Just in time for Halloween, the American Life League has announced the fetus-themed, 2012 national “Pro-Life Pumpkin Carving Contest.” This competition — which is totally real, HOLY SHIT — doesn’t just raise awareness for lifers’ cause. Rather, it’s meant to showcase unborn baby-shaped, anti-abortion squash sculpture. Apparently, this genre of art has existed for some [...]
Rush Limbaugh claims that dicks are shrinking worldwide — and that chicks are to blame. No, really. Raw Story, reblogging a Media Matters post, brought to our attention Rush’s recent rant against — you guessed it — liberated women. Rush — who pretty much symbolizes the GOP’s insecure white guy schtick — says that “feminazis” [...]
5:10 p.m.: Branford Marsalis, the second most famous of the Marsalis brothers, is playing the National Anthem on a soprano sax. Lovely articulation, warm timbre. After a moment, the C-SPAN sound people figure out how to give the singing crowd a little volume, so the sax rests upon a warm, soft bed of voices. Ghostly [...]
5 p.m.: Convention opens with a blast of funk, and a huge scrim displaying a pastoral, and the words “Democratic National Convention: Americans Coming Together.” Debbie Wasserman Schultz looks gorgeous. Hair, white dress, makeup — this is the least tired she’s looked in a year or so. “Welcome to our deliberations,” she says. “We shall hold [...]
Tuesday afternoon: Provisions: two six-packs of Flying Dog Brewery’s “Raging Bitch” Belgian-style pale ale. Carton of cigarettes. A well-charged phone and access to GrubHub. TV on C-SPAN. Click! Some kind of huge young Republican male is talking angrily about how Obama’s screwed his generation. And now a similarly huge young Republican female is doing likewise, giving [...]
Salty Eggs’ Valyn Calhoun was at Fort Lauderdale’s ArtServe on Saturday to capture Red Eye, the annual event aimed at showcasing and promoting new, underground, local artists. Photos by Valyn Calhoun: Check out our Facebook page for the full gallery in hi-res. Tag and share away!
You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
Venezuela has been in the media lately: following the death of Hugo Chávez, his chosen successor, Nicolas Maduro, beat challenger Henrique Capriles in the current election for presidency. It was a miniscule margin of a win—about 50.7%–and as of this write-up, a contested verdict. But if you’re the average United Statesian, you are less aware [...]
