Florida Mann Carl Hiaasen Spießstaat at the cushive festival appearance

“We are all adults here,” Carl Hiaasen confirmed more than once when he appeared on the third night of the festival of the Arts Boca on Wednesday evening. The sentence, which was repeated like a leitmotif during his one -hour foray in the Baroque side streets by Florida Idiocy and misconduct, was as close as this media veteran to offer a trigger warning that his next story may not be intended for sensitive constitutions.

It could include a gator where a gator should not be, or a person in a gator or vice versa. It can contain a separated attachment that is fired by an unscrupulous representative or incestuous lake room by a car wreck. This is Florida, where, as Hiaasen knows too well, everything works. “This is not a story that you will read in the reading Of the Moines Register Soon soon, ”he noticed after such a story.

The resident of the treasure coast, author of more than 30 books and former columnist for the Miami Herald Get on fire last night with linguistic weapons and asked the women in the full audience of Mizner Park amphitheater to “raise their hand when they were impregnated by Elon Musk”. He added that his resignation from the HeraldIn 2021 only two weeks before the revelation of the then Florida MP Matt Gaetze, sex functional debt, and maybe he gave up his post prematurely. “I miss it every day now,” he added.

But while the amount of the democratic majority was on board with Hiaasen's ideological tenor, he largely put on politics and instead put us with stories by Sunshine State Dumb-F **-Medicare fraudsters, villain lawyers and Puritan hypocritical for the wrong reasons. Hiaasen delivered these dirty stories in a calibrated Deadpan and shared details about a man who “copulated” with stuffed Disney characters of a Pinella's park (the goal -PR representative should have said: “I cannot believe that it did not happen at a walmart”, Hiaasen asked). and the Miccosukee Casino Carjacker, who has been withdrawn from law enforcement in the lake behind the building, just to counter his fate in the pine of an alligator (Hiaasen: “That was what Darwin had in mind”); And the trailer park from the trailer park, which kept two adult gators in bed in his double wide range, and even fought for her custody after her discovery. As Hiaasen knows, in another of his refrains last night in his fiction cannot be improved. In short, Hiaasen said: “Everyone comes here to get into trouble.”

Anyone who has read Hiaasen's columns or novels knows that he has little love for the right turn of the politics of the state, but his affection for the state was visible in the middle of all barren and depreciation. When an audience asked him to clarify his apparent “love/hate relationship” to Florida, his answer was directly. “I'm still here. … I love Florida, but I'm getting angry all the time. “It is a feeling that many of us know well.

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