
Erik Maza is a features reporter at the Baltimore Sun. He writes for several sections of the Sun paper and contributes weekly columns on music and nightlife. He also writes and edits the Midnight Sun blog. He often covers entertainment, business, and the business of entertainment. Occasionally, he writes about Four Loko, The Block, the liquor board, and those who practice "
simulated sex with a potted palm tree." Before The Sun, he was a reporter at the Miami New Times. He's also written for Miami magazine, the Orlando Sentinel, the Sarasota Herald Tribune and the Gainesville Sun. Got tips? Gripes? Pitches? He's reachable at
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here to keep up with the dumb music he's listening to.
Midnight Sun covers Baltimore music, live entertainment, and nightlife news. On the blog, you'll find, among other things, concert announcements, breaking news, bars closings and openings, up-to-date coverage of crime in nightlife, new music, round-the-clock coverage of Virgin Mobile FreeFest, handy guides on bars staying open past 2 a.m. on New Year's Eve and those that carry Natty Boh on draft. Recurring features include seven-day nightlife guides, Concert News, guest reviews of bars and concerts, Wednesday Corkboard, and photo galleries, as well as reader-submitted photos. Thanks for reading.
Comments
Mine feels like some redhead's intestines!
Posted by: Heather | May 14, 2008 10:24 AM
That reminds me of this:
In a 1994 Kids in the Hall sketch, a game show conducted entirely in an unidentified, probably northern European, language (judging by the audience shots), in which contestants wearing oven mitts feel objects inside boxes and attempt to guess what the items are. Those who fail get a bucket with a frowning face on it put over their heads. The hosts are Valda Kredna (played by Kevin McDonald) and Vanya Schimtz (a woman). In the sketch, Mark McKinney's recurring character, the rather prissy Darill Vosnick who is usually shown speaking English in Toronto, is one of the contestants. The "Nederlander Foot Choir" (a group of people who put wooden shoes on their hands, stick only the shoes out from under a curtain, and clomp in rhythm), are also featured to fill in the time while the contestants examine their objects. Darill beats the old man who was the previous champion, as well as a young boy, to win a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig.
Posted by: Voodoo Pork | May 14, 2008 11:49 AM
I found a clip of the KITH game show called Feelyat. HIlarious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JinJ7NY5_E
Posted by: voodoopork | May 14, 2008 11:54 AM
I remember this board game fondly
http://www.smirkingloon.com/media/line-o-coke.jpg
Posted by: Rock Chiclet | May 14, 2008 1:49 PM
Sounds a fun companion to The Firesign Theatre's "Beat The Reaper" sketch.
Basic premise, you're infected with an illness and from the resulting symtoms, you are quested about what you have. If you answer correctly, you're given the cure or antidote but only if guess correctly.
Would have liked to see how Monty Python would handled it. They did such a good job with a game show based on blackmail.
"No apologises for why you did it, we just want the money"
Posted by: GDA | May 15, 2008 12:05 PM
Monty Python's game show based on blackmail.
The inverse of Wheel of Fortune, progressively more exposing clues are revealed with the amount increasing, until the subject in the home viewing audience calls in to pledge payment to prevent exposure.
"No apologises needed for why you did it, we just want the money"
Posted by: GDA | May 15, 2008 5:26 PM
I have made myself a Feely Meely to play with my grandchildren. An idea my grandson came up with was to give it themes. For instant in OCT. fill it with Halloween items and make your own cards. At Christmas the same thing works. It makes it seem like a new game.
Posted by: Booklover316 | August 4, 2009 10:42 AM
I had this game as a child, and today I was thinking about it, and WOW...what a strange name for a childs game....Made me giggle.
Posted by: Liza Hansen | March 9, 2011 6:39 PM
How about a game of "What's in Uncle Pete's Pocket"
Posted by: RayRay | March 10, 2011 4:46 PM