Thomas Jefferson designed his home, Monticello. Looked at from the outside, Monticello appeared to have one story (with a domed room above), but that is an illusion consciously created by Mr. Jefferson. On the second story, the windows are close to the floor, while on the first story the windows are close to the ceiling. Looked at from the outside, the windows appear to be providing light to one story. Mr. Jefferson based this design on windows he had admired while in France.
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright once created a house for a cousin named Richard Lloyd Jones. Unfortunately, after being built, the house leaked when it rained. Mr. Jones' wife, Georgia, joked, "That's what happens when you leave a work of art out in the rain."
Art
In 1955, Marcia Brown's book Cinderella won the Caldecott Medal. Charles Scribner's Sons published it, although Viking Press might have published it if it weren't for a strike by elevator operators in the 1940s. After Ms. Brown had completed her first picture-book, The Little Carousel, she decided to take it to various publishers to see if they wanted it. Her first choice was Viking Press, but their offices were on the seventh floor, and she didn't want to climb that many steps. Since the offices of Charles Scribner's Sons were on the fourth floor, she stopped there first. They were interested in The Little Carousel, they published it, and they continued to publish books by her.
When Alison Bechdel, creator of Dykes to Watch Out For, first created the character of Mo, she based the character on herself - "a young, white, middle-class, marginally employed lesbian-feminist." However, she attempted to disguise this fact by drawing Mo with glasses and with hair longer than her own. The attempt was unsuccessful - her friends easily see her in the character and laugh when she tells them about the disguise.
Caricatures
One of the ways that comedian Whoopi Goldberg knew that she was beginning to make it big was that caricaturist Harry Hirschfeld worked his art on her in The New York Times while she was appearing on a one-woman show on Broadway. Mr. Hirschfeld traditionally hides his daughter's name - Nina - in his caricatures, and in his caricature of Ms. Goldberg he wrote "Nina" 40 times. Ms. Goldberg was so pleased with Mr. Hirschfeld's caricature that she sent him flowers.
Enrico Caruso was a caricaturist as well as a gifted opera singer. In addition, Mr. Caruso was a genuinely likeable human being. The composer Victor Herbert was a big man, and he said of Mr. Caruso, "Even in his caricatures he shows the sweetness of his nature. He has never drawn me as fat as others have."
Zero Mostel was funny both on- and offstage. When caricaturist Sam Norkin arrived at a rehearsal to sketch Mr. Mostel and co-star Eli Wallach for an illustration of Eugθne Ionesco's Rhinoceros, Mr. Mostel took him aside and said, "Here's $20. Leave Eli out of the drawing."
Cartoons
Jennifer Camper's cartoon subGURLZ features three lesbians: 1) Swizzle, who is the strongest woman on Earth. She works in a bar, and when sexually harassed by men, attempts to push them away without hurting them, but tends to accidentally break their necks. 2) Liver, who is on a constant diet of alcohol, tobacco, legal and illegal drugs, and even drain-unplugging products in an attempt to balance the chemicals in her body. She also has the power to bring the recently deceased back to life. 3) Byte, who is so intelligent that hair doesn't grow on her head. Her hobby is breaking into computer databases and moving funds from the accounts of greedy corporations to the accounts of people who need the money to do such things as go to college. If you ask Ms. Camper whether these subGURLZ are good or evil, she replies, "It depends. Whose side are you on?"
"Love in Bloom" is a popular song with music by Ralph Rainger and lyrics by Leo Robin, published in 1934. It was introduced in the film She Loves Me Not by Bing Crosby and Kitty Carlisle.
The song was first recorded by Bing Crosby on July 5, 1934 with Irving Aaronson and his Commanders for Brunswick Records. The same year, it was one of the nominees for the inaugural "Best Song" Academy Award when it lost out to "The Continental". Crosby re-recorded the song for his 1954 album Bing: A Musical Autobiography.
"Love in Bloom" became the theme song of Jack Benny who was known for playing it off-key on his violin. Kitty Carlisle had hoped to adopt it as her theme song, but its swift comic association with Benny spoiled those plans.
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Love in Bloom.
Mac Mac said:
Love in Bloom
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Love in Bloom.
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Love In Bloom.
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Love in Bloom
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Can it be the trees
That fill the breeze with rare and magic perfume? Oh, no, it isn't the
trees, it's Love in Bloom.
Cal in Vermont said:
Love In Bloom.
Dave wrote:
Love in Bloom. Born in 1894, Jack Benny was only 39 years old when he died in 1974. Or so he said. Jack Benny was a big star in radio and later on TV 1949-1965. Benny's poor play on he violin was just part of his act, as a young man he played the instrument professionally until he gradually developed his comedy act. At home he sometimes played a Stradivarius, that he left to a symphony in his will.
Photos: Jack Benny TV show with series regular Frank Nelson playing a hapless store clerk serving a miserly customer (his catchphrase was Eh-Yesssssss?) | with Frank Sinatra | Jack giving a young Johnny Carson some advice | clowning around with Humphrey Bogart
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
"Love in Bloom" became the theme song of Jack Benny who was known for playing it off-key on his violin.
Deborah, the Master Gardener, answered:
Was it "Love in Bloom?" I watched it sometimes with my mother, but I can't place the song.
Enjoyed an early bike ride with a friend while it was still cool and enjoyable. The fields are full of sunflowers with nodding heads, heavy with seed, roma tomatoes are ripening, alfalfa's ready for its third cut of the season, beans, melons, and corn are laden with the fruits of their growing. Just perfect high-summer sights on the roads of NorCal.
DJ Useo responded:
"Love in Bloom" is the title of his theme song. What a funny show. I see him on "The George Burns & Gracie Allen Show" a lot.
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) replied:
Love in Bloom. I'M BAAACK!
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So many chuckles in this article I really enjoyed reading it. Good to the last laugh:
Pointing and laughing at poor, persecuted Brad Parscale's demotion from his role as Trump campaign manager is delicious. But let's not neglect this opportunity to point and laugh at the RNC's ongoing convention debacle, as the organization finally taps out and admits it won't be able to pack the arena with 15,000 maskless MAGAts belching virus droplets into each other's faces to launch the Dear Leader's farewell tour.
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Maybe plan some nature walks... Black bears, feral pigs, coral snakes, cotton mouths, copperheads, three rattlesnakes, scorpions, gators, and cougars. Oh! And Burmese pythons. I like how they making sure not only to wipe out the delegates but the alternates as well! You forgot the palmetto bugs, but a stellar effort, Liz. Ta.
Good sumo - a gold star night (that means a lesser ranked rikishi took down a bigger boy).
Tonight, Monday:
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'The Neighborhood', followed by a RERUN'Bob Hearts Abishola', then a RERUN'All Rise', followed by a RERUN'Bull'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Andy Cohen and Phoebe Bridgers.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 4/16/20) are Bob Odenkirk, Leslie Jordan, and JP Saxe & Julia Michaels.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'The Titan Games', followed by a RERUN'The Wall', then 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are David Schwimmer, Alison Brie, and Jimmy Buffett.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Colin Jost, Cristin Milioti, and Nikki Glaspie.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 12/16/19) is Daisy Ridley.
ABC fills the night with the FRESH'CMA Best Of The Fest'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel, with guest host Joel McHale, are Russell Wilson and Billy Strings.
The CW offers a FRESH'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', followed by a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', then a FRESH'Penn & Teller: Fool Us'.
Faux has a RERUN'9-1-1', followed by a RERUN'9-1-1: Lone Star'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
AMC offers the movie 'Major League', and 4 hours of 'Brockmire' (starting with episode 1).
BBC -
[6:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - The Great Melt
[7:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - The Great Salmon Run
[8:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - The Great Migration
[9:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - The Great Tide
[10:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - The Great Flood
[11:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - The Great Feast
[12:00PM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC - Ocean of Islands
[1:00PM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC - Castaways
[2:00PM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC - Endless Blue
[3:00PM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC - Ocean of Volcanoes
[4:00PM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC - Strange Islands
[5:00PM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - One Ocean
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - The Deep
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - Coral Reefs
[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - Big Blue
[9:00PM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - Green Seas
[10:00PM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - Coasts
[11:00PM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - One Ocean
[12:00AM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - The Deep
[1:00AM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - Coral Reefs
[2:00AM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - Big Blue
[3:00AM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - Green Seas
[4:00AM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - Coasts
[5:00AM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - The Making of Blue Planet II (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Below Deck Mediterranean', followed by a FRESH'Below Deck Mediterranean', then another FRESH'Below Deck Mediterranean', another 'Below Deck Mediterranean', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates', followed by the movie 'Pitch Perfect 3'.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers', then a FRESH'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - The Great Melt
[7:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - The Great Salmon Run
[8:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - The Great Migration
[9:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - The Great Tide
[10:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - The Great Flood
[11:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - The Great Feast
[12:00PM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC - Ocean of Islands
[1:00PM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC - Castaways
[2:00PM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC - Endless Blue
[3:00PM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC - Ocean of Volcanoes
[4:00PM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC - Strange Islands
[5:00PM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - One Ocean
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - The Deep
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - Coral Reefs
[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - Big Blue
[9:00PM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - Green Seas
[10:00PM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - Coasts
[11:00PM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - One Ocean
[12:45A] Fool's Gold
[3:15A] Lethal Weapon 4 (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am] the godfather, part iii
[10:00am] gravity
[12:00pm] batman & robin
[3:00pm] batman returns
[6:00pm] batman
[9:00pm] batman forever
[11:30pm] argo
[2:05am] gravity
[4:05am] the andy griffith show
[4:40am] the andy griffith show
[5:15am] the andy griffith show
[5:50am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'The Bourne Identity', followed by the movie 'Kingdom Of Heaven'.
Talk about adding insult to injury. Author Mary Trump, out flogging her tell-all book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, took to Twitter to brag about beating her uncle the President in TV ratings.
On Friday, Mary Trump tweeted 5.23 million v. 5.11 million, comparing her ratings for appearing Thursday on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow show to the President's Sean Hannity Town Hall interview in June.
She added the hashtag '#seldomseen' in reference to Trump's declaration that she was "a seldom-seen niece."
Simon & Schuster, publisher of Mary Trump's book, said it sold a company record of 950,000 copies in combined print, digital and audio editions as of its date of sale earlier this week.
Twitter confirmed that it removed a campaign video President Trump (R-Grifter) had retweeted Saturday over a copyright complaint. The Linkin Park song "In the End" was featured in the background of the video, which included images of President Trump and excerpts from his inauguration speech.
The band tweeted Saturday that it was pursuing a "cease and desist" and that it had not authorized use of its song in the video: "Linkin Park did not and does not endorse Trump."
White House deputy chief of staff for communications Dan Scavino tweeted the video Friday evening and President Trump's official Twitter retweeted it Saturday. The retweet is no longer visible on the president's Twitter feed, but Scavino's original tweet is still live as of Sunday morning (minus the video).
It's not the first time Twitter has taken action against one of Trump's tweets over a copyright complaint. Last month, it disabled a four-minute campaign video that included images of George Floyd, the Minneapolis man who died May 25th after a police officer kneeled on his neck. Facebook and Instagram removed posts from their platforms that featured the video. The president called the removal "illegal," in a tweet, but Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey responded: "Not true and not illegal. This was pulled because we got a DMCA complaint from copyright holder."
Roger Stone, friend and former campaign adviser to President Donald Trump (R-Failure), called a Black radio host a racial slur on air Saturday while the two debated Stone's federal conviction.
Stone's sentence was commuted by Trump on July 10, just days before he was scheduled to surrender for 40 months of incarceration after he was convicted of witness tampering and making false statements to Congress as it investigated Russia's influence in the 2016 election.
On Saturday night, Stone was grilled by radio host Morris W. O'Kelly on "the Mr. Mo'Kelly Show" on KFI AM 640 in Los Angeles. The phone interview was broadcast and streamed.
"There are thousands of people treated unfairly daily," O'Kelly said. "Hell, your number just happened to come up in the lottery. I'm guessing it was more than just luck, Roger, right?"
Stone was silent, then it sounded like he was either away from the phone or covering it up when he said, "I don't really feel like arguing with this negro."
Mosaics depicting Christian figures in Istanbul's ancient Hagia Sophia will be covered with curtains during Muslim prayers, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Sunday, as work to prepare the building for use as a mosque continues.
Authorities had said last week that the mosaics would be concealed with either curtains or lasers when the first prayers are held next Friday.
In a move that sparked sparked international criticism and concern, President Tayyip Erdogan declared Hagia Sophia open to Muslim worship earlier this month following a court ruling that said the building's conversion to a museum in 1934 was unlawful.
Hagia Sophia dates back to the sixth century and has a history as both a church and a mosque before it was turned into a museum.
In an interview with broadcaster NTV, Kalin said some mosaics of Mary and Gabriel that are positioned in the direction of Qiblah, where Muslims face during prayer, would be covered with curtains.
Christopher David, a 53-year-old disabled Navy veteran, was so angry at the sight of federal officers sweeping up protesters in the last few nights on the streets of Portland, Oregon, that he decided to go and talk to them about it.
The city resident, who served more than eight years with the US Navy, got on a public bus on Saturday and headed to a protest in front of the city courthouse in the hope he could ask them some questions.
"I was enraged simply because I did not think they were taking their oath of office seriously or they were compromising their oath of office," Mr David told The Independent. "So I actually went down because I wanted to talk to them about it."
His advances were rebuffed, however, and he was the victim of a brutal attack that was caught on video and went viral on Sunday.
In the video, first shared by a reporter from the Portland Tribune, Mr David is seen taking a series of baton blows from a federal agent, without reacting to any of them, before he is finally forced back by pepper spray to the face.
Isabelle Papadimitriou, 64, a respiratory therapist in Dallas, had been treating a surge of patients as the Texas economy reopened. She developed covid-19 symptoms June 27 and tested positive two days later. The disease was swift and brutal. She died the morning of the Fourth of July.
The holiday had always been her daughter's favorite. Fiana Tulip loved the family cookouts, the fireworks, the feeling of America united. Now, she wonders whether she'll ever be able to celebrate it again. In mourning, she's furious.
Tulip, 40, had seen her country fail to control the novel coronavirus. She had seen Texas ease restrictions even as case counts and hospitalizations soared. She had seen fellow citizens refuse to wear masks or engage in social distancing.
"I feel like her death was a hundred percent preventable. I'm angry at the Trump administration. I'm angry with the state of our politics. I'm angry at the people who even now refuse to wear masks," she said.
Six months after the coronavirus appeared in America, the nation has failed spectacularly to contain it. The country's ineffective response has shocked observers around the planet.
A stipulation in a Kentucky police contract prohibited officials from initially firing the officers involved in Breonna Taylor's death in Louisville.
The disciplinary history of a Chicago police officer who fatally shot Laquan McDonald had been deleted under the department's contract, so officials didn't know about the officer's previous bad behavior.
A Seattle officer fired for arresting an elderly Black man who used a golf club as a cane got $100,000 in back pay, thanks to the union contract that said the investigation missed a deadline.
Collective bargaining agreements for officers provide protections that stand in the way of accountability, even when the federal government is overseeing an agency through a consent decree, experts said. The killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis officer ignited protests and calls for change, but experts say police contracts threaten to undermine those efforts.
You'd think at least 184 million years of evolution on entirely separate continents would be enough to make two species of fish sexually incompatible.
That was the assumption scientists in Hungary were going on when they placed sperm from an American paddlefish near eggs from a Russian sturgeon in the lab.
The idea was to coax the eggs from endangered sturgeon into reproducing asexually through a process called gynogenesis, which requires the presence of sperm without the introduction of any actual DNA.
The process clearly didn't quite go as planned. It seems DNA was transferred after all, unintentionally resulting in a whole new variety of fish that's come to be known as the "sturddlefish".
These odd-looking creatures are a bizarre mix of two wildly different-looking species, which might have never come into contact had humans not intervened.
There were plenty of acorns this spring, and now the chipmunks are driving people nuts.
Their frenetic activities can be entertaining. But this summer in New England the varmints are making a nuisance of themselves, darting to and fro, digging holes in gardens, and tunneling under lawns.
Plentiful acorns last fall meant there was still plenty of food on the ground when the chipmunks emerged from winter and got busy breeding this spring, said Shevenell Webb, a small mammal biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.
Such is life near the bottom of the food chain, where food supply ebbs and flows and chipmunks are easy prey for owls, hawks, snakes, foxes and raccoons. Even if their lives aren't cut short, individual chipmunks tend to live only for three years, Webb said.
Many New Englanders recall a similar spike in squirrel populations in 2018 in New England. The boom-and-bust cycle was punctuated by a memorable number of road kills.
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