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Continue the Countdown to the Convention!
Talk about the Race for the White House; Record Oil Profits; the Search for Viable Green Energy; How to Protect Our Votes; the Rove Effect and who is going to testify?
Tom Danehy: Societal racism is alive and well--so why burden a kid with a "black" name? (tucsonweekly.com)
I told her about the studies that show that kids with so-called "black names" are less likely to go to college, more likely to go to jail and more likely to have kids out of wedlock. Then there's the study by the University of Chicago and MIT where identical resumes were sent to companies, one with a "white" name, and one with a "black" name. The ones with the white names were 50 percent more likely to receive a callback for an interview.
Alexis Petridis: Tom Waits (guardian.co.uk)
Tom Waits stands before a backdrop of battered megaphones, not so much acknowledging the standing ovation as orchestrating it. And as yet he hasn't even played a note. He wiggles his fingers to denote that he requires the applause to become more vociferous, pretends to be buffeted by the ensuing roar when it does, removes his bowler hat and bows low.
Jeff Giles: A Chat with Marc Cohn (bullz-eye.com)
... not only has the record industry undergone an historic meltdown, but Cohn himself has been buffeted on personal winds both sweet (his marriage to ABC News anchor Elizabeth Vargas in 2002) and bitter (being shot in the head during a carjacking attempt after a Denver gig in 2005).
Charlie responded:
At least it wasn't "Gay Babies."
E: Q-Tips
Sally, in NJ, where the humidity festival is going full-bore, said:
Damn, I almost remember this one. When my late mother wanted me to pick Q-tips (E) up for her at the drugstore, she would always say: "Don't forget the Baby gays..." (Old habits died hard for the old girl...)
Here's another winner from "the olden days": Ayds (pronounced "Aids") Appetite-suppressant candy. That stuff was really tasty, I myself sacrificed a few fillings in my teeth for the sake of looking svelte back in the day!
As it is actually looking as if it will pour rain any minute here, I wish you a good day,
PS DannyD, sorry to read that looking for a paid position in comedy writing is no joke for you - okay, really bad pun... Several years ago (circa early 1990s) I took a course in "Comedy Writing" and we studied the five major parts of comedy: Situation, Standup, Clowning, Improvisation, and Writing. It was a great class composed of people of all ages. We actually were able to perform in a local Comedy Club, and that was great fun for me. I would suggest you look into taking a class in comedy writing - perhaps learn a few points (although you are funny now) and NETWORK a lot while there. Students usually encourage one another, and you should be provided with many choices to where your work can be submitted. I hope you don't think me bold by suggesting this, I just so admire your insights now, and hope this suggestion could help... :)
Marian the Teacher replied:
Q-Tips
And, Vic in AK answered:
I'm not even going to get into the whole question of HOW these "Gay Babies" got gay...genetic predisposition? Choice ? Not enough breast feeding...too MUCH breast feeding....anyways the answer is E: Q-Tips
Side note.. in my role as Chester the Woof I am honored to be able to announce that I will be interviewing the ladies from the "Alaska Roller Derby League" and will be airing clips from all their upcoming matches on my show the New Ghoul Review!!!...ARRRRROOOOOHHHHHH!!!! I'm in Love, Lust...Whatever!!!
I am also proud to announce that I am going to be featured in an upcoming issue of Shriek Freak Magazine..."They Love the Woof, they Really Love Him!!!"
Thanks to Charlie and Vic in AK for the pictures.
Coming Soon - More 'Prizes' - 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' on DVD!
(Just not as soon as expected.)
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother 10', then a RERUN'Million Dollar Password', followed by a RERUN'Cold Case'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and an old 'Dateline'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH infomercial 'High School Musical: Get In The Picture', followed by a RERUN'Extreme Makeover: Home Ediiton', then a RERUN'Desperate Housewives'.
The CW offers a RERUN'One Tree Hill', followed by a RERUN'Everybody Hates Chris', then a RERUN'Aliens In America', followed by a RERUN'The Game', then a RERUN'Girlfriends'.
Faux has a RERUN'Til Death', followed by another RERUN'Til Death', then a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by another RERUN'Simpsons', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by a RERUN'American Dad'.
MY has an old 'Married...With Children', followed by an old 'Raymond', then the movie 'Nowhere To Run'.
A&E has 'Gene Simmons', another 'Gene Simmons', still another 'Gene Simmons', yet another 'Gene Simmons', followed by a FRESH'Gene Simmons', then a FRESH'The 2 Coreys', and another 'The 2 Coreys'.
AMC offers the movie 'Apollo 13', followed by a FRESH'Mad Men'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[1:00 PM] Doctor Who - Eps 8 & 9
[3:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 10 Blink
[4:00 PM] Doctor Who - Eps 12 & 13
[6:00 PM] Kinky Boots - Kinky Boots
[8:00 PM] Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
[10:00 PM] Fastest Man On No Legs
[11:00 PM] Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
[1:00 AM] Fastest Man On No Legs
[2:00 AM] Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
[4:00 AM] Fastest Man On No Legs
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 9
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 10
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle', followed by the movie 'National Lampoon's Van Wilder'.
FX has the movie 'Fantastic Four', followed by the movie 'Transporter 2', then the movie 'Transporter 2', again.
History has 'Ice Road Truckers', another 'Ice Road Truckers', followed by a FRESH'Ice Road Truckers', and 'Jurassic Fight Club'.
IFC -
[7:30 AM] Psychoanalysis Changed My Life
[8:00 AM] The Last Wave
[9:50 AM] IFC in Theaters
[10:00 AM] Picnic at Hanging Rock
[11:55 AM] IFC News Uncut 2008
[12:00 PM] Proof
[1:35 PM] Chinese Box
[3:20 PM] IFC in Theaters
[3:30 PM] Picnic at Hanging Rock
[5:25 PM] IFC News Uncut 2008
[5:30 PM] Proof
[7:05 PM] Coastlines
[9:00 PM] Assassination Tango
[11:00 PM] The Element of Crime
[12:15 AM] The Honeymoon Killers
[2:15 AM] The Prophecy
[4:00 AM] Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
[5:30 AM] The Honeymoon Killers (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Dragon Wars: D-War', followed by the movie 'Heatstroke'.
Sundance -
[06:00 AM] The White Countess
[08:30 AM] The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
[09:00 AM] Matchbox Twenty, The Script & Def Leppard
[10:00 AM] Episode 2
[11:00 AM] Episode 3: Quentin Tarantino + Fiona Apple
[12:00 PM] Career Girls
[01:30 PM] Bittersweet Place
[03:00 PM] Episode 1
[03:35 PM] The Greening of Southie
[05:05 PM] Water
[05:35 PM] The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico
[07:00 PM] Red Doors
[08:35 PM] Eramos Pocos
[09:00 PM] Episode 3
[10:00 PM] Pavilion of Women
[12:00 AM] Vital
[01:25 AM] Funny Ha Ha
[03:00 AM] Episode 1
[03:30 AM] Episode 3
[04:05 AM] Chain (ALL TIMES EST)
Pop superstar Madonna arrived in this northern Michigan resort town Saturday to introduce her documentary, "I Am Because We Are," a highlight of the Traverse City Film Festival. The event was co-founded by filmmaker, author and fellow Michigan native Michael Moore.
Hundreds of fans cheered from behind barricades as Madonna, wearing a black dress, high heels and sunglasses, stepped out of a black sport utility vehicle that pulled up in front of the State Theatre. She hugged a waiting Moore, who sported an orange baseball cap, and posed for photos with him.
"It's great bringing my movie to a place that I feel familiar," Madonna told the audience. "Not like the Cannes Film Festival, where nobody's speaking English, or the Tribeca Film Festival, where no one sits down.
"There's something poetic about coming back to the place where I used to come for holidays - camping trips with my dad and stepmother and my very large family," said the 49-year-old singer, born to the southeast in Bay City and raised in the Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills.
A document spelling out the terms of surrender, signed by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, on April 10th 1865, a day after his surrender to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, is displayed at the Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum in Philadelphia, Monday, July 28, 2008.
Photo by Justin Maxon
Lindsay Lohan said Friday that police have no business getting involved in her personal life, a day after the police chief explained that the paparazzi were no longer an issue - in part because the 22-year-old actress had evidently "gone gay."
"Police, you shouldn't get involved in everyone else's business when it comes to their personal life. It's inappropriate," Lohan said in a video shot by paparazzi Friday and posted on TMZ.com. In the footage, Lohan and gal pal Samantha Ronson are trekking through the Los Angeles Airport on their way to catch a flight to Chicago.
"If you notice, since Britney started wearing clothes and behaving; Paris is out of town not bothering anybody anymore, thank God, and evidently, Lindsay Lohan has gone gay, we don't seem to have much of an issue," Chief William Bratton told KNBC-TV.
Bratton later called a news conference outside police headquarters to clarify his position on the paparazzi. When asked about the Lohan remark - which followed months of tabloid speculation that Lohan and Ronson, a DJ, are dating - Bratton said his sister is gay and he is a proponent of gay rights.
The Walt Disney Co. said Friday it is raising one-day ticket prices at its domestic parks starting Sunday.
Tickets for those aged 10 and older to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., will rise from $71 to $75, while tickets for children aged 3 to 9 will go from $60 to $63.
At Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., one-day prices will rise from $66 to $69 for those aged 10 and older, and from $56 to $59 for children aged 3 to 9.
A flight attendant poses in the first class section of Emirates' Airbus A380 after the jet arrived on its maiden flight at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York August 1, 2008. Airbus's A380 superjumbo touched down in New York on Friday, marking the first commercial arrival of the giant, double-decker passenger plane on U.S. soil.
Photo by Chip East
A judge in the Turks and Caicos Islands has released on bond "Hairspray" actress Nikki Blonsky and a former contestant from "America's Next Top Model" in connection to a recent fistfight.
Prosecutors say that both Blonsky, 19, of Great Neck, and Bianca Golden, also 19, who attended Hillcrest High School in Jamaica, Queens, were aboard a flight in the Caribbean nation when they started fighting over an occupied seat. Blonsky's father was also charged in the fight and will remain in jail until Aug. 8.
All three appeared in court Friday. Prosecutors said that a fourth person related to Golden was injured Wednesday in the fight and treated at a hospital in the United States.
Dancers perform "A Midsummer Night's Dream", a modern dance by Hungarian choreographer Youri Vamos, during the Split Summer Festival in the Adriatic city of Split, August 2, 2008.
Photo by Matko Biljak
Author Salman Rushdie is threatening to sue a publisher over a book by a former bodyguard that he says portrays him as cheap, nasty and arrogant and depicts his police guards as drinking on duty.
Rushdie's lawyer, Mark Stephens, said Saturday that he had written to the publisher of "On Her Majesty's Service" demanding it withdraw the book, which has not yet been published.
The book is co-written by Ron Evans, a former Metropolitan Police officer who was one of the team guarding Rushdie while he was under an Iranian-backed death threat for his 1988 novel "The Satanic Verses."
The Guardian newspaper reported Saturday that the book claims Rushdie billed the police force for officers' overnight stays at his house; that guards nicknamed him "Scruffy"; and that at one point they locked him in a cupboard while they went to the pub.
The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health officials reported Sunday, acknowledging that their numbers have understated the level of the epidemic.
The country had roughly 56,300 new HIV infections in 2006 - a dramatic increase from the 40,000 annual estimate used for the last dozen years. The new figure is due to a better blood test and new statistical methods, and not a worsening of the epidemic, officials said.
The revised estimate by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the methodology behind it were to be presented Sunday, the opening day of the international AIDS conference in Mexico City.
A radiograph of a mechanical brass calculator, made at the end of the 2nd century BC, retrieved from a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera in 1901 is seen in an undated image. The calculator, used by the ancient Greeks to predict solar and lunar eclipses, was probably also used to set the dates for the first Olympic games, researchers said on Wednesday.
Fallen rock star Gary Glitter will be released from jail in Vietnam later this month after completing a 27-month sentence for molesting two young girls.
Glitter, 63, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was arrested in November 2005 at Ho Chi Minh airport as he tried to leave the country and sentenced to three years in jail following a one-day trial where he pleaded not guilty.
He rose to fame in the 1970s with a bouffant hairstyle, make-up, high heels and "glam rock" stage performances.
His hits included "Rock and Roll (Parts 1 & 2)" and "I Love You Love Me Love", "Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)" and "I'm the Leader of Gang (I am)".
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic was protected by the United States until a CIA phone bug caught him breaking the terms of his "deal", the Serb newspaper Blic reported Saturday, quoting a US intelligence source.
The newspaper claims Karadzic was secretly granted immunity in return for keeping a low profile.
"Karadzic, indicted for genocide and war crimes, was under US protection until 2000, when the CIA intercepted his telephone conversation that clearly proved he personally chaired a meeting of his old political party," the daily quoted a "well-informed US intelligence source" as saying.
That view partly echoed what Karadzic himself told the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in his opening written submission this week. He told The Hague-based court that US peace negotiator in Bosnia, Richard Holbrooke, had promised he would avoid trial if he withdrew from public life.
Tropical fish swim in a fish tank at a makeshift aquarium named "Sky Aquarium II" in the 52nd floor of Mori Tower, a skyscraper in the Roppongi Hills complex in Tokyo July 17, 2008.
Photo by Toru Hanai
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