M Is FOR MASHUP - August 26th, 2009
COOL MASHUP QUIZ WINNER!
Win a Live DJ Set
By DJ Useo
Ok, I finally got an entry with all ten questions answered correctly.
It's funny, but the winner is DJ NOT-I! Lol!
He was mentioned in the contest even! rofl.
If it's no trouble, please announce the winner on Friday.
Thanks
Konrad Useo
ps. others came close, but everyone stumbled on question 1.
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Ted Rall: THE GUNS OF AUGUST
No wonder President Obama won't stand up for us. He won't even defend his personal safety!
Tom Danehy: It's a little embarrassing to be an Arizonan right now (tucsonweekly.com)
I've been an Arizonan most of my life. I grew up in Southern California, and Arizona always held a certain mystique for me-wide-open spaces, a certain raw energy and a promise for the future. When I was in high school, one of my teachers brought a stack of Arizona Highways magazines for us to look at. I'm not a nature guy (or a photography guy, either), but I thought it was amazing.
Linda Buzzell: Is This "The Age of Stupid"? (huffingtonpost.com)
Why all the hullabaloo? Many believe 'The Age of Stupid' could be the next, far hipper "An Inconvenient Truth."
Timothy Noah: Edward M. Kennedy (1932-2009) (slate.com)
The Kennedy who most changed America.
Charlie Brooker: We watch them on the bus. At work. At play. We have been invaded by screens (guardian.co.uk)
They rule our lives. All we need is a screen to have sex with and the circle will be complete.
PAUL CONSTANT: Party Crasher (thestranger.com)
Carnies Know How to Bring the Motherf**king Party.
Garrison Keillor: A place where right is right
A pleasant late-August Sunday, bright and breezy, the bells of St. Paul's ringing wildly for 11:30 Sung Eucharist, like a sacred pinball machine announcing you've won 10 bonus games, the square busy with people including Americans like me, whose business is being tourists.
"War Is Beautiful: An American Ambulance Driver in the Spanish Civil War" by James Neugass and Peter N. Carroll and Peter Glazer: A review by Dan Kaufman
"Who could see you and not remember you?" Federico Garcia Lorca wrote in 1926, describing the brutality of the Guardia Civil, Spain's paramilitary police, toward his beloved Gypsies. Ten years later, at the onset of the Spanish Civil War, that brutality would be visited upon Lorca when fascist soldiers loyal to Gen. Francisco Franco executed the poet and dumped his body in a fosa comun, a mass grave, near Granada.
Julia Keller: "Sit. Stay. Read. (Why dog books are so fetching)" (Chicago Tribune)
When I was in graduate school in Ohio, a colleague called one day and said that two stray dogs had shown up on her front porch. I was instantly skeptical: Two stray dogs?
Laurie Hertzel: Publishers always trot out signature releases in autumn, but this year is extraordinarily crowded (Star Tribune)
Shall we list some of the great authors who have novels coming out this late summer and fall? Let's do that. Let's list them in alphabetical order, so we don't get overwhelmed.
"Drood" by Dan Simmons: A review by Bob Hussey
On June 9, 1865, Charles Dickens was returning from a trip to Paris, traveling by train from Folkestone to London. As the train approached the river Beult near Staplehurst, the rail viaduct spanning the river collapsed. Incredibly, the engine was able to jump the 45-foot gap between the rails, but six of seven private passenger cars fell to the swampy riverbed below.
David Bruce: The Kindest People Who Do Good Deeds: Volume 5 (lulu.com)
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This book contain 250 stories about good deeds, including this one: When Paul Dver was a high-school student, he met comedian Soupy Sales, became friends with him, and even occasionally talked to him on the telephone. Paul would tell his fellow high-school students that he was friends with Soupy Sales, and of course they didn't believe him. One day, Paul asked Soupy for a favor. Paul and a friend were appearing in a play, and Paul asked Soupy to record an advertisement for them because if it were recorded in Soupy's voice the local radio station would play it. Soupy did more than just record the advertisement as written. He threw in some ad-libs and made it funny. Of course, Paul's high-school friends were amazed to hear Soupy's voice on the radio advertising Paul and his friend's play.
The Weekly Poll
New Question
The 'Manifest Destiny on film' Edition
According to AMC, Western Films or TV programs are the major defining genre of the American film industry... This indigenous American art form focuses on the frontier West that existed in North America (and) often portrays the conquest of the wilderness and the subordination of nature, in the name of civilization, or the confiscation of the territorial rights of the original inhabitants of the frontier. They truly show 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'
events of that part of our history. Love'em or loathe'em, their impact on our culture can not be denied...
If you are a fan what are your top 3 Western Films or TV programs and who are your favorite actors?
If you are not, feel free to rail away. I understand. I have Ojibwe ancestors (Sault Tribe of the Chippewa) and they suffered at the hand of the White man via broken treaties and confiscated land here in Michigan...
Send your response to
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Selected Readings
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Way too freaking toasty - over 100°.
The talking heads on TV keep saying "but, it's a dry heat".
That makes it SO much better.
"Mother of Judo"
Rusty Kanokogi
The "Mother of Judo" waited 50 years to get the gold medal that was snatched from her in her first serious competition, a gender injustice that fuelled Rusty Kanokogi's winning crusade for women's judo in the Olympics.
The gruff, plain talking Kanokogi who has received praise and recognition from the government of Japan, the International Judo Federation and International Women's Hall of Fame, was denied the prize at a YMCA tournament for being a woman.
"This should never, never happen to a woman again in sports," Kanokogi said about the rage she felt back in 1959.
The gender-equality fighter who is now battling a rare form of cancer was born Rena Glickman and grew up tough on the streets of Brooklyn's Coney Island when girls were not allowed to play most school sports.
Rusty Kanokogi
Sushi Defense Successful
Jeremy Piven
Score one for Jeremy Piven.
A professional arbiter has ruled Piven did not his breach his contract with the Broadway producers of "Speed-the-Plow" when the actor abruptly left the revival of the David Mamet play last December.
At the time, Piven's doctor said Piven was suffering from mercury poisoning after eating too much fish.
The producers, meanwhile, expressed disappointment. They says they respect the decision, but strongly disagree with it.
Jeremy Piven
Malaysia Concert
Black Eyed Peas
Muslims in Malaysia have been barred from attending a concert by U.S. hip hop band the Black Eyed Peas sponsored by Guinness which is owned by the world's biggest spirits group Diageo.
The move comes after a Malaysian Islamic court sentenced a 32-year Muslim woman to be caned after she was caught drinking beer in a hotel and at a time when an opposition Islamic party has moved against beer sales.
The concert, part of celebrations of Guinness 250th birthday, asks on its website (www.arthursday.com.my) "Are you a non-Muslim aged 18 years and above?" and if the response is no, access is not allowed.
Muslims account for 55 percent of the 27 million people in this Southeast Asian country and are barred from consuming alcohol although the rules are regularly flouted, especially in big cities like the capital, Kuala Lumpur.
Black Eyed Peas
Film Program Gets Reprieve
LACMA
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art's film program, which was to be shut down in October, has been granted a stay of execution.
The program will continue to operate until at least June thanks to a grant of $150,000 from the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. and Time Warner Cable in a partnership with Ovation TV.
LACMA said in July that it was closing the weekend film program, a staple at the museum during the past four decades, because it had lost $1 million over the past 10 years. It also said Ian Birnie, the program's director for 13 years, would become a consultant.
Additionally, TWC and Ovation will embark on a $1.5 million marketing effort to promote the program across their multiple media platforms locally and nationally.
LACMA
To Acquire Lifetime
A&E Television
A&E Television Networks says it is acquiring Lifetime Entertainment Services, bringing the home of "Project Runway" into a stable of channels that includes A&E and the History channel.
A&E Television Networks is a joint venture between The Walt Disney Co., Hearst Corp. and General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal. Lifetime is already owned 50-50 by Disney and Hearst.
Under the terms of the deal, NBC Universal may elect or be required to exit the venture within 15 years, which would make Disney and Hearst 50-50 partners in the larger group.
A&E Television
'Moon Rock' Is Just Petrified Wood
Rijksmuseum
The Dutch national museum said Thursday that one of its prized possessions, a rock supposedly brought back from the moon by U.S. astronauts, is just a piece of petrified wood.
Rijksmuseum spokeswoman Xandra van Gelder, who oversaw the investigation that proved the piece was a fake, said the museum will keep it anyway as a curiosity.
"It's a good story, with some questions that are still unanswered," she said. "We can laugh about it."
The museum acquired the rock after the death of former Prime Minister Willem Drees in 1988. Drees received it as a private gift on Oct. 9, 1969 from then-U.S. ambassador J. William Middendorf during a visit by the three Apollo 11 astronauts, part of their "Giant Leap" goodwill tour after the first moon landing.
Rijksmuseum
An Honest Republican?
U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins
U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins told a recent gathering in northeast Kansas that the Republican Party is looking for a "great white hope" to help stop the political agenda of the Democratic party and President Barack Obama.
Videotape shows Jenkins, a Republican, making the comment at an Aug. 19 forum. She was discussing the Republican party's future after Democrats took control of the House and Senate in the 2008 elections, when the presidency went to Obama, the nation's first black president.
A Jenkins spokeswoman told The Topeka Capital-Journal Wednesday that Jenkins apologized for her word choice and did not intend to offend anyone.
U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins
Booed In Bucharest
Madonna
At first, fans politely applauded the Roma performers sharing a stage with Madonna. Then the pop star condemned widespread discrimination against Roma, or Gypsies - and the cheers gave way to jeers.
The sharp mood change that swept the crowd of 60,000, who had packed a park for Wednesday night's concert, underscores how prejudice against Gypsies remains deeply entrenched across Eastern Europe.
Despite long-standing efforts to stamp out rampant bias, human rights advocates say Roma probably suffer more humiliation and endure more discrimination than any other people group on the continent.
Roma, or Gypsies, are a nomadic ethnic group believed to have their roots in the Indian subcontinent. They live mostly in southern and eastern Europe, but hundreds of thousands have migrated west over the past few decades in search of jobs and better living conditions.
Madonna
WTF - FTC Fine, Ban Thrown Out
Kevin Trudeau
A federal appeals court has thrown out a $37.6 million fine and three-year infomercial ban against Kevin Trudeau, who has long battled regulators over his marketing of "cures" for obesity, disease and financial woe.
Thursday's ruling by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago sends back to a lower court a case accusing the TV pitchman of misleading marketing that violated his 2004 settlement with the Federal Trade Commission.
Writing for a three-judge panel, Judge John Tinder said a lower court judge properly held Trudeau in contempt for having "outright lied" about the content of a book, "The Weight Loss Cure 'They' Don't Want You to Know About."
Yet the judge was "troubled" by the punishment because it was unclear how the fine was determined, and because the infomercial ban did not consider the possibility that Trudeau could mend his ways.
This despite the FTC's branding Trudeau, in the words of Judge Tinder, as "a 21st century snake oil salesman" and "nothing more than a huckster who preys on unwilling consumers." Trudeau has pitched cures for such things as hair loss, memory loss, excessive debt, cancer and AIDS.
Kevin Trudeau
Blueprints Given To Israel
Auschwitz
Sketched on yellowing parchment, the 29 blueprints presented to Israel's prime minister Thursday lay out the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in chilling detail, with gas chambers, crematoria, delousing facilities and watch towers drawn to scale.
"There are those who deny that the Holocaust happened," Benjamin Netanyahu said as he accepted the documents as a gift to Israel's Holocaust memorial, where they will go on display next year.
Netanyahu lingered over the large sheets spread on a table. Stamped with the Nazi abbreviation for concentration camp "K.L. Auschwitz," one of the largest featured multi-colored sketches, with barracks and even latrines drawn in detail. Other smaller sheets showed architectural designs of individual buildings, drawn from various angles.
Axel Springer Verlag, the publisher of the mass circulation Bild newspaper, obtained the Auschwitz blueprints last year from a German man who said he found them when cleaning out an apartment in what was formerly East Berlin.
Auschwitz
Gets No Respect
Veronica Lario
The estranged wife of Silvio Berlusconi says in a new book that his repeated lies are what prompted her to seek a divorce in order to regain "a little respect".
The untruth that was the last straw for Veronica Lario was when Berlusconi told her in late April that he had to go to Naples for an important meeting about the rubbish crisis in the southern city.
Instead, he went to attend the 18th birthday party of aspiring model Noemi Letizia, whose relationship with the prime minister has been the subject of months of intrigue.
"An umpteenth lie," Lario writes in the book, titled "Tendenza Veronica" (Veronica's Way). "To get a little respect, it was better for me to ask for a divorce."
Veronica Lario
Nude Model Arrested
Metropolitan Museum of Art
It seems the only nudes allowed at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art are the ones in the collection.
Police say they arrested a 26-year-old woman who was posing naked for a photographer, and in full view of visitors, in the museum's arms and armor department on Wednesday.
Model Kathleen "K.C." Neill faces a charge of public lewdness.
Photographer Zach Hyman directed the shoot. He's been getting some attention locally for photographing nude models on subways.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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