Words and Wisdom of Dr. Fank-n-furter
Of Course, If He’d Said That about Clue I’d Have to Club Him
Theater fan: What would you say about a person who saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show only once and didn’t feel any need to see it again?
Tim Curry: I’d say that was a person who was in full possession of their senses.
–Actor’s Fund event, 52nd & Broadway
Overheard by: Big Larry
via Overheard in New York, May 17, 2007
While Pawn considers whether to relocate to Europe, he is studying up on what may await him across the pond. This tip comes from How To Survive Holland a website run by the recruitment firm Undutchables :
Tip: If you try to speak Dutch to a native and your accent is foreign, they will immediately speak your language. If your accent is reasonably good they will speak Dutch to you very fast. If you then say, “Oops, langzamer als je blieft (slower please)”, they will again immediately revert to your language. There is no solution to this - I just thought you should know.
Peter Forster - Vanuatu
Pawn should be ready for this, having pleaded “slower please” for years now.
Ladies Object Lesson With Mirror
While that may sound like the title of an impressionist piece by Pissarro, it is in fact just the latest interesting Google search to lead some unsuspecting fool into Fortune. One of the interesting things about gathering statistics on blog visits is seeing how people get here. Thanks to FireStats Pawn gets to learn something new every day about just what people are searching for on the web. In the case of Ladies Object Lesson With Mirror Good ol’ Fortune’s Pawn has garnered positions 2 and 3 in Google’s ranking.
ladies object lesson with mirror - Google Search
After this posting, no doubt, that will change to 1,2 and 3. Another proud day for we Pawns!
Paul Hina has some interesting comments about the Chocolate Jesus debacle in New York, this past Easter. Here is an excerpt:
“Catholic League head Bill Donohue called it “one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever”.
Really? Worst assault ever?
Donahue is an ass, and anyone familiar with his perpetual sense of outrage knows it. I guess in some ways I can see how Christians might be offended by something like Serrano’s Piss Christ. But this piece seems tame in comparison. If the piece were shaped from doody instead of chocolate then I could understand. But to me this artist is making an important social comment about the confectionary capitalism that revolves around western religious holidays.
Well said!
Bono proves irrelevance of British Monarchy
Bono Becomes Knight of the British Empire - New York Times
Carries this precious quip from rock star/diplomat/public scold/fashion plate/bon vivant Bono
“You have permission to call me anything you want — except sir, all right? Lord of lords, your demigodness, that’ll do,” he told reporters afterward.
In the March 5, 2007 issue of The New Yorker, Lauren Collins wrote a Talk of the Town piece about contretemps between Frank Bruni, New York Times food critic, and Jeffrey Chodorow, a chef perhaps best known for his nationally televised Rocco’s failure in The Restaurant. The dust-up blossomed into a full page ad placed by Mr. Chodorow in The Times.
In her piece, Ms Collins wrote of another (smaller) response some years earlier…”an author placed a series of notices, under the name of a character from her novel, directed at the paper’s lead book reviewer. ‘Yoo-Hoo! My Cute Kakutani!’ they read. ‘Lieb Goldkorn is calling.’”
The latest issue of the magazine carries this letter, from Leslie Epstein, the author of the Lieb Goldkorn novels, “Lauren Collins and the fact-checkers at The New Yorker do not have to feel too bad about mistaking my gender. When I was born, Leslie Howard was all the rage; hence the name of my parent’s little boy. Then along came Leslie Caron, and everything went to pot. With my own experience as a guide, I strongly advise all new parents to give their children utterly unambiguous names. Like Caligula.”
This blog has the second highest rank for the search phrase “Designer Bev Nap”. Seems as though “Bev Nap” is a seldom used phrase on the web, and “Designer” just makes it rarer.
UPDATE - April 10, 2007: Fortune’s Pawn has achieved Google notariety, now the highest, and second highest, ranking results for the search term “bev nap” A hearty thank you to the universe from all of us here laboring in Fortune Land!
Overheard in Milwaukee:
Slacker Chick in Heidi haircut, Mao cap and gas station jacket:
What really pissed me off was we were fooling around one night and he was texting another girl. I’m like sitting there naked ready to do whatever and he’s pulling that shit. He’s all about wanting to eat out my asshole and then he does that.
Slacker Dude:
I guess he wasn’t really ready to get everything he wanted.
Overheard at Landmark Lanes, March 10, 2007
Self portrait by Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, British artist from the 20th century, described himself as “a medium for accident and chance.” What elegant economy.
If You Can’t ‘Date’ Yourself, You Might As Well Commit Suicide
Dude #1: Look at me — I’m a hairy beast. I don’t think even I could date myself.
Dude #2: Yeah, man, I don’t think I could even date you — you just wouldn’t be my type.
Dude #1: That hurts, man.
Dude #2: It would be a shitty relationship, anyway.
Dude #1: … Yeah, you’re right.
–Neptune Diner
Overheard by: Nathaniel Jones
via Overheard in New York, Feb 19, 2007
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