Tom Danehy: Tom reaches out to find middle ground with the opposite side of the political divide (Tucson Weekly)
I sincerely hope that you and I can meet in the middle on this. How about if we agree that every single person who breaks the law must face the consequences therefor? Hillary Clinton did something illegal with her emails? Put her on trial; let a jury decide. Donald Trump committed sexual assault? Put him on trial. Let's stop playing the "What about...?" game.
Alexandra Petri: Some feedback from the Finnish president on his visit to the United States (Washington Post Satire)
I would say in the future, if the purpose of the visit is that you will be unexpectedly called upon to defend the European Union as an institution and then sit very still while the president does some personal yelling, you should specify this more clearly on the invitation so that a leader can decide for themself whether it is worth it to visit.
RONALD W. DWORKIN: "Artificial Intelligence: What's to Fear?" (The American Interest)
Social media has reversed this trend to some extent. Like tiny grass shoots heralding the arrival of healthy new life, millions of people today draw pictures and post them on Instagram. They write personal stories and post them online or e-publish. They try their hand at the art of comedy, music, or dance, and post videos of themselves on YouTube. All this fulfills Tolstoy's definition of art. These people aspire to touch others and to transfer to others an emotion they have felt. What is poignant in all this is the sense of desperation in some of these aspiring artists.
In an Alka-Seltzer commercial from 1969, an actor (played by Jack Somack) in a commercial for the fictional product "Magdalini's Meatballs" has to eat a meatball and then say "Mamma mia, that's-a spicy meat-a ball-a!" in an ersatz Italian accent. Take after take is ruined by some comedic trial or another (comedian Ronny Graham dropping the clapperboard). By the commercial's end, Jack has eaten so many meatballs that it's "Alka-Seltzer to the rescue." With his stomach settled, Jack does a perfect take, except that the oven door falls off. The director (off-camera) sighs and says, "OK, let's break for lunch."
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Randall was first, and correct, with:
meatball
That was one funny commercial . . . it still makes me laugh.
Mark. said:
Meatball.
Dave said:
Meatball. Alka-Seltzer is an old time heartburn medication that contains aspirin, sodium bicarbonate, and anhydrous citric acid. It tastes so horrible that the one time I tried it I spit it out. There are better tasting temporary remedies to heartburn, but if you are having regular heartburn you should see your doctor, as stomach acid coming up can cause serious long term health effects.
Alan J answered:
Meatball.
Leo in Boise replied:
Meatball
Stephen F responded:
Meatball
mj wrote:
The first take
Wasn't a problem for the "actor". By take 5, the speecy, spicy meatball
was doing his stomach in. Alkaseltzer to the rescue!
Roy, Still a Libtard Snowflake in Tyler, TX replied:
It was a meatball. I enjoyed that commercial. The poor guy blew his lines so many times eating those doggone spicy meatballs that he ended up in desperate need of an Alka Seltzer to cool that terrible heartburn. Thank you, ma'am. You've given me an inspiration for dinner.
zorch responded:
"meatball"
Micki wrote:
Meatball. Even Jim Carrey said it as "The Mask" when his character swallowed a bomb and saved everyone.
Cal in Vermont said:
... meat-a ball-a!" Plop plop fizz fizz / Oh what a relief it is!
Gary answered:
MEAT-BALL
Keep charging!
Kenn B replied:
meat-a-ball
Jon L responded:
Meatball
Deborah wrote:
Meatball. That's as memorable as the "I can't believe I ate the whole thing" commercial (which I think is also Alka-Seltzer).
We took about ½ our freezer contents to a friend's freezer, about a mile from here. She had power and ours was still out. Came home 30 min. later and we had power. And *then* the wind started howling. Oy.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Meatball
Daniel in The City answered:
Meatball.
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, replied:
"Meat-a-ball!"
Rosemary in Columbus responded:
meatball
Dave in Tucson wrote:
Mamma mia, that's a spicy meatball! That great commercial was discontinued after loud protests from an American-Italian defamation group. I later heard the leader of the group was "whacked" by the Mafia as they didn't care for the attention the protests generated. Of course that concern disappeared after The Godfather was released a couple of years later.
Michelle in AZ said:
meatball
DJ Useo answered:
I could never forget the answer is "meatball". I recently had Greek Meatballs at Tinos.
Peter W replied:
Pizza Pie
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame responded:
The answer is meatball.
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BANDCAMP MUSIC YOU WILL PROBABLY NEVER HEAR ON THE RADIO
Music: "We're All Gonna Die Someday" from the album SAD BASTARDS OF BROOKLYN, VOL. 2
Artist: Sad Bastards of Brooklyn
Artist Location: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Info: Sad Bastards of Brooklyn are an acoustic side project of Charlene McPherson and Mo Goldner of the New York City bandSpanking Charlene. They perform cover versions of the saddest songs ever by artists such as Linda Ronstadt, Elvis Costello, Judy Garland, Thin Lizzy, etc.
Some Lyrics:
We're all gonna die someday lord
We're all gonna die someday
Mama's on pills daddy's over the hill
But we're all gonna die someday
Well it hurts down here on Earth lord
It hurts down here on Earth
It hurts down here cause we're running out of beer
But we're all gonna die someday
The song was written by Australian singer-songwriter Kasey Chambers.
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• On 25 October 1881, Pablo Picasso was born, but the midwife who assisted at his birth thought that he was stillborn. Fortunately, Pablo's uncle, a doctor named Salvador, blew some cigar smoke in the face of the still infant, who suddenly began to move, demonstrating that he was very much alive.
• Artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, although he did not always acknowledge that fact. Once a visitor told him that he was also born in Lowell. Mr. Whistler replied, "I do not choose to be born at Lowell."
Books
• Critic Roger Ebert loves movies, and he loves books. When he is at leisure, he sometimes looks through his copy of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, where he discovers things such as the meaning of "Giotto's O," which is this: The Pope wanted to employ very good Italian artists, and so he sent a man to collect samples of their work so that he could look at them. When the man reached Giotto, Giotto simply painted a perfect O and gave it to the man. The Pope looked at the perfect O and commissioned Giotto to paint for him. Among the many other books that Mr. Ebert treasures is a facsimile of Shakespeare's First Folio, which his wife, Chaz, gave him. However, Mr. Ebert says that he will never read it because of its spelling and typography. When he reads Shakespeare, he reads the Riverside Shakespeare that he read in college because it was edited by one of his professors: G. Blakemore Evans. Once, Mr. Ebert tried to read a Folio volume; however, he discovered that he couldn't despite the advantages it possessed: "I tried reading a Folio volume once. Just the right page size, one (not two) columns to the page, elegant typography. I just couldn't. I felt like I was cheating on G. Blakemore."
• How long does it take to write a book? According to children's author Rafe Martin, his book Will's Mammoth took either three years or 30 seconds to write. Growing up in New York City, Rafe and his young friends used to climb a boulder called Elephant Rock. When he was on top of the boulder, he imagined that the rock came alive and he was riding on an elephant. For the book, however, he turned the elephant into a woolly mammoth. He worked on the book for three years, making it a long story, but after three years of writing, he had a 30-second inspiration that the book didn't need words; instead, pictures could tell the story in a wordless book. And so Will's Mammothhas many pictures that tell the story. By the way, Rafe once took his children to see Elephant Rock, but by then it had been bulldozed away!
• Tomie dePaola has written and illustrated a number of children's books featuring Strega Nona, who has magical powers. Seeming inconsistencies appear in the books, which have been created over a number of years, with sometimes years passing in between books. For example, near Strega Nona's house in various books appears a tree: Sometimes it's a bare tree, sometimes it's a cypress, and sometimes it's a stylized design. In addition, a small goat shed may or may not appear near her house. Mr. dePaola is not bothered by such seeming inconsistencies, claiming, "It's part of Strega Nona's magic."
• The books of Edward Gorey are macabre. After his book The Beastly Baby was published - a work that author Alexander Theroux calls "one of the most calmly irreverent and horrific pieces I have ever read" - mothers who had purchased the book used to read it, be horrified, rip it into pieces, and mail it to Mr. Gorey. The famed illustrator/author, whose books seldom have a happy ending, was once asked why he hated children. He replied, "I don't know any children."
In an article about stupid Miss Lindsey threatening to have a committee hearing and invite Ghoulianai to appear:
Giuliani will, of course, lie his ass off, but we are sure the good senators have lots of good questions. Like for instance, Wonkette Five Dollar Feminist would like to know how it is normal that Giuliani's Ukrainian co-conspirators Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman are simultaneously Giuliani's clients and also working for him and the president on their campaign to bring down Joe Biden. Is that kosher, in the legal sense? And how does it work? And how is he doing all this when he is not even technically barred to practice as a lawyer in DC?
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Rudy Giuliani doesn't even know what his own story is, much less how to keep it straight. Let's let Amy and Kamala and Mazie and Cory and the others use Giuliani as a chew toy. Should be fun TV, especially when Lindsey Graham gets all red in the face and blows smoke out his ears and queens out screamin' about how he's never seen a man treated like this since that time we all treated Brett Kavanaugh like that.
Can't decide if it's allergies or a cold, but my eyes feel like they've been pickled and rolled in salt.
Tonight, Friday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Hawaii Five-0', followed by a FRESH'Magnum PU', then a FRESH'Blue Bloods'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 9/17/19) are Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Barry Williams, Maureen McCormick, Christopher Knight, Eve Plumb, Mike Lookinland, and Susan Olsen.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 8/12/19) are Greg Kinnear, Judy Greer, and Bazzi.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'The Blacklist', followed by 'Dateline'.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 9/10/19) are Jennifer Lopez, Russell Westbrook, and Ryan Hamilton.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 9/26/19) are Woody Harrelson, Kieran Culkin, and Bobby Flay.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 9/26/19) are Jim Gaffigan and Antoni Porowski.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'American Housewife', followed by a FRESH'Fresh Off The Boat', then 'What Would You Do?', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 10/2/19) are Gwyneth Paltrow, Evan Funke, and Lunay.
The CW offers a FRESHCharmed', followed by a FRESH'Dynasty'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'Friday Night SmackDown'.
MY recycles an old 'CSI: Miami', followed by another old 'CSI: Miami'.
A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', then a FRESH'Live PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Vegas Vacation', followed by the movie 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 7-That Is Not Miami
[7:00AM] DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 8-Little Guy, Black Hair
[8:00AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 2-The Spanish Inquisition
[8:15AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 4-The Buzz Aldrin Show
[8:30AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 8-The Amazing Maleeni
[9:30AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 9-Signs and Wonders
[10:30AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 10-Sein und Zeit
[11:30AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 11-Closure
[12:30PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 12-X-Cops
[1:30PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 13-First Person Shooter
[2:30PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 14-Theef
[3:30PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 15-En Ami
[4:30PM] MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (1996)
[7:00PM] FANTASTIC 4: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER (2007)
[9:00PM] HANCOCK (2008)
[11:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - SEASON 26 - EPISODE 2
[12:00AM] HANCOCK (2008)
[2:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 8-Human Nature-Part 1
[3:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 9-The Family Of Blood-Part 2.
[4:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 10-Blink
[5:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 12-The Sound Of Drums-Part 1. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas', followed by the movie 'Madea's Family Reunion', then the movie 'Madea's Family Reunion', again.
Comedy Central has 'South Park', another 'South Park', still another 'South Park', followed by the movie 'Men In Black'.
FX has the movie 'Captain America: The First Avenger', followed by the movie 'Pacific Rim'.
History has 'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'Ancient Aliens: Secret Files', then a FRESH'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'In Search Of'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges
[6:30A] The Three Stooges - Uncivil Warriors
[7:00A] Behind Enemy Lines
[9:30A] Mission: Impossible
[12:00P] Minority Report
[3:00P] That '70s Show - 2000 Light Years From Home
[3:30P] That '70s Show - The Promise Ring
[4:00P] That '70s Show - It's a Wonderful Life
[4:30P] That '70s Show - Eric's Depression
[5:00P] That '70s Show - Pinciotti vs. Forman
[5:30P] That '70s Show - Hyde Gets the Girl
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men - Good Morning Mrs. Butterworth
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men - Baseball Was Better With Steroids
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men - 818-jklpuzo
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men - Whipped Unto the Third Generation
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men - Mmm, Fish. Yum
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men - Laxative Tester, Horse Inseminator
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men - For the Sake of the Child
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men - Give Me Your Thumb
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men - Untainted by Filth
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men - Gorp. Fnark. Schmegle.
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men - Captain Terry's Spray-On Hair
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men - That's Why They Call It Ball Room
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men - One Nut Johnson
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men - Give Santa a Tail-Hole
[1:00A] That '70s Show - 2000 Light Years From Home
[1:30A] That '70s Show - The Promise Ring
[2:00A] That '70s Show - It's a Wonderful Life
[2:30A] That '70s Show - Eric's Depression
[3:00A] That '70s Show - Pinciotti vs. Forman
[3:30A] That '70s Show - Hyde Gets the Girl
[4:00A] Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:10am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:45am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:20am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:55am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:00am] No One Saw a Thing The Killing of Ken Rex McElroy
[11:00am] No One Saw a Thing - Conspiracy of Silence
[12:00pm] No One Saw a Thing - Don't Mess With Skidmore
[1:00pm] No One Saw a Thing - Cycle of Violence
[2:00pm] No One Saw a Thing - A Pound of Flesh
[3:00pm] No One Saw a Thing - Small Town Requiem
[4:00pm] Law & Order
[5:00pm] Law & Order
[6:00pm] Law & Order
[7:00pm] Law & Order
[8:00pm] Law & Order
[9:00pm] Law & Order
[10:00pm] Law & Order
[11:00pm] Law & Order
[12:00am] Law & Order
[1:00am] Law & Order
[2:00am] Hap and Leonard
[3:00am] Hap and Leonard - Trudy
[4:00am] Hap and Leonard - War
[5:00am] Hap and Leonard - Eskimos (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Annabelle: Creation', followed by the movie 'Texas Chainsaw 3D', then a FRESH'Van Helsing'.
George Clooney said on Thursday he was appalled U.S. President Don-Old Trump (R-Profiteer) partly justified the decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria by stating Kurds "didn't help us with Normandy" during World War II.
The politically active Hollywood actor, director and producer told a business seminar in Finland's capital that he found Trump's words from a day earlier "a pretty shocking statement."
"I'm horrified at the idea we would say that after having Kurds fight our battle for us - because we don't want to send troops there - and then say, 'OK, you're on your own,'" he said.
Clooney was interviewed at the Nordic Business Forum in Helsinki in front of some 7,000-strong audience of mostly business and corporate leaders.
He is known to voice opinions on global political matters and has been engaged in humanitarian causes together with his wife Amal Clooney who is a human rights lawyer.
The estate of musical legend Prince is objecting to President Don-Old Trump (R-Grifter)'s use of a Prince song before a campaign rally in Minneapolis Thursday night.
The Trump campaign played Prince's "Purple Rain" as the audience at the rally waited for the president to begin speaking.
Prince's estate released a statement after the rally saying it "will never give permission to President Trump to use Prince's songs."
It said the campaign had confirmed a year ago that it would not use Prince's music.
CBS Television Distribution is moving ahead with a syndicated daytime talk show hosted by actress Drew Barrymore, which is on track for a fall 2020 launch.
The CBS Television Stations, which represent 38% of the U.S., have signed on as an anchor station group to launch the new show. That includes flagships WCBS-TV in New York and KCBS-TV in Los Angeles.
The pickup comes less than two months after Barrymore shot a pilot for the potential talker in New York. This marks the first daytime syndicated talk show for CBS TV Distribution in a very long time., It comes at a time when the genre is experiencing a resurgence with a strong launch for NBCU's Kelly Clarkson talk show and a solid start for Disney's Tamron Hall talker. Like the Drew Barrymore show, both were launched by their sister station groups.
This is the second syndicated daytime talk show announced for fall 2020, It joins one headlined by Nick Cannon from Lionsgate's Debmar-Mercury, which does not have announced station clearances yet.
Frank Zappa's estate will mark the 50th anniversary of the guitarist and composer's Hot Rats - released on this date in 1969 - with a six-disc reissue that offers a deep dive into the sessions that yielded the jazz-rock masterpiece.
The Hot Rats Sessions, due out December 20th via UMe and Zappa Records, compiles every composition recorded during the July 1969 studio sessions, including an "abundance of rare and unedited mixes, work mixes, relevant Vault nuggets and complete basic tracks mixed from the original multi-track master tapes," according to a release.
The first four discs include the studio sessions, showcasing the creative process behind Hot Rats tracks like "Peaches En Regalia," "It Must Be a Camel" and the Captain Beefheart-featuring "Willie the Pimp," plus non-LP songs like "Transition" and "Natasha."
The fifth and sixth discs boast the 1987 digital remix of Hot Rats along with radio advertisements, rare mono mixes, rhythm tracks and more.
The Hot Rats Sessions also comes with a 28-page book featuring never-before-seen photographs from both the recording sessions and the Hot Rats album cover shoot; an alternate image from the cover shoot appears on the reissue. The Simpsons' Matt Groening also contributes a written tribute to Hot Rats, an album he says "spun me around like a propeller beanie, and melted my brain."
The copyright owners of the "Charlie Brown Christmas" theme song have sued Dollywood in federal court for copyright infringement.
News outlets report the complaint says the East Tennessee theme park named for country star Dolly Parton has used the song without permission in live Christmas performances since 2007.
The lawsuit says Los Angeles-based Lee Mendelson Film Productions owns the copyright and is asking for $150,000 for every time the song has been used.
According to the suit, "Christmas Time is Here" was written by Lee Mendelson and Vince Guaraldi for the 1965 television special "A Charlie Brown Christmas."
Leonardo da Vinci was truly a Renaissance man, impressing both his contemporaries and modern observers with his intricate designs that spanned many disciplines. But although he's best known for iconic works such as "Mona Lisa" and "Last Supper," in the early 16th century, da Vinci designed a lesser-known structure: a bridge for the Ottoman Empire that would have been the longest bridge of its time. Had it been built, the bridge would have been incredibly sturdy, according to a new study.
In 1502, Ottomon ruler Sultan Bayezid II requested proposals for the design of a bridge that would connect Constantinople, what's today Istanbul, to the neighboring area known as Galata. Da Vinci was among those who sent a letter to the sultan describing a bridge idea.
Though da Vinci was already a well-known artist and inventor, he didn't get the job, according to a statement from MIT. Now, a group of researchers at MIT has analyzed da Vinci's design and tested how robust his bridge would have been if it were built.
The group built a replica of the bridge, after taking into consideration the materials and construction equipment available 500 years ago and the geological conditions of the Golden Horn, a freshwater estuary in the Bosphorus Sea over which the bridge would've been built.
To test the sturdiness of the bridge, the team 3D printed 126 blocks to represent the thousands of stone blocks the original bridge would have required. Their model was 500 times smaller than da Vinci's bridge design, which would have extended about 919 feet (280 meters).
The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers. Week of October 10, 2019:
1. The Rolling Stones; $12,700,483; $226.61.
2. Ed Sheeran; $8,608,538; $90.24.
3. Pink; $5,760,153; $107.92.
4. Metallica; $5,225,975; $96.18.
5. Muse; $4,093,329; $80.10.
6. Dead & Company; $2,663,455; $88.66.
7. Phish; $2,351,685; $65.73.
8. Jennifer Lopez; $2,275,577; $137.10.
9. Jonas Brothers; $1,975,147; $123.21.
10. Queen + Adam Lambert; $1,946,470; $123.74.
11. Def Leppard; $1,663,142; $127.53.
12. Ariana Grande; $1,578,338; $103.35.
13. Zac Brown Band; $1,554,017; $62.12.
14. John Mayer; $1,485,348; $105.84.
15. Florida Georgia Line; $1,417,185; $70.94.
16. Michael Bublé; $1,412,999; $112.36.
17. Dave Matthews Band; $1,320,862; $73.32.
18. Jeff Lynne's ELO; $1,194,492; $103.86.
19. Shawn Mendes; $1,169,532; $72.47.
20. Backstreet Boys; $1,160,327; $89.22.
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