don’t cry for me, sexually repressed dictator-loving clergymen
Thu
11
December

Pop star Madonna’s antics are lustful, a stain on humanity and offensive to God, a retired Roman Catholic cardinal said on Wednesday during a mass for the late Chilean military dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

Madonna performed in Santiago on the Latin American leg of her Sticky and Sweet Tour to promote her album “Hard Candy.”

“The atmosphere in our city is pretty agitated because this woman is visiting and with incredibly shameful behavior provokes a wild and lustful enthusiasm,” Cardinal Jorge Medina told the congregation.

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“Jorge Medina obviously hasn’t been keeping up with my blog entries on the Madge Report, or he would know what an immense compliment he’s given me,” said Madonna when reached for comment after a show.  Tossing her top hat aside, the singer continued, “I mean, everyone knows my next album is going to be called ‘A Wild and Lustful Enthusiasm for Fishnets.’”

“Jorge and I go way back, anyway.  He’s refused to talk to me ever since I wouldn’t sign on for the part of Lucia Hiriart de Pinochet in the screenplay he was writing. I mean, I love playing the egomaniacal wife of a South American dictator as much as the next multiplatinum, macrobiotically obsessed serial emasculator.  But I could never pull off dowdy.”

Tags: international relations, entertainment, music, argentina, lucia! the musical, ardent lovers of pinochet, sticky and sweet, a wild and lustful enthusiasm for fishnets, chile, clergy, madonna

money and contacts
Thu
20
March

“There are expats everywhere tapping into the city’s thriving cultural and arts scene,” said Grant C. Dull, Zizek’s founder, who also runs the popular bilingual Web guide WhatsUpBuenosAires.com. “And it’s not backpacker types, but people with money and contacts.”

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At Zizek, a dance party popular among expats.

GRANT C. DULL, FOUNDER OF ZIZEK: Haha, Alberto, check this out…

ALBERTO: Sí, Señor Grant?

GRANT: Get a load of this guy.

ALBERTO: Wheech guy, Señor Grant?

GRANT: This guy over here that just walked in.

ALBERTO: Thees guy with the beeg backpack, Señor Grant?

GRANT: Sí, Alberto, him.  Look how thick his stupid glasses are.  What a painfully obvious method of vision correction.  What are those—bifocals?

ALBERTO: ...

GRANT: Watch, he’s trying to order something… Check this out… Watch, he’s going to try to pay for it.

ALBERTO: But what are he pulling out of hees pocket, Señor Grant?  Are those, como se dice… ¿Hamsters?

GRANT: That’s right, Alberto, effing backpacker is trying to pay with effing hamsters.  (YELLS) Hey, backpacker freak, why don’t you get out of here with your hamsters and your glasses?  The only expats we want in here are people with money and contacts!… Yeah!  Yeah, you, ya creep!  (TO ALBERTO) Alberto, show this bespectacled rodent-laden backpacker the door!

Moments later.

ALBERTO: I have taken care of thees backpacker, Señor Grant.

GRANT: Excellent work, Alberto.  [Spots a girl with binoculars strapped to her face trying to shove waffles into the coin slot of a cigarette machine, and a guy who has had Lasik surgery trying to proposition a prostitute with macramé doilies.] (TO ALBERTO, GRIMLY: ) You know what to do, Alberto…

ALBERTO: Take care of thees assholes, Señor Grant?

GRANT: Exactly.  And then make a sign that strictly delineates our “money and contacts only” policy.

ALBERTO: Sí, Señor Grant.

GRANT: [Drinks absinthe.]

Tags: travel, argentina, hamsters, buenos aires, waffles, backpackers, expats