• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a poet so popular for such a long time that schoolchildren were made to memorize and recite such poems of his as “The Village Blacksmith” and “Paul Revere’s Ride.” In the old days, a schoolchild who heard a friend accidentally make a rhyme would say, “You’re a poet and don’t know it, but your big feet show it — they’re long fellows!”
• Oscar Wilde’s two boys, Cyril and Vyvyan, preferred to dress in sailor suits, but Mr. Wilde and his wife often dressed them in Little Lord Fauntleroy costumes, especially before showing them off to guests in the drawing room. The boys objected to this, so one day they stripped off the costumes and pranced stark naked into the drawing room.
• The Curious George children’s books about an inquisitive monkey are written and illustrated by H.A. Rey. Children got so involved with the main character of the book that they were sometimes disappointed when they met Mr. and Mrs. Rey. One small, disappointed boy told them, “I thought you were monkeys, too.”
• When she was very small, children’s book author Patricia McKissack toured the house of a former President during a field trip. Later, she was asked to describe what she had seen to a PTA group. Young Patricia reported that her personal guides for the tour had been a rabbit and a mouse.
• When F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, was seven years old, he invited some children to come to his birthday party, and he was very disappointed when no one showed up for the party. To make up for his disappointment, his mother let him eat all of the birthday cake.
• When L. Frank Baum, author of the Oz books, was traveling in Egypt, he met a little Algerian girl who had traveled across the desert with her family on camel. Her family had allowed her to choose one book to bring with her, and she had chosen The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
• Some children are more precocious than others. When he was age 12, Edward Albee had already written his first three-act play, Aliqueen — it was a sex farce.
• Hilaire Belloc wrote quickly and published much. When asked why he wrote so quickly, he replied, “Because my children are howling for pearls and caviar.”
Christmas
• When nonconformist American poet Emily Dickinson was a teenager attending the Mount Holyoke Seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts, the head of the school, Miss Mary Lyon, told the students that Christmas would be celebrated in a spiritual way. The students would fast in their rooms and pray all day without eating. Miss Lyon then asked the students to stand if they agreed with her plan. Ms. Dickinson remained seated. After the students had sat down again, Miss Lyon asked any students to stand if they disagreed with her plan. Ms. Dickinson was the only student who stood.
• The parents of Jerry Spinelli, author of the Newbery Medal-winning Maniac Magee, spent very little money on themselves, but out of love they made sure that their children enjoyed very nice Christmases. One Christmas, Jerry had unwrapped what he thought was his final present. His father told him, “Well, I guess that’s it. Looks like you did pretty good this year.” Later, Jerry was sent on an errand to the kitchen, and he found his real final present: a Roadmaster bicycle. Mr. Spinelli describes the gift in a memorable way: “Love leaning on a kickstand.”
Kurt Vonnegut's seventh novel, set in the fictional town of Midland City, Ohio, was subtitled Goodbye Blue Monday. What is the title of this 1973 work of fiction?
Wheaties is a brand of breakfast cereal by General Mills. It is well known for featuring prominent athletes on its packages and has become a cultural icon in the United States. Originally introduced as Washburn’s Gold Medal Whole Wheat Flakes in 1924, it is primarily a wheat and bran mixture baked into flakes.
Wheaties began its association with sports in 1927, through advertising on the southern wall of minor league baseball's Nicollet Park in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In the contract, Wheaties sponsored the radio broadcasts of the minor league baseball team, Minneapolis Millers, on radio station WCCO and Wheaties was provided with a large billboard in the park to use to introduce new slogans. The first such slogan on the new signboard was penned by Knox Reeves, of a Minneapolis advertising agency. When asked what should be placed on the sign for Wheaties, Reeves sketched a Wheaties box on a pad of paper, thought for a moment, and wrote "Wheaties-The Breakfast of Champions".
Throughout the 1930s, Wheaties increased in popularity with its sponsorship of baseball broadcasting, and by the end of the decade, nearly a hundred radio stations carried Wheaties sponsored events. During these events, athlete testimonials about Wheaties were used to demonstrate that Wheaties was indeed the breakfast of champions. In 1934, athletes began to be depicted on the Wheaties boxes, starting with baseball star Lou Gehrig, and the tradition continues today.
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Billy in Cypress U. $. A. was first, and correct, with:
Wheaties
Mark. said:
Wheaties.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
Wheaties! But not around here! A two-pound bag of Twizzlers is!
Alan J answered:
Wheaties.
Randall responded:
Wheaties
mj replied:
With a rotating series of athlete portraits on the box
General Mill's Wheaties, boasted that title. As a child I found it bland
and dry.
Kevin in Washington DC wrote:
After Little Chocolate Donuts and a cigarette, the next best thing is Wheaties.
Dave responded:
Wheaties. A product of General Mills, Wheaties has been on the market for 96 years. As a marketing ploy Wheaties was associated with athletics (for no particular reason) and baseball legend Lou Gehrig was the first athlete paid to have his image on the front of the package. As with many adult ready to eat cold cereals, sales of Wheaties have crashed during the last 15 years. I haven’t tasted Wheaties since I was a kid, but I didn’t like it. My parents mostly only bought Post cereals because that’s where my Dad worked.
zorch replied:
Wheaties is the Breakfast of Champions.
Stephen F said:
Wheaties
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
Wheaties, of course. Haven’t eaten them in years and years; they tend to get soggy before I can finish the bowl.
Many local roads are still closed, my FaceGag and Nestdoor feeds are full of tales of devastation and warding off looters. Volunteering this weekend to sort through donations for folks who’ve lost everything, and wondering how to be sympathetic without hugging. Oh, these COVID times.
Mac Mac answered:
Wheaties
Jacqueline responded:
Wheaties
Kenn B replied:
Wheaties
David of Moon Valley wrote:
...and the answer is.......
Wheaties….at least the last time i checked…these days it could be something else entirely….but that’s what my youth-full memory recollex….
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
In college, the breakfast of champions was a joint and a beer.....now it is Wheaties cereal
Daniel in The City answered:
Wheaties
John I from Hawai`i says,
Wheaties
Michelle in AZ responded:
Wheaties
Dave in Tucson replied:
That would be Wheaties. Though I never really "got the eaties for my
Wheaties". Too soggy too soon.
DJ Useo wrote:
Wheaties! Yum! That was my favorite dry cereal growing up. I ate them by the box. They really seemed to help me make it to lunch.
Mainly, though, I liked to eat any kind of hot cereal, a habit I maintain to this day. Last night I had a small bowl of cream of wheat & a few bites of yoghurt,
& I'm still here today. lol.
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) said:
The cereal is Wheaties and the brand is General Mills, I'm on to ya. Trick question, but I'm on to ya.
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Tonight, Saturday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Love Island', followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'NASCAR Cup Series', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
Of course, 'SNL', is a RERUN (from 12/07/19) with Jennifer Lopez hosting, music by DaBaby.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUN'Shark Tank', then a RERUN'The Good Doctor'.
The CW offers some local crap and some old '2½ Men'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'PBC Fight Night', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY recycles an old 'Major Crimes', followed by another old 'Major Crimes'.
A&E has 'Live Rescue', followed by a FRESH'Live Rescue'.
AMC offers the movie 'Jurassic Park III', followed by the movie 'The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] SEASONAL WONDERLANDS - Extended
[7:00AM] SEASONAL WONDERLANDS - Extended
[8:00AM] SEASONAL WONDERLANDS - Extended
[9:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - The Hardest Challenge
[10:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Arctic
[11:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Jungles
[12:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Oceans
[1:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Plains
[2:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Coasts
[3:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Great Plains
[4:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Jungles
[5:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Shallow Seas
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Seasonal Forests
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Ocean Deep
[8:00PM] EARTHFLIGHT - Asia and Australia (Extended)
[9:10PM] PLANET EARTH - Great Plains
[10:10PM] PLANET EARTH - Jungles
[11:10PM] PLANET EARTH - Shallow Seas
[12:10AM] PLANET EARTH - Seasonal Forests
[1:10AM] PLANET EARTH - Ocean Deep
[2:20AM] EARTHFLIGHT - Asia and Australia (Extended)
[3:30AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - The Hardest Challenge
[4:30AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Arctic
[5:30AM] HIDDEN HABITATS - Making Worlds (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has the movie 'Boo! A Madea Halloween', followed by the movie 'Boo 2! A Madea Halloween'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Joe Dirt', followed by the movie 'The Internship', then the movie 'Superbad'.
FX has the movie 'X-Men: Apocalypse', followed by the movie 'X-Men: Apocalypse', again.
IFC -
[6:00A] Saved by the Bell
[6:30A] Saved by the Bell
[7:00A] Saved by the Bell
[7:30A] Saved by the Bell
[8:00A] Saved by the Bell
[8:30A] Saved by the Bell
[9:00A] Saved by the Bell
[9:30A] Saved by the Bell
[10:00A] Saved by the Bell
[10:30A] Saved by the Bell
[11:00A] Saved by the Bell
[11:30A] Saved by the Bell
[12:00P] Saved by the Bell
[12:30P] Saved by the Bell
[1:00P] Airplane!
[3:00P] Galaxy Quest
[5:30P] The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
[7:30P] The Wolf of Wall Street
[11:30P] Inglourious Basterds
[3:00A] Monty Python and the Holy Grail
[5:00A] The Three Stooges - Cash and Carry
[5:30A] The Three Stooges - Rhythm & Weep (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am] the andy griffith show
[6:30am] the andy griffith show
[7:00am] the andy griffith show
[7:30am] the andy griffith show
[8:00am] the andy griffith show
[8:30am] the andy griffith show
[9:00am] the andy griffith show
[9:30am] the andy griffith show
[10:00am] the andy griffith show
[10:30am] the andy griffith show
[11:00am] hogan's heroes
[11:30am] hogan's heroes
[12:00pm] hogan's heroes
[12:30pm] hogan's heroes
[1:00pm] hogan's heroes
[1:30pm] hogan's heroes
[2:00pm] hogan's heroes
[2:30pm] hogan's heroes
[3:00pm] hogan's heroes
[3:30pm] hogan's heroes
[4:00pm] hogan's heroes
[4:30pm] hogan's heroes
[5:00pm] face/off
[8:00pm] a few good men
[11:00pm] the silence of the lambs
[1:30am] a few good men
[4:30am] perry mason
[5:30am] perry mason (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'The Bourne Supremacy', followed by the movie 'The Bourne Ultimatum'.
Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee are under fire for the use of another piece of music: Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”
The singer-songwriter’s estate and Sony/ATV Publishing say that they specifically declined the Republican National Committee’s request for the song, but it was played anyway during the final night of the convention, as Trump delivered his acceptance speech from the South Lawn of the White House.
Michelle Rice, legal representative for Cohen’s estate, said in a statement that they were “surprised and dismayed” that the RNC would use the song knowing they “had specifically declined the RNC’s use request, and their rather brazen attempt to politicize and exploit in such an egregious manner ‘Hallelujah,’ one of the most important songs in the Cohen song catalogue.”
This hardly is the first time that the Trump campaign has run into opposition from musicians for the use of their music. Tom Petty’s family objected to the use of “I Won’t Back Down” at a Trump rally in June, for instance. The Rolling Stones also sent a legal warning to the campaign over the use of “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” which had been a Trump standard.
In fact, complaints about Trump using specific songs date to the previous presidential race. Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World” was played when the then-Apprentice host announced his candidacy after descending an escalator at the Trump Tower in New York in June 2015. He later was condemned by the members of Queen for using “We Are the Champions” at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
Don’t be ringing any bells for Donald Trump just yet. The family of the great Jimmy Stewart is taking issue – strong issue – with a Republican convention speaker who had the audacity to compare the president to the altruistic George Bailey, the character played by Stewart in the enduring Christmas classic It’s A Wonderful Life.
The unlikely comparison was made Monday night at the RNC by Natalie Harp, cancer survivor, entrepreneur, Liberty University graduate and Trump campaign advisory board member. Harp, who has credited a Trump-backed Right to Try law with providing the cancer treatment that saved her life, said during her convention address, “In the classic Jimmy Stewart film It’s A Wonderful Life, George Bailey is given a great gift – the chance to see what the world would be like without him. Tonight Mr President, we’d like to give you that same gift, because without you we’d all be living in Pottersville, sold out to a crooked Mr. – or I should say Mrs. – Potter with no hope of escape except death itself.”
After Harp’s comparison was mentioned in The New York Times, a not-pleased Kelly Stewart Harcourt, one of the late actor’s four children, penned a letter to the editor, published in today’s print edition.
In her speech at the G.O.P. convention Monday night, Natalie Harp, a cancer survivor, made reference to the film “It’s a Wonderful Life,” comparing Donald Trump to George Bailey, the main character in the film, played by my father, Jimmy Stewart.
Given that this beloved American classic is about decency, compassion, sacrifice and a fight against corruption, our family considers Ms. Harp’s analogy to be the height of hypocrisy and dishonesty.
After trolling Republicans throughout their convention, the Biden campaign has pulled its final act of the week: acquiring the web domain KeepAmericaGreat.com.
When Trump launched his reelection campaign last year, he rolled out the “Keep America Great” as its official new slogan with great fanfare. But the Biden campaign recently learned the web domain was available and snagged it.
The site now lays out a top-to-bottom rebuke to the Trump administration, including his handling of coronavirus. “Promises Made, Promises Kept Broken,” the site’s home page screams. “Trump isn’t looking for a second term,” it charges. “He’s looking for a do-over.”
Trump mused last year about adopting the "Keep America Great" campaign slogan.
Team Trump previously pulled something similar on Biden, purchasing the todosconbiden.com domain when Biden announced its Latino outreach program, dubbed “Todos Con Biden.”
“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling has emerged into a fresh controversy after she returned the Ripple of Hope Award bestowed upon her by the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization in December 2019, following criticism from Kerry Kennedy. Kerry is the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, and the president of the organization.
“Over the course of June 2020 — LGBTQ Pride Month — and much to my dismay, J.K. Rowling posted deeply troubling transphobic tweets and statements,” Kennedy posted on the organization’s website on Aug. 3. “On June 6, she tweeted an article headlined “Opinion: Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate.” She wrote glibly and dismissively about transgender identity: ‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?”
Kennedy said she had spoken with Rowling “to express my profound disappointment that she has chosen to use her remarkable gifts to create a narrative that diminishes the identity of trans and nonbinary people, undermining the validity and integrity of the entire transgender community — one that disproportionately suffers from violence, discrimination, harassment, and exclusion and, as a result, experiences high rates of suicide, suicide attempts, homelessness, and mental and bodily harm. Black trans women and trans youth in particular are targeted.”
On Thursday, Rowling responded with a statement posted to her website.
“Because of the very serious conflict of views between myself and RFKHR, I feel I have no option but to return the Ripple of Hope Award bestowed upon me last year,” said the author. “I am deeply saddened that RFKHR has felt compelled to adopt this stance, but no award or honor, no matter my admiration for the person for whom it was named, means so much to me that I would forfeit the right to follow the dictates of my own conscience.”
For decades, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has routinely warned its agents that the white supremacist and far-right militant groups it investigates often have links to law enforcement. Yet the justice department has no national strategy designed to protect the communities policed by these dangerously compromised law enforcers. As our nation grapples with how to reimagine public safety in the wake of the protests following the police killing of George Floyd, it is time to confront and resolve the persistent problem of explicit racism in law enforcement.
I know about these routine warnings because I received them as a young FBI agent preparing to accept an undercover assignment against neo-Nazi groups in Los Angeles, California, in 1992. But you don’t have to take my word for it. A redacted version of a 2006 FBI intelligence assessment, White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement, alerted agents to “both strategic infiltration by organized groups and self-initiated infiltration by law enforcement personnel sympathetic to white supremacist causes”.
A leaked 2015 counter-terrorism policy guide made the case more directly, warning agents that FBI “domestic terrorism investigations focused on militia extremists, white supremacist extremists, and sovereign citizen extremists often have identified active links to law enforcement officers”.
If the government knew that al-Qaida or Isis had infiltrated American law enforcement agencies, it would undoubtedly initiate a nationwide effort to identify them and neutralize the threat they posed. Yet white supremacists and far-right militants have committed far more attacks and killed more people in the US over the last 10 years than any foreign terrorist movement. The FBI regards them as the most lethal domestic terror threat. The need for national action is even more critical.
In recent years, white supremacists have engaged in deadly rampages in Charleston, South Carolina, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and El Paso, Texas. More ominously, neo-Nazis obtained radiological materials to manufacture “dirty” bombs in separate cases in Maine in 2009 and Florida in 2017, which were only avoided through chance.
A teen who organized a Black Lives Matter rally in her northern New Jersey town said she has been sent a $2500 bill from officials for police overtime.
NJ Advance Media reported Friday Emily Gil, 18, of Englewood Cliffs received a letter earlier this month from Mayor Mario M. Kranjac looking for payment of $2,499.26 “for the police overtime caused by your protest.”
A civil liberties advocate called the move “shocking."
Gil, a recent high school graduate, had organized a protest on July 25 in the town, just across the river from the uppermost parts of Manhattan. She said she called for action like increasing affordable housing in the town, and chastised Engelwood Cliffs for not implementing it over the years.
In her speech introducing her father at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, Ivanka Trump (R-Grifting Spawn Of A Grifter) told a story about her son gifting the president a Lego replica of the White House.
"When Jared and I moved with our three children to Washington, we didn't exactly know what we were in for. But our kids loved it from the start," the White House presidential adviser said. "My son Joseph promptly built grandpa a Lego replica of the White House. The president still displays it on the mantel in the Oval Office and shows it to world leaders, just so they know he has the greatest grandchildren on earth."
The story resembles another one Ivanka Trump has told about herself, as Andrea Bernstein, a WNYC reporter, said on Twitter. According to "American Oligarchs," a book Bernstein wrote about the Trump and Kushner families, Ivanka said in a 2007 interview with Conan O'Brien that she'd built a Lego replica of Trump Tower for her dad. She also said her brothers had contradicted her, each of them claiming to have built the Lego tower.
Bernstein also said the story was plagiarized from "The Art of the Deal," President Donald Trump's best-selling book ghostwritten by Tony Schwartz.
In her 2009 book "The Trump Card," Ivanka acknowledged the story was fake.
The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust is changing its name and logo. The new Holocaust Museum Los Angeles, it announced on Friday, aims to prioritize history and education centered on fighting hatred and intolerance toward all communities.
The museum’s new name is part of a broader rebranding that began in late 2018 and includes a new logo and website, both put into effect on Friday.
The old logo was an abstract architectural image incorporating the LAMOTH acronym. The new logo, by Colorado designer Brett Aronson, depicts a palm pressed against a barbed-wire fence. The open hand is meant to be a universal gesture of communication, Kean said, “a symbolic gesture in the fight for justice and overcoming adversity, which is more important in the country and the world than it’s ever been. It also says [of hatred], ‘Stop. Enough!’”
The new website is more contemporary-looking and easier to navigate, with more gallery photos, richer exhibition presentations and added educational resources for teachers.
Thieves stole a painting by Dutch Golden-Age master Frans Hals from a small museum near the Dutch city of Utrecht on Thursday, police said, the third time the canvas has been stolen.
The artwork, valued at 15 million euros ($18 million) by one expert, and dating from 1626, was taken from the Hofje van Aerden Museum before dawn on Thursday with thieves breaking into the building from the back door.
It is the second theft of a painting from a Dutch museum closed to the public because of the COVID-19 pandemic, after a Van Gogh was stolen from the Singer Laren Museum in March.
Two Laughing Boys has been stolen twice before in its four-century history, including as recently as May 2011 from the same museum. Police recovered it later that year after arresting four men who tried to sell it.
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