So GW finally admits racism and poverty can be related! His supporters must
be rolling.
WOW--no wonder the lights go on when he invades the prettiest part of New
Orleans and then leaves only to have LIGHTS OUT. Whatta guy. Too late, too
staged and who believes him anymore?
BTW--how are we going to pay for this????
And if they rebuild New Orleans will you go? And do you have your plan to
survive yet?
Plus where is Karl Rove--(not paying his taxes and voting illegally in
Texas, whoops)? And all the other scandals to catch up, send and call in
your faves!
Six Senate Democrats Vote to Retain Bush Mercury Rule (bushgreenwatch.org)
The nation's environmental health protections suffered a severe setback this week when six Democratic Senators joined 45 Republicans to defeat an effort to overturn the Bush Administration's new rule regulating mercury emissions.
This very special edition is dedicated to the authors and poets affected by Hurricane Katrina. In addition to our usual fare of strange and quirky southern gothic fiction and poetry, the special September edition includes a brilliant satirical story set in New Orleans by New Orleans author Catharine Savage Brosman, who I have lost contact with due to the hurricane, and a reprint in full of Michael Dare's New Orleans reminisence originally published in Disinfotainment Today, for those of your readers who missed it the first time.
I'm also announcing the establishment of the Southern Writers Recovery Fund.
Southern Writers Recovery Fund
WordArts, Inc. and Southern Gothic Online announce the establishment of the Southern Writers Recovery Fund to help authors and poets affected by Hurricane Katrina.
The Southern Writers Recovery Fund is not being established to meet the immediate humanitarian needs of writers caught by Hurricane Katrina. The Red Cross and other agencies are better prepared to deal with the immediate needs of hurricane survivors. Instead, the fund will serve the longer term needs of writers to help them get writing again.
In the wake of this devastating storm, there are many voices with stories needing to be told. But many have lost everything, including computers and paper files where all their work was stored. Others have lost cars, homes, jobs, and some areas may be uninhabitable for months to come. Long term needs are enormous, everything from computers to rent money to technical assistance to recover files from damaged hard drives.
Please help today by emailing your pledge to wordartsinc@yahoo.com. Please put the word Pledge in the subject line of your email. If enough pledges are received, you will be contacted with information about how to donate.
If you are a writer from Louisiana, Mississippi or Alabama and have been directly affected by the storm, please send an email to the above email address. Put the word HELP in the subject line and describe the nature of your losses.
Pledge totals will be updated weekly on the Southern Gothic Online website.
WordArts, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable corporation dedicated to preserving and promoting the southern literary voice. WordArts, Inc. publishes the bi-monthly webzine Southern Gothic Online.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by the LIVE (on the East Coast - tape delayed & edited for the left coast) 'Emmy Awards' .
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN'West Wing', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', followed by a RERUN'Crossing Jordan'.
ABC fills the night with the movie 'Pearl Harbor'.
The WB fills the night with the movie 'Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers'.
Faux has a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by the SEASON PREMIERE'King Of The Hill', then a FRESH'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'War At Home', then a FRESH'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH'American Dad'.
UPN fills the night with RERUNs of 'Fear Factor'.
A&E has 'Crossing Jordan', followed by (at least) six episodes of 'Dog The Bounty Hunter'.
AMC offers the movie 'Sixteen Candles', followed by the movie 'Dazed And Confused', then the documentary 'The Making Of Dazed And Confused'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - MacClesfield 8;
[2:30pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Kedleston 15;
[3pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Shepton Mallet 11;
[3:30pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Petersborough 2;
[4pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - France 13;
[4:30pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - MacClesfield 7;
[5pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Kedleston 16;
[5:30pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Derby 3;
[6pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Peterborough 1;
[6:30pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Detling 24;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 9;
[8pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 10;
[9pm] 'Footballers Wives - Episode 3;
[10pm] 'What Not To Wear'' - Tribes of Man;
[10:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Episode 9;
[11pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 10;
[12am] 'Footballers Wives' - Episode 3;
[1am] 'What Not To Wear' - Tribes of Man;
[1:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Episode 9;
[2am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 10;
[3am] 'Footballers Wives' - Episode 3;
[4am] 'What Not To Wear' - Tribes of Man;
[4:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Episode 9;
[5am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 10;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Queer Eye', 'Inside The Actors Studio' (Angelina Jolie), and the movie 'The Jackal'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'What's The Worst That Could Happen?', followed by the movie 'National Lampoon's Van Wilder'.
History has 'Horrors Of Hussein', 'High Hitler', 'Saddam's Doctor: An Insider's Story', and 'Band Of Brothers'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead' (1995);
[8AM] 'Kicked In The Head' (1997);
[9:30AM] Short: 'Upheaval' (2001);
[9:45AM] 'Zelig' (1983);
[11:15AM] 'At the IFC Center' (2005);
[11:45AM] 'IFC in Theaters' (2005);
[12PM] 'IFC September Short Film Collection I' (2005);
[2PM] 'Kicked In The Head' (1997);
[3:45PM] 'At the IFC Center' (2005);
[4:15PM] 'Zelig' (1983);
[5:45PM] 'Shadow Of China' (1990);
[7:30PM] 'Henry's Film Corner #110' (2005);
[8PM] 'Ed Wood' (1994);
[10:15PM] 'Bamboozled' (2000);
[12:45AM] 'Ed Wood' (1994);
[3AM] 'Bamboozled' (2000);
[5:15AM] 'IFC in Theaters' (2005);
[5:30AM] 'Henry's Film Corner #110' (2005). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has fills the night with the movie 'The Abyss'.
Sundance -
[6AM] 'Eat This New York';
[7:30AM] 'Greendale';
[9AM] 'The Al Franken Show:' (09/16/05);
[10AM] 'John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk';
[11:35AM] 'Keeping Time: New Music from America's Roots Episode 4';
[12PM] 'Repo Man';
[1:35PM] 'In Rwanda we say...The family that does not speak dies';
[2:30PM] 'Hermitage-niks: A Passion for the Hermitage: Episode 4 - Silent Sabotage';
[3PM] 'Greendale';
[4:30PM] 'The Tesseract';
[6:15PM] 'With God On Our Side: George W. Bush and the Rise of the Religious Right in America';
[8PM] 'Slings & Arrows: Episode 1 - Oliver's Dream';
[9PM] 'Dame La Mano';
[11PM] 'Repo Man';
[12:35AM] 'The Company Of Wolves';
[2:15AM] 'Mt. Head';
[2:30AM] 'Slings & Arrows: Episode 1' - Oliver's Dream;
[3:30AM] 'The Piano';
[5:35AM] 'Keeping Time: New Music from America's Roots Episode 4'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Cindy Sheehan is touched on the cheek by a well wisher at a rally in Philadelphia, Friday, Sept. 16, 2005, which was part of the 'Bring Them Home Now' tour.
Photo by Joseph Kaczmarek
The hands that were replaced with cutlery in "Edward Scissorhands" and wore gloves in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" are now immortalized in concrete.
Johnny Depp signed his name and placed his handprints and footprints in wet concrete in front of the Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard.
"So this is weird," Deep said as hundreds of fans watched the ceremony Friday. "I mean, to say that this is overwhelming is probably the understatement of the millennium."
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton (L) and singing legend Tony Bennett hold a painting painted and donated by Bennett at a dinner after the Clinton Global Initiative Summit in New York City September 16, 2005. The painting was auctioned off for $150,000, bought by entrepreneur Tom Golisano.
Photo by Stephen Chernin
Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation, a repository of Holocaust testimonials, is becoming part of the University of Southern California's College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
Spielberg, the foundation's chairman and a USC trustee, said moving the collection to USC will ensure its preservation and access to the public.
The repository's 52,000 testimonials from survivors and witnesses will be transferred Jan. 1 to USC indefinitely under an agreement announced Friday between the university and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.
The Atomium, one of Belgium's most famous landmarks, was restored to its shiny splendor Friday, the faded aluminum sheets on the nine balls fully replaced with hardy stainless steel.
The structure has nine balls with a 59-foot diameter. It represents a large-scale metal molecule, and was built to celebrate the 1958 World's Fair in the Belgian capital.
Even though the outer sheeting has been fully replaced, renovations are still continuing inside and the Atomium is only to reopen sometime in January.
Their homes are bursting with guests. Their schools are overwhelmed. Traffic has been at a standstill for three weeks since thousands of New Orleans hurricane evacuees arrived in search of shelter. But Lafayette, the capital of Cajun country, still knows how to party.
Throngs turned out Saturday for the first full day of the Festivals Acadiens, billed as the largest Cajun festival in the world, in a show of just what "joie de vivre" means.
The festival's slogan - "Still Standing" or "Toujours Grand Debout" - pays homage to the 250th anniversary of the Cajuns' expulsion from Novia Scotia in 1755 by the English and their eventual migration to south Louisiana.
The story of the expulsion - "Le Grand Derangement" - is one Cajuns know by heart and of which they are fiercely proud. A copy of the English expulsion order and a list of all the names of the families who fled French Canada were printed on the back of the festival's poster.
Singer Kelly Osbourne and actress Nicole Richie walk the runway together at the Fashion Relief fashion show in New York September 16, 2005. The show of designs by various designers which was organized in part by supermodel Naomi Campbell was held to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina with all proceeds from ticket sales and sales of the clothing donated to AmeriCares.
Photo by Mike Segar
Titian's incomplete "Portrait of a Lady and Her Daughter" is up for sale after undergoing a restoration that revealed the master's work beneath a painting by one of his students.
The portrait is expected to fetch more than 5 million pounds (US$9 million; €7 million) when it goes under the hammer Dec. 8 at Christie's auction house in London.
Now restored to its original state, Titian's "Portrait" has survived the hands of a mediocre art student, the German Blitz of London and a century of doubts about its origin.
In his first talk with a reporter since the end of his criminal trial, pop superstar Michael Jackson said Saturday he is "moving full speed ahead" on plans to record a song for the benefit of Hurricane Katrina victims and feels that his creative juices are flowing again.
In a telephone call to The Associated Press, Jackson said the trial was "the hardest thing I've ever done in my life" and that he and his children were still in Bahrain "resting and recovering" from the ordeal.
Jackson said he has been at work on the charity song, tentatively titled, "From the Bottom of My Heart."
A huge sunspot has been blasting Earth with magnetic clouds for weeks, producing some of the most vibrant and visible summertime auroras in years, according to NASA scientists.
Skywide northern lights have awed Alaskans since last week and produced red displays as far south as Arizona. However, current forecast maps predict the auroras will not be visible south of southern Canada.
Italian actor and director Roberto Benigni reads poems during the 'White Night', a nocturnal extravaganza of cultural events, in Rome September 17, 2005. Famous Roman landmarks were lit during an all-night party to celebrate the eternal city's vibrant spirit.
Photo by Alessia Pierdomenico
Residents here have gobbled up a new record for the largest single serving of french fries. An estimated 4,518 pounds of french fries were consumed during Thursday night's annual french fry feeding frenzy.
The event is held during "Potato Bowl U.S.A" week, which recognizes the potato industry in the Red River Valley and includes a weekend University of North Dakota football game.
Along with 11,000 servings of fries, organizers had more than 100 gallons of ketchup on hand.
Reporters stand under one of two Coronelli globes inside the Grand Palais in Paris, September 16, 2005. Commissioned by King Louis XIV, the two massive 17th century globes depict the known earth and the stars. The Grand Palais, which was closed twelve years ago when pieces from the roof fell to the ground, will be reopened to the public tomorrow for Heritage Days after renovation to the structure.
Photo by Charles Platiau
A rare 400-year book worth thousands of pounds was given anonymously to a British charity shop more used to handling hum-drum donations like unwanted presents and second-hand clothes.
"A Treatise of Commerce" by John Wheeler, which could raise as much as 30,000 pounds when it is sold at auction next week, features a personal dedication from the author to a future Lord Mayor of London.
The book, a rare first edition published in 1601 and believed to be the only one of its kind in existence, was handed in to one of the charity's shops in Northampton, central England, in March and spotted by the manager.
The painting 'Young Parisian' by Renoir, valued at some $10 million and one of three paintings stolen from the National Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, is on display at a news conference at FBI headquarters in Los Angeles Friday, Sept. 16, 2005. The painting was recovered sometime in early 2005 in the Los Angeles area.
Photo by Nick Ut
They have broken windows, sunk a boat and their barking keeps Newport Beach harbor residents awake all night.
But the more than 40 sea lions that have made southern California's ritzy Newport Beach their home have the law on their side. As a protected species under a 1972 U.S. federal law, they cannot be killed, harmed, or even harassed.
In an effort to find the ultimate place to sun themselves, the sea lions have taken up residence in yachts, sailboats and fishing vessels in the small harbor that boasts multimillion dollar houses on one side and quaint beach shops on the other.
"Last week, so many of them piled on a sailboat that it sank. The Harbor Patrol was out here trying to use water to get them off, but it didn't work," said Doug Turin, owner of Newport Harbor Boat Rentals.
The inside of the tent 'Hacker-Pschorr, sky of Bavaria' is pictured during the opening ceremony of the Oktoberfest in Munich September 17, 2005. Millions of beer drinkers from around the world will come to the Bavarian capital Munich for the world's biggest and most famous beer festival, the Oktoberfest. The 172nd Oktoberfest lasts from September 17 until October 3. Some six million people are expected to visit 14 enormous tents, each capable of holding up to 10,000 people at a time, drinking some 5.5 million litres (1.453 million U.S. gallons) of beer in the process.
Photo by Michaela Rehle
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