From the MC Film Mail Bag
Flamingo Auto Group going to Bok Tower
9 am Saturday
Meet at the park at 11 am
September 15, 2012
The 205-ft. carillon tower–a National Historic Landmark-is among the finest
in the world. Its 60-bell carillon is set within a 205-foot tall Late Gothic
Revival tower designed by architect Milton B. Medary. The carillon delights
visitors with 30-minute concerts every day. Housed in a majestic marble and
coquina bell tower, the carillon at Bok Tower Gardens consists of 60 bronze
bells ranging in weight from 16 pounds to nearly 12 tons. It is one of four
carillons in Florida.
Whether you have just one hour or a full day, you’ll find so much to
experience here. Among these are the informal woodland gardens which contain
more than 1,000 plant types, which were designed as a meditative woodland
landscape and nature preserve. Paths meander through open spaces and
plantings to create tranquil resting spots with picturesque vistas of the
Tower and the Florida countryside.
Tiny Nasworthy
President
Flamingo Auto Group West
www.myspace/flamingoautogroup
www.flamingoautogroup.com
www.Facebook.com (search) Flamingo Auto Group West
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Hillsborough Community College Ybor Art Gallery presents
The Jerry and Steve Show
An invitational exhibit by alumni students of HCC professors Jerry Meatyard and Steve Holm, celebrating their 30-year commitment to arts education
September 7-28, 2012
Opening Reception, Friday, September 7 6-9:00pm
Gallery Talk 7:00pm, Curator Patrick Thomsen
Jerry Meatyard and Steve Holm
Closing Reception, Thurs, Sept 27 5:30-10:00pm
Awards Ceremony and Jerry and Steve Roast, Thurs, Sept 27 7:30-9:30pm
Performing Arts Building, Palm Ave and 15th Street 813.253.7674
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The opening of The Full Monty
The show that I have talked about, prepared for (and dieted for) is FINALLY HERE! And…..it has been a labor of love. The Full Monty opens next Thursday, September 6, at the BEAUTIFUL Cuban Club on 15th and Palm in Ybor City and runs four performances 9/6,7 at 8pm and 9/8 at 2pm and 8pm. Tickets are $22. Thank you to all my closest business associates for your support. You have all been supportive, encouraging and patient! Many of you have sponsored ads in our program and helped in many ways. I know you are all probably sick of hearing about the show. But your support has meant a lot.
I was first attracted to the piece because it is a musical that deals with the male experience. It deals with issues of parenting, loss of a job, loss of intimacy, marriage, body issues to name a few. Seldom do you find a piece that deals with male empowerment. Further, it is a great piece for our economy! We have assembled a very talented cast and it truly is a show that will make you laugh, cry, and cheer as our six working class guys from Buffalo bear all but get back so much!
I would be so appreciative if you can come out and see the show. To purchase a ticket by credit card go to www.spanishlyrictheatre.tix.com or simply call 813-884-5154 to reserve your seat and pay at the door. There is a very nice lobby bar that will be open before the show and at intermission.
Thanks for supporting live theatre, me and Spanish Lyric Theatre/SLT productions – the non-profit for which I sit on the board. The Full Monty marks the opening of our 54th consecutive season!
See you at the Theatre!
Mike
Mike Buck
CEO
The Buck Group & Employee Benefits
Understanding Needs * Designing Strategies * Implementing Solutions
With you every step of the way!
502 N. Armenia Ave.
Tampa, Fl. 33609
Cell Phone: 813-477-9649
Office Phone: 813-877-4900
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MC Film on TMZ!!!!
One last LAUGH!!!!! MC Film & GaYBOR on TMZ!!!
Once again, GaYBOR Saved the day in Historic Ybor City.
Labor Day Sunday FunDay GaYBOR Style was a huge success. The GaYBOR members pulled together and turned a quiet Sunday into a very busy Saturday night. All the GaYBOR Members were very busy. The GaYBOR Bar Crawl started at Barbarella’s with 150+ Party People. The group made their way thru 9 clubs spreading Labor Day Cheer! At the last stop Bradley’s on 7th they were treated to a wonderful, fantastic buffet. Hamburger Mary’s kicked the day off with their Famous Sunday Brunch! Later in the day they had the Legendary Lady Bunny Performing. Romantic dinners at The Laughing Cat & New sidewalk dinning at The Row Boat. New York, New York Pizza had the outside tables filled. The Ybor Social hosted the “Ybor Eagle Reunion Party.” A full day of Friends, Family, Great Food,Cigars, Cocktails & Shopping. To end the day off there was a 4 dimensional Light & Sound, “Black Light – Glow Party” at The Honey Pot. Viva La GaYBOR!!!!
You Can Not Make This Stuff Up!!
The Republican Convention was in town. We were seeing all kinda of crazy things. One day a big black SUV pulled up in front of our store. Out jumped 4 police offices in khaki sand uniforms. To our surprise they ran up to our super sized painted board cut outs of Dorothy & Leather man and started to take photos. Then jumped back into the suv and drove off!
Featured GaYBOR Member of the Week
Brick’s Ybor
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You can always count on a Great time at the Brick’s Ybor. The food is extraordinare and drinks delightful. It is the must do fun stop for all the GaYBOR Bar Crawls. Every month the walls are covered by area artists with a theme. Next time you start your own bar crawl be sure to start at The Brick’s Ybor.
Mark & Carrie’s Nephew/Niece of the Week
Anthony La Revolucion Cusumano
(126)
A man in a uniform is all ways HOT. Add brains and a fun personality and you have Anthony. His secret fun food is chicken wings!!! Humm…. Let’s all go to NY NY tonight!!!
Deep Thoughts….. The RNC
Deep Thoughts….. The RNC
Three Cheers for All the People of Tampa
Three Cheers for our Mayor Bob Buckhorn
Three Cheers for our Chief of Police Jane Castor
Three Cheers the RNC is over!!!!
I am sure you know Gay people are everywhere and we do mean everywhere. Did you know one of our favorite past times is to having cocktails with friends and dishing about how bad straight people behave?!?!? LOL YES, it’s true. Did the largest convention in Tampa’s history, the visiting RNC ever give us all a lot to converse about. Many funny stories started with, “You will Not believe this!!!” Here is a sample of what we heard. The rest of this dish allegedly happened. Nothing is confirmed true or false.
Wink Wink
Over & over again we heard “The RNC guests were some of the worst we have ever seen.” Rude, obnoxious, drunken are just some of the nice words to describe the delegates. The police had way more problems with the delegates than the protesters. Fights with over charging prostitutes & novel gouging drug dealers. Vandalism, stealing & looting was the norm. Were told to look the other way or to be fired over and over again. State ‘Delegatos’ walking out on their monstrous bar tabs and even lavish dinners. Trashed hotel rooms & condom littered limos. Bras found hanging on secured area hotel chandeliers. What has happened to our friendly West Coast city? The better than you attitude was everywhere. There were more plastic AMSCOT credit card neuvo rich than at a tupperware party. A call to room service…”We need a drawer full of knives right now to stick in our friends backs!!!” A group of ladies were not patiently waiting for more shrimp to be put on the all you can stuff yourself table when they actual said “What is it with you people and those cigars? It must be a southern Gay fixation!!!” then all laughed… WTF???
The encrypted gold invites to board the crowded mega yacht spaces at the Tampa marina were selective. At least $150 million in their personal or offshore accounts was the low benchmark. Wow 225′ luxury vessels are still called a yacht? The Coast Guard protected area had helicopters dropping off guests from the sky. And we thought those were all Apache Attack helicopters. Some of the small problems billionaires have we guess. What exactly is ‘Crossroads’ anyway?
Free food events was like a cowbell! Haven’t these people eaten anything but Spam! I thought that the police escorted convoy of beer trucks was just to much! Well, maybe needed! There were so many events with free lunches given away I think many local restaurateurs went to save on money on their weeks food bills. And there were only 2 ticketed cigar smoking conservative conferences this year.
Taking down colorful Rainbow & Democratic flags & all those women posters. One little yellow bird told us, “If I hear… You obviously don’t know who ‘ I ‘ am?… one more time again!!” I need an Advil!!
The difference between a RNC delegate and a canoe is? … the canoe tips. Wearing Alexander Amosu Silk lined suits, double starched OTR Ike Behar White shirts & Gucci Silk Ties, all knock offs, then complaining about the inside heat? Just go outside girl!!! It’s August in Florida…Really?? LOL
Then there was the big Mormon Building on the river… The Marry-ville Riverside. Described by many as a “big out of control summer camp for juvenile delinquents running wild everywhere.” One little light blue bird told us, “There were so many people crying behind the scenes you would have thought Judy Garland or Princess Diana had just died.” Oh the “Me first…Me first” shadowed empresses denounced. How can so called “church people” be so mean, cruel & insensitive? I guess it isn’t hard!!! We need NBC’s Saturday Night Live’s “Church Lady” to revisit us all now!. Very expensive red Maserati cars were delivered by covered transport trucks to the hotels front door. Let’s just say major attitude were driving those cars who weren’t afraid of telling off the police. Maybe we were lucky not to have more of them in GaYBOR/Ybor City. Much of this you will never hear or will be denied. One thing is for sure…The RNC remnances will have the Gay Bars chattering & laughing for quite awhile!!! I’m sure there were some nice people somewhere. But it’s much more fun to talk about the out of control straight bad ones.
What about the GLBT Log Cabin Republicans? We didn’t see any of them! Humm… must have been busy practicing hiding in their Motel 8 closets. LOL LOL We are Voting for OBAMA.
9-30-12 Bus Accident, MC Film on TMZ, Protesters Come/ Gone
The last day of the convention and there are mixed reactions from everybody. In Ybor City the day started with a convention bus hitting a building. It was very quiet in GaYBOR/Ybor City. That night our phone rang off the hook!!!! The TV Show TMZ TV had caught Homophobic Illinois’ Republican Congressman Aaron Schock, in GaYBOR in front of MC Film – Gay Pride Store, The Ybor Social -A GLBT Bar & The Ybor Resort & Spa – The Gay Bath House!!! ( From Wikipedia: Schock voted against amending federal hate crimes laws to include crimes where the victims were targeted on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, gender and disability. He voted against the repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell“ in December 2010. Schock is opposed to gay marriage.Schock opposes abortion and has voted to prohibit federal funding for the procedure.) Aaron Schock was asked about GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan physique & clothing. We think the real question should have been, “What are you doing walking around in the GaYBOR District?” Hum…… See the video here http://www.tmz.com/videos/0_wrwfhybx also in the http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=12839&MediaType=1&Category=22
One last Protest. The clandestine campfire group Westboro Baptist Church were protesting in Centro Ybor. What a wimpy group and a joke! There was nobody there to protest against in front of the sand trooper police. Across the street on the balcony behind the protesters was Sammy waving his rainbow flag. We noticed one person wearing a yellow poster talking back at them. Later that night to our delight we learned that person was Miss Tiffany Middlesex. You Go Girl!!!! Sammy insisted we take a photo from his balcony, showing all the protesters asses!!! LOL Then came the final speeches on RNC fantasy night TV. Thank You Clint Eastwood for helping the Democrats. Talking to an empty chair!?!?! Tampa stood proud. Good Bye RNC.
8-29-12 Where are the Protesters? & TV Personality Ross Mathews Lures GaYBOR.
Our friend Judy B. Goode called first thing in the morning. She was ranting and raving about the Republicans on TV & Facebook. We told her to put on a Gay Pride outfit and come to Tampa to join and experience the convention’s perimeter and the protesters. At 3pm Judy & Mark arrived in downtown Tampa. We couldn’t believe it and found plenty of empty parking spaces near Tampa Theatre. It was like a ghost town. Judy found some rainbow suspenders, rainbow top and hat and rainbow streamers flying off her hat. Isn’t this suppose to be Tampa’s largest convention with over 75,00 visitors in the downtown???? There was nobody and we do mean nobody there! We walked the baron streets and could only get within 3 blocks of the Tampa Convention Center. We did encounter a few groups handing out a variety of their concerned issues literature. Near the Tampa River Walk & Kennedy Bridge we saw military gun boats patrolling the Hillsborough River. In the streets were barricades with the flip up road blocks. Just like you see on TV reports of the Middle East war zones. Wow, what has happened to our little friendly city?? At one point we walked into a traveling marching group of police officers. The khaki sand wearing officers were very nice asking us if we needed anything, water or directions. Walking away Judy said, “Darn…. even the police are nice!!!” We decided to head for Ybor City, maybe we would find some protesters there. Looked around. None there!!! We couldn’t think of any other places protesters would be this time of day.
OK, so we had tried to protest very hard and it was now time for a beer!!! Into Hamburger Mary’s where we found Stephanie Shippae’ and Melanie Minyon sharing an order of Macho Nachos & toasting Holy Water. When Stephanie shouted out “HEY Tea Cup meet Ross Mathews… he’s famous and on the Tonight Show”. It was the real Ross Mathews http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Mathews!!!! Of course that could only mean on thing… Picture Time!!! On the way home Judy said, “No protesters but we did meet Ross! It was a Great Day!” That night we decided to protest from our living room. Drinking Patron Margaritas, eating Mark’s homemade seafood pasta and shouting at the RNC speakers on TV from our living room couch.
