Joe Head: Who’s Disco Bean? He’s one of the greatest disco dancers around. I can introduce you to him, he’s a friend of mine.
Les: Isn’t disco suppose to be dead?
Joe Head: He died? Nobody told me nothin’.
Disco Bean, the king of Brooklyn disco played by John Turturro in the 1996 hit (its sure been a hit in my household at least), “The Search for One-eye Jimmy” arguably inspired the Simpsons character Disco Stu.
Recently the 3rdarm recieved a thick manila envelope in the mail, from a private dick who had followed me and my friends on our quickie vacation weekend at the beach this summer. Scandalous, scandalous weekend. Inside this thick manila envelope, which may or may not have been electronically transmitted, were several prints of photos taken during that weekend. The photos were of me drunkenly humping a… well nevermind about those photos. ALSO, in the manila envelope, I found recent photos taken at a halloween party. Without revealing my source, who wishes to remain anonymous, I present to the 3rdarm viewing public the following picture of a disco dancer, who for the sake of anonmyityis, will be called Disco Bring. Ladies and gentlemen, if you think you know who this is, please keep it to yourself. Without much further ado, Disco Bring, the original inspiration for the Disco Bean & Stu characters:
The manila envelope also contained a picture of Disco Brings friend who got dressed up for halloween as Mr. Bill. Not having the faintest clue who Mr. Bill was, I did a little searching, and found Mr. Bill from Saturday Night Live Official Website. Here you can watch all the old clips. This is the picture of the Mr. Bill costume that accompanied Disco Bring:
Okay, now I am resealing that manila envelope and let us never again speak of the photographs of my uncontrollable spooning & humping. Moving on.
Today at the Scrod Hut I had a table of five native New Mexicans, who were very impressed that I know all about Bill Richardson and can jabber on & on about how he looks like Horatio Sanz from Saturday Night Live, and he was so good as Energy Secretary for Prez Clinton & he is so amusing & round when I watch him on CSPAN. Honestly, sometimes I get so much of a kick out of a captive audience that I will ramble nonstop until I can see (with my ultra-sensitivity) that they just want me to shut up, please. But the New Mexicans were intelligent & pleasant (just like Bill Richardson) and had none of those vibes coming off of them. A weird thing happened.
One of the New Mexican women had me write down my home address for her on a business card, then she whipped out her cell phone & credit card and started making calls. Turns out the lady ordered me a ten pound bag of New Mexican peanuts, salted lightly roasted, and they actually shipped them out today. Yes, we had been jabbering about how everyone thinks Georgia is the state for peanuts (really? I didn’t know that m’am) but how when Georgia runs out they buy them up from New Mexico and yada yada yada… But thats what I love about serving lunch, the energy we all have in the middle of the day, and how that leads to interesting conversation and lasting experiences. She said that New Mexican peanuts aren’t like circus peanuts and that there can be up to seven nuts in one elongated pod. Cool.
Wonder when my peanuts will get here?