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Erin Hart Show
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Erin Hart 9pm - 1am on Saturday; 10p - 1am on Sunday on 710 KIRO.
Fox's war on Christmas is as phony as fake snow, tinsel and faux trees. So
let's celebrate the TRUE meaning of our holidays, whatever they may be.
DeLay is DENIED; War news still awful; the opinion about Bush is up
slightly, but only a quarter of the country thinks he has an exit strategy.
Do you have one? Is Rummy on the run? (No, I don't think it will be Joe).
Saturday, Martha G. (or is it Marty?) of Bartcop.com
and I will dissect the week that also brought
us less security and more frights in the sky.
And WHY does our Northwest flu season come around SIX times (okay, okay, I
have had it twice so FAR and IT FEELS LIKE SIX). Remedies, strategies to
avoid, theories, welcome.
And on Sunday night, former U.S. Army Muslim Chaplain James Yee joins us to
discuss his new book "For God and Country-Faith and Patriotism Under Fire".
Talk about his ordeal with the U.S. Government and how it pertains to the
not-so patriotic Patriot Act and the Bush Administration's continued desire
to use torture and circumvent the Constitution.
All that and more, so please join in. Pedro is frolicking in the cold and
seems fully recovered--now to finish his training--whew!
Audio streams live - 710KIRO.com.
New Award
baby jesus butt plug
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Suzanne C. Ryan: At 87, Mike Wallace still tells it like it is (boston.com)
Q. President George W. Bush has declined to be interviewed by you. What would you ask him if you had the chance?
A. What in the world prepared you to be the commander in chief of the largest superpower in the world? In your background, Mr. President, you apparently were incurious. You didn't want to travel. You knew very little about the military. . . . The governor of Texas doesn't have the kind of power that some governors have. . . . Why do you think they nominated you? . . . Do you think that has anything to do with the fact that the country is so [expletive] up?
Maria Luisa Tucker: Let's See Some I.D. (AlterNet.org)
What happens if you refuse to surrender identification when authorities demand it? You may go to jail. Or, you may not.
JOYCE MILLMAN: When the boss became The Boss, Rediscovering the formative power of Born To Run (bostonphoenix.com)
Born To Run is the frozen moment in time for many Bruce Springsteen fans. It's the soundtrack to that first post-high-school plunge into freedom, independence, and higher-stakes love and sex.
Mark Morford: Jesus Bans "Christian" Group , Shocking announcement sends militant Focus on the Family organization into crazed tailspin (sfgate.com)
"Turns out, when all votes were counted, the group that most needed banning, besides the Catholic church and Dobson's clan, was us. Apparently, we have no real clue as to what Christ truly stood for. Who knew?"
RICHARD ROEPER: Ten years later, a movie that was worth waiting for (suntimes.com)
In 1995, New Line Cinema spent $150,000 for "The Powers That Be," an original script about wealthy, white teenagers in Los Angeles who talk, dress and act like gang-bangers and think they're pretty tough -- until they encounter the real thing.
Jim Emerson: Stepin Fetchit, then and now (December 8, 2005; rogerebert.suntimes.com)
Stepin Fetchit remains one of the most fascinating, infuriating, polarizing, pathetic and perplexing figures in movie history. I've never known quite how to read him. Is he the hoary embodiment of the racist stereotype of the lazy, shuffling Negro? Is he a once-familiar humorous archetype from African-American tradition that people today -- black or white -- just don't know how to interpret or understand anymore?
Dilbert Games
Hubert's Poetry Corner
Pain Of Enormous Magnitude
Mutual Suffering?
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny, clear & cool.
Should be on Erin's Show on 710 KIRO between 9pm & 10pm tonight. Call in!
Bartcop Entertainment - Grammy Awards - 2006
'Flat Wrong' on Kyoto
Bill Clinton
Former President Clinton told a global audience of diplomats, environmentalists and others Friday that the Bush administration is "flat wrong" in claiming that reducing greenhouse-gas emissions to fight global warming would damage the U.S. economy.
With a "serious disciplined effort" to develop energy-saving technology, he said, "we could meet and surpass the Kyoto targets in a way that would strengthen and not weaken our economies."
Canadian officials said the U.S. delegation was displeased with the last-minute scheduling of the Clinton speech. But U.S. delegation chief Paula Dobriansky issued a statement saying events like Clinton's appearance "are useful opportunities to hear a wide range of views on global climate change."
Bill Clinton
Celebrates 85th Birthday
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck chose not to celebrate his 85th birthday quietly at his home in the Connecticut woods. Instead, his wife, children and grandchildren joined him for a sold-out concert at London's Barbican Centre, where some 2,000 fans serenaded him with a rousing chorus of "Happy Birthday," accompanied by members of his jazz quartet and the London Symphony Orchestra.
The jazz legend, who was feted at the close of the Tuesday concert with a piano-shaped cake, could easily rest on the laurels of a storied career that has made him one of America's most honored musicians. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a National Medal for the Arts awarded by President Clinton, and even an honorary doctorate in sacred theology from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, for his religious choral music.
In 1945, Nuremberg had a notorious reputation as the site of the annual Nazi party rallies at which Adolf Hitler spread his message of hatred. But just after the war, Brubeck sent an opposite message when his Wolf Pack band reopened the Nuremberg Opera House on July 1, 1945, playing popular standards as well as some of his first jazz tunes, including "We Crossed the Rhine," based on the rhythm of trucks hitting metal pontoon bridges as they entered Germany.
Brubeck's swing band included an African-American trombonist, making it one of the first integrated units in the then-segregated U.S. military. And they played jazz, a music banned by Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels as "subhuman" art because of its African-American origins.
Dave Brubeck
Comedy Central Renews
David Spade
Comedy Central has renewed its Hollywood parody "The Showbiz Show with David Spade" for a second season. Thirteen half-hour episodes have been ordered and will begin airing March 23. The first season, which will wrap December 15, averaged 1 million viewers.
David Spade
Book Blames Government
Media Crisis
As with lots of pressing issues people grapple with, complaints about the media invite a partisan clash: liberal vs. conservative; Democrat vs. Republican. Or some other "us" against a readily targeted "them."
But maybe there's a more useful, even unifying mind-set: to see the media delivery system for news, entertainment and other programming as being skewed in a cross-the-board, nondoctrinaire way. The media industry is catered to by government policies that ill serve all media consumers, "us" and "them" alike, a new book charges.
"The media crisis is not due to incompetent or corrupt journalists or owners, but rather to a highly concentrated profit-driven media system that makes it rational to gut journalism and irrational to provide the content a free society so desperately requires."
So says "Tragedy & Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections and Destroy Democracy," written by media activists John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney.
Media Crisis
Says He's Feeling Better
Don Ho
Legendary Hawaiian crooner Don Ho on Thursday said he's feeling much better and may return home to the islands within a few days.
Ho, known for his signature tune "Tiny Bubbles," remained at a Thailand hospital recovering from an experimental stem cell procedure on his ailing heart. He was moved out of intensive care Wednesday.
A Thursday photo released by his Honolulu publicist Donna Jung shows a shirtless, baseball cap-wearing Ho smiling and waving a Hawaiian "shaka" hang-loose sign from his hospital bed in Bangkok. It also shows a big red heart-shaped pillow, several tubes attached to his body and Ho wearing his trademark raspberry-tinted sunglasses.
Ho may return to Hawaii within a few days, much earlier than planned.
Don Ho
Wedding News
Bozan - Damon
Matt Damon married girlfriend Luciana Bozan in a private ceremony Friday in New York City, his publicist said.
Damon, 35, and his bride exchanged wedding vows during a small ceremony at an undisclosed location, spokeswoman Jennifer Allen said. Bozan's 7-year-old daughter witnessed the ceremony. In a previous marriage Bozan went by the name Luciana Barroso.
There were no other details. Asked if Damon's friend and "Good Will Hunting" co-star Ben Affleck witnessed the wedding, Allen said no.
Bozan - Damon
Admits Having Girl in Bed
Gary Glitter
Former British rocker Gary Glitter admitted to police that an 11-year-old girl slept in his bed, but denied sexually abusing her, his attorney said Thursday.
During interrogations by police, Glitter said he allowed the girl to sleep in his bed after she claimed she was afraid of ghosts, attorney Le Thanh Kinh told The Associated Press.
During questioning by police, Glitter "answered that when this girl (and her aunt) came to his house, he put them in the guest room. But in the middle of night, they said they were very afraid of ghosts and they cannot sleep. So they came to his room and slept there," Kinh said, who added he was present during the sessions.
On another occasion, Glitter told them they could not sleep with him, but "the girls explained to him that in Vietnamese families, the father, the mother and the children sleep in one bed," Kinh told the AP.
Gary Glitter
Arson Ruled Out in Fire
Wallace & Gromit
Investigators said Friday they have ruled out arson as the cause of a fire that destroyed the archive of Wallace & Gromit creator Aardman Animations.
The Oct. 10 blaze, which began in a ground-floor office of the animator's Victorian warehouse in Bristol, resulted from an electrical fault in an appliance, they said.
Hundreds of sets, props and models from the company's animated clay films were destroyed in the fire, including sets from "A Grand Day Out," "The Wrong Trousers" and "A Close Shave," the short films that introduced eccentric inventor Wallace and his unflappable dog Gromit.
Wallace & Gromit
Trading Races?
'Black.White'
A black family learns what it's like to be white while a white family becomes black in the six-part documentary series "Black. White," scheduled for broadcast on the FX cable network in March.
Makeup temporarily transforms the two families for the series developed by filmmaker R.J. Cutler and actor-rapper Ice Cube.
For the run of the show, the Sparks family of Atlanta and the Wurgel family of Santa Monica share a home in the San Fernando Valley.
'Black.White'
As Christmas Shrine
Paris Hilton
See Paris Hilton in all her seductive splendor, striking a provocative pose for passing motorists and spreading hot Christmas cheer in a chilly Rhode Island winter.
Blown-up images of Hilton and strings of pink Christmas lights adorn the front lawn of a home in a middle-class neighborhood, part of a head-turning holiday display that pays homage to the famed hotel heiress.
The over-the-top pictorial is the work of Joe Moretti, a 38-year-old designer who was arrested last year for trespassing on Martha Stewart's property in Maine.
Paris Hilton
Letters Stolen From Swedish Archives
Greta Garbo
Two letters and two postcards written by legendary Hollywood diva Greta Garbo in the 1920s and 1930s have been stolen from the Swedish National Archives.
The letters and postcards were written to Garbo's friend and fellow actress in Stockholm, Vera Schmiterloew, the head of the personal collections at the Military Archives, Anders Degerstroem, told AFP.
The objects were kept in the National Archives' military department as part of the Schmiterloew family collection, which has a long military history in Sweden.
Greta Garbo
Cult Author Finds Recognition
James Purdy
James Purdy, a frail, sad-eyed man seated before the fireplace in his one-room apartment, is an author, poet and playwright who occupies his own pantheon in American letters.
Praised by Dorothy Parker, Tennessee Williams and many others, he has been called a genius, a visionary, a satirist worthy of Voltaire. He has also been attacked for his "adolescent and distraught mind" and accused of writing "fifth-rate avant-garde soap opera." He has never won a Pulitzer Prize or National Book Award and is not a member of this country's official literary shrine, the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
At age 82, many of his books are out of print.
The author of "In a Shallow Grave," "Eustace Chisholm and the Works" and other underground classics, Purdy writes, and does not blink, about sex, violence, race, class, familial cruelty and romantic hope and betrayal. His work has been labeled "gothic" for its extremes of emotion and physicality, but in his own mind there is no sensationalism, just the impulse to write what he knows.
James Purdy
Back In Vogue
Kate Moss
British supermodel Kate Moss underlined her durability in the fickle world of fashion on Friday with a commercial for phone operator Virgin just three months after a cocaine scandal threatened her career.
The 31-year-old was dropped by several fashion houses after pictures allegedly showing her using cocaine appeared in a tabloid in September, but since leaving a drug rehabilitation clinic the following month she has launched a comeback.
Moss has also just appeared on the cover of French Vogue, one of fashion's most prestigious publications, with the title "Scandalous Beauty."
Kate Moss
Lays Off Most Staffers
Spelling TV
Most of the staff of Spelling Television, home of the WB Network dramas "7th Heaven" and "Charmed," have been let go, sources said.
The layoffs affect about 25 people. Chairman and CEO Aaron Spelling, vice chairman E. Duke Vincent and president Jonathan Levin will continue with the company, which will become a pod within its Paramount Network TV parent.
Spelling TV
'Survivor' Host For 2 More Years
Jeff Probst
"Survivor" host Jeff Probst has signed a new two-year deal with CBS that will see him continuing as host of the hit reality-competition series through its 16th edition.
Probst's new deal essentially will have him hosting four additional installments as his previous deal ran through Season 12. The show is now in its 11th edition with "Survivor: Guatemala -- The Maya Empire."
Jeff Probst
Drifting Quickly
Magnetic Pole
Earth's north magnetic pole is drifting away from North America and toward Siberia at such a clip that Alaska might lose its spectacular Northern Lights in the next 50 years, scientists said Thursday.
Despite accelerated movement over the past century, the possibility that Earth's modestly fading magnetic field will collapse is remote. But the shift could mean Alaska may no longer see the sky lights known as auroras, which might then be more visible in more southerly areas of Siberia and Europe.
The magnetic poles are part of the magnetic field generated by liquid iron in Earth's core and are different from the geographic poles, the surface points marking the axis of the planet's rotation.
Magnetic Pole
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