'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Comment
Re: Bugs
i hate bugs...
hee hee hee
no, not real bugs, but those idiotic logos on tee vee...
that's it, i hate bugs...
the *only* time they are of any conceivable use -during commercials- is the *only* time they don't have those distracting pieces of crap onscreen ! ! !
it was bad enough when they started out, now they got ones with all kinds of animation crossing the screen for promos/etc... intolerable...
down with bugs...
~ art guerrilla
eof
Thanks, Art!
Wayback when I was haunting 'master control', the term was 'meatball' - as in 'put (or throw) in the meatball'. But, being relatively small id's, they were nothing like what is used currently.
In this room, there's a 13" TV (with rabbit ears), so it isn't bad, especially if I take off my glasses.
However, if I had a digital connection & a major-investment TV, the intrusion would be huge & I'd be pissed in proportion.
Fun Link
HercuBush
Ever wonder where President Bush got his insatiable need to kick ass?
Watch:
from Alvin
'BULL SHIT'
MIDI
BULL SHIT {Sung to 'Push It' by Garbage}
{As Sung By pResident Bush}
{instrumental intro}
I am angry, and so is Tony
At France, Russia and Germany
We can try to talk it over
But we're headed for war
Don't worry Poppy {don't worry Poppy}
W's ready to fight
Don't worry Poppy {don't worry Poppy}
W will be all right
This is the noise that keeps me awake
My head explodes and my body aches
Bull shit, to anti-war demonstrations!
Bull shit, to weapons inspections!
Bull shit, to UN resolutions!
Bull shit, to Iraq's cooperation!
You'll be sorry when I invade you
Please don't ask me why
Yeah, I've told you to disarm
But I've wanted regime change
Don't worry Poppy {don't worry Poppy}
W's ready to fight
Don't worry Poppy {don't worry Poppy}
W will be all right
This is the noise that keeps me awake
My head explodes and my body aches
Bull shit, to anti-war demonstrations!
Bull shit, to weapons inspections!
Bull shit, to UN resolutions!
Bull shit, to Iraq's cooperation!
Come on, bull shit, you can do it
Come on, bull shit, nothing to it
Come on, bull shit, let's get through it
Come on, bull shit, let's get this over with
Don't worry Poppy {don't worry Poppy}
W's ready to fight
Don't worry Poppy {don't worry Poppy}
W will be all right
This is the noise that keeps me awake
My head explodes and my body aches
Bull shit, to anti-war demonstrations!
Bull shit, to weapons inspections!
Bull shit, to UN resolutions!
Bull shit, to Iraq's cooperation!
Come on, bull shit, you can do it
Come on, bull shit, nothing to it
Come on, bull shit, let's get through it
Come on, bull shit, let's get this over with
{instrumental break}
Bull shit, to anti-war demonstrations!
Bull shit, to weapons inspections!
Bull shit, to UN resolutions!
Bull shit, to Iraq's cooperation!...
alvindover@hotmail.com (-.-)
Thanks, Alvin!
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Beautiful sunny day.
Sick kitty theater still prevails. Unfortunately, one will get better, and the other won't.
Does anyone know who the woman is that sings the new commercial with the '59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)'? Makes my teeth itch.
What a crappy open on SNL, and total waste of Dan Ackroyd.
Tonight, Sunday, as is tradtion, CBS opens the evening with '60 Minutes', and then follows with a FRESH
'Big Fat Greek Life', then a FRESH 'Becker', and then a FRESH made-for-tv movie,
'Return To The Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam And Burt', which looks like it's gonna be a hoot & a half.
NBC starts with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH 'American Dreams', then a FRESH
'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' (with Joel Grey guesting), and then a FRESH 'Boomtown'.
ABC opens the night with the RERUN movie 'Tarzan', followed by a RERUN 'Alias', and then a
FRESH 'Dragnet'.
The WB has the weekly RERUN 'Gilmore Girls', then a RERUN
'Charmed', followed by another RERUN 'Charmed'.
Faux starts with a RERUN 'Simpsons', then a FRESH 'King Of The Hill', followed by
a FRESH 'Simpsons', then the Series Premiere of 'Oliver Beene',
then a FRESH 'Malcolm', followed by a RERUN 'Malcolm'.
UPN has the ususal RERUN 'Enterprise', followed by 'Stargate SG-1'.
FX has 'The Pentagon Papers', a FRESH made-for-cable drama.
TNT offers the '9th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards'.
TLC celebrates 100 years of flight, Junkyard-style, with the FRESH 'Junkyard Mega-Wars: Flight Of The Century'.
HBO has a FRESH 'Six Feet Under'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
A mother with her baby holds an anti-war sign during a protest held by several women's groups in New York's Union Square, March 8, 2003.
Photo by Jeff Christensen
Slams First '60 Minutes' Debate
Bob Dole
Former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole says he's displeased with the first of at least 10 debates against former President Bill Clinton that will air on "60 Minutes."
The two 1996 presidential opponents taped a debate Thursday morning about the wisdom of a tax cut in wartime. It will air Sunday.
"I think it needs to be a little tougher," Dole said Friday before speaking at a Lincoln Day dinner held by Guilford County Republicans. "It needs to have a little more edge to it for people to be interested."
Clinton picked the first topic and Dole will choose the next.
Bob Dole
Lampoons Leaders
Gridiron Dinner
In white tie and tails, resident Bush and other political leaders convened Saturday for the 118th annual Gridiron dinner, a ritual songfest that features journalists with outlandish costumes and untrained voices lampooning the leaders and topics of the day.
"We had some concerns about writing humor in the face of war, threatened terrorism and economic woes," Walter Mears, retired Associated Press special correspondent and vice president, noted in opening the show.
The show itself was mining serious subjects for humor set to familiar tunes. One skit portrayed Secretary of State Colin Powell crooning that North Korea's president "has a nuclear bomba ... what if he sells it to Osama?"
Another had a jazzy Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Richard Myers singing "Yakety yak, attack Iraq."
For Bush, there was a skit portraying political adviser Karl Rove as a harmonica-playing riverboat gambler: "I got to mind W's grammar and massage W's feelings, I can't be revealing that the real boss is me."
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a heart surgeon from Tennessee, promised the crowd that "rather than waste your time telling jokes, I have prepared for your edification tonight a medical lecture and demonstration." He then
on to use a pointer to demonstrate how the legislative journey compares to the human digestive system — starting at the mouth, or introduction of legislation, and ending at the other end, where everything comes out. "As you
might imagine, the president often doesn't want anything to do with what comes out down here," he said.
Referring to Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Frist said he often wonders how someone from "such a tiny state can cause stomach trouble and pain and keep things from passing. Then I remember the little kidney stone. The man is a human kidney stone."
Nor did Frist spare fellow Republicans. He claimed to have given a checkup recently to former Sen. Bob Dole, who he described as being "so proud of the results of that Viagra he takes. ... I said, `Strip to your waist.' Bob took off his pants."
Gridiron Dinner
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
New Job in New York
Chelsea Clinton
Chelsea Clinton will start a six-figure consulting job after she receives a master's degree from Oxford University later this year, Newsweek magazine reports on its Web site.
The daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will work in the New York office of London-based McKinsey & Company, newsweek.com reported Friday.
Clinton, 23, accepted the position Friday after she reportedly turned down McKinsey's offer of $100,000 a year to work at its London headquarters, according to the Web site.
Chelsea Clinton
Japanese protesters, many holding various anti-war placards, march down a Tokyo street on Saturday March 8, 2003, protesting against war in Iraq. More than 40,000 people took to
the streets, chanting 'World Peace' and 'No War,' according to rally organizers.
Photo by Shizuo Kambayashi
The Lost Interview
Bruce Willis
Gaze into Bruce Willis' squinty eyes and you'll see the hate brewing within. Willis' rage is the product of one Martin Sargent, who refuses to ask Willis the appropriate canned questions
about his new movie Tears of the Sun. Click on the video link to watch Martin narrowly escape a Bruce Willis beating.
Bruce Willis: The Lost Interview
Exits Hospital
Jack Paar
Jack Paar is back at home after a six-day stint in a Connecticut hospital.
The 84-year-old former Tonight Show host was released Thursday from Greenwich Hospital after suffering a stroke over the weekend.
The talk-show icon, who introduced the sofa-and-desk set format to late-night television, hosted NBC's Tonight Show from 1957 to 1962, serving as the bridge between original host Steve Allen and Johnny Carson.
Jack Paar
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Plays, Performs 'Atlantic City'
Bruce Springsteen
The Boss finally played Atlantic City — the city and the song.
Bruce Springsteen, whose bleak ballad of redemption "Atlantic City" was released in 1982, had never headlined here before Friday, when he played to a sell-out crowd of about 12,500 at Boardwalk Hall.
Taking the stage to the strains of "There She Is, Miss America," Springsteen and his eight-member band wasted no time in giving the crowd what it came to hear, playing "Atlantic City."
The show was filled with New Jersey references. Springsteen recounted the first time he visited Atlantic City as a child, when his mother took him to see Chubby Checker perform.
Bruce Springsteen
CodePink Women's Peace Vigil has several thousand marching down 16th Street near Scott Circle Saturday, March 8, 2003 in Washington to protest the Bush administration's war plan on
Iraq. The surprisingly balmy weather had several thousand people chanting and cheering at a rally before their planned march to the Ellipse just south of the White House. The event
was organized by the group calling itself CodePink, the name a protest against the governments color-coded terror alert system.
Photo by Lisa Nipp
Helluva Endorsement
Only One Mac
The U.S. military is shipping a lot of hardware to the Middle East for the impending war on Iraq, but only one Mac.
In the entire theater of operations, involving nearly 300,000 troops and hundreds of tanks and aircraft, one lonely Macintosh shipped out, according to the major who took it there.
Army's Apple Shines in the Desert
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Mel Gibson Askd to Reconsider Film
Rabbi Marvin Hier
A prominent Jewish leader on Friday asked actor Mel Gibson to make certain that his new film on the last 12 hours in the life of Christ does not portray the Jews as collectively responsible for the crucifixion.
Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said he was concerned because an article to be published in the New York Times Magazine portrays Gibson as a traditionalist Catholic opposed to the reforms of Vatican II.
Heir said, "Obviously, no one has seen 'The Passion' and I certainly have no problem with Mel Gibson's right to believe as he sees fit or make any movie he wants to. What concerns me, however is when I read that the film's purpose is to undo the changes made by Vatican II."
He said that Vatican conclave was convened to deal with several critical issues, including the rejection of the notion that the Jews were collectively responsible for the death of Jesus.
"If the new film seeks to undo Vatican II ... it would unleash more of the scurrilous charges of deicide directed against the Jewish people, which took the Catholic Church 20 centuries to finally repudiate," he said.
Discussing his film in a recent TV interview, Gibson was asked whether his account might particularly upset Jews. He said, "It may. It's not meant to. I think it's meant to just tell the truth."
Rabbi Marvin Hier
Students and their supporters hold a sign during a rally at Copley Square in Boston, Wednesday, March 5, 2003, to protest a possible war with Iraq. Thousands of college, high school and
middle school students around the state participate in demonstrations, as part of a student strike, coordinataed by the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition Wednesday.
Photo by Chitose Suzuki
Interesting Read
Ouch
A man was admitted to the emergency department at 1 am in obvious distress. He was agitated, his skin cold and clammy, suggestive of blood loss.
Doctors were shocked to find a markedly swollen penis as the cause which required immediate surgery to remove a large blood clot. The question -- how did it happen?
He was reluctant to explain but finally admitted he had been masturbating vigorously when he heard a sudden snap followed by intense pain and swelling.
The diagnosis? A fractured penis, the 67th case to be reported in world literature.
For the rest - New treatment for fractured organ
'Tears of the Sun' Filmmaker Sued
Antoine Fuqua
A 30-year-old woman sued "Tears of the Sun" director Antoine Fuqua, accusing the filmmaker of threatening her life and bringing false stalking and harassment charges in an effort to hide an affair.
The lawsuit, seeking unspecified damages, was filed Thursday in Superior Court by personal trainer Tanya Evans, just a day before the release of "Tears of the Sun," in which Bruce Willis plays a Navy SEAL.
Evans was arrested last May for allegedly loitering, trespassing and making harassing phone calls after she went to Fuqua's San Fernando Valley home and spoke with his wife, actress Lela Rochon.
The city attorney's office dropped most of the charges, however, saying there was insufficient evidence to prosecute. She was acquitted of a single count of making harassing phone calls.
According to the lawsuit, Evans and Fuqua met at a shopping mall in May 2001 and embarked on a relationship that involved meetings at various hotels. Evans said she ended the relationship last March when Fuqua began working on "Tears of the Sun."
Antoine Fuqua
Last Weekend
'Horns and Halos'
Cinema Village
22 E. 12th St.
NYC
In Memory
George Miller
George Miller, a stand-up comedian who appeared on David Letterman's late-night shows more than any other comic, has died. He was 61.
Miller, who had suffered from leukemia for years, died Wednesday at UCLA Medical Center of complications from a blood clot in his brain.
Miller appeared on NBC's "Late Night with David Letterman" and CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman" 56 times in two decades.
"George was my oldest friend, and one of the funniest people I ever knew," Letterman said in a statement. "We are all very sad that he is gone."
Miller and Letterman met in Los Angeles in the early 1970s when both were emerging comics. Unlike the current crop of stand-up comedians, Miller "was just content to be a stand-up comedian. He truly wanted to write funny things and say funny things," said Tom Dreesen, a fellow comic from that era.
The goal for comics was to get a spot on NBC's "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson," and Miller appeared many times on it.
He also worked the road the way most comics do.
"I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts," one of Miller's jokes went.
He was born George Wade Dornberger in Seattle and was raised alone by his mother, Helen, said his uncle, Paul Rhymes.
Miller came to Los Angeles in the late 1960s and performed in clubs in Santa Monica and Pasadena before getting gigs at the Comedy Store in Hollywood. After a 1979 labor dispute, he moved on to the Improv on Melrose Avenue and the Laugh Factory on Sunset Boulevard, where he continued to perform regularly.
Before his death, he had been living in a Los Angeles apartment and in his childhood home in Seattle.
Miller last appeared on Letterman's show Sept. 4.
George Miller
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