Today is the last day of November, AKA my birthday. Oh, it’s quite a celebration going on here at Surf Report Central… The boys are out doing God knows what, with God knows who, and Toney is upstairs working. Andy passes through from time to time, but I think he’s just hoping some food will come tumbling out of my mouth during one of my frenzied eating jags.
I tend to agree with Adam Carolla on the subject: having a birthday is not really much of an accomplishment. Most people have them, including Charles Manson (11/12). And adults who revel in being the center of attention and demand a big deal be made about the anniversary of the day they took their big vaginal log flume ride are ridiculous at best.
But, I’m not as hostile about it as Adam is; I don’t have that kind of energy. I mean, it’s nice to be acknowledged, even if it’s perfunctory or misplaced. Ya know? I appreciate all the well wishes at Facebook and in the real world, and the dinner Toney prepared, and the giant blueberry pie she bought me. Yum. Blueberry pie…. The fact that she knows I love them, and made sure there was one on hand, makes me feel good. And what’s wrong with that?
Some famous folks who were also born on November 30: Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, Dick Clark, Billy Idol, Bo Jackson, and Ben Stiller. Indeed, Bo and I were born on the same day AND YEAR. Bo knows birthdays.
If you could only pick one, which famous person with whom you share a birthday would you say is your favorite? Sorry Bo, but I’m going to have to go with Churchill and Twain. I know I said we could only pick one, but I have special privileges because this is my flumeday. Pass the beer nuts.
I called that phone insurance company today, and am supposed to have a replacement tomorrow morning. The screen on mine is destroyed. I asked the woman if it would be a brand new model or a refurbished one, and she never gave me a straight answer. She launched into a pre-programmed jumble of words that, in the end, didn’t provide any real information. Also, her Asian accent seemed to ratchet up during that part of the conversation, and subsided again once we moved on to other things. It’s funny how it was cutting in and out like that.
But, it’s supposed to be the exact same model and color as my current phone. And they’re sending new chargers, etc. So far I’m happy with how it’s going. I made the mistake of reading opinions of the company online. I know that people don’t generally take to the internet to praise great service, they go there angry. So, whatever you find is always going to be radically skewed. But we’ll see how it goes tomorrow. Hopefully it won’t be somebody else’s battered and booger-flecked Moto X. ‘Cause I can’t have that.
Today is what’s called Cyber Monday. It’s a really stupid name (what the shit is cyber, really??), and the whole thing is questionable and trumped up. But, it’s traditionally the biggest online shopping day of the year, the internet version of Black Friday.
So, I want to remind all of you, once again, about using our Amazon links. Just find one (like this one), pass through it to Amazon, and shop as normal. If you do that it won’t cost you one extra cent, but a small portion of whatever you spend will be redirected my way. Thank you guys for your support. December basically pays for the whole year of running this ridiculous website. And it’s sincerely appreciated.
In addition to the birthday question above, I’d like to know about your favorite pies. Or how you feel about pies vs. cake? Do you prefer one strongly over the other? And which pies do you not like? Use the comments link to bring us up to date on it.
My favorites: blueberry, lemon meringue, chocolate cream, apple, cherry, coconut cream.
Least favorite: Pecan, pumpkin (even more when it’s called “punkin”), peanut butter.
And that’s going to do it for today, my friends.
I’ll be back soon. Flumeboy out.
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Coconut cream pie? What the hell? Were you stranded on Gilligan’s Island and in love with Mary Ann?
Anyway, Birthday Cheer, Mr. Surf Report, aka Flumeboy!!!
I share my birthday with Mean Joe Greene, Kevin Sorbo, Jim Henson, F Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Irvine and the Ayatollah Khomeini… Toss me a coke, this turban is making me into a bad acting reality chef puppeteering novelist…
Well, I was going to claim Jim Henson. Phil Hartman’s also in the mix. So, yay all us New Year’s eve results! 🙂
I’m enjoying a slice of pecan-pumpkin-peanut butter pie… taste awesome and I added some pumpkin spice whipped cream on top…
Happy Birthday you lunk… now go have an asspoltion on me…
Happy birfday Mr. Kay! Arlo Guthrie, Judy Garland, Kate Upton, and Prince Philip are just a few that share my birfday.
Pies are much better than cake. Blueberry is number 1 followed by coconut cream, apple, pumpkin, peach, and pecan. However, you can keep your meringues. MLK and I share a birthday.
I share a birthday with Carmen Miranda, Gypsy Rose Lee, Mia Farrow, William Henry Harrison, Charlie Day and Joe Pesci. And the kid that plays Apollo Creed’s son in the the new movie.
Pies are the best. I love all the fruit pies, but prefer the custard based pies. It’s hard to beat a Chess, Coconut Cream, or Bourbon Pecan pie. I think I’m starting to understand why I’m fat.
Walter Becker (day and year) [Jeff “Skunk” Baxter wasn’t born on the same date, but the DOD allows him to celebrate his birthday whenever he wants]…yes, I know they play tight: that’s the fuckin’ concept of the band — if you want loose listen to Charley Patton who is also a fine guitar player not born on my birthday.
Hunter Thompson blew what was left of his brains out on my 55th birthday. Shortly before, he typed the following:
“Football Season Is Over
No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your (old) age. Relax — This won’t hurt.”
I like cherry pie with vanilla ice cream.
John
Kevin Bacon was born on my birthday, and you can’t really beat that. Also two Rockefellers, Jeffrey Tambor, and Wolfgang Puck.
My favorite pie is cherry, but I might also choose lemon merengue or rhubarb depending on the day. But I also like a good chocolate cake.
Fruit pies – blueberry, cherry, peach.. Real key lime – not that fluorescent green. Pumpkin loaded with whipped cream.
I share a birthday with: Fred Astaire, Sid Viscious, Donovan, Bono along with Mark David Chapman and John Wilkes Booth. Jeez. I guess I’ll go with Bono.
I bought a pair of snow boots on Cyber Monday. I bet they’re cheaper next week. And today they’re EXTENDING cyber Monday. Blow me. Stop pestering me and loading up my inbox.
Back in the olden days of being a radio Boss Jock I felt superior that Jeff Beck and Mick Fleetwood shared my birthday. Weird things happen around the same time too, OJ’s Bronco run from the LAPD and Michael Jackson dying.
Jeff, I’ll take the pecan and you can keep the blueberry. I’m reading a bio on Gene Rayburn you might like. Little dry but a great look at the history of game shows.
Blueberry, cherry pie. Apple pie if warm with a scoop of ice cream. I like most cakes if the icing isn’t too sweet, especially a German chocolate cake, but prefer pie.
Marvin Gaye, Buddy Ebsen, Rodney King, Hans Christian Andersen and Leon Russell.
I have a birthday, but I frequently forget when it is. I even forget the year sometimes. For the past two year I thought I was 35. I just turned 32. I’m not very good at the birthday thing.
There aren’t a whole lot of fantastic people that were born on 7 August. I guess I’ll pick insane homicidal Countess and heavy metal goddess Elizabeth Bathory.
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We have opposite tastes in pie. This makes you wrong and a horrible person.
Favorite: Pumpkin (with a 1:2 by weight ratio of pie to whipped cream), Pecan, Shepherd’s, then the assorted fruit pies.
Least: Any cream pie, pudding pie, or any sort of pie that has a filling that should just be in a bowl by itself.
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Seriously, want is wrong with you people?
Apple is the one true pie, and ice cream is its topping.
As far as birthdays go, mine is not celebrated at my request. My wife insists we do something, but my condition is that any commemoration occurs in a month other than that of my actual birth.
My best birthdays are those when I’ve been out of town working and no one knows it’s my birthday. Perfect day.
I generally consider myself to have aged another year on January first.
And of course, stay off my damn lawn.
Fun fact for your consideration: All horses share the same birthday, January 1st. If someone asks to see your teeth after telling them that story you won’t be caught off guard.
People who share my birthday: Carl Reiner; Napoleon II; Fred (Mr.) Rogers; Hal Linden; Jerry Reed; and John DeLancie (“Q” from Star Trek.) I think I would have to go with Carl Reiner, but John DeLancie would be a close second, since I’m a Star Trek geek.
Pies are definitely far superior to cake. Among my favorite pies are: Lemon Meringue; Butterscotch; warm Apple pie with ice cream; and Peanut Butter. Does chicken pot pie count? I’m not clear on that. If so, it can move into that list. My least favorites would be strange things like rhubarb or blood pie.
Yum! Chicken pot pie. Can we throw in pizza pie, too? And shepards pie? (beef, not lamb).
Pizza pie? Absolutely! How could I have forgotten about that!
Share a birthday with Rodney Dangerfield and John Valby. Anyone who prefers pie over cake is a god damn sociopath.
I actually prefer cookies over both pie and cake. But of course I’d eat all three. In one sitting.
I share a birthday with Ryan Reynolds, Weird Al, Johnny Carson, and Dwight Yoakum. I’ll go with Carson as my favorite.
I don’t care much for cake, but am a fan of pies. Chess pie is my favorite, followed closely by pumpkin.
Happy Belated Birfday!
At the second mention of chess pie I had to Google it to see what the hell it was.
I think I would like that.
A lot.
Happy flume day! Mine was the day before.
Raspberry pie is the best. Cold to lukewarm with ice cream. Followed by apple. Looked up my birthday and was greeted with a huge list of ass clowns. Fortunately a few OK types were in there. Samuel Morse would be the one I would most like to be grouped with. Casey Kasem is alright. U.S. Grant was certainly not a great president but he was on the list.
I share a birthday with Bruce Springsteen, Ray Charles, John Coltrane, Julio Iglesias, Mickey Rooney, and Jason Alexander (Seinfeld). The first three are a pretty awesome musical trio, but I will go with Bruce.
Blueberry, with a dab of french vanilla ice cream on top. I am hungry just writing those words.
Happy birfday Jeff! I was driving past Dunbar, WV last night and thinking of all the great Surf Reports to come out of that town.
I share a birthday with Robert Frost and Tennessee Williams, as well as Leonard Nimoy and Leigh Bowery. That seems like some pretty interesting company. I like a well-made sweet potato pie, and probably like fruit cobblers more than fruit pies. I like cookies. I suppose that cake is nice, too. I’m not a big fan of jello, though.
I share a birthday with Jennifer Aniston and I feel that trumps Kevin Bacon, Miss E. I bet he doesn’t taste anything like bacon.
I also share a birthday with my neighbors son, which was fairly unremarkable until his first born, a daughter was born on the same day as well. Which I suppose is still fairly unremarkable.
I share a birfday with Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Stan Freburg, Jerry Pournelle, “outlaw” Jimmy Wales, and of course icycle66.
I’ll take a good cake over a bad pie, and vice versa. Pie should be of the custard variety, lemon or similar. Cake: chocolate, with a filling of either raspberry or mascarpone and espresso.
Off topic: I was just looking at the Southwest Airlines website, and there is a link for “Customers of Size.”
Wouldn’t that include any travelers whose diameter exceeded the Planck length?
jtb
I was thinking Swarzchild radius, but it works either way.
I think that’s only on Event Horizon Airlines, although with a Swarzchild radius, the child pays only half fare.
Favorite fellow birthday celebrants would have to be Nostradamus and Tycho Brahe.
Cake – German chocolate
Pie – pecan
But I really prefer cookies. Except Oreos – blech.
And Happy Birthday a day late, Mr. Kay.
It’s really hard to imagine two people more different in their beliefs and worldviews. Fuck, there goes my lucrative astrology practice.
jtb
Peanut butter pie??? That some fake pie like whipped cream pie?
Apple Pie and Blueberry pie tie for top spot.
Rhubarb is rock bottom.
Now that I think of it’ I’m more of a cobbler guy than a pie or cake guy.
I’m gonna have to pick a fave female and male…just too many to narrow down for March 10th. Female would be Sharon Stone, born one year before me, and male has to be Tukka Rask, goalie for the Bruins. And as long as we’re picking people to identify with we should also pay tribute to the a-holes who share our big day……in my case Osama Bin Laden. Nice to have some of that karma floating around as well.
I’m not a big dessert eater, but I guess I’d have to favor pie over cake…..any cream version is awesome as well as pumpkin, blueberry or apple (ala mode of course!).
Remarkably few famous people share my dead-of-winter birthday. Of the ones I’ve heard of, scientist Linus Pauling and singer Pat Monahan are the best.
If I could, I would travel back in time to when I wasn’t allergic to most dessert ingredients and gorge myself upon banana cream pie, blueberry pie, coconut cream pie, chocolate cream pie, apple pie with ice cream topping, and just about any other fruit or cream pie I could get my hands on. Not a big fan of shoefly or rhubarb or any savory pie, however (aside from pizza pie).
I like cake.
In fact, in my house, on the day after your flumeday, you can have cake for breakfast. It’s a law. Look it up.
Pie is good too, I just prefer cake.
There is nothing like a piece of rich, moist chocolate cake washed down with a mug of French-press coffee. Mm-hmm.
Happy belated birthday, Jeff.
I’ve been busy running back and forth to the LA area helping out my aging aunt, who seems to have suffered a slight stroke along with a couple other issues. So, I’ve been a little busy lately, since that’s a 7 hour round trip plus whatever time I spend with her. So you’ll forgive my lateness, please.
Cake should consist of cake and icing, no oozing crap in the middle. Nothing on he inside unless it happens to be another layer of icing. No custard, fruit mush, or any if that other nastiness. And pie consists of a lower crust, fruit filling (preferably apple, blueberry or peach) and a top crust. Anything that resembles squishy ooze in a bottom crust can’t properly be called pie. Of course, one must make exception for the various meat pies (served hot of course) and pizza pie. Pecan pie is acceptable, but only if purchased from morbidly obese black women at Baptist church bake sales. No one else seems to be able to do it right, and I’ve tested that theory in at least a dozen states.
Cherry, Apple Caramel Walnut, Steak & Kidney, Steak & Ale, Shoofly, Strawberry & Rhubarb
Belated Happy Birthday Jeff. I share my birthday with Spike Lee – we get together every year and drink wine coolers to excess.
Peach, peach, blueberry/apple (tie), pumpkin/pecan (tie).
Brezhnev, Alyssa Milano + Paulina Gretzky. Which one is the biggest turn on? Hope it’s not a tie! In reality, it could never be anyone but Milano. It’s always been Milano………………………
One more thing about pie: http://explosm.net/comics/248/
You’re welcome.
Long time reader first time poster . I couldn’ t let a list of pies go on with out a mention of Huckleberry on it . In advance I’d like to say on a scale of 1 to 10 with huckleberry being ten blueberry would be 6.5 maybe 7 . As far as cake go’s a two layer white with about an inch of Bavarian cream in the middle , yum yum .
Jimi Hendricks.
Key Lime pie.
It could hardly matter less, but the comments are petering out, so to fill I’ll just point out that Jimi was an X-man.
jtb
John you so funny. (my kid would use that sentence as a baby and has become part of our family vernacular)
Can anyone explain to me the difference between and X-man and an Avenger? Jimi would be a particularly delish dessert.
I’m pretty sure an X-man is not the same as an ex-man. If I’m wrong, it wouldn’t be the first time.
Cherry pie is the best. Apple pie sucks. Snoop Dog shares a birthday with me.
Cherry pie is best
Apple pie does suck
Snoop Dogg and me share birthdays.