The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: Week Ending May 18

This week's good goes to having both superlative Pensacola pop-rock act Deadly Fists of Kung Fu and Tampa expatriates Joe Popp and Brian McCabe back in town for the weekend. Popp was in Tampa for a friend's wedding, and dragged the rest of the guys in his band The Hornrims down from New York City for a New World Brewery appearance; the Fists did that one too, as well as a Saturday night stint at St. Pete's Emerald Bar that included a Replacements cover, a money shower, and us bouncing some jerkoff in a Hawaiian shirt. (Look, dude, if you're going to threaten a girl, don't point at your cane and plead your limp when her male friends come over for a chat.)

This week's bad goes to bad family news. My mother will be having a fairly serious surgical procedure next week. She's a tough lady, though, and in pretty good health. Plus, they'll be doing that new minimally invasive thing where they just teleport the stuff out of her body through her bones and skin and stuff, or whatever. But if you could spare a thought for Mom Ravis, I'd certainly appreciate it.

This week's ugly goes to, oh, I don't know ... Speed Racer's confirmed flopness, I guess. Or no, wait - let's go with that whole thing about how the price of seeing crappy movies in the theater is going to go up even higher, because all the corn is getting used to make ethanol. Yeah, that's it; corn. Screw you, corn. If I still watched movies in the theater, there'd be trouble.