'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
'YANKEE, GET OUT OF OUR LAND!'
by Alvin
MIDI
YANKEE, GET OUT OF OUR LAND!
(Sung to 'Young Girl {Get Out Of My Mind}' by Gary Puckett & The Union Gap)
{As Sung By The People of Iraq}
Yankee... get out of our land!
You are no good, you're just like Saddam
Go home Yankee!
Leave us Iraqi's!
With all our arms of mass destruction
You can keep looking where they are
Misled the world to believe
You´re bold enough to kill our loves
And now it hurts to know the truth
Go home Yankee, get out of our land!
You are no good, you're just like Saddam
Go home Yankee!
Leave us Iraqi's!
Beneath your Coalition of Allies
You are the devil in disguise
And though you know that it's wrong to be
Invading me
That 'War Is On' look's in your eyes
Go home Yankee, get out of our land!
You are no good, you're just like Saddam
Go home Yankee!
Leave us Iraqi's!
{break}
Go hurry home, or onto Syria?
I´m sure you've wondered 'bout North Korea
Get out of here, you're wasting our time!
Won't change our minds!
´Cause I´m afraid you went too far!
Go home Yankee, get out of our land!
You are no good, you're just like Saddam
Go home Yankee!
Leave us Iraqi's!
Yankee, get out of our land!
You are no good, you're just like Saddam
Go home Yankee!
Leave us Iraqi's!...
~~ Alvin (-.-)
Thanks, Alvin!
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Day started sunny & breezy, ended overcast & cloudy. Maybe rain in the future?
Did the traditional Thursday loop of the Farmer's Market (strawberries are peaking), then CostCo - lots of 'food ladies' today - the kid was in sample heaven.
Was grateful KTLA offered an alternative to the over-staged, tax-dollar-wasting, completely-politically-driven photo op last night. Nothing like a deserter being saluted by a captive audience 90 miles asea to put me off food for a couple of days.
Tonight, Friday, CBS is supposed to open the evening with a FRESH 'Star Search', followed by the
Season Finale of 'Hack', then a RERUN 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Halle Berry and Don Rickles.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers are Method Man and Bowling for Soup.
NBC is supposed to begin the night with the 2-hour Season Finale of 'America's Most Talented Kid', followed by a
FRESH 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jay are Reese Witherspoon, Steve Zahn, and Ginuwine.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Yoko Ono, Alan Cumming, and Nigella Lawson.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Ray Liotta, Jaime King, Demetri Martin, and Socialburn.
ABC is supposed to start the night with a FRESH 'America's Funniest Home Videos', followed by another
FRESH 'America's Funniest Home Videos', and then '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Broadcaster Jim Rome, and this week's guest co-host John Edward.
The WB offers a FRESH 'What I Like About You', followed by a FRESH 'Greetings From Tucson' then a FRESH
'Reba', followed by a FRESH 'Grounded For Life'.
Faux has the movie 'Big Momma's House'.
UPN has the movie 'Love & Basketball'.
Check local PBS listings for 'NOW With Bill Moyers' - great TV and it's not on cable!
HBO has Bob Costas in the time slot formerly filled by 'Real Time With Bill Maher' (which will return 25 July), and tonight's program involves 'Bull Durham', Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, and more!
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Memorial Unveiled
Ralph Ellison
Nine years after the death of award-winning author Ralph Ellison, a towering bronze sculpture honoring him and his extraordinary novel, "Invisible Man," was unveiled Thursday opposite his longtime home in West Harlem.
Bill Cosby and wife, Camille, actress Ruby Dee and folk singer Odetta were among several hundred people who filled Riverside Drive in front of The Beaumont apartment building Thursday for the ceremony. Ellison, who lived at The Beaumont for more than three decades, died in his eighth-floor apartment in 1994.
Ellison's elderly widow, Fanny, sat weeping in her wheelchair throughout the event, overcome by emotion.
The sculpture itself, with the Hudson River and New Jersey Palisades providing a spectacular backdrop, stood 15 feet high and 10 feet wide; an "invisible man," striding downtown along Riverside Drive, was cut out from its center.
Earlier, Ruby Dee roused the crowd with a stirring reading from Ellison's debut novel — the section where the book's protagonist buys yams from a street vendor.
"I yam what I am," concluded a gleeful Dee, finishing her piece to a standing ovation. She paused briefly, said "Ralph," and burst into laughter.
The sculpture was created by artist Elizabeth Catlett.
Ralph Ellison
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Leaving 'The West Wing'
Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin, creator of the hit NBC political drama "The West Wing," will step down as executive producer of the award-winning series this month at the end of the show's fourth season, the network and producers said on Thursday.
While the announcement came as a surprise to some, Sorkin had foreshadowed his own departure last spring when he said during an appearance on NBC's "Today" show that the current season of "West Wing" would probably be his last.
Departing the show with him will be fellow executive producer Thomas Schlamme, who directed the series pilot and other episodes and also has worked as a director on such programs as "Ally McBeal," "The Practice" and "Spin City."
A third executive producer, John Wells, whose company co-produces "West Wing" with Warner Bros. Television, is remaining with the series, stepping in for Sorkin as the chief creative force behind the show.
Aaron Sorkin
Thanks, Alex!
Won't Back Down
Janeane Garofalo
Q&A: Janeane Garofalo Won't Back Down
By Elizabeth DiNovella
Janeane Garofalo is first and foremost a comedian. She started her stand-up career while a college student in Rhode Island, going to an open-mic night at a local comedy club in 1985. Since then, she has performed throughout the United States, and she just wrapped up a year-and-a-half-long tour.
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Have you gotten a lot of hate mail?
Garofalo: Oh shit, yeah. I had to change my home phone number. A lot of the hate mail I get is clearly misogynist. I am a proud liberal, feminist woman, and the hate mail I get for those three things is not about me. It's about those signifiers, and about what the right in this country has managed to do to perpetuate anger over what they mean.
Then there is a lot of the hate mail that says actors are too wealthy to understand what's going on. The actors live in Hollywood, all this kind of nonsense. Do they realize how wealthy the Bush family is or the Cheney family? The Ashcrofts? Bill O'Reilly? Tom Brokaw? Do they realize that if you are talking about the Administration now, Bush and Cheney in particular, the life of privilege, wealth, and elitism they have lived? If you are going to talk about somebody not understanding the common man, then look no further than the Beltway.
For the rest of a great read, Janeane Garofalo
Naia West (L), Conrad W. Hall (C) and Kate Hall, children of late Oscar winning cinematographer Conrad Hall, pose with Hall's newly unveiled star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame during ceremonies honoring Hall in Hollywood May 1, 2003. Hall, who died of cancer in January 2003, earned three Academy Awards for cinematography, in 1970 for 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid', in 2000 for 'American Beauty' and in 2003 for 'Road to Perdition.'
Photo by Fred Prouser
Thailand
Jumbo Queen
25 women relished being big and beautiful at the annual Thai pageant that celebrated their oddness in a country where slender and petite frames are the norm.
"There are beauty pageants for people who are slender, and that's one form of beauty," said Kamonlak Chaichanajetjumnong, a 32-year-old contestant who weighs 187 pounds.
"Then there's the pageant for us, and it's another kind of beauty. We are beautiful in our hearts and in our faces," said Kamonlak.
The Jumbo Queen this year was Nongnuch Paynguleaom, who weighed in at 209 pounds and went home $1,200 richer.
The Jumbo Queen event was staged at the Samphran Elephant Ground and Zoo, 25 miles west of Bangkok, as part of the zoo's annual Jumbo Banquet elephant feast.
The winners were judged not only by their weight but also by their performances in talent contests and questions thrown at them by the hosts — Ornapa Krisadee, Thailand's leading transvestite actress and make up artist, and Tanongsak Supagam, a male actor.
All contestants performed dances to Western pop and rock music as their talent display.
Previous Jumbo Queens have gone onto local fame, acting in soap operas and performing in music videos.
Jumbo Queen
Won't Air CSI: Miami Episode
WPRI
A Providence-area CBS affiliate won't air an episode of "CSI: Miami" that deals with a nightclub fire out of respect for the victims and survivors of the West Warwick blaze that killed 99 people.
The episode, scheduled to air Monday, focuses on the criminal investigation of a fire at a Miami nightclub that was caused by pyrotechnics.
Instead, the station will air excerpts of a nightclub fire benefit concert that took place April 22 in Providence. Donation information will be included in the show for viewers who want to contribute money to fire victims.
A WPRI photographer was at The Station the night of the fire, gathering bar scene footage for a story about safety in public places.
The reporter was Jeffrey Derderian, co-owner of The Station. WPRI officials say Derderian's club was not to be a focus of the story, but journalism experts have said the arrangement violated conflict of interest standards.
Derderian is still employed and paid by WPRI, but hasn't returned to work. Photographer Brian Butler is on the job.
WPRI
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Receiving Olympic Order Award
John Williams
John Williams can soon add a new award to his collection of Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Golden Globe trophies — that of Olympic Order.
The prolific composer, who wrote the theme song for four Olympic Games, was to receive the International Olympic Committee's highest honor during a ceremony Thursday night in Los Angeles.
Williams, perhaps best known for composing the "Star Wars" film score, also wrote the official themes for the 1984, '88, '96 and 2002 Olympic Games.
John Williams
Glen Facemire Jr. holds his hoe and a sample of West Virginia ramps at his home and ramp farm in Richwood, W.Va., Thursday, April 10, 2003. Celebrated in the eastern mountains as the first green thing to show its head after a hard winter, ramps are a much-anticipated rite of spring for traditional Appalachians. In West Virginia and throughout Appalachia, ramps are generally served with fried potatoes, scrambled eggs, pinto beans and cornbread, or almost anything else anyone can think of, just so as long as it includes bacon or ham drippings.
Photo by Jon C. Hancock
Hey - these are what we called 'wild leeks' up the road a piece in the backwoods of PA! While they were tasty in fried potatoes or eggs, we just ate 'em raw, trimmed & dipped in salt. Then we'd stink for days!
Hosting Fifi Awards in New York
Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Fierstein, now starring on Broadway in "Hairspray," will host the 31st annual FiFi awards — considered the Oscars of the fragrance industry — June 9 at Avery Fisher Hall.
Nominees will be announced Tuesday from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange by CNBC's Maria Bartiromo, the Fragrance Foundation said Tuesday. Categories include best national advertising campaign and celebrity fragrance star of the year.
Awards are presented by celebrities from the fashion, theater, film and television industries. Members of The Fragrance Foundation include designers, packagers, retailers, manufacturers and suppliers; media, advertising and public relations agencies.
Harvey Fierstein
The Fragrance Foundation Web site
Apologizes for Hitler Insinuation
Jay Leno
"Tonight Show" host Jay Leno has apologized to an eastern Kentucky doctor for insinuating that he looked like Adolf Hitler.
In a recent bit in which Leno goofed on newspaper ads, he showed an ad announcing that Dr. Ricky Collins would be joining the staff of a local medical clinic. The ad included a photograph of Collins, who has dark hair and a small mustache, with the words: "A familiar face in a new place."
"There's Ricky Collins," Leno said in the routine. "He's no longer the chancellor of Germany. He's now a doctor."
Leno said he didn't intend to offend Collins or his wife, who called to complain, but he insisted the photograph was funny.
Still, Leno said the apology was sincere. "I said you're a really nice man, and your wife is very upset, and I'm sorry," he told The Mountain Eagle of Whitesburg.
Collins said he accepted the apology. Leno also donated $500 to a charity that builds homes for the poor in the Appalachian region after he learned that Collins serves on the group's board of directors.
Jay Leno
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Detained Unwanted Visitor
David Lee Roth
David Lee Roth got an unwanted visitor when a man being chased by police climbed over a fence and tried to hide in the rock star's yard.
The former Van Halen frontman's publicist said Roth used a shotgun to hold the man at bay until police arrived, but police spokeswoman Janet Pope could not confirm that Wednesday.
Roth publicist Lathum Nelson said the singer stood on his second-floor balcony and pointed a shotgun on the intruder until officers arrived.
David Lee Roth
This undated screen capture is from a web site that was hacked by the Fluffi Bunni, a hacker that has embarrassed leading Internet security organizations by breaking into their computer systems and replacing Web pages with a message that reads 'Fluffi Bunni ownz you' and a digital photograph of a pink rabbit at a computer keyboard. British authorities arrested a man Tuesday believed to head a group of hackers known as ``Fluffi Bunni.' Fluffi Bunni captured the attention of the FBI just days after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, when thousands of commercial Web sites were vandalized with a single break-in that included the message, ``Fluffi Bunni Goes Jihad.''
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Whining Online
Geraldo Rivera
Geraldo Rivera has taken to the Internet to denounce the way some of his competitors have made hay of what he calls his "inadvertent technical violation of the Pentagon's embedment policies."
Rivera, arguably the most famous of Fox News Channel's Iraq war correspondents, writes at his Web site,
www.roughpoint.tv, that rival cabler MSNBC "maliciously conducted a 'Get-Geraldo' campaign."
Without naming names but implying that it is MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Keith Olbermann whom he's particularly angry with, Rivera writes, "Using a neo-Nazi ex-Congressman and a psycho ex-sportscaster as their hatchet men, they lobbed accusations and innuendo aimed at using my sand drawing to destroy a 33-year career far more distinguished than anything to which either of that hapless pair can aspire."
Geraldo Rivera
80th Birthday Party
Chuck Yeager
The Oak Ridge Boys will sing for one of their heroes, at his birthday party in Plano, Texas. Today is the celebration for Chuck Yeager's 80th birthday, even though he actually turned 80 several months ago. He changed his birthday event plans to accommodate the Oaks' busy touring schedule.
The Oaks are in the middle of their "Red, White and Blu-Blocker Tour," but say they were thrilled and honored to be invited. The celebration will be a benefit for the General Chuck Yeager Foundation, which funds science and aviation scholarships. Yeager was the first man to break the sound barrier and his story was told in the book and movie, "The Right Stuff."
Chuck Yeager
Tin Foil Hat To Match?
Elle Macpherson
Supermodel Elle Macpherson has reportedly lined her baby's cot with lead to shield him from cosmic rays on planes.
Macpherson, 40, allegedly also used foil blankets to shield herself and sons Flynn, five, and Aurelius, 12 weeks, from radiation, British newspaper The Sun said yesterday.
The lingerie designer is said to have spent thousands of pounds on the custom-built cot, which Macpherson's partner Arpad Busson carried aboard a British Airways flight from the Bahamas to London recently.
Macpherson told BA staff that the cot was designed to deflect radiation from the sun and cosmic rays at high altitude, the paper said.
Elle Macpherson
Violins To Auction
Isaac Stern
He was an icon in life and now aficionados have the chance to own some of Isaac Stern's violins and memorabilia nearly two years after his death.
Starting on Thursday, four-year-old Internet auction house Tarisio Auctions will attempt to sell 180 items belonging to Stern (1920-2001), the renowned violinist who nurtured musicians like Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman and who famously saved New York City's Carnegie Hall from the wrecker's ball.
The items from the Stern estate range from violins, violin bows and photographs to his humidor and Steinway & Sons piano.
Some of the more accessible items include drawings by Al Hirschfeld; publicity posters for a documentary about Stern's groundbreaking 1979 trip to China; a letter from Leonard Bernstein; and personal photographs including one of Stern singing at Carnegie Hall with luminaries Mstislav Rostropovich, Vladimir Horowitz and Bernstein among others.
Isaac Stern
More Family Values From Faux
Sex Harassment Suit
A hairstylist on Fox Sports Network's "The Best Damn Sports Show Period" has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against co-host and former NBA player John Salley and others involved with the show.
Lisa Brescher began working for the sports talk program in August 2001, and from the first day "was subjected to an environment of unrestrained sexual harassment," according to a Superior Court lawsuit filed Wednesday.
Brescher, 29, left on a disability claim in February, the lawsuit says; it was unknown whether the disability was because of the alleged harassment or some other injury. She's seeking unspecified damages.
The lawsuit also names News Corp., Fox Entertainment Group, Fox Sports Net and producer and co-host Tom Arnold.
Sex Harassment Suit
Partially Re-Opened
Rijksmuseum
The Netherlands best-known art museum, Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum said it would re-open one of its wings at the weekend following an asbestos scare, but most of the gallery, including sections containing much loved works by Rembrandt, would remain closed.
Officials said the Philips Wing of the museum, which currently houses an exhibition of works by the Dutch 17th century master Hedrick Goltzius, plus the museum's permanent collections of Asian art and Italian paintings, would re-open on Saturday and stay open until May 25.
However the Rijksmuseum's main crowd-pullers, including "The Nightwatch" by Rembrandt, will remain off-limits due to the scare over potentially toxic asbestos which was discovered on Tuesday during a routine inspection.
Tourists wanting to see the Rijksmuseum in its full glory may be in for a long wait, however, as the museum is due to shut down at the end of this year for a major facelift.
If the asbestos cannot be made inoffensive or removed before the end of this year it will take until mid-2008 for the museum to re-open completely after much needed renovations, officials say.
Rijksmuseum
Seagulls surround Donna Freeman in Bodega Bay, Calif., Tuesday, April 29, 2003. Freeman was an extra in Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds,' filmed in Bodega Bay in 1962. Actress Tippi Hedren, the star of the Hitchcock thriller, will be on hand to mark the film's anniversary over the weekend with a fund-raiser to benefit her sanctuary for big cats, the Shambala Preserve.
Photo by Marcio Jose Sanchez
'Ark of Darkness'
"The Ark of Darkness", a Political/Science-Fiction work, in tidy, weekly installments (and updated every Friday).
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