In a fine addition to the ranks of public art used to terrify children, Louise Bourgeois' monumental "Crouching Spider" will be installed on the Embarcadero at noon Thursday (at Entry Plaza at Pier 14). We can only hope it makes its way over to Justin Herman Plaza and eats that monumental pile of crap left by the dog with the square intestines. Seriously, when is that piece of shit coming down?
The Details:
Installation Process:Background:Fabricated from bronze and stainless steel, the 2 1/2 ton sculpture measures approximately 10' high and 27' wide. The body of the spider will be suspended over the site, the eight legs inserted into the body, and lowered on to the pavement.
You may not have heard, and you may not think you care about the Writers Guild of America strike, but when you find yourself curiously not laughing tonight as a repeat of The Daily Show airs, you'll start caring pretty quick.
It's the first such work stoppage in 20 years, something about residual pay for internet usage, among other issues. All I know is I want it my Colbert, I want my Jon Stewart, and I want them now. How else can I justify my sky-high Comcast and TiVo bills? With reality TV? Hell no.
-- Brian Bernbaum
Suicide Food: "Any depiction of animals that act as though they wish to be consumed ... a bellwether of our decadent society."
Judged on a five-noose scale ranging from one noose ("mildly troubling") to five ("Ye gods! I must go wash out my eyeballs!") Suicide Food's creator and ethical-eating vegan Ben Grossblatt tends to target hometown-looking barbecue joints featuring cartoon depictions of smiling pigs, dancing cows, and chickens happily sweating it out over the roasting fire.
Whether you visit for the wide variety of colorful Americana or to stoke your outrage over the way people "distance carnivorous diners from the cruelty and death that seasons their dinners," a good time is almost guaranteed.
-- Brian Bernbaum
Cirque du Soleil is wet and gay and French and on fire, all at the same time. But the craziest part about it is that the conservatives love it! No matter where you stand on the political spectrum, you can catch Kooza here in SF:
San Francisco, CANov. 16 to Jan. 13
KOOZA tells the story of The Innocent, a melancholy loner in search of his place in the world.
KOOZA is a return to the origins of Cirque du Soleil: It combines two circus traditions – acrobatic performance and the art of clowning. The show highlights the physical demands of human performance in all its splendor and fragility, presented in a colorful mélange that emphasizes bold slapstick humor.
Party Pizza recall? No! Last last week General Mills recalled a staggering 5 million Totino's and Jeno's frozen pizzas over possible E. coli contamination, symptoms of which can include all kinds of stuff you don't want: stomach cramps, diarrhea, kidney failure.
The suspected culprit is not the pizza itself, but the pepperoni. Twenty-one cases of E. coli illness linked to the pizzas are under investigation by the CDC. Consumers are asked to trash the recalled pies.
-- Brian Bernbaum
Welcome to this week's Monday morning hangover. We'll bring it every Monday at 9 a.m. from here on out. I'm your web editor, David Downs.
Let's start with the funny. Two words: Tracy.Morgan. Personal hero to us and to Jewish werewolves all over. Werewolf Bar Mitzvah.
Now, ... what happened last weekend? Um, we vaguely remember almost getting arrested by police before headbanging to DethKlok at UC Berkeley over the weekend. That was pretty brutal.
Then we almost got arrested in da club with Ghostface Killah and Rakim at Mezzanine. That was tight, son!
But that was after we went out honoring all the dead 'tinas in our life at the Dia De Los Muertos parade. Caliente!
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On the schedule this week:
