The synergy of Paultards and video game geeks
Just gonna reprint this story, because there are too many available jokes for me to settle on just one: Presidential hopeful Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), whose legion of online supporters have besieged internet polls, lofted a blimp and helped their man notch a record-setting $6 million in donations in a single day, has rallied another…
Louisiana town defeats Satan, changes phone number
I’m just going to reprint the first graph, courtesy of Fox News: “Reeves, La. – After decades of living with what Mayor Scott Walker calls a stigma, residents of this southwest Louisiana village are getting a new telephone exchange, one without the biblical connotations attached to their current 666.” For the last 40 years, this…
Meet the new cure for cancer
No, really. Cannabinoids, the active components in marijuana, are used to reduce the side effects of cancer treatment, such as pain, weight loss, and vomiting, but there is increasing evidence that they may also inhibit tumor cell growth. However, the cellular mechanisms behind this are unknown.
A SHIN-ING EXAMPLE
Urbane sushi house reflects commitment to sourcing, flair for artistry
ANOTHER REASON TO LOVE DENZEL
The Great Debaters Studio: MGM Distribution Rated: PG-13 Website: http://www.thegreatdebatersmovie.com/ Release Date: 2007-12-27 Cast: Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Jermaine Williams, J. D. Evermore, John Heard Director: Denzel Washington WorkNameSort: Great Debaters, The Our Rating: 4.00 So erudite and accomplished is professor James Farmer (Forest Whitaker) that one awestruck student declares, “He must be the smartest…
TANGLED UP IN THE NEWS
The Kite Runner Studio: Paramount Vantage Rated: PG-13 Website: http://www.kiterunnermovie.com/ Release Date: 2007-12-27 Cast: Shaun Toub, Khalid Abdalla, Nasser Memarzia, Said Taghmaoui, Atossa Leoni Director: Marc Forster WorkNameSort: Kite Runner, The Our Rating: 3.00 When the CIA intervenes to protect the lives of two young actors prior to their big-screen debut, you know you’re not…
Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Rated: R Release Date: 2007-12-27 WorkNameSort: Blade Runner: The Final Cut Our Rating: 5.00 It took 25 years, but the makers of Blade Runner finally got it right. Preceded by at least six editions, five of them seen by the general public, this “final cut” is the optimal form of…
SAME OL’ COUNTERCULTURE
Slogans but no answers on indie how-to
CHEERS TO THE ARTS UNDERGROUND
Once upon a time, it was frequently lamented that Orlando had no culture, no artistic edge, no soul. Nowadays, that perception is just plain dumb. Meet some of the people who continue to dispel that myth with their work and support, their fingers on the pulse of a surprising creative world that many locals still…
BLISTER
From all the little bits of misshapen debris lining the canyon between man’s Mars and woman’s Venus, I’ve managed to craft a fairly convincing pearl necklace of relative androgyny. I don’t douche, but I have been known to shoot water up my ass; I don’t do sports, but I do sometimes shop competitively; and a…
SAVAGE LOVE
Long story short: I’m a 28-year-old woman in a long-term relationship. In the past, I’ve been a control freak by day, sex freak by night – but just for my GGG boyfriend. Recently, I realized that I’m a female cuckold! Nothing gets me hotter than the thought of my boyfriend fucking somebody else in front…
ROB BREZSNY’S FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19) When the Red Hot Chili Peppers released their fifth album, Blood Sugar Sex Magick, in 1991, it blasted them into stardom. They appeared in large arenas, won a Grammy, had a hit song at the top of the charts and sold millions of records. Guitarist John Frusciante freaked out. As an…
NOT NAKED ANYMORE
When Jamie Oliver was a young lad, he made a name for himself as television’s hip young face of cuisine on The Naked Chef. But while many of us wouldn’t mind a peek at the strapping cuisinier in the buff, it’s really his stripped-down, honest food that’s naked. His new book, COOK With Jamie: My…
I HEART TELEVISION
I really hate those a-hole annual year-end lists … wait. No, I LOVE THEM! (Especially when I’m the a-hole writing it.) See, I can’t figure out how I feel about 2007: Did I love it? Or hate it? As it turns out, in a year that saw the series finales of some of my faves…
HAPPYTOWN
It’s our last issue of the year and you know what that means: slow news week. Because nothing is happening, we present our annual Year in Review in 286 words. Sorry to say it, but the Year of Our Lord 2007 was kinda lame. Let’s take the requisite trip down memory lane anyway, in no…
POLICE BEAT
DEC. 8, 4:19 P.M.: Last month, burglars visited a sporting goods store in the 4500 block of Old Winter Garden Road. Twice. In one week. They pushed an AC unit out of their way, crawled through a hole in the wall and pilfered 60 dozen pairs of boxer shorts, 36 dozen pairs of men’s shirts,…
MAIL SACK
The ACLU muzzle Glenn Katon may be mistaken when he says that [ACLU Central Chapter president George] Crossley misspoke in the first part of his quote, claiming that impeachment hadn’t been discussed inside the national ACLU [Letters, Dec. 13]; however, I don’t want to get into an argument with him over that. Rather, I would…
LAST DANCE
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. The music industry is supposed to be dead by now. Physical CD sales plummeted in relation to the previous year again in 2007 – a whopping 15 percent decrease this time – and the entire concept of a “record store” seems antiquated. Tower Records, gone. Fopp is out…
SWEDE AND LOWDOWN
The term “Swedish Invasion” may not be on anybody’s lips quite yet, and it probably won’t be anytime soon. There is no imminent threat of Jens Lekman or Acid House Kings having to hold off throngs of screaming teenage girls as they invade the field at Shea Stadium. No, these are the wartime neutrality guys,…
OF MOUSE AND MAN
Bob Lanier is running for president of UNITE HERE Local 737, a union that represents some 12,000 Walt Disney World service employees, about half of whom are union members. Lanier, who works at the Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue in the Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground, has over 30 years of union membership – he started at…
Ron Paul: White Supremacist
Hey Paultards: Check out your new American saviorâ?¢, in his own words, in his own newsletter, in 1992: Regardless of what the media tell us, most white Americans are not going to believe that they are at fault for what blacks have done to cities across America. The professional blacks may have cowed the elites,…
Sentinel commenters are completely sane, thoughtful individuals
So, the Orlando Sentinel ran a story about how some AM sports radio station is switching over to – gasp – Hispanic music or something. Let’s sample the reaction, shall we? (Oh, lest there be any doubt, all of this is copied and pasted directly from the comments.) I am so tried of Businesses and…
S.K.I.P’s head-scratching response
It’s fascinating to me how local vegan rapper S.K.I.P. has seemed to materialize as some kind of agitator/inspirer for the Weekly’s music section. Like the Oaks (who S.K.I.P. is playing with Jan. 5 at the Social) earlier this year — and if you haven’t seen the passionate response to columnist Bao Le-Huu’s calling bullshit on…
