• As a young man, Allen Ginsberg was unsure at first about doing what he wanted to do. Fortunately, he had an understanding psychotherapist who asked him what he really wanted to do with his life. Mr. Ginsberg replied that he was afraid that the psychotherapist would not think that what he wanted to do was healthy. So what did he want to do? He wanted to “never work again … and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and to go to museums and see friends.” He also wanted to have a relationship, even if the relationship were with another man. The psychotherapist listened carefully, then said, “Well, why don’t you? … If that is what you really feel would please you, what in the world is stopping you from doing it?” Mr. Ginsberg quickly met someone — Peter Orlovsky, and they had a marriage ceremony. He also found a way to stop working. He did some research and discovered that his company would save money by letting a computer do his job. The company, of course, laid him off, but they also gave him a letter saying that he had not quit the company but instead had been replaced by a computer. Mr. Ginsberg collected unemployment insurance for six months, and he worked on his poem “Howl,” which made him famous and opened up doors for him to make a living as a poet and creative guru.
• As a child, L.M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables, was lonely but imaginative. She named her geranium “Bonny” and even gave trees such names as “Little Syrup.” In addition, she invented imaginary friends who lived behind the two glass doors of a cabinet. Behind one glass door lived Katie Maurice, an imaginary friend of her own age. Behind the other glass door lived an older imaginary friend: Lucy Gray. Of course, as an adult Ms. Montgomery put her imagination to use writing novels and other literary works of art. When she was a teacher, she forced herself to get up and write one hour an day before teaching. She did this even in winter, when it was so cold that she had to wear a heavy coat as she wrote. Later in life, after she had achieved success, she wrote, “When people say to me, as they occasionally do, ‘Oh, how I envy you your gift, how I wish I could write as you do,’ I am inclined to wonder, with some inward amusement, how much they would have envied me on those dark, cold, winter mornings of my apprenticeship.”
• After graduating from the University of Michigan in 1938, playwright Arthur Miller had a choice to make: Either he could go to Hollywood and work for Twentieth-Century Fox for $250 a week, or he could go to New York and work for the Federal Theater Project for $23 a week. Because he wanted to do serious and important writing, he chose to go to New York. Of course, he became very successful both critically and financially, and his financial success bothered him. After all, his plays were about ordinary people and ordinary life, and he wanted to stay connected to ordinary people and ordinary life. Shortly after winning the Drama Critics Circle Award for All My Sons, Mr. Miller worried about staying connected to the lives he wrote about, so he walked into the New York State Employment Service office and said that he wanted to work at the first job they could find. The very next day he was working at minimum wage assembling beer box dividers. Fortunately, he quickly returned to writing plays, including his masterpiece, Death of a Salesman.
• Frank Peterson was a personal friend of librarian Malcolm Glenn Wyer. When Mr. Peterson went to New York City in the 1930s, Mr. Wyer asked him to get some radical literature to be added to the collection of the University of Nebraska Library. Mr. Peterson agreed, and he sent the library several bundles of literature. Eventually, a bundle of literature arrived with a note saying that this would be the last shipment. The police had raided a meeting of one of the radical organizations from which Mr. Peterson had been getting the literature, and he had narrowly escaped being arrested.
• When Robert Frost was a young man, his paternal grandfather offered to pay his expenses for a year as he tried to establish himself as a poet — with the understanding that after the year if he had been unsuccessful he would undertake a more normal occupation. Robert turned down the offer because he realized that it would take much more than a year to establish himself as a poet. Grandfather Frost did, however, leave Robert money in his will — money that Robert lived on until he became successful.
• Children’s book author Joyce Carol Thomas writes a draft, then adds to it and creates another draft, then adds to that draft and creates yet another draft, and so on. One day, she sent a draft of an essay to her editor, and her editor simply said to the assistant editor, “Put that draft in a drawer. There are more coming.” The statement was true. Ms. Thomas sent three more drafts. According to her editor, “This is the way a real writer works.”
• Randy Pausch, professor of Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon University, and author of The Last Lecture, got tenure early because he paid attention to what was important. If you ask him how he got tenure so early, he says, “Call me at my office at 10 o’clock on Friday night and I’ll tell you.”
Known as Basuritas [Trashlings] in Latin America, Sgorbions [Snotlings] in Italy and Die total kaputten Kids [The Totally Broken Kids] in Germany, this series of sticker trading cards produced by the Topps Company was originally released in 1985. Designed to parody the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls, what is the name of this trading card fad?
Garbage Pail Kids is a series of sticker trading cards produced by the Topps Company, originally released in 1985 and designed to parody the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls, which were popular at the time.
Each sticker card features a Garbage Pail Kid character having some comical abnormality, deformity, and/or suffering a terrible fate with a humorous word play character name such as Adam Bomb or Blasted Billy. Two versions of each card were produced, with variations featuring the same artwork but a different character name, denoted by an "a" or "b" letter after the card number. The sticker fronts are die-cut so that just the character with its nameplate and the GPK logo can be peeled from the backing. Many of the card backs feature puzzle pieces that form giant murals, while other flip-side subjects vary greatly among the various series, from humorous licenses and awards to comic strips and, in more recent releases, humorous Facebook profiles.
The cards were also known as Bukimi Kun [Mr. Creepy] in Japan, The Garbage Gang in Australia and New Zealand, La Pandilla Basura [The Garbage Gang] in Spain, Havurat Ha-Zevel [The Garbage Gang] in Israel, Basuritas [Trashlings] in Latin America, Gang do Lixo/Loucomania [Trash Gang/Crazymania] in Brazil, Sgorbions [Snotlings] in Italy, Les Crados [The Filthies] in France and Belgium and Die total kaputten Kids [The Totally Broken Kids] in Germany.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Garbage Pail Kids.
Randall wrote:
Garbage Pail Kids
Alan J answered:
Garbage Pail Kids.
mj said:
My office mate couldn't understand
His children's friend's fascination with Garbage Can Kids. I never could
understand Cabbage Patch Kids (of which GCKs were a dark mirror), myself.
zorch replied:
The Garbage Pail Kids.
Dave responded:
Garbage Pail Kids. My oldest son loved those when he started school in the late 1980s.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
The Garbage Pail kids
Billy in Cypress wrote:
The answer today is "Garbage Pail Kids", but I do not remember them at all and I sincerely wish that I could not remember the "Trump/GOP babies" either.
Cal in Vermont replied:
"Snotlings!?" Ha ha ha! I'll take it!
David of Moon Valley responded:
something tells me...
…and no it is not the wet and wonderful wiki…i thought of this one all on my lonesome as i just had my first swallow of covfefe for the day…i’m going with the Garbage Pail Kids…and if that ain’t it, well at least i moved my name outta the Took The Day off list…...
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame said:
Garbage Pail Kids
Dave in Tucson wrote:
They're known as the Garbage Pail Kids. Which is a pretty accurate label for Trump, his sycophants and todays Republican Party.
Jacqueline answered:
Wag, The Garbage Pail Kids?
Daniel in The City replied:
Garbage Pail Kids
Rosemary in Columbus responded:
Garbage Pail Kids
DJ Useo said:
"Garbage Pail Kids" is the answer. I used to see those trading cards at comic book shops. Oddball stuff.
I bought both sets of the little rubbery minikins versions, tho'. Cheap, even.
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
Garbage Pail Kids. My kids missed that collection.
For the longest time I heard “I found love in a Hostess Cake” when Rhianna sang “I found love in a hopeless place.” Bruce, groos, I never noticed it before in that ELO song.
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Info: “Espanola, New Mexico's The Imperial Rooster play an out-there mix of folk, blues, country, & rock and roll that can only be described as GONZO ROOTS MUSIC. Influenced by Beer, Sterno, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, Beer, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Tom Waits, beer, and Captain Beefheart.”
Keith Kasyan, a fan, wrote, “Discovered these guys on Couch-by-Couchwest and was very happy to see that they bought into the whole Bandcamp thing. Like a rat-rod, one of those high-performance hot rods that deliberately look like junky, unfinished rustbuckets, these guys have a lot of horsepower hidden under the hood. Favorite track: ‘The Ballad Of Lightnin' Bill Jasper.’”
Christopher Boat, a fan, wrote, “These guys do everything 100%. Stellar singers, and players. Listen to ‘Never Cold Again’ in its entirety and you will be sold. Favorite track: ‘Never Cold Again.’”
Price: “Pigfork Jamboree” is a FREE track; the price for the eight-track album is Name Your Price (Includes FREE).
Can anyone explain to me why anyone (much less 17 state AG's) would join a lawsuit to destroy our country? If TX can tell AZ or any other state how to run their elections, we as a nation are DONE...cooked...destroyed And as for serial killer Ted Cruz arguing the case before SCOTUS...FUCK Ted Cruz.
Time chose Joe & Kamala as Person (People?) of the Year--not Loser.
Linda >^..^<
We are all only temporarily able bodied.
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'MacGyver', followed by a FRESH'Magnum PU', then a FRESH'Blue Bloods'.
Scheduled on a sorta-FRESHStephen Colbert it's Stephen Colbert's Return To New Zealand: A Magical Land Where Hugs Still Happen.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 10/8/20) are Armie Hammer and Surfaces.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'Weakest Link', followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Kristen Bell, Sienna Miller, Kelly Clarkson, Brett Eldredge.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 11/11/20) are Ethan Hawke, Lewis Black, Carter McLean.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 10/2/19) is Meghan Trainor.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Shark Tank', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 11/19/20) are Barack Obama and Zac Brown Band.
The CW fills the night with a FRESH'The Christmas Caroler Challenge'.
Faux fills the night with FRESH'WWE Friday Night SmackDown'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'Live Rescue'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Year Without A Santa Claus', followed by the movie 'Polar Express', then the movie 'Snow Day'.
BBC -
[6:30AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - LITTLE GREEN MEN
[7:30AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE SWORD OF KAHLESS
[8:30AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - OUR MAN BASHIR
[9:30AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - HOMEFRONT
[10:30AM] THE GODFATHER, PART III
[2:30PM] THE GODFATHER
[6:30PM] THE GODFATHER, PART II
[11:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW
[12:00AM] THE GODFATHER
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINEOUR MAN BASHIR
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - HOMEFRONT (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has the movie 'Monster-In-Law', followed by the movie '13 Going On 30', then the movie '13 Going On 30', again.
Comedy Central has 'Kid Of The Year', 3 hours of 'Schitt's Creek', followed by the FRESH'Michael Kosta: Detroit, NY, LA'.
FX has the movie 'Hotel Transylvanian 3: Summer Vacation', followed by the movie 'Sing', then the movie 'The Secret Life Of Pets'.
History has 'Ancient Aliens', another 'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'Ancient Aliens', and another 'Ancient Aliens'.
IFC -
[6:00am] Community
[6:30am] Event Horizon
[8:50am] In The Heart Of The Sea
[11:25am] Road To Perdition
[2:00pm] Braveheart
[6:00pm] Taken 2
[8:00pm] Inglourious Basterds
[11:30pm] Taken 2
[1:30am] Braveheart
[5:30am] Saved By The Bell: The College Years (ALL TIMES ET)
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[6:00am - 12:30pm] the andy griffith show
[1:00pm - 1:00am] law & order
[2:00am] columbo
[3:45am] columbo
[5:30am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Green Lantern', followed by the movie 'Ant-Man'.
The new late-night entry has had its episode order extended by Peacock with the streamer commissioning an additional ten episodes of the show.
This comes as the show, hosted by the breakout star and writer of Late Night with Seth Meyers, wraps up its initial order with shows on December 11 and December 18, including a Christmas special.
“We are thrilled to get the chance to bring you more episodes, because each episode is a new opportunity to have another margarita,” said Ruffin.
It is written by head writer Jenny Hagel, Demi Adejuyigbe, Shantira Jackson, Dewayne Perkins and Ruffin. Produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, and Sethmaker Shoemeyers Productions, Ruffin exec produces with Hagel, Seth Meyers and Mike Shoemaker.
After actor Tiffany Haddish told Variety that she had been invited to host the Grammy Awards Premiere ceremony but turned down the offer after being told that she would have to pay her own way, Recording Academy interim chief Harvey Mason, jr. posted a public apology on social media, and said that he had apologized to her personally as well. Mason, who took the job on an interim basis last January, said that he had been unaware of the offer and the conversation.
“It’s just been brought to my attention that the Recording Academy invited Tiffany Haddish to host this year’s Premiere ceremony,” a tired-looking Mason said in an Instagram message posted in the wee hours of Thursday morning. “Unfortunately and without my knowing, the talent booker working for the Academy told Ms. Haddish that we wouldn’t even cover her costs while she hosted this event for us.
“To me that was wrong,” he continued. “I’m frustrated by that decision. It was a lapse in judgment, it was in poor taste, and it was disrespectful to the creative community — I’m part of the creative community and I know what that feels like, and it’s not right,” added Mason, who is a veteran songwriter, producer and musician.
“Thankfully, Ms. Haddish was gracious enough to allow me to have a conversation with her. I apologized to her personally, I apologized from the Academy, and I expressed to her my regret and my displeasure about how this went down and how it was handled. And I will say,” he concluded, “Tiffany, we are sorry and thank you for allowing me to speak on it.”
Haddish told Variety earlier this week that she had been asked to host the three-hour livestreamed event without any compensation, and also that she would have to cover her own cover hair, makeup and wardrobe expenses.
Prepare for a whole lot more It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. During Disney's investors' call, it was announced that the show has been renewed for four more seasons, which will take the sitcom up to season 18.
The last series of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia was the show's 14th, and once again brought back the entire gang: Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Kaitlin Olson, and Danny DeVito.
Speaking to GamesRadar+ earlier this year, McElhenney teased how the show could be influenced by the COVID pandemic. "I think we've come up with 20 different episode ideas sparked by this," he said. "And, the thing about Sunny is that we've done it for 14 years and every year we change things up a little bit. You have to evolve; you can't do the same episode over and over again for 14 years. But, every episode is still Sunny. To us, will that suddenly change? Kinda, but not really. It's always going to be exactly the same. And if we do it for 30 years, it'll be exactly the same. And we'll make some operational adjustments but other than that, I think Sunny's Sunny."
The announcement was made during a Disney investors' call, with company representatives also revealing that we can expect 10 Marvel series, 10 Star Wars series, 15 Disney live-action, Disney animation, and Pixar series, plus 15 movies over the next "few years". Disney also revealed that Raya and the Last Dragon will be released on Disney Plus via Premiere Access simultaneously with its cinema release. That's a whole lot of content coming to the streaming service.
Actor Larry Thomas, who played the hilariously stern character known as the "Soup Nazi" on Seinfeld, is among the video-sharing app Cameo's top earners, according to co-founder and CEO Steven Galanis.
"He makes over six figures a year with us," Galanis recently told the New York Times' Kara Swisher on her podcast, Sway.
Though he only appeared in a single episode of the hit NBC sitcom, Thomas made his mark as a soup stand owner known for the strict ordering regimentation he demanded of his patrons.
Calling Thomas, 64, "Cameo gold," Galanis said the actor was popular on the app — which allows fans to pay celebrities to record a short, personalized message for a certain fee — because of the sense of "nostalgia" he inspires.
Also at the top of Cameo's talent list is The Office's Brian Baumgartner, who played the chili-loving accountant Kevin Malone on the NBC sitcom. The actor, 48, is set to take home an impressive $1 million in 2020 from Cameo bookings, according to Galanis.
Clear Channel Outdoor has canceled a billboard order for downtown Minneapolis that featured an artist’s painting of George Floyd being restrained by three police officers, the artist said Thursday.
Brooklyn-based artist Don Perlis said he got an email Thursday from Clear Channel account executive Beau Ryan saying the billboard image was rejected because it “depicts acts of violence.” The depiction of Perlis' oil-on-canvas painting entitled “Floyd” was also on a billboard in New York’s Times Square for most of November, the Star Tribune reported.
The art was sponsored by the George Floyd Justice Billboard Committee, a group of New York-based artists who raised funds online for billboards nationwide. Identical billboards are scheduled for Atlanta and Los Angeles next month.
Perlis' painting shows Floyd on the ground, restrained by three officers as a fourth looks away. The Minneapolis billboard was scheduled to go up Jan. 11, and was to feature a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. that said: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Perlis said he was surprised by the cancellation, and found it odd that his art was censored after the video of Floyd being pinned to the ground and gasping for air in the moments before he died has been broadcast worldwide.
The Spanish state on Thursday took over former dictator General Francisco Franco's summer palace, complete with its vast art trove, and evicted his heirs as part of the leftist government's efforts to erase the legacy of his rule.
The move followed the removal of Franco's remains from a mausoleum near Madrid last year and other initiatives to remove dictatorship-era symbols approved by various leftist governments since Franco's death in 1975.
Built between 1893 and 1907 by the writer Emilia Pardo-Bazan, the Pazo de Meiras palace was valued at more than 5 million euros ($5.93 million) by the family last year.
Franco took full possession of the palace, bought with public donations in 1938 during the civil war, in his name in 1941, and used it as the official summer residence.
In September, a court ruled the transfer of ownership to Franco was illegal as the donations had not been destined for the general himself but to the head of state, and ordered the heirs to vacate the premises. Their susequent appeal was rejected.
Recently advances have shown that psychedelics like ketamine have powerful potential for treating mental health conditions such as addiction, anxiety, and depression. But psychedelics can come with serious side effects, like cardiac toxicity and their infamous hallucinations.
"Psychedelics are some of the most powerful drugs we know of that affect the brain," said chemist David Olson from University of California. "It's unbelievable how little we know about them."
So University of California neuroscientist Lindsay Cameron, Olsen and colleagues decided to take a closer look and see if they could mess with a psychedelic compound in a way that allows them to keep its useful features, but do away with the more dangerous parts.
After extracting the psychedelic compound ibogaine from the African rainforest shrub Tabernanthe iboga, the researchers used a drug-designing technique called function-orientated synthesis to identify which part of the ibogaine molecule induces structural changes in brain cells in laboratory cultures and animals.
Cameron and team then treated alcohol-addicted mice and heroin-addicted rats with TBG. Not only did a single dose allow the mice to stop drinking, the compound had a long-lasting effect on rats trained to self-administer doses of heroin, reducing their tendency to seek out the drug. Even when presented with cues that reminded them of their addiction, the rats generally avoided relapsing.
Experiments on the International Space Station suggest spiders can weave normal-looking webs in space—they just need a surprising resource.
Spiders are capable of building typical webs in microgravity, so long as they have access to a light source, according to new research published in Science of Nature. In the absence of gravity, and hence a sense of up and down, a light source provides a frame of reference for the spiders. When a light source is available, spiders will weave their normal asymmetric webs and wait near the top for prey. Without light, however, they build symmetrical webs, which isn’t normal behavior. It’s a surprising discovery, highlighting the relative unimportance of gravity for spiders when weaving their webs.
Under normal gravity conditions, orb web spiders tend to build asymmetrical webs with the center, or hub, positioned toward the upper edge. When resting and waiting for prey, spiders sit in their hub with their heads facing downward, allowing them to quickly pounce on their prey in the direction of gravity.
Because of this, scientists figured that spiders would be thrown off kilter when exposed to microgravity. Experiments done in 2008 aboard the ISS affirmed these suspicions, revealing the symmetrical web construction. That said, the 2008 experiments were somewhat of a fiasco, as a spider was accidentally released into a habitat occupied by another spider, which created total chaos and a mishmash of competing webs. What’s more, the growth of fruit fly larvae (which were used to feed the spiders) got out of hand, making it next to impossible for the researchers to see the webs through the viewing window. The experiment was tainted, but scientists did catch a glimpse of those weirdly symmetrical webs.
The chosen species for the 2011 spider experiment is the golden silk orb weaver, or Trichonephila clavipes. Cushing and Zschokke designed an experiment in which two spiders would build their webs in separate testing chambers on the ISS, while two spiders were kept in identical habitats on the ground to serve as the control group. They also changed up the whole fruit fly larvae thing to prevent the shenanigans seen in 2008.
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