'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
''Hemp is an herb, Bush is a dope''
from Mark
My sooper phantastik piece a resistance.......
hails from the German Jimi Hendrix Fan Club, a vinyl of his LAST live gig. Forgot the Isle, not Wight, but was fantastique!
Message of Love and many more....... his opening line was, after showing up late and being Boo'd....
"I don't give a fuck if ya BOO, as long as you Boo in KEY!" And then blew 'm away with Killing Floor.
It's my most prized piece. Land of the New rising Sun..... prophetic.
~~ Mark
Thanks, Mark
New TV Schedule - Season/Series Premieres
Friday
(all times eastern) ABC 8 - 9 America's Funnist Home Videos (Sept 27) 9 - 10 That Was Then (Sept 27) 10 - 11 20/20 (Sept 13) CBS 8 - 9 48 Hours Investigates (Sept 27) 9 - 10 Hack (Sept 27) * 10 - 11 Robbery Homicide Division (Sept 27) * NBC 8 - 9 Providence (Oct 4) 9 - 10 Dateline (Sept 27) 10 - 11 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Sept 27) The WB 8 - 8:30 What I Like About You (Sept 20) * 8:30 - 9 Sabrina (Sept 20) 9 - 9:30 Reba (Sept 20) 9:30 - 10 Greetings From Tucson (Sept 20) * Faux 8 - 9 Firefly (Sept 20) * 9 - 10 John Doe (Sept 20) * UPN 8 - 10 UPN Movie Friday (Sept 27) * Denotes New Program
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sure wish the Big Dog would do more TV.
One of today's projects was getting estimates for a new roof. Looks like it'll easily carry over to next week.
First full week of school and I haven't had to visit the principal's office - yet. The kid has set a new record!
Any volunteers to review the new TV season and/or shows? Oh, come on. You know you have something to say!
Tonight, Friday, CBS starts the night with the soon-to-be-renamed '48 Hours', then reruns the 'I Love Lucy 50th Anniversary Special'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Megan Mullally and Rich Hall.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers are Ice Cube and Bill Scheft.
NBC opens with a rerun 'Providence', then 'Dateline', and wraps with a rerun 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Heath Ledger, Cedric the Entertainer, and Lee Ann Womack.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan are Susan Sarandon and Jason Lee.
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly are Amanda Peet, Michael Vartan, and David Lee Roth.
ABC has 2 reruns of 'America's Funniest Videos' and then '20/20'.
The WB regurgitates the series premiere of 'Family Affair' (that debuted Thursday night), then 2 reruns of 'Reba'.
Faux has the movie 'Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo'.
UPN here has Ruppert's Doggers visiting in Denver, followed by reruns of 'Blind Date' and 'EX-treme Dating'.
Check local PBS listing for 'NOW With Bill Moyers'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Big Dog Watch Continues
Bill & Dave
Former President Bill Clinton, left, speaks with late-night television show host David Letterman during the the taping of "The Late Show with David Letterman" in
New York, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2002.
Photo by Jon Filo
Dave Letterman's Guest Wednesday
Bill Clinton
Last night viewers got to see what late-night talk TV used to be like, when interesting people were guests instead of just celebrities hawking their latest flick, TV show or news program.
NBC late-night host Jay Leno landed Sen. John McCain on the 9/11 anniversary, while CBS's David Letterman snared Bill Clinton for his entire show -- a fact that CBS did not reveal
until very late yesterday afternoon.
"I guess he's never seen the show," Letterman joked as he announced his guest to his audience.
"When you have a former president, the security is unbelievable . . . tighter than Joan Rivers's face," he added.
Clinton said that when he heard about the attack on the World Trade Center, while in Australia, he knew immediately it was the work of Osama bin Laden. "I knew it would require
a sophisticated operation," Clinton said, adding, "Iraq wouldn't do it; they have a country, they have targets . . . he lives in caves."
"You know what I think? I think you may still be president," Letterman joked after Clinton gave a particularly erudite answer to one of Letterman's questions about bin Laden.
"When you're president you learn to act like you know what you're talking about," Clinton replied. "You don't lose it overnight; it sort of drifts away from you."
Letterman asked Clinton about reports that he might host a talk show. The former president said that with all late-night slots occupied, the only thing open to him is
daytime talk TV, and that involves too much work too early in the day and is not conducive to political discussion. Ex-presidents should spend at least half their time on public service, he said.
Bill Clinton
Clinton/Letterman video clip
Give Peace a chance?
Commenting On Sting's Anatomy
Bono
Bono has some astonishing news about Sting's anatomy.
The other night at a concert in Cannes, the U2 rocker introduced the ex-Policeman as "one of the most talented singers and songwriters in the world. He plays a mean bass
guitar. He's good-looking. He's fit. He has a beautiful wife -- Trudie Styler."
"But God is fair," added Bono, who went on to state that Sting has no penis.
"Did you ever wonder why he's into Tantric sex and yoga? It's called overcompensation."
The audience -- which included Heidi Klum, Melanie Griffith, Naomi Campbell, Pam Anderson, Patricia Arquette, Ricky Martin and Bryan Adams -- squealed. But no one laughed as hard as Sting.
Bono
Resumes This Sunday Night
'The Sopranos'
A lot — too much — has happened since "The Sopranos" completed its third season.
That was in May 2001 as HBO's great drama wrung out a finale of unrelieved foreboding.
Sunday at 9 p.m. EDT, "The Sopranos" kicks off another 13 weekly episodes. And not a moment too soon.
Set in New Jersey, where Tony Soprano presides as husband, father and mob boss, "The Sopranos" has clipped a glimpse of the Twin Towers from its opening titles. But it wastes no time addressing the tragedy of 9-11.
"Ma really went downhill after the World Trade Center," Soprano soldier Bobby Bacala tells Tony in Sunday's opener. Then the none-too-bright Bacala adds, "Quasimodo predicted all this."
"Nostradamus," Tony impatiently corrects him. "Quasimodo's the hunchback of Notre Dame."
For lots of details on this season, 'The Sopranos'
'Captain Justice'
Roger Corman
B-movie maven Roger Corman plans to make a now-rare foray into the theatrical feature world with "Captain Justice," an action comedy budgeted at $3 million.
Written and to be directed by Victoria Lakeman, the picture is the story of a young boy whose dreams collide with real-life adventures when a criminal poses as the boy's favorite comicbook hero.
While the budget is huge by Corman's usual shoestring standards, he's true to form in seeking ways to trim the actual cash outlay through both Canadian and Irish tax subsidies as well as a German tax shelter.
He's also planning to utilize his retired comic label, Cosmic Comics, to publish a "Captain Justice" comic book in tandem with the film's release.
Roger Corman
California's Chateau Montelena Winery
Chardonnay Grapes
A bin of Chardonnay grapes sit outside the Chateau Montelena Winery before the 25th annual blessing of the grapes at the winery in Calistoga, Calif., Thursday
Sept. 12, 2002. Three priests blessed a bin of freshly-picked Chardonnay grapes from the nearby Hanna vineyard during a celebration that gives thanks and marks
the beginning of the harvest. In 1976 Chateau Montelena was one of two wineries that helped put California in the forefront of world-class winemaking when they
beat out several French wines in the famous Paris tasting.
Photo by Eric Risberg
Could Face Drug Charges
Nick Nolte
Actor Nick Nolte, arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of drunk driving, could also face drugs charges, police said on Thursday.
Nolte, 61, was described by highway police as "drooling" and "completely out of it" when he was pulled over in Malibu for driving erratically in his black Mercedes.
Nolte, who has talked openly about his heavy drinking, was arrested after failing a field sobriety test. He was taken back to the police station where he
was booked on suspicion of drunk driving and photographed in a Hawaiian shirt looking bleary-eyed and disheveled.
Police said on Thursday they also expected to pursue other charges against Nolte for driving under the influence of narcotics.
"We have strong reason to believe there were drugs involved," California Highway Patrol spokesman Leland Tang told reporters.
Nick Nolte
Try to Unite World in Song
Jimmy Cliff & Dave Stewart
Former Eurythmics guitarist Dave Stewart and reggae great Jimmy Cliff launched a plan Thursday to unite the world in song — at least for one day.
The musicians want radio stations around the world to play the song "Peace One Day" on Sept. 21, the United Nations-designated International Day of Peace.
Stewart said the song will be available free to radio stations and on the Internet.
The international peace day is the project of filmmaker Jeremy Gilley, who lobbied the United Nations to recognize it. Last year, the U.N. General
Assembly passed a resolution calling on people to mark Sept. 21 as a day of cease-fires and nonviolence.
Jimmy Cliff & Dave Stewart
Peace One Day
Humor-Deficient Diva Pitches Hissy
Celine Dion
Canadian pop diva Celine Dion doesn't like mockery, or maybe it's her husband and manager Rene Angelil.
Angelil sent a notice of claim to a popular Montreal-based radio station, demanding it stop playing a parody of Dion's song "I'm Alive," in which the singer
is called, among other things, "annoying."
The radio station claims it was only trying to be funny, but Angelil didn't laugh at the joke.
The Dion parody was withdrawn on Thursday.
Angelil also pressured the Radio Energie network, which operates the Montreal station and eight others across the province of Quebec, not to run any Dion songs in the future.
Celine Dion
I'd be just as happy if no one played Celine Dion's music on any radio station, ever.
Launches Review of Media Ownership
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday launched a broad effort to update and possibly relax federal media ownership limits, a move that could spark a flurry of consolidation in the industry.
The agency will review limits on how much of the national television audience one company can reach, limits on local radio station concentration, and a ban on some common ownership in
a market of television and radio stations or a television station and a newspaper.
Companies like the Tribune Co., owner of several daily newspapers and television stations, are anxious to broaden their presence in some communities by combining their news-gathering
efforts and offering reports across several media outlets.
The agency will seek public comment and economic data over 90 days, which it hopes will guide the agency as it writes new rules. It also has several studies underway to aid its review.
The review of the decades-old rules follows a series of decisions from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which over the last year has harshly admonished
the FCC for not sufficiently justifying the limits.
The debate will likely be fierce since some media giants want to acquire more properties while consumer groups and a bipartisan set of lawmakers has expressed concerns
about consolidation in the media marketplace.
For the rest of this lengthy, but important article, Federal Communications Commission
(Watch out for code words like 'consolidation' - which means monopoly in plain English. There are only 6 owners of the media, 2 years ago there were 23. There are only media giants involved at this point. Yeah, we need even more 'consolidation'.)
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Outlines 'Millionaire' Changes
Meredith Vieira
Meredith Vieira's friends are having fun with her new job as host of the daytime edition of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire."
Vieira says she was "ordering dinner with some friends at a restaurant and one them turned to her and said "is that your final answer?" Vieira jokingly says she wanted to toss her drink
at her friend and say "no, 'this' is." She says the she now understands what Regis Philbin probably went through day after day. But, she says "it's all in good fun."
Near the end of the nighttime version of "Millionaire," ABC began showing celebrity versions. Vieira says that in her syndicated show there won't be as many specialty shows.
"At this point, they have no intention of having celebrity versions," Vieira tells AP Radio. "I think they want to get back to the roots of the show. The very first contestant for this new
weekday version of "Millionaire" is a New York City firefighter. It's regular people for whom winning this kind of money is life changing.
The weekday edition of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" starts Monday.
Meredith Vieira
Afghanistan
Camels
Camels are led in front of a setting sun near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2002.
Photo by Mindaugas Kulbis
Event At University of Tampa
Greg Palast
When: Saturday, September 21st 7:00pm
Where: Falk Theater, University of Tampa
How Much: $10 advance, $15 door
FILM and SPEECH: UNPRECEDENTED: THE 2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Not only the Tampa premiere of the new film, with the film's co-director Joan Sekler
(co-founder of The Independent Media Center) but also a speech by BBC
investigative journalist Greg Palast, author of THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN
BUY.
Palast's speeches on WMNF's Radioactivity program have caused a
torrent of interest from listeners. The film is the riveting story about the
battle for the presidency in Florida during the 2000 election. It also tells how
Republican political operatives used their access to voting lists to
undermine the black vote.
This event is being sponsored by WMNF, 88.5FM
Thanks, Stevan
Musician Terminally Ill
Warren Zevon
Acerbic singer-songwriter Warren Zevon, best known for the hit song "Werewolves of London," has been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, his publicist said on Thursday.
"I'm OK with it, but it'll be a drag if I don't make it 'till the next James Bond movie comes out," Zevon, 55, joked in a statement, released by spokeswoman Diana Baron. (The next Bond film,
titled "Die Another Day," comes out on Nov. 22.)
Zevon is spending his remaining weeks with his two adult children, son Jordan and daughter Ariel. He will shortly head to a Los Angeles studio to record a batch of songs, some written after he
received his diagnosis last month, Baron said.
Although "Werewolves of London" was a top 10 hit in 1978, the Chicago-born Zevon spent his 33-year recording career as a cult artist, unleashing his sardonic hooks and observant lyrics on a series
of acclaimed albums. He also worked with the likes of Jackson Browne, the Everly Brothers and members of R.E.M.
Less prolific in recent years, Zevon released a new album in 2001, "My Ride's Here," featuring musical contributions from Irish poet Paul Muldoon, Hunter S. Thompson and novelist Carl Hiaasen, Zevon's fishing buddy.
Warren Zevon
Behind the Name - the Etymology and History of First Names
Whale Now Seems Healthy
Keiko
Keiko the killer whale is likely to remain in Norway under human care for the winter, after the "Free Willy" film star swam to the Scandinavian nation after his release
in Iceland, his handler said Thursday.
The friendly whale became an instant hit but was so mobbed by fans petting him, swimming with him and even climbing on his back that officials last week made
it illegal to go closer than 50 yards.
His support team became worried when Keiko hovered listless near shore for several days, possibly due to shock or exhaustion from crowds, but veterinarians
have declared the nearly 25-year-old killer whale healthy, Canadian Colin Baird, said Thursday.
Many Norwegian coastal communities, including Halsa, have started lobbying to keep Keiko during his golden years. Killer whales generally live to be about 35, according to his team.
Halsa has adopted the slogan "Do like Keiko. Pick Halsa."
Keiko
www.aquarium.org/keiko/
www.hsus.org/
www.halsa.kommune.no
BartCop TV!
Man With A Mission
Michael Eisner
Faced with the prospect of disgruntled Mouse House shareholders certain to be heard loud and clear at this month's stockholders meeting, Walt Disney Co. chairman Michael Eisner has decided to make a preemptive strike.
Eisner will hold a series of tete-a-tetes with analysts at Disney's Times Square studios Thursday. While Disney officials insisted the meetings were routine, their timing of the sessions and the mounting pressure to
turn around the conglom's sputtering stock suggest Eisner is on a mission.
Eisner will apparently be re-emphasizing and clarifying previous disclosures. In fact, over the last two months, Disney has become more proactive in its communications with Wall Street, said one analyst, who praised
Eisner's and CFO Tom Stagg's efforts to be more upfront with the investment community after years of bumpy and sometimes obstructive relationships.
Despite the peace mission, Eisner may be focused on the new thorn in his side: Bert Denton and private equity group Providence Capital Inc. In the run-up to a pivotal Disney board meeting later this month, Disney
shareholder Providence announced Wednesday that it will host its own meeting for institutional shareholders of Walt Disney in order to discuss issues that have "undermined investor confidence" in the firm.
Denton predicts two to three current board members will step down at the upcoming board meeting, and is hoping that at least one replacement will be a new member from a management and
industrial background with knowledge of turnarounds. "The board needs less academic and artistic members and more heavy duty industrial execs that are strong-willed and good at running companies," he said.
Michael Eisner
Bornean Orangutans
Sophia & Denda
Sophia, a 21-year-old Bornean Orangutan, cradles her son Denda as the infant makes his public debut Thursday, Sept. 12, 2002, at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo.
The 4-pound male, whose name means 'fine' in Indonesian, was born on August 23.
Photo by M. Spencer Green
House Sold For $210,000
Kurt Cobain
Since the nondescript, rust-colored house with white trim was offered on eBay last Thursday, the high offer from a serious bidder is $210,000, which is $10,000 over the
minimum set by Ed and Jennifer McKee of Oregon City, Ore.
More than 50 bids had come in, the highest for more than $40 million, by the time the McKees began checking on the validity of the bidders.
The couple bought the 2,313-square-foot home, 70 miles southwest of Seattle, for $42,500 last month without knowing Cobain lived there from ages 11 to 15 with his father
and stepmother. The seller was a bank that had foreclosed on the property.
An attorney for Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, and their daughter said Thursday the Cobain estate hadn't authorized the auction.
Kurt Cobain
Cucumberophone?
First Viennese Vegetable Orchestra
Forget the cello, just listen to that cucumberophone. The land of Mozart will be exporting its latest cultural product next week when the First Viennese Vegetable Orchestra goes on
its nine-date debut European tour.
The orchestra, which consists of eight musicians, one sound technician and one cook, plays vegetable-based instruments they make themselves.
It takes the band about half an hour to make a carrot flute, and under 15 minutes to make a cucumberophone, which has a pepper bell and cucumber tubing. Other instruments include
celeriac bongos, eggplant cymbals and pumpkin drums.
At the end of a performance, which can include free jazz, experimental music, or the Radetzky March by Austrian Johann Strauss, the stage is cleared and a cook uses the instruments
to prepare a soup for both audience and musicians.
First Viennese Vegetable Orchestra
20 Years Ago Saturday
Princess Grace
Below the gilded dome of the Cathedral of Monaco lies the body of Princess Grace. Flowers are arranged over the marble slab of her tomb, and a wooden plaque instructs visitors: "Silence and Respect."
In the two decades since her death on Sept. 14, 1982 — she died at 52 of injuries suffered in a car crash — silence and respect have been hard to come by.
Monaco, once a sleepy resort favored by European royalty, is now a popular tax haven with celebrities, bankers and sports figures.
Streets once known for elegance and wealth are now clogged with trinket shops and tourists, and the lives of the princess' royal children are tabloid fare.
Palace officials say there are no special plans to mark the 20th anniversary of her death on Saturday; only the annual private ceremony at the palace chapel.
Princess Grace
Back On Menu
Spotted Dick
A traditional pudding which was renamed after hospital managers thought patients would be too embarrassed to ask for it, is being restored to Gloucestershire's hospital menus.
'Spotted Dick' will replace 'Spotted Richard' after it was decided patients are capable of overcoming their blushes long enough to ask for it.
The name change was originally introduced three years by the Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust.
It was thought patients might feel uncomfortable asking for the dessert.
Now it has been decided that Spotted Dick will make a return when new menus are printed in the next few months.
Spotted Dick
Cafeteria Catholic Attacks Vatican
Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson, a Roman Catholic who is to play Christ in a new film, has attacked the Vatican, saying that he does not believe in the Church as an institution.
The actor, who says that he is an "old fashioned Catholic" who rigorously supports the Latin Mass, is shooting Passion in Rome and in the southern Italian town of Matera. He says that he
is happy that his only daughter has decided to become a nun.
Gibson, 46, had a Catholic upbringing and attended a Catholic boys' school in Australia. He is scathing about the Church's hierarchy, saying that the Vatican was "a wolf in sheep's clothing".
"My love for religion was transmitted to me by my father. But I do not believe in the Church as an institution". Gibson has a private chapel at his home in Malibu, California, at
which the service is conducted every Sunday in Latin.
Gibson is said by friends to have become more conservative in his religious views in middle age.
For a lot more, Mel Gibson
Taking A Stand
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz city leaders plan to take part in a public pot giveaway next week to protest a recent federal raid of a medicinal marijuana cooperative that served mostly terminally ill members.
City Councilman Ed Porter said on Thursday he wants to show solidarity with residents in the beach community located some 70 miles (113 km) south of San Francisco who are outraged
at the federal raid last week that occurred without the support or knowledge of local officials.
Federal agents also arrested the cooperative's owners Michael and Valerie Corral, who were instrumental in drafting the trailblazing 1996 California law that allowed patients
and their care-givers to grow marijuana for their own medicine.
The event, which is not sponsored by the city, is expected to take place outside City Hall on Tuesday. Those wishing to pick up marijuana will need to show a prescription
for the drug which is legal in California for medical use, Porter said.
Richard Meyer, a spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration, said he was "appalled" by the plan but declined to detail whether federal agents would be at the event to make arrests.
The U.S. medical marijuana movement, which gained strength in California during the height of the AIDS epidemic, also received a setback in 2001 when the U.S. Supreme
Court unanimously upheld the federal ban on marijuana.
But California's own state Supreme Court recently took an opposite tack, ruling for the first time that ailing Californians who use or grow marijuana with a physician's
approval cannot be prosecuted in state courts - currently the venue for most marijuana cases.
Santa Cruz
Mazar-e-Sharif
Afghanistan
A farmer stands in his cannabis cultivation on the road near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2002. With the main harvest coming up in
a month or two, growers in a village near Mazar-e-Sharif, say they'll ignore government warnings to tear up their crops. Since the Taliban were ousted in a U.S.-led
war last year, Afghanistan's new government and the United Nations have focused anti-drug efforts on eradicating opium-bearing poppies, which are used to make heroin.
Photo by Mindaugas Kulbis
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