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Happy Christmas and Merry New Year! Re/Creating Tampa is on holiday til 2009. I want to thank everyone for making the last six months of this blog such a wonderful experience. Thanks, everyone! I hope your holiday season is everything you wish it to be, and maybe a little bit more. See you in January. TBO.com writes up “Gisela’s Closet,” “a new 25-minute film about child abuse developed by a local filmmaker and starring local actors.” Here’s the trailer at YouTube. “Gisela, an imaginative young girl who often reads fairy tails, is the unfortunate victim of her mother’s abuse. Her only escape from her mother is to lock herself in her room [...] Wow. I had no idea. Neil Young made a movie with Devo in the early 80s. Human Highway (1982) is a goofy flick about the last day of humanity. It stars Neil Young, Dean Stockwell, Mark Mothersbaugh, Russ Tamblyn, Sally Kirkland, and Dennis Hopper. This sounds like the most awesome drive-in SF flick ever. I’ve been [...] On the surface this seems commendable. Internal Affairs discovers some detectives are lying on their time sheets, threatens to prosecute and the officers resign. Ha! No more slacker detectives! But, is this really the wisest move? Three of the four officers retired before being charged and will receive their pension. These three officers have three quarters of [...] And do it using film clips. 100 Movies, 100 Quotes, 100 Numbers. “Blog Author” (if that is his real name) at Scribe Life announces the 13th annual Florida Film Critics Circle awards. The winners are … Picture: Slumdog Millionaire Attorney General Bill McCollum says the AG’s office doesn’t have jurisdiction in public corruption matters. Hmmm, I think there’s a word for this, oh yeah! Horseshit. Maybe he means that Commissioner Gerald Bailey has jurisdiction. If so, after being forced to eviscerate the Department of Law Enforcement due to budget cuts, you’d think Bailey would [...] One of my favorite bloggers, Alex at Neatorama, kicks off the new Neatorama forum with the post The Secrets of Neatorama’s Success: The What, When, Where, and How to Blog. Delicious History is still resolving some image issues, but in the meantime has posted a review of Gio’s Italian Grill without images. *** Inexact Science gets a “pretty damn good” sandwich at Philly Flava, but is overwhelmed with his first Mountain Dew in months. *** Congratulations to Tampa I Am on his second blogiversary! TIA reflects on what he [...] The Bull Gator points to this AP article about theaters showing the BCS National Championship in 3D. You can search for participating theaters here. The closest one to me is: Carmike- Royal Palm 20 Three more are here: Rave Avenue 16 Dan Conover’s “Foundations of 21st century journalism” is a tremendous manifesto about the changing worlds of journalism and the news industry. I strongly recommend it to anyone interested in hyperlocal journalism. I came across it by Googling “reputation economy” and hyperlocal. Working your way through this giant blog post and looking up any unfamiliar word, phrase, [...] David Cay Johnston’s Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and StickYou with the Bill) is a densely packed series of investigative reports revealing how giant corporations and the hyper-wealthy take federal funds to enrich themselves. Johnston is the consummate journalist. He started his career in 1968 and won the Pulitzer Prize [...] I just added an online bookstore via Amazon. Check it out, see if you like it, buy a book or two, and let me know if you have any suggestions on how to make it better. Thanks! Oh, and since I’m on the topic, here’s a link to the International Association of Culinary Professionals 2008 IACP Cookbook [...] I hate billboards. They’re an eyesore, and Tampa has way too many of them. But, they’re not going anywhere soon, and the Tampa City Council has a decision to make Thursday about whether to allow an increase in the number of digital billboards in the city. This increase in digital billboards is part of a [...] The political leadership that allowed a $2 billion shortfall in the Florida budget is getting back together in a special session. I predict their solution is to pass more tax cuts, borrow more money, and find some poor corporate superpower deserving a giant payout. Thank you Alex Leary! Leary’s investigation into Sansom continues this week with “Sansom had help with plan.” (With some assist from the Miami Herald.) This latest investigative piece takes a closer look at the relationship between Northwest Florida State College President Bob Richburg and Speaker of the Florida House Ray Sansom. It sure does look like these [...] Bettie Page had more fame in the late 1980s and 1990s than in her 1950s heyday. She perfectly captured the retro-cad nostalgia embraced by hipsters learning to love bachelor pad music of the era, a sort of easy-listening avante-garde best represented in the music of Esquivel, and recaptured in the 90s by acts like Combustible [...] The January installment of the Clip film series has been announced and is scheduled for January 23, 2009 – 7:30 PM at the Muvico Baywalk. Tickets can purchased here. Clip is an umbrella organization that includes the Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (TIGLFF), but also does film festival outreach, and promotes GLBT films [...] I am now an occasional blogger at Creative Loafing. CL is expanding their food coverage and recruited some local folks to write about food for their Daily Loaf blog. Here’s a nice link list of the new food bloggy goodness. As some of you know the company that owns Creative Loafing filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection [...] Two of my favorite people talking about food! “Well, you have to understand that that department of the government [the Department of Agriculture], the $90 billion a year behemoth is captive of agri-business. It is owned by agri-business. They’re in the room making policy there. When you have a food safety recall over meat, sitting there [...] Clark at Ridiculously Inconsistent Trickle of Consciousness reviews Historic Photos of Tampa, a coffee-table book collection of photos from the Burgett Brothers Photographic Archives. Sounds like fun reading. I know that the end of the year is traditionally time for looking to the past, but this story prompted me to take a few moments to consider the freaky electronic telepathy future that awaits us. The key quote from the story linked to above is - “A Japanese research team has successfully processed and displayed [...] The EPA started an FBI-style most wanted list for environmental fugitives. “Defendants charged with environmental crimes or violations of the U.S. Federal Criminal Code sometimes flee the court’s jurisdiction and/or the USA rather than face prosecution or to serve a sentence. When these circumstances occur, the defendants become fugitives from justice.” Florida’s criminal contributions are John Karayannides, [...] Just a gentle reminder that simply legalizing marijuana would reduce the money we spend on law enforcement, the money we spend on jails, and would increase our state and national income through a hefty sin tax. Marijuana is not constitutionally prohibited, is safer than alcohol, and was planted on Earth by God. There is no [...] Google just released its end-of-the-year zeitgeist. Here are the top 10 things from around the world that burst into the public consciousness the last year - Fastest Rising (Global) 1. sarah palin “‘Fastest rising’ means we looked at the most popular [...] We all understood the wink behind the ruling that Bush v Gore could never, ever be used for precedent in any other case, but I think this admission of error has taken everyone by surprise. “WASHINGTON—In an unexpected judicial turnaround, the Supreme Court this week reversed its 2000 ruling in the landmark case of Bush v. [...] Google adds magazines to its Google Book Search. “Today, we’re announcing an initiative to help bring more magazine archives and current magazines online, partnering with publishers to begin digitizing millions of articles from titles as diverse as New York Magazine, Popular Mechanics, and Ebony.” Daily Routines collects information about “how writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days.” T. C. Boyle has my dream schedule and the one I work on trying to achieve (with an emphasis on the trying). “I start with two newspapers: the L.A. Times and the Santa Barbara News Press. Then I re-read what [...] I think it goes without saying that the original “Planet of the Apes” (1968) is the greatest movie ever made. Apes was one of the early franchises, spawning sequels, toys, and a television show. Since it sort of deteriorated into self-parody it was hard for some people to see it as a good property for [...] Den of Geek offers up some suggestions for the top scenes about taking drugs. They include YouTube clips when available. The second batch of 25 is here. If I had the time I’d download all of these, stitch them together, and play them at my next out-of-control drug-fueled orgy. Here’s Jackie Gleason in Otto Preminger’s Skidoo, a hard [...] |
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