Subject: Kool-Aid

• Fun With Ctrl F

  June 13, 2006

• Local Vodkas Show Their Tastes

  September 8, 2008

• Daily Briefs: Post-nuclear winter of the soul

  By CHRIS PACKHAM Cold-front whatever: It's colder than a bucket of penguin shit, you guys. I spent the morning printing out random pages on the office laser jet and shoving printer-warm sheets of copy under my shirt. That's how we roll during the econocalypse, y'all, insulating ourselves with piping-hot 20 lb. 8 1/2" x 11" ultra-bright paper like white-collar hoboes. In order to continue living in the fly style to which I have become accustomed, I had to take on a second job, so I applied at Vi

  November 21, 2008

• Daily J. Briefs, Esq.

  For various reasons, I've become incredibly familiar with the principles of Pavlovian conditioning and their utility in training people, I mean dogs, to perform simple tasks. So the AMAZING REWARD at the end of today's Daily Briefs should not be construed as a "prize" for reading the whole thing, but rather as a conditioned reinforcer that will increase the likelihood of similar behavior in the future. Furthermore, telling you in advance that today's entry has an AMAZING REWARD at the end shoul

  December 15, 2008

• Can't Touch This

  April 22, 2004

• Hot Stops

  May 20, 2004

• Radio Daze

  June 30, 2005

• Wooden Wand

  July 21, 2005

• Casa de Pupusa

  June 29, 2006

• Cannes Report: Is There a Doctor in the House?

  Health, in life and film, dominates Cannes.

  May 31, 2007

• 3rd District Blues

  March 22, 2007

• Cape of Good Hope

  October 20, 2005

• The Celestial Prophecy

  Local jam bands try to stick 2004 in their pipes and smote it.

  January 6, 2005

• Waxwings Over America

  Detroit's Waxwings work out the kinks and get a new deal.

  August 5, 2004

• Manishevitz

  Thursday, July 1, at The Brick.

  July 1, 2004

• Kiss, Me

  A former Kiss Army soldier recalls his torturous tour of duty.

  June 24, 2004

• Secret Santanas

  Holidazed and confused? Consider this your stairway to shopping heaven.

  December 18, 2003

• Grizzly Bloodfeast

  Night of the living side projects

  October 30, 2003

• Captured! by Robots

  Sunday, October 19, at the Brick, and Monday, October 20, at Mojo's in Columbia.

  October 16, 2003

• Well Hung

  Avenue artists overcome adversity for the sake of public art.

  May 29, 2003

• Sound Tribe Sector Nine

  Sunday, February 16, at the Granada.

  February 13, 2003

• Truth Or Derek

  "Dangerous Derek McQuinn sold his soul for a piece of the gold exchange.

  November 7, 2002

• Buzzbox

  Gooding

  April 12, 2001

• Gooding Times

  During concerts, Gooding's rock trio breathes life into his electronic songs.

  November 16, 2000

• Phelps suicide watch canceled

  Shirley Phelps-RoperAfter reading way too much into this field report on the official blog of Topkea's Westboro Baptist Church, several bloggers -- here, here and here -- wondered if the Phelps family should be placed on suicide watch, wondering if they were a glass of Kool Aid or a set of matching Nikes away from their eternal reward. Uh, no. "I say first -- this is wishful thinking and standard slander," Shirley Phelps-Roper tells The Pitch in an e-mail. "It means nothing." Phelps-Roper says W

  April 28, 2009

• Friday Freebies

  And once again, we bring you Friday Freebies, wherein we present things to do this weekend that won't cost you any more than the gas it takes to get to 'em. Lawrence's Be Moved Studio (above Liberty Hall at 2 E. 7th St.) presents "Antheros: An Evening of Haptic Awakening" on Friday night. Jenny Cook, Natalie Ann Dye, Jenny Hoyt, and Anne Katherine Bruce present the viewer with art and dance that explore touch and movement. Alice Streurwald will lead a community ritual honoring the summer solsti

  June 19, 2009

• A pitcher of your finest Kool-Aid wine

  Sometimes, we here in Fat City come across an item that might just inspire new lows -- or highs -- such as this recipe for Kool-Aid wine.The recipe raises a lot of interesting questions, like if such a wine would truly improve with age. The recipe suggest that after five years this would not just be a drinkable wine but one you would choose. That seems like the kind of statement someone would make out of confidence that nobody would actually age Kool-Aid wine. The recipe creator's optimism is,

  July 31, 2009

• IHOP founder denies claims of cult-dom

  ​Folks from the International House of Prayer held their first of two information sessions last week in an attempt to ask Grandview-at-large, "We're still cool, right?"No mention of Armageddon or 100 foot snakes but the 400 or so people who came to the meeting were uneasy about clogged streets and houses, and tying so much of the community's real estate and economy to a single source."The idea of one particular group coming in and buying a lot of property and getting control over the community

  September 1, 2009

• Concert Review: Lee "Scratch" Perry at the Beaumont Club

  Better Than: the 2009 American Idols Tour at the Sprint Center. I had second thoughts before I agreed to review the Lee "Scratch" Perry performance at the Beaumont Club on Sunday night. "He's a legend," my friend said. "People are probably going to talk shit about your review, no matter what you write... and don't even think about getting a setlist either," he added. Despite the warning, I decided to carry on, slightly fearing public backlash (i.e., Railroad Earth fans). I did some research,

  September 1, 2009

• Product extensions we want to see

  ​Who did Benjamin Franklin turn to when he was thirsty? Kool-Aid man -- at least according to the bizarre alt-history envisioned by The Adventures of Kool-Aid Man. The comic book/product-placement vehicle encouraged readers to follow Kool-Aid Man "as he battles the thirsties (yellow spiky suns with green tongues and mad eyes) through time and on a camping adventure." Because everybody goes camping to unwind after a wearisome travel through the ages. In light of Eat Daily's nod to the comic boo

  September 2, 2009