Well, Jose, the good news is your hyperthyroidism is treatable. The bad news is you need to rest for at least a few weeks until your elevated thyroid levels start to go down. You’ll also need to make a few changes to your diet. Have you been eating a lot of fish lately?
Yeah, I have, now that you mention it.
Take me a through a typical day, meal-wise. What do you have for breakfast?
Usually, a caviar omelet.
I’ve never even heard of that. What do you do, add caviar to scrambled eggs?
No, the caviar is the base. I crack the fish eggs and fry em up in a pan. Sometimes I throw a few prawns in there, too.
Wow. How do you crack caviar?
Very precisely.
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Monthly Archives: March 2010
The Collected Singles of Chubby Checker
“The Twist” (1960)
“Let’s Twist Again (Like We Did Last Summer)” (1961)
“Let’s Twist One More Time (Like We Did Two Years Ago)” (1963)
“It’s Been Four Years Since We Last Twisted (Shouldn’t We Do it Again?)” (1967)
“C’mon, Let’s Twist One Additional Time” (1968)
“(Would It Kill You to) Twist With Me Yet Again” (1969)
“I’d Like to Teach the World to Twist” (1971)
“Say It Loud (I Twist and I’m Proud)” (1972)
“U Kan Twist Gud” (featuring Slade) (1973)
“Do You Feel Like Twisting Once More? Is that Something You’d Be Interested In?” (1974)
“Disco Twist” (1977)
“New Wave Twist” (1979)
“Twist the System” (split 7″ w/Minor Threat) (1982)
“New Romantic Twist” (1984)
“Can You Believe It’s Been 25 Years Since We First Twisted?” (1985)
“26 Years of Twisting!” (1986)
“Lets See, 87 Minus 60…Yeah, It’s Been 27 Years Since ‘The Twist'” (1987)
“Grunge Twist” (from the soundtrack to Singles) (1992)
“New Jack Twist” (from the soundtrack to Cliffhanger) (1993)
“Baile El Twist” (featuring Carlos Santana and Rob Thomas) (1998)
“Twist2K” (2000)
“Twistin’ with Stan” (featuring Eminem) (2001)
“I Concentrate on You” (from Chubby Checker Sings the Songs of Cole Porter) (2004)
“50 Years of Twisting (And We’re Just Getting Started)” (2010)
The Difference Between a Chump and a Champ is U!
Thanks to the graciousness of host Tom Scharpling, I was able to visit the WFMU studios in beautiful downtown Jersey City during the second Best Show marathon program this Tuesday. To say this was a thrill would be a vast understatement. To say that it made me one with the cosmos and eternity itself…that’s probably an overstatement. So let’s say the experience was somewhere in the middle.
It was amazing to see the sheer amount of work that goes into the marathon, from all of the Phone Slaves taking pledges to wrangling all the premiums to feeding the assembled host (which was amazingly done by WFMU’s own Terre T, one of the coolest people in existence). It felt a lot like being backstage at a Broadway production or a live TV show circa 1957, with folks coming and going at breakneck speed in confined quarters to make sure everything ran as smoothly as possible. Except that not a single person involved received a dime for their work. It was all, literally, a labor of love.
And as if witnessing The Best Show raise an unbelievable $80K+ for WFMU wasn’t enough, I got to see funnymen Patton Oswalt and John Hodgman lend their talents to the cause. I also captured some of these moments on video, thanks to my lil’ iPod. The picture quality is not stellar, but the audio is pretty good, and their historic import compels me to share them with you. (You can hear the actual show here.)
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