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Re: SneakySurf
The sneakysurf link seems to be broken
Paul
Thanks, Paul.
It worked for me, but just in case - here it is again, and this time if it doesn't work, copy & paste the addy in your browser.
http://www.sneakysurf.com/
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
SCOTT SHEPARD: DEAN BRINGS NEW STYLE TO DNC
Subway-riding, penny-pinching Howard Dean has brought a new style to the Democratic National Committee since taking over from the high-rolling Terry McAuliffe.
Culture Wars Hit Corporate America (Business Week)
Increasingly, Business Must Weigh In On Hot Social Issues -- And Suffer Interest Groups' Slings And Arrows
Middle America's Worst Nightmare: A Family with Two Dads
Joe is American, Laurent French, so the girls grew up effortlessly bilingual . . . except that the housekeeper was Spanish and the girls were not allowed to watch TV when they were younger - only Spanish-language Disney videotapes. So they grew up effortlessly tri-lingual. And one day long ago - here is the part I love - they came home from a play-date all excited, shouting, "Daddy! Papa! Penelope's TV speaks English!" (Taken from May 13 edition of www.andrewtobias.com.)
Two Cheap Bastards (aka Brent Hartinger & Michael Jensen): Gay People who Need "People" (afterelton.com)
The most gay-supportive mainstream print media outlet of the last thirty years is not the one you might think.
Sharon Hadrian: The Sims: Welcome to the (Lesbian) Dollhouse (afterellen.com)
The latest incarnation of the game, The Sims 2, gives same-sex couples even more rights: lesbian Sims can move in together, get married, and even share a single household bank account, a luxury that is rare outside of Sim towns.
Site for Women's Video Gamers
ARCHIVES: The Big Gay Picture (afterelton.com)
Sunday Nights
Erin Hart
A weekend to explore the possibilities of peace for all of us.
As the war rages in Iraq, the Bush Administration seems at a loss. And what
is the Democratic Party DOING???? Base closures, Bolton's advice and
consent plus filibustering.
On Sunday, we will talk to executive director Beverly Boos about "Opening of
the Heart" a workshop about how to listen to each other (what on a TALK
SHOW?).
And then we will interview Palestinian director Yahya Barakat about his new
documentary called "Rachel Corrie: An American Conscience".
And we review the blogs with Marty of Bartcop. Check out Huffington
Post and all those bad boy Bolton postings.
Plus local catch-ups on elections, found and lost votes and closeted gay
Republicans and sex scandals; driver's license legislation and MORE.
Check out The Erin Hart Show, and
streaming live 9pm - 1am, Sunday night at
710kiro.com.
There's a chatroom, too.
Heh - maybe it's tonight...
Reader Recommendation
'Behind The Election: Bush Cheated'
In the time of chimpanzees Bush was a monkey...
Behind The Election: Bush Cheated.
Narrated by
Shallow Throat and starring an assorted cast of liars,
thieves,
media whores and idiots.
The docudrama: http://bushcheated04.com
The song: http://bushcheated04.com/loser.html
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny & not quite as hot.
Winkie the cat has lost her whiskers, again. There's only stubble.
She's a rather large (and not very bright) cat - we can't figure out where she can get close enough to a pilot light to keep singeing them off.
Terror Fears Exaggerated
'The Power of Nightmares'
A British documentary arguing U.S. neo-conservatives have exaggerated the terror threat is set to rock the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, the way "Fahrenheit 9/11" stirred emotions here a year ago.
"The Power of Nightmares" re-injected politics into the festival that seemed eager to steer clear of controversy this year after American Michael Moore won top honors in 2004 for his film deriding resident Bush's response to terror.
At a screening late on Friday ahead of its gala on Saturday, "The Power of Nightmares" by filmmaker and senior BBC producer Adam Curtis kept an audience of journalists and film buyers glued to their seats and taking notes for a full 2-1/2 hours.
The film, a non-competition entry, argues that the fear of terrorism has come to pervade politics in the United States and Britain even though much of that angst is based on carefully nurtured illusions.
It also draws especially controversial symmetries between the history of the U.S. movement that led to the neo-cons and the roots of the ideas that led to radical Islamism -- two conservative movements that have shaped geopolitics since 1945.
"The Power of Nightmares" was a three-part documentary aired in Britain and won a British film and television industry award (Bafta) this year.
'The Power of Nightmares'
Spending Year in Prison
'Crazy Cabbie'
Radio personality "Crazy Cabbie" will spend a year in prison for tax evasion after boasting about it on the nationally syndicated "Howard Stern Show."
The WXRK-FM disc jockey, whose given name is Lee Mroszak, pleaded guilty in December to not paying taxes for three years beginning in 2001. That year he won $100,000 battling fellow Stern regular "Stuttering John" Melendez in a five-round amateur boxing match that drew a sellout crowd of more than 4,000 people to Atlantic City, N.J.
Mroszak's crime was made more serious by his gloating about it to Stern fans, U.S. District Judge Gleeson said Friday as he sentenced Mroszak.
Mroszak, 36, also must pay the taxes he owes. He said outside federal court in Brooklyn that he was ready to serve his sentence.
'Crazy Cabbie'
Painting Queen Elizabeth
Rolf Harris
Britain's Queen Elizabeth will sit for a portrait by popular Australian TV presenter Rolf Harris, best known for his high-speed sketches and playing music on an aboriginal didgeridoo.
The BBC said the sitting would be filmed for Harris's "Rolf On Art" program as part of celebrations to mark the Queen's 80th birthday, which falls next April.
Harris, 75, is a formally-trained artist who has also had success with novelty recordings such as "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" and "Two Little Boys."
Rolf Harris
Gumby's 50th Anniversary
Art Clokey
Five decades after Gumby first captured the nation's imagination, the little green guy and his chums are starring in a new art exhibit - the first in a series of events to mark the 50th anniversary of the television icon's creation and launch his comeback.
"Gumby and Friends: The First 50 Years" attracted fans of all ages at Saturday's opening at the historic Lynn House Gallery in Antioch, about 45 miles northeast of San Francisco. Creator Art Clokey, now 83, signed Gumby figurines at the two-story exhibit, which featured photographs, toys and other memorabilia.
The Antioch exhibit is the first event planned this year to commemorate the 50 years since Clokey made a short art film called "Gumbasia," featuring clay animation set to jazz music, that inspired the beloved television series that debuted a year later in 1956.
For more, Art Clokey
Judge OKs Deposition of First Wife
Robert Blake
Actor Robert Blake's first wife can testify in a deposition as part of wrongful-death lawsuit that seeks damages from the former "Baretta" star in the slaying of his second wife, a judge ruled Friday.
Actress Sondra Kerr, who married Blake in 1961 and divorced him in 1983, is expected to be deposed May 20 in the civil suit filed by the children of Bonny Lee Bakley. Blake, who was acquitted of murder in March, was deposed this week.
Blake attorneys, who argued the marriage was too long ago to be relevant to the case, had requested that Kerr be granted immunity from being deposed and that her statements be sealed if she had to testify.
Superior Court Judge David M. Schacter wrote in his ruling that the deposition could proceed because Blake volunteered information during his depositions about "certain conduct involving a pistol and (Kerr's) throat."
Blake and Kerr had two children: Noah and Delinah, who is raising Rosie, the daughter Blake had with Bakley.
Robert Blake
Artwork Uncovered
Jackson Pollock
A trove of 32 previously unknown works by abstract art icon Jackson Pollock has been discovered by a family friend, who said on Friday he would like them to tour internationally and be studied by art historians.
Alex Matter, a filmmaker who knew Pollock from childhood, said the collection was among the possessions of his late parents, who were long associated with Pollock and his wife Lee Krasner.
The works included 22 of the artist's drip paintings and two enamels on paper, he said. The rest, all on board, are unfinished and experimental works that might show how Pollock explored the order of laying down colors.
Pollock created the works from 1946 and 1949 when he was largely unknown. It was about 1946 when the artist decided to abandon the uses of paint brushes, focusing instead on his emerging technique of dripping and pouring paint.
Jackson Pollock
Beer Prices Going Up
Oktoberfest
In Germany, where a good beer is not just quaffed but cherished, the price of doing so at Munich's annual Oktoberfest is on the rise - again.
Organizers of the annual event said Friday that the average price for a liter of beer inside the famed tents will break through the euro7 (US$8.84) barrier for the first time this year, rising to euro7.06 (US$8.92).
After surveying two dozen groups selling beer at the event in Munich this year, organizers found that they planned to charge between euro6.80 (US$8.59) and euro7.25 (US$9.16).
This year's Oktoberfest, the 172nd, runs from Sept. 17 to Oct. 3.
Oktoberfest
In Memory
Eddie Barclay
Eddie Barclay, a flamboyant French music producer whose stable of singers included Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour and who worked for years with Quincy Jones, has died. He was 84.
Barclay died overnight Thursday at the Ambroise Pare hospital in Paris, the Barclay organization said Friday. He had been in the hospital since April 29 and suffered from urinary and pulmonary infections in recent weeks.
Born in 1921 in Paris, Barclay started his production house in the 1950s and marketed artists from the U.S. company Mercury. After selling 1 1/2 million copies of The Platters' "Only You," Barclay's label rose to become France's top music production company at the time.
He was famous for wearing white and holding exclusive parties in Saint-Tropez where guests also wore white.
Barclay started his career as a jazz pianist before setting himself up as a music producer and changing his name from Edouard Ruault.
In a statement, Jones said Barclay hired him at the age of 24 to be musical director of Barclay Records, "introducing me to a life that I never dreamed of."
Eddie Barclay
In Memory
Jimmy Martin
Jimmy Martin, a pioneering bluegrass singer and guitarist who performed with the Blue Grass Boys and many other musicians, died Saturday. He was 77.
Martin died in a Nashville hospice, more than a year after he was diagnosed with bladder cancer, said his son, Lee Martin.
After performing as lead vocalist for the Blue Grass Boys periodically through 1955, Martin formed his own band, the Sunny Mountain Boys, and recorded with Decca records for 18 years.
Martin recorded several bluegrass standards, including "Rock Hearts," "Sophronie," "Hold Watcha Got," "Widow Maker" and "The Sunny Side of the Mountain."
Martin was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Association's Hall of Honor in 1995. His life was also the subject of an independent documentary film, "King of Bluegrass: The Life and Times of Jimmy Martin," which was released in 2003.
In the late 1950s and 1960s, Martin performed on both the "Louisiana Hayride" and "WWVA Wheeling Jamboree," which were well-known country music shows. He also made guest appearances on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, but never became a regular cast member, which was his childhood dream.
Martin collaborated with many other artists throughout his career, including the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. His voice was the first heard on the Dirt Band's "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" album in 1972, and his appearances on subsequent albums brought his feisty spirit to audiences that might never have attended a bluegrass festival.
In Memory
Tristan Egolf
Tristan Egolf, a political activist and author whose first novel at age 27 won him comparisons to William Faulkner and John Steinbeck, has died. He was 33.
Egolf died May 7 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a Lancaster apartment, said G. Gary Kirchner, Lancaster County coroner.
Egolf received literary acclaim after the 1998 publication of his first novel, "Lord of the Barnyard: Killing the Fatted Calf and Arming the Aware in the Corn Belt," a manic tale about a Kentucky farm boy. It was rejected by more than 70 U.S. publishers before being picked up by a French publisher while Egolf was working as a street musician in Paris' arts district.
Egolf's second book, a frenetic love story called "Skirt and the Fiddle," was published in 2002, and a third novel, "Kornwolf," about a werewolf in Amish country, is slated for release next year.
Egolf was known in Pennsylvania as the leader of the Smoketown Six, a group of men arrested during a visit by resident Bush in July when they stripped down to thong underwear and formed a human pyramid to protest the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal.
Disorderly conduct charges against the men were eventually dropped. Egolf and several of the others filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in December, alleging their First Amendment rights were violated. The lawsuit will continue, said Mary Catherine Roper of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania.
Tristan Egolf
