Transvestite Soup

In honor of the 40th anniversary of the Rocky Horror Picture show, I present (pieced together with the help of a friend, and a friend of a friend) the Minneapolis Uptown Theater transvestite soup audience monologue circa 1992*

Look, it's transvestite soup!
No, it's a fruit filled Life Saver
No, it's Queer-ios .. just add cum and they'll eat each other
I didn't know Frank went down on the Titanic
Sure - Frank goes down on anything
I didn't know the Titanic was a fairy boat!
I didn't know fairies had their own navy
Sure they do - it's called the Marines
God's got his finger up Frank's ass
God's got his finger up everyone's ass
I didn't know Michelangelo did pools
He doesn't! It's Andy Warhol doing a Michelangelo forgery!

(several hours later ... )

Newsflash! 

I discovered, while trying to find an apt transvestite soup still to add to this post, something much better: this, the logo for the Twin Cities RHPC shadow cast which now calls itself Transvestite Soup! I had no idea ...

For those of you who have never been to Minneapolis and have no idea what this is all about, here is a photo of perhaps the stupidest (and my favorite) sculpture of all time, "Spoonbridge and Cherry" which resides in the sculpture garden outside of the Walker Art Center:

 (if you've never been to Rocky Horror and have no idea what "transvestite soup" is all about, too bad - go to a midnight screening and come back later!)
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* with apologies for all the dumb gay jokes, but anyone who's been to Rocky Horror knows that they are all in good humor and it's a big gay / weirdo / theater geek fest ... 

Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

That's the classic English pangram (sentence containing all 26 letters), one of few useful sentences I learned as a young kid and still remember, along with pneumonic devices "She made Harry eat onions" (the Great Lakes, west to east) and "Every good boy does fine" (treble scale).

The lazy dog sentence as far as I know arose out of a need to quickly test for stuck typewriter keys. The need to do anything efficiently (or at all) with a typewriter has gone completely obsolete, but pangrams are still good for trying out fonts, and for amusing word nerds such as myself.

I discovered the discotheque one in a photo app and then realized this was a thing beyond typewriters and typefaces, that people sit around coming up with them, and the sheer number of them far outpaces their usefulness.  I am not that much of a word nerd. The 26 letter ("perfect") pangrams are pretty much cheaters (examples: "Zombies play crwth, quj FDG xvnk" and "Jump dogs, why vex Fritz Blank QC?") insofar as you would define a sentence as loosely as: a thought that anyone sane would find a reason to utter out loud.

Once you allow some extra letters to sneak in though, you get some gems like:

Junk MTV quiz graced by fox whelps.
Both fickle dwarves jinx my pig quiz.
Jack, love my big wad of sphinx quartz!
Five quacking zephyrs jolt my wax bed.
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.
Fix problem quickly with galvanized jets.
When zombies arrive, quickly fax Judge Pat.
Watch "Jeopardy!", Alex Trebek's fun TV quiz game.
Foxy diva Jennifer Lopez wasn't baking my quiche.
Cozy lummox gives smart squid who asks for job pen.
Six big devils from Japan quickly forgot how to waltz.

.... all brilliant, I know, but the clear winner is:
"Who am taking the ebonics quiz?", the prof jovially axed.

Read it and weep.
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main source: http://clagnut.com/blog/2380/

April Fish Day / you jackass!

An assortment of images I found today in an "April fool" google search

Louis Vuitton Series 2

Last day of this immersive somewhat psychedelic exhibit.  Definitely worth a peek.

Click here for address and info.

get lost, lost Lost exhibit.

This is not like that eight buffalos sentence. I didn't write it to be coy. I mean it.

I missed this Lost exhibit.

How?  How, how, how?  I am on their mailing list. How did I miss this? Los Angeles, you are driving me crazy. I'm saturated with stuff.  Add some hours to the day please, especially since I generally work at least 12 of them, like a crazy person oh wait like everyone else in Los Angeles, except when we aren't working and sit in coffee shops all day or surf or have brunch with our dogs on patios in t-shirts (that's us in t-shirts, not the dogs, not the patios) while everyone else is shoveling five feet of snow; and add some days to the week; and some weeks to the year. Because it's impossible to do everything, and that's really why I stick around, but it's driving me crazy.

Right now:

The Art of Motion Picture Costume Design - 23rd annual, at FIDM

allegedly ..... at the Hollywood Museum on Highland, the allegedly annual (though I've not heard of it, I can vouch for the Hannibal Lecter prison cell in the basement, so a wasted trip there is never wasted) "Celebration of Entertainment Awards" exhibit with some set pieces from Boyhood and Nightcrawler. Nothing about this on their website (which isn't maintained well, which is why I say "allegedly"), but they do say they have some Harry Potter things. And if they don't, the Warner Brothers museum does.

famous people's typewriters at the Paley Center.

and Paleyfest.

"Louis Vuitton Series 2 - Past, Present and Future" (immersive exhibit of Nicolas Ghesquière's vision for Louis Vuitton)

and Hollywood Costume at the new Academy Museum.

black and white and red all over

Stores on Beverly Drive.  Gareth Pugh.

eaten by the monster of love

Sparks played tonight at the Ace Hotel

... and a relic from my first Valentine's Day in L.A.