'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Response
Re: Army Times Poll
I rescued the Army Times poll results where Feckless
Leader only got 32% support from the memory hole.
They can be found at http://www.republicansareidiots.com (scroll down a
couple of screens).
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Re: Mark Morford
My stars and garters!
This is cool, so I wanted to share the column AND the site with you all.
ducks
San Francisco Chronicle - The Great Cosmic Booty Call / It's a rare and delicious Harmonic Concordance, and the universe wants you bad, right now by Mark Morford
Thanks, Ducks!
Reader Comment
Re: Definition
A new lexicon!
May I urge the use of Iraq as 'The Jewel in the Crown'.
Winston Smith
Thanks, Winston!
Reader Comment
Springsteen & KABC
Los Angeles station 790AM KABC is using the Springsteen track "Prove It All Night" in the background for their "All Night Live" promos… promoting the all night talk programs on KABC.
The station is home to national and local Neo-Conservative info-tainment hosts (Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Al Rantel, Larry Elder, Doug Mcintyre.)
I am sending this info to you because in a quick google search I found no public e-mail for Springsteen or his management. If this is something of interest to them please pass it along… I certainly find it unpleasant.
All the best,
Michael
Thanks, Michael!
Don't you just love those Disney-family values?
from Mark
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Bob Rivers
Check out TwistedRadio and Bob Rivers - "Oxycontin Eater"
Check this tune out. Your readers and you might enjoy it.
John
Thanks, John!
Selected Saturday Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Still cool & clear.
The kid is coming down with something - expecting a bit of technicolor before the night is over.
Tonight, Saturday, CBS opens the night with '48 Hours', followed by a FRESH 'Hack', then a
FRESH 'The District'.
NBC has nothing but RERUNs. A RERUN 'Las Vegas', a RERUN
'SBL' is FRESH, with Andy Roddick hosting, music by Dave Matthews.
ABC starts the night with the movie '102 Dalmations', followed by a RERUN '8 Simple Rules' (the episode that ran this past Tuesday with James Garner).
The WB offers the movie 'She's The One'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
'MAD TV' is FRESH & celebrating it's 200th episode.
UPN has the movie 'Black Rain'.
A&E has 'City Confidential', 'American Justice', 'Cold Case Files', and 'Saving Private Lynch'.
AMC offers the movie 'In Harm's Way', followed by the movie 'The Longest Day', then the movie 'To Hell & Back'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 7;
[6:40pm] 'My Hero' - Episode 5;
[7:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 1;
[8pm] 'Red Cap' - Crush;
[9pm] 'Cambridge Spies' - Episode 2;
[10pm] 'Cambridge Spies' - Episode 3;
[11pm] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 1;
[11:30pm] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 1;
[12am] 'Red Cap' - Crush;
[1am] 'Cambridge Spies' - Episode 2;
[2am] 'Cambridge Spies' - Episode 3;
[3am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 1;
[3:30am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 1;
[4am] 'The Vice' - Walking on Water; and
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Queer Eye', followed by the movie 'The Graduate', then the movie 'The Graduate', again.
History has 'Extreme History With Roger Daltrey', 'Mail Call', 'Battlefield Detectives', 'Histories Mysteries', and 'Heaven And Hell'.
SciFi has the movie 'Boa', followed by the movie 'Python', then the movie 'Pythons 2'.
TCM -
[6am] 'Escape' (1940);
[ 8am] 'Mystery Street' (1950);
[10am] 'Bad Lands' (1939);
[11:15am] 'Where Eagles Dare' (1969);
[2pm] 'The Gallant Hours' (1959);
[4pm] 'The Devil At 4 O'Clock' (1961);
[6:15pm] 'Another Thin Man' (1939);
[8pm] 'Tootsie' (1982);
[10pm] 'Fletch' (1985);
[12am] 'A League of Their Own' (1992);
[2:15am] 'Driving Miss Daisy' (1989); and
[4am] 'They Drive by Night' (1940). (ALL TIMES EST)
Sunday - 11/9
TCM spends the late night celebrating
Lon Chaney.
[6am] 'The Last Days Of Pompeii' (1935);
[8am] 'The Hunchback Of Notre Dame' (1939);
[10am] 'South Pacific' (1958);
[1pm] 'Betrayed' (1954);
[3pm] 'Hatari!' (1962);
[6pm] 'The Magnificent Seven' (1960);
[8:30pm] 'It Happened Here' (1966);
[10:30pm] 'Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces' (2000);
[12am] 'Unholy Three' (1925) SILENT ;
[1:30am] 'The Unholy Three' (1930) SILENT ;
[2:45am] 'Laugh, Clown, Laugh' (1928) SILENT ; and
[4:15am] 'The Phantom of the Opera' (1925) SILENT . (ALL TIMES EST)
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Socialite Paris Hilton of the United States kisses a dolphin during a visit to Sea World theme park in Surfers Paradise in Australia's Queensland, November 7, 2003.
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Moose & Squirrel
Pink Floyd Guitarist Honoured By Queen
Dave Gilmour
Pink Floyd guitarist Dave Gilmour received an honour from the Queen on Friday before joking that the monarch was probably not his greatest fan.
Gilmour received the honour for his services to music after a 30-year career with the rock group, which recorded classic albums including Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall.
"She said Pink Floyd had been doing it for a very long time, and I had to agree," he said.
Others honoured at Friday's ceremony included pianist Jools Holland, 45, who was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire, or OBE, for his services to music. The former Squeeze keyboardist rose to fame after playing gigs in pubs in London's East End.
Dave Gilmour
Anti-Bush Obituary
Gertrude M. Jones
Gertrude M. Jones didn't want flowers or cards when she died. She wanted to get rid of President Bush.
The 81-year-old woman's obituary asked that memorial donations be given "to any organization that seeks the removal of President Bush from office."
And people around the country are following her wishes.
In an online memorial book to Jones, dozens of people posted messages of support. Many wrote that they would contribute to the Democratic National Committee or one of the presidential contenders.
Jones, of Mandeville, La., died Aug. 25 and her brief obituary appeared in The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune on Oct. 2.
Gertrude M. Jones
A six-year-old Sikkimese girl in traditional attire prepares to perform at a festival celebrating the centenary of the town of Mangan, 67 km (45 miles) north of Gangtok, November 7, 2003. During the three-day festival, traditional dance and music programs will be performed by groups from across northeastern India. Mangan is renowned for producing organic black cardamom spice, reputed to be the finest in the world.
Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri
Tending Bar For Arizona Museum
Ted Danson
Ted Danson, who played Sam Malone in the hit comedy 'Cheers' for 12 years, will be behind the bar and mingling with donors at the Museum of Northern Arizona on Saturday.
Danson's father, Edward B. "Ned" Danson, became the director of the museum in 1959 when Ted was 12, and the family lived in the homestead across the street from the museum.
"It is really a little jewel. It really needs to be supported. It's all private and it really does need the community, which includes all of Arizona, to support it. That's my hope," said the 55-year-old actor, who stars in the CBS sitcom "Becker."
Ted Danson
Case Closed
'L.A. Dragnet'
NBC has made changes to its Tuesday and Thursday schedules to make room for the new midseason comedy "The Tracy Morgan Show," while ABC and the WB network have bid farewell to "L.A. Dragnet" and "Tarzan," respectively.
Meanwhile, NBC has cut back the order for its sophomore series "American Dreams" from 22 to 18 episodes.
Adding to the recent flurry of prime-time cancellations this fall, Dick Wolf's sophomore crime series "L.A. Dragnet," a modern remake of the landmark cop show that starred and was created by Jack Webb, has been pulled by ABC after showing little traction with viewers on Saturdays this season.
This week, the network will replace "Dragnet" with a rebroadcast of the Tuesday one-hour episode of "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter," the show's first original episode without the late star John Ritter.
Production on "L.A. Dragnet" will be shut down after the filming of Episode 10, currently underway, is completed.
Meanwhile, production officially has been shut down on Warner Bros. TV's "Tarzan," with eight episodes in the can.
'L.A. Dragnet'
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Plans Move Ahead
National Music Center and Museum
After 11 years of planning, backers of a National Music Center and Museum pledged Thursday to open the facility in the nation's capital five years from now.
Music producer Quincy Jones has agreed to serve on the museum's board of directors and help raise funds. The musician and composer said the facility would preserve the memories of singers like Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, and band leaders like Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Duke Ellington and Count Basie.
Supporters want a 155,000-square-foot museum included in the 10-acre redevelopment of the old D.C. Convention Center site six blocks east of the White House. The museum would contain three theaters, with 3,200, 750, and 250 seats for different types of performances. It would have 50,000 square feet of exhibit space for memorabilia and artifacts, many contributed by the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress.
National Music Center and Museum
National Music Center
The expected view of Japanese criminals, "yakuza", with their traditional tattoo designs.
Photo by Kazuhiro Nogi
Naval Academy Group To Start
Gay Alumni
Twenty-nine graduates of the Naval Academy are working to establish an official gay and lesbian chapter of their alumni association in what would be a first for any U.S. service academy.
Jeff Petrie, a 1989 graduate of the Naval Academy, is organizing the effort and said he plans to file an application with the academy's alumni association next week.
The chapter's members-to-be, none of whom still serve in the military, want to support gay midshipmen still bound by the Department of Defense's "don't ask, don't tell" mandate, Petrie said.
Petrie, who now lives in San Francisco and calls his would-be chapter USNA Out.
For the rest, Gay Alumni
www.usna.com
www.academygala.org
Iraq 'Mess' May Strengthen UN
Ted Turner
US billionaire Ted Turner said he hoped the world would learn from the errors of the Iraq war and that the United Nations would be strengthened by it.
"The unilateralism and our action on that war hasn't been that successful for the United States, and Britain," he told reporters.
"It's easy to start a war, it's very hard to end it."
"There were no weapons of mass destruction, the security is very poor there," he said.
"And we are in a mess. And out of that we might learn a lesson and give this preemptive war and unilateralism another thought."
For the rest, Ted Turner
DOJ Questions Gambling Ads
Clear Channel
Clear Channel Communications Inc., said in a filing that the U.S. Justice Department asked for information related to gambling advertisements run on some of its stations.
The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri issued a subpoena on Sept. 9 for Clear Channel to testify before a grand jury in relation to ads from "offshore and/or online (Internet) gambling businesses, including sports bookmaking and casino-style gambling."
Clear Channel said it is cooperating with the Justice Department in the inquiry.
Clear Channel
Released From Jail
Slick Rick
Rapper Ricky "Slick Rick" Walters was released from jail Friday, more than 17 months after U.S. immigration officials moved to deport the British-born star.
Reached by telephone in his lawyer's car, Walters told The Associated Press he was relieved to be freed and intended to head home to his wife and children in New York.
Walters' release was cleared a week ago by federal Judge Kimba Wood, who ruled the Board of Immigration Appeals should never have reversed its earlier decision that Walters could stay in the United States despite a criminal conviction.
Slick Rick
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Penthouse Founder Resigns As CEO
Robert Guccione
Penthouse founder Robert Guccione resigned as chairman and chief executive officer of the racy magazine's parent company after a steep drop in circulation put the publication on the auction block.
Guccione, a 72-year-old Brooklyn, New York native, started Penthouse in 1965 and ranks as one of the world's famous publishers of adult magazines along with Playboy's Hugh Hefner and Hustler's Larry Flynt.
Penthouse International on Friday said Guccione remains editor-in-chief and publisher of the magazine, and chairman and CEO of General Media Inc., the unit that publishes it.
The job of running the company now goes to 90-year-old Milton Polland, who was appointed chairman and acting CEO. Claude Bertin was named executive vice president, secretary and director, replacing Charles Samel, who also resigned, the company said.
Robert Guccione
A staff member of Christie's displays a sapphire pendant by Cartier, at Christie's in Geneva, November 7, 2003. The cushion-shaped sapphire, weighing 478,68 carats held by diamond floral motifs at three points and a diamond frame to the reverse and suspension hoop, once belonged to Queen Marie of Romania and is expected to fetch 860,000 to 1,300,500 US dollars when auctioned in Geneva on November 19.
Photo by Dominique Favre
Banned In Egypt
'Bruce Almighty'
Egyptian authorities have banned the American film "Bruce Almighty," starring Jim Carrey and Morgan Freeman, from being shown here because it infringes on God's sacredness, the state film censor said Friday.
Madkour Thabit, who heads the state-run censorship body responsible for audio and visual productions, criticized the movie for featuring "actors playing the role of God."
"The name of the movie — 'Bruce Almighty' — indicates that there is someone who can do anything and everything," Thabit said in a statement faxed to The Associated Press. "Such traits belong only to God."
In June, Egyptian censors banned the international box office hit "The Matrix Reloaded" on religious grounds, saying it explicitly handled the issue of existence and creation.
'Bruce Almighty'
A visitor stands next to the sculpture 'Him' resembling former German dictator Adolf Hitler by artist Maurizio Cattelan at the 'Haus der Kunst' art museum in Munich, southern Germany, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2003. The art piece is part of the exhibition 'Partners' showing selected items of the collection of Canadian art collector and founder of the Toronto Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Ydessa Hendeles from Nov. 7, 2003 to Feb. 15, 2004.
Photo by Diether Endlicher
Small Award In Lawsuit
Zeta-Jones & Douglas
The High Court on Friday ordered Hello magazine to pay Hollywood stars Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones 14,600 pounds ($33,000 Cdn) in damages, far less than they had sought for the publication of unauthorized photographs of their wedding.
The court also ordered the magazine to pay 1.03 million pounds ($2.3 million) to the owner of rival celebrity publication OK, which had an exclusive deal for pictures of their extravagant November 2000 wedding at New York's Plaza Hotel.
Douglas and Zeta-Jones had sought damages of 500,000 pounds ($1.1 million) from Hello for publishing unflattering paparazzi photos. Their award was about enough to pay for a first-class round-trip flight for two from Los Angeles to London.
Zeta-Jones & Douglas
Returns To TV
Victoria Jackson
She has a loving husband, two wonderful kids and a nice home in the suburbs. Shouldn't that be enough to satisfy any God-fearing former Saturday Night Live star?
Not Victoria Jackson, who has suddenly returned to TV comedy after 11 years away. "It's a strange addiction, being a performer. It's kind of like alcoholism or drugs, you need that fix," Jackson says. So the actor, whose squeaky little-girl voice and blond good looks once endeared her to SNL's Generation X viewers, is speaking from Vancouver, where she recently wrapped 20 episodes of the Nickelodeon comedy Romeo.
When the call came to audition, Jackson explained, she was in Los Angeles giving testimony before a group of Christians in show business.
For the rest, Victoria Jackson
Rocketts dancers Danielle Jolie, left, and Michelle Imor, pose with camels that will star in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular outside Radio City Music Hall in New York, Friday, Nov. 7, 2003.
Photo by Gregory Bull
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