• In the 1920s, Anita Loos wrote an excellent comic novel titled Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. In the 1960s, she visited swinging London, where she was asked if she would change anything in her novel if she were writing it in the present day. Ms. Loos replied that yes, she would change the novel — for one thing, the title would be Gentlemen Prefer Gentlemen.
• Gay author Joel Perry recommends being out of the closet so gays and lesbians can fight for their rights. Of course, he realizes that being out means possibly being targeted for abuse, but even that can be an opportunity for activism. For example, if a bigot calls him a queer, he corrects the bigot by saying that he is a “fantastic queer.”
• As a gay teenager, Paul Guilbert showed little fear. Whenever someone called him “faggot,” he would reply, “That’s right, honey.” (And whenever someone hit him, he hit back.) Mr. Guilbert was Aaron Frick’s date at his high school prom, which Mr. Fricke writes about in Reflections of a Rock Lobster: A Story About Growing Up Gay.
• Lesbian cartoonist Kathleen Debold was a crossword freak, but she noticed that crossword puzzles seldom had gay themes. For example, the answer “stein” was never “Stein,” as in “lover of Toklas,” but instead its clue was “beer mug.” To correct this deficiency, she wrote the book Word Gaymes: 101 Puzzles with Lesbian and Gay Themes.
• When Out magazine editor Sarah Pettit entered college, she walked up to a man who looked very gay to her and asked, “Excuse me, you’re gay, aren’t you?” After he replied that he was, she said, “Well, then take me to where the gay people are.” They went to a party, and she met the first woman she ever dated.
Halloween
• Children’s book author Gary Paulsen used to own a huge dog — a Great Dane — named Caesar. Despite his size, Caesar was afraid of trick-or-treaters. One Halloween, a boy in a werewolf costume came to the Paulsens’ door. Caesar looked at the masked boy, the masked boy looked at him, and the masked boy growled. Caesar ran into the bedroom and hid in a closet until the trick-or-treaters stopped coming. For the next six Halloweens, whenever the first group of trick-or-treaters appeared — no matter what costumes they were wearing — Caesar ran into the bedroom and hid in the closet until trick or treating was over.
Hoaxes
• The Authors Club in New York City is not always a serious institution. At the beginning of the 20th century, it hoaxed a large number of people, including literary critics, into believing that a fictitious person, Feodor Vladimir Larrovitch, was the Father of Russian Literature. During a chess game at the Authors Club, Richardson Wright watched William Jordan play George Simonson. During the game, Mr. Wright and Mr. Jordan kept asking Mr. Simonson questions about Feodor Vladimir Larrovitch. Of course, Mr. Simonson was forced to admit that he knew nothing about the supposed Father of Russian Literature. While talking to Mr. Simonson, Mr. Wright and Mr. Jordan made up an elaborate biography of Mr. Larrovitch. They continued to talk about Mr. Larrovitch at the Authors Club, and soon most of the members were in on the joke. Eventually, Mr. Jordan gave a lecture on the father of Russian Literature. Following the very successful lecture, the Authors Club decided to further honor Mr. Larrovitch with a tribute on April 26, 1907. Members of the Authors Club read tributes to Mr. Larrovitch and read samples of poems. They even unveiled a portrait of the famous Russian author. The hoax didn’t stop there, however, as members of the Authors Club then published a book titled Feodor Vladimir Larrovitch: An Appreciation of His Life and Works. The book was taken seriously by the literary world, and serious reviews appeared about it. Eventually, however, a Swedish sportswriter revealed the hoax, and the Authors Club finally stopped honoring Mr. Larrovitch. The hoax was fun while it lasted, and it lasted as long as it did only because the Authors Club is normally a serious organization. Imagining the Authors Club creating a hoax, according to Mr. Wright, was like “imagining your great-grandmother rollerskating.”
In the religion of ancient Rome, a haruspex (plural haruspices; also called aruspex) was a person trained to practice a form of divination called haruspicy (haruspicina), the inspection of the entrails (exta—hence also extispicy (extispicium)) of sacrificed animals, especially the livers of sacrificed sheep and poultry. The reading of omens specifically from the liver is also known by the Greek term hepatoscopy (also hepatomancy).
The Roman concept is directly derived from Etruscan religion, as one of the three branches of the disciplina Etrusca. Such methods continued to be used well into the Middle Ages, especially among Christian apostates and pagans, with Thomas Becket apparently consulting both a haruspex and a chiromancer prior to a royal expedition against Brittany.
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Mac Mac was first, and correct, with:
Entrails
Cal in Vermont wrote:
A form of divination that utilized the inspection of animal guts. Maybe there is one, practiced by children, that involves the dredging of boogers from one's nose and closely inspecting the results of such dredging.
Billy in Cypress U. $. A. said:
Entrails of sacrificed animals, i.e. the guts, stomach, liver, etc.
Alan J answered:
The entrails of sacrificed animals.
Jacqueline replied:
It involves looking at entrails.
zorch responded:
The entrails of sacrificial animals.
Mark. said:
Entrails.
Randall wrote:
Entrails
. . . the guts of sacrificed animals
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
the livers of sacrificed sheep and poultry.
Deborah, the Master Gardener responded:
In the religion of ancient Rome, a haruspex (plural haruspices; also called aruspex) was a person trained to practice a form of divination called haruspicy (haruspicina), the inspection of the entrails (exta—hence also extispicy (extispicium)) of sacrificed animals, especially the livers of sacrificed sheep and poultry.
Well, who knew?
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) wrote:
Ugh, I had a feeling it was something yucky and it is. It's guts, or to be polite, entrails. I'm going to bed and watch the foot ball game and probably fall asleep. I had a hard day watching tennis and foot ball.
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CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Big Brother', followed by a FRESH'One Day At A Time', then another FRESH'One Day At A Time', followed by a RERUN'Manhunt: Deadly Games'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 10/6/20) are Jerry Seinfeld and Ella Mai.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 9/8/20) are Hilary Swank, Sean Lennon, and Charlotte Kemp Muhl.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'American Ninja Warrior', followed by 'Dateline'.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 9/9/20) are Kevin Hart, Josh Charles, and Chika.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 9/16/20) are Cynthia Nixon, Michael Stipe, Larry Wilmore, and Sonny Emory.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 10/7/19) are Katy Mixton and Tituss Burgess.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'Monday Night Football', followed by a FRESH'Dancing With The Stars', then pads the left coast with local crap.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Rashida Jones and Rufus Wainwright.
The CW offers a FRESH'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', followed by a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', then a FRESH'Penn & Teller: FU'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'MLB Playoffs', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Final Destination', followed by the movie 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters', then a FRESH'Soulmates'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE DIE IS CAST
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - EXPLORERS
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - FAMILY BUSINESS
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - SHAKAAR
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - FACETS
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE ADVERSARY
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - TAPESTRY
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - BIRTHRIGHT
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - BIRTHRIGHT
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - STARSHIP MINE
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - LESSONS
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE CHASE
[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] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - TAPESTRY
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - BIRTHRIGHT
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - BIRTHRIGHT
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - SHAKAAR
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - FACETS (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Below Deck Mediterranean', another 'Below Deck Mediterranean', followed by a FRESH'Below Deck Mediterranean', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'Venom', followed by the movie 'X-Men: Apocalypse'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Pawn Stars', and another 'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00am] The Three Stooges - The Yoke's On Me
[6:25am] The Three Stooges - Punchy Cowpunchers
[6:35am] The Three Stooges - You Natzy Spy!
[6:45am] The Three Stooges - Scotched In Scotland
[7:00am] The Three Stooges - An Ache In Every Stake
[7:30am] Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Women Of The Prehistoric Planet
[9:45am] Get Hard
[12:00pm] Rush Hour
[2:00pm] Rush Hour 2
[4:00pm] Rush Hour 3
[6:00pm] Two And A Half Men
[6:30pm] Two And A Half Men
[7:00pm] Two And A Half Men
[7:30pm] Two And A Half Men
[8:00pm] Two And A Half Men
[8:30pm] Two And A Half Men
[9:00pm] Two And A Half Men
[9:30pm] Two And A Half Men
[10:00pm] Two And A Half Men
[10:30pm] Two And A Half Men
[11:00pm] Two And A Half Men
[11:30pm] Two And A Half Men
[12:00am] Two And A Half Men
[12:30am] Two And A Half Men
[1:00am] Parks And Recreation
[1:30am] Parks And Recreation
[2:00am] Parks And Recreation
[2:30am] Parks And Recreation
[3:00am] Parks And Recreation
[3:30am] Parks And Recreation
[4:00am] Parks And Recreation
[4:30am] Parks And Recreation
[5:00am] Parks And Recreation
[5:30am] Parks And Recreation (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am] hogan's heroes
[6:30am] hogan's heroes
[7:00am] hogan's heroes
[7:30am] hogan's heroes
[8:00am] hogan's heroes
[8:30am] hogan's heroes
[9:00am] hogan's heroes
[9:30am] hogan's heroes
[10:00am] hogan's heroes
[10:30am] hogan's heroes
[11:00am] hogan's heroes
[11:30am] hogan's heroes
[12:00pm] hogan's heroes
[12:30pm] hogan's heroes
[1:00pm] elysium
[3:30pm] bad boys
[6:00pm] bad boys ii
[9:00pm] total recall
[11:30pm] the running man
[1:45am] elysium
[4:15am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[4:45am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[5:15am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[5:45am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c. (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'The Strangers: Prey At Night', followed by the movie 'The Purge', then the movie 'The Purge: Anarchy'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 9/10/20) is Kevin Nealon.
TCM "improved" their website & I can no longer access it.
Antenna TV - Johnny Carson (from 10/09/86) - Richard Pryor and Sean Penn.
Top government scientist Anthony Fauci said Sunday that an ad aired by Donald Trump (R-Unscrupulous)'s reelection campaign was edited to make him seem to endorse the president's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
"In my nearly five decades of public service, I have never publicly endorsed any political candidate," Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, said in a statement sent to AFP.
The 30-second campaign ad cites Trump's personal experience with the virus -- "President Trump is recovering from the coronavirus, and so is America," it says -- before including a brief clip in which Fauci appears to praise the president's response to the pandemic.
"I can't imagine that anybody could be doing more," Fauci is shown as saying, creating the clear impression he is referring to Trump.
But a complete clip of Fauci's comments, made during an interview in March with Fox News, shows the doctor saying: "I have been devoting almost full time on this. I'm down at the White House virtually every day with the task force. It's every single day. So, I can't imagine that under any circumstances that anybody could be doing more."
Cartoons like this haven’t existed in the world for a long time. But here they are.
At New York Comic-Con 2020 today, Hulu premiered the first full clip from its upcoming reboot of Animaniacs, the classic ‘90s cartoon that blended classic cartoon slapstick with a diet of pop culture so deep and so vast that it would cause children across America to realize, years later, that they kind of already knew who Orson Welles was. With the original cast members reprising their roles and fan favorites like Pinky and the Brain returning alongside the Warner Siblings, it’s looking like a fantastic return to form.
The first clip definitely seems like it, in the form of a cute little Jurassic Park parody including Steven Spielberg, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, and one very stoked Hulu executive. It’s precisely the sort of meta nonsense gag you’d expect from the show at its height, and, luckily for the show’s writers, Jurassic Park is somehow still a timely reference.
The rest of the panel was interesting, too, featuring the cast and crew discussing the work of re-animating and lightly re-designing the Warner Siblings, which included a lot of mocked up designs rejected by Steven Spielberg in favor of looks closer to the originals. All told, it’s an exciting time to be an Animaniacs fan. You can watch the full panel below, and Animaniacs premieres on Hulu on November 20th.
In the early morning hours of March 28, 2019, a detective with the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office in central Texas stood outside a hospital room where the body of a 40-year-old Black man lay waiting to be transported to the coroner’s office.
The detective, Jason Waldon, had feared a day like this would come.
The body belonged to a father of two named Javier Ambler. He had died in a confrontation with police after being pursued by a sheriff’s deputy for failing to dim his headlights to oncoming traffic.
Williamson County deputies weren’t the only ones pursuing Ambler that night. They were joined by a camera crew with "Live PD," the reality TV show.
One of the deputies, James “J.J.” Johnson, narrated the 22-minute chase for the cameras as it happened. After Ambler crashed and exited his vehicle with his hands up, Johnson and another deputy restrained, struck and tased him at least three times, police records show. One of the last things Ambler said before he died was, “Please save me.”
John Lydon is known for unapologetically championing Trump, and during a recent interview with the Observer he doubled down on his support of the president.
The Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd frontman cited the economy as the reason why he’ll be voting to re-elect Trump. “I’d be daft as a brush not to,” he said. “He’s the only sensible choice now that Biden is up — he’s incapable of being the man at the helm.”
Lydon went on to explain that his support began after the president was accused of being racist. “I’ve been accused of the very same thing, so I’m offended for anybody who’s called that,” he divulged.
For those who need a refresher, the singer and his crew were involved in an altercation with Kele Okereke at 2008’s Summercase festival. The Bloc Party vocalist asked Lydon if he’d consider getting Public Image Ltd back together, and he allegedly responded by going on a racist tirade that included the statement “your problem is your black attitude” and physically assaulting Okereke.
The New York Times has released a report, the fourth in its series, based on President Donald Trump (R-Tax Cheat)'s federal tax returns, illustrating how the paper says the president turned "his own hotels and resorts into the Beltway's new back rooms, where public and private business mix and special interests reign."
Trump attended 34 political fundraisers at his hotels and resorts that brought in $3 million in revenue, the Times reported.
Brian Ballard, a Florida lobbyist and confidant of the president, joined Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida midway through Trump's presidency, the paper reported. Associates later said he did this because the president wanted him to "ante up," the Times said.
More than 70 advocacy groups, businesses and governments held events at Trump properties that were previously held elsewhere, or created new events to hold at Trump's establishments. More than 100 companies that wanted something from the federal government patronized his properties, the Times reported.
In 2017, federal prosecutors found that kids under 12 wouldn't be able to find their families on their own if they were separated in a "pilot" program that would be a precursor to the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance policy," NBC News reported.
NBC News obtained a draft of the Department of Justice's inspector general's investigation into the "zero-tolerance policy," which was rolled out in 2018 and separated thousands of children from their parents.
In the draft of Inspector General Michael Horowitz's investigation, which is subject to change, NBC News obtained a copy of a Justice Department memo, which said that the pilot program in El Paso, Texas, found that children younger than 12 should not be separated.
The following year, President Donald Trump (R-Corrupt)'s administration rolled out a program that separated kids as young as infants from their parents.
The memo about the 2017 pilot program was prepared for the US attorney for the Western District of Texas John Bash, but NBC News reported, citing the IG's draft report, it was never sent to DOJ officials in Washington, DC.
A package containing artefacts stolen from the ancient site of Pompeii was delivered to a travel agent in the southern Italian city, with a letter saying they were “cursed.”
The letter, written in English by a Canadian woman named Nicole, said the relics were stolen in Pompeii in 2005, during a visit to the archaeological site.
“Take them back, please, they bring bad luck,” the woman wrote. The package contained two mosaic pieces, a piece of ceramics and two parts of an amphora.
The woman explained that, after she brought the stolen artefacts to Canada, her life was struck by a series of tragic events, so she decided to send them back.
“I stole a piece of history that had lots of negative energy inside,” she said. “People there died in horrible ways. Bad luck played with me and my family.”
A Catholic church in Pearl River, Louisiana, has burned the altar where its former pastor was caught having sex with two women.
“His behavior was obscene, his desecration of the altar is demonic,” said Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans, who consecrated a new altar at the church Sunday, WVUE reports.
The former pastor at St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Travis Clark, has been removed from ministry and is no longer on the diocese payroll, WDSU reported.
Clark, 37, was arrested Sept. 30 with Mindy Dixon and Melissa Cheng on obscenity charges after a passer-by reported seeing them having sex on the church’s altar, the New Orleans Advocate reported.
Police confiscated sex toys, stage lights and two recording devices from inside the church, according to the publication.
If any animal understands the horrors of trench warfare, it has to be the mole. Faced with an enemy, there's no time for pleasantries. No place to hide. Aggression is all that matters.
To help them fight in this brutal world, evolution has granted the female mole a generous dose of 'roid rage' by tacking some testicles onto her ovaries – resulting in a unique bit of anatomy called an ovotestis.
"The sexual development of mammals is complex, although we have a reasonably good idea on how this process takes place," says geneticist Darío Lupiáñez from the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics.
"At a certain point, sexual development usually progresses in one direction or another, male or female. We wanted to know how evolution modulates this sequence of developmental events, enabling the intersexual features that we see in moles."
While it's not capable of making sperm cells, it does have what are known as Leydig cells for churning out a masculine-sized serving of androgens, or male sex hormones.
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