Liz Langley

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You can click  right here to listen in early to What's Hot in Central Florida on WMFE , airing at 4:32 pm Friday afternoon and this weekend is going to be a good one - I might even break out my finger cymbals for the The Arabic American Festival at Lake Eola on Sunday from noon til 7pm with Arabic dancing, art and food - you know  I can't resist Arabic music and why would I even try? The video above is Hader Tarab, who is on the bill for this Sunday - it's one of those still-shot videos but the music is delicious   - frankly getting all caught up in it is why my blog post is a little later than usual today!      Also this weekend go to  TheFoodTruckBazaar.com  for the skinny onf Vinyl, Vintage and Food trucks on Saturday evening in the Audubon Park Garden District - you can bring vintage & vinyl stuff and sell or trade plus check out some of the best food trucks in town. I'm still  trying to sell off some of my rattan furniture - maybe I'll have so

     Welcome aboard it's loooo-oooooo-oooove! Except in Dominica, where two men were initially prosecuted for "buggery" because there it's illegal for two men to have sex. Those charges were dropped and they eventually plead guilty to indecent exposure - but there's more to the story - including a poetic defense from their attorney explaining why the intoxicating Caribbean atmosphere lead them to the alleged public canoodling. Booze & beauty....the human will is no match for them at all is it? Sigh. Been there. Check out my story (which gives you the full skinny)   here on SeXis in "Gay men arrested for 'buggery' on cruise ship.  And if you're concerned about the level of tolerance of the country you're traveling to the story also includes a link to GaysOnTour.com's list of countries according to gay-friendliness. Bon voyage!  

When I was flying home to Orlando after my first book signing for Crazy Little Thing: Why Love and Sex Drive Us Mad , who was on my plane but Jeff Ashton. Of course he was. Every time I turn around I seem to see Jeff Ashton, either in person or scheduled to be at some event. He pops up around Orlando like the town is one big game of whack-a-mole. Ashton was part of the team that prosecuted Casey Anthony who was found not guilty of almost everything...a verdict people called the biggest upset since OJ. It was actually the biggest upset since the tortoise beat the hare. Ashton’s book on the case was selling furiously well. And his team lost.  “Maybe you should write a book called The Time I Didn’t Climb Mount Kilimanjaro,” my friend Charles Martin said when I related my bitterness at the fact that Ashton’s big-budget hardback was doing so well while mine …well, let’s just say I wish I’d called it Crazy Little Thing: Why Love And Sex Drive Us Mad. PS: Casey Anthony.  Am

I know it's St. Patrick's Day weekend but there's so many things to do - and besides you  know where your favorite pub to go get the green beer is going to be this weekend, so I thought you'd want to know a few things outside of the orbit Erin Go Bragh (or, as Miss Sammy says, "Erin Go Bra-less"). So this weekend on WMFE 90.7 FM's  What's Hot in Central Florida - which you can click HERE to listen to if you just can't stand to wait to tune in to 90.7 FM today at 4:32 pm  we have: FIRST STOP the Hard Rock Live where Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes will be on stage with Jay and Silent Bob Get Old , which I don't believe, because I could watch them all day every day and never stop being entertained. I'm a huge fan of all four of them - Kevin and Jay and Jay and Silent Bob - and I'm so glad they decided to take their act as far down the road as us. This is TONIGHT at Hard Rock so whatever you were going to do, do it fast and head out early

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Douglas Adams was a genius, one of the greatest and wittiest writers that ever lived and certainly one of the most endearingly curious. In addition to all the brilliant sci fi and holistic detective stories you know all about of course ( Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ,  Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency ), he wrote non-fiction just as astonishingly well, which also makes him a superb journalist. One of my favorite things he ever wrote was an interview with Straun Sutherland, a medical researcher and expert in venomous creatures, whom Adams met with en route to Komodo for the book  Last Chance to See  about endangered species. The interview is reprinted  here on  Life in the Fast Lane  and  the last line of this story is one of my favorites of all time - short and sweet and everyone has been there. It's one of the funniest interviews ever and I'm so glad to have found it online. Happy Birthday, Douglas!

Iceland is so small that the dating pool can be a little dangerous...you might be distantly (or even not-so-distantly) related to someone you'd like to go out with. Now Icelanders can consult an  Icelandic genealogy database , which I got to write about for MyPleasure.com, to make sure they're not already too close to someone they'd like to get close to.

Well, there's a first time for everything and this is the first time I've been late posting my segment on WMFE 90.7 FM,  What's Hot in Central Florida , but luckily for me two of the three things I covered go on long after the weekend is over including the  Central Florida Fair  and the play " A Behanding in Spokane"  will have it's final run next weekend. The only thing I missed out on telling you about on the blog was The Delusionaires at  Will's Pub  on Friday night so my apologies about that but I console myself with the fact that it was probably a hugely well-publicized event anyway and hopefully even in the absence of  blog post the radio segment helped anyway. I'm thankful to have been so crazily busy that I'm falling behind in damn near everything BUT I promise to be a little quicker on the draw next week!

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