'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Reading Suggestions
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny & breezy.
If you're in the Seattle area tonight, Erin Hart is on
KIRO. The audio used to be streamed, but that's just a fond memory now. Anyway, on the left side
of the page is a 'chat' option, and whether you can listen in (or not), the chatroom is usually a hopping place.
Only 9 days til BartCop Radio!
Tonight, Sunday, CBS is supposed to open as usual with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH 'Big Greek',
then a FRESH 'Becker', and then a movie, 'The Whole 9 Yards'.
NBC is supposed to start the evening with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH 'American Dreams', then a FRESH
'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', followed by a 'special' - 'Katie Couric', where she interviews a rape victim.
ABC is supposed to begin the night with the movie 'Atlantis: The Lost Empire', followed by a RERUN 'Alias', and then a FRESH 'Dragnet'.
The WB is supposed to have the weeky RERUN 'Gilmore Girls', then a FRESH 'Charmed', and then a FRESH 'Black Sash'.
Faux is supposed to start with a FRESH 'Futurama', followed by a RERUN 'King Of The Hill', then a RERUN 'Simpsons', followed by a
FRESH 'Oliver Beene', then a FRESH 'Malcolm', followed by a FRESH 'The Pitts'.
UPN opens with the weekly RERUN 'Enterprise', and follows with the movie, 'Cutaway'.
TCM celebrates Harold Lloyd. Every Sunday night in April will feature films from his (currently) overlooked career. Most of these films are not available on tape or disk.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Big Dog Watch Continues
Bill Clinton
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton addresses an audience of school children, government officials, health workers and members of the public Friday afternoon, April 4, 2003, in Nassau, Bahamas. Clinton's talk was titled 'Meeting the Challenge of HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean.' Earlier in the day he visited the AIDS ward of the Princess Margaret Hospital. At left is Bahamian Prime Minster Perry Christie.
Photo by Craig Lenihan
Haiku Are Finally Published
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac is best known as the author of On the Road, one of the few modern books -- like Catcher in the Rye and Slaughterhouse-Five -- to change contemporary culture. But when he died in 1969, he left behind a huge literary canon including poetry, fiction and assorted writings.
Now Penguin has just issued his collected haiku in a really cool version: It's a stout paperback perfect for carrying around. Beat literature expert Regina Weinreich edited the works and writes in the introduction: "Finding these haiku was a bit like extracting gold from baser metals, so embedded were many of them (nearly 1,000) in blocks of prose, scribble, and even street addresses."
There are too many to show them all here. But the next time you're standing in a long line for something, remember this: "Suddenly the official/goes cross-eyed/and floats away." It will make you feel better. Or this: "I'm so mad/I could bite/the mountaintops."
Jack Kerouac
Thanks, Marian!
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
A womani holds a wreath in the shape of a peace sign near the Washington Monument, April 5, 2003. The peace rally was held by local university students.
Photo by William Philpott
Tapes With Stepdaughter to Be Auctioned
John Lennon
He was one of the biggest rock stars in the world and she was just a little 5-year-old girl as they sat on the floor in 1969, singing and telling stories with a tape recorder running.
Sounds like just a normal family activity, except the man was Beatle John Lennon and the little girl was the stepdaughter he barely knew, Kyoko Cox.
In 1969 fans worried the Beatles would break up. But instead of attending the last Beatles recording session, Lennon was in Denmark with his second wife Yoko Ono.
They were there to visit Ono's ex-husband Tony Cox, an avant-garde artist. Cox had introduced Lennon and Ono at one of Ono's art exhibits. "Cox told me that was the worst mistake of his life," Chris Lopez, who now owns the tapes, said.
And he was right. Ono and Lennon fell in love. She divorced Cox and a bitter custody battle for Kyoko followed.
So it must have been with some trepidation that Lennon and Ono showed up unexpectedly at Cox's farm in Denmark.
During the next several weeks, Lennon got to know his stepdaughter and made six audio tapes of conversations between them. Lennon sings and plays the guitar and even refers to Ono as the "queen."
And Cox, knowing those tapes would be of value, kept them until 1995 when he sold them to Lopez who lives in Denver, saying the price should not be disclosed.
For the rest, John Lennon
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Helps Launch New AFI Flagship
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood was the guest of honor Friday evening at the opening of the American Film Institute Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, a refurbished 1938 Art Moderne movie palace that local officials hope will become the centerpiece of a re-energized business district in the Washington suburbs.
"This theater is a work of art. I'm very pleased to have had the opportunity to come here and see this restoration," said Eastwood.
Among the opening's activities were a screening of "The Ox-Bow Incident" (1943), starring Henry Fonda; a conversation between Eastwood and his biographer, Time magazine film critic Richard Schickel; and the presentation of a new AFI honor, the Silver Legacy Award, to Eastwood.
With its move to the Silver Theatre, AFI has accomplished a rare feat for a cultural institution: increasing its prominence by moving out of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. Long consigned to a single theater in a corner of the center, AFI now has three screens. The theater opens to the public on April 11.
Clint Eastwood
American Film Institute
A model of the famous Bavarian castle Neuschwanstein where King Ludwig II of German State of Bavaria ruled in the 19th century, is unveiled at the Legoland leisure park in Guenzburg, Bavaria, southern Germany Friday April 4, 2003. The castle is made out of 300,000 Lego pieces, weighs 300 kilos (661 pounds) and took 6 months to build as a new attraction of the Legoland park.
Photo by Jan Pitman
Early Performers Gather
Jamboree USA
12 country music performers from the early days of Jamboree USA — including the oldest living member, 83-year-old Doc Williams — will gather Saturday to sing, reminisce and otherwise celebrate the 70th anniversary of one of America's oldest live radio shows.
Jamboree USA, which radio station WWVA launched on April 1, 1933, now draws big names such as Alan Jackson and Brad Paisley. In the early days, though, the performers were more local.
Marketing director Terri Phillips said local performer Slim Lehart helped round up the artists from the '40s, '50s and '60s for "country's golden dozen."
Jamboree USA is broadcast from the Capitol Music Hall, and the frequency, 1170 AM, reaches 18 states and six Canadian provinces.
Jamboree USA
Jamboree USA Web site
Picks Snot Alumnus
Limp Bizkit
After a nationwide talent search failed to yield a replacement for guitarist Wes Borland, Limp Bizkit has chosen former Snot axeman Mike Smith as his successor.
Smith made his Bizkit debut last Sunday, when the group played live as part of Wrestlemania XIX in Seattle.
"We really like jamming with Mike," Bizkit frontman Fred Durst said on the band's official Web site (
www.limpbizkit.com). "He's dope. This you will find out soon enough."
Durst also announced that Limp Bizkit is planning a "guerrilla tour" in May. "You know, one were we just show up and play free concerts for you," he said. The group undertook a similar tour in the summer of 2000 with sponsorship from Napster.
In an ironic twist, Borland's new band, Eat The Day, has endured its own struggles in its attempt to find a lead vocalist. The group has sifted through hundreds of demo submissions, but Borland said on the group's official Web site (
www.eattheday.com) that "the search for a singer is still on." Interested parties can now download sample instrumental tracks from the site, add their own vocals, and send them back to Eat The Day for consideration.
Limp Bizkit
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Rehab Bound
Calvin Klein
Two weeks after acting erratically at a New York Knicks basketball game, fashion designer Calvin Klein has announced he is seeking treatment for a drug problem.
A spokeswoman for Klein, 60, would not specify the type of treatment he will receive. In 1988, Klein entered the Hazelden Institute in Minnesota for alcohol and prescription drug abuse.
Klein credited friends with helping him to recognize the problem and also said he would continue to work with his company, Calvin Klein Inc., which was recently acquired by apparel maker Phillips-Van Heusen.
At the basketball game, Klein left his seat and walked up to Knicks player Latrell Sprewell as he was about to throw an inbound pass. He was escorted back to his seat by guards. Sprewell later said Klein was mumbling and could not be understood.
Calvin Klein
Demonstrators in Johannesburg protest against the US-led war in Iraq
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Drops Founding Member
Incubus
Incubus is parting ways with its bass player, Dirk Lance, with the rockers citing "creative differences" as the reason.
Ben Kenney, former guitarist for the funk hip-hop group The Roots, was chosen to replace him, Incubus announced Friday.
"We, as a band, would love to express our gratitude towards Dirk for an amazing 12 years of artistry and dedication," said singer Brandon Boyd. "He was and will remain a valuable asset to the history of this band."
Lance, one of the group's founding members, declined to comment, said Incubus spokeswoman Melissa Dragich.
"I think there were just creative differences, irreconcilable differences," she said.
Incubus
Six New Moons Discovered
Jupiter
Six more moons have been found orbiting Jupiter, pushing to 58 the total number of known natural satellites of the solar system's largest planet.
University of Hawaii's David Jewitt and Scott Sheppard, along with Jan Kleyna of Cambridge University, announced the discoveries Friday.
The moons are tiny, perhaps just a mile or so across, and orbit Jupiter at a distance of tens of millions of miles. They were found as part of an ongoing search using the world's two largest digital cameras at the Subaru and Canada-France-Hawaii telescopes atop Mauna Kea.
Jupiter has more moons than any other planet. The largest four were discovered by Galileo in 1610. Of those, Ganymede is the largest known moon in the solar system, with a diameter of 3,260 miles.
Jewitt's team has found 18 Jupiter moons this year and expects to find more.
Jupiter
www.ifa.hawaii.edu/sheppard/satellites
J. Salik, a Pakistani Christian leader and human rights activist, hangs from a huge cross shaped like dove in front of the parliament building in Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, April 5, 2003, during a protest against the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Salik plans to remain hanging for a full twenty-four hours.
Photo by B.K. Bangash
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