Babies (of all ages) come with hats

We are collecting knitted hats for babies of all ages at The West Wing Weekend. With the help of the Bethesda chapter of The Red Cross, we will be donating these hats to patients at the Walter Reed National Military Medial Center. 

If you'd like to take part in this project, staff and participants of The West Wing Weekend will be making care packages as part of a service project during our event. We hope you'll join us at the event, but if you would just like to knit or crochet hats, we'll be happy to deliver them. Contact us for more information, and be sure to check out www.westwingweekend.com for information on the event itself.   https://www.westwingweekend.com/contact/

The West Wing Weekend - Updates and news!

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Great news, West Wing fans! William Duffy and Peter James Smith are joining us in September at the West Wing Weekend in…MARYLAND!

Calling all fans of The West Wing!!!

Ever wish you could spend a weekend engaging with fellow fans of The West Wing? Well, now is your chance! The West Wing Weekend is set for September 28 - 30, 2018 in Bethesda, Maryland. MARYLAND! Pledge now to attend or secure The West Wing Weekend merch! 

Some of the highlights include:

• Panels, presentations, and workshops based on themes of the show • Events and programming that invite fans into the political process, model the ideals of civic political and social engagement, and foster unity among participants • Entertaining live performances inspired by the characters and universe of The West Wing. • State Dinner and White Tie Ball • Special guest appearances • Vendor showcase Hopefully you can be there in person - tickets are available via The West Wing Weekend Kickstarter. Even if you can’t attend, you can still be part of the weekend with exciting and fun rewards, also available via the Kickstarter.

Pistol Shrimps Radio, 11/14/17

Oh me, oh my, it’s Mark’s birthday eve! Celebrate with Todd Cooper and Kenneth Branagh’s mustache as the Pistol Shrimps take on HIDIA (Hoops I Did It Again) at Pan Pacific Park. Scorekeeper Dr. AJ Tipps kept track of the game, which started on a power play for HIDIA. A handful of refs tweeted their toot toots, Mark and Todd came up with some catch phrases, and songs were sung to kick off the holidays! ***special transmission*** Kristina Rodgers (Mrs. M’Boogie, who has co-hosted Pistol Shrimps Radio a couple times) will be holding the red Angry Birds balloon during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade! Be sure to look out for her! ***end transmission*** Last but not least, give a listen to the podcast Todd Cooper co-hosts, Feliz Navipod. They have great guests who are never expected and decide if you’re a Merry Christmas or Blah Humbudge. Referees: - Craich the Wade Man - Hellman’s Mayonnaise Krayber - Hilda Boutchevalier - Tammy Stipps, the Ramen Ref (she’s a big ramen aficionado) - Valerie Plame  Catch phrases: -MM: Time to do the laundry! -MM: Bang-ida-bang-ida bing bang bong -TC: Pop pop pop wow wow wo wow Fox News’ Summer Camp: starring AJ Tipps and friends Free Throw Prayers Free Throw Birthday Thoughts & Prayers Free Throw Birthdays Holidays songs! Jingle bells, jingle bells, get yourself a point, Santa Claus & Mrs. Claus have rolled themselves a joint. Someone’s high, someone’s low, grit your teeth and smile, Christmas time has come and it’ll be here in a while. Jack Frost on your nose, Shakin’ like a leaf. He is scared of things, Like losing all his teeth. Ho ho ho! #JunioredMint

Pistol Shrimps Radio, 11/7/17

Will the mala sangre appear in this game against the Miss Demeanors? Mark and Matt have the call from Lake Street Gym. Scorekeeper Recipe Johansson got off to a slow start but there were plenty of referees to keep focus on the game: -Yuri -John -Toothless El DeBarge -Melody -Mostly Melody -Carlos -Perry Winkle -Pokeyoh Gogeyoh Do Do Do Do Do Do Doot Dooh Nickelodeon -Sunshine Krayjinton shows: -Bataan Victory March starring Lance the Tip -The Hands of Hawkey with Dan Lauria, Dan Hedaya, Laura Daniels, Danny Bonny Ducci, Dooch the Wonder Horse, and Carob Chip Monroe.   #FreeThrowScriptures #PolkadOrcs MG: Do you think Iron Maiden was attracted to Iron Man?

Pistol Shrimps Radio 10/24/17

Pistol Shrimps Radio this week is fueled by Chloe’s caramels! Space Glam and the Shrimps meet at Pan Pacific Park and as usual, Mark (aka Bacon Fab) and Matt (he’s Cawy Gwant) call the action. Scorekeeper Stephanie Pidgy Pidgy Find Yourself A Love Bob, Go Back Home And Get Yourself A New Mop, Feel About The Way You Feel About Things, Clean The Floor ‘Cause A Guy Once Died There was busy with a close game! If you shop at BuyHowYouDie, use Promo Code SHRIMPS

Referees: -Charisma Ref (Ref with No Name) -Malcolm N The Middle -Parsdoff Orndöenohnohahaha I’mNotDoneMark I’mNotDone -Lebanon Helmsley -Steve Jacobson -Darwin Coopyboy Brought to you by: -Nick Pizzolatto  -Steep Pucky Podge: cars for the willful people -Instant Coffee Classic Movies: -Repo Woman: starring Emelia Estevez, Charlize Sheen, and Judy Law -Little Too Close For Comfort: starring Jim Jay Bullock, Nancy DeSoh, Ted Knight, Someone Van de Kamp (fish stick lady) -The Brebround Devil: starring Lance Henriksen, Henry Lansiksen, and Stork Manwoman Harry Potter Houses, by Mark and Matt: -Danglesniff -Dingledork -Mudgepip -Tusslebabes -TugOWar -FeelYourPape -Jangledick Pac Man Ghosts, by Mark and Matt: Inky, Blinky, Stinky, Clyde, and Patti LaBelle #MissionViHeyOH! #WesternChickenCrunch #BrothelBroth #Cookietown #ChickenSoupForYourBowl Quotes: MM: Quite singing horseshit 80s music MG: Tweet tweet on the toots MG: Are you dressing up as a numnuts?  

Pistol Shrimps Radio, 10/10/17

Ever wonder what sowing the seeds of love has to do with basketball? Then tune your earholes to this week’s PSR with Jerry Chambers (Mark) and Leafblower Steve Does It By Hand (doesn’t use a machine, uses his mouth to clean his yard and that’s his profession...he goes house to house and he does that) Ramirez, aka Matt. Pan Pacific Park and its low Shrimps winning percentage played host to the Shimps vs. Peaches & Kareem. Pistol Shrimps Radio, a happy load of hot horseshit! Scott Williams manned the Scorer’s Table (brought to you by Sears, not Roebuck), while the Scorer’s Label was sponsored by Johnny Walker Dry, pronounced by Roebuck.

Referees: -TB the Littlest Man Size -Thunder Cloud Thompson -Slick Williamson -Unknown/TBD Show: stars Max E. Rope, Max Cassella, and Regular Castle and McCormick -Did you know that Huck Finn had a brother named Fuck Hinn? Sing it, now! Stage lights flashing. The feeling’s smashing. This is my time to be a star! And the thrill that I feel Is really unreal. I don’t remember where I parked my car! #DiscountSkeletor #RobotechThemeSong Quotes: MG: You haven’t lived until you’ve had a Nutella hand job in a Branson, Missouri seed alley MM: Look at all those seeds! 🎶Me and Cloris Leachman ridin’ log flumes down at SDC* 🎶 *Silver Dollar City

Pistol Shrimps Radio, 10/3/17

It’s a Toonerizing Spuesday at Lake Street Gym in Echo (echo) Park. The Shrimps meet a new opponent, H.I.D.I.A. (Hoops I Did It Again), T-Braid makes an appearance, and Mark and/or Matt may be seen wearing a Hidia gown, Botany500 cape, and a Coco Chanel Vera Wang.

The aforementioned Mark and Matt are Foonerizing Spools during the whole episode. That much Foon may account for the scoreboard death that took place at halftime. So much scoreboard death. Matt also mistakes ASRM for ASMR. Or was he spoonerizing it the whole time?  Referees: -T-Braid -U-Ponytail -Wopjabomb Dimbley -Marvin Villanueva Chance the Rapper Songs that Matt knows: -Hey Plate, It’s Me The Fork -Tooth -Wheelbarrow Chuckin’ Dirt Clods At The Clown -Blue Door Say What You See Scoreboard Lookin’ At Me -This Is The Title of Three Songs Shows: -Net Repairman: starring T-Braid, Mark Harmon, Harmed Markmen, and Reginald VelJohnson -People Babes: with Daura Lern and Druce Bern - John Q Hula Hips: on Broadway in Branson -Johnny’s Last Fizzle Out: Macaulay Culkin, Rory Culkin, Jim Culkin, Fizzback Culkin, Culkin Gatlin, and the Gatlin brothers Quotes: MM: How about that time one of our friends took a poop in somebody else’s hotel room? MM: You know, as they say, nobody out-Pizzas the Hut. 🎶 Me and Ronnie Buttnotch were flippin’ readies down at Bookman’s Gash 🎶 🎶 Me and Bertha Gutsack runnin’ candy tubs at Cocksman’s Horn 🎶 🎶 Me and Danto Horsebreath touchin’ spinach broths at Sodman’s Stand 🎶 🎶 Me and Cradley Bentbow missin’ people babes at Beakman’s Wharf 🎶 #WarrisHittles #CompetitiveChickens #PickleMeElmo #SickleMeCellmo

Pistol Shrimps Radio, 9/26/17

Welcome to PSR, also known as Lounge Chair Ladies! Mark and Matt are chuckin’ ‘bows and provide a bunch of crunch in your ears. Munderscore gives 500-1000% against the Miss Demeanors at Pan Pacific Park in a choose-your-own-ending episode! The episode features special guests! @WaltHickey, a culture writer from fivethirtyeight.com visits and dishes data he and @Neil_Paine have collected. Kubitch also visits and enjoys Tawdigrooch snacks, and we welcome Sweet Georgia Brown Rodgers McConville to the Rodgers-McConville family!

Referees: -Penelope Squantz -Dr. Strange Patient Normal -Batman Rodriguez -Joseph Challenger Disaster -Lockerbie Scotland Bombing -Jeremiah Craib Movies/TV shows: -AMC’s Hell on Earth: a train man on a choo-choo in the old West -Lawn Chair Ladies: brought to you by Brach’s caramel candies -Hidden Crutches: with Taraji P. Henson, Popey the Little Pope, and Crate Paper Sandy -Ocean’s Tears: with the Tears of Allah and Allah M’boogies Brought to you by: -The Mask -Seagram’s 7 and 7 Shrimps’ Win Percentages (not including this game) -brought to us by Walt Hickey and Neil Paine from fivethirtyeight.com at Pan Pacific Park: 33% at Lake Street Gym: 32% at North Weddington: 82%

Free Throw Rejected Dog Names -Lulu -Strawfaced Ableskank (and variants) -Scout -Cleidomestra’s Busy Day -America -Russia the Laika -Francine -Catalyst Jumper -Hhhaarrrigh -Absolutely A Cat -Haaaange #DiscoFoul #Scrubble #LeonNeon #FollicularScorekeeping Quotes MG: (Jesse Thomas) usually walks the ball down the aisle MG: (about Walt Hickey) He knows way more than we know! MG: We’re like the Library of Alexandria!

Pistol Shrimps Radio, 9/19/17

It’s Pistol Shrimps Radio with Mang McCombas/Clydesdale Baby/Mark McConville and Mosh Pollive/69Pro/Matt Gourley! 

Big shout out to Space Glam, who donate to a different charity after every game! Give ‘em some love. @spaceglampions Mark and Matt are figuring out fouls and cookies are the distraction. It’s the race to 80 points at North Weddington, Shrimps and Space Glam face off! A host of refs teamed up with scorekeeper AJ Littlechintz to keep the game going. Referees: -Dennis Gumpley (lead ref) -Wifey Monroe -Jackson Browne’s wig -Bald Jackson Browne -Jefferson Carship -Buzz Leland Meeks -Ballzouttaboundz -Manny Mowenjack Shows: -BBEpps: Who snipes the sniper? -HBO’s Showtime Exclusive The Hands of the Glams: starring Annette Funicello Jr., Annette Funicello Sr., Babette Funicello, and Annette NoFunAViola -A Husband’s Joy starring Laura Linney -Serpico, a TV show that Hasn’t Been Made: with Alfred Pacino, Robby DeNiro, Harv Keitel, Joseph Pesci, Raymond Liotta, Mark Scorkayze, Edith Falco, Edith Piaf, and Edith Poopon Brought to you by: -Neon Leon: you can bend ‘em and twist ‘em together! Potential names for Mark and Kristina’s lady dog: -Neon -TieTie -Pattaporn Hoonchockle -Lady -Lady Bird -Lady Hawk -Mamie Eisenhower -Loretta -Neko -Chicken -Meadowlark -True Detective, Season 2 #LeanInClap #PoochParade #HardCoreBallMovement #DogFog #KittyPity #ArsenicStamps #ChuckECheeseballs Quotes: MG: Opinion - my wife is a baller.

Pistol Shrimps Radio: 9/12/17

It’s the Happy Birthday PFT! edition of Pistol Shrimps Radio! The game was filled with injuries on both sides - best wishes to all the players. If you weren’t hungry by the end of this episode, kudos to you, because it was riddled with food mentions. Pan Pacific North played host to the Shrimps and the Shecago Bulls. Kristina “Margaret Thrasher” Rodgers and our boogie Mark McConville took us through the game. A couple nicknames were uttered - probably unofficial, but they are: -Jesse “The Tank Engine” Thomas -Laura “Lights Out Jackson” Jack Referees: -Nathaniel Krabe -Mike “The Table” Whistman -RJ Meatsworth Shows: -The Cooking Network’s Magic Happens, starring Pete Postlethwaite, Reggie the Man Walrus, Linda Blair, Linda Hamilton, and Lin-Manuel Miranda. -FOX’s Keepin’ It Real with Freddie Prinze, Jr., Lawrence O’Donnell, and a raspberry. Free Throw... ...Chicago musicians ...Foods you ate today ...Baseball game foods ...Food Mark ate in Maine ...Favorite seafood Halftime game: Smiths or Morrissey? #DepechedMode #Scrumble Quotes: KR: They have a coach, but he’s got a beard. KR: Is the whistle always in his mouth? Is that a ref thing? KR: Jesse Jesse Jesse Thomas! Woop! Thomas. WOOP! KR: Oh oh OH oh! Allen. Allen. Allen. N. Walla. Walla. Walla. YES!

Pistol Shrimps Radio, 9/5/17

Pipstol Skrimps basketball is back!  The late game at Lake Street Gym saw the Shrimps face off against Peaches & Kareem. Because of technical difficulties, we only heard the last 40 minutes of the action, but some is better than a little, and a little is better than none when it comes to 🔫🍤📻.  Mark “Vocal Shadow” McConville was joined by special guest Taran Killam, who uttered the phrase “how the sausage gets made”, thus making Lake Street Gym the Room Where It Happened. Our lone ref was Sage Mofo. He had some issues with his head after trying to Globetrotter the shit of a basketball during a timeout. CARNEGIE HALL! The only show mentioned was AMC’s “Logistical Nightmare”. Quotes: MM: Someone needs to rub a Ouija board on a referee. MM: Jesse Thomas just David Blaine’d the basketball.

Pistol Shrimps Radio, 6/13/17: Don’t Eat the Soap

Second to last game of the Spring(?) season for the Shrimps, and they took the field at Pan Pacific Park to face off against the Shecago Bulls. Melissa Stetten’s folks were in the ol’ barn (hockey phrase) and the Shrimps put on a great show.

Scorekeeper Philip K Vagina kept track of the numbers. Mark and Matt paid tribute to fallen referee Talmud Bollyoskgogaedais. RIP. Might there be a mention of Dimples Cheeks McGurkin, aka Mario Lopez? [spoiler alert: yes]

Referees: Sexy Ref 💕 Menudo Manakish Brought to you by: -Inaudible.com -Diet sliverwurst -Lottery Barn: furniture made of dreams -Agua Holyente Casino -Drano Flavored Froot Loops In theaters soon: Airborne Dayquil starring Tess Trueheart Free Throw Three Foes: -Darth Vader, Kylo Ren, Darth Maul -Mola Ram, Belloq, Walter Donovan -Blofeld, Scaramanga, Goldfinger -Kananga, Zorin, Sanchez -Largo, Klebb, Dr. No When Sexy Ref says you look good, it’s like: -a blessing from the Pope -Quentin Tarantino saying he liked the screenplay you ripped off from other movies -Jeff Sessions saying doidaidaidaideh -Eddie Van Halen saying good job smoking you whole life Quotes: MG: Look! Look at my butt. Why won’t you look at my butt? Don’t you grab your own butt sometimes? #Wigdar #SexyRefKnucks #RamboPodcasting