Tastemaker

BRASILIA, Brazil — The mayor of a small Brazilian town has begun handing out free Viagra, spicing up the sex lives of dozens of elderly men and their partners.

"Since we started the free distribution of sexual stimulants, our elderly population changed. They're much happier," said Joao de Souza Luz, the mayor of Novo Santo Antonio, a small town in the central state of Mato Grosso.

Souza Luz said 68 men over the age of 60 had already signed up for the program, which was approved by the town's legislature and has been dubbed "Happy Penis," or "PintoAlegre" in Portuguese. -Reuters

MEGA-TASTING AT USQ WINES
My mouth just waters at the chance to taste over 100 different bottles of wine in a single afternoon. In honor of the upcoming holiday season, Union Square Wines is having their biggest tasting of the year today so stop by and give your palate a crash course in oenology.

Date: Saturday, November 18th
Time: 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: USQ Wines (140 4th Ave at 13th St)
Cost: Free

Jessica Delfino Is Sorry to Disturb You is an open "apology" for Jessica's dark, sometimes disturbing sense of humor. Described as "A cross between Redd Foxx and Jewel" by The Onion and called, "The Lower East Side's folkie queen of obscene" by The Village Voice, Jessica Delfino's style of comedy has offended, irritated, annoyed, bugged, boggled and even pissed off at least one person of every race, color and creed. So, Jessica has decided it's high time she set things right with the world. Showing examples of her offenses, the show features her dirtiest ditties, her most vulgar stand-up and her most outrageous short films, as well as some surprises, all of which she attempts to atone for. (Or not.) Come prepared to get all up in a tizzy.

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So it was rainy, windy, and very un-June-like on Saturday afternoon in Livingston Manor. But even so, the Trout Parade kicked so much ass! What really surprised me is how many people turned out to watch. Main Street was lined with kids and strollers and dogs and huge puppets and weird hooa-hoopers and three or four bands, including the Williamsburg Brooklyn's own celebrated Hungry Marching Band, and a trout puppet as big as a Chinese dragon, and fish hats and a someone dressed up as a giant purple sea snail! Wheee!

We missed the music in the bandstand on account of the rainclouds, and the line for funnel cakes was too long, but I am now determined to march in next year's Trout Parade. it really was the Mermaid Day Parade of the Catskills!

So the trees, the ferns, the vines... green green green, my friends! Summer is bursting thru the rocky seams of the Catskills in greens so vivid that my mouth was watering all weekend.

If you've got time next Saturday, and aren't tied to your Hamptons share, make your way upstate to the 3rd Annual Trout Parade in Livingston Manor, NY. Picturesque rural performance art at it's chaotic, adorable finest.

This town is undergoing a Woodstock-esque change right now. A few years ago, a bunch of artists decided to manhandle Main St., and the result is a fantastic coffee house, a righteous bookstore, a to-die-for mountain sports shop, a couple of galleries, and the delicious scent of progress. There's also a graceful dinner spot called Resort that features local farm produce, tasting menus, and the occasional musical performance.

The Daily News reported that "Katharine (Kerry) Close, an eighth-grader at the H.W. Mountz School in Spring Lake on the Jersey Shore, outspelled 274 other kids, rattling off "Urspache" to win the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee."

Unfortunately, The Daily News misspelled Urspache. It's Ursprache.

Apologies Lovely Friends! I was in the Catskills, having a little vacation relaxation. And I now feel like a hundred million bucks! Hope you all got away for Memorial Day, too. I'll be posting more later today, xoxox, Hil

Follow this LINK and print out a $15 gift certificate to use in the Shecky's Store on Broome St. between Wooster and West Broadway.

From the article on MSNBC:

A dolphin chooses its own name as an infant and uses it throughout its life.

"It seems like the animals hear what's around them, and then they make up their own whistle," Janik said. "They either develop something original ... or they base it on parts of the whistles around them."

Regardless of the method, the young dolphins want to make their call stand apart from the calls of their closest relatives. Communicating by sight is difficult underwater, so dolphins use these calls to let other dolphins know they're nearby. A dolphin will also call out its name if it's lost and distressed, hoping relatives will come to its aid.

Dolphins are some of the most talkative animals around, even though we don't know what they're saying.

"Their repertoire of calls probably numbers in the hundreds," Janik said. "Some of them are food calls, but for most of them we have no ideas what they're for."

Dolphins are probably conversing about stuff that's way over our heads. I mean, if they're wise enough as infants to name themselves, i can't even imagine the depth of their philosophical musings. I wonder if they're a little frustrated with us... hopefully, some compassionate dolphin will dumb-down their language and give us a clue.

Attention All Heavy Drinking Female Flight Attendants Looking To Pick Up Young Men:

Thursdays at the historic collegiate boozehall Town Tavern, ladies drink for "free" for 5 HOURS, 5-10pm ($10 cover). The cover is waived for "all nurses and flight attendants with proper employee I.D."

I love it when our hospital and airline support staff get to get wasted. And what a great way to "meet guys," get "picked up" by a Tween, and wake up in an NYU dormroom. Every boy deserves a drunken tussle with a cougar.

Town Tavern - Macdougal btwn 6th Ave and Bleeker