Lethal Dose

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Oddly, “96 Tears” was 1 the day I was born.

Just think if you mix up the titles … “Keep your hands off my sexy marshmallow,” maybe? “96 Tears in my eyes” … “I’ve sold my saddle for an old sexy thing”?

Now this is a Cake even Princess Luciana would approve! Read about them here.

I haven’t been on a mashup bender in awhile. It drives Mr. Lethal nuts, but I love ‘em. I actually got a big fancy degree in all that McLuhan stuff so I’m fascinated by cultural-appropriation … or to put it bluntly, I like trash! Here’s the latest fun: The Tweatles. My favorite of all, Mark Vidler, who created the mindblowing “Velvet Sugar” has some really fun stuff up on his myspace page. The Mash Ave gang (who sadly, were not around when I was living back in Boston in 2002) have just put out their third Xmas comp, Santastic III in 3-D. A wink and a nod to “Velvet Santa.”

“a sexy, stranger” what?

“Trapped in the Web of Love” - one of the best Scopitones ever, second only to Sonny King!

Well, maybe it’s a tie between Joi and “Mother Nature Father Time” by Brook Benton.

No! Marky and I love him … the oozing stigmata for years … he was like a zombie movie come to life. I hope it’s not true. It really does seem like way too much work.

Italy’s Padre Pio ‘faked his stigmata with acid’

By Malcolm Moore in Rome
Last Updated: 2:36am BST 24/10/2007

Padre Pio, Italy’s most-loved saint, faked his stigmata by pouring carbolic acid on his hands, according to a new book.

The Other Christ: Padre Pio and 19th Century Italy, by the historian Sergio Luzzatto, draws on a document found in the Vatican’s archive. The document reveals the testimony of a pharmacist who said that the young Padre Pio bought four grams of carbolic acid in 1919.

Pio: in matching stigmata, flowers and robe, spring collection.

“I was an admirer of Padre Pio and I met him for the first time on 31 July 1919,” wrote Maria De Vito.

She claimed to have spent a month with the priest in the southern town of San Giovanni Rotondo, seeing him often. “Padre Pio called me to him in complete secrecy and telling me not to tell his fellow brothers, he gave me personally an empty bottle, and asked if I would act as a chauffeur to transport it back from Foggia to San Giovanni Rotondo with four grams of pure carbolic acid.

“He explained that the acid was for disinfecting syringes for injections. He also asked for other things, such as Valda pastilles.”

The testimony was originally presented to the Vatican by the Archbishop of Manfredonia, Pasquale Gagliardi, as proof that Padre Pio caused his own stigmata with acid. It was examined by the Holy See during the beatification process of Padre Pio and apparently dismissed.

Padre Pio, whose real name was Francesco Forgione, died in 1968. He was made a saint in 2002. A recent survey in Italy showed that more people prayed to him than to Jesus or the Virgin Mary. He exhibited stigmata throughout his life, starting in 1911.

The new allegations were greeted with an instant dismissal from his supporters. The Catholic Anti-Defamation League said Mr Luzzatto was a liar and was “spreading anti-Catholic libels”.

Pietro Siffi, the president of the League, said: “We would like to remind Mr Luzzatto that according to Catholic doctrine, canonisation carries with it papal infallibility.

“We would like to suggest to Mr Luzzatto that he dedicates his energies to studying religion properly.”

Valda Pastilles: have one with your stigmata today!

my friends in Uruguay (I wrote that just cuz I can!) … and they do a song called “Scorpio.” I like to think it’s about me. I’m sure it’s not, but check it out anyway, because anyone that plays music like Motosierra in a country where Catholic convention still tries to prevent such things deserves kudos in my book:

You all know how I love Porter. A certain “reader” (I guess he doesn’t know that I get email and URLs) wrote, “Porter Wagoner? GIVE ME A BEAK!” so now we all say “give me a beak!”

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porter’s got a good beak, don’t you think?

Anyway, I digress. Porter’s new video, “Committed to Parkview” can be seen on the Wagonmaster’s myspace page here. Mr. Lethal brought me home a Porter plate, an autographed pic, and the box set of the early stuff on his last trip to Nashville to make up for the fact that he got to see him at the Opry. If that ain’t love, grits ain’t groceries!

Here’s Porter and Dolly doing “Milwaukee Here I Come”:

Gregoire 4: Check out Je vais voir les filles intro’d by Claudia Colonna:

Here’s Gregoire on piano on Radio France. Click on “ecoutez.”

Le Roi Gregoire also plays with Tav Falco’s Panther Burns - a life-changing band if there ever was one. Once you’re burned by the Panther, you’re never the same (I got burned somewhere in the 80s.) Here they are, right around the time they stayed at Chez Lethal last fall: