Sometimes you just know that certain food will kill you. No joke. But you still want it anyway. Yes ground bacon burger, I want to dance with you. (Thanks to NXT reader AC)
It's a well known fact I have no lover for the Green Bay Packers or their fans, so I'll be rooting for the Giants this weekend. But in case you were looking for a reason to bet against that cagey old man, look no further than Packers fans - a dad was arrested for duct taping his son to a chair and THEN taping a Packers sweatshirt to the kid. Why? Because the kid said he didn't want to wear the sweatshirt. Stay Classy Green Bay.
BUSTED YET AGAIN! This time for mah pore grammar by T. Flushing Funjoy of the Press Harried blog. Is T. Cushing Munjoy worried about copyright infringement? If this keeps up there'll be a cottage industry around correcting the Press Herald. Anything to help the economy.
You ever wonder why it is people record themselves doing ridiculous things? Why there is an unending supply of shots of guys getting hit in the groin? You say you don’t want to watch, but you do. Luckily no one is getting hit in the genitals, and it’s a reminder that when someone asks if you know Kung Fu, just say no.
Tonight over at the Meg Perry Center in Portland, filmmaker David McDonald is screening two of his documentaries, "Woodstock...Can't Get There from Here," on the rise of the music and movements that led to the 1969 music festival, and "The Culture Wars," which looks at the increasing polarization and red stating/blue stating of America. Show starts at 6 p.m. It's a benefit for the Foglight Collective and the first in what the hope will be a film series on political and social issues.
If you picked up a paper today you may have noticed I had an off–Monday column featured. I had a chance to have a conversation with Jennifer Venditti, director of the documentary "Billy the Kid." The film is being screened for two nights beginning tonight at The Frontier in Brunswick. If you miss it don't worry, there will be a showing at SPACE Gallery next month.
What can you get for $5? How about a ticket to a showcase featuring a handful of local talent, including Samuel James, Joshua Loring of Cult Maze, Ian Paige, Chris Teret and more. The Dead of Winter show begins at 8:30 p.m.
Back at the Meg Perry Center tonight Flatbread Company, NAACP Portland Chapter, The Center for African Heritage, The Foglight Collective and Peace Action Maine are bringing together a few artists for a Darfur relief benefit show. Glenn Jones, Arborea and Prisma will be performing at this all–ages show which starts at 8 p.m. Suggested donations are $5–$10.
Finally, here's the weekend video straight from Australia. This kid somehow alternates between being hilarious and a jerk in a way that keeps you watching. If you want to throw a party when your parents are out of town, call him. Just make sure you have insurance.
Justin is a former newspaper intern and has the scar tissue to prove
it. Justin has been a staff writer for the Portland Press Herald/Maine
Sunday Telegram since 2003, and in 2004 began writing a weekly column in the
Monday Magazine.
If he had to pick a label, the column would fall under "youth culture,"
covering everything from high school dance etiquette, dealing with college
debt, the resurgence of Roller Derby and Portland's one-of-a-kind music
scene. This of course has not stopped him from answering letters to Santa
Claus or writing about his experience riding shotgun in a drift car.
Justin is an export from the Midwest. He is a graduate of the University of
Missouri and is originally from Minnesota. He enjoys bacon, cheap beer,
redheads, Burt Reynolds jokes and wondering what the soundtrack to his life
would sound like.
When he grows up he wants to be an international art thief. Or Captain
America.
Until then he'll be bringing you dispatches about "the young people" and
what they do.
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