Episode #46 - "Sex Week With Otto" - Show Notes

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Alternate Titles: "A Huge Dinner of Meat" or "Not Above Slumming"

• Tonight's Beverages (not mentioned on air): Heineken (Dirk); Crown Royal and pop (Otto).
• Presentation of gifts commemorating Otto's co-hosting the most shows.
• Mop up about the Shat episode last week; how long Chris Claremont wrote X-Men; Desmond Crisis (which was in last week's show notes). 
• Dirk reviews HBO's Silicon Valley.
• The stunning crash and burn of Semi Precious Weapons as they changed from this...
  
  ...to this:
  
  Zoiks! This is the first time Dirk saw them in June 2008 (segment runs from 6:00-8:12):
  
  This is the original release of their debut album; the one you want; BUY THIS:
  
• The part with the story about cleaning the kitchen starts at 10:00:
  
• Edgar Wright has left the Ant-Man project and how James Gunn and Joss Whedon reacted.
• A preview of a future discussion over David Goyer and Craig Mazin's comments about Martian Manhunter and She-Hulk.
• How most movies do 3D wrong because they don't adapt to the needs of the format. James Cameron explains what Hollywood is doing wrong.
• Otto reviews the new Godzilla. Discussion ensues.
• How cute Shelly Long was in Caveman and how Janeane Garofalo was cuter than Uma Thurman in The Truth About Cats & Dogs.
• Dirk reviews X-Men: Days of Future Past. Discussion ensues.
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• Dirk talks about his trip to Western Michigan last week staying at Castle in the Country, Allegan, MI:
  
  The room:
  
  The weather the whole time:
  
  Miss Abby, post-heavy winter feeding:
  
• Restaurants discussed: Casa Real in Otsego (Mexican, excellent and cheap); Salt of the Earth in Fennville (hippie foodie crap, way overpriced, avoid); Stella's Lounge in Grand Rapids (burgers & beer, excellent, fun, cheap); Ciao Amici's in Brighton (Italian, excellent, reasonably pricey).
  The burger from Stella's:
  
  The burrito from Casa Real:
  
• The Frederick Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids.
  THIS IS NOT ART!
  
  Now that's a big horse:
  
  The book on the making of it:
  
  
• Odds & Ends: Bill Murray crashes a bachelor party; Led Zeppelin is being sued for stealing the riff from "Stairway To Heaven"; the "father of G.I. Joe" passed away; legendary pinup photographer Bunny Yeager died; Macklemore performed in an anti-Semitic costume; Kimye get married and the NY Post takes hilarious note; Emma Watson graduates college.