UPDATE: Footage, courtesy of
the Greenwash Gorillas themselves… even as this was a pretty amazing spectacle, the footage kind of makes me want to give Tom a big hug. While I understand the criticisms of Friedman’s work, I wonder if this was an effective way to get the message across, or whether this merely reflects poorly on the University… thoughts? Could the pie-throwers have raised their dissent during the Q&A with as much flair?
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman had just begun his Earth Day lecture at Brown last night, when Molly Little ‘08.5 and a colleague let him know what they thought of his work.
The Brown Daily Herald reports:
A female audience member ran on stage last night and threw a green pie at New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman […]. The woman had been sitting in the south side of the auditorium’s front row when she pulled the pie out of a Brown Bookstore plastic bag that had been tucked in a red backpack and leapt out of her seat.
And by debate, i mean a discussion on how to eat it.
First, courtesy of the
NYT, we learn that renowned architect Gehry loves
matzah brie, (AKA matzah fried with eggs). I also love matzah brie, so now Frank and I are matzah twins. Here’s how it went down at the Bilbao Gugenheim:
In the midst of jaw-dropping architecture and a collection of Serras in a room the size of a football field, in a town where even the uncelebrated food is good, we of course wound up talking about matzah brei, even though Passover was six months away.
Next, from a Japanese game show, we learn how to cut matzah the right way: with some type of calligraphy brush.
Read more on matzah brie
here, then cry your heart out to The Prince of Egypt and more Japanese TV, after the jump.
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Eddie Izzard seems to have added a Providence date before this new tour officially kicks off. What up with that? I will not question it — a gift from the cosmos just when you need it. I first noticed Mr. Izzard in the movie “Velvet Goldmine” which has already been discussed
here — not an easy movie to get noticed in. He also appeared in “Ocean’s 12″ and “Ocean’s 13″ as Roman Nagel. Check out his earlier tours on the dvd’s ‘Glorious’ and ‘Dress to Kill’. He’s really smart and goofy. I’m guessing that the name of this tour refers to his recent shedding of the whole cross-dressing thing, which now makes him one of the few British men not wearing a dress. (Check out the recent New York Times’interview.)
show time 8PM/Tuesday April 15/VMA Arts and Cultural Center/272-4862
I can’t believe I missed this in the New York Times yesterday:
”Possible Nazi Theme of Grand Prix Boss’s Orgy Draws Calls to Quit”
In a sublimely perverse, supremely hilarious article that at first glance seems like something ripped straight from the Onion, the Times reports on Max Mosley, president of a formula one governing body, who was recently revealed to have participated in “a depraved Nazi sadomasochistic orgy” with five prostitutes in London’s Chelsea district.
According to the Times:
The video showed Mr. Mosley counting in German — “Eins! Zwei! Drei! Vier! Funf!” — as he used a leather strap to lash one of the women.
“She needs more of ze punishment!” he cried in German-accented English. One woman appeared to search his hair for lice while another called off items on an inspection list.
But, wait–it gets better:
Family history has added to the notoriety: Mr. Mosley, 67, is the younger son of Britain’s 1930s fascist leader, Sir Oswald Mosley, and the society beauty Diana Mitford, whose secret wedding in Berlin in October 1936 was held at the home of the Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels and included Hitler as a guest of honor.
New York Magazine has this delicious read, a screen treatment of the nightmare that could be a Dener Convention. They say, “we asked Lawrence O’Donnell Jr., former West Wing writer-producer, to play out a scenario in movie-treatment form. The premise is that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton arrive in Denver, neither having sufficient delegates to gain the nomination nor a decisive majority in the popular vote. And so it’s on…”
A gripping, ripped from the future example, from a scene of party leaders approaching Bill about getting Hillary to drop.
Rangel: Look, Bill—
Bill: Fuck you, Charlie. You think you can put a knife in my wife’s back and come in here and talk to me nicely?
Rangel’s 78-year-old Harlem street instincts have him moving toward Bill with a clenched fist. Biden jumps in to keep them apart.
Rangel: If your wife is elected president, I’m still gonna be chairman of Ways and Means and she’s gonna need me every fucking day. So how do you wanna leave it: Fuck you, Charlie, or I’m sorry, Mr. Chairman?
It’s ribald, and extremely well written. And while the intro notes that the odds of a brokered convention are still remote, it does make you wonder. An in-depth consideration, below the fold.
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I have a warm spot in my heart for Martin Yan. When my niece was a toddler she used to sit transfixed (god bless tv) watching his cooking show from beginning to end. Martin Yan and Pee Wee Herman were her favorites. Mr. Yan is in town today as part of a two-day event sponsored by Johnson & Wales and Brown University — Eating Chinese: Global and Local Perspectives on Memory and Identity. Today is day two and
things start at 1:00PM. For information call Sarah Cresta, Culinary Arts Museum, at 410-598-4849. (The Yan thing might be pretty popular.)
Martin Yan/4 - 5:30/Tyson Amphitheater/Harborside Amphitheater/Johnson & Wales University
As someone who was voted ‘most likely to twist her ankle’ in high school I can’t identify with this activity at all. I have been known to injure myself squeezing out a sponge. This morning’s
ProJo has an article about the
Co-ed Fight Club for Girls at the E&O Tap. (Unfortunately Monday is my Scrabble night and on Thursdays I have to sit on my couch.) The hard copy has a great photo of artist Josie Morway… maybe these are her feet… as well as other great pix inside. I just want to get this link up. Other dosers may want to elaborate but are not famous for getting up early on Sundays.
From “The Verdict with Dan Abrams.” You may have seen some of these before. But where is that John McCain cartoon from South Park? And also, when/where is that mock debate with the new actors from? SNL?
So apparently I made the cut for Yankee Pot Roast’s
Half-Decade retrospective. The weird thing is, they didn’t bother to tell me; I just stumbled upon it while browsing their site. They also apparently never received the writer bio I sent them, judging by the snarky one they created for me. Nonetheless, I’m awesome.
I am alternately horrified and enthralled by the impending downfall of Western Civilization, a process I occasionally like to prod along in some small, but I hope, ultimately meaningful, way.
In various print columns I have both decried the commercialization of Christmas, and urged the indiscriminate bombing of one or more Balkan nations by our next president; condemned the reckless egomania of athletes, and demanded my own fawning cult of personality; admonished our current president for his messianic ineptitude, and cited that same ineptitude as an inspiration to my career as a writer. So while I may find reality television and its corrosive effect on the American psyche alarming, I can appreciate its intrinsic value as a yardstick to measure just how close we’ve gotten to the absolute bottom of the barrel.
… you sometimes miss wide. But when a ‘Kids in the Hall’ sketch worked, it was genius. Tickets are now on sale at PPAC for the upcoming KITH show ‘live as we’ll ever be‘, on May 1st. And it’s all five members! You would think at least one of ‘em would be living on an ashram or have a needle stuck in his arm by now. They made one under-appreciated movie,
Brain Candy, following the TV show which aired from 1989 - 1995. Characters included Bauer, Tanya, the Chicken Lady, Rudy the asthmatic Armenian pimp and, seen here, Gavin.
Ian
recaps the Follies over at N4N. Highlights: A shouting match between Clinton and Obama supporters, special guests Bill and Patrick Lynch, and extra-special guests Chelsea Clinton and John Kerry.
In contrast to memorable remarks associated with FDR and JFK, Kerry lamented he will be remembered for the phrase, “Don’t Tase me, bro.” He brightened, though, in outlining hopes for environmental Dems and death-penalty Republicans to come together — thanks to a solar-powered electric chair.
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