Second Anal Lewd Night – need we say more?
Franklin Ratliff sent this reminder about the third annual event, coming this Saturday. As obscene and offensive as the art itself, the Lewd Night PR campaign out-did itself this year with an especially disgusting special delivery. Read it and weep on our Schwag blog.
fueled by ramen dal.
This dal recipe, from Ismail Merchantâ??s Passionate Meals (Hyperion, $14.95), has never let me down â?? it’s extremely cheap, extremely simple and low-fat to boot. Passionate Meals is a great book, not just for the recipes but also for Ismail Merchantâ??s filmmaking anecdotes. Sadly, he died in 2005, but he was the Merchant in Merchant…
ALL IN THE GAME
Exotic meats, abundant wines at Funky Monkey
SYMBOL-MINDED VISITOR
The Visitor Studio: Overture Films Rated: PG-13 Cast: Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira, Hiam Abbass, Marian Seldes Director: Tom McCarthy WorkNameSort: Visitor, The Our Rating: 3.00 Richard Jenkins is the ideal leading man for a Thomas McCarthy movie. Five seasons as the ghostly Nathaniel Fisher on Six Feet Under honed Jenkins’ talent for playing…
HOT AIR ACES
Electronic masters ditch the concepts, break out the Nintendos
NO HALFWAY CROOK
Rapper’s post-incarnation outing disappoints
FUELED BY RAMEN
A single food-stamp recipient in Central Florida receives $162 per month; I usually spend at least double that on food. But then, I don’t buy a lot of processed foods, I try to buy organic, and I tend to buy luxury items like Hass avocados, wild blueberries, kalamata olives and lots of nuts. All those…
WILD PITCH
Smart people recognize quickly when innovation – a word that lards marketing-speak the way Forgetting Sarah Marshall is larded with penis jokes – leads to disaster. Coca-Cola yanked New Coke to the back burner within weeks of its tastebud-scarring release. Just last year, the NBA debuted a slick basketball, then canned it just as quickly…
BLISTER
It’s as if the sky just cracked open, unleashing torrents of soul-cleansing, liver-licking top-shelf liquor; a figurative gullywasher of new beginnings, twinkling hopes and tiny cross-eyed birds chirping platitudinous affirmations of beauty into my nose! I smell a glorious Saturday, and I’m thirsty. “Hey Lurlene, it’s me Lurlene!” I Lur telephonically. “I don’t know if…
SAVAGE LOVE
I’m a 52-year-old man. About six weeks ago, a new female worker started in our office. We’re really hitting it off and, frankly, I’ve fallen for her – hard! However, she is 36, never married, and I have not asked her out yet, but I definitely want to. In fact, I want to marry her.…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Your power symbol for the week is an ant carrying a potato chip. It means you’ll possess so much strength that you’ll be able to hold aloft burdens that are much bigger than you and look graceful doing it. And here’s the kicker: That giant load you carry may ultimately provide…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
Like the gloriously batty Whitney Houston, I believe the children are our future. Gotta teach ’em what’s what from the moment they’re fired outta the love cannon, nah mean? So rather than the inane tunes that comprise the lullaby canon, you should serenade your li’l sprout with Hushabye Baby, a just-released music series featuring gentle,…
FIRST SHOT
It looks like a done deal that Brett Ratner will be remaking The Incredible Shrinking Man. And thus an already fragile world comes one step closer to Armageddon. Don’t get us wrong. What has us up in arms isn’t Hollywood’s propensity for clumsily remaking beloved classics. It’s letting Brett Ratner make them. We’re not just…
LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES
Every half-decade or so, a piece of musical theater comes along that achieves popularity far out of proportion to its actual merits. These aren’t “bad” shows per se, but flawed works that are blessed with an inexplicably rabid fan base – typically pop-opera pastiche filled with attractive post-adolescents confronting authoritarian oppression through angsty anthems. The…
HAPPYTOWN
Return with us now to the woods near the intersection of John Young Parkway and Princeton Street for the continuing saga of the city of Orlando versus a bunch of homeless people living out there. As you may recall from last week’s column, the city gave the homeless, many of whom have lived out there…
MAILSACK
It’s Billy’s world Billy Manes’ recent Blister column `April 24` on the Mills Park art opening and the future of the Orlando art scene – or rather, this being a Billy Manes piece, Billy Manes writing snarky comments about Billy Manes being at an art event that Billy Manes attended with a lot of people…
LYFE IN BALANCE
Lyfe Jennings eased into the left-of-mainstream scene a few years ago as a promising R&B/soul crooner with a particularly interesting backstory and material that did none of it justice. His debut album, Lyfe 268-192, was recorded a short time after Jennings was released from prison, having served a decade in jail since the age of…
THE WAR ON PLASTIC
Last year, San Francisco banned retailers from giving their customers plastic bags to carry their goods. Oakland has the same law, though it’s tied up in an industry lawsuit. Seattle, Phoenix, New York and Boston are considering similar measures. China will ban plastic bags next month; Paris, by 2012. Ireland has taxed them nearly into…
FAT OF THE LAND
There it sits, bottom shelf, aisle four at the Colonialtown Publix. One little packet of sustenance – wheat flour, thiamine mononitrate, canola oil, cottonseed oil, hydrolyzed soy, corn and wheat protein, monosodium glutamate and a laundry list of other stuff you really shouldn’t eat – neatly wrapped in red plastic and priced at 20 cents,…
what would hillary eat?
According to former Secretary of State Robert Reich, with whom she went to see the Antonioni film Blowup when they were in college, popcorn with butter. “A lot of butter. Significant? You be the judge.” (No word on whether they later took in Last Tango in Paris.) On Slate, Mimi Sheraton attempts to gain insight…
Ewwwwwwww!
I don’t even have a comment on this shit, although OW Art Director Shan Stumpf helpfully offers this visual image: “I wonder if he does one of the girls behind his back.” Again, ewwwwww! A videotape said to show rock guitar great Jimi Hendrix having sex with two women The 11 minutes of footage of…
