Alex Liu: When You're Poor, Bad Decisions Are Rational
Being poor messes with a person's cognitive capacity. If you're a child, it can impact your brain development. If you're an adult, it can cloud your long term judgement.
Henry Rollins: Making a Movie (LA Weekly)
Our first day kicked my ass, as it always does. No matter how many times I have worked in film, that first long day is a bit of a beating. It's not as if I watch the clock, waiting for it to be over. It's full on until we wrap, and the time passes quickly. It's when I get back to my lodgings that the exhaustion hits me.
John Farrier: "Exclusive Interview: Beth Evans, Cartoonist" (Neatorama)
Beth Evans is a cartoonist in Chicago. I discovered her work a couple months ago and have been following it ever since. She draws piercingly insightful cartoons that I can immediately relate to, such as this one that I posted in September. Beth graciously agreed to an interview about her work.
Church Sign Maker
Note: There's also a Church of Scientology sign maker, a Westboro Baptist Church sign maker, and a letterboard maker!
Scott Burns: Guides for a Sea Change (AssetBuilder)
As recently as 1970, about 80 percent of all workers were covered by a pension plan. It was the Golden Age for American workers. They owned their homes. They had Social Security. And they had a shot at getting a monthly pension check from their former employer. For life.
Mercurana is a genus of arboreal frogs belonging to the family of shrub frogs, Rhacophoridae. The genus was named from the only known species Mercurana myristicapalustris, which was described in 2013 from the Western Ghats of Kerala, India. The generic name was derived from and given as a tribute to Freddie Mercury, the late vocalist of the British rock band Queen, in combination with the Latin for "frog" (Rana, which is also the name of the most common frog genus). The frog is different from other related frogs in that it has extensively webbed toes, lives only in swampy lowlands, and lays its eggs on mud with which it carefully mixes leaf litter.
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DanD was first, and correct, with:
This sounds like it could come from an angular reality show called,
"Queer Frog for the Straight Blog" ... anyway, the only performer I
could think of is Freddy Mercury.
Charlie said:
Wasn't hard to guess it was Freddie Mercury.
In any case, there is a clear resemblance.
Marian answered:
Freddy Mercury
mj wrote:
The froggy royalty
Was named after Freddie Mercury of Queen.
Alan J responded:
Freddie Mercury
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
The generic name was derived from and given as a tribute to Freddie
Mercury, the late vocalist of the British rock band Queen, in combination
with the Latin name for "frog"
Sally said:
The only performer with a frog mentioned in connection with his name, is my all time favorite, Freddie Mercury from the iconoclastic band, "Queen!"
What a performer!
What a loss.
What a man...
PS: It's a few days after, Thanksgiving, and our new (July) Italian neighbors are already decorating for Xmas. This is different for us, as this block is Asian, Jewish, Russian (Orthodox), and me, the heretic. None of us decorate, and that is okay.
It's a fairly large house, and apparently every inch of the circumference of the property is going to be covered in gagutz... And that's okay, too...
Which reminds me, when my grandson was small, I took him out in his stroller at Christmas time. He was enjoying the lights and decorations in his neighborhood, when we came upon a creche. He really seemed to like it, and being a little Jewish boy, I was finding it a challenge to find the right words to explain the scene.
I chose the family angle, explaining that the mother and father were happy because they had this wonderful and special baby boy, and that Christmas was a good time for a family to get together and celebrate, etc.
We kept on walking, and I kept on talking. I didn't even know if he understood me, he was very young at the time.
But, the next time we came upon a yard creche, he sat up and exclaimed, "Look, there's THE family!" From then on, every creche became, "The Family" in sort of a "Mafia" tone of voice, so it seemed...
Adam answered:
I'm just going to guess Freddie Murcury.
Dale of Delightful Diamond Springs, in Norfallcali, took the day off.
MAM wrote:
Freddie Mercury, late iconic lead singer of the British rock band Queen.
BttbBob replied:
"Oh, I Suppose..." Moment - Oh, I suppose that would be Freddy Mercury...
Get back to me if'n I'm wrong, would ya now? But, I don't think I am...
~~~~~
"What Inquiring Minds Want To Know" Moment - The answer is no... But, not for want and lack of tryin', I'm tellin' ya... 'Sarah' eluded me, more's the pity. Could be that I was goin' about all wrong...
... but, it was, like, I was possessed or sumpthin'... Plenty of the 'usual suspects' inside o' there, though, dontcha know... However, I am a discriminating guy, I'm sayin', no matter the urges... Alas, no 'Sarah'...
~~~~~
Happy Birthday this day to:
(44) "Pearl" was hot, oh yeah, in this flic... but a tad too kinky fer my tastes.
Payback (1999) - IMDb
Lethargic Lois Of Oregon responded:
A tree frog was named for Freddie Mercury. I don't know if
it eats snakes. Rough weekend. So tired.
Can't...make...gay...joke...
And, Joe S answered:
As I don't have time tonight for research, that's what I call it when I look up the answers, I'm just gonna guess Freddy Mercury. Seems logical.
It could be Freddy Fender too, but I'm going with Mercury.
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'How I Met Your Mother', followed by a FRESH'2 Broke Girls', then a FRESH'Mike & Molly', followed by a FRESH'Mom', then a FRESH'Hostages'.
On a RERUNDave (from 10/15/13) are Sylvester Stallone, Anna Faris, and Deltron 3030.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Betty White, Evangeline Lilly, and Josh Blue.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'The Blacklist'.
On a RERUNLeno (from 10/30/13) are Kim Kardashian, Abigail Breslin, and Two Door Cinema Club.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 10/7/13) are Paul McCartney and Dylan McDermott.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 11/4/13) are Ghost Girls, Strfkr, and Caitlin Crosby.
ABC starts the night with the chestnut 'A Charlie Brown Christmas', followed by the FRESH'CMA Country Christmas'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Orlando Bloom, Ronda Rousey, and the Wild Feathers.
The CW fills the night with the movie 'It's A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie'.
Scheduled on a FRESHArsenio Hall are Sean "Diddy" Combs, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Shahidah Omar, Nicole Ari Parker, Cynthia Kaye McWilliams, and Theo Von.
Faux has a FRESH'Almost Human', followed by a FRESH'Sleepy Hollow'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
AMC offers the movie 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?', followed by the movie 'Twister', then the movie 'Erin Brockovich'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 12 - The Sound Of Drums
[9:00AM] TORCHWOOD - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 15 - Tapestry
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 16 - Birthright, Part 1
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 17 - Birthright, Part 2
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Finn McCool's
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 5 - Ep 1 - The Runaway Girl
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 6 - Hannah & Mason's
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 8 - Episode 1
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 8 - Episode 2
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 3
[7:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 4
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 5
[9:00PM] TOP GEAR: TOP 41-Episode 7 NEW
[10:00PM] JAMES MAY'S MAN LAB - Season 3 - Episode 1NEW
[11:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 5
[12:00AM] TOP GEAR: TOP 41-Episode 7
[1:00AM] JAMES MAY'S MAN LAB - Season 3 - Episode 1
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 3
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR: TOP 41-Episode 7
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 4
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 8 - Episode 1 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of BH', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of BH', then a FRESH'Vanderpump Rules', and 'Real Housewives Of BH'.
Comedy Central has an old 'Colbert Report', an old 'Jon Stewart', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', still another 'South Park', and yet another 'South Park'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart it's TBA.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Daniel Goleman.
FX has the movie 'The A-Team', followed by the movie 'The A-Team', again.
History has 'The Bible', another 'The Bible', 'Pawn Sars', and another 'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Medicine for Melancholy
[8:00AM] Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
[10:15AM] Escape From Alcatraz
[12:45PM] Suicide Kings
[3:00PM] Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
[5:15PM] U.S. Marshals
[8:00PM] Once Upon a Time in Mexico
[10:15PM] Once Upon a Time in Mexico
[12:30AM] Hanna
[2:45AM] Hanna
[5:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Clark Gregg Wears a Navy Blazer & White Collared Shirt
[5:30AM] The Birthday Boys-Skewered! (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Rectify-Always There
[7:00AM] Love Lust-Love Lust & Breakfast
[8:00AM] Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
[8:15AM] Tommy
[10:45AM] Young Frankenstein
[1:15PM] Lost in Translation
[3:30PM] Play It Again, Sam
[5:30PM] Silver Streak
[8:00PM] A League of Their Own
[11:00PM] Breaking Bad-Full Measure
[12:00AM] Breaking Bad-Box Cutter
[1:00AM] The Wackness
[3:15AM] Laurel Canyon
[5:30AM] The Writers' Room-New Girl (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Zombie Apocalypse', followed by the movie 'Zombie Night'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Casey Affleck, Chris D'Elia, and John Legend.
French actress Marion Cotillard and U.S. director Martin Scorsese attend the 'A Thousand Times Good Night' premiere during the opening of the 13th annual Marrakech International Film Festival in Marrakech November 30, 2013.
Photo by Youssef Boudlal
Fans of the 1983 movie "A Christmas Story" still can't get enough of its quirky humour and heart-warming family theme and are relishing this season's 30th anniversary celebration.
Hundreds stood in line Saturday to get into the Ohio home in Cleveland, where some of the movie was filmed and 9-year-old Ralphie dreamed of getting an air rifle for Christmas. The story's 1940s trappings are all there: the iconic leg lamp, a typewriter and globe, a BB gun range in the backyard.
At a hotel in the city's Public Square, some of the original cast members signed autographs. And thousands were thrilled during the city's annual winter festival when a gigantic image of a leg lamp was projected onto a tower.
Singer Lady Gaga (R) poses with Gagadolls during a news conference to promote her latest album "Artpop" in Tokyo December 1, 2013. According to the manufacturers, the Gagadoll is the world's first life-size human-shaped listening station that closely resembles Lady Gaga, which will allow a person to listen to her songs and message by placing their face against the chest of the doll.
Photo by Toru Hanai
The nonprofit group headed by Roger Ebert's wife will match up to $25,000 in donations toward a bronze sculpture honoring the late film critic.
The life-sized sculpture will be installed outside the Virginia Theatre in Champaign where the annual film festival called Ebertfest is held. Ebert grew up in neighboring Urbana and attended the University of Illinois. He died in April at age 70 following a long battle with cancer.
The statute will depict Ebert sitting in a theater seat making his iconic "thumbs up" gesture. The project's budget is about $122,500, according to a Sunday story by the (Champaign) News-Gazette.
"This matching grant enables donors that act now to have their contributions have even more impact because of the match that will be made by the Ebert Foundation," Scott Anderson, who heads the fundraising, told the newspaper.
Television viewers in Bismarck, N.D., were treated to some real class this weekend when none other than the great Ron Burgundy read them the news.
Actor and comedian Will Ferrell reprised his "Anchorman" role for KXMB's Saturday night news broadcast. The former "Saturday Night Live" star is promoting "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues," a sequel to the 2004 film about a fictional news team's sexist reaction to the arrival of an ambitious female reporter.
Dressed in his signature rust-colored three-piece suit and a striped tie, Ferrell read stories off the teleprompter, punctuated them with exaggerated eye blinks and engaged in witty banter with weekend anchor Amber Schatz and the rest of the Bismarck news team.
He also clowned around, popping into Schatz's screen while she read a story and telling her after a commercial break, "Amber, you look lovely tonight" before asking her if she was married.
Schatz, a 31-year-old North Dakota native who has worked in small markets for eight years, said the whole experience was surreal. If she could choose how to spend her 15 minutes of fame, "I would choose this exact thing."
British actress Charlotte Rampling attends the 'A Thousand Times Good Night' premiere during the 13th annual Marrakech International Film Festival in Marrakech November 30, 2013.
Photo by Youssef Boudlal
Say goodbye to breathless intrigue and dramatic twists: "Slow TV" is attracting record audiences in Norway, with hours, even days, devoted to knitting, fishing and panoramic landscapes.
Public broadcaster NRK has replaced some of its usual prime time drama and entertainment with long, lingering images of cruise liners touring fjords and hours of crackling log fires.
The concept was pioneered in 2009, coinciding with the centenary of the Bergen railway line. The route passes through breathtaking scenery, connecting Norway's second city with the capital Oslo.
The train trip -- all seven hours and 16 minutes of it -- was filmed with onboard cameras and archive footage was added to fill in some of the duller moments as the train passed through long, dark tunnels.
It decided to air the experiment on one of its two national channels... to a roaring success.
Tucked away in one of northern New Mexico's pristine mountain canyons is an old log cabin that was the birthplace not of a famous person, but a top-secret mission that forever changed the world.
Pond Cabin, along with a nearby small and stark building where the second person died while developing the nuclear bomb, are among a number of structures scattered in and around the modern day Los Alamos National Laboratory that are being proposed as sites for a new national park commemorating the Manhattan Project.
It's an odd place for a national park, many admit. Besides the fact that some of the sites are behind the gates to what is supposed to be one of the most secure research facilities in the world, nuclear critics have called the plan an expensive glorification of an ugly chapter in history.
"It is a debasement of the national parks idea," anti-nuclear watchdog Los Alamos Study Group co-founder Greg Mello said when the Interior Department two years ago recommended creating national parks at Los Alamos; Hanford, Wash.; and Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Supporters, however, note that good or bad, the Manhattan Project transformed history. And they argue that key sites that have not already been bulldozed should be preserved and the public should be allowed to visit them.
Princess Stephanie of Monaco (L), president of Fight Aids Monaco, poses with her daughter Pauline Ducruet next to a painting of her mother Princess Grace before an auction to raise funds for her foundation on World AIDS Day in Monaco December 1, 2013.
Photo by Eric Gaillard
Japanese mobsters driving flash cars purchased with bank loans. Executives bowing in apology for loaning millions to those underworld figures. And high-level officials vowing to squash the crime syndicates, known as yakuza.
Japan Inc. is engulfed in its worst mob scandal in years and it's shining a rare light on the links between big business and shadowy organised crime groups usually known for low-brow ventures like extortion and loan sharking.
But with membership falling as police ratchet up a crackdown, experts say the yakuza are branching far outside their traditional business into everything from insider trading to funding business startups.
"Insider trading has become huge -- you can make much more money manipulating stocks" than extorting businesses, says Jake Adelstein, a crime writer whose bestselling memoir "Tokyo Vice" is set to become a Hollywood movie.
Adelstein, a former reporter at Japan's top-selling Yomiuri daily, likens the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's biggest organised crime group, to "Goldman Sachs with guns".
Enormous herds of rhinolike animals turned parts of what is now Argentina into minefields of dung, new fossils reveal.
These massive herbivores were dicynodonts, mammal-like reptiles that looked something like a cross between a rhinoceros and the demon dogs from "Ghostbusters." Argentine researchers have now found that these dicynodonts pooped in communal latrines, designated areas for depositing dung.
Many modern-day animals, including elephants, llamas and rhinos, poop in communal latrines. Even raccoons do it, much to the irritation of homeowners whose backyards are chosen as the places to defecate. Fossilized hyena poop from several hundred thousand years ago was deposited in communal latrines, but the behavior has not been found further back in the fossil record.
"This is the only case of megaherbavore latrine and it's the oldest," found fossilized, said study researcher Lucas Fiorelli of the Centro Regional de Investigaciones Científicas y Transferencia Tecnológica in La Rioja, Argentina.
Activists, covered in fake blood, perform during a protest against the use of fur at Sant Jaume square in Barcelona, December 1, 2013.
Photo by Albert Gea
Thousands of people braved cold and rainy weather in The Hague on Saturday to kick off festivities marking the 200th anniversary of the founding of the modern Dutch state.
Actors staged a re-enactment of the November 30, 1813 arrival of Prince Willem Frederik -- later King Willem I, the ancestor of current King Willem-Alexander -- at a Hague beach, followed by pomp and ceremony at the official opening of the celebrations at a medieval hall near the Dutch parliament.
Prince Willem Frederik's 1813 landing at the beach at Scheveningen, today a popular seaside suburb, is widely seen as setting in motion the formation of the modern Dutch state.
The prince arrived there after 18 years in exile under French rule, which ended with Napoleon Bonaparte's defeat at the Battle of Leipzig a month before, in October 1813.
King Willem-Alexander, who took over from his mother, Princess Beatrix, in April this year and attended the ceremony with his wife, Queen Maxima, was presented a commemorative book. A classical orchestra then played a song composed for the occasion.
"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" and 3-D animated musical "Frozen" dished up box office records over the Thanksgiving holiday.
Lionsgate's sequel earned a prodigious $75 million in its second weekend, while Disney's frosty fete opened with $67 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The films topped records for the highest domestic box office grosses for the three-day and five-day holiday weekend. "Catching Fire" blazed the trail to No. 1 and "Frozen" slid in at No. 2.
After dominating the box office during its first two weeks in theaters, Disney's "Thor: The Dark World" dropped to No. 2 last weekend and was knocked down one more spot to No. 3 this weekend, earning $11.1 million. Globally, it continues to keep Disney on the map with a total of $591.1 million.
Maintaining a healthy position at the box office, Universal's romantic comedy "The Best Man Holiday" held the fourth slot with $8.5 million, while thriller "Homefront," starring Jason Statham and James Franco, opened in the No. 5 slot with $7 million.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak. Where available, latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1."The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," $75 million ($92.5 million international).
2."Frozen," $67 million ($16.7 million international).
3."Thor: The Dark World," $11.1 million ($12.2 million international).
4."The Best Man Holiday," $8.5 million.
5."Homefront," $7 million ($1.2 million international).
6."Delivery Man," $6.9 million.
7."The Book Thief," $4.9 million.
8."Black Nativity," $3.9 million.
9."Philomena," $3.8 million.
10."Last Vegas," $2.8 million ($2.2 million international).
Paul Crouch, the U.S. televangelist who founded one of the world's largest Christian broadcasting networks, died on Saturday at age 79.
Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) - the company he set up with his wife Jan - beamed Christian programs over 84 satellite channels and more than 18,000 television and cable affiliates, according to its website.
Crouch left his job as general manager of a San Bernardino, California, broadcaster in 1973, then bought and expanded a California television station.
"His passing followed a decade-long fight with degenerative heart disease," TBN said on its website.
An illuminated Christmas tree is pictured in front of the Brandenburg Gate during a lighting ceremony in Berlin December 1, 2013. Every year for over 20 years, Norway has sponsored a Christmas tree to stand in front of the Brandenburg Gate.
Photo by Fabrizio Bensch
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