• Children’s book author Seymour Simon grew up as a city kid in the Bronx in New York City, and the five-story apartment house he lived in seemed remote from nature. Fortunately, he lived near a vacant lot, so he saw such things as trees, weeds, wildflowers, birds, bugs, and cats hunting for mice, and so he likes to think that he grew up as a country kid, too. As a grown-up author, he wrote a book titled Science in a Vacant Lot. He worked for years as a junior high science teacher, and his love of science keeps him from running out of ideas for book topics. He says, “Our world and the universe are so full of wonders and marvels to observe and explore — and of course to write about!”
• Cynthia Rylant grew up in a coal-mining family in West Virginia, which meant that she didn’t have much money, but she didn’t let that — or other disadvantages — stop her from becoming a writer of books for children. No library or bookstore was near where she lived, so one of her major literary influences became comic books. Another influence on her writing was her ramblings around where she lived — and the animals she met. Believe it or not, this upraising gave her a superpower: Whenever she writes a new picture book, she knows immediately whether it is good or it is bad. How does she know?” She explains, “I just know.”
• When he was young, young people’s author Robert Cormier hated to wear eyeglasses, and one day he thought of a simple way to get out of wearing them: He simply told other people that he didn’t need them any more. This worked for a while, although he had to work extra hard in school because he couldn’t read what his teacher wrote on the chalkboard. Unfortunately, one day his father waved at him from across the street, and because young Robert was so nearsighted, he didn’t recognize his own father. Quickly, young Robert started to wear eyeglasses again.
• As a youth, Edgar Allan Poe was quite a swimmer. When he was fifteen years old, he swam six miles up the James River, against the current — a feat that he thought was the equivalent of swimming “twenty miles in still water.” He also once saved a young friend named Thomas Ellis from drowning. This deed is not as good as it might seem at first, for Thomas explained that “having thrown me into the falls headlong, that I might strike out for myself, he presently found it necessary to come to my help or it would have been too late.”
• Mem Fox, an Australian children’s book author, has had some interesting experiences with very young people. After Mem had published her very first book, Possum Magic, and had not yet published a second book, one small girl held her hand and told her, “I’ve got all your books at home.” And when Mem traveled to an isolated school on the west coast of South Australia, a small boy asked her if she had really written Possum Magic. She admitted the fact, and he sighed and said, “I’m sick of Possum Magic.”
• In 1985, author T.C. Boyle discovered that the local branch of Crown Books carried only mass-market books, not trade paperbacks of the type that he wrote. Therefore, his wife and five-year-old daughter paid a visit to the bookstore. His wife, who remained anonymous, complained that she was disappointed that books by her favorite author — T.C. Boyle, of course — were not carried by the bookstore. All seemed to be going well until his young daughter added, “Yes, and he’s my daddy!”
First recorded by Martha and the Vandellas in 1964, the Mamas & the Papas did a cover version of this song in 1966, and so did David Bowie and Mick Jagger in 1993. What is the title of this chart topping song?
"Dancing in the Street" is a song written by Marvin Gaye, William "Mickey" Stevenson and Ivy Jo Hunter. It first became popular in 1964 when recorded by Martha and the Vandellas whose version reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and peaked at No. 4 in the UK Singles Chart. It is one of Motown's signature songs and is the group's premier signature song. A 1966 cover by the Mamas & the Papas was a minor hit on the Hot 100 reaching No. 73. In 1982, the rock group Van Halen took their cover of "Dancing in the Street" to No. 38 on the Hot 100 chart and No. 15 in Canada on the RPM chart. A 1985 duet cover by David Bowie and Mick Jagger charted at No. 1 in the UK and reached No. 7 in the US. The song has been covered by many other artists, including The Kinks, Tages, Grateful Dead and Myra.
"Dancing in the Street" peaked at No. 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart when it was originally released as the group's third album Dance Party's first single in 1964, with "There He Is (At My Door)" included as a B-side. It was kept from the top spot by, "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" by Manfred Mann. "Dancing in the Street" also reached the Top 5 on the UK Singles Chart peaking at No. 4 in a 1969 release after initially peaking at No. 28 on the chart and helped to revive the Vandellas' success in the UK.
In 1966, the folk rock group, the Mamas & the Papas, recorded a cover version of the song "Dancing in the Street," which was taken from their second studio album The Mamas and the Papas. Mama Cass Elliot sang the lead vocal, while the other members did their harmonies in the background. This version featured an instrumental section. The song's ending is humorous, which featured Elliot and Papa Denny Doherty having a dialogue listing the cities in both the United States, as well as Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, where Doherty was from, before the song's fade. At the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, the Mamas and the Papas ended their set with "Dancing in the Street" before Elliot told the audience at the festival: "You're on your own.""cause we're sure on ours." This was the last time that the group performed live in concert.
The David Bowie and Mick Jagger recording of "Dancing in the Street" was issued as a single on EMI, with all profits going to the charity. The song topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks, and reached No. 7 in the United States on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Dancing in the Street.
Mark. said:
Dancin' in the Streets. (You left out the Grateful Dead. They've
recorded and played the song enough that is now considered a
Grateful Dead song rather than a Martha and the Vandellas song. Also, Jerry
Garcia said that Dancin' in the Street is the ultimate hippie song
because that was what the hippie movement was about -- music in the
parks and dancing in the streets.)
mj wrote:
I definitely remember
The first and third versions, but pretty much forgot the second go round
for Dancin' in the Street.
Stephen F answered:
Dancing in the Street
Randall responded:
Dancing in the Street
Leo in Boise replied:
Dancing In the Street
zorch said:
“Dancing in the Street.”
Cal in Vermont wrote:
Martha And The Vandellas came to the world in the usual way as a result of doing scutwork in the music industry, being discovered, and becoming part of history. The song mentioned several cities that were convulsed with riots during the summers of the mid-Sixties.cal in vt
Then came yesterday, Saturday November 7th 2020, a day that shall live in famy! Upon hearing the results of the vote count in Pennsylvania that put President-Elect Joe Biden over the top, those same sun-washed cities erupted in joyous demonstrations of singing and dancing and good cheer! No fat guys and steroid freaks with bad haircuts and no idiot children in Kenosha all in their store-bought battle-rattle threatening to start their long awaited cultural war. Now I think I will listen to Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech! Oh happy day!
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Saddened by the loss of Alex Trebek this morning........Dancing in the Street
Michelle in AZ
Dancin' in the Streets
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
I know this one: “Dancing in the Streets.” I love Motown Music; growing up outside of Philly, it was the background of my youth. The only cover of that song that I liked was David Bowie’s, but he was on a different level entirely.
So we have a winner and a loser and our long national nightmare may be just beginning. You know #45’s not going quietly into history. No, the like monstrous toddler he is, he’ll throw the biggest hissyfit we’ve ever seen, and millions will support him.
A friend introduced me to Hitchen’s razor, which I paraphrase to “that which can be accepted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.” I tweet it frequently to those braying the election fraud malarkey. It’s going to be handy in coming days.
Dave in Tucson answered:
Dancing in the Streets is the song. And what a lot of the nation was
doing yesterday.
Rosemary in Columbus responded:
Dancin’ In he Streets
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame replied:
The answer is "Dancing in the Street."
DJ Useo said:
I love the song "Dancing In The Street". A fitting track for the continuing celebration! Woot 4 Prez Biden!
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) wrote:
Dancing in the Streets. I'm tired, im footballed out.
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GOOD NEWS: We have had one day to celebrate the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
BAD NEWS: I strongly fear that #45 and his GANG of plutocrats/autocrats, rich people and richer corporations, thieves, white supremacists, nazis, hate groupies, etc are now working to do as much additional damage as possible to the U.S: government, economy, citizens/residents, lands, infrastructure, health, education, courts, regulators, researchers, and anything else (for only the best of "GOOD" reasons, like giving tax breaks to their buddies/DONORS) they can ruin before January 20, 2021. For #45 it will be as much revenge/retribution as possible for not being reelected. Additionally, for him and the rest of the mob, it will be an attempt to sabotage the work that the Democratic Party will be trying to do to fix/ameliorate the problems the GANG has caused in the last four years. Their philosophy and plans will be to blame EVERYTHING (including the sun, moon, rain, water, wind, snow, ice, storms, new diseases, etc) on the Democrats, and the more things they can blame, the better they will feel. Every hour of every day will be filled with more lies, phony news reports, and "old, fat, and/or rich white boys (and some token girls) crying ' WOLF ' at the top of their lungs" or maybe just whispering the possibilities of foul deeds (only in the public interest, of course). Some of the dirty work started piecemeal before the actual election day, but now it will be full speed ahead in every venue they can find.
Just sit back; listen and watch! They could IMMEDIATELY bring home all of the troops from overseas, give Pal Putin anything/everything he asks for (and not tell anyone that they have done so), pardon and release all federal prisoners (except Michael Cohen, of course), open the borders to everyone including felons, etc, etc, etc... Nothing is too crazy for a lunatic or even more so, a mob of them. After seeing the depths of their immorality and contempt for law, I can not trust any of them any farther than I can shit out a constipated turd while sitting my naked ass on a concrete slab, but I can carefully explore my options, take a laxative, and squat over a 10-mile deep hole in an outhouse to do what must be done.
FEAR THE REVENGERS and any U.S. political party whose name begins with the letter "R" for they will Rob, Rape, and wReck you!
There are so, so many reasons to be glad that in a few months, Trump will no longer be president. Important reasons. Human rights-related reasons.
But honestly, right now, it will just be such a goddamned relief to not have to look at his smug face anymore. To not wake up every single day to another string of completely batshit tweets. To not have those tweets be coming from the person in the highest office in the land. To not have at least one news cycle every day revolving around the stupid shit he said on Twitter and the stupid shit those dispatched to defend him say on cable news.
It will just be a relief to not have him constantly sucking all of the air out of the room.
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 Stacey Abrams and Thomas Middleditch.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are David Oyelowo and Sam Smith.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'Weakest Link'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Kaley Cuoco, Megan Rapinoe, and 21 Savage x Metro Boomin.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are John Legend, Sarah Cooper, and Carter McLean.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 1/18/19) is Malala Yousafzai.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Dancing With The Stars', followed by a FRESH'The Good Doctor'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Taraji P. Henson, Luke Combs, and Nathaniel Rateliff.
The CW offers a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', followed by another RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', then a RERUN'Penn & Teller: FU'.
Faux has a FRESH'LA's Finest', followed by a FRESH'Filthy Rich'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
AMC offers the movie 'Deep Impact', followed by the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow', then a FRESH'Soulmates'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - IT'S ONLY A PAPER MOON
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOAK
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - FIELD OF FIRE
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - CHIMERA
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - INTER ARMA ENIM SILENT LEGES
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SAMARITAN SNARE
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - UP THE LONG LADDER
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - MANHUNT
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE EMISSARY
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - PEAK PERFORMANCE
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SHADES OF GRAY
[6:00PM - 1:00AM] LAW & ORDER (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Below Deck Sailing Yacht', followed by a FRESH'Below Deck', then another FRESH'Below Deck', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle', followed by the movie 'Deadpool 2', then the movie 'Deadpool 2', again.
History has 'The Curse Of Oak Island', followed by the FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island: Digging Deeper'.
IFC -
[6:00am] The Three Stooges - Three Little Pirates
[6:30am] Grindhouse Presents: Planet Terror
[8:45am] Run All Night
[11:15am] A Walk Among The Tombstones
[1:45pm] Transporter 2
[3:45pm] John Wick
[6:00pm - 12:30am] Two And A Half Men
[1:00am - 5:30am] Parks And Recreation (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 2:00pm] hogan's heroes
[2:30pm] the green berets
[5:30pm] the patriot
[9:00pm] heartbreak ridge
[12:00am] the green berets
[3:00am] in the heart of the sea
[5:30am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c. (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Hunter Killer', followed by the movie 'Journey To The Center Of The Earth'.
Saturday’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2020 celebration was a bittersweet affair, with the usual star-studded live ceremony (which was originally scheduled to take place this past May in Cleveland) replaced by a performance-free, virtual HBO special due to coronavirus concerns. Additionally, three of this year’s six inductees — R&B diva Whitney Houston, T. Rex’s glam-rock godfather Marc Bolan, and rapper the Notorious B.I.G. — were honored posthumously. Certainly the evening’s most poignant moments came when those artists’ relatives stepped in to deliver the acceptance speeches.
The most surprising speech came from Bolan’s son, a musician himself, who confessed that he hadn’t come to appreciate T. Rex’s legacy until many years after his father’s death. “I really didn’t have a chance to know him very well; he was taken away from all of us so early in his life,” said Rolan Bolan, who was 10 days shy of his second birthday when Marc was killed in a 1977 car crash. (Rolan’s mother, Northern Soul star and original “Tainted Love” singer Gloria Jones, was behind the wheel and survived.) “I discovered his music pretty much the same way you have: through my eyes and ears. When I was a kid watching MTV, Def Leppard’s ‘Rocket’ video came on and had a clip of T. Rex’s performance of ‘Get It On.’ That was my daily hello to my father. When I saw GNR, and Slash was wearing his Slider T-shirt and looking just like my dad, I had to check out the Slider album and discover the T. Rex sound for myself.”
T. Rex was inducted by the elder Bolan’s good friend Ringo Starr, who co-starred with Marc and T. Rex in the 1972 concert film Born to Boogie, which Starr also directed. "We lost [Marc Bolan] way too young, but in his short life, he made 12 albums that are as far-out and ahead of their time as he was,” proclaimed Starr. Among the celebrities in T. Rex’s tribute package were Joan Jett and Billy Idol; the latter singer’s early punk band, Generation X, famously appeared on the final episode of Bolan’s 1977 ITV variety show, Marc, on which Bolan introduced then with the sassy quip, “This new group has a lead singer called Billy Idol, who’s supposed to be as pretty as me — we’ll see now!” (The episode aired two weeks after Bolan’s death.)
The Notorious B.I.G. was inducted by his friend and Bad Boy label boss Sean Combs, while his influence and genius was praised by Jay-Z, Nas, Lin-Manuel Miranda (who called Biggie Smalls “the undisputed sound of New York”), and his mother, Voletta Wallace. Smalls’s award was accepted by his children, T’yanna and C.J. Wallace, who, like Rolan Bolan, lost their father at a young age. “When my dad passed away, I was only 3 years old. Even though I didn’t get to know him as well as I wanted, through his fans and my family, I was able to see with my own eyes that his music transcended the hip-hop industry. He was able to not just become the king of New York, but the king of the culture,” said T'yanna, while C.J. added, “I’m honored to share his name and his dedication to Black music, creativity, self-expression, and Black freedom.”
With President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, President Donald Trump (R-ManBaby) will be forced to make some new career moves — and he’s not the only one.
Alec Baldwin, who has won an Emmy for his bronzed, bombastic portrayal of POTUS on Saturday Night Live, tweeted his delight at Trump’s Election Day defeat — even though it means he’s out of work.
“I don’t believe I’ve ever been this overjoyed to lose a job before,” quipped Baldwin just hours after Biden was finally declared the winner on Saturday after days of ballot counting.
Saturday Night Live hasn’t made a formal announcement about the fate of Baldwin’s future on the show, though past political characters — for instance, Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin, or Kate McKinnon’s Hillary Clinton, who resurfaced last week for the first time since 2017 — have typically been phased out post-election. That said, Baldwin will presumably at least stick around until Jan. 20, the day Biden is inaugurated. Indeed, the actor was present and accounted for during Saturday night’s cold open, delivering a defiant non-concession speech and performing a ballad version of the Village People hit “Macho Man.”
Staffers are fielding hundreds of calls a day on a special hotline set up by the Trump campaign for Americans to report incidents of voter fraud, ABC News reported.
But instead of recording a flood of evidence substantiating Trump's unproven claims of widespread ballot fraud, they are fielding a majority of calls from pranksters, who mock the president over his election defeat before hanging up, according to the outlet.
The hotline was set up last week in the Trump campaign's headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, as vote counts showed power slipping from Trump's grasp and the president baselessly insisted that millions of ballots cast for Biden were invalid.
On Saturday, Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani (R-Serial Philanderer), held a press conference in a suburban garden center after an apparent venue booking mix-up. During the event, Giuliani, who is spearheading the legal challenges, repeated Trump's allegations that the election was tainted by widespread voter fraud. The campaign has so far not produced evidence to justify the claim.
A St Louis couple facing felony charges for waving guns at Black Lives Matter protesters who marched near to their home have alleged that a photographer trespassed onto their property to capture the confrontation.
Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who are both attorneys in their 60s, filed a lawsuit in the St Louis Circuit Court against photographer Bill Greenblatt and United Press International, who provided the photo for publications.
The McCloskeys are also suing Redbubble, an online marketplace for print-on-demand products that has carried merchandise featuring the image of the couple.
Although photographers are allowed to take photographs on public rights of way, the couple have argued that because the street is private, the protesters and Mr Greenblatt were trespassing.
The Saturday call that Joe Biden has been elected the 46th President of the United States elicited a swarm of congratulations as is the custom after an election. Reactions from world leaders and U.S. allies including Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel and Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, both of whom have crossed swords with current President Donald Trump (R-Loser) in the past, were among those to make statements.
The global media was also digesting the news, with part of the world still in the overnight hours. Since then, leaders from such countries as South Korea, Australia and Israel added their sentiments.
Some politicians Saturday diverted from the usual formal declarations in their pronouncements, including Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo (her tweet started with “Welcome back America”) and London Mayor Sadiq Khan (“London looks forward to working with you – it’s time to get back to building bridges, not walls.”)
Germany chancellor Angela Merkel, who said in part, “I look forward to future cooperation with President Biden… Our transatlantic friendship is irreplaceable if we are to master the great challenges of our time.” (Merkel is also due to give a briefing late Sunday afternoon local time.)
So far absent from public comments are such world leaders as Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and China’s Xi Jinping.
The Dutch Protestant Church made a far-reaching recognition of guilt Sunday for its failure to do more to help Jews during and after World War II and even for the church’s role in preparing ”the ground in which the seeds of anti-Semitism and hatred could grow.”
The statement came at a solemn ceremony to mark Monday’s anniversary of the Nazis’ anti-Jewish Kristallnacht pogrom, or the “Night of Broken Glass."
On Nov. 9, 1938, Jews were terrorized throughout Germany and Austria. At least 91 people were killed, hundreds of synagogues burned down, around 7,500 Jewish businesses vandalized, and up to 30,000 Jewish men arrested, many of whom were taken away to concentration camps.
René de Reuver, speaking on behalf of the General Synod of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, said the church’s role began long before Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany.
A televangelist who once described the coronavirus pandemic as a "privilege" died from the disease Tuesday.
Irvin Baxter died in the hospital at 75, according to a press release from Endtime Ministries, which Baxter founded.
Baxter was a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump (R-Grifter) and had suggested premarital sex was the reason the coronavirus exists.
"I thought about fornication and I did a little research," he said. "I hope this research is not correct, but I got it straight from the encyclopedia. It says that 5% of new brides in America now are virgins. That means 95 percent have already committed fornication!"
"This coronavirus may be a privilege, because I'll tell you right now, there is a much bigger judgment coming. It's in the Bible."
Neanderthals may have lost out to Homo sapiens in the evolutionary battle for survival, but as time goes on we're learning about more and more similarities between the species – and according to new research, that extends to the raising of children.
A new study used geochemical and histological techniques to look at three Neanderthal milk teeth, finding that these kids started on solid food at the age of about 5 or 6 months... just like modern-day humans in fact.
Teeth have growth lines that are similar to the rings inside a tree trunk, marking shifts in development and diet that the scientists have been able to identify. It helps to remove some of the mystery around how Neanderthal children were born and raised.
The teeth were originally recovered from northeastern Italy and have been dated as being between 45,000 and 70,000 years old. Paper-thin slices of tooth were cut off, analysed, and then reconstructed.
Bolivians celebrated the Day of Skulls over the weekend, a colorful tradition rooted in ancient indigenous beliefs that is meant to bring good fortune and protection by honoring the dead.
Known as "ñatitas," the skulls are decorated and paraded to the cemetery a week after All Saints Day. Some are adorned with sunglasses and cigarettes as well as colorful flowers and hats.
The celebration of the skulls, which are kept indoors most of the year, is believed to have its roots in the Uru Chipaya custom of disinterring the bodies of loved ones at the one-year anniversary of their death.
The festival this year coincides with the inauguration of Bolivia's new President Luis Arce, which caps a turbulent year for the Andean country that has been rattled over the last year by political upheaval and the coronavirus pandemic.
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