{"id":20367,"date":"2017-12-12T15:01:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T21:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=20367"},"modified":"2017-12-12T16:07:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T22:07:49","slug":"new-stuff-tuesday-december-12-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/20367","title":{"rendered":"New Stuff Tuesday &#8211; December 12, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/wecanthelpit.jpg\" alt=\"We Can't Help It - We're Men\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>We Can&#8217;t Help It &#8211; We&#8217;re Men<\/strong><br \/>\ndirected by Rick Green<br \/>\n<a title=\"call number\" href=\"https:\/\/uw-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/primo-explore\/fulldisplay?docid=UWI71354523300002121&#038;context=L&#038;vid=WW&#038;search_scope=WW_VOY&#038;tab=default_tab&#038;lang=en_US\" target=\"_blank\">Browsing DVD We<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>New Arrivals Island<\/strong>, 2nd floor<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a busy semester to say the least. So let&#8217;s try something light for &#8220;New Stuff Tuesday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Twenty years ago I was in a hotel room in Missoula and turned on the TV to see a dopey-looking guy with gray whiskers, wearing a plaid shirt and suspenders. Before I could change channels, I was hooked. He was hilarious. We were New Englanders at the time and assumed the rubes on the <em>Red Green Show<\/em> were local Montanans. Well, close enough: they&#8217;re Canadians (my apologies to both northern neighbors).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little hard to describe the <em>Red Green Show<\/em> &#8211; but perhaps something like a cross between a home repair show, sitcom, and spoof. The all-male cast of caricatures are members of Possum Lodge, a fraternity of locals who trade insults and jokes and try to fix things with the &#8220;handyman&#8217;s secret weapon&#8221; (duct tape). <\/p>\n<p>In this hour long film, Red and his buddies attempt to explain the differences between men and women. You probably won&#8217;t find any of their ideas in textbooks, but they&#8217;re generally spot-on. As Red Green says on the DVD&#8217;s cover, &#8220;Remember, we&#8217;re all in the same boat, and women are on the shore, laughing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So keep your stick on the ice &#8212; and enjoy vintage Red Green.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to learn more about the guys at Possum Lodge, try the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redgreen.com\/\" title=\" \" target=\"_blank\">Red Green web site<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=red+green+show\" title=\"youtube list of red green material\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Can&#8217;t Help It &#8211; We&#8217;re Men directed by Rick Green Browsing DVD We New Arrivals Island, 2nd floor It&#8217;s been a busy semester to say the least. So let&#8217;s try something light for &#8220;New Stuff Tuesday.&#8221; Twenty years ago &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/20367\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[167183,167184,782],"class_list":["post-20367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-stuff-tuesdays","tag-comedies","tag-possum-lodge","tag-tv-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20367"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20379,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20367\/revisions\/20379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}