• Music has no fans like punk fans. Richard Hell designed a T-shirt with a bull’s-eye target and the words “Please kill me” on it. Richard Lloyd, lead guitarist of the punk group Television, once wore the T-shirt. Some wild-eyed punk fans saw the T-shirt and told him, “If that’s what you want, we’ll be happy to oblige because we’re such big fans!” Immediately, Mr. Lloyd thought, “I am NOT wearing this shirt again.”
Names
• Dahlia Messick wanted to be a cartoonist, but she noticed that when she took her artwork around to the studios that the male decision-makers would only briefly look at her artwork but would ask her out to lunch. Therefore, she adopted the gender-neutral name Dale Messick and started mailing her artwork to studios. Eventually, she created the very successful comic strip Brenda Starr, Reporter.
• In 1969, Charlie Brown and Snoopy became the mascots of the Apollo 10 Lunar exploration crew. The lunar module received the nickname “Snoopy,” and the command module received the nickname “Charlie Brown.” When the lunar module and the command module had redocked, the astronauts reported to Mission Control, “Snoopy and Charlie Brown are hugging each other.”
• Magazines aren’t always totally honest about who writes for them. For example, early in its history, Ms. magazine published a comic strip titled Mary Selfworth. Supposedly, the comic strip was written and drawn by Vincenza Colletta; however, the real writer and drawer was a Marvel cartoonist named Vincent Colletta.
• Neysa McMein was a painter whose career went nowhere when she painted under her real name, Marjorie Moran McMein. After she changed her name to the one suggested by a numerologist, she became successful.
Opinions
• Many Impressionist artists painted landscapes outdoors, but Edgar Degas preferred to paint indoor scenes of entertainers such as ballet dancers or singers. A landscape artist once asked him whether such subjects were suitable for art, and Mr. Degas replied, “For you, natural life is necessary; for me, artificial life.” (Actually, Mr. Degas disliked painters who worked outdoors. He once said, “If I were in the government, I would have a brigade of policemen assigned to keeping an eye on people who paint landscapes outdoors. Oh, I wouldn’t want anyone killed. I’d be satisfied with just a few buckshot to begin with.”)
• Cathy Guisewite, the creator of the comic strip Cathy, keeps an 8-Ball — one of those contraptions that answers questions with “Yes,” “No,” “Maybe,” and so on — in her office. She says that although it doesn’t make decisions for her, “It’s good to get a second opinion.”
Painting
• Mexican artist Diego Rivera well remembered the first time he saw a painting by Paul Cézanne. While in Paris, Mr. Rivera passed a gallery that had a painting by Mr. Cézanne displayed in a window. Mr. Rivera looked at the painting for one hour, then for another hour. The owner of the gallery saw Mr. Rivera looking at the painting, so he put a different painting by Mr. Cézanne on display in the window. Mr. Rivera looked at that painting for hours, so the art gallery owner placed a third painting by Mr. Cézanne on display. Mr. Rivera was still looking at the painting when closing time for the gallery came, so the owner then placed several paintings by Mr. Cézanne in the window and went home. Mr. Rivera stayed yet longer to look at the paintings, getting soaked in a rainstorm. When he went home, he was feverish, and visions of paintings by Mr. Cézanne kept running through his head. Some of the paintings were real; some were imaginary.
Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in the subgenus Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium. In Britain, cranberry may refer to the native species Vaccinium oxycoccos,[1] while in North America, cranberry may refer to Vaccinium macrocarpon.[2] Vaccinium oxycoccos is cultivated in central and northern Europe, while Vaccinium macrocarpon is cultivated throughout the northern United States, Canada and Chile.[3] In some methods of classification, Oxycoccus is regarded as a genus in its own right.[4] They can be found in acidic bogs throughout the cooler regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
Cranberries are low, creeping shrubs or vines up to 2 meters (7 ft) long and 5 to 20 centimeters (2 to 8 in) in height;[5] they have slender, wiry stems that are not thickly woody and have small evergreen leaves. The flowers are dark pink, with very distinct reflexed petals, leaving the style and stamens fully exposed and pointing forward. They are pollinated by bees. The fruit is a berry that is larger than the leaves of the plant; it is initially light green, turning red when ripe. It is edible, but with an acidic taste that usually overwhelms its sweetness.
In 2017, world production of cranberry was 625,181 tonnes, mainly by the United States, Canada, and Chile, which collectively accounted for 97% of the global total (table).[21] Wisconsin (65% of US production) and Quebec were the two largest regional producers of cranberries in North America.[22] Cranberries are also a major commercial crop in Massachusetts (23% of US production), New Jersey, Oregon, and Washington,[23] as well as in the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, New Brunswick, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland.
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Randall was first, and correct, with:
Couple years ago, LaVonne and I actually went to Wisconsin on a bus trip to see the cranberry festival.
It was fun and more interesting than you might think.
Billy in Cypress U.$.A. said:
Wisconsin
Mark. said:
Wisconsin.
Alan J answered:
Wisconsin.
Mac Mac responded:
Wisconsin
mj replied:
Wild guess
Wisconsin. Cranberry cheese spread is just so tasty.
Roy, Still a Libtard Snowflake, still isolating in Tyler, TX wrote:
Cranberries were first really popular in Massachusetts. Wisconsin is now the leading state that produces cranberries. Other states where cranberries are produced are Oregon, Washington, and New Jersey.
Dave responded:
Wisconsin. The cranberry is one of the few fruits native to North America, and grows in the northeastern states and Canada. I’ve never been a big fan of cranberries served with Thanksgiving dinner, and usually leave them untouched.
Cal in Vermont replied:
Wisconsin.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Wisconsin
zorch wrote:
Wisconsin produces the most.
John I from Hawai`i says,
Massachusetts
David of Moon Valley answered:
the might Statista tells me that it’s Wisconsin….dairy and cranberry…way to go, cheeseheads!
Daniel in The City responded:
Wisconsin
-pgw replied:
Off the top of my head, pre encyclopedia daze...Massachusetts.
we will survive
Jacqueline wrote:
I'm going to guess Maine.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame wrote:
The answer is Wisconsin.
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) answered:
Wisconsin. I didn't know that, ya learn sompthin new every day.
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Info: LET IT BURN — ROCKABILLY, PSYCHOBILLY, GARAGE E SURF CONTRA O FASCISMO
Reverb Brasil is Surf and Garage Brazilian music label.
LET IT BURN is our second anti-fascist compilation. Here we have 30 bands that, together, take a stand against racism and fascism in the independent music scene.
Thought I was hearing the defective rooster in stereo - turns out another neighbor has added a rooster to their backyard menagerie.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night, as ususal, with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Cannonball', followed by a RERUN'The Titan Games', then a RERUN'America's Got Talent'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUN'Celebrity Family Feud', then a RERUN'Press Your Luck', followed by a RERUN'Match Game'.
The CW offers offers a FRESH'Fridge Wars', followed by a FRESH'Taskmaster'.
Faux has a RERUN'Last Man Standing', followed by a RERUN'Duncanville', then a RERUN'The Simpsns', 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 Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift', followed by the mvoie 'Fast & Furious', then a FRESH'NOS4A2'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - Coasts
[7:00AM] LIFE STORY
[8:00AM] LIFE STORY
[9:00AM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - North America: Extended
[10:00AM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - South America: Extended
[11:00AM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - Asia: Extended
[12:00PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - Australia: Extended
[1:00PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - Europe: Extended
[2:00PM] HALLOWEEN
[4:30PM] SE7EN
[7:30PM] THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
[10:00PM] NOS4A2 - Chris McQueen
[11:03PM] THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
[1:33AM] SE7EN
[4:33AM] DOCTOR WHO - Twice Upon a Time (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Potomac', another 'Real Housewives Of Potomac', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Potomac', then the FRESH'Race In America: A Movement Not A Moment'.
Comedy Central has all old 'Chappelle's Show' all night.
FX has the movie 'Transformers: The Last Knight', followed by the movie 'Transformers: The Last Knight'.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'Apocalypse Earth'.
IFC -
[6:00A] Coneheads
[8:00A] Galaxy Quest
[10:30A] The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
[12:30P] Blow
[3:30P] Boyz N the Hood
[6:00P] White House Down
[9:00P] Get Hard
[11:15P] White House Down
[2:15A] Boyz N the Hood
[4:45A] The Three Stooges - Hoi Polloi
[5:00A] The Three Stooges - If a Body Meets a Body
[5:30A] The Three Stooges - Gents Without Cents (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am] columbo - Dagger Of The Mind
[8:15am] columbo - Requiem For A Falling Star
[10:00am] close up with the hollywood reporter - Comedy Actresses
[11:00am] an officer and a gentleman
[2:00pm] the bank job
[4:30pm] the lost boys
[6:30pm] days of thunder
[9:00pm] a few good men
[12:00am] walking tall
[1:45am] the bank job
[4:15am] close up with the hollywood reporter - Comedy Actresses
[5:15am] hogan's heroes
[5:45am] love lust - Love Lust & Street Eats (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'American Sniper', followed by the movie 'Doctor Strange', then a FRESH'Wynonna Earp'.
Look: We’re not saying that Big Trouble In Little China and Kung Fu Panda (and Blader Runner. And Wayne’s World 2. And Tango & Cash. And…) star James Hong works a lot, but the last time we tried to check his IMDB page (439 credits, and no sign of slowing down), our Chrome tab exploded. Hong is one of the most prolific actors in the world, period, with a resume that encompasses massive chunks of film, TV, video games, voice acting, and more.
All of which contributed, presumably, to a call by actor Daniel Dae Kim on social media this week, pointing out to the planet as a whole that it’s kind of bullshit that James Hong doesn’t have a star on Hollywood’s tourist-luring Walk Of Fame. (And yes, we know, the Walk Of Fame is kind of bullshit anyway. But it could at least be bullshit that acknowledges the hard-working coolness of James Hong.) Writing that “This man epitomizes the term ‘working actor,’ and that’s not even taking into account all he’s done to help further representation for actors of color,” Kim praised Hong both for his work ethic and his contributions to the arts, and invited fans to help raise the $50,000 necessary to get him a star on the Walk.
Per NBC News, Ana Martinez, a producer for the Walk, has responded to Kim’s campaign, saying that the organization would be happy to consider Hong if he “agrees on the nomination in writing” when applications for new stars open up next March. She also said that the group discourages GoFundMe campaigns to raise money for stars in general, though, because what’s to be done with the money if the actor in question doesn’t get selected? To which we can only respond a), he’s James Hong, and b), if by some baffling turn of fate James Hong is deemed not as influential on the history of Hollywood as multiple dogs and Alvin And The Chipmunks, then the funds could always be put toward multiple statues of James Hong, to populate all the national plinths that have had racist assholes yanked off of them in recent months. (And while that idea is obviously very good, Kim does state in the GoFundMe post that, in the event that Hong isn’t accepted for the Walk in either 2020 or 2021, the funds will be donated to charity in his name.)
Hillary Clinton roasted The New York Times and their columnist Maureen Dowd - for apparently forgetting that she ran on a mixed-gender presidential ticket in 2016.
She joined a chorus of Twitter mockery after the paper’s Opinion Twitter account posted a now-deleted message promoting Ms Dowd’s latest column, which looked back at the Walter Mondale–Geraldine Ferraro ticket of 1984.
“It’s hard to fathom, but it has been 36 years since a man and a woman ran together on a Democratic Party ticket, writes @MaureenDowd. To use Geraldine Ferraro’s favorite expression, ‘Gimme a break!'” they wrote.
The column itself - now amended - also claimed it had been “36 years since a man and a woman ran together on a Democratic Party ticket.”
The former Secretary of State tweeted in response: “Either @TimKaine and I had a very vivid shared hallucination four years ago or Maureen had too much pot brownie before writing her column again.”
A pair of twins listening to Phil Collins for the first time have gone viral for their hilarious reactions.
The latest in the “First Time Hearing” video series from 21-year-old YouTube stars Tim and Fred Williams, known by viewers as “TwinsthenewTend”, sees the brothers listening to ”In the Air Tonight”.
To date, the brothers have listened to songs including “Jolene” by Dolly Parton, “Dancing in the Dark” by Bruce Springsteen and Janis Joplin‘s “Piece of My Heart”, but their video reaction to Collins’ 1981 track is being considered their best yet.
As the song goes on, they seem to be getting more and more into it – but it’s when the famous drum solo arrives at 04.56 that the pair are fully sold.
“That was cool how he did that,” Fred comments, adding: “I ain’t never seen somebody drum a beat three minutes [into] a song.”
Amid lower than expected attendance since reopening last month, Disney is scaling back its hours at four of its Florida theme parks, including the Magic Kingdom.
Beginning in September, Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom will each close an hour earlier, while Epcot will cut back by two hours each day. The changes take place Sept. 8 and through October.
Disney reopened the Orlando, Florida, theme park-resort on July 11 in hopes of easing the fiscal hit caused by the shutdown of movie theaters and other revenue streams as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Unfortunately, as Disney Chief Financial Officer Christine McCarthy said during the company’s quarterly conference call with Wall Street analysts on Tuesday, earnings from reopening Disney World fell well short of expectations.
The parks division lost out on $3.5 billion in operating income for the three months ending June 27, the company said. Overall, Disney’s parks business pulled in just $983 million during its third quarter, which was an 85% slide compared with the $6.6 billion in revenue the parks earned during the same period last year.
Donald Trump (R-Grifter) scheduled a last-minute press conference at his Bedminster, NJ, golf club on Friday evening, in part to threaten to sign an executive order if Democrats don’t give in on demands for COVID-19 relief.
But when members of the White House pool traveling with the president showed up, standing in the back of the room were members and guests at the country club, many of them not wearing masks.
Masks were handed out to the members just before the president arrived, but one reporter queried Trump on the scene.
“You said that the pandemic is disappearing, but we lost 6,000 Americans, and just in this room, you have dozens of people who are not following the guidelines in New Jersey,” the reporter said.
Nasa has signaled it is joining the social justice movement by changing unofficial and potentially contentious names used by the scientific community for distant cosmic objects and systems such as planets, galaxies and nebulae.
In a statement last week, the space agency said that as the “community works to identify and address systemic discrimination and inequality in all aspects of the field, it has become clear that certain cosmic nicknames are not only insensitive, but can be actively harmful”.
Nasa added that it is “examining its use of unofficial terminology for cosmic objects as part of its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion”.
One of the steps Nasa would immediately take would be to drop references to planetary nebula NGC 2392 known as the “Eskimo Nebula”, a dying Sun-like star that is blowing off its outer layers. “Eskimo”, the agency said, “is widely viewed as a colonial term with a racist history, imposed on the indigenous people of Arctic regions.”
It will also cease to refer to a pair of spiral galaxies, NGC 4567 and NGC 4568, in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster referred to as the “Siamese Twins Galaxy”, as part of its effort to align cosmic objects with current thinking and conventions.
Things took a sharp turn during a phone call between Donald Trump (R-Inept) and one of his most important donors, according to a new report, with some Republicans fearing he put his campaign funding in jeopardy.
The president had a phone call last week with conservative donor Sheldon Adelson, the 87-year-old American business magnate who has pledged to donate at least $100m to help re-elect Mr Trump and his allies on Capitol Hill.
During that phone call, Mr Trump appeared unaware of how much Mr Adelson has already donated to his campaign, and how much more he was willing to spend to help other Republicans win in November, an anonymous source with direct knowledge of the call told Politico.
The publication said Mr Trump “antagonized” Mr Adelson during the call, which was initially meant to focus on the coronavirus pandemic, a congressional stimulus package and the nation’s faltering economy, which has suffered a massive blow after Covid-19 caused lockdown orders nationwide.
But the president had other plans, reportedly demanding to know why Mr Adelson had not helped enough to support his re-election. The call came as several national surveys showed Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, pulling ahead of the Republican incumbent in battleground states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, which handed Mr Trump the election in 2016.
New research has found that New Zealand’s glaciers are melting faster and faster as time goes by. The study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, reveals that the glacier's rate of ice loss has doubled since pre-industrial times, having now lost around 77 percent of their volume compared to their size during the Little Ice Age.
Climate change is a significant concern for icy landscapes across the globe. Researches from the University of Leeds in collaboration with the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) wanted to investigate how temperature-related ice loss had impacted the Southern Alps’ glaciers in recent years, so they mapped the ice loss from the end of the Little Ice Age (around 400 years ago) to 2019. They determined volume changes from ice loss for 400 mountain glaciers across three time periods: the pre-industrial Little Ice Age to 1978, 1978 to 2009 and 2009 to 2019.
Using historical records of glacier outlines and moraines and trimlines, which act like guidelines for the glacier’s previous reach, they calculated the glacier’s historic volumes. By comparing these, they were able to estimate the rate of glacier melt following the Little Ice Age peak and compare it to the rate of ice loss unfolding in the last 40 years.
Their results showed that ice loss has sped up two-fold compared to previous rates of melting, with a rapid increase in ice volume loss in the last four decades. Of the ice volume present during the Little Ice Age, 15 percent of this was lost between 1978 and 2019 alone, a huge increase when you consider this glacier has been melting for around 400 years. In 2019, only 12 percent of the glacier’s historic ice volume remained, demonstrating that if rates continue the glacier could be lost far sooner than expected.
The glacier is of great value to New Zealand, not just as a site of outstanding natural beauty but also as a vital supply of freshwater for local communities. It also provides hydropower and irrigation for the landscape, improving stability and boosting the health of aquatic ecosystems.
It has been a bad week for Mexican tourism promotion, and it got worse Friday when the English language version of the country’s tourism website appeared with hilarious mis-translations.
Entire states like Hidalgo and Guerrero apparently got machine translated as “Noble” and “Warrior.”
Worse for the VisitMexico.com site, there was systematic and inexplicable re-invention of the names of some fairly well-known tourist towns. The Caribbean resort of Tulum somehow became “Jumpsuit.” The nearby lagoon of Bacalar, on the Caribbean coast, was switched to the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.
The snafu came one day after the U.S. State Department cited the high number of COVID-19 cases in Mexico for issuing a “do not travel” advisory for the country, its highest level of warning. Hours earlier, the resort of Acapulco was forced to pull “anything goes” tourism ads that showed people partying without masks and the words “there are no rules.”
Some name changes were just inexplicable and appeared to have as much to do with invention as simple translation. The central Mexican town of Aculco somehow became “I Blame,” and the northern Gulf coast city of Ciudad Madero became “Log.”
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