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The internal categorizing is endless, needs vs. wants vs. irreplaceables, can't stop walking around, opening drawers, looking through boxes, saving total shit that's irreplaceable instead of fabulous stuff I could find again, discovering the Kennedy papers, I was only 12 but had the foresight to save every single Los Angeles newspaper on November 22, 1963, including an early morning edition of the Times with the headline "Kennedy Tours Texas" showing him at the start of the motorcade without a mention of the assassination. I'm sure it's in an archive somewhere, but it wouldn't be the one I've saved for 43 years. Let's see, do I take the box of Kennedy papers or the box of hundreds of art rubber stamps? No room for both. Do I save the Goons and Python and Firesign Theater scripts? The Kubrick? The Hal Ashby? The press kits, years of press kits, b&w glossies of everybody.
Bye bye books and magazines, Gravity's Rainbow and every single issue of the National Lampoon and Heavy Metal. You were nice but now there's the internet. Bye bye videos, you're available on DVD. And records? It's pathetic I still have records, though those 12 Lost Lennon Tapes that were only sent to radio stations might be hard to find again in any format.
Yesterday county firemen showed up and checked out every house, a half dozen trucks ready to fight the flames, telling me if it comes down to it, they'll be back to take me somewhere. A very reassuring and safe feeling for five hours while they patrolled the road before sunset. I went inside.
An hour later the house started shaking, a loud whoop whoop whoop, we ran outside and saw a sudden flare-up in the north, a plume of dark brown smoke just past "the ridge that must not be crossed." I watched a scene out of Apocalypse Now, six helicopters in a row, filling up at a holding facility in the middle of the desert to the south, directly over my house, following the spotter planes, leaving a trail of drips from the red bags hanging from wires below, just past the ridge and sploosh, the bags emptied, then back over my house to fill up again, more than a dozen flybys, the sun setting quickly, they're grounded after sunset, one last incredible effort to prevent the monster from consuming another inch of territory. I watched while slowly moving the boxes and crates from my front door to the inside of the van. I'm actually ready to go.
And the aerial circus worked. There's no limit to my admiration for this combined effort of God knows how many agencies. They not only saved dozens of homes but were damn entertaining.
It's Saturday and it's not over. Still a haze over everything, ashes falling, constant smell of smoke, and one plume just past the hills to the northwest, maybe 5 miles away, can't see the flames, but I'll be nervous till it's taken care of. Stuff still in the van. Still walking around putting my belongings in order, grabbing the birth certificates, the stamp collection, the autograph book, the paper plate that Dan Castellaneta signed for my son at Severn Darden's wake, two autographs, one of Dan, and one perfectly drawn Homer Simpson with Homer's shaky signature, plus the admonishment "HEY BUSTER, DON'T EAT OFF THIS!" and "Franklin Mint" written on the edge.
To the rest of the Coachella valley, it's just a mammoth fog of smoke, but to me in the tinderbox with a view of everything it's a fog fed by dozens of individual plumes, all from 5 - 15 miles away, each capable of moving in any direction depending upon the whims of wind which invariably pick up around sunset when I'll be too nervous to write.
What a unique opportunity to bid farewell to the past. A watershed moment. Who needs the past anyway. Dying is the only other time where you get to say goodbye to everything, but I've got the perk that I get to take some of it with me in case I need to brush my teeth in the high school auditorium I'm sure to take residency in. It's not over but I've been through it, brushed up as close to the inferno as I dare to go to experience absolute freedom. The horrifying truth is I feel a strange sense of disappointment. Part of me was looking forward to starting over. At least it would be different.
And now it's time to walk around some more and stare at the sky and my kid and the van and my stuff and feel the terror and the gratitude, the world came through for me, enjoying it all a second at a time, continuing to contemplate what to do right with what I've got left.
MD
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Contributor Update
Katherine Harris - Again!
Hi,
You just cannot make this stuff up! "I'm running for the Senate so fix up my mansion."
Colby B
Frostproof, FL
Thanks, Colby!
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DUCK IN A KOI POND
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(marveling at how a mallard can frolic with colorful carp)
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Cenk Uygur: The Civil War in Iraq Has Begun (HuffingtonPost.com. Posted on Alternet.org)
Reading a New York Times article on Iraq listing the casualties from one day, there's only one conclusion to draw -- this country is well into the middle of a civil war.
Barney Brantingham: Santa Barbara's Beloved Columnist Tells His Story (independent.com)
I quit the Santa Barbara News-Press last week after more than 46 years because I couldn't bear to watch the destruction of a fine newspaper. And it was too painful to see the destruction of the lives of dedicated staffers whose only crime was publishing the news.
Natasha Walter: On a wink and a prayer (guardian.co.uk)
They don't believe. And vicars often know they don't. Yet more and more middle-class parents are going to church in order to get their children into church schools, where they think they will get a better education. The result is divided communities - so why is the church allowing it to happen?
Hillary Chute: Gothic Revival (villagevoice.com)
Old father, old artificer: Tracing the roots of Alison Bechdel's exhilarating new "tragicomic," Fun Home.
Chris Ryall: ONE HAND CLAPPING (March 2005; moviepoopshoot.co)
In the Balcony: Chris Ryall talks with THE GREAT MOVIES II author and film critic Roger Ebert about writing reviews for the Internet, ecnonomizing your words and which online reviewers he likes to read.
Rachel Kramer Bussel: Fucking and Feminism (villagevoice.com)
Blowjobs, casual sex, and rape fantasies are under attack.
Ward Sutton: The Afghanistan War Needs a New Publicist (cartoon)
Mad Magazine: Download the "Fanatic 4" Poster
Mad Magazine Downloads
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Purple Gene Reviews
Allison Moorer
Purple Gene's review of Allison Moorer's new video "Getting Somewhere" sent to me by that Mad Cat:
For those of you who have never heard of Allison Moorer, she is an agonizingly beautiful country blues singer born and raised in Frankville, Alabama....she, at age 13, and her younger sister (singer Shelby Lynne) hid behind a couch while their father shot their mother with a shotgun and then did himself in......
Well let me say that this is one survivor, along with her sister, who can sing the shit out of a song....
She married Butch Primm and together they wrote and she performed 6 albums worth of music....my favorite song/video being the plaintive "Tumbling Down" recorded and shot on a floating house...truly haunting....
Well that mad cat just sent me her latest song/video...."Getting Somewhere".....before I watched it I did a little research...
Allison has just remarried 6 time loser Steve Earle (I love this "Guitar Town" - "Just an American Boy" - former coke/heroin addict and music hero) and he has produced her new album....their in love !!!
OK so what the fuck happened..............I watched the video "Fairweather"...
"Mad Cat...you know I love you but what the fuck was that video???
I think Allison is an amazing talent but......
The lyrics to the song "Fairweather" are absolutely Generic and Juvenile (not DEEP).
Who the fuck came up with the concept of her on stupid roller skates with flowered toes?
And the "Hee Haw" cartoon daisies popping up in every chorus????
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH MY GAAAAAAAAAAAAWD...what an insipid guitar solo.......
Sorry brother but that was awful !
Hard hearted Purple Gene
Purple Gene gives Allison 2 really lame guitar picks out of 10 for just throwing something very very insignificant at the audience!
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Plenty hot enough for me.
No new flags.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night with '60 Mintues', followed by a FRESH 'Big Brother 7', then a RERUN 'Cold Case', followed by a RERUN 'Without A Trace'.
NBC opens the night with a 2-hour 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', then a RERUN 'Crossing Jordan'.
ABC begins the night with a 2-hour RERUN 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', followed by a RERUN 'Desperate Housewives', then a RERUN 'Grey's Anatomy'.
The WB offers a RERUN 'reba', followed by another RERUN 'reba', then a RERUN 'Charmed', followed by another RERUN 'Charmed'.
Faux has a RERUN 'Malcolm', followed by a RERUN 'King Of The Hill', then a RERUN 'Simpsons', followed by a RERUN 'American Dad', then a RERUN 'Family Guy', followed by a RERUN 'War At Home'.
UPN has an old 'Alias', followed by another (R) 'Alias'.
A&E has has 'Sell This HOuse', another 'Sell This House', 'Flip This House', 'Meth: A County In Crisis', and a FRESH 'Intervention'.
AMC offers offers the movie 'The Undefeated', followed by the movie 'Open Range'.
BBC -
[2:00 pm] 'Extremely Dangerous' - Episode 1;
[4:00 pm] 'Extremely Dangerous' - Episode 2;
[6:00 pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Peterborough 38;
[6:30 pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Shepton 22;
[7:00 pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 9;
[8:00 pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 10;
[9:00 pm] 'Cash in the Attic';
[10:00 pm] 'Footballers Wives' - Episode 7;
[11:00 pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 10;
[12:00 am] 'Cash in the Attic';
[1:00 am] 'Footballers Wives' - Episode 7;
[2:00 am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 10;
[3:00 am] 'Little Britain' - Episode 1;
[3:40 am] 'Little Britain' - Episode 2;
[4:20 am] 'Little Britain' - Episode 3;
[5:00 am] 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' - Episode 2;
[5:30 am] 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' - Episode 3;
[6:00 am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has has 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', another 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', 'Inside The Actors Studio' (Martin Lawrence), and yet another 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
Comedy Central has has the movie 'Joe Dirt', followed by a FRESH 'Chappelle's Show: The Lost Episodes' (part 2 of 3), then repeats the same 'Chappelle's Show: The Lost Episodes', 'Mind Of Mencia', and 'Reno 911!'.
History has has 'True Caribbean Pirates', followed by the FRESH 'Return Of The Pirates', then 'The Revolution'.
IFC -
[07:44 AM] Spellbound;
[09:30 AM] At The IFC Center #15;
[09:30 AM] At The IFC Center #15;
[10:00 AM] Samurai 7 Episode #16: "The Storm";
[10:30 AM] Sunshine State;
[02:45 PM] July: IFC Short Film Showcase;
[03:30 PM] July: IFC Short Film Collection I;
[03:45 PM] IFC In Theaters;
[04:00 PM] Sunshine State;
[08:05 PM] Clay Pigeons;
[10:00 PM] Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema;
[11:30 PM] Boys Don't Cry;
[01:30 AM] At The IFC Center #15;
[01:45 AM] Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema;
[03:15 AM] Boys Don't Cry;
[05:30 AM] Shirts & Skins;
[05:45 AM] IFC In Theaters. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has has the movie 'It Waits', followed by the movie 'Room 6'.
Sundance -
[06:30 AM] Cock Fight;
[06:45 AM] Goal Dreams;
[08:15 AM] In Short: Animation;
[08:45 AM] Revenge Of The Pink Panther;
[10:30 AM] Love, Ludlow;
[12:00 PM] Tapeheads;
[01:35 PM] Cock Fight;
[02:00 PM] TBA;
[02:00 PM] House of Boateng: Episode 4;
[02:30 PM] In Short: Animation;
[03:00 PM] Kath & Kim - Season 1: Party;
[03:30 PM] Goal Dreams;
[05:00 PM] Nowhere in Africa;
[07:30 PM] Love, Ludlow;
[09:00 PM] TBA;
[09:00 PM] House of Boateng: Episode 4;
[09:30 PM] Kath & Kim - Season 1: Party;
[10:00 PM] Super Size Me;
[11:45 PM] Dad's Dead;
[12:00 AM] Memento Mori;
[01:40 AM] Fellini's Casanova;
[04:15 AM] Of Love & Shadows. (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM:
[6:00 AM] 49th Parallel (1941) [View Trailer];
[8:15 AM] The Cincinnati Kid (1965);
[10:00 AM] Two Sisters From Boston (1946);
[12:00 PM] Forever Darling (1956);
[2:00 PM] Annie Hall (1977) [View Trailer];
[4:00 PM] The Goodbye Girl (1977) [View Trailer];
[6:00 PM] Foreign Correspondent (1940) [View Trailer];
[8:15 PM] Saturday's Children (1940);
[10:00 PM] Adventures of Don Juan (1948);
[12:00 AM] Bumping Into Broadway (1919) SILENT ;
[12:30 AM] An Eastern Westerner (1920) SILENT ;
[1:00 AM] For Heaven's Sake (1926) SILENT ;
[2:00 AM] Baby Doll (1956);
[4:00 AM] Elia Kazan: A Directors Journey (1995);
[5:30 AM] Festival of Shorts #10 (1998). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Monday - 07/17
TCM starts the day by paying tribute to
James Cagney, who was born on this day in 1899.
[6:00 AM] Sinner's Holiday (1930);
[7:15 AM] The Millionaire (1931);
[8:45 AM] Other Men's Women (1931);
[10:00 AM] Winner Take All (1932);
[11:15 AM] Hard To Handle (1933);
[12:45 PM] Lady Killer (1933);
[2:00 PM] Here Comes the Navy (1934);
[3:30 PM] Frisco Kid (1935);
[5:00 PM] These Wilder Years (1956);
[6:45 PM] James Cagney: Top of the World (1992);
[8:00 PM] Peyton Place (1957);
[11:00 PM] The Odd Couple (1968);
[1:00 AM] In The Heat Of The Night (1967) [View Trailer];
[3:00 AM] The Courtship Of Eddie's Father (1963);
[5:00 AM] Everybody's Hobby (1939). (ALL TIMES EDT)
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The lead singer of The Pretenders, Chrissie Hynde, performs on the final night of BilbaoLive, a three-day open air music festival near Bilbao, Spain, July 15, 2006.
Photo by Vincent West
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Date Auction
Jessica Biel
A date with Jessica Biel will be up for bid next week to help raise money for a teenager who lost her leg in a prom night limousine accident, Denver newspapers reported this week.
The event dubbed "Mollypalooza" to help Molly Bloom's family with medical expenses is scheduled for Tuesday at the Rock Island Club, organizers told The Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News. The News described the date as a lunch date.
Bloom was run over and dragged about 38 feet by a Hummer stretch limousine, police said. Limousine driver Stanley D. Sample, 38, faces a misdemeanor charge of careless driving resulting in serious bodily injury.
Jessica Biel
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Nino Mastro of Italy, has his photo taken with three attendees from Austrialia outsde the opening ceremony of the Gay Games VII Saturday, July 15, 2006, at Soldier Field in Chicago. The Gay Games open Saturday and run through July 22, with closing ceremonies being held at the Chicago Cubs' Wrigley Field.
Photo by M. Spencer Green
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Shocked By Post-Katrina Devastation
Brad Pitt
After two days of getting his first up-close look at post-Katrina New Orleans, Brad Pitt said Friday he was shocked at the devastation that remains almost a year later.
"I was not prepared," the actor said, describing how he drove for miles and saw street after street of devastation.
Pitt was in New Orleans to give an update on a project he's promoting - a competition to choose ecologically sound designs for rebuilding neighborhoods.
Brad Pitt
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Back After 3-Year Absence
Berlin Love Parade
Berlin's "Love Parade" returned on Saturday with around half a million revelers attending the gigantic techno-music party on the streets of the German capital a mere one week after the end of the soccer World Cup.
Dancers wore elaborate costumes or gyrated in their under-garments to deafening bass rhythms produced by disc jockeys on giant flat-bed trucks riding along a 3-km (2 mile) stretch near the Tiergarten Park and Brandenburg Gate.
Police said as many as two hundred thousand more could yet attend the party later on Saturday.
Berlin Love Parade
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National Aviation Hall of Fame
Cliff Robertson
Actor Cliff Robertson was to be among those being enshrined in the National Aviation Hall of Fame on Saturday. Robertson, who grew up in La Jolla, Calif., would wash airplanes and clean engines as a teenager in hopes that a pilot would give him a ride and a lesson.
In 1969, he organized an effort to fly food and medical supplies into Biafra, which had declared independence from Nigeria. And in 1978, he organized a similar effort for famine-stricken Ethiopia.
Master of ceremonies at the event was to be film producer and director Tony Bill.
Cliff Robertson
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Chantal Bernicky looks through an optivisor and uses a mahlstick, so as not to touch the still fresh isolation layer which protects Henri Rousseau's oil on linen painting 'Boy on the Rocks', as she replaces paint losses during restoration work at the National Gallery of Art in Washington Thursday, June 15, 2006.
Photo by Evan Vucci
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Amsterdam Fetes 400th Birthday
Rembrandt
Art enthusiasts dressed up as the 17th-century nobles, beggars, priests and prostitutes portrayed in the paintings of Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn, honoring the 400th anniversary Saturday of his birth.
Celebrations centered on the cities of Leiden, where Rembrandt was born July 15, 1606, and Amsterdam, where he did his greatest work, suffered personal tragedies, and died in 1669.
In Leiden, a torch-lit procession in period costume gathered by a statue of Rembrandt shortly before midnight Friday. After the clock struck 12, revelers toasted his memory, many with a drink of traditional Dutch jenever, or gin.
Rembrandt
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Guest Stars
'Entourage'
Oscar winners James Cameron and Paul Haggis had definite ideas about how they wanted to play themselves on "Entourage."
In the HBO series about behind-the-scenes Hollywood, Cameron directed a fictional big-budget titled "Aquaman," starring upcoming actor Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier).
"Mr. Cameron didn't want `Aquaman' to bomb, which, fortunately, we figured out a way to make sure that didn't happen," executive producer Doug Ellin said at the Television Critics Association's summer meeting this week.
"Paul Haggis was just great. He was open to everything, and he was very, very, very cool," Ellin said.
'Entourage'
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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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Loses License For DUI
Peter Coors
Beer baron Peter Coors' driver's license has been revoked by a hearing officer who ruled the executive had been driving under the influence of alcohol, officials said.
Hatland said that Coors rolled through a stop sign a block from his home in Golden and that an officer stopped him in his driveway.
In one breath test, he registered a blood alcohol level of 0.073 percent. In a second, 20 minutes later, he registered 0.088. In Colorado a blood alcohol count of 0.05 results in a driving while impaired charge, while a count of 0.08 results in driving under the influence.
Peter Coors
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With Mount Adams in the background, Peter Haley, a photographer with The News-Tribune in Tacoma, Wash., holds his camera as he stands on the crater rim of Mount St. Helens Thursday, July 13, 2006. The volcano is scheduled to re-open for climbers on a permit-only basis July 21, 2006, after being closed since volcanic activity resumed on the mountain in September, 2004. On Thursday, members of the media were given a preview climb of the main route up the volcano.
Photo by Ted S. Warren
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Not A Chimpy Fan
Alexis Fecteau
An Air Force officer pleaded guilty Friday to defacing cars with bumper stickers supporting resident Bush, and was given a two-year deferred sentence.
Lt. Col. Alexis Fecteau, a decorated officer who flew 500 combat hours in the Gulf War, Kosovo and Bosnia, pleaded guilty to felony mischief and must pay restitution to the owners of the damaged cars to clear his record.
Attorney Patrick Mulligan said his client, a 20-year veteran, has submitted his retirement papers. Negotiations are under way to determine at what rank and with what benefits he will be retired.
After the charges became public, Fecteau was removed as director of operations for reserve forces at the National Security Space Institute at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs.
Alexis Fecteau
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Behind Park Attacks
'Juggalos'
Five young people who prosecutors believe are fans of Insane Clown Posse face felony charges in a series of violent attacks in a suburban park, and authorities have warrants for several more people, a prosecutor said.
The attacks at Fort Steilacoom Park over two nights began with the assailants calling to each other - "Woo! Woo! Juggalo!" - said Pierce County Deputy Prosecutor Phil Sorenson.
Fans of the rap/hip hop group, which began in Detroit in 1990, call themselves "Juggalos." While some Juggalos wear black-and-white clown makeup, it appears none of those involved in the attacks did so, Sorenson said. He said their a lot of their clothing "actually has clowns on it, some kind of clown insignia."
The attackers, carrying hatchets and machetes, beat and robbed people in the park on the nights of June 19 and June 20 and threatened some with decapitation, according to court records. Some victims went to the hospital with injuries, including a broken jaw and broken nose.
'Juggalos'
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Lightning flashes during a storm Friday night, July 14, 2006, in Roswell, N.M. A string of storms delivered some much needed rain to the Roswell region and other parts of southeastern New Mexico on Friday.
Photo by Andrew Poertner
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Foreign Companies Buying
U.S. Infrastructure
Roads and bridges built by U.S. taxpayers are starting to be sold off, and so far foreign-owned companies are doing the buying.
On a single day in June, an Australian-Spanish partnership paid $3.8 billion to lease the Indiana Toll Road. An Australian company bought a 99-year lease on Virginia's Pocahontas Parkway, and Texas officials decided to let a Spanish-American partnership build and run a toll road from Austin to Seguin for 50 years.
Few people know that the tolls from the U.S. side of the tunnel between Detroit and Windsor, Canada, go to a subsidiary of an Australian company - which also owns a bridge in Alabama.
U.S. Infrastructure
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Hatch Was Unlocked
Hunley
Scientists say they may have found an important clue in the mystery of why the Confederate submarine Hunley sank 140 years ago after making history by sinking an enemy warship in battle.
Archaeologists and others working to restore the submarine recovered six years ago from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Sullivans Island have found evidence the forward hatch may have been opened intentionally on the night the sub sank.
The forward hatch was one of two ways crew members got in and out of the sub. It is covered in a thick layer of sand and other ocean debris, but X-rays show the hatch is open about half an inch, according to a news release Friday from the Friends of the Hunley.
Earlier reports said rods that could have been part of the hatch's watertight locking mechanism were found at the feet of the sub's commander, Lt. George Dixon.
Hunley
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Fireworks go off as hot air balloons illuminate the night during the tenth anniversary of the European Balloon Festival in Igualada, Spain, July 15, 2006.
Photo by Gustau Nacarino
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First Retrospective
Henri Rousseau
French artist Henri Rousseau painted bold, exotic jungle scenes largely from his imagination. Little did he know the wild steps that would be taken a century later to present his works to a U.S. audience.
From humidity-control foam to microscopic touchups, the first all-Rousseau retrospective in two decades has required intensive preparation, construction, restoration and transportation - typical for a high-profile exhibit.
"Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris" opens Sunday in the Gallery's East Building and until Oct. 15, visitors will have a chance to see Rousseau's brightly colored images, landscapes and collection of tigers, monkeys and buffalo.
Henri Rousseau
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Drug Experiment
Psilocybin
People who took an illegal drug made from mushrooms reported profound mystical experiences that led to behavior changes lasting for weeks - all part of an experiment that recalls the psychedelic '60s.
Many of the 36 volunteers rated their reaction to a single dose of the drug, called psilocybin, as one of the most meaningful or spiritually significant experiences of their lives. Some compared it to the birth of a child or the death of a parent.
Such comments "just seemed unbelievable," said Roland Griffiths of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, the study's lead author.
Viewed by some as a landmark, the study is one of the few rigorous looks in the past 40 years at a hallucinogen's effects. The researchers suggest the drug someday may help drug addicts kick their habit or aid terminally ill patients struggling with anxiety and depression.
Psilocybin
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Gohgo the polar bear licks ice cubes encased with apples at Tennoji Zoo in Osaka, western Japan, on Saturday July 15, 2006. Some parts of the Japanese archipelago has been gripped by high pressure system in the Pacific Ocean that zoomed the mercury to 38.2 degrees Celsius (100.7 degrees F) at Hamamatsu, central Japan, on Friday.
Photo by Muneyoshi Someya
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