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I changed servers a few weeks back and between my bad coding & slow learning curve there have been some good size bumps.
Have nearly a month of past pages to archive, too. I'm working backwards, so last week is all there - as well as part of the week before.
Hopefully things will be back to what passes for normal soon.
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Music
'Wartime President Song'
You might enjoy the
"Wartime President Song,"
a hilarious MP3 parody on the life and times of
resident George "Dubya" Bush by 'Ariel'.
Thanks,
-- yow
ARIEL
On the day after the RNC, San Francisco Bay Area rockers
ARIEL have released the "Wartime President Song," a humorous
musical biography of our 43rd President. Set to the tune of
"This Old Man," the lyrics poke fun at various points in
Mr. Bush's life and career.
Lyrics and MP3 audio (low- andhigh-res) files are available here
A four-piece band featuring JJ Jenkins, George Petersen,
Walter Bush (no relation!) and Chris LaRocca, ARIEL plays
original music penned by Mssrs. Jenkins and Petersen.
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Hot.
Running late.
U.S. actor Johnny Depp poses during a photo call at the Venice Lido on September 4, 2004. Depp is starring in the Swiss director Mark Forster's movie 'Finding Neverland' being shown at the Venice film festival.
Photo by Alessia Pierdomenico
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
First Gary Cooper Spirit of Montana Award
Peter Fonda
Actor, director and Montana resident Peter Fonda will receive the first Gary Cooper Spirit of Montana Award, according to the fledgling film festival giving out the award.
Jeff Bridges will present the award from the Hatch Audiovisual Arts Festival, scheduled for Sept. 9-12. Like Fonda, Bridges has a home in Montana's Paradise Valley.
Penny Ronning, the festival's chairwoman, told the Livingston Enterprise the award honors Fonda's contribution to film and the arts and his ties to Montana.
Peter Fonda
Helping to Raise Money for Sudanese
R.E.M.
A new album featuring exclusive tracks from Ash, R.E.M. and David Gray has been released to raise money for the hundreds of thousands of people who have been driven from their homes in Sudan's Darfur region.
Badly Drawn Boy, Futureheads and Faithless also are featured on the 14-track album, "Songs for Sudan," being launched for Oxfam's Sudan appeal. "By buying this album you can help Oxfam save lives," a spokesman for the relief agency said Friday.
The album can be bought at record stores in England or downloaded from the Oxfam Web site.
R.E.M.
Actor Gary Busey, center, poses with members of the Oklahoma State football team after OSU beat UCLA 31-20 at the Rose Bowl on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2004, in Pasadena, Calif.
Photo by Matt Sayles
VH1 Takes It Off WB's Hands
`Surreal Life'
Listen up, all you D-list movie stars, faded reality-show participants and one-time television headliners: There is no fame or glory to be had from participating in ``The Surreal Life,'' returning tonight at 9 on VH1.
In this third edition, the voyeuristic series moves from WB to VH1 and six new has-beens become roomies. Jordan Knight (New Kids on the Block), Dave Coulier (``Full House''), Ryan Starr (the first ``American Idol''), Flavor Flav (Public Enemy), Brigitte Nielsen (the ex-Mrs. Sylvester Stallone) and Charo (does she need any sort of explanation?) arrive to screaming fans on a red carpet. Either the frenzied autograph seekers are being compensated or some employee at VH1 did some homework to find these devoted groupies.
As usual, there's always one celebrity who is crazier than anyone even would have imagined.
Nielsen drinks too much, sleeps all day, flirts and fights with Flavor Flav and prances around topless.
``Brigitte is marching to her own drummer and that drummer has no clothes on,'' Coulier says.
`Surreal Life'
Film Opens Festival in Deauville
Claude Lelouch
French director Claude Lelouch's "Les Parisiens" opened the annual film festival in Deauville, a beach town in Normandy where he shot his 1966 love story, "A Man and a Woman."
The festival, which opened Friday, runs through Sept. 12.
Lelouch also heads the jury judging the 10 films in the main competition at the 30-year-old festival, a European showcase for mainly American movies.
Lelouch's jury - made up entirely of women - includes Anouk Aimee, the leading lady in his 1966 hit.
Claude Lelouch
Prequel Considered
'Pulp Fiction'
Pulp Fiction, the Prequel? John Travolta, who played hit man Vincent Vega in director Quentin Tarantino's blood-drenched 1994 film, said Tarantino has been considering another episode of the drama.
"Every six months he calls me to talk about a project on the story of the Vega brothers - a type of prequel to 'Pulp Fiction,'" he said in an interview, La Repubblica newspaper reported in Friday's editions. "Then, it all remains in his mind."
'Pulp Fiction'
Iraqi carpenter Yussef AL-Awad, 36, displays a handmade oud, fashioned from oak, in his Baghdad showroom July 29, 2004. Awad's family has been making ouds, a pear-shaped wooden string instrument with five to six double strings, for more than a hundred years, a trade started by his late grandfather. Picture taken July 29, 2004.
Photo by Faleh Kheiber
Faux Says 'You're Hired'
Ivana Trump
Another famous Trump is getting a reality TV show. This time, it's Ivana's turn.
The ex-model, ex-CEO and ex-wife of real estate mogul Donald Trump will host a two-hour dating reality special - the working title is "Ivana Young Man" - this fall on Fox. Trump will select eight twentysomething bachelors who will compete for the affection of a successful but lonely fortysomething woman.
On the show, fiftysomething Ivana will serve as a teacher, expert and guide to the "mature" bachelorette, who will narrow the field of eight down to two and eventually to one. According to Fox, the final choice will be made not by Ivana but by the lovelorn socialite.
Ivana Trump
Would Croon to Attract Tourists
Ruben Blades
Panama's new tourism minister, salsa king Ruben Blades, says he would gladly sing to attract more visitors to his country.
Blades, 56, known throughout Latin America for his innovative, often political salsa and Hollywood acting career, began his new job heading the tourism ministry this week after Martin Torrijos, a U.S.-educated centrist, was sworn in as president.
"If singing could help attract more tourists to Panama I would sing all night long," Blades told Reuters in an interview late on Friday.
Ruben Blades
'Legal' Payola
Paid Radio
The issue of paid spins at radio stations and broadcast groups has become a hot-button topic on Nashville's Music Row and in the country radio community.
While MCA Nashville was hardly the first record label to employ these legal programs, the company's strategic use of paid spins for Reba McEntire's "Somebody" attracted the industry's attention and ignited a debate over programing ethics in late July.
As that debate continues, Billboard polled programers and radio group executives representing major chains, as well as independent operators, and found that most have objections the practice.
Among those who have concerns about paid spins is Emmis' KZLA Los Angeles operations manager R.J. Curtis, who calls the practice "fundamentally wrong" and likens it to "artificial insemination" of the charts.
Adam Jeffries, music director of the Buck Owens-owned KUZZ Bakersfield, Calif., agrees. "It may be legal, but it sure smacks of payola," he says. "Labels pay the stations to play it, but because they are buying 'advertising,' then is it OK? It's basically just a loophole that needs to be closed.
Margot St. John, music director of Hall Radio's WOKO Burlington, Vt., calls paid spins "wrong, wrong, wrong ... Satellite radio, Internet radio, and iPods -- to name a few -- are too great a threat to radio for us to squander listener loyalty by jettisoning our programing standards for short-term gains."
Paid Radio
A protester's sign is seen in front of Madison Square Garden during an anti-war rally Thursday Sept. 2, 2004, in New York on the last day of the Republican National Convention. Both parties have been accused of using of Sept. 11 for political gain.
Photo by Stuart Ramson
$550,000 Fine
CBS
The Federal Communications Commission is set to impose a record $550,000 indecency fine against CBS-owned stations for their broadcast of singer Janet Jackson's breast-bearing incident during January's Super Bowl, the Washington Post reported on Saturday.
The newspaper report, which cited unnamed FCC sources, said the agency was expected to vote unanimously for the fine, which would be the largest levied against a television broadcaster.
The amount represents a $27,500 fine for each of the 20 television stations owned by CBS, which in turn is owned by Viacom Inc, the paper said.
CBS
A boat seen sailing on the Mediterranean sea at sunset on the west coast of the Spanish Balearic island of Mallorca, in this July 2004 file photo.
Photo by Dani Cardona
'Weds' Using Loophole
Jailed Assassin
Defying a life prison term in isolation, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassin has secretly married by proxy, his bride said Friday.
Larisa Trimbobler said she hoped her in-absentia wedding to Yigal Amir last month would help overturn a court ban on conjugal visits for the ultranationalist who shot Rabin at a 1995 rally in a bid to block peace deals with the Palestinians.
Jewish law requires that two men witness a bride receiving her ring and marriage contract from the groom. According to Israeli media, Amir empowered his father to carry out the ritual in his stead and may have joined in by telephone.
Jailed Assassin
Big Draw
Old Cookbooks
Old cookbooks never die -- in fact, they are not often willingly surrendered. One woman even took her beloved Betty Crocker book to the grave.
Cookbook connoisseur Bonnie Slotnick has heard many of these tales, whispered or recalled with laughter, about women so attached to their cookbooks that they end up practically being "dragged out of dying hands."
Her store -- Bonnie Slotnick's Cookbooks -- is stocked floor to ceiling with some 3,000 books, arranged neatly by category. The average one costs $20 to $22, but there is also a $5 shelf and a $1 basket. Even non-cooks have left with vintage cookbooks to savor "like novels in bed."
Slotnick, 50, said she opened the store in 2000 "with no business plan" and was still "trying to figure out how I ended up doing this" with a college degree in fashion illustration.
For a lot more, Old Cookbooks
Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly checks himself in a mirror during a program break at the Republican National Convention in New York, September 1, 2004. The Fox News cable channel made a bit of television history by drawing more viewers than any of the Big Three broadcast networks on the opening night of major coverage of the Republican convention, according to figures issued on Wednesday. Fox News' presentation of Tuesday's speeches by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and first lady Laura Bush drew 5.4 million viewers, more than broadcasters ABC, CBS or NBC.
Photo by Lisa Miller
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