• Who drummer Keith Moon did not think that the music of Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham would be successful; in fact, he told them that their music would be as successful as a lead balloon. Page, Plant, Jones, and Bonham decided to name their band after Mr. Moon's comment. A zeppelin was the biggest balloon they could think of, and after removing the A from "lead" to facilitate accurate pronunciation, they called themselves Led Zeppelin. It was their music that led music reporter Lester Bangs to coin the term "heavy metal" music.
• Mikey Rocks and Chuck Inglish make up the Chicago rap duo known as the Cool Kids. Actually, "Mikey Rocks" is a pseudonym. His real name is Antoine Reed, but he chose his stage name because of his youthful hero-worship of NBA star Michael Jordan. When Mr. Reed had to choose a stage name, he regarded it as an opportunity: "As a little kid, I would try to change my name to Mike, like write it on papers and I would tell my mom to call me that but she wouldn't do it, so I just saw this as my opportunity to have the best name that I could possibly have."
• Late in his life, blues musician Howlin' Wolf is said to have not liked his name; however, it was preferable to other names he had acquired earlier. Born Chester Arthur Burnett, Howlin' Wolf wore size-16 shoes. That led to him being called first "Foots" and later "Big Foot Chester." Another blues musician named John T. Smith, who in 1930 had recorded a song called "The Howling Wolf" and had thereafter taken that name, was no longer famous when Big Foot was looking for a new name, so Mr. Burnett borrowed the name and kept it for himself.
• Scottish singer Amy Macdonald regarded Pete Doherty as an early idol, and she wrote the song "Poison Prince" about his drug problems. Mr. Doherty has heard about the song, although he may have misheard its title. On television, an interviewer asked him, "So you've met Amy; she's a big fan. And you've heard the song?" Mr. Doherty asked, "What song?" The interviewer replied, "The song she wrote about you, 'Poison Prince.'" Mr. Doherty was not amused, saying, "Why would I want to listen to a song about me that is called 'Poison Prick?'"
• Stanley Kirk Burrell is better known as rapper M.C. Hammer. "M.C." is a slang way of saying "Rapper," and "Hammer" is a nickname he was given when he became the Oakland Athletics batboy after Charley Finley, the owner of the Athletics, saw young Stanley singing and dancing in the Athletics parking lot. Stanley resembled home-run hitter Hammerin' Hank Aaron, and so he was called Little Hammer.
• One story about how "break" dancing got its name concerns Afrika Mambaataa, an African-American man in the Bronx in New York City who led a gang called the Zulu Kings that was more interested in dancing than in fighting. Another gang challenged the Zulu Kings to a fight, but Mr. Mambaataa suggested that they take a break from beating people up and instead compete in dancing.
• At one time, people with foreign or Jewish names would sometimes change their names because they thought that it would help them fit in better or more comfortably in the United States. Composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein was advised to do this early in his career, but he replied, "I'll do it as Bernstein, or not at all."
• The Yugoslav conductor Berislav Klobucar once substituted for Herbert von Karajan at the Metropolitan Opera. Members of the orchestra showed their affection for Mr. Klobucar by calling him "Clubcar" and by calling his wife "Loungecar."
Canvas is an extremely durable plain-woven fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, shelters, and other items for which sturdiness is required, as well as in such fashion objects as handbags, electronic device cases, and shoes. It is also popularly used by artists as a painting surface, typically stretched across a wooden frame.
Modern canvas is usually made of cotton or linen, along with polyvinyl chloride (PVC), although historically it was made from hemp. It differs from other heavy cotton fabrics, such as denim, in being plain weave rather than twill weave. Canvas comes in two basic types: plain and duck. The threads in duck canvas are more tightly woven. The term duck comes from the Dutch word for cloth, doek. In the United States, canvas is classified in two ways: by weight (ounces per square yard) and by a graded number system. The numbers run in reverse of the weight so a number 10 canvas is lighter than number 4. Canvas has become the most common support medium for oil painting, replacing wooden panels. It was used from the 14th century in Italy, but only rarely. One of the earliest surviving oils on canvas is a French Madonna with angels from around 1410 in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.
The word "canvas" is derived from the 13th century Anglo-French canevaz and the Old French canevas. Both may be derivatives of the Vulgar Latin cannapaceus for "made of hemp", originating from the Greek.
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Billy in Cypress U$A was first, and correct, with:
Canvas was historically made from HEMP as was rope.
Mark. said:
Hemp.
Dave wrote:
Hemp.
Photos: Hemp plant | Mt. Rapemore
Alan J answered:
Hemp.
mj replied:
Originally made from the universally useful
Hemp.
zorch said:
Canvas was made from hemp, cannabis, which is why it is called that.
DJ Useo
Hemp. Hemp linen. I used to sell all types of canvas. Plus, I charged to stretch them onto a wood frame for painting.
It was good money, a sought-after job, & not too hard if you had strong hands. I quit that job to work at a published magazine that quickly folded. Sigh.
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Music: "I Can't Believe You're Pregnant (Again)" from the album PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME PLAY PIANO MAN
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Artist Location: New York
Info: "Julian Velard's musical stylings and comedic timing have made him a fixture in both the comedy and music scenes, and have created cult followings overseas.
"He's toured alongside Jamie Cullum, Paul Carrack, and has shared the stage with comedians Will Ferrell and Paul Scheer.
"His ability to transition between worlds has led to regular appearances on The Howard Stern Show and NPR's Ask Me Another."
"Inspired by the unsuccessful experimental Broadway shows of the 1970s, singer-songwriter-comedian Julian Velard has written a musical about his own life. A born Manhattanite living in Queens with a wife and a child, Velard has quit the music business for the stable world of musical theater. Joined by his co-writer and fellow dad Mark from the Park, Velard presents his disasterpiece in an attempt to face middle age with his dreams still on his shoulders and the realities of life around his neck."
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I watched the shameful hate rally that my tax dollars paid for Friday night. As our Racist In Chief delivered his successor to the American Carnage speech, I was not surprised--only angry. That POS does not represent me or the America I love. Only he could turn a fireworks display into total boredom--how many times did I need to see fire spewing from the top of Washington's head? And if Washington's head wasn't exploding. it was Roosevelt's head bursting with fire. Nice that they thanked medical personnel as lots of them will be using their services two weeks from now.
Linda >^..^<
We are all only temporarily able bodied.
CBS starts the night, as ususal, with '60 Minutes', followed by another '60 Minutes', then a RERUN'NCIS: The Expendable One', followed by another RERUN'NCIS: The 3rd One'.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Hollywood Game Night', followed by a RERUN'America's Got Talent'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'Celebrity Family Feud', followed by a RERUN'Press Your Luck', then a RERUN'Match Game'.
The CW offers a RERUN'DC's Stargirl', followed by a RERUN'Penn & Teller: Fool Us'.
Faux has a RERUN'Last Man Standing', followed by a RERUN'Duncanville', then a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Bless The Harts', then a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', followed by a RERUN'Family Guy'.
MY recycles an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Dark Knight Rises', followed by a FRESH'NOS4A2'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - The Great Flood
[7:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - The Great Feast
[8:00AM] SHERLOCK - A Study in Pink
[10:00AM] SHERLOCK - The Blind Banker
[12:00PM] SHERLOCK - The Great Game
[2:00PM] FACE/OFF
[5:00PM] YOUNG GUNS
[7:30PM] YOUNG GUNS II
[10:00PM] NOS4A2 - The Night Road
[11:06PM] YOUNG GUNS
[1:34AM] YOUNG GUNS II
[4:02AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Far Beyond the Stars
[5:01AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Honor Among Thieves (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Married To Medicine: LA', another 'Married To Medicine: LA', followed by a FRESH'Married To Medicine: LA', then the movie 'Sex & The City'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Blended', followed by the movie 'Grown Ups 2', then the movie 'Blended'.
FX has the movie 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier', followed by the movie 'Spider-Man: Homecoming'.
History has 'The Food That Built America', followed by the FRESH'America: Our Defining Hours' (part 1).
IFC -
[6:15A] The Three Stooges - Boobs in Arms
[6:45A] Grandma's Boy
[8:45A] Grown Ups
[11:00A] Point Break
[2:00P] Lethal Weapon
[4:30P] Lethal Weapon 2
[7:00P] Lethal Weapon 3
[9:45P] Lethal Weapon 4
[12:30A] Lethal Weapon
[3:00A] Lethal Weapon 2
[5:30A] The Three Stooges - Boobs in Arms (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:45am] law & order
[7:45am] law & order
[8:45am] law & order
[9:45am] law & order
[10:45am] law & order
[11:45am] smokey and the bandit ii
[2:15pm] smokey and the bandit
[4:30pm] the naked gun: from the files of police squad!
[6:30pm] crocodile dundee ii
[9:00pm] scrooged
[11:00pm] scrooged
[1:00am] smokey and the bandit
[3:15am] smokey and the bandit ii
[5:45am] love lust - Love Lust & The Bikini (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park', followed by the movie 'Jurassic Park III'.
Neil Young objected to the use of his music in the prelude to President Donald Trump (R-Sniff. Sniff)'s event at the base of Mount Rushmore, siding with Lakota Sioux who have long claimed the land as their own in violation of an 1868 treaty with the U.S. government.
"This is NOT ok with me…" said a tweet from Neil Young Archives, linked to footage from the Trump event in which "Rockin In The Free World" was playing.
Young then tweeted, "I stand in solidarity with the Lakota Sioux & this is NOT ok with me." It linked to a video showing Young's song "Like a Hurricane" playing before Trump took the stage. Young's "Cowgirl in the Sand" was heard later at the rally, but the musician did not comment on its use.
Ironically, Young, 74, criticized Trump's leadership of the U.S. in a lyrical rewrite of his 2006 track "Lookin' for a Leader" during one of his "front porch performances" released just two days before the Rushmore event. Young also expressed support 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
Annie Reiner, the daughter of the late comedy legend Carl Reiner, tweeted criticism of President Donald Trump (R-ManBaby) on her late father's behalf on Friday.
"I will say one last thing for him," the playwright, poet and author wrote on her dad's account. "I know he would be disappointed not to have lived to see Trump's eviction from the White House, to make America safe again for honor and truth. Please VOTE!"
Carl Reiner, who died at the age of 98 on Monday, frequently took Trump to task on the platform.
Just hours before he died, the "Dick Van Dyke Show" creator lamented the result of the 2016 election, describing the president as "a bankrupted and corrupt businessman."
In 2018, Reiner even said he hoped to live until November 2020 "so I can vote for whoever runs against our fake President Trump."
A CNN journalist was mugged at knifepoint during a live broadcast in Brazil.
Bruna Macedo and her team had set up near the Bandeiras Bridge in Sao Paulo on Saturday to report on rising water levels in the Tete River due to heavy rain.
Footage of the incident shows the suspect lurking in the background, looking over the bridge while Ms Macedo speaks to her colleague, Rafael Colombo, who is in the station's studio.
After a few minutes of the broadcast, a man wearing a hooded jumper and a beanie hat can be seen approaching Macedo.
CNN cameras then pan away from the incident to focus on the street while Macedo hands the alleged mugger a second phone.
Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial, a nine-story-high bas-relief sculpture carved into a sprawling rock face northeast of Atlanta, is perhaps the South's most audacious monument to its pro-slavery legacy still intact.
Despite long-standing demands for the removal of what many consider a shrine to racism, the giant depiction of three Confederate heroes on horseback still towers ominously over the Georgia countryside, protected by state law.
The monument - which reopens on Independence Day weekend after the COVID-19 pandemic forced it to close for weeks - has faced renewed calls for removal since the May 25 killing of George Floyd, a Black man who died during an arrest by a white police officer who pinned his neck to the ground with a knee.
The brutality of Floyd's death, captured on cellphone video, triggered a national outcry against racial injustice, and revived a long-simmering battle between those demanding the removal of racist symbols from the public sphere, and those who believe monuments honor the tradition and history of the South.
The sheer scale of the monument makes its removal a daunting task to contemplate. Longer than a 100-yard American football field, it features the likenesses of Jefferson Davis, the president of the 11-state Confederacy, and two of its legendary military leaders, Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, notched in a relief 400 feet above ground.
As protests originally sparked by the death of George Floyd continue in Portland, Oregon, a US District Court has issued a two-week restraining order barring the Portland Police Bureau from arresting journalists and legal observers or using force against them.
The order comes after the police arrested journalists who were covering a protest on Tuesday. One of them, Lesley McLam, was taken into custody.
The restraining order declares that the police "are enjoined from arresting, threatening to arrest, or using physical force directed against any person whom they know or reasonably should know is a journalist or legal observer … unless the police have probable cause to believe that such individual has committed a crime".
Officers are also barred from seizing journalists' and legal observers' cameras or press passes, or ordering them to stop filming or observing a protest, unless they are being lawfully arrested - and even then, the police will have to return their equipment when they are released.
Along with the restraining order that has now been granted, the city is facing a class-action lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union over its treatment of journalists and observers, while local nonprofit Don't Shoot Portland has asked a judge to find the city in contempt of orders to limit the use of gas and "less lethal" munitions on peaceful protesters.
A deadly rabbit virus nicknamed "bunny ebola" is spreading across the southwest US, killing thousands of wild and pet rabbits.
Outbreaks of the rare and highly contagious virus have been reported in seven states across America's Sun Belt, including Arizona, California and Texas.
The disease, RHDV2, has been referred to as "bunny ebola" by veterinarians because it replicates the severe bleeding and organ failure the ebola virus causes in humans.
It is the fourth time the deadly virus has been found in the US since the first case of RHDV2 was first detected in China around 35 years ago.
However this outbreak represents the first time the virus is known to have spread beyond pet rabbits to wild rabbits, hares and even pikas in North America, prompting concern over how officials can effectively contain it.
To hear local leaders tell it, the proposed listing of western Joshua trees as an endangered species would be an economic catastrophe for the high desert Town of Yucca Valley.
It would place an onerous regulatory burden on property owners, they say, at a time when they are being pinched by declining revenue due to the coronavirus pandemic and a state mandate to install a $375-million sewer system on parcels where the trees grow, as some residents put it, "like weeds."
But state wildlife authorities have recommended that Joshua trees be considered for listing. The recommendation was based on a review of a petition submitted by the Center for Biological Diversity, which argues that the trees are facing the risk of extinction after years of development, drought and more frequent wildfires due to climate change.
And therein lies the pickle for the town of 21,000 residents along California 62 about 25 miles north of Palm Springs.
On Monday, Assemblyman Chad Mayes (I-Yucca Valley) added a new wrinkle to the controversy on behalf of his constituents: He introduced a hastily crafted emergency bill that would amend the California Endangered Species Act to make it easier to take a threatened or endangered species found to be causing significant economic hardship or impacting critical infrastructure such as a sewer system.
For guests at the "Dolce Hanoi Golden Lake" coffee comes in a gold cup and bath time is taken in gilded splendour.
The world's first self-proclaimed gold-plated hotel is open for business -- and the Vietnamese owners insist they have the Midas touch despite the cramping of global travel during the coronavirus pandemic.
The hotel cost $200 million to construct with a 24-carat plating across lobbies, an infinity pool and rooms with even cutlery, cups, shower heads and toilet seats receiving the golden treatment.
While expensive for Vietnam, at $250 a night it is not prohibitive for wealthy locals craving a few nights living like Donald Trump (R-Failure), the US President renowned for his love of all things that glitter.
The relatively modest construction price tag was achieved by sourcing the gold plating locally -- significantly reducing costs.
Fiery rose and peach sunset skies are a unique perk of our home on Earth. But what colors appear when the sun sets on other planets in the solar system?
The answer depends on the planet. On Mars, the sun comes and goes with a blue glow. On Uranus, the sunset sky transitions from blue to turquoise, according to NASA. And on Titan, one of Saturn's moons, the sky turns from yellow to orange to brown as the sun dips beneath the horizon.
Sunset colors aren't uniform because, in large part, these hues are a product of each planet's atmosphere and how the particles in it scatter sunlight, according to Kurt Ehler, a professor of mathematics at Truckee Community College in Reno, Nevada, and lead author of a 2014 paper in the journal Applied Optics that investigated why the Martian sunset appears blue.
On Earth, the atmosphere is made up of tiny gas molecules, largely nitrogen and oxygen, which are more effective at scattering - that is absorbing and re-emitting in a different direction - short wavelength light, like blue and violet, than it is longer red wavelengths. The selective type of scattering caused by small molecules is called Rayleigh scattering. It gives us a blue sky at midday, but at sunset and sunrise, when the sunlight must travel farther, more of the blue light gets scattered away; it's the longer red and yellow wavelengths that reach our line of sight, creating the vibrant shades of red that we see.
Any planet whose atmosphere is dominated by gas will follow a similar pattern of longer wavelength-colors becoming more dominant at sunset, Ehler said. On Uranus, for instance, the gas particles of hydrogen, helium and methane in its atmosphere scatter the blue and green shorter wavelengths while absorbing (but largely not re-emiting) longer red wavelengths, according to NASA. This creates a bright blue sky that turns turquoise at sunset as blue light is scattered away relative to the longer, greenish wavelengths.
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