{"id":573892289,"date":"2020-06-12T22:32:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T02:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573892289"},"modified":"2020-06-19T12:30:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T16:30:07","slug":"beware-hyphenated-beverages-and-television-tropes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2020\/06\/12\/beware-hyphenated-beverages-and-television-tropes\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware hyphenated beverages, and television tropes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the meetings were done and the work completed, it was time for a bike ride. We took the usual Friday route, and today that meant about 42 miles. I rode it very fast, which means decidedly average. <\/p>\n<p>After the second stop sign I caught a break in traffic and decided to see how long I could stay out front. So I looked over my shoulder for the next 36 miles. But my shoulder and my wheel stayed clean.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AQSnsE5uqyk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I knew if &#8220;I make it to there, I can stay out front until &#8230; &#8221; and then I did, which meant I had to keep reshaping those observations. &#8220;OK, if I can make it to <em>the climb<\/em> &#8230; &#8221; and then I did, so I did that four or five times and I found myself shooting for the place where she caught me last week. At which point she was well back and I thought I might stay out front the entire way, if traffic would cooperate. So then I had to ride harder to be sure. And that&#8217;s how I stayed out front the entire way, which never happens. Turns out my legs felt tired, but it was a pretty good ride. And The Yankee didn&#8217;t have her best ride. That&#8217;s what it takes to stay ahead of her. (She&#8217;s very fast.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sometimes, you can say it all<\/strong> in 280 characters. <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s a show about a corrupt local official, and bad cops. <\/p>\n<p>And moonshining.<\/p>\n<p>And California as Georgia and a guy named Cooter.<\/p>\n<p>And Catherine Bach. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RpKWnO6n6m\">https:\/\/t.co\/RpKWnO6n6m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1271608217601179648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But why stop with one 280-character style tweet when you own a domain where you can throw another 1,450 characters and 322 more words on it?<\/p>\n<p>They made a movie based on the television show a few years ago. I understand it was very bad. I listened to some people complaining about that, another part of their childhood ruined, basically, before saying &#8220;It isn&#8217;t like the show was high art &#8230; &#8221; and everyone had to agree. <\/p>\n<p>I call it the Yoo-hoo phenomenon. You remember that drink. It was <em>so good<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t good at all. <\/p>\n<p>This used to be the Chocolate Soldier phenomenon, but that drink <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chocolate_Soldier_(drink)\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">disappeared<\/a> before the turn of the century &#8212; and not a single soul outside the creation of the product noticed &#8212; but Yoo-hoo, somehow, survives. <\/p>\n<p>Point is, things that you thought were great when you were a kid are probably not good at all. And after you get over watching GTOs jump over every ravine that doesn&#8217;t exist in south Georgia, and realizing that it always seems to be infrastructure week in Hazzard County, there&#8217;s not a lot to the show. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to see the Amazon metrics, is what I&#8217;m saying. How many people are streaming that show, at this point? It is, I would imagine, a vanishingly small number. Also, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2020\/06\/amazon-dukes-of-hazzards-streaming.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s disappeared before<\/a>, only to quietly return, so what do I know? What does <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/3944668\/dukes-of-hazzard-tv-land-confederate-flag\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">this Time author of 2015<\/a> who decided to re-watch the pilot episode know? (<strong>Update<\/strong>: A week later, it&#8217;s still there, but a bit harder to find. And you can still by t-shirts or fake rustic tin sizes featuring the car. There are also 66 purchase options for Yoo-hoo.)<\/p>\n<p>In more ways than one, The Dukes of Hazzard are a chocolate-flavored drink. It&#8217;s not milk; it&#8217;s barely a chocolate. People that endured the Dukes because the kids loved it could have said the same thing, then. And who among all of us are streaming shows like that now?<\/p>\n<p>Go try that Yoo-hoo. Next time you&#8217;re out, pick one up, buy it, shake it, slam it. You&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the meetings were done and the work completed, it was time for a bike ride. We took the usual Friday route, and today that meant about 42 miles. I rode it very fast, which means decidedly average. After the second stop sign I caught a break in traffic and decided to see how long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,14,6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573892289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-friday","category-memories","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573892289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573892291,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892289\/revisions\/573892291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573892289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573892289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573892289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}