Category Archives: Entertainment

and the winner is…

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Perez Hilton, for being the first gossip columnist and/or blogger in history to have a sex toy named after him. Now at least one blogger in the world is consistently going to be having sex, if only by proxy. Surely this is the field's equivalent of an Oscar or Nobel. His parents must be so very proud. Don't miss the always-respectful comments; it's so silly that spammer says he likes dogs. Perez is so obviously more of a cat person.

Perez Junior and Senior

And it even matches his pretty eyes!

Some people get sandwiches named after them; Perez gets a sex toy!!

We were honored and amused when the folks at Booty Parlor told us they wanted to name a sex toy after us.

Bright, powerful and unisex were the key words we told them, and they came up with the Perez, Jr. (pictured above). It's waterproof too!

The only thing greater than having a sex toy named after you is having sex and since Perez hasn't been doing much of that, The Perez, Jr. will come in handy.

Click here to get yours today!

P.S. Whenever you use it, just think of Brad Pitt. Or Angelina Jolie. Or both….at the same time!

also, don't hold your breath waiting for the Gawker coverage.

time passages

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In light of the fates of the entire cast of Diff'rent Strokes, do you ever wonder what happens to other child stars? Like this one:

Ya, don't pretend like you don't remember that; it was the Una Paloma Blanco of its time.

this happened

Could be worse: at least he's not in Dubai with Michael Jackson.

bartending 101 and bartending -101

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The 5 steps to bartending. I think this song is Italian, but I am unsure. Yes, I know the text is English. Smartass. 

And here's a really good example of what not to do when you're tending bar. You're not in Cirque du Soleil, dammit; I only asked for a Jack Manhattan!

John Malcovich has Bird Flu

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Apparently the latest dance craze combines the spastic idiocy of the Chicken Dance with the heartfelt celebration of morbidity which is the Tarantella. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the time is ripe for a dance that makes the Lambada look tasteful, the Pogo graceful. And it has achieved its highest expression here, in the half-scale crawlspace inhabited by this freakish, almost subhuman performer. UPdate: video removed or something. Replaced with your common or garden variety of Jamaican bird flu dance.

Sploid has an update:

A dance craze sweeping the Ivory Coast has onlookers baffled.

“It’s like a chicken with Parkinson’s disease trying to dance to hip-hop,” said one person who saw it.

Dancers stretch out their arms, bend them at the wrists, and then start trembling and twitching … to hip-hop. It’s called the bird flu dance, perhaps due to the fact that avian flu tends to set in when birds engage in strenuous activities such as dancing to African hip-hop.

The man who invented the dance, DJ Lewis, said that he was trying to lighten the mood after the H5N1 strain of bird flu turned up in his country.

“I created the dance to bring happiness to the hearts of Africans and to chase away fear — the fear of eating chicken,” he said.

“If we kill all our chickens and poultry, our cousins in the village will become poor. So I created the bird flu dance to put joy back into our hearts.”

Kottke.org has diligently traced “the Jamaican strain of the bird flu dance” (Watch a video set to unlistenable music! [nowhere near as much fun as this vid]), but thus far nobody has been able to find video of the Ivory Coast version.

Thundering Fundraiser

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The Shebeen Club
Presents

 Who: Al Mader, Spoken Word Phenom and One-Man WonderBand! What: Thundering Fundraiser for T Paul Ste. Marie!  When: 7-10 pm Tuesday, June 20th, 2006 (3rd Tuesday ea month)
Meet & Mingle 7-7:30
Listen & Learn 7:30-8
Poetry Slam Dancing and other Tipsy Cultural Mashups 8-10 Where: The Shebeen, behind the Irish Heather, 217 Carrall  Why: Because Vancouver’s proudly homegrown talent regularly beats the best in the world. Because that talent grew in an environment pioneered by T Paul, founder of Thundering Word Heard. And because T Paul recently suffered a brain aneurysm and needs a helping hand rent-wise, there being little in the way of pensions and sick leave for Entrepreneurs of the Word, Spoken or Otherwise. How (much)? $15 before June 16th, $20 thereafter, includes dinnerAll profits for the evening will be donated to the T Paul fund.Instead of our usual door prizes, we will do a T Paul 50/50 draw. 

Info & tix: lorrainedotmurphyatgmaildotcom

 New Format: Our new, lower admission price includes your choice of bangers and mash or vegetarian pasta, plus a glass of beer or wine.  

Bio: Al Mader is a vocalist and washtub bassist for the (one-man) Minimalist Jug Band, and has scuffed around the country for many years.

If Lou Reed passed out on the grave of Johnny Cash and dreamt of Jack Kerouac the soundtrack to his dream might sound vaguely like Al.

He’s shared stages with the likes of Nick Cave, They Might Be Giants and The Cowboy Junkies.T Paul says he started Thundering Word Heard with the idea that he wanted to create a place where both music and spoken word could come together and be given a place that was their own. And he has done just that. After three years the room is still full every Sunday night even on a long weekend. It takes a lot of time, commitment and a big heart to keep putting on something like this every single week. But it has paid off. Thundering Word continues to be a great success and T Paul’s reputation as a host and organizer continues to grow as well.    “ I have my hands in a million and one things that all seem to have the center in that hub Thundering Word Heard.”