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February 7, 2013

A Significant Cultural Moment in American History


Greatest Movies of All Time

  1. Slap Shot, starring Paul Newman
  2. Debbie Does Dallas, starring Bambi Woods
  3. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, starring Sleepy, Dopey, Sneezy, Happy, Bashful, Grumpy, and Doc
  4. Debbie Does Dallas II: She’s Scoring Again, starring Bambi Woods
  5. Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman


Greatest TV of All Time

  1. Duck Dynasty, starring Jase, Kay, Phil, Willie, Korie, Missy, Si, Sadie, Jep, and John Luke Robertson
  2. Apollo 11 Mission, starring Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
  3. Kefauver Committee Hearings, starring Frank Costello, Tony “Big Tuna” Accardo, Meyer Lansky, and Jake “Greasy Thumb” Guzik
  4. White Bronco Car Chase, starring O. J. Simpson, Al Cowlings, and 20 Police Cars
  5. All in the Family, starring Carroll O’Connor and Jean Stapleton



         Now and again, there comes a crystallizing moment in the performing arts when some gifted souls manage to craft the quintessential essence of our humanity into their work, and just who we are, and who we’ve been, and where we’ll be starting out from next, are bared, becoming almost palpable, while contemporary culture itself is revealed clear as the light of day.  This is one of those moments, and the Robertsons of West Monroe Louisiana, Jase and Willy and Jep and them, are those gifted souls.  Clan started out manufacturing duck calls, their signature product being America’s favorite, the omnipresent Duck Commander, and have since added family entertainment to the business.  Show enthralls the hearts of gun-loving Americans everywhere throughout the Heartland.

         If you at least think you could probably take to moonshine because drinking ain’t never been about the taste, or ever got sat kind of in the middle there in the wedding chapel because the thing about the relatives and friends of the bride and the relatives and friends of the groom was bringing up stuff you really didn't want to mention, and that Hee Haw cancellation left a void in your life that never would be filled, and, most of all, you’ve been pining for a Beverly Hillbillies with Semiautomatic Assault Weapons since maybe 1962 or thereabouts, then you probably have some idea of what we’re talking about here.

         Duck Dynasty is aired on A&E Wednesdays at 8 PM Central, 7 PM Rocky Mountain.  Subscribers in time zones that include Candy-Ass Liberal states on the coasts can look up the %$#&ing times for youselfs.  Season III begins in 20 days.  That would be Wednesday, February 27, if you’re too lazy to run through the numbers on your own, and the wife ain't around.

         We got shine in our wet goods store.  How about you?  You even know?  (Hint: she ain’t in the dry martini section nowheres, and that’s for dang sure.)  Pick some up over the next three weeks, and tune on in.