Our god is bigger than your god.
Y’know, I’d have a lot more respect for your average religious folks if there weren’t so many examples of absolute stupidity coming from their leaders… “I would also pray, Lord, that your reputation is involved in all that happens between now and November, because there are millions of people around this world praying to their…
Hip-hop’s Citizen Kane to re-emerge?
It’s one of the most Shakespearean tales in music: Eminem comes from nothing and takes over the hip-hop world, only to watch as his only friends are slain, his family falls apart (even more than before) and he retreats to his Detroit Xanadu and reportedly gets real fat. But now, hints are coming to light…
What You’re Doing This Week (Oct. 9-Oct. 15)
First, check out our Selections of the Week. Nothing tickle your fancy? Try these out: Thursday, Oct. 9 The WPRK Marathon continues with two shows tonight! The Attack, Eugene Snowden, the Hi-Life and Arms Harbour are playing at Back Booth, while a hip-hop show featuring MostBanginest and Conshus will be going down at Crooked Bayou.…
Update: Economy still shitty
I know it’s been a while, since yesterday’s attack on our server by commies eliminated a couple of my blog posts and a bunch of your comments (awww), but we plugged back in this morning and quickly checked on the state of things … and it’s still really awful. CNBC reports: Three-month borrowing on interbank…
TUBER-STEAK BOOGIE
Columbians high-step it to El Rey, where meat and potatoes rule
BERLIN IN BROOKLYN
Lou Reed and Julian Schabel help ‘Berlin’ rise
SAVAGE LOVE
I feel ridiculous e-mailing you about this, but I figure that if anyone has seen or heard of all manner of asshole behavior during sex, it would be you. I’m a 17-year-old girl, and I’ve only had one boyfriend — who was, at the time, 21 and, I thought, completely perfect. I’m glad it’s over,…
COMMENTS
Chilling I just read the Sept. 25 Happytown™ review of the documentary Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West, which was distributed via newspaper and magazine inserts across the country. I’m not sure what the Orlando Weekly gang watched, but the documentary I saw was a compilation of actual video footage from Middle Eastern TV,…
WHIZ KIDS
We’re just a bunch of metal kids playing metal. That’s just what we do and who we are.” That kind of self-effacement is to be expected from a local band displaying a bit of rehearsed false modesty in the hopes they will one day be more than just a “bunch of metal kids playing metal.”…
MONSTERS INC.
Little Shop of Horrors is largely to blame for launching my lifelong love of musicals. In 1982, writer Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken (who would later inaugurate Disney’s “Second Golden Age” with The Little Mermaid) transformed Roger Corman’s no-budget thriller about a man-eating plant into an off-Broadway mock horror masterpiece. Frank Oz’s 1986 film…
WHAT, US WORRY?
In case you’ve spent the last few weeks in a cave, the United States is in something of a financial bind these days. The stock market has tanked. Credit lines have frozen. Banks have collapsed. Kids can’t get student loans. Small businesses can’t meet payroll. The federal government is dropping an obscene amount of money…
MEET THE ALSO-RANS
There have been only a few occasions in which third parties left a memorable dent in presidential politics. In 1856, the breakup of the Whig Party into the Republicans and the Know Nothings helped elect Democrat James Buchanan, whose incompetence led to the Civil War. In 2000, Ralph Nader’s Green Party bid helped elect George…
BLISTER
Sometimes I wish everything could go a little more smoothly. Cracking a glance at my visage in the mirror this morning, I feel the sudden urge to cover myself in khaki and pull out a chisel while simultaneously wiping my brow and staring at the sun. A veritable Google map of personal travesties winds and…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
In November, local indie rock band Kingsbury will bear-hug modernity and offer their new EP, Lie to Me, for free through their website (www.kingsburymusic.net). There will be an option to donate to their artistic efforts, so don’t be a tightwad. But wait! Besides the EP, their entire catalog will also be up for grabs, and…
FIRST SHOT
Is there anything more damaging than an ill-considered impersonation? Some viewers might think the only image problem Michael Chiklis ever faced was explaining why The Shield was wearing Fred Flintstone’s bedroom paneling in Fantastic Four. (The verdict: He got out with his rocky butt intact, but only because Jack Kirby was no longer alive to…
LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES
The value of your 401(k) is hovering in the single digits, the tax appraiser says your home is worth less than a tank of gas, and pundits proclaimed Sarah Palin the victor of last week’s vice presidential debate by virtue of not swallowing her own tongue. We’re just a handful of plagues away from the…
COUNCIL WATCH
District 1 commissioner Phil Diamond was out with the flu, which meant there would be no reassuring winks, no thoughtful contention and a generally arrhythmic pacing to this week’s civic confab. In place of those things, there was talk about swans and gay people from commissioner Sheehan, self-conscious fadeout-speak from commissioner Lynum and inscrutable loud…
HAPPYTOWN
Wingnuts, take note: We’re now a full-fledged, pinko-librul-queer-lovin’ town! Last week, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer announced that the city will henceforth offer same-sex partners the benefits it awards to married couples (though not to straight unmarried couples, because they’re living in sin). And it only took our “progressive” mayor and his Democrat-dominated city council five…
POLICE BEAT
Sept. 26 (2008-415728) 8:16 a.m.: Some jackass snatched a woman’s purse while she was at a bus stop. (2008-415798) 9:31 a.m.: Someone stole construction tools from a construction site. (2008-415979) 12:12 p.m.: Three kids stole food from a Vietnamese restaurant’s freezer. Boring. (2008-416045) 1 p.m.: Here’s the week’s first copper wire theft. (It won’t be…
Horny for Change?
Vote McCain/Lee Roth ’08!
This is gonna hurt me more than it hurts you, Johnny
You know, we didn’t want to have to go there. See, Johnny Boy, when you said earlier that, “I’ve said again and again, I do not believe that Sen. Obama shares Rev. Wright’s extremist views which he has stated,” and promised to “disassociate myself from that kind of campaigning,” we really didn’t think you’d go…
