Wendy del Formaggio:

Von Trapp makes a nice cheese called Oma. I sold that one in my shop.

1:18pm pacific standard simon:

That's what I like about the streams.

1:18pm glenn:

"there's three kinds of cheese. ya got yer cheddar, ya got yer white cheddar and ya got yer marble"

1:18pm Uncle Michael:

Hen of the Woods...

1:18pm Wendy del Formaggio:

Oh Shelburne Farms, yeah! I need to pick up their Cheddar. It's superb. It's also a very pretty farm, up by Burlington.

1:18pm Wendy del Formaggio:

Hen of the Woods? Dunno that one. Well, I know the mushroom.

1:18pm Uncle Michael:

That's it...those four makers.

1:19pm gary mitchell:

nice racket!

1:19pm pacific standard simon:

Gol durn it, shucky-darn, oh fuuuudge!

1:19pm Uncle Michael:

Says Hen of the Wood is in Waterbury.

1:20pm Charlie:

Lady Reignicorn = DJ Keili y'all!

1:21pm Wendy del Formaggio:

Hmm. Waterbury. That's where Ben & Jerry's AND the state mental hospital are located. Except the hospital got flooded so now it's not there.

1:23pm duke:

@charlie the link to DJ Keili's album doesn't seem to work

1:25pm Charlie:

i entered the link as it appeared, maybe a prob with the page. i'll have to look into it later.

1:26pm Carmichael:

"I think he said 'Blessed are the cheesemakers.'"

1:26pm still b/p:

My sister in law recently moved form a Ben & Jerry's Vermont job to a Lagunitas Brewery California job. If she moves next to a bacon concern she'll have hit kind of a trifecta.

1:28pm Uncle Michael:

For they shall inherit the curd.

1:29pm Uncle Michael:

What would Ben & Jerry name their beer and bacon flavored ice cream?

1:30pm Wendy del Formaggio:

Uncle Michael: Barf.
hahaha

1:30pm Charlie:

I give up, UM, what?

1:31pm Michael:

b/p - love some of those Lagunitas Brews. She's lucky. =)

1:33pm still b/p:

Pig on Tap.

Yah, the Lagunitas selections have made it to the NE and are niiice.

1:35pm Brian in UK:

UNPASTEURISED.....Mmmmmm

Got any Venezuelan Beaver cheese?

1:35pm Uncle Michael:

Wendy got it right. Ben & Jerry's Beer'n'Bacon Barf

1:35pm Michael:

Yup our store has been carrying them for a while. Current favorite is from Rogue: rogue.com...
Now where's Wendy with the cheese?

1:36pm pacific standard simon:

Nice co-ordination, Charlie!

1:36pm still b/p:

Bacon and beer ice cream = Strippity Hoppity?

1:38pm Uncle Michael:

Hop'n'Hawg

1:39pm Rich in Washington:

Been thoroughly enjoying the mix but haven't had time to pop in to say so until now.
Rearranging my cell.. um, workspace.

1:40pm pacific standard simon:

I don't care much for ice cream, so I'll have a bacon-wrapped beer brat with smoked tomato mayo.

1:40pm duke:

Bacon and Beer ice cream recipe www.surlatable.com...

1:41pm Ike:

I see Keili named her musical alter ego after an Adventure Time character. That seems appropriate somehow.

1:41pm Wendy del Formaggio:

Michael, I like Rogue cheese. And I like your Sluggo picture!

1:43pm Uncle Michael:

I like Spanish cheeses but I don't know anything about regions. I have to find out if anything good comes from the southern coastal area when I'm there.

1:43pm still b/p:

Guinness chocolate cupcakes are sold at a small market nearby. Always tempting. Maybe with a scoop of good vanilla..ummmaumm.

1:46pm earrie:

Coffee porter is good. So's chocolate porter.
Or maybe it was a stout?

1:47pm Charlie:

Hi Ike and Rich.
Sorry if I've missed this, but has anyone ever tried a beer float?

👻

1:49pm Snortley:

Imperial chocolate stout with coffee ice cream is supposed to be good.

1:51pm pacific standard simon:

@Snortley - that does sound good, under the right circumstances...

1:51pm Uncle Michael:

No one wants to hear this because it's the big, corporate colossus but I've yet to taste any craft stout that was as remotely pleasurable to drink as Guinness.

1:52pm earrie:

Beer float would probably be good to try with those summer berry beers (blueberry, raspberry).

I find sweet + beer a challenging taste.

1:52pm pacific standard simon:

Well, they've had a lot of time to perfect their product.

👻

1:53pm Snortley:

I'll take a Smuttynose porter or Lion stout over a Guinness any day.

1:53pm Uncle Michael:

Does anyone know why some Friendship Society members appear in one color and others in another?

1:54pm earrie:

Or porter or stout + a not-so-sweet icecream?

1:54pm Uncle Michael:

I'll keep an eye out for those, Snortley.

1:54pm pacific standard simon:

I'm a devoted drinker of Pyramid apricot ale -- fruity, but not exactly sweet.

1:55pm listener james from westwood:

the usernames might be links you've clicked on in the past

1:55pm Matt F:

Charlie, your deflected request for Mel Torme's Sunshine Superman will be honored today.

1:56pm listener james from westwood:

must fly outta here; enjoy the first bit of matt fiveash, all, and many thanks, charlie!

1:56pm Charlie:

Thanks for being here today -- you've been a great crowd.
Stay tuned for Matt Fiveash -- here's his playlist link:
www.wfmu.org...
All right, Matt, thank you!

1:56pm pacific standard simon:

Fiveash!

1:57pm gary mitchell:

if this isn't from a movie, it should be

1:57pm Uncle Michael:

Thanks for the ear goodies, Charlie.

1:57pm ndbob:

excellent show Charlie!

1:58pm pacific standard simon:

Probably from a movie on The Internet Archive.

1:58pm Michael:

Thanks for nothing, Charlie. See ya next week.

1:59pm Laura L:

Thanks for another fine show, Charlie--a fine accompaniment being busy doing stuff and things.

1:59pm gary mitchell:

well, if nothing else happens today, I became a Loveholic fan

2:00pm pacific standard simon:

Not quite MY "last date", but getting close. Before the end of this month, I will probably have to say goodbye to live chatting with Charlie forever. :(

2:00pm Ike:

I dug it, Charlie.

4:04pm Monica:

great show, chazarooney!

10:07pm Charlie:

thank you, mz m!