Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

Menupages + Googlemaps = Menumaps

You may recall my obsession with Googlemap mashups, although it’s been a while. The genre has been a bit overdone, and it’s been a while since I found one that seemed worth sharing. This one mashes GMaps with Menupages, a site I’ve shared before. I like it for its one-page menu pdfs – much better than prose opinions for deciding if your potential restaurant is affordable and in tune with your current hankerings.

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Update: Jon points out a pretty big flaw in this mashup. I have made a comment about it on the blog for Menumaps, so maybe it will be fixed soon. Until then, consider this recommendation "pending."

Despite trying to pretend that I am now well, I remain rundown and conjested. I had planned to join a photo mob at the marathon, but instead, I opted for a movie in bed. I picked Closer, a small ensemble piece directed by Mike Nichols. There are exactly four characters in this film, none of them particularly likable (despite some great performances). And yet, there was just enough humanity within each of them for me to keep watching. It was a fairly harrowing choice for a person like myself who has recently survived a breakup. This film renews my feeling that "breakups happen" remains about the most cruel and trivializing phrase in the English language. I’d be interested in hearing if anyone reading this has seen it and has an opinion about it.

Trapped In The Closet – The R. Kelly Sing-a-long at the Coolidge Corner Theatre on Friday, April, 29th:

We spared no expense to import from Austin, Texas, one of our favorite ideas ever. Our friend Henri, from the Alamo Drafhouse (one of the best theaters in the country, period), joins us as host for this very special event.

To the uninitiated: Every chapter of R. Kelly’s TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET soap hip-hopera ends with a cliffhanger. The last lines of Chapter 1 are, fittingly enough: "He walks up to the closet (closet) – He’s close up to the closet (closet) – Now he’s at the closet (closet) – Now he’s opening the closet (closet, closet, closet)." Then the video fades out and you have to wait for Chapter 2 to find out what happens when he opens the closet (closet, closet, closet). Fortunately you don’t have to wait long because it’ll fade right back in with Chapter 2 and we all get to see what happens when he opens up the closet and finds R. Kelly there in a post-adultery hide-away.

To those in the know: You’ve seen the videos online. Maybe you’ve even seen them on DVD in a room with friends. But you haven’t fully experienced them until you’ve rapped along with R. Kelly in a theater full of hundreds of friends and a bevy of props hidden around the room. We’ll screen all 12 chapters with bouncing-ball sing-a-long lyrics, a bevy of other classic R. Kelly videos (everyone ready for the Bump N’ Grind?), a special on-screen "interview" with the man himself, an amazing 10 year old kiddie remake of the first chapter of Trapped, and more! By the end of the show, Sylvester won’t be the only one who’ll scream out, "Oh my god, a rubber!"

It is so on. Let me know if you can join. I want to make a night of it. 😀

I can’t get enough of the site, Platial. It’s so easy to get started and such a fascinating way to present information. I LOVE it!

It’s changing daily. It will eventually document every place I’ve spent more than 6 weeks over my whole life. I’m so geographically-challenged that imagining this visually wasn’t possible… until now!

OK, off to see Billy!