'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Comment
Re: Dennis Miller
Dennis Miller never "sold out"
That would imply that he had actual principles at one
time. This is bullshit. He's been the way he is ever
since the 1980's when he was on Saturday Night Live.
His sign-off at the end of Weekend Update said it all
- "that's the news, and I am OUTAHERE!"
The only real difference between Dennis Miller in 1988
and Dennis Miller today is the person who signs his
paycheck. That's IT. If somebody else hired him away
at twice the salary to play a Marxist, you can bet
he'd be the best damn Communist the world has ever seen.
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DUBYA COLLECTION
Check out - A Collection {Of Song Titles} From The Boot Newt Sing Along Page
MIDI
DUBYA COLLECTION {Sung to 'Rainbow Connection'}
{instrumental intro}
Why are there so many songs about Dubya
We All Know That He Lied
I'm An Oil Man, weekends at My Ranch
Bush Lied, Many Thousands Died
The Right's been told and some choose to ignore it
They'll sing along, wait and see
Someday they'll get it, the Dubya Collection
There's Rummy, and Condi, and Dick
Who said that every wish would be heard and answered
Nobody's Gonna Stop My War
Shrub's Up To Nothing Good, all those Bullsh*t
My War Has Just Begun
What's so confusing that keeps them from jiving
And what do they think they might see?
Someday they'll get it, the Dubya Collection
There's Rummy, and Condi, and Dick
{Let Me Go Back To Bed}
Don't Work So Constantly, No WMD's
Bush Hasn't Got Time To Explain
Stand By, Iran - Payoffs Up The Ying Yang
If I Only Had A Brain
They've heard it too many times to ignore it
It's something that should make them think
Someday they'll get it, the Dubya Collection
There's Rummy, and Condi, and Dick...
Have a great weekend!
Alvin D (-.-)
Thanks, Alvin
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Another hot, sunny day.
Every grocery store in town (jeez, 3 chains for a city of how many million?) had steaks as the loss-leader this week (30% fat ground beef [hamburger] was more expensive).
Corn was 6 ears for a buck at the Farmer's Market. That's the basic menu, but stretched with salads and side-dishes. Baked beans & brownies, too.
Expecting at least 7 for eats. Refrigerator is so full, had to pull out a cooler out to store the corn. Then had to stack stuff on top of the cooler so 'BA Raccoon' couldn't get in for a snack.
Tonight, Friday, CBS begins the evening with a FRESH 'Baby Bob', followed by a RERUN 'Still Standing', then a 'special' - 'Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular'.
On a RERUN Dave are Mark Wahlberg, "Monster Garage" host Jesse James, and the Sounds. (RERUNs all next week)
On a RERUN Craiggers are Natasha Henstridge, Paul Bettany, and Vic Chesnutt. (RERUNs all next week)
NBC opens with 'Dateline', follows with a 'special' - 'Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular'.
On a RERUN Jay are Sandra Bullock, army chef David Russ, and Fleetwood Mac. (FRESH next week)
On a RERUN Conan are Roseanne Barr, Chuck Barris, and Dave Attell. (FRESH next week)
On a seemingly FRESH Carson Daly are Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Greg Fitzsimmons, and Vendetta Red. (FRESH next week)
ABC starts the night with a RERUN 'America's Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH 'Whose Line?', then another
FRESH 'Whose Line?', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 5/16/03), are Luke Perry and Marilyn Manson, with guest co-host Monica Lewinsky. (FRESH next week)
The WB offers a RERUN 'Reba', followed by a RERUN 'What I Like About You', then another RERUN 'Reba', followed by a
RERUN 'Grounded For Life'.
Faux has the movie 'An American Werewolf In Paris'.
UPN here has the AZ Diamondbacks visiting Ruperts Doggers.
PBS locally isn't showing 'NOW With Bill Moyers', so fuck them.
A&E has 'This Is Your Country', followed by 'This Is Your Country'.
AMC offers a great marathon - all 5 'Planet Of The Apes', back-to-back. 'Planet Of The Apes', 'Beneath The Planet Of The Apes', 'Escape From Planet Of The Apes', 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes', and 'Battle For Planet Of The Apes'.
BBC -
[7pm] 'Madness of King George';
[9:20pm] 'Behind the Screen' - Coupling;
[9:30pm] 'So Graham Norton' - So Graham Burst;
[9:40pm] 'Manchild' - Episode 3;
[10:20pm] 'The League of Gentlemen' - The One-Armed Man is King; (Are you a local?)
[11pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Dan Akroyd;
[11:30pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Anthony Head;
[12am] 'The Office' - Episode 4;
[12:40am] 'Manchild' - Episode 3;
[1:20am] 'The League of Gentlemen' - The One-Armed Man is King; (Are you a local?)
[2am] 'Coupling' - The Melty Man Cometh;
[2:40am] 'Behind the Screen' - Coupling;
[3am] 'So Graham Norton' - Dan Akroyd; and
[3:30am] 'So Graham Norton' - Anthony Head. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'Under Suspicion', followed by the movie 'Straight Story'.
FX offers a day & night-long 'M*A*S*H' marathon, which concludes with 'Goodbye, Farewell And Amen'.
History has 'Greatest Raids', followed by 'Heavy Metal', then 'Modern Marvels'.
SciFi has an all-day & all-night-long 'Twilight Zone' marathon.
TCM celebrates the 'American Spirit' with a variety of pleasures:
[6am] 'The Navy Comes Through' (1942);
[7:30am] 'Immortal Battalion' (1944);
[9:15am] 'The Red Badge Of Courage' (1951);
[10:30am] 'They Were Expendable' (1945);
[1pm] 'Kelly's Heroes' (1970);
[3:30pm] 'Sergeant York' (1941);
[6pm] 'The Wings Of Eagles' (1957);
[8pm] 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' (1942);
[10:15pm] 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' (1960);
[12:15am] 'Flamingo Road' (1949);
[2am] 'The Steamroller and The Violin' (1960); and
[3:30am] 'Humoresque' (1946). (ALL TIMES EDT)
USA has a FRESH 'Monk'
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
An aerial view of crop circles, which were found last Saturday by a wheat farmer, near Fairfield in California, photographed on July 2, 2003. The geometric pattern of pressed wheat stalks which mysteriously appeared this week have been drawing hundreds of interested sightseers.
Photo by Paul Chinn
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Named Sexiest Canadian
Shania Twain
The results of a poll of 500 Canadian beer drinkers has found Shania Twain the sexiest female in Canada. Pin-up model Pamela Anderson came in second. The poll was held in conjunction with Canada Day (July 1).
An interesting second part of the poll found 14 percent of respondents believe having sex in a canoe is the most interesting place to do it.
Shania Twain
If There's A Bush In The White House...
Farm Aid
Farm Aid, a concert that raises money to keep families on their farms, will hold its annual show Sept. 7 at the Germain Amphitheater.
The lineup includes Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young, who organized the first Farm Aid in 1985, and Dave Matthews, who joined the board of directors in 2001.
Sheryl Crow, Brooks & Dunn and Trick Pony will also perform.
Farm Aid
www.farmaid.org
Laments Refugee Crisis
Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie is having nightmares. And it has nothing to do with any stunts she performs in the upcoming "Tomb Raider" sequel.
Jolie pinpoints her bad dreams to the horrible things she's seen happen to young refugees in her travels as a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador.
"I've started to get angry," the actress told The Associated Press. "I've seen far too many children with their limbs cut off, or hatchet marks in their faces. I've seen far too many people starving to death to not think that there's something very imbalanced about this world that we live in and that something must be done."
Jolie said seeing the hardship refugees go through has helped her appreciate her own life.
"Every single morning I wake up with my kids healthy," she said. "And I have food. And I have shelter. And I'm not worried about somebody killing my family.
"I'm lucky. And I don't worry about stupid little things I used to anymore. I'm stronger emotionally for it."
Angelina Jolie
Rare Aboriginal rock art thought to be about 4,000-years-old, which has been hidden due to its location, has been revealed at a cave located in the Wollemi National Park, located 100 km (62 miles) northeast of Sydney and is seen in this handout photo taken in May 2003. The paintings, discovered by bushwalkers back in 1995 but only reached by an expedition from the Australian Museum in May this year, include half human, half animal composites arranged in groups and various sorts of human-like figures, but are dominated by a range of birds, lizards and marsupials.
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Serial Philanderer/Opera Expert Immortalized
Rudy Giuliani
An art dispute has come back to haunt former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is the subject of a new portrait showing him posing with two balls of elephant dung.
The work by Shanghai-born artist Zhou Tiehai, which features a lofty image of Giuliani against a backdrop of the New York skyline and flanked by the elephant droppings, is included in a new show that opened Thursday at the Whitney Museum in Manhattan.
The exhibition is called "The American Effect" and features different takes on the Unites States by a variety of foreign artists.
Asked to respond to Zhou's portrait, Giuliani insisted Thursday that he was unqualified to comment.
"I really am not an art critic," he told reporters following a meeting with US Secretary of State Colin Powell in Washington.
"If it was an opera I would be able to comment on it, but works of art I am not an expert on," Giuliani said. "And I haven't seen it so I don't know what it is."
Rudy Giuliani
Endorsing Kucinich
Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson plans to be on the road doing concerts to help raise money for the presidential run of Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio.
The 70-year-old singer said he's endorsing Kucinich because the Cleveland Democrat has a history of standing up for heartland Americans who are overlooked.
"I will be doing all I can to raise his profile with voters," Nelson said Wednesday.
Willie Nelson
www.willienelson.com/
Film Hawaii Documentary
(Some of) 'The Brady Bunch'
Thirty years after their family vacation was almost ruined by the curse of an ancient tiki doll, the Bradys are back in Hawaii.
"Is this like an acid flashback or what?" joked Barry Williams, who played oldest son Greg on "The Brady Bunch."
Several original cast members from the '70s sitcom have been in the islands this week filming a 90-minute documentary for the Travel Channel. Robert Reed, who played father Mike Brady, died in 1992.
"The Bradys are the foremost family in television history," said executive producer and creator James Romanovich. "I thought with the 30-year anniversary of their filming in Hawaii, it would be great to bring them back and have them be themselves in a 'Real World'-style show."
Cast members have visited most of the locations the TV family toured 30 years ago. Even famed island crooner Don Ho makes a surprise appearance, just as he did in the 1973 episode, and sings a song with Carol Brady herself, Florence Henderson.
(Some of) 'The Brady Bunch'
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Artists Pick Their Favorites
CD Series
The music industry may not like it, but most fans have shared music with friends by making compilations — to expose them to something new, to provide a party soundtrack or even to seduce.
Now imagine getting a CD mix compiled by Sheryl Crow, Lucinda Williams or even the Rolling Stones — and you don't even have to know them.
Hear Music, a company bankrolled by the Starbucks coffee chain, has introduced a line of Artist's Choice CDs. Participating musicians are asked to pick music that matters to them, then explain their choices in the liner notes.
Crow's set was hit-heavy, with popular choices from the likes of Carole King, Elton John, Bob Dylan, Squeeze and Crowded House. Williams, who kept editing her choices up to the last minute, was big on country weepers. Tony Bennett and Ray Charles chose mostly classics.
Each Stones member had four choices, which were heavy on vintage soul and blues. The process, predictably, brought forth internal rivalries, said Don MacKinnon, Hear Music founder and now vice president of music and entertainment for Starbucks.
The series was launched last year with what would seem an unlikely commercial choice: cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Discs programmed by Charles and Williams soon followed.
For more, CD Series
Sculptors work on a sand sculpture depicting the pyramids of Giza on a beach near the Baltic sea coastal village of Travemuende, near Luebeck, on July 3, 2003, in preparation for Germany's second sand-sculpture festival. About seventy sculptors shape the 'Seven wonders of the world - world of wonders', using some eight million kilograms of special sand. The festival runs from July 11 until September 7, 2003.
Photo by Christian Charisius
He Files For Divorce
Stone & Bronstein
Sharon Stone and her husband, San Francisco Chronicle Executive Editor Phil Bronstein, are divorcing.
Bronstein cited irreconcilable differences in his petition for divorce, filed Thursday in San Francisco County Superior Court. A copy of the document was obtained by "Entertainment Tonight."
Stone, 45, and Bronstein, 52, who married on Feb. 14, 1998, said in a statement the dissolution was "amicable and mutual." They have a 3-year-old son, Roan.
"We're committed to being great parents and having a friendship, as parents, going forward," they said in the joint statement released in Los Angeles.
Stone & Bronstein
Needs Funding
Dracula Theme Park
Romania's prime minister has reassured investors that the government plans to back the building of a Dracula theme park.
Adrian Nastase's comments came just days after his new tourism minister, Miron Mitrea, said the park wasn't a priority for the government and that private investors must take a leading role.
The government has pledged to provide the land needed to build the park, which is to include a gothic castle with spooky effects, golf courses and a hotel.
The planned location in Snagov, an upscale lake resort near Bucharest, is close to the burial site of Vlad the Impaler, the real-life Romanian prince who inspired the Dracula myth.
However, a year after being launched, the project has become idle because no major private investor has come forward with the estimated $15.6 million needed to build the park. Last week, 8 percent of investors sold their shares.
Dracula Theme Park
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
May Sell Beverly Hilton
Merv Griffin
Entertainment mogul Merv Griffin says he is working on a deal that could result in the sale of his Beverly Hilton hotel, site of countless Hollywood award shows.
Griffin said Wednesday he has been in discussions with Beverly Hills real estate developer Probity International Corp. The hotel would retain its name if sold, Griffin and Probity said.
No other details of the discussions were disclosed.
Griffin turned to real estate after years as a TV talk show host, singer and creator of game shows like "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy!" He bought and sold 14 hotels during the 1990s.
Merv Griffin
Eyeraising eyebrow : Indian Sikh, Sardar Pishora Singh, displays his 9-cm long eyebrow hair to the press in Amritsar.
Photo by Stanley Chou
Former GE Boss Settles Divorce
Jack Welch
Former General Electric Co. chairman Jack Welch and his estranged wife, Jane, have reached a divorce settlement, a lawyer involved in the case said on Thursday
The settlement, whose terms were not disclosed, marks the end of a bitter and closely watched breakup that had cast a public spotlight on the lavish benefits awarded Welch as part of his GE retirement package.
The settlement came just days before the divorce trial was due to begin in Connecticut. The Welches had been married for 13 years.
Jack Welch filed for divorce in April 2002 as reports surfaced of an affair he began with Suzy Wetlaufer, the one-time editor of the Harvard Business Review, while she interviewed him for an article.
Divorce papers filed by Jane Welch made public the former executive's use of a swank Manhattan apartment owned by GE, along with the cost of flowers, wine and laundry services. The revelations sparked a public outcry, embarrassed GE and sparked an inquiry by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Welch, who had been one of the most admired U.S. executives, later gave up free use of the apartment and corporate jets, but did not apologize for a retirement package that was also stuffed with country club memberships and regular dinners at one of Manhattan's best restaurants.
Jack Welch
Found In Nottinghamshire
Ice Age Cave Art
Archaeologists have identified the first Ice Age cave art ever discovered in Britain, a series of drawings dating back 12,000 years.
Similar in style to the renowned cave drawings at Lascaux in France and Altamira in Spain, the pictures are the most northerly find of Ice Age cave art.
The images of two Ibex, a bison, part of a horse, birds and geometric patterns were discovered in caves at Creswell Crags in Nottinghamshire over the past three months, English Heritage said on Thursday.
The drawings had been overlooked for millennia because they are not clearly visible and were identifiable only by an expert under special light conditions.
"The text books say there is no cave art in Britain," English Heritage inspector of ancient monuments Jon Humble said. "These will now have to be re-written."
Ice Age Cave Art
Honors WWII Veterans
Online Registry
Americans who served in World War II or supported the war effort at home can now add their names to an online registry.
Organized by the American Battle Monuments Commission, the Web-based list is an effort to extend recognition to as many as 16 million Americans who served in uniform during the Second World War. It is being launched almost a year before the dedication of the first national monument to World War II veterans, slated for May 29, 2004 - Memorial Day weekend - on the National Mall.
The registry is open not only to veterans, but to "any American that served in the armed forces or contributed to the war effort on the home front, whether in factories and shipyards or farms and neighborhoods," the commission said in a news release.
The registry is accessible on the National World War II Memorial Web site, http://www.WWIImemorial.com, or by calling the commission toll-free at 1-800-639-4WW2. Anyone can submit names and registration is free.
Previous efforts to gather names for the registry "barely scratched the surface," collecting only 1.3 million names over the past several years, said Mike Conley, a spokesman for the commission.
For more, Online Registry
National World War II Memorial
Top 15 Programs
Basic Cable Networks
Rankings for the top 15 programs on basic cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of June 23-29. Each ratings point represents 1,067,000 households. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses.
1. "WWE Raw Zone" (Monday, 10 p.m.), TNN, 3.4, 3.66 million homes.
2. "BET Awards Show" (Tuesday, 9 p.m.), BET, 3.0, 3.19 million homes.
3. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), TNN, 2.8, 2.96 million homes.
4. Movie: "Bring it On" (Sunday, 9 p.m.), USA, 2.8, 2.94 million homes.
5. "Monk" (Friday, 10 p.m.), USA, 2.6, 2.78 million homes.
6. Movie: "Caesar" (Sunday, 8 p.m.), TNT, 2.5, 2.69 million homes.
7. "Law & Order" (Monday, 9 p.m.), TNT, 2.5, 2.66 million homes.
8. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Sunday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.4, 2.54 million homes.
9. "Trading Spaces" (Saturday, 9 p.m.), TLC, 2.4, 2.51 million homes.
10. "Strong Medicine" (Sunday, 10 p.m.), Lifetime, 2.3, 2.49 million homes.
11. "Law & Order" (Tuesday, 9 p.m.), TNT, 2.2, 2.3 million homes.
12. "Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius" (Sunday, 10:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.2, 2.29 million homes.
13. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Wednesday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.2, 2.29 million homes.
14. "Real World XIII" (Tuesday, 10 p.m.), MTV, 2.1, 2.29 million homes.
15. NBA Draft (Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.), ESPN, 2.1, 2.29 million homes.
Basic Cable Networks
A meerkat warms itself under the glow of a heat lamp in its enclosure at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Thursday July 3, 2003. Weather officials say Sydney experienced its coldest maximum temperature in seven years, reaching 12 degrees Celcius (54 degrees Fahrenheit), prompting zoo keepers to activate the lamps to help warm the meerkats native to Angola, Namibia, South Africa and Southern Botswana.
Photo by Will Burgess
'Ark of Darkness'
"The Ark of Darkness", a Political/Science-Fiction work, in tidy, weekly installments (and updated every Friday).
The Ark Group bids a sad farewell to one of their number as they contend with Purgatory's lowest courtroom.
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