2010 Commemorative Mardi Gras Prints Now Available: “Peeing on Bourbon Street”

peeing-300x2611Relive the glorious Mardi Gras season with this limited edition print by famed New Orleans painter Noah Swayne, “Peeing on Bourbon Street.”

This delightful depiction of three frat brothers publicly urinating can be yours for just $299.  This is the companion piece to last year’s acclaimed “Peeing on Canal Street,” all part of the “Peeing in the Big Easy” series.

Feb 16

Flashback: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Precursor to ‘Fallingwater’ – A House Built Atop A Mine Fire With Flames Shooting From It

carbolic_fallingwater_fireWright decided fire “wasn’t the way to go” when his creation burned to a crisp less than an hour after it was built.  “Maybe water will work better.”

PITTSBURGH – It is the stuff of legend how acclaimed architect Frank Lloyd Wright jump-started his moribund career in the mid-1930s by designing a house perched over a Western Pennsylvania waterfall. Fallingwater remains one of the most celebrated private residences in the world.

Not so well known is the precursor to Fallingwater that Wright designed the previous year: a house built directly atop an underground coal mine fire.

“Mr. Wright thought that having a perpetual smoldering effect would give the residence a measure of warmth,” explained Wright scholar Professor Franklin Toker.

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Feb 5

Slumdog Millionaire Sequel Coming Soon

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Feb 4

Obama Publishes First Presidential Memoir

prezdreamspostRandom House announces follow-up, to be published next month

Jan 28

“My Special Guest Tonight: Heather Mills”

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Jan 28

Opening Today at the Carbolic Theater…

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Jan 16

“Frost/Nixon” Star: “No Problem” With Nude Scene

nixonelviscufflinks21dec1970HOLLYWOOD - Frank Langella, star of the critically acclaimed film “Frost/Nixon,” said he had no qualms at all about shooting the now famous nude scene for director Ron Howard. Mr. Langella plays former President Richard M. Nixon. 

“I’ve never had any problems going nude, as long as it’s not something gratuitous, and is part of the context of the story,” Langella told Variety columnist Army Archerd. 

“I think everybody remembers the pivotal moment in those interviews where Nixon, in a move designed to intimidate his inquisitor, spread his legs open to reveal that he wasn’t wearing any underwear. The look of shock on David Frost’s face will stay with me forever.”

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Jan 8

Coming Soon to a Theater Near You

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Dec 22

“So funny… A great book… A tremendous book… As good as anything out there.”

Pittsburgh radio icons Jim Krenn and Randy Baumann said that and more about the brand-new Carbolic Smoke Ball book, ZOMBIES ATE MY HEADLINES, on yesterday’s WDVE Morning Show.  

Hear their raves, find out more about the book, and be among the first to order your copy at Amazon.com or right here at the Carbolic Smoke Ball. 

This Monday, the ZOMBIES rise. And walk. And make you laugh.

Nov 22

Long Lost Mozart Composition Found, Sounds Exactly Like Miley Cyrus’ “See You Again”

Salieri’s descendant says “it stinks”

PARIS – Experts in Germanic music of the late 18th Century concluded that a composition discovered in a French library was written in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s own hand between 1787 and 1791, and that in every detail — from its melody to its harmony to its instrumentation — it is identical to “See You Again,” the hit single by American teen pop star Miley Cyrus.

Ms. Cyrus called the revelation ”sweet” and suggested she might pose for provocative photographs with a Mozart look-alike to draw attention to the news.  “You know — bare back, the whole thing.”

In New York City, Tony Salieri, a pizza delivery man for Lombardi’s in Little Italy who is a descendant of Mozart’s rival, composer Antonio Salieri, declared the composition “a piece of dreck.  Typical of Mozart.”

Sep 19

“American Idol” to Add Fourth Judge

NEW YORK, NY – Move over, Simon Cowell.  ”American Idol” is adding another caustic critic to its panel of judges.

Crusading jurist and bon vivant Judge Rufus Peckham will sit alongside Cowell, Paula Abdul, and Randy Jackson when the eighth season of “American Idol” premieres in January, the Fox network said Monday.

“For the past seven seasons, Simon has had to endure the experience of being the only heartless bastard at the judges’ table,” said Mike Darnell, President of Fox Alternative Programming, in a prepared statement.  ”With Judge Peckham by his side, Simon has some backup, and now there is going to be a lot more cruelty and gleeful misanthropy on the show.  We imagine the contestants will be in tears every week.”

Judge Peckham, fake news magnate and Founder Emeritus of this web site, will come out of retirement and back from the grave to join the top-rated reality competition show.  ”They made me an offer I couldn’t refuse,” Peckham said through his publicist.  ”And besides, a guy with a Messiah complex as great as mine couldn’t stay dead forever.”

Aug 26

Portrait of Woman Revealed Beneath Van Gogh’s Face

AMSTERDAM – A high-tech x-ray spectroscopy today revealed a previously unknown portrait of a woman by Vincent van Gogh under the dead painter’s face.

Van Gogh’s body was exhumed because of long-held suspicions that “something was under his face,” said noted Van Gogh authority Dr. Noah Swayne.  When the results of the testing were revealed at a conference of Van Gogh aficionados in Amsterdam, several experts gasped in horror. 

“We have no idea how the painting got there, but this will cause us to look at van Gogh altogether differently from now on,” said Dr. Swayne.

Aug 21

Isaac Hayes Dead; Obama Campaign Relieved

“That’s one black person we won’t have to worry about renouncing someday,” said Obama campaign manager David Plouffe.

Aug 11