You May Have to Start Shooting Up Your Ice Cream

​Scientists may have discovered a link between ice cream and drugs.The issue of whether or not food can be addictive has been largely debated. Now however, researchers Kyle S. Burger and Eric Stice of the Oregon Research Institute, have found that there is in fact a link.MSNBC reports that Burger…

This Valentine’s Day, Say It With Sex Toys

Valentine’s Day is one occasion when most folks — ​even those of us who like to live outside the box, then take a chainsaw to it until all that’s left are infinitesimal flecks of cardboard — choose to go the traditional route, and showering our mates with flowers, candy, and…

No Eating Human Fetuses, Says Senator Ralph Shortey

There have been plenty of f’d up news stories coming out of South Florida, but the more and more I read about wampeters, granfalloons, and nut bags that make up the rest of our country, I start to think that it may, after all, be safe to drink the water.Freshman…

What’s Michelle Obama Really Doing in South Florida?

Maybe it’s that whole exiled-from-the-Motherland, terrorized-by-a-ruthless-dictator thing, but Cubans tend to be a little paranoid. Of course, just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not watching you. And the fact that Michelle Obama, First Lady, Democrat, former WNBA power forward, closet lesbian, and professional beard, will be visiting South Florida…

Paula Deen is a Liar and Anthony Bourdain Hates Her (Video)

Well, well, well. Who woulda thought that the notoriously Southern Paula Deen was actually a Cuban-American in disguise? Oh, no wait — she isn’t. It just seems that way, since like many of our abuelitas, she has been suffering from diabetes while pushing sugar-laden goodies down our eager throats for…

Five Things You Don’t Know About Lesbians

​The highly anticipated anthology Best Lesbian Erotica 2012 was just released a few weeks ago. We’re pretty sure you think you have lesbians all figured out. Then again, right now some of you may be thinking, ‘What’s erotica?” Heck, some of you may even be wondering what an anthology is.Do…

Debate Over Snack Ends in Murder-Suicide for Ohio Family (Video)

We’re almost two weeks into 2012, but the food-related craziness from last year has apparently spilled over. We thought Miamians were nuts, but check this out. Tragedy struck an Ohio family after Paul Gilkey, 63, became upset when relatives served his terminally ill wife a snack.Gilkey had peeled an orange to…

Satanic Cheese to Eating Batteries: Five Weirdest 2011 Food Stories

People are weird. Whether gobbling sofa cushions or creating demonic cheese sculptures, people have done some crazy stuff this year when it comes to eating and food.Companies are just as guilty (run by people coincidentally) and have also provided some wonderful food blog fodder throughout 2011.Even jailhouse inmates got in…

Blame Canada: Hawkesbury Food Bank Broken Into Over Christmas Eve Holiday

​Ever since Michael Moore’s exploitive documentary, Bowling for Columbine, liberals, hipsters, and pseudo-intellectuals have fawned over our great cousin to the north.But perhaps Canada is not the peaceful, crimeless country depicted in Moore’s documentary — the one where people leave their doors unlocked and the murder rate of the entire…

Chili’s Can Be Rude — Stop Throwing Away Your Food!

I love free stuff, Groupon, discounts, hook ups, and so on. But my obsession with not throwing away food when there is some other use for it stems from more than the fact I like to save a little coin.Americans generate more than 34 million tons of food waste annually…

Cut off Food Stamps to Mercedes Owners? Just Maybe

There’s been a lot of discussion lately about a plan in Michigan to deny food stamp benefits to people who own cars worth $15,000 and up.At first I thought, “Well, yeah.” A $15,000 car can be a symbol of financial success. It’s not a sign someone is in dire straits…

Ghost World

The coolest, edgiest, and hippest graphic novelists will be lurking about the 305 November 13 through 20. There’s Denis Kitchen and his notorious Chipboard Sketchbook, Ben Katchor of The Cardboard Valise fame, and Michael Kupperman, whose graphic novel, Mark Twain’s Autobiography, recounts a “life” of Mark Twain in which the…

Butoh Time

Reading the biography/history section of the Carpetbag Brigade’s website may cause seizures. The San Francisco group puts on visual extravaganzas using improvisation, acrobatics, music, circus antics, and butoh. This Saturday, the Carpetbag Brigade will perform their live show, “Callings,” as part of the much anticipated Sleepless Night, an overnight culturalpalooza…

Carpetbag Brigade Brings Acrobatics, Wordless Poetry, and Improvisation to Sleepless Night

Reading the biography/history section of the Carpetbag Brigade’s website may cause seizures. The San Francisco group puts on visual extravaganzas using improvisation, acrobatics, music, circus antics, and butoh (explanation below).This Saturday, the Carpetbag Brigade will perform their live show, “Callings,” as part of the much anticipated Sleepless Night, an overnight…