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JD Guckert (aka Jeff Gannon) of Talon News service recently announced his retirement under a cloud of controversy regarding his ownership of a web site dedicated to the sexual exploitation of
Jeff Crook is the Ceci Connolly of the Left. ~ J. Howard Tuft
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Howard Zinn: Changing Minds, One at a Time (The Progressive)
Lakshmi Chaudhry: Toward a More Perfect Union (AlterNet)
Amanda Griscom Little: Greenpeace Gives Peace a Chance (Grist Magazine)
Annalee Newitz: Henry Darger's Internet (AlterNet)
Pat Aufderheide: Copywrongs (In These Times)
I ♥ Karl Rove
Reader Comment
Re: Rush Limpdick
I see that the Vulgar Junkie Pigboy is getting fat again!
Terry C
NJ
Thanks, Terry!
Maybe it's the trade-off for his 2 miracles (the restoration of his hearing and the incredible healing of his back that allows him to be able to
golf frequently).
What a shame Noelle Bush didn't have Pigboy's lawyers.
Purple Gene Reviews
'Gaudi Afternoon'
Purple Genes' Review of the movie "Gaudi Afternoon" (2001) Directed by Susan Seidelman ("Desperately Seeking Susan" - "She Devil" - "Sex and the City") :
"Make up!" - "Make up !" 4 women are filming on the set and they need help….serious help…..this kind of fashion faux paus can fatally fuck a flick…..Pamela Roth was the prime Make up Artist for "Gaudi Afternoon" and she should be shot!!!!!! Lets' start with Judy Davis' Eye make up and glasses….UGH!!! How about Marcia Gay Harden's Hair (and her eye make up and red glasses….UGH!!! Oh my gawd……Julliette Lewis' Hair and nails (And her eye make up and glasses)….UGH!!! Finally Lili Taylor….she's wearing her left over homeless dyke cap and overcoat from "I Shot Andy Warhol" !!!!!! All these terrible trapping traipsing through beautiful Barcelona. This is Susan Seidelmans' juvenile hi-jinx junk called "Gaudi Afternoon".
Cassandra Riley (Judy Davis "Dash and Lilly" - "Judy Garland" - "Nancy Reagan") is a fiction translator traveling everywhere…she just happens to be holing up in a boarding house in Barcelona……..Frankie Stevens (Marcia Gay Harden "Flubber" - "Pollock" - "Mystic River") is the "Lady" in Red who needs a translater to find a "Man" and a small child…..trouble is…as we will find out after an hour of stupid sexual confusion is that the man she's looking for, Ben (Lili Taylor "Mystic Pizza" - "Bright Angel" - "I Shot Andy Warhol" - Lisa in "Six Feet Under") is really actually a Dyke, and the mother of Frankies' kid (You see Frankie has a DICK) and if you add in April Shauer (Julliette Lewis "Cape Fear" - "Kalifornia" - "Natural Born Killers" - "The Fuck Up") the dippie organic dumb dumb of a ditz - you have "Sex and the City" in Spain gone sadly sexually eskew!!!!!!!
The reason they called this movie "Gaudi Afternoon" rather than "Insane in Spain" is because the backdrop of Barcelona is stunningly prevalent throughout this picture. The Hotel where all the action takes place is the amazing "La Cadrera" with a rooftop full of the odd creatures and shapes of Gaudi architecture. The outdoor scenes are shot at "Park Guell" which is full of leaning, twisting and dripping stone and tile work. And finally, the magnificent (and still unfinished) "Familia Sacrada" - a medieval and massive towered Catholic Church.
Aside from the architectural amenities, this movie is a MESS……from the make up and script down to the dispirited and dumb direction……The story line is stupid….Quirky fiction translator FINDS herself amidst Gaudi and a gaggle of goofy girls!!!!!
Purple Gene gives "Gaudi Afternoon" 2 twisted Gaudi towers out of 10 for being so bad…….And Lili Taylor was terribly annoying (so was Marcia Gay Harden) and Julliette Lewis was a waste…and come to think of it…I couldn't stand Judy Davis…
So…………….take out the Gaudi architecture and this movie is a big fat "O" !!!!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Another couple inches of rain.
Poor Jo, the (lucky) lizard didn't get outside at all, but he did get a fresh load of crickets.
CNN News Executive Quits
Eason Jordan
CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan quit Friday amid a furor over remarks he made in Switzerland last month about journalists killed by the U.S. military in Iraq. Jordan said he was quitting to avoid CNN being "unfairly tarnished" by the controversy.
During a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum last month, Jordan said he believed that several journalists who were killed by coalition forces in Iraq had been targeted.
He quickly backed off the remarks, explaining that he meant to distinguish between journalists killed because they were in the wrong place when a bomb fell, for example, and those killed because they were shot at by American forces who mistook them for the enemy.
But the damage had been done, compounded by the fact that no transcript of his actual remarks has turned up. He was the target of an Internet and Web site campaign that was beginning to rival the one launched against CBS's Dan Rather following the network's ill-fated story last fall about resident Bush's military service.
Jordan joined CNN in 1982 as an assistant assignment editor on the national news desk. He has won the Emmy, duPont and Peabody journalism awards.
Eason Jordan
Aspen Puts Focus on Stand-Up
U.S. Comedy Arts Festival
Eddie Izzard and a special reunion of Cheech and Chong were among the hottest tickets in town Thursday, the second night of the annual U.S. Comedy Arts Festival here.
USCAF attendees from inside and outside the comedy industry expressed particular excitement ahead of those shows, with late Thursday performances by stand-ups Demetri Martin, Dane Cook and Patrice Oneal also on people's radars.
In kicking off the 11th installment of USCAF on Wednesday night, most industry attendees focused on USCAF's annual stand-up showcases, which this year feature 20 comics performing in four groups.
In USCAF's film program, the feature "Partner(s)" and such shorts as "West Bank Story," "Spam-Ku: I Won a Haiku Contest About Spam" and "Boy-Next-Door" created early Aspen buzz.
U.S. Comedy Arts Festival
Named Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Catherine Zeta-Jones sang a tune Thursday from the musical "Chicago" - with lyrics just for her - in earning her pudding pot and being crowned Hasty Pudding Theatrical's Woman of the Year.
Zeta-Jones, who won an Oscar for her part in the film version of "Chicago," also tap danced in high heels before being presented with the brass pudding pot - an honor that she joked ranked with "the 10 hours I labored to give birth to my children."
Husband Michael Douglas arrived before the ceremony and watched the tomfoolery from the audience. He was crowned the Hasty Pudding Man of the Year in 1992.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Becomes U.S. citizen
Jane Seymour
Actress Jane Seymour waived a small U.S. flag and cheered after she and about 9,000 other immigrants became citizens Friday morning during a naturalization ceremony.
The British-born actress, best known for her TV series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, said she's been living in the United States since 1976.
Seymour, 53, wore a cream-coloured suit to the ceremony held at the downtown Los Angeles Convention Center. She sat between more than a dozen U.S. military personnel who also received their citizenship.
Jane Seymour
Axes Pension Plan Opponents - IOKIYAR
Ahnold The Awful
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday abruptly fired four appointees to the nation's largest teachers retirement system - a week after the four voted against the governor's plan to privatize the state's public pension system.
Last month, Schwarzenegger proposed turning the state's two huge public pension plans into a system more like a 401(k) savings plan, in which workers make defined contributions.
The California State Teachers Retirement System and its board manage $126 billion. The California Public Employees Retirement System, the nation's largest public fund, manages $182 billion.
Board member and treasurer Phil Angelides called the firings "outrageous" because the appointees "stood up for taxpayers, for teachers and school children."
The firings were "particularly troubling because trustees of pension funds sit there as fiduciaries with a legal obligation to do what's right from the financial perspective and they rejected the governor's proposal on its merits," he said.
Ahnold The Awful
Performing Again
Sinead O'Connor
Irish singer Sinead O'Connor says that after two years of retirement, she is returning to music - but not the pop scene.
"I want to at least aim my records at a more spiritualized market," she told Irish music magazine Hotpress.
In 1999, O'Connor was ordained as a priest in the Latin Tridentine Church by a rebel bishop. She then adopted the name Mother Bernadette Mary.
"Religious songs with bad words, that's the best way I could describe it," she said. "I've been thinking for years the religious area of music has a huge gap in it. Needs a bit of punky filling."
Sinead O'Connor
Beer Choice Cost Him Job
Isac Aguero
A man may have found out firsthand just how nasty the competition is between the world's two biggest beermakers.
Isac Aguero, 24, said he was fired from his job with a Miller Brewing distributor, the same day a picture appeared in The Journal Times of Racine of him drinking a Bud Light, which is brewed by Anheuser-Busch Co.
The photo, taken Feb. 5, was part of the newspaper's weekly "On the Town" feature, which depicts the city's night life.
Aguero, who had been a forklift operator at CJW Inc. for four years, told the newspaper he was informed by co-workers when he arrived at work Monday that he was in trouble because of the picture.
He said he was called into the general manager's office and told he was fired. Aguero said he was not given a reason and claimed he never had problems with his bosses.
Isac Aguero
Crash Into Building
Drunk Birds
Dozens of birds, drunk from eating holly berries, crashed into the glass of an office building and died earlier this week.
Warm weather and an ample supply of holly berries attracted hundreds of cedar waxwings into the enclosed courtyard of the three-story building Tuesday,
The birds began getting drunk on the berries. They got so loopy that some were falling off branches and others were slamming into the glass walls that enclose the courtyard, said Burgess Mills, the building's owner.
About half of the 100 birds that slammed into the building died, workers said.
Drunk Birds
In Memory
Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose most famous fictional creation, Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman," came to symbolize the American Dream gone awry, has died. He was 89.
Miller, who had been hailed as America's greatest living playwright, died Thursday night at his home in Roxbury of congestive heart failure, his assistant, Julia Bolus, said Friday. She declined to give details on his illness. His family was at his bedside when he died, she said.
Miller's career was marked by early success. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for "Death of a Salesman" in 1949, when he was just 33 years old.
His marriage to Marilyn Monroe in 1956 further catapulted the playwright to fame, though that was publicity he said he never pursued.
Miller won the New York Drama Critics' Circle's best play award twice in the 1940s, for "All My Sons" in 1947 and for "Death of a Salesman." In 1953, he received a Tony Award for "The Crucible," a play about mass hysteria during the Salem witch trials that was inspired by the repressive political environment of McCarthyism.
Miller's success, so overwhelming in the 1940s and '50s, seemed to be on the wane during the next two decades. But the 1980s brought a renewal of interest, beginning with a Broadway revival of "Death of a Salesman" starring Dustin Hoffman in 1984.
He was born Oct. 17, 1915, Miller was one of three children in a middle-class Jewish family. His father, a manufacturer of women's coats, was hard hit by the Depression and could not afford to send Miller to college when the time came.
Miller worked as a loader and shipping clerk at a New York warehouse to earn tuition money and eventually attended the University of Michigan, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1938.
He wrote his first plays in college, where they were awarded numerous prizes. He also published several novels and collections of short stories.
He wrote several screenplays, including "The Misfits" (1961), which became Monroe's last movie, and "Playing for Time," (1981) a controversial television movie about the women's orchestra at Auschwitz.
Miller had two children, Jane Ellen and Robert, by his first wife, Mary Slattery, and he and Inge Morath, who died in 2002, had one daughter, Rebecca.
Arthur Miller
