minor threats

The Malady of Death
Thurs., Feb. 3 to Sat., Feb. 5
Yale Cabaret
It's "An extended haiku on love and the abyss." MT also likes to write haiku:
Snow falls, people die
MT misses you, pumpkin
Photosynthesis.

boron is the fifth element

The Fifth Humor Comes of Age
Sketch Comedy
Fri., Jan 28 and Sat., Jan. 29
Midnight, Calhoun Cabaret
$2
OK—here's the sketch: it's a game show but the contestants—they're all celebrities, you know, but funny ones, like Burt Reynolds. And he gets all the questions wrong!

puff daddy

Bethany Yarrow
Concert
Fri., Jan. 28, 8 p.m.
Rich Forum, Stamford, Conn.
$12
Thirty years ago today, Peter Yarrow (of Paul and Mary) sang "If I Had a Hammer." By hammer, he meant daughter. Now he has a hammer. And it sings.

pearl necklace

Pearly Sweets and the Platonics
Trumbull City Heartbreakers
Live concert
Fri., Jan 28, 8:30 p.m.
Yale Women's Center
Free
Pearly wanted to have a "platonic" relationship with MT.
MT didn't realize that meant a "Dirty Sanchez" and a round of "Rodeo."

soft and moishe

The Singing Blacksmith (Yankl der Shmid)
Yiddish Film Series
Starring Moishe Oysher
Sun., Jan. 30, 1 p.m.
Slifka Center
David Pinski's classic story of a blacksmith who "sees too many women and drinks too much." Just like MT's grandfather, that damn dirty Yid. He always smelled like Grandma's cabbage. Gevalt.

tron bowl

The Super Bowl Tennessee Titans vs.
St. Louis Rams
Kickoff: 6:18 p.m.
Sun., Jan. 30.
ABC
Last Super Bowl, MT bought Fritos and onion dip. This Super Bowl— no Fritos.

—Johnny McTexture, Doc Golightly, and Tsunami Okanna tag-teamed this week—and liked it.

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