'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
from Kip
Re: Nardwuar
I saw a reference to Nardwuar on the BC entertainment page yesterday.
If you've never heard any of Nardwuar's interviews, you need to go to http://nardwuar.com/ and listen to a few of them.
I highly recommend the interviews with Mikhail Gorbachev and
Neil Young.
Kip
Thanks, Kip!
Who Will Die During Bush's Administration
The Women
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Thanks, Oceanside Larry!
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
'June Gloom' burned off way too early & it ended up warmer than seasonal. Much warmer.
Blew off the Farmer's Market on the CostCo loop today. The Farmer's Market has brought in a bunch of 'stuff' to occupy kids' interest - like bouncers, slides & ponies(!). Sadly, the kid is 'too big' for any of them, and feels slighted, so, took the easy way out
and avoided the place today. Thankfully, CostCo had lots of 'food ladies', and the kid happily munched his way through the store while we picked up the years supply of charcoal.
My computer is still acting peculiarly - may have to take her in to the shop. Will try hanging another St. Jude medallion on it.
Tonight, Friday, CBS starts the night with a RERUN 'JAG', followed by a RERUN 'Hack', and then '48 Hours'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Peter Krause, Jim Gaffigan, and Widespread Panic. ( RERUNS NEXT WEEK )
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers is The Thorns. ( RERUNS NEXT WEEK )
NBC fills 2 hours with 'Dateline', and follows with a RERUN 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jay are Colin Quinn, hockey star Jean-Sebastien Giuere, Jim Belushi, and Dan Aykroyd. ( RERUNS NEXT WEEK )
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Charlize Theron, Ryan Reynolds, and Longwave. ( RERUNS NEXT WEEK )
On a RERUN Carson Daly (from 4/4/03), are Chris Rock, DJ Qualls, and Chevelle. ( RERUNS NEXT WEEK )
ABC pisses away 2 hours with RERUNs of 'America's Funniest Home Videos', and follow with '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Catherine Bell and Kenny Chesney, with this week's guest co-host Ed McMahon. ( RERUNS NEXT WEEK )
The WB offers a RERUN 'What I Like About You', followed by a RERUN 'Greetings From Tucson', then a RERUN
'Reba', followed by a RERUN 'Grounded For Life'.
Faux has the movie 'Final Destination'.
UPN offers the movie 'Harvard Man'.
Check local PBS listings for the best show on TV - 'NOW With Bill Moyers'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Rock stars Bono of U2 (R) and Sir Bob Geldof (L) talk to the media after meeting Britain's Prime minister Tony Blair in Downing Street in London, May 22, 2003. Bono and Geldof met with Blair and International Development Secretary Baroness Amos for a working breakfast on Thursday to discuss progress on the action plan for Africa ahead of the G8 Summit in Evian.
Phot by Hugo Philpott
Tweety PO's 2 Bishops
Chris Matthews
Two Roman Catholic bishops said they will skip commencements at colleges that plan to honor television talk show host Chris Matthews, saying he supports abortion rights.
Worcester Bishop Daniel P. Reilly said he decided not to attend Friday's ceremony at the College of the Holy Cross "with a heavy heart."
But he said in a statement Wednesday that he couldn't support the school's plan to give an honorary degree to "a Catholic person who publicly espouses the view that, in some cases, people have a right to terminate a life in the womb."
James Timlin, the bishop of Scranton, Pa., said Thursday he wouldn't attend Sunday's ceremonies at the University of Scranton.
Timlin said Matthews "espoused a viewpoint on abortion which Catholics believe to be contrary to the moral law."
Matthews hosts the MSGOP talk show "Hardball." Network spokeswoman Pauletta Song declined to comment on his views on abortion.
Chris Matthews
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Too Cozy with Industry
FCC
Federal Communications Commission officials have taken more than 2,500 trips since 1995 that were mostly paid for by the industries the agency regulates, a watchdog group said on Thursday.
Some $2.8 million paid for FCC commissioners and agency staffers to attend conventions, conferences and other events in locations all over the world, including Paris, Hong Kong and Rio de Janeiro, the Center for Public Integrity said in a report.
The group also released a database containing ownership information on radio stations, television stations, cable television systems and telephone companies in America.
It said the data revealed broadcasting and cable behemoths such as Viacom Inc., Clear Channel Communications Inc. and Comcast Corp. already dominate many of the nation's media markets, even as the FCC moves to further relax media ownership rules at a meeting scheduled for June 2.
Center for Public Integrity Executive Director, Charles Lewis, charged there was an incestuous relationship between the FCC and the broadcasting and cable industries it regulated.
"The idea that the FCC can render an objective, independent judgment about media ownership is laughable," Lewis said in a statement.
FCC
Dressed in traditional costume, Amazonian Cofan Indian elder Toribio Aguinda (2nd L) of Ecuador holds hands with fellow Cofan elder Eduardo Chapal (L) and Cheryl Brown of the Conta Costa County Central Labor Council as he addresses a group of supporters before a march on the world headquarters of the ChevronTexaco corporation in San Ramon, California, May 22, 2003. The Cofans and other indigineous groups have alleged ChevronTexaco with failing to clean up massive environmental contamination, left as a result of the corporation's oil exploitation in the Ecuadoran portion of the Amazon region. At right is Cofan elder Lucian Luciante Quenama.
Photo by Lou Dematteis
Politically Engineered
Dixie Chicks Boycott
WaterGate Revisited: The Bush Reich Engineered the Dixie Chicks Boycott
"There's no reason to interpret the hostile response that followed Maines's anti-war comments as the spontaneous reaction of an outraged country audience. In fact, the attack on the Dixie Chicks was a political maneuver no less calculated than the Watergate break-in.
According to a story from americannewsreel.com sent to RRC by former Reprise president Howie Klein, 'Phone calls originating from Republican Party headquarters in Washington went out to country stations, urging them to remove the Chicks from their playlists.
The 'alternative concert' [to the Dixie Chicks' tour opener] is actually the work of the South Carolina Republican Party and party officials are helping promote the concert. We received a call from 'Gallagher's Army,' urging us to support the alternative concert. Caller ID backtraced the call to South Carolina GOP headquarters.'"
Dixie Chicks Boycott
Thanks, again, Lar!
Judge Freezes Assets of 'Matrix' Director
Larry Wachowski
"The Matrix Reloaded" may be one of the biggest movie hits of the year, but co-director Larry Wachowski will need more than bullet-time martial arts to collect his full paycheck for the film.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has frozen Wachowski's business assets in a bitter divorce fight between the reclusive filmmaker and his estranged wife, Thea Bloom, who claimed he was concealing funds from her, according to newly disclosed court documents.
Previously confidential letters filed in court by Bloom's lawyer to support her request for a restraining order also offered a rare public glimpse at the intricacies of powerhouse Hollywood deals and the stratospheric fees commanded by big-name movie-making talents.
The documents came to light when they were posted this week on The Smoking Gun, a popular Web site devoted to finding legal skeletons in celebrity closets.
In a declaration accompanying her request for the restraining order, Bloom said she and Wachowski mutually agreed to separate last July, after nearly nine years of marriage. Bloom said she learned that "Larry has received large payments (for the "Matrix" films) that I never saw deposited in our joint accounts."
"Larry has been extremely dishonest with me in our personal life, and I believe he is hiding information from me regarding our financial affairs," she said in the court papers.
Larry Wachowski
Agassi Says Wife Is Expecting
Steffi Graf
Andre Agassi says his promise to play mixed doubles with Steffi Graf in next week's French Open had to be put off because his wife is going to be a Mum again.
Agassi, here for his 15th French Open, promised a doubles appearance with Graf after winning his eighth Grand Slam title in the Australian Open in Melbourne in January.
"When I said we could mixed doubles with Steffi I didn't know the news," he told the sports daily l'Equipe Thursday.
"It wouldn't be wise for a pregnant woman to play."
He said he didn't know whether 20-month-old Jaden Gil would be having a brother or sister.
Steffi Graf
Gets New Look
Sgt. Pepper
Goodbye Karl Marx, Marlon Brando and Shirley Temple. Let me introduce you to Michael Owen, Sporty Spice and Halle Berry.
Artist Sir Peter Blake has revamped his collage for the legendary cover of the 1967 Beatles album, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," to make it more representative of the Fab Four's Liverpudlian origins, British newspapers said Friday.
John, Paul, George and Ringo still remain, but the throng of 20th century icons surrounding them in the original picture are replaced by an array of more recent figures more closely associated with Liverpool.
Commissioned by the Tate gallery to back Liverpool's bid to become the European Capital of Culture, the new collage features icons ancient and modern with connections -- however slim -- to the northwestern English port city.
Oscar winner Halle Berry features because her mother was born in Liverpool, as does England soccer player Owen who plays for Liverpool, while ex-Spice Girl Mel Chisholm -- Sporty Spice -- is a Liverpudlian.
The tableau further celebrates Liverpool talents with former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Canadian comedian Mike Myers of Austin Powers film fame -- whose parents came from the area -- and race horse Red Rum, whose most famous victories were at the Aintree racecourse just outside the city.
Sgt. Pepper
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Gets Russian Diploma
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney, mobbed by fans in Russia's second city, collected an honorary degree on Thursday and said -- in Russian -- he was pleased to walk the same halls as the country's greatest composers.
"I am happy to be here," the former Beatle said to loud cheers after receiving an honorary doctorate and quickly checking his notes in St Petersburg's conservatory.
"This is a big honor for me. Thank you."
"It's really exciting to be in the same school that such great composers as Tchaikovsky came to," he said, switching to English and pointing to his doctorate.
"It's fantastic to be here. And receiving this diploma is the icing on the cake."
Beatles recordings were highly prized in Soviet times, when contact with Western musical trends was often limited.
Paul McCartney
Three-year-old Cambodian boy Oeun Sambat hugs his best friend, a 13.1 feet long female python named Chamreun or 'Lucky' in the village of Sit Tbow on May 18, 2003. Superstitious villagers in the impoverished southeast Asian nation are flocking to see the boy, who they believe has supernatural powers and was probably the son of a dragon in a former life.
Photo by Chor Sokunthea
Divorcing Rachel Hunter
Rod Stewart
Veteran British rocker Rod Stewart is divorcing his estranged wife, model Rachel Hunter, Britain's Sun newspaper reported Friday.
The 57-year old rocker -- best known for hits like "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" -- split from 34-year-old Hunter four years ago, and both have since had widely publicized relationships.
"I've paid my dues to the institution of marriage and have no interest in clinging to the past," the twice-married Stewart was quoted as saying. "I have decided to get a divorce. When I get back to L.A. it will all be finalized."
Rod Stewart
Finally On TV
Peabody Awards
At last, a medium the Peabodys have done much to elevate is returning the favor with some coast-to-coast face time.
This comes courtesy of A&E, where the 62nd annual Peabody awards air 4 p.m. EDT Sunday.
For six decades, the Peabodys — which honor outstanding achievement from around the world in television, radio and emerging media like CD-ROMs and the Web — have been presented at a private luncheon each spring. There's no razzle-dazzle, no red carpet, no whipped-up suspense (the recipients are announced weeks earlier).
It was the same on Monday, at a $300-a-plate affair in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Charles Gibson, anchorman of ABC's "Good Morning America," was master of ceremonies, and 31 Peabodys were bestowed.
For more, Peabody Awards
www.peabody.uga.edu
www.aande.com
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Backs Down on Threat to Pull Digital TV Lineup
CBS
Viacom Inc.'s CBS television network on Thursday backed down from a threat to pull its digital 2003-2004 lineup unless federal regulators adopted a mechanism to protect shows from being pirated by this summer.
The Federal Communications Commission has been pushing the television industry, content providers and consumer electronics makers to speed up the transition to higher-quality digital signals and recently asked if the agency should adopt a so-called broadcast flag to protect programs from piracy.
Viacom warned the FCC in December that the network would pull its digital offerings, which include the popular college basketball tournament and favorite shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, unless the broadcast flag was adopted and enforced.
Rep. Billy Tauzin, chairman of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Rep. Fred Upton who chairs the panels communications and Internet subcommittee, had earlier on Thursday written to urge the network to reconsider the threat.
We are "hopeful that the FCC will work to complete the broadcast flag proceeding by this fall, and certainly no later than the end of this calendar year," they said in a letter.
The flag would allow consumers to record broadcasts for personal use but prevent sharing perfect digital copies of the shows over the Internet.
CBS
A watermelon vendors son rests on watermelons in Bhopal, capital of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, Thursday May 22, 2003. Watermelons are a popular refreshment in India.
Photo by Gaurav Tiwari
Hospitalized Briefly
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson was hospitalized briefly after falling ill on the same day he was scheduled to give a deposition in a copyright lawsuit.
Jackson was hospitalized in Indianapolis on Wednesday for observation and treatment before the deposition began, Brian Oxman, an attorney for the Jackson family, told The Associated Press.
Jackson was released after a couple of hours and boarded a private jet Wednesday evening to return to Los Angeles, Jackson spokesman Stuart Backerman said.
Jackson, 44, "was not feeling well and was feeling weak," Oxman said in a telephone interview. Neither Oxman nor Jackson spokesman Stuart Backerman knew which hospital Jackson was taken to.
Michael Jackson
Archives Now On Internet
Albert Einstein
Hundreds of Albert Einstein's scientific papers, personal letters and humanist essays are now on the Internet.
The documents, some dating back to Einstein's youth, can be found on a Web site run by the Einstein Papers Project at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The papers became available Monday at http://www.alberteinstein.info. Among the documents are Einstein's papers on relativity, the quantum theory of light and matter, and education, international affairs and pacifism.
The Web site also offers travel diaries and 3,000 digitized images.
Albert Einstein
California Institute of Technology Web site
9th Symphony Manuscript Sells for $3.5 Million
Beethoven
A manuscript of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, hailed as perhaps the most important musical document ever to come to auction, sold for over two million pounds on Thursday but failed to set a world record.
The 575-page manuscript, complete with Ludwig van Beethoven's frenzied revisions and comments in the margins, was bought by a private collector for 2.13 million pounds ($3.5 million), auctioneers Sotheby's said.
The manuscript, sold on behalf of a charitable foundation, was used for the first printed edition of the symphony and contains previously unpublished music.
The Sotheby's manuscript was prepared for print in 1826, three years after Beethoven's trusted scribe had died.
The scribe's replacement evidently struggled to decipher Beethoven's spidery handwriting and the document is littered with scribbled rebukes to him from the composer.
"Du verfluchter Kerl (You damned fool)," Beethoven writes at one point.
Beethoven
Gets Japanese Print Collection
Smithsonian Institution
A top American connoisseur has left the Smithsonian Institution his collection of more than 4,000 Japanese color prints from the late 1800s and the 1900s, a surprise bequest worth millions of dollars.
It will take some months to prepare a public exhibition, museum officials said. They only learned when Robert O. Muller's will was read that he intended to give them his pictures, which dealers had tried hard to buy before his death.
Because the donor wanted his pictures to be appreciated as a whole, the Robert O. Muller Collection will be kept separately in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Muller, of Newtown, Conn., died April 10 at 91. He had been collecting Japanese prints since he was 20, and dealing in them for most of his life except during World War II, when Japanese art was unpopular.
"This is the benchmark collection for understanding so many of the amazing things that happened to Japanese graphic art in the 20th century," said Julian Raby, director of both the Sackler and the Freer Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian.
Smithsonian Institution
John Kamikaze reenacts a scene from The Water Babies, a children's book by the late Reverend Charles Kinsley, as he lays suspended from meat hooks piercing through the skin on his back and legs in the window of the Selfridges department store in London's Oxford Street, May 22, 2003. The installation was part of the store's Body Craze event, a month-long celebration of the human form, which runs from May 7 until May 31.
Photo by Matt Dunham
'Ark of Darkness'
"The Ark of Darkness", a Political/Science-Fiction work, in tidy, weekly installments (and updated every Friday).
Fresh Today
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