'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Mr. Hawk Reviews
'Andromeda'
This week was the final of the reunion opener. I would have to say it was
the best of the 3. The show returned to a lot of what made it so good at the
begining. The special effects came up to snuff and the script was half way
decent. One thing that may help is that they are allowed to be a little bit
more shocking, the shot of Rommie in the box was more of a movie graphic.
Hopefully the show will ease it way into more improvements as the weeks go
by.
For those who don't know, old Andromeda is being run on Tuesday night, 4
episodes back to back.
Next week, Farscape returns in a mini series. The promos look great. I'll
watch and review the whole mini series when completed.
- Mr. Hawk
Kerry/Edwards
Because Death takes no holiday with the other
side.
Thanks, Mr. Hawk!
Reader Link
Debate Notes
For those of you who want to see the notes W was making during the first debate, go here:
Weekly Link
The Humor Gazette
(P)resident Bush is expected to come out firing at tonight's debate in St. Louis,
but pundits disagree on whether he will try to reclaim momentum from Sen. John
Kerry by shooting the Democratic insurgent with that cool pistol he got from
Saddam Hussein.
Fresh satire torn and twisted from today's headlines
Link from Bruce
Cindy Sheehan
The Buzzflash Interview With Activist Cindy Sheehan
BuzzFlash: Your son Casey died April 4 in Iraq. Whom do you hold
responsible for your loss?
Cindy Sheehan: George W. Bush.
Fun Link
G-Dawg
Marty,
We just made a video parody of George Bush back in the 1970's during his failed congressional campaign. You have to download it and check it out. It's hilarious.
The site is www.wthelostyears.com
Feel free to post and pass around!
Hope you enjoy!
PC
Review of 'Going Upriver'
Roger Ebert
An Excerpt:
Will this film change any votes? Doubtful, since most members of the audience will be Kerry supporters. It is sad but true that a 30-second commercial, which any literate person should instinctively question, can shift votes but the truth cannot. Not that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth know much about truth.
Reader Contribution
Re: More 'Naked Party'
Hi Marty,
This is a somewhat grimmer story on the "Naked Party".
Chris
Fallout From `Naked Party'
It began with an off-campus "naked party," an annual Yale University tradition with an "A-list" of invited guests including resident Bush's daughter.
It ended with one student claiming she was drugged and sexually assaulted in her dorm room, and her assailant - another student who has since graduated - accepting a plea bargain just two days before he was to stand trial on rape charges.
Now some students and at least one high-profile Yale graduate, Naomi Wolf, say the university mishandled the incident, and that Yale continues to understate the incidence of sexual assaults against students. The former student accused of the sexual assault was a residential adviser, who even after his arrest was allowed to remain in his position of authority as a freshman counselor.
"A residential adviser is the go-to person for innocent, naive, dependent, untested teenagers," said Wolf, author of "The Beauty Myth," which describes how the culture of beauty is used against women. "He has the imprimatur of the university - of being completely trustworthy - so it's a complete perversion of the university's role for a person accused of rape to stay in his role."
For the rest,
Thanks, Chris!
What a vile story. Gotta wonder how differently it'd have been handled if Barbara, the younger, was the one who was roofied. Or if Chelsea Clinton had been in attendance...
from Mark
Another Bumpersticker
Reader Suggestions
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George W. Bush Will Let You Pay Off The National Debt
George W. Bush: I Spent It -- You Pay It Back
George W. Bush: Where Is The Money Coming From To Protect American
Citizens From Terrorists?
Your Name Here: I Don't Know, George -- After All, You Spent It
George W. Bush: Don't Forget Poland
American Voters: Don't Forget America, George
Why Stay A Course That Is Not Working?
Thanks, Bruce!
Paul Berenson
Another Side of the News
Republicans shoot down the Universal National Service Act (Draft). What a sham!! Bush has beefed up the Selective Service, and made it ready to go by March, 2005. Two weeks BEFORE the election, they read the polls and shoot down the bill. Two weeks AFTER the election they will come up with a WORSE one. Someone has to fight Chimpy's wars, and fewer are volunteering. Simple math, folks!
The UK Guardian published some letters to Michael Moore from our brave troops in Iraq. We'll see how Bush and Cheney support our troops. Funny, we have to get this from the UK media. Why won't our media print it?!? Closer to home, the SB News-Press is stooping to new lows in it's personal attacks on Rep. Lois Capps.
Once again, Palmer will join us for an entertaining and provocative hour.
Tune in to "Another Side of the News" with Paul Berenson, Saturdays 9am-10am (PDT) on KCSB-FM 91.9 or listen on our webcast
Your local phone calls are welcome at:
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Outside of the Santa Barbara (CA) area:
1-805-893-2426
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If you're tired of the Limbaugh's, Fox News, Corporate Media, etc. and want to hear a Democrat with attitude, this is for you!
Join listeners and callers on the South Coast and across the nation listening on our webcast.
Give Paul a listen - he's smart & funny.
Link from Bruce
Worst Campaign Journalist
The search for America's worst campaign journalist has begun.
New York Press has launched the First Quadrennial Election Hack
Invitational-a tournament, to be held between now and the week after
the election, which will answer the question: "Who is the worst
campaign journalist in America?"
Purple Gene Reviews
O'Really On Jon Stewart
Bill O'Reilly on 'The Daily Show' - Comedy Central - 10/07/04
I've gotta give to the hulking, hook-nosed, arrogant,
assinine host of the FOX - NO SPIN ZONE - FACTOR -
BILL O'REILLY credit for hauling his annoying,
antagonistic ass onto the DAILY SHOW with JOHN
STEWART!!!!!
Here we go........quote of the night that surpasses
O'Reilly calling Stewarts' viewers "STONED
SLACKERS"....he actually called John Stewart a
"FAWNING SYCOPHANT"...no kidding...and Stewart in his
cool, calm, collected comedic way completely deflected
the comment by giving O'Reilly "THAT" Look!
I truly believe that the comedians of this country are
the only people in the media speaking the
truth....John Stewart, Leno, Letterman, Bill Maher, Al
Franken, Howard Stern and WANDA!!!!! (PATRIOT
COMEDIANS TO SAVE USA!!) MY PLUG!!
The Daily Show tonight was kind of a let down if you
were looking for O'Reilly to get his Come - Uppance!
What did happen though, is even more subtly
powerful....John Stewart managed to expose O'Reilly
for what he REALLY IS!!!! A FUCKING COMEDIAN!!!!
Purple Gene gives this episode of the Daily Show 2
stoned slacker blunts out of 10 for not castrating Mr.
"O" on the spot!!! Just Joking!
Please look out in the future for Purple Genes' Review
of the "MISS NUDE WORLD POLE DANCE CHAMPIONSHIP"!!!!
And the "BRAHMA BULL RIDING CHAMPIONSHIP" in Las
Vegas!!! (RODEO - YEE HA!)
~ Purple Gene
Thanks, Purple Gene!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The fog never completely burned off til after 3pm.
Couldn't see downtown Long Beach, let alone Catalina (Island), from the top of Signal Hill.
Did the grocery shopping then picked up some fresh crickets for Jo, the (lucky) lizard & Shelob the tarantula at Reptiles Unlimited.
Nicholas and Mary Eoloff, the adoptive parents of Mordechai Vanunu, who has spoken out against Israel's nuclear weapons program, accept the 2004 Lennon Ono Grant For Peace on their son's behalf from Yoko Ono Thursday, Oct. 7, 2005, in a private ceremony at the United Nations. The Lennon Ono Grant is an award honoring it's recipients for their courage in seeking truth as a means to a more peaceful world. Ono chose to give the award on the anniversary week of of her late husband John Lennon's birthday. Vanunu, who was imprisoned in Israel for 18 years, completed his sentence this year but was not allowed to leave the country.
Photo by Kathy Willens
'Vote for Change' Documentary - Monday - Sundance Channel
'National Anthem'
"National Anthem," a documentary film by Al Maysles and D.A. Pennebaker on the Vote for Change concert tour, will air Monday on the Sundance Channel.
The TV special, "National Anthem: Inside the `Vote for Change' Concert Tour," which will include behind-the-scenes footage from the tour and live performances from the final concert at the MCI Center in Washington, will air from 6:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. ET.
Maysles' films include "Gimme Shelter," a documentary of the Rolling Stones' 1969 tour. Pennebaker directed "Don't Look Back," a 1967 documentary on Bob Dylan; 1968's "Monterey Pop"; and the David Bowie concert film, "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars" (1973). He co-directed "The War Room" with Chris Hegedus, a documentary of Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign.
Pennebaker and Maysles worked together on "Primary," a documentary that followed presidential hopefuls John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey during the 1960 Wisconsin primary.
www.sundancechannel.com
www.actforvictory.org
www.moveonpac.org/vfc
'National Anthem'
Names 100 Worst Riffs, Solos
Guitar World
He may be known for his over-the-top antics but Poison guitarist C.C. DeVille has another claim to fame: his "Guitar Solo" has been named the worst of all time by Guitar World magazine.
The magazine selected the "100 Worst Riffs, Licks & Solos of All Time," identifying ones that are "lazy," "boring," "just plain stoopid," or "involve C.C. Deville."
Rounding out the top 10: "Summertime Blues," Blue Cheer; "The Game of Love," Carlos Santana; Falstaff beer 1967 radio spot, Cream; "All You Need is Love," The Beatles; "Thirsty and Miserable," Black Flag; "Wango Tango," Ted Nugent; "Ain't Too Proud to Beg," Rolling Stones; "Sting of the Bumblebee," Manowar; and "American Woman," Lenny Kravitz.
Guitar World
Election-Eve Pay-TV
'Fahrenheit 9/11'
Filmmaker Michael Moore and the distributors behind "Fahrenheit 9/11" are in talks to bring his anti-Bush documentary to pay-per-view television on the eve of the U.S. presidential election, a source in Moore's camp said on Friday.
The plan under discussion would present the movie as part of a three-hour telecast titled "The Michael Moore Pre-Election Special," carried by pay-TV distributor iN Demand Networks, said a source close to the Fellowship Adventure Group, which holds rights to the film.
The Nov. 1 program would air between 8 and 11 p.m. EST, with the pay-per-view giant charging $9.95 for the telecast, the person said, confirming details of a proposed deal first reported in the entertainment trade paper Daily Variety.
'Fahrenheit 9/11'
Finale to Air - Eventually
'Last Comic Standing 3'
The last episode of "Last Comic Standing 3" will, in fact, stand. An NBC spokesman said Friday the season finale of the comedic reality show's third installment is now being shot and will air. When? Well, that's to be announced.
The punchline comes after host Jay Mohr posted a message on his blog Thursday stating the show had been canceled. Mention of the show, which had regularly aired Tuesdays, mysteriously disappeared from the network's schedule for next week, replaced by episodes of the animated comedy "Father of the Pride."
'Last Comic Standing 3'
Narrows Late-Night Ratings Gap with Leno
Dave Letterman
Rival talk show hosts Jay Leno and David Letterman are fighting again, turning up the heat on the serious business of late-night comedy ratings.
In a trend that began during the summer, Letterman has cut Leno's overall viewer advantage by more than half to less than 1 million viewers a night so far this season, according to figures from Nielsen Media Research.
Moreover, "Late Show" is up 14 percent in the benchmark audience demographic of viewers aged 18-49 -- the group most prized by advertisers -- compared with the first two weeks of last season, while "Tonight" is down 13 percent.
Dave Letterman
Recurring Role On 'West Wing'
Kristin Chenoweth
Tony winner Kristin Chenoweth has landed a major recurring role on NBC's White House drama "The West Wing."
This season Chenoweth will play a media consultant on the four-time Emmy-winning series from John Wells Prods. and Warner Bros. TV. She has an option to return next season if the show comes back.
Kristin Chenoweth
Lament a 'Changed' America
Europeans
In Paris, a hairdresser says with a laugh that if he can't vote on Nov. 2, at least he is splashing Heinz ketchup on his steak-frites as n his steak-frites as his contribution to the momentum against resident Bush.
In Oslo, a young Norwegian expresses his thoughts on a Web site that takes advantage of Norway's two-letter Internet code: www.tellhim.no
Even in Warsaw, where many support Bush, Poles question the president's Iraq policy. "He banged his fist on the table," said Ewa Wojcik, a 44-year-journalist. "Whether it was the right table remains a question."
Opinion surveys concur that Europe heavily favors Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. But, beyond the numbers, conversations reveal a broad belief that the Atlantic Ocean is wider than at any time in modern memory.
For a lot more, Europeans
Set to Release Fiction Book
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez's best-selling book, "100 Years of Solitude," has become required reading for high school students worldwide, but the title of his new work just might scare off a few educators.
The book is "Memoria de Mis Putas Tristes," and the working translation is "Memories of My Melancholy Whores," according to publisher Alfred A. Knopf.
The Spanish-language version will be released Oct. 27, Knopf announced Thursday. A total of 1 million copies will be printed in Spanish for markets throughout Latin America, Spain and the United States by various publishing houses. There was no word on when an English-language version would be out.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Shown from left actors Gael Garcia Bernal, director Pedro Almodovar, Javier Camara and Fele Martinez all of whom worked on Mr. Almodovar's newest film 'Bad Education,' attend the VIVA PEDRO! a special event of the 42nd New York Film Festival honoring Almodavar Thursday, Oct. 7, 2004, at New York's Lincoln Center.
Photo by Gina Gayle
Diagnosed with Cancer
Melissa Etheridge
Rock singer Melissa Etheridge has been diagnosed with breast cancer and has cut short her North American concert tour to undergo surgery, her publicist said on Friday.
Etheridge, 43, said in a statement that the cancer was detected early and that she is "looking forward to a quick and full recovery."
Etheridge's publicist said the recording artist has canceled the remaining 11 dates on her tour, including stops in Quebec, Washington, D.C., New York and California, to deal with her illness. Refunds for tickets to those shows can be obtained where they were purchased.
Melissa Etheridge
Asks CNBC to Pull Plug on Show
Louis Rukeyser
Veteran financial journalist Louis Rukeyser, who has been off television for a year due to cancer, has asked CNBC to pull the plug on his long-running Friday night business news show. CNBC said that "Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street," which has been airing with Consuelo Mack as substitute host, will cease production by the end of the year.
Rukeyser, 71, had announced earlier this year that he had cancer in his lower back and said Friday that complications had developed.
Rukeyser lasted 32 years on the show, which started long before business news became popular. Most of that time it was on PBS, before the network fired him in 2002 in an attempt to update its format.
Angered by the move, Rukeyser shifted to CNBC and - to get back at his former employers - arranged to have his new show also aired on PBS stations. It was being shown on 162 PBS stations, a CNBC spokeswoman said.
Louis Rukeyser
Another Character to Die
'Harry Potter'
"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling said Friday that one of her characters will not survive the next book in her series about the young wizard.
Asked on her official Web site whether she planned to kill off any more characters, Rowling replied, "Yes, sorry." But she refused to identify that character.
Potter himself is safe, at least for now. Rowling has previously said her teenage hero will survive until the seventh and final book in the series, but has refused to say whether he will reach adulthood.
'Harry Potter'
Running Down a Lawsuit
Tom Petty
A California songwriter has filed a $4.5 million breach of oral contract lawsuit against Tom Petty and Los Angeles-based disc jockey Jim Ladd, claiming they swiped his concepts for the basis of Petty's 2002 title track and album, The Last DJ.
The suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by Jim Wagner, alleges the musician sent a demo tape of his song about the deejay titled "The Last Great Radio DJ" to Ladd in 2000. Ladd liked what he heard and asked to use it as the theme to his nightly radio program at L.A.'s KLOS.
However, Wagner accuses Ladd of passing the demo on to Petty, who according to the suit, "promptly took the idea, theme, title and overall 'feel' of the song and wrote and recorded his 'version' of the song, which he entitled 'The Last DJ.'"
Tom Petty
Californians Not Warm to Schwarzenegger for President
Ahnold
Washington legislators may be debating amending the Constitution to allow foreign-born presidents, but Californians are not quite ready to make Arnold Schwarzenegger commander-in-chief, a poll on Friday found.
A Field Poll of 600 Californians registered to vote found that just 26 percent would be inclined to vote for their Austrian-born governor should he one day run for president.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the issue, with the committee chairman Orrin Hatch, a Republican, backing a change to the Constitution.
Ahnold
Yoko Ono talks briefly with investigative journalist Seymour Hersh after presenting him with the 2004 Lennon Ono Grant For Peace, an award honoring two recipients for their courage in seeking truth as a means to a more peaceful world, at a private event at the United Nations Thursday, Oct. 7, 2004. Ono chose to give the award on the anniversary week of her late husband John Lennon's birthday. Hersh is a 1969 Pulitzer Prize winner for international reporting, but most recently published 'Chain of Command:The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib.'
Photo by Kathy Willens
Becomes Cornhusker for TV Show
Tommy Lee
Multi-tattooed rocker Tommy Lee, a high school dropout, plunged into life as a University of Nebraska student Thursday - for reality TV.
Lee mingled with fellow Cornhuskers for an NBC show in which he'll take classes in chemistry, literature and the history of rock 'n' roll.
NBC spokeswoman Susan Ross said the network hopes to get six episodes worth of footage for a series set to air next summer. Lee will have a tutor and live off-campus.
Tommy Lee
Directing Docu on Black Comedy Circuit
Arsenio Hall
Arsenio Hall has inked a deal with Lions Gate Television to direct and executive produce a feature-length documentary that will take a behind-the-scenes look at the black standup comedy circuit.
Tentatively titled "The Other 23 Hours," the film will explore the lives of urban comedians on and off-stage, focusing on relatively unknown up-and-comers.
Arsenio Hall
Collection Goes Up for Auction
Oscar Wilde
An auction of important manuscripts, letters and other items belonging to poet and playwright Oscar Wilde goes up for auction this month, the 150th anniversary of the ever-controversial Irish-born writer's birthday.
The 104-item collection, exhibited Thursday at Sotheby's Manhattan location, includes some of the most desirable items from the witty Wilde's holdings. Most symbolic of Wilde's journey from bon vivant to social pariah is the "Tite Street Catalogue," a listing of his possessions for an April 1895 auction that followed his arrest for indecent acts.
The auction also features a vivid photograph of Wilde inscribed to his longtime friend, Robert Ross; a first edition of his celebrated play, "A Woman of No Importance," signed to "my dear mother," Lady Jane Francesca Wilde; and the handwritten manuscript, with copious cross-outs and corrections, of chapter 16 of his novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray."
Oscar Wilde
Resurrection of a Film Flop
'Heaven's Gate'
Hollywood's most famous film flop, the legendary box office disaster "Heaven's Gate," has been resurrected.
The 1980 movie that buried the career of Academy Award winning director Michael Cimino and imploded an entire film studio is born-again as an art film with an engagement starting on Friday at New York's Film Forum, where a documentary on the movie is also being shown.
The New York Times called it "an unqualified disaster," comparing it to "a forced four-hour walking tour of one's own living room." It was pulled from theaters after one week. Four months later it was released after being cut by almost 90 minutes. It bombed again.
'Heaven's Gate'
A Canadair CT-114 Tutor, flown by the Canadian Forces Snowbirds, flys past the Golden Gate Bridge during a practice flight for the 2004 Fleet Week Air Show in San Francisco on Friday, Oct. 8, 2004.
Photo by Jeff Chiu
Bush Gains - Sort Of
Endorsements Report
Resident George W. Bush has overtaken Senator John Kerry in the race for the most newspaper endorsements in the red-hot presidential contest but continues to trail by a wide margin in the circulation-impact category.
The latest confirmed picks, both for Bush: the Mobile (Ala.) Register and the The Courier in Findlay, Ohio. Bush now leads Kerry 6-5 in known endorsements but trails in total daily circ.
JOHN KERRY
Detroit Free Press (G): 354,581
The Seattle Times (B): 237,303
The Philadelphia Daily News: 139,983
Arizona Daily Star (Tucson) (G): 109,592
The Day (New London, Conn.) (B): 39,553
Total Pro-Kerry Daily Circ: 881,012
GEORGE W. BUSH
Las Vegas Review-Journal (B): 170,061
Mobile (Ala.) Register (B): 100,244
The Pueblo (Colo.) Chieftain: 52,208
Amarillo (Texas) Globe-News (B): 51,105
The Sun (Lowell, Mass.) (B): 50,369
The Courier (Findlay, Ohio) (B): 22,319
Total Pro-Bush Daily Circ: 446,306
Endorsements Report
Do-Over a No Go
Misspelled Library Art
The artist who misspelled the names of famous people in world history on a large ceramic mosaic outside Livermore's new library can spell one word with ease: N-O. That's Maria Alquilar's new position on fixing the typos.
She had planned to fly to California and put the missing "n" back in Einstein and remove the extra "a" in Michelangelo, among other fixes. But after receiving a barrage of what she called "vile hate mail," Alquilar said Livermore is off her travel itinerary and there'll be no changes by her artistic hand.
She previously told officials in Livermore, about 40 miles east of San Francisco, that she would fix the 11 misspellings. She asked for $6,000 plus travel expenses to correct the work they paid her $40,000 to create. The city council, faced with the embarrassing prospect of leaving the typo-strewn work in front of its spanking new library, voted 3-2 to approve the expenditure.
The mistakes wouldn't even register with a true artisan, Alquilar said before deciding to leave the work as is.
Misspelled Library Art
Canada geese take off from a field as they head south for the winter near Oak Hammock, Manitoba, October 8, 2004.
Photo by Shaun Best
