Andrew Tobias: "More Light: Restore a Blind Person's Sight for $33 " (Scroll Down)
Another Clinton Global Initiative participant, Britain's Standard Charter Bank, showed a video of Africans blinded by cataracts undergoing a 6-minute $33 operation that restores their sight. Imagine the impact on that blind person - and his or her family.
BENEDICT CAREY: How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect (nytimes.com)
In addition to assorted bad breaks and pleasant surprises, opportunities and insults, life serves up the occasional pink unicorn. The three-dollar bill; the nun with a beard; the sentence, to borrow from the Lewis Carroll poem, that gyres and gimbles in the wabe.
ZACH HINKLE: "Running with the Beasts: An Interview with Castanets" (popmatters.com)
After being held-up at gunpoint, recording alone in the desert, and being covered by Sufjan Stevens, Castanets' Ray Raposa is finally ready to step out on his own with a concept album about wild beasts that features some of his most tender and dramatic performances to date.
The White House said Monday that President Barack Obama is not considering a strategy for Afghanistan that would withdraw U.S. troops from the eroding war there.
zEN mAN (observing the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Peace to Barack Obama....I wonder what negative things his detractors will have to say? Who cares...he's not giving it back anyway...congratulations Mr President for bringing this honor to America!)
mj was first, and correct, with:
What a friendly question
And what a silly show (rivaled only by Seinfeld for unlikable/uninteresting/self-absorbed characters). Friends.
Adam in NoHo wrote:
It took about 10 seconds to register, but this is the theme song to 'Friends'.
Sally said:
What a beautiful fall week of weather we are experiencing here in northern New Jersey! All of my flowers are still in bloom, and the sole pumpkin is still growing! I even found a few green peppers on the vine, plus the dregs of my tomatoes are still ripening on their vines. This is my favorite time of the year!
Well now, getting more to the point, "I'll Be There for You," performed by The Rembrandts, is the theme song to the Former TV series, "Friends." While most young people in the 1990s loved the show, I could never really get into it. I do like Jerry Seinfeld when he does standup comedy, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus is okay - but the show was lost on me.
And, Joe S said:
Friends was, and still is, on of my favorite TV shows. Unfortunately, Carla hates it so I never saw more than a handful of shows until it went into syndication. I watched it late at night when Carla was in bed.
Only required two naps today.
DYLAN AND I (AND CECE) WENT TO THE 1ST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN OAKLAND TO SEE SHERMAN ALEXIE (SPOKANE INDIAN...WRITER OF "SMOKE SIGNALS"...."INDIAN KILLER")
It was Poly's homecoming at Veteran's Stadium, where they met up with the Lakewood Lancers, complete with an unannounced fireworks show at halftime.
Unfortunately, our Jackrabbits lost, 21 - 14.
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap, and maybe an old 'CSI: The 3rd One', and/or am old 'CSI: The 2nd One'.
NBC fills the night with the LIVE'PGA Tournament', then pads the left coast with local crap, and a RERUN'Trauma', and/or a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
'SNL' is FRESH with Drew Barrymore hosting, music by Regina Spektor.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap, and maybe an old 'Grey's Anatomy'.
The CW offers a movie, yet to be determined.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
MY has an old 'Bones', followed by another old 'Bones'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'Criminal Minds', another 'Criminal Minds', then another 'CSI: The 2nd One'.
AMC offers the movie 'Joe Kidd', followed by the movie 'Rio Bravo'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 5
[1:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 4
[1:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 5
[2:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 4
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 Sebastian's
[4:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 The Priory
[5:00 PM] Top Gear: Best Of 06-07 - Episode 5
[6:00 PM] Top Gear: Best of - Episode 9
[7:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 7 Greeks Bearing Gifts
[8:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 4 The Sins of the Father
[9:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 5 Let the Games Commence
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Episode 1
[11:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 4 The Sins of the Father
[12:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 5 Let the Games Commence
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Episode 1
[2:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 4 The Sins of the Father
[3:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 5 Let the Games Commence
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Episode 1
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 3
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 4
[6:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 7 Born Free (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by the movie 'Legends Of The Fall'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'RENO 911: Miami', followed by the movie 'Beerfest', then the movie 'Napoleon Dynamite'.
FX has the movie 'Cheaper By The Dozen 2', followed by the movie 'Ice Age: The Meltdown'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', followed by the FRESH'What Went Down: Pearl Harbor', followed by another FRESH'What Went Down: The Alamo', and 'The Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History'.
IFC -
[8:00 AM] Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto
[9:35 AM] Passion in the Desert
[11:15 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase
[12:15 PM] Trans
[1:35 PM] High and Low
[4:00 PM] Passion in the Desert
[5:35 PM] Trans
[7:00 PM] The Jon Dore Television Show
[7:30 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[8:00 PM] RoboCop
[9:45 PM] Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
[11:30 PM] Holy Smoke
[1:30 AM] RoboCop
[3:15 AM] Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
[5:00 AM] Running With the Bulls
[5:45 AM] Trans (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'NYC: Tornado Terror', followed by the movie 'Mega Fault'.
Sundance -
[04:30 AM] Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten
[06:40 AM] Robyn Hitchcock: I Often Dream of Trains
[08:15 AM] Congorama
[11:00 AM] Man Shops Globe - 101
[11:30 AM] Brick City: Episode 2
[12:30 PM] The Great Yokai War
[02:45 PM] Punishment Park
[05:15 PM] Congorama
[07:00 PM] The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico
[08:30 PM] Man Shops Globe - 101
[09:00 PM] Iconoclasts - Season 1: Robert Redford on Paul Newman
[10:00 PM] The Dead
[11:30 PM] Street of Crocodiles
[12:00 AM] Diary Of A Chambermaid (1964)
[01:45 AM] Madame Sata
[03:30 AM] Iconoclasts - Season 1: Robert Redford on Paul Newman
[04:15 AM] The Dead
[05:45 AM] The Great Yokai War (ALL TIMES EDT)
Quincy Jones, left, and Ginny Mancini, wife of the late composer Henry Mancini, arrive for the Inaugural Gala of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
Emmy and Tony-winning actor David Hyde Pierce is returning to his upstate New York hometown to play a rebuilt organ in the church he attended while growing up.
Pierce and his three siblings donated the funds to rebuild the 1920 Skinner organ at the Bethesda Episcopal Church in Saratoga Springs, 25 miles north of Albany.
Pierce will perform during a service dedicating the instrument on Sunday. He was an assistant to the church organist as a teen.
The rebuilt organ will be named the George and Laura Pierce Gallery Organ in memory of Pierce's parents.
Singer Richie Havens performs during the Liberty Medal ceremony in Philadelphia, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. Steven Spielberg was the 2009 Liberty Medal recipient .
Photo by Matt Rourke
Alabama installed the first statue honoring a disabled person in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, unveiling a bronze of a 7-year-old Helen Keller at her moment of epiphany when she solved "the mystery of language" without sight or hearing.
The statue - also the only one of a child in the Capitol collection - depicts Keller at her home in Tuscumbia, Ala., as her teacher Anne Sullivan spelled out the word "water" in her hand while pumping water over her other hand.
Each state has two statues in the Capitol as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection, which was permanent until 2000, when Congress allowed for changes.
The Keller statue replaces one of Jabez Curry, a former Confederate officer, educator, ambassador and preacher who was once well known for advocating for free public education.
Actress Elizabeth Taylor said on Thursday that her heart surgery went off "perfectly," saying that "it's like having a brand new ticker."
Taylor, 77, made the announcement on her Twitter page, which has replaced her publicist as her primary form of communication. She revealed on Tuesday that she would be entering an undisclosed hospital for the procedure.
The surgery involved implanting a clip to prevent blood leaking back into her heart through the mitral valve.
"Dear Friends, My heart procedure went off perfectly," she wrote. "It's like having a brand new ticker. Thank you for your prayers and good wishes. I know they all helped. Love you, Elizabeth."
Director William Friedkin and his wife Sherry Lansing arrive for the Inaugural Gala of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
The Miss America Organization says noted sex tourist Rush Limbaugh will be a judge for the 2010 pageant in Las Vegas.
It will be held at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on Jan. 30, broadcast live on TLC.
The Miss America Organization said Friday when making the announcement that Limbaugh's radio program is in its 22nd year and is on nearly 600 radio stations with an audience of 20 million.
President and CEO Art McMaster says the Miss America Organization is thrilled to have Limbaugh as a judge.
In this photo released Friday, Oct. 9, 2009, by Playboy Magazine, the cover of the November 2009 issue featuring Marge Simpson is shown. It's a first for the magazine, which has never featured a cartoon character before. It will hit the newsstands October 16.
France's culture minister agreed Friday to return five painted wall fragments to Egypt after a row over their ownership prompted the Egyptians to cut ties with the Louvre Museum.
A committee of 35 specialists unanimously recommended that France give back the painted wall fragments from a 3,200-year-old tomb near the ancient temple city of Luxor.
Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand "immediately decided to follow this recommendation," his office said in a statement. It was not clear when France would send the fragments back to Egypt.
Hawass took his campaign to recover the nation's lost treasures to a new level Wednesday by cutting ties with the Louvre over the artifacts. It was the most aggressive effort yet by Hawass, Egypt's tough and media-savvy chief archaeologist, to reclaim what he says are antiquities stolen from the country and purchased by leading world museums.
A tiny King Kong figurine that helped launch the career of one of cinema's biggest monsters is going up for sale, Christie's auction house said Friday.
The London auctioneer said the 22-inch (56-centimeter) skeleton was the one used in the climactic scene of the 1933 movie in which the humongous ape climbs New York's Empire State Building, clutching a blonde starlet and swatting away fighter planes.
Although several such models were used in the film, Christie's spokeswoman Jo Swetenham said this one was thought to be the largest. She added that the monster's fleshy covering has since rotted away.
Christie's said it hopes to get up to 150,000 pounds (about $240,000) from the figure's sale. Fans can bid for the artifact at the auctioneer's popular culture sale on Nov. 24.
Jonathan Aubrey, 25, a visitor from Britain, stands in between "Mirrors of Invisibility" as part of a series of mirrors demonstrating various types of reflection at the Hong Kong Science Museum October 6, 2009.
Photo by Bobby Yip
ABC on Thursday handed full-season pickups to three of its four new fall comedies: the single-camera half-hours "Modern Family," "Cougar Town" and "The Middle."
"Modern Family," one of the best received new series, and the Courteney Cox-starring "Cougar Town" have been early ratings standouts.
"The Middle," which stars Patricia Heaton, has been less impressive at 8:30 p.m., but has built on its "Hank" lead-in in both airings so far.
As for "Hank," the fourth piece of ABC's comedy block, there is no word on its future. Starring veteran Kelsey Grammer, "Hank" is the only multi-camera comedy among the foursome and has fared much worse than the others in critical response and in ratings. ABC is yet to make a decision on the fifth new Wednesday series, low-performing comedy-drama "Eastwick."
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of Sept. 28-Oct. 4. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses:
1. NFL Football: Carolina vs. Dallas (Monday, 8:30 p.m.), ESPN, 11.35 million homes, 15.7 million viewers.
2. "Suite Life on Deck" (Friday, 8 p.m.), Disney, 4.51 million homes, 6.8 million viewers.
3. "The Ultimate Fighter" (Wednesday, 10 p.m.), Spike, 3.71 million homes, 5.3 million viewers.
4. "Sportscenter" (Monday, 11:37 p.m.), ESPN, 3.36 million homes, 4.11 million viewers.
5. "Suite Life on Deck" (Friday, 7:30 p.m.), Disney, 3.33 million homes, 4.81 million viewers.
6. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.24 million homes, 4.12 million viewers.
7. "ICarly" (Saturday, 8 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.22 million homes, 4.38 million viewers.
8. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.12 million homes, 4.58 million viewers.
9. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Sunday, 9:30 a.m.), 3.05 million homes, 4.04 million viewers.
10. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.04 million homes, 4.41 million viewers.
11. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 9 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.98 million homes, 3.79 million viewers.
12. "Penguins of Madagascar" (Saturday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.9 million homes, 3.72 million viewers.
13. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Sunday, 9 a.m.), 2.88 million homes, 3.73 million viewers.
14. "Hannah Montana" (Friday, 9 p.m.), Disney, 2.87 million homes, 4.13 million viewers.
15. "Sons of Anarchy" (Tuesday, 10 p.m.), FX, 2.75 million homes, 3.76 million viewers.
Sean Tucker flies his Oracle Challenger bi-plane inverted over US Marine Corps Major Nathan Miller, flying F/A-18 Blue Angel #5 Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009, over San Francisco Bay.
Photo by Ben Margot
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