Queen Sarah Palin Among Us!
Oh what a happy Saturday in Orlando! Her Majesty the Queen of Alaska Sarah Palin is among us. She will shower us with her royal presence, hand out smoked salmon and tell us, unwashed throngs that we are, how her royal court will save our meager mud huts and preserve our jobs toiling in the…
Time: McCain plays the race card
The mag’s blog calls out McCain’s new ad, which Time believes implies that Black Man Obama and Some Other Scary Black Man (with whom Obama has no connection) are going to raid the piggy band of little old white ladies. Judge for yourself. I could go either way. At the risk of being hypersensitive though,…
gwyneth paltrow and a big pile of fat.
Of course I’m referring to a plate of Batali’s favorite dish, lardo (cured pork fat), not Batali himself. OK, let’s back up: former macrobiotic Gwynnie, sweaty orange-Crocsed Iron Chef Mario Batali, NYT’s suave Minimalist Mark Bittman and … umm … some Spanish actress started to eat their way through an entire country last night in…
A graphical comparison of the Obama and McCain tax plans.
Think about this the next time the Republicans put out another “Oooh, scary Democrats just want to tax-and-spend all your money away” ads. Click here for the full size version, with full explanation. Notes – The McCain tax plan doesn’t give you even an 1% tax cut until you are making more than $66,000. I…
WHEELIN’ AND MEALIN’
Clean starts and big finishes at this bike-friendly sandwich joint
ALL PRO
Miami’s Spall Allstars’ mishmashed heat
NEW ROMANTICS TURN THE BEAT AROUND
Heartbreaker Label: Lujo Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Heartbreaker In 2006, the debut album from this Lakeland combo blithely glided along the rails of danceable indie-pop that was so in vogue at the time. In the two years since the release of Some Midnight Kissin’, the indie landscape has shifted considerably, with the…
HAPPYTOWN
What’s the best shoe for a pig wearing lipstick? A wedge! Despite America’s Favorite Hockey Mom revving up the fundies, Florida may not be ready to pray away the gay just yet. The latest Quinnipiac University poll of Florida voters indicates that only 55 percent of the 1,427 voters questioned support the superfluous Amendment 2,…
COMMENTS
Pro-mantrimony There never has been a separation of church and state in this country, or more correctly a separation of Christianity (of all sorts) and our various levels of government `”We dodged a bullet,” Sept. 11`. I lived in rural North Carolina and it was impossible to get a job with the school board unless…
FEEL THE PEACE
A strange thing happened to the reviewers assigned to preview films from the Global Peace Film Festival: No matter the up-and-down production values, the content hit its target, soliciting an overwhelming sense of compassion from the seen-it-all writers — and it came as a big surprise. One by one, reports came back with comments like,…
WEST SIDE STORY
"You want hip-hop, you want to go downtown. The other side,” chuckles a stocky rapper who goes by Blo. He’s gathered with fellow rappers like Mo4us, D-Light and Rocwell on a corner of Parramore Avenue to hang out and, eventually, spit verses in a semicircle. They’re in their 20s but share the wearied poker face…
BUSTING THE BUDGET
Orlando’s city government responded to its current budget crisis — a $31.4 million deficit — the way most cities do: They blamed everyone and everything else for their fiscal problems. Increased energy rates, spiking health care costs, lower sales tax revenues, the constitutional amendment that passed in January forcing property tax cuts statewide — you…
BLISTER
There is this vast, echoing hall of muted beats and floating particles — a warehouse of sorts, underused and sparsely populated with varying personalities shuffling their feet in resigned circulation. No real light source to speak of; no sense of drive or purpose, either. It’s a bit like a bomb shelter, except someone accidentally brought…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Believe it or not, whatever has been limiting your movement has also been expanding your capacities. It’s true. The pinching sensation you’ve had to endure has been covertly generating psychic fuel that you will soon be able to access. Therefore I say unto you: Praise your squelchers and constrictors! Be grateful…
SAVAGE LOVE
Is it possible for a man to insert his balls into a woman? It’s a topic I don’t want to Google. A few months ago, I was making out with a guy and he whispered to me that he wanted to insert his balls into me. I said, “What?!?” and he moved on to other…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
Their second album for Anti-/Epitaph Records (No More Heroes) won’t drop until early next year, but local hip-hop stars Solillaquists of Sound have just released the album’s first single, “Death of the Muse,” featuring J-Live, Jurassic 5’s Chali 2na and Maureen Yancey (“Ma Dukes”). Mother of deceased Detroit producer J Dilla, a personal hero of…
FIRST SHOT
"Watch this,” we whispered to a buddy as the trailer for Sex Drive rolled. “In about five seconds, this chick is going to take a totally awesome gainer. Right on her face.” We hadn’t had a reason to speak those words since attending a UF frat party back in ’85, but the occasion was a…
LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES
For this week’s installment of Live Active Cultures, I’m sharing a sneak peek at a few theatrical debuts: one, a just-opened production of a show brand-new to Orlando; the second, an about-to-open return of an old favorite; the final, a foretaste of a future show that takes us back into the distant past. Gone Missing…
COUNCIL WATCH
Given current budget woes, there was a lot of whimsy this time around as the sitcom characters of The Dais gathered for another civic powwow. District 4 commissioner Patty Sheehan was fresh from a cemetery tour, where her girlfriend saw a crypt-keeping ghost (spooky!), District 5’s Daisy Lynum tongue-twisted over the word “apostolic” for no…
Evans High student turned mass-murdering warlord releases rap song!
“I want to see blood.” That’s retired Brig. Gen. John Tarnue’s recollection of what former Evans High student Chucky Taylor would say to his underlings as a Anti-Terrorist military leader (and son of the President) in Liberia. “In my presence he tortured people. He didn’t touch them, but he gave them the order,” says Tamue.…
Politics + Economy + iMovie = hyper-current, hyper-relevant ads
I’m posting this at 1:45 pm, on September 16th. This is an Obama ad, just released, that’s based on events that occurred just yesterday. New media, my friends, is genuinely upon us. Frankly, I think that’s pretty interesting.
More evidence of push polling
This time from the AP, so apparently this isn’t just a scurrilous Internet rumor: Jewish voters in Florida and at least one other state are being targeted by a telephone survey tying Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama to Palestinian causes, an advocacy group alleged Monday.
