FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -


Date: Monday, July 23 2012
Cover: $3
Time: Pre-events begin at 7pm. Official show start for Puppet Slam is 9:39 pm sharp!
Location: The Laboratory -
818 W. University Ave
Gainesville, FL 32601
(352) 505-5337

TITLE: The Tom Miller Winter Unspectacular en Ingles Presents:
           Gainesville's First Puppet Slam!

Description: This Monday, Gainesville's staple alternative open mic, The Tom Miller Winter Unspectacular en Ingles will honor the minority group of disenfranchised members of our community known as puppets. These beings will assemble, with special guest puppets from Orlando and the surrounding area, for Gainesville's first Puppet Slam! All regulars who typically perform in the show will be required to incorporate a puppet into their act in order to be permitted to perform. There will be scheduled feature puppet performances, puppet videos, and there will be man-sized puppets in the form of aliens, monsters, and puppets that look almost exactly like human beings. This production is being presented in cooperation with Tom Miller, Daniel Timothy Ballard (local puppeteer and monster maker), and The Laboratory (a Cafe of Science). It will run until 2am.

Pre-Event: Prior to this show, there will be auditions for the Alachua County Rapscallions theatre company which are open to the public at 7pm. This event has been incorporated into the Miller show because for the first time, puppets will be allowed to participate in Gainesville theatre auditions. This has never happened before in the city of Gainesville. Progress!

The open mic list will be limited to 15 lucky participants. There is a randomly drawn prize: a twenty-five dollar bar tab good for any drinks and food at the Lab and this coupon does not expire. There is a three dollar cover charge at the door, but with paid admission, the customer has a three dollar voucher at the bar for a drink.

Participants include Big Heads from local theatre director Gregg Jones, special appearance by Dolphin Wizard, and members of IBEX Puppetry (Orlando). Gainesville has never seen anything like this.

WARNING: ABSOLUTELY NOT FOR CHILDREN. WHEN LEFT TO THEIR OWN DEVICES, PUPPETS HAVE REMARKABLY OBSCENE LANGUAGE AND BEHAVIORS.

Facebook Link to the Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/137924893012594/



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Having recently had the opportunity to sample one of the new designer pseudo-drugs sold in the local head shops these days, I am obligated to post my review of the product for the benefit of mankind. With all the talk about bathsalt-zombies eating human flesh, it strikes me that the media is most certainly in a desperate bid to promote their industry by reporting absurd exaggerations and outright fabrications (as they did back in the days of good old American yellow journalism) and Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow are now turning in their graves, possibly high on salvia or herbal Ecstasy. Possibly eating each others' brains.

A nice nameless fellow who is the owner of this particular head shop gave me a bottle of this stuff comp (it retails for around twenty-four bucks for 12ml which presumably is a one-time dose. It is in the form of a tincture. I agreed to post this review in return so he could get a gauge on the efficacy and effect. I can assure the reader that at no time under the influence of this product did I ever entertain the notion of eating anybody's anatomy.

Detailed information on Maeng Da and it's various manifestations and effects can be found here: http://www.kratomshop.com/maeng-da-kratom.htm

More information on Kratom here:
http://newshindi.net/category/what-is-kratom/

I took a full bottle at 1:30 in the morning and will divide the review into three parts: Taste, Effect, Rating.

Taste: The taste of Lucky Kratom is ungodly bitter with an oily follow up. I was reminded of unsweetened absinthe. Lesser experienced souls may barf.

Effect: After about thirty minutes, a mild effect began to kick in. It was a slight body-tingling and overall, I can compare the next hour or so to the effects of a 5mg Valium.

Rating: From 1-10 and given the rather steep purchase price, mild effect and unpalatable taste experience, I could not recommend this product. I rate it a 3.

So there you have it. Honest, economical, no holds barred review. Although I deeply appreciate the opportunity to have given it a college try. I will be posting more reviews of alternative 'legal' pseudo-drugs as they come available.

-- Tom Miller