Wonkette
- The Connor Contemporary showcases the works of John Kirchner and Brandon Morse in a joint exhibit, “Unknowns” and “This Shape We’re In,” an exploration of decay and rebirth. Kirchner takes old oil paintings from unknown artists and adds commonplace things to them — an apple, a shirt — while Morse’s videos show structures breaking down and forming new shapes. Until March 21. [Connor Contemporary]
- Bring your 3-D glasses or maybe a little stash of sumfin’ sumfin’ to the Curator Office’s exhibit, “Lucid Dreaming,” featuring the works of Simon Gouverneur, Jason Hughes and Paul Laffoley. The paintings are totally trippy, and provide the most bizarre inside look into the brain’s subconscious. Until Feb. 14. [Curator's Office]
- If Tim Burton made an animated Nine Inch Nails music video, it would probably look like the work of Anthony Pontius. His painting, “The Dough-Eyed Killa” is particularly frightening, as is the rest of “Why on Earth?” at Project 4. Until March 7. [Project 4]
Museum Events:
- Tuesday, Feb. 10: The National Museum of National History is hosting “History in a Glass: Famous New Orleans Cocktails,” further proof that New Orleans is nothing but a booze town with bad weather. Cocktail historian Phil Greene and master mixologist Chris McMillian discuss the origins of several New Orleans cocktails, including the Hurricane, Ramos Gin Fizz and Mint Julep. $60, 6:45PM. [Smithsonian]
Can I write-off the $60 entrance fee as a donation to the Museum of Natural History?
So, shit + apple = art? Genius!
Is anyone else watching the Ft. Myers thingy? Obama just took a question from some guy who sounds like a pro wrestler, is two semesters into college and claims he’s worked at McDonald’s for four years. Very weird.
Oh, okay… Dude said he’s a Communications major and he wants to be a DJ. Got it - loser.
Kev-O-Tron: I thought he was going to rip off his panties and throw them at Hopey, a la Elvis
Um — the mint julep is a New Orleans cocktail in the same way that pasta is Italian. The julep is, in fact, Virginian in origin, although this fact is disputed by the usual ragtag band of declaimers and ne’er-do-wells. And probably David Denby.
Is that illustration how what is left of the world will look after the total collapse of the world we know? Forget the hobo beans, I’ll probably be killed in the wave of riots, civil unrest and wars that will follow. And when those have played out, I guess it really will be a new world order. not necessarily one i’d want to see.
SayItWithWookies: Don’t make me come over there!
Love,
Kentucky
No mention of the Sazerac or even the Pimm’s Cup? You can tell this was written by someone in a place that doesn’t know how to drink.
And we’re not “boozers”, we are “colorful lushes imbibing libations”. We get drunk with class, unlike your average tourist.
Zulu_Big_Shot: here is the description from the Smithsonian site:
“You might not be surprised to learn that the Hurricane cocktail was born in New Orleans, but did you know it’s the product of wartime rationing and resourcefulness? Did you also know the city on the bayou claims one of the world’s oldest cocktails—a blend created by a 19th-century ancestor of cocktail historian Phil Greene? Join Greene and Chris McMillian, a master mixologist from the Big Easy, both of whom are founding members of the Museum of the American Cocktail, for a literal taste of New Orleans via the libations it made famous. Learn and taste how the underappreciated Vieux Carre cocktail represents the history and demographics of the French Quarter of the 1930s. Learn (and shake your way through) the history and assembly of a Ramos gin fizz, following directions from the “Louisiana Kingfish,” Huey Long. From the Sazerac to the mint julep, you will see—and taste—how history lives on in the ways we eat and drink.”
OffTheRecord: Oh, I wouldn’t do that — I know how hard it is for hill people (what with their one leg shorter than the other) to walk on flat ground. I’ll just mail you the recipe.
Qwerty42, Jesus jumped up fucking a christ!
SayItWithWookies: When the ghost of Henry Clay comes after you don’t say I didn’t warn you. Actually, Virginia can keep the Mint Julep. I think they are kind of gross, especially those horrid mass produced things they sell at Derby. And I always feel like Daisy Buchanan when I drink them, except I don’t get to run over anyone.
$60 is hardly worth it unless I can get sh*t-housed drunk on some top shelf liquor. Something tells me it would be a bunch of watered-down cocktails in 2oz. tasters.
Hound: interesting wasn’t it? I think Ken has it elsewhere and this has shown up on other blogs as well. we are very far from ok.