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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Did the Farmer's Market/CostCo loop today. Grapes are now in season, and the kid is in heaven.
Broke down & picked up the 'Lord of the Rings' DVD. Woo hoo. We now own 3 DVD's....LOL
Expecting my niece to move in here in the next couple of weeks. Finally gonna get a 'daughter' - so what if
she's 18. Maybe it's about time to finish the afghan I started as her baby blanket...
Tonight, Friday, CBS mucks with primetime - 'NFL Preseason', where (at least here), the Oakland Raiders visit the
Dallas Cowboys. Yee haw. To fill out the schedule on the west coast, we are also to be treated to another so-called 'Funny Flubs & Screw Ups', and as if that's not
enough, 'Celine Dion: A New Day Has Come', too.
On a rerun Dave (from 7/11/02), the scheduled guests are Paul Newman and Counting Crows.
Scheduled on a supposedly fresh Craiggers is Knoc-Turn'al.
NBC opens with 'Dateline', then a fresh 'Firehouse' followed by a rerun 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Wesley Snipes, comic Brian Dunlerras, and Marc Anthony.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan are Ice Cube, Harland Williams, and Lyle Lovett.
ABC kills an hour with another rerun of 'America's Funniest Home Videos', then 'The 4th Annual Family Television Awards', followed by '20/20'.
The WB has 2 reruns of 'Sabrina', then a rerun of 'Reba' and a rerun of 'Raising Dad'.
Faux offers 2 fresh 'Invasions Of The Hidden Cameras''s and a rerun 'X-Files'.
UPN has the other PA team, the Philadelphia Phllies visiting Rupert's Doggers.
Check local listings for 'NOW With Bill Moyers'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
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In Bad Doberan, Germany
13th Annual Zappanale Festival
Living in communist East Germany, Wolfhard Kutz used all kinds of schemes to smuggle in his beloved Frank Zappa records: secretive rendezvous with West Germans at highway rest stops.
Hidden compartments in his car doors. Accomplices who sneaked albums across borders.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Kutz could pursue his passion openly, and created a fan club: the Arf Society, a reference to Zappa's Barking Pumpkin record label.
Thanks to the group, the little town of Bad Doberan, in an economically depressed area near the Baltic Sea, has become the unlikely site of an annual Zappa festival. This week, the
town also dedicated a bronze bust of the late American musician in its central square.
The town of 12,000 is already something of a magnet for Zappa freaks. Last weekend, the 13th annual Zappanale festival included bands from the United States, Sweden, France and Hungary,
and a German-language play called "All About Frank."
The festival started in 1990 when Kutz threw a party and found a band that could play a few Zappa songs. This year, he said, some 2,500 people showed up for each of the three days. Eleven
former Zappa band members played, and two of Zappa's siblings attended.
13th Annual Zappanale Festival
www.arf-society.de
www.doberan-web.de/zappa/
Fun Link
Journal of Applied Treknology
Journal of Applied Treknology
Guesting On 'Dawson's Creek'
Jack Osbourne
Jack Osbourne, the son of rocker Ozzy Osbourne and one of the stars of MTV's hit "The Osbournes," will film a cameo Friday for the more clean cut "Dawson's Creek."
The 16-year-old will be at Duke University to film the spot. Duke is the site of the fictional Worthington College, where actress Katie Holmes' character, Joey, attends school.
MTV and the entertainment news show "Access Hollywood" plan to send crews to cover Osbourne's cameo. He'll appear in the two-hour Oct. 2 premiere of the WB series' sixth season.
Jack Osbourne
Man With An Opinion
Keith Richards
As the Rolling Stones prepare to launch a North American tour, guitarist Keith Richards can barely contain his scorn for lifelong buddy Mick Jagger's recent knighthood.
"It's a paltry honor," Richards said in U.S. music monthly Blender's September issue, due out on Aug. 13.
Richards, who co-founded the Rolling Stones with Jagger in 1962, said the singer should have held out for a lordship. Instead, he has been thrown into "the
same bin" as Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Elton John, Richards noted.
Richards, whose fondness for hard living makes him an unlikely candidate for any royal honor, said he would not bow to social etiquette and call his sidekick Sir Mick.
"You can call him what you like; we have other names for him," he said.
Keith Richards
Bandmates Sue
'The Osbournes'
A trial date of Feb. 18 has been set for the lawsuit brought by Bob Daisley and Lee Kerslake against Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne over the deletion of their contributions to the
albums "Blizzard of Ozz" and "Diary of a Madman."
Epic Records reissued last month altered versions of the two Osbourne albums with the bassist and drummer's parts replaced by new recordings, thereby eliminating claims Daisley
and Kerslake would have on mechanical royalties. Daisley wrote all the lyrics and co-wrote the music for "Blizzard of Ozz" and "Diary of a Madman."
The current suit was filed in August 1998 against the Osbournes and their companies Blizzard Music and Monowise, and the labels that recently released the altered masters, Sony and Epic.
'The Osbournes'
Fun Link
Klingon Language Institute
The Klingon Language Institute
Orders Switch to Digital TV
FCC
Dissatisfied with the speed at which the industry is going digital, the Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to require television manufacturers to have digital tuners on all sets by July 2007.
Commissioners voted 3-1 to require manufacturers to add the tuners to all TV sets with screens of 36 inches and larger by July 2004, while the requirement for smaller sets would be
phased in over the following three years.
Congress has mandated that the nation switch to digital TV, which offers clearer pictures and better sound. But the transition to this new technology has been delayed by reluctance within
the industry to make the switch before most households can receive digital signals.
"This action will take these electronic appliances from being HDTV (High Definition Television) ready to HDTV reality," said Michael Powell, the commission's chairman.
Powell rejected industry complaints that the action would force consumers to pay more for television sets, saying the price of digital tuners would drop quickly as they are mass produced.
The dissenting vote came from Commissioner Kevin Martin, who noted that most TV viewers no longer receive their signals over the air and therefore do not need digital tuners.
If you have the stomach, FCC
This has nothing to do with Congress giving a flying rat's ass about TV reception. It has everything to do with new & creative ways to screw the viewing public, and drain our dollars into corporate profits.
The Communications Act of 1996 GAVE broadcasters the airwaves. Yes, you, the American citizen, no longer own & lease these airwaves to broadcasters. The broadcasters flat-out own them now. They were given to the broadcasters to get them to
hop on the HDTV bandwagon. Their original bandwidths were not sufficient for HDTV, so to entice their moving, Congress gave them our airwaves (there's also a big sub-carrier issue, too). Good bye public interest, convenience and necessity. Hello
lowest common denominator programming, narrow points of view, and broadcasting monopolies. Didn't cost the broadcasters that much, either. Just the price of several members of Congress, and stacking the FCC. Another leftover turd floating in
the toilet bowl, courtesy of Newtie's 'Contract On America.'
Ribbon Cutting Thursday
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country music performers cut the ribbon to open the new Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Thursday, May 17, 2001 in Nashville, Tenn. From left are
Earl Scruggs, Bruce Hinton of MCA Records, Kitty Wells, Charley Pride, Brenda Lee and Marty Stuart. The new building, located in the heart of
Nashville's downtown tourist district, replaces a much smaller one about a mile away that was closed in 2000 after 33 years.
Photo by Mark Humphrey
Awards to Be Displayed
Johnny Carson
An exhibit featuring Johnny Carson's six Emmy Awards and his Presidential Medal of Freedom will open next month at the Elkhorn Valley Museum & Research Center.
Carson, host of NBC's "Tonight Show" from 1962 until his retirement in 1992, grew up in Norfolk and graduated from Norfolk High School. He has donated millions to the city and area projects.
Johnny Carson
Elkhorn Valley Museum & Research Center
Interesting Link
Klingon Recipes
K'Tesh's Klingon Recipe Pages
Taking Six Month Break
Britney Spears
Pop princess Britney Spears is taking a six month break, but her publicist on Thursday denied rumors that the 20 year-old singing sensation was so exhausted and broken-hearted that she was "running home to mom."
Spears' decision came just days after a controversial end to her world tour. She was booed by fans after cutting short her final show in Mexico City because of a torrential rain storm, and made an obscene gesture
to paparazzi photographers besieging her car.
The star, who has made three hit albums and a movie since rocketing to fame in 1998, is also said to be devastated over her breakup in March with childhood sweetheart and 'NSYNC singer Justin Timberlake. The breakup
of the two-year romance was blamed on conflicting schedules.
Spears has been working virtually nonstop since she burst onto the scene as a cute teen with the 1998 hit "Baby one more time" and rose to become a worldwide pop idol known for her bare navel and her famous claim that she was still a virgin.
Britney Spears
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Moving Across The East River
Museum for African Art
Three months after the Museum of Modern Art's temporary move to Queens, another Manhattan museum is crossing the river.
The Museum for African Art has closed its downtown galleries to reopen just across the East River next month, a museum spokeswoman said Thursday.
The new location is only four blocks from MoMA, at the 33rd Street stop of the No. 7 subway train.
Like MoMA, the museum considers the move a necessary step toward an eventual better location in Manhattan — and a way to reach out to a new community in the process. The museum is
building a permanent home at the northern end of the Museum Mile, on Fifth Avenue between 109th and 110th streets, where it will reopen in 2005.
In the meantime, its galleries and programs for schools and the public will operate from a 12,500 square-foot space — about the same area as in SoHo — on the third floor of a building
on 43rd Avenue in Queens. It will be one floor above the Isamu Noguchi Museum's temporary home. Like MoMA, the Noguchi museum is awaiting the renovation of its permanent space.
The Noguchi museum, unlike the other two, has always been in Queens; it has temporarily moved from one building there to another.
Museum for African Art
www.africanart.org
www.noguchi.org
www.moma.org
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Extraterrestrial Recipes
Extraterrestrial and Bizzare Recipes
WWII Diary Returned
Lewis Fry "Molly" Malone
The diary of Flight Lt. Lewis Fry "Molly" Malone is shown in the hands of relatives after it was returned after 60 years, Thursday Aug. 8, 2002, at the RAF club in central London. Malone,
who was known for his brave, direct attacks on enemy positions recorded his experiences fighting the Luftwaffe over northern Africa in World War II. Malone was killed in action over Libya
in 1941 aged just 29. The diary was returned to the family after being traced by an American military historian Ray Hudson.
Photo by Chris Young
ABC's Newest Standup Guy
Larry Miller
Veteran actor Larry Miller is developing an ABC comedy series based on his own life as a standup comic with three kids.
"Larry's just got a unique comic voice. He refers to himself as the last angry man with manners, and that's a voice that's just not heard on TV right now," said Flody Suarez, who will
produce with Miller and "Nutty II" director Tom Shadyac.
Miller will write the pilot with scribe Jack Burditt ("Mad About You"). They worked together in 1993, when Miller had a recurring role on "Mad About You."
Larry Miller
Cleaned Up Airport Lounge
Jeremy Irons
Britain's multi-faceted screen star Jeremy Irons has revealed shining new talents after cleaning up a scruffy Irish airport lounge during a flight delay, newspapers reported on Thursday.
Upset by the sight of beer-soaked tables and overflowing ashtrays in a lounge at Shannon airport in southwestern Ireland, the Oscar-winning star grabbed a cleaner's trolley
and cloth and started mopping up the mess, much to the surprise of fellow passengers.
"I had done enough reading and I looked around me and the place was a tip so I decided to clean up," Irons was quoted as saying in the tabloid Irish Daily Mirror newspaper.
He was en route to his castle in Cork, southern Ireland, when his plane was diverted to Shannon.
Jeremy Irons
Interesting Recipe
Cat Poop Cookies
Cat Poop Cookies
Postpones More U.S. Dates
Oasis
English rock band Oasis has postponed two additional dates on its U.S. tour as a result of injuries sustained by guitarist Noel Gallagher in a car crash, the group's record label said on Wednesday.
Gallagher, 35, is suffering from the effects of whiplash and shock, one day after a taxi he and two fellow band members were riding in collided with another vehicle in downtown
Indianapolis, said a statement from Epic Records.
The band initially postponed Wednesday's concert in the midwestern city, and has now also put off Friday's stop in Philadelphia and Saturday's in Boston. It expects to play
its New York City club date on Sunday. A decision about rescheduling the three concerts will be made early next week.
A follow-up examination on Wednesday showed that Gallagher's injuries were more serious than thought, Epic Records said. A doctor at the Indiana University School of Medicine
prescribed further painkilling drugs, and ordered complete rest for the next three days.
Oasis
BartCop TV!
In 'Charlie's Angels 2: Halo'
Demi Moore
Demi Moore has ended months of flirtation with the "Charlie's Angels" sequel by agreeing to take a small role in the project, a decision that marks the end of a five-year sabbatical from studio films.
She will play a former, now "fallen" angel working on the other side of the law in "Charlie's Angels 2: Halo," which is scheduled for release next June via Columbia Pictures.
At her zenith, she commanded $12 million a picture. She was last in theaters with the barely noticed Paramount Classics drama "Passion of Mind."
Demi Moore
Painting Restored -- At Last
Battle of Hastings
A giant painting celebrating England's Battle of Hastings was restored to its former glory on Thursday after spending nearly three decades stuffed under the floorboards of a local museum.
The painting, measuring 27 feet by 17 feet, was commissioned from artist Frank Wilkin in 1820 to mark the epochal battle in 1066 when William the Conqueror's Normans defeated an English army led by King Harold.
The painting originally hung in Battle Abbey School on the site of the battle on the southern English coast but was taken down and given to the local music hall in 1862 because it took up too much space.
The picture, which shows William coming across the mortally-wounded Harold in the closing stages of the battle, then passed from hand to hand -- surviving one decision to destroy
it -- until 1953 when it ended up at the museum.
Battle of Hastings
Walks in Her Sleep
Jennifer Aniston
If something goes bump in the night at the home of Hollywood hunk Brad Pitt, he need not worry. It's probably just his wife, Jennifer Aniston.
The 33-year-old "Friends" star revealed in an upcoming issue of Us Weekly magazine released on Thursday that she is a lifelong sleepwalker.
In one recent somnambulant episode, Aniston walked out of the couple's home and was awakened only when their home's security alarm went off.
As a child, she recalled, "I would walk into the living room, and (my mom) would have a conversation with me, and I would not have known it," she told the magazine.
Jennifer Aniston
Interesting Link
Japander
Japander.com
Arrest Warrant Issued
Vince Neil
Motley Crue's Vince Neil is wanted on a misdemeanor battery warrant for allegedly punching a record producer outside a West Hollywood nightclub last April, the district attorney's office reported.
A warrant for Neil's arrest was issued Wednesday, said district attorney spokeswoman Jane Robison. If convicted, the heavy metal band's lead singer could face a maximum of six months in jail and a $2,000 fine.
Neil's manager, Burt Stein, called the allegation ridiculous, predicting the 41-year-old singer would be "completely exonerated."
Michael Schuman said he was standing outside the Rainbow Room nightclub just after midnight on April 28 when Neil arrived in a red Rolls-Royce sedan, got out and punched him in the face.
Schuman, 47, fell to the ground, fracturing an elbow, while Neil stood over him and taunted him, according to the record producer's attorney, Trent Copeland.
Vince Neil
Filming Starts In January
'American Pie 3'
Universal Pictures has put together the pieces of "American Pie 3," the sequel to one of the studio's most profitable franchises.
Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan and Eugene Levy have signed to reprise their roles. They join Seann William Scott, who pacted earlier this week for a return. Jesse Dylan ("How High")
is negotiating to direct the script by Adam Herz.
The second sequel has been in the hatching stages for some time, but the dealmaking was complex. None of the players had sequel options that ran beyond "American Pie 2," and all
parties sought an extra large piece of the pie. Filming begins in January for an August 2003 release.
'American Pie 3'
Job Listing
Professional Hermit
More than 200 years after they went out of fashion in Britain, professional hermits are back in the job market.
A newspaper advertisement seeking a resident hermit for the stately Shugborough Home in Staffordshire, central England, has prompted a flood of replies from men eager to ditch stressed-out modern
life for a spot of peaceful cave-dwelling. "There have been a few hermits in Britain since their heyday but they've usually just been recluses and loners. This is the first time the job of a resident
hermit has been advertised in more than 250 years," organizer Corinne Caddy told the Daily Express.
The successful applicant will be expected to live in a cave on the grounds of the estate and abandon human contact, except for scaring visitors -- and will probably have to give up shaving and bathing as well.
Professional Hermit
Renaming The Months
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan's flamboyant President Saparmurat Niyazov, after whom cities, airports and even a meteorite have been named, has proposed a new honor for himself -- the month of January will now bear his name.
Niyazov, officially known as Turkmenbashi, or Head of all the Turkmen, but usually known as Turkmenbashi the Great, proposed that January be renamed Turkmenbashi at a meeting of the
People's Council, the country's highest consultative body.
Other months are to be given names such as "The Flag," "Independence" and "Rukhnama," the title of a quasi-religious spiritual guide written by Niyazov and published last year.
Names of national heroes and poets will also be used.
But April will be called "Mother" in an apparent reference to Niyazov's own mother, who died when he was a child. Statues of her have appeared across Ashgabat in recent years,
although they are far outnumbered by monuments to her son.
Turkmenistan
Official Beer Of Miramax
Coors
Coors Brewing Co. of Golden, Colo., and Miramax Films announced a deal Thursday making Coors the official sponsor of U.S. theatrical premieres for Miramax, meaning the Coors logo will show up on red carpets and its beer will
be served at Miramax parties.
The deal also would place Coors products in 15 films over the next three years. Unlike in traditional advertising, directors will be able to show actors drinking a beer, Coors spokeswoman Hilary Martin said.
Coors originally called Miramax earlier this year to ask about sponsoring a premiere. New chief marketing officer Ron Askew talked his way into more.
Both companies touted the deal as a "perfect" match.
Coors and Miramax will review which films would be best for Coors to appear in. Coors insisted it would not appear in scenes depicting underage drinking, drinking and driving, or other irresponsible behavior.
Both companies said Coors would not be dictating creative changes for scripts.
Coors
Girls Can Now Write Names
In The Snow
Write Your Name In The Snow
Got Snippy With Reporter
Steven Segal
Action star Steven Seagal got angry with a reporter on Thursday who asked him about his tangles with the Mafia.
Seagal was doing preproduction on the movie "Belly of the Beast," scheduled to begin filming here in November, which he described as "kind of a political thriller." He said Thailand is one of his favorite countries
in the world, adding that he's visited "maybe 100 times or more" over 30 years.
"I like the culture, the people, the religion," said Seagal, who practices Buddhism, Thailand's national religion.
But he lost his cool when a reporter asked about a dispute with a former business partner, Julius Nasso, who has sued Seagal for $60 million, accusing him of backing out of a contract to perform in four movies.
Steven Seagal
Phichit, Thailand
Auan & Jeena
Auan, a seven-year-old female cat, licks the face of Jeena, a three-year-old male mouse, at a farmer's house in the central province of Phichit, 450 km (281 miles)
north of Bangkok, August 7, 2002. The animals' owners say Auan found Jeena three years ago and has been his playmate and protector, including warding off dogs, since then.
Photo by Sukree Sukplang
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