Patreon Newsletter #55: May 2024
Added 2024-05-07 06:15:56 +0000 UTCHRR Updates/News:
We sadly bid adieu to our first ‘April of the Penguins’ and look forward to another stellar season next season! Support your favorite team(s) here
Our May Review Crew (Eating 1 grape every minute for 60 minutes????) will come out Monday May 13th.
The May Review Crew live-stream will be Thursday the 9th at 8pm Central Time.
Tickets almost sold out for our live show at Lincoln Hall in Chicago on 7.25! We look forward to seeing some of you there and more cities might be announced soon
From Adal:
Here’s what I consumed in April. Let me know if you have any recommendations!
TV:
The Sympathizer
Sugar
Girls5Eva season 1
Bluey - bonus eps
Conan O’Brien Must Go
Welcome To Wrexham season 3
X-Men ‘97 - (I mentioned this last month and only bring it up again because episodes 5 and 8 of this show are absolutely fucking chef’s kiss. Nightcrawler has always been my favorite and I feel like episode 8 finally did justice to how flipping sweet that lil German can be)
Hacks season 3
Movies:
Civil War
The Parent Trap - Lohan version. Jemma insisted I watch since I had never seen it. So many shenanigans.
Kyle Kinane: Dirt Nap
Alex Edelman: Just For Us
Neal Brennan: Crazy Good
Demetri Martin: Demetri Deconstructed
Steve!
David Cross: Worst Daddy in the World
Music:
The Libertines - All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade
Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department
The Ink Spots - In Las Vegas
The Ink Spots - Ping Pong Percussion
The Ink Spots - Volume 2
Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties - In Lieu of Flowers
Glass Beams - Mahal
Maggie Rogers - Don’t Forget Me
Thom Yorke - Confidenza
Justice - Hyperdrama
St. Vincent - All Born Screaming
Six Organs of Admittance - Time is Glass
Other Stuffs:
Balatro - Arnie got me curious so I picked this up and now I keep sneaking more and more runs every night.
Jemma and I are fostering 5 extremely tiny kittens and their mother. The mom is Ooh-La-La and her kits are Baguette, Bonjour, Fiancé, A’La Carte and Soupe du Jour!
I’ve been enjoying listening to the D’Arcy Carden hosted Wikihole podcast
My sister Sadieh introduced me to a fantastic newer Coffee Shop/Theater Bookstore in Chicago called The Understudy
Jemma and I are heading to Ireland in a couple weeks. If you have any tips/spots I’d love to hear them.
If you have the means I suggest donating to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund
Adal
Hey Riddiots -
We may still have a couple tickets left for our Chicago live show on Thursday July 25th. You can get tickets here: https://lh-st.com/shows/07-25-2024-hey-riddle-riddle/
For those of you who can't see us in person, stay tuned because we are working on at least one live+virtual show for this summer.
You've also probably already heard me talk about this before, but in case you haven't seen it yet, you can request that HRR come to a city near you for a future live show by filling out this form on our website: https://www.heyriddleriddle.com/request
A big thank you to the 500+ people who have already requested. And a special shout out to those of you who suggested venues!
And it's been awhile since I've had a recommendation, but I really enjoyed Shogun on Hulu. It's 10 episodes and it's only one season. And I just started playing the update to Death Must Die on Steam. It feels very much like a mix of Hades and Vampire Survivors so if either of those were your jam, you might enjoy it.
Hope you are all enjoying the spring!
-JPC
Comments
I live in Galway! HRR should definitely come to Galway! Not Dublin! Galway! I agree with all of @flamingcrazes' recs. Charlie Byrnes, Secret Garden, Palas fucking slap (btw flamingcrazes, I think we should probably be friends). Kinvara is beautiful. I also recommend Morans on the Weir for some stellar seafood, guiness, and craic. There's some really REALLY good restraunts in Galway proper, including Aniar (michelin star), Ean, Kai, and Ruibin, and Black Cat. But the irish speciality - the spice bag - should not be missed. Good pubs in Galway include Crane bar for trad music, Tigh Neachtains for the classic pub vibes and people watching, and my personal haunt, Bierhaus for just a really good bar (RIP caribou). Also for touristy stuff around Co. Galway, I recommend Aran islands (ferry from Galway city docks leaves a few times a day and takes you Inishmor and back past the cliffs of moher). You can also rent a car and go to Connemara, an area of Ireland that still predominantly (or at least a lot of people) still speak Irish. I personally recommend Diamon hill for a nice hike and Killary fjord for the views. Also re: tayto - it's a national treasure as far as I can tell. They're great crisps, and there was even a theme park outside of Dublin themed around them.
gwillad
2024-05-10 13:00:03 +0000 UTCVery poorly travelled in my own country, BUT: Will second the Wild Atlantic Way above (below). Cork - lovely little space observatory in an old castle where they give you a fun little tour that's a mix of Space and Irish History and the history of the building itself. Castle Rock Observatory, was like a €15 or so taxi ride from the city. Prepare to climb an old spiral staircase, but it will take you up to the telescope on the castle overlooking water - gorgeous view Dublin - Hodges and Figgis bookshop, three stories, so many books. Ireland's oldest bookstore. This is very near a cafe called Bewleys, gorgeous interiors, lovely stain glass, and it's my favourite hot chocolate brand. Got to visit for the first time recently when I went to see D20, tempted to go back to Dublin just to spend the day going back and forth between the two (little record shop across the road from Hodges and Figgis too). Also had a lovely breakfast in Dublin in a place called The Music Cafe. Gutter bookshop - I've never been to it, but have heard it's also great! (Think there might be two?) Galway - Charlie Byrnes bookshop! (Very near the claddagh shop/area, actually) (Few Aran sweater shops around this area too) My main haunt. Lovely and little maze-like, also many books. Not to be repetitive but the second recommendation is a cafe again, called The Secret Garden, where you might meet the lovely cat West. Lovely teas, I assume, but unfortunately I also like the hot chocolate here so that's what I get. There's a restaurant somewhere in this city that's in an old train car, called Pullman. Have not yet been there, it's expensive, but deeply want to go some day. Can't recommend based on experience but must recommend based on vibes. Palas cinema is lovely cinema, also quite close to Charlie Byrnes et al. I recommend mainly because they're the only cinema in Ireland that will show old movies or like. LOTR back to back marathon. They do a solve-a-long Murder She Wrote night every few months. Desperately need to get to one. Anyway, just to let you know it's there if ye ever have an evening open. Might find a fun old movie or something. Will ALSO second aboves shellfish recs - specifically a place in Clarenbridge, a ways outside Galway, a bus from the city will get you there in half hour or less depending on traffic, called Paddy Burke's, famous for it's mussels. Lovely river outside, too small little town but Paddy Burke's is a lovely scenic evening Also a bit outside of Galway is Kinvara - gorgeous little town, also very scenic, and there's a castle there called Dunguaire where they do banquets around this time of year. V fun and delightful evening. And again, lovely town, not too big, lovely place to kill a couple of hours wandering around. Hope ye have a lovely holiday, and if you pass through Galway, hope our city treats ye kindly! Edit - somehow forgot to mention the Burren and Connemara. If ye can get out to Kylemore Abbey at all, do. Gorgeous area Edit 2 electric boogaloo- so tempted to put Galway on that request list but I shan't! I understand the complications! Still finding a way to be annoying about it though ❤️ Anyway thanks for all the laughs and here's to more, good night and good luck xoxo gossip girl and also sorry this is so long k byeeeeeeee Edit 3 electric wiggilee - I meant cinema in *Galway, not Ireland
flamingcrazes
2024-05-08 20:45:34 +0000 UTC
