Marc Dion: White Man's Jesus (Creators Syndicate)
He was white. All you had to do was look. The statues. The crucifix. The little pictures in our little books. All showed a plainly Caucasian Christ.
Scott Burns: Are We (Still) Quitting At The Wrong Time? (AssetBuilder)
Over the last 50 years our life expectancy has increased. So has our health, however many television advertisements we see to fix various maladies. So why is it that more of us retire earlier than we did in 1965?
Christina H: 5 Confessions of a Female 'Nice Guy' (Cracked)
I don't know if you have heard the term "Nice Guy." Ironically, it does not actually refer to any nice guy. It refers to a sort of Internet phenomenon of a guy who complains about how girls won't date him and prefer jerks, and therefore all women are bad and shallow and are too dumb to know who's good for them. Such guys existed before the internet, but their inescapable public complaining is the part made possible by the miracle of technology.
Jambi (John Paragon) - A blue-faced (later green) genie who lived in a jeweled box. Usually appeared once per show to grant Pee-wee a wish, often with unexpected results. Sometimes, he appeared more than once per show or not at all. His catchphrases included "Wish? Did somebody say 'Wish'?", and the magic words "Mecca lecca hi, mecca hiney ho" (which grew more complicated as the show progressed).
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Lois Of Oregon was first, and correct, with:
Holy shit! I remember Jambi, the guy who lived in Pee Wee's
Box! Or AKA...John Paragon, pictured here looking as though
he was carved out of chocolate. For some reason, I remember
seeing him somewhere wearing a whole processed chicken on
his head, but could not verify that with a google image
search, so it could have been a dream. What a long strange
trip it's been. Anyway, live long and prosper everyone. And
Dale From Mars, as always, you are the wind beneath my
wings.
Charlie wrote:
Jambi the Genie from Pee-Wee's Playhouse
Jambi is also a province and city in Indonesia.
Alan J said:
Jambi
Deborah responded:
Pretty sure that's from "PeeWee's Playhouse" but I'll be darned if I remember who sang it.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Pee-wee Herman
Randall replied:
Another one that I know, Marty:
Jambi (not sure of the spelling) from Pee Wee's Playhouse.
Paul Rubens created the crazy-fun Pee Wee's Playhouse that had talking furniture, cartoons, John Paragon as Jambi, Lawrence Fishburn as a cowboy, Phil Hartman was in there too, and Miss Yvonne the Most Beautiful Woman in Cartoonland.
My favorite exchange between Miss Yvonne and Pee Wee didn't actually happen on Pee Wee's Playhouse, but rather on a Pee Wee Herman 1 hour special and went something like this:
Pee Wee: "Shoe mirrors! Shoe mirrors! I'm wearing shoe mirrors so I can look up your dress and see your panties!"
Miss Yvonne: "I'm not wearing any panties."
Pee Wee, obviously disappointed: "Awww..."
Mecca lecca hi mecca hiney HO!
Marian said:
Pee Wee Herman
MAM wrote:
Jambi is a blue/green-faced genie who lived in a jeweled box on Pee-Wee's Playhouse. Usually appeared once per show to grant Pee-wee a wish,
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CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Madam Secretary', then a FRESH'The Good Wife', followed by a FRESH'CSI: The Original One'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a (F) 'Once Upon A Time', then a FRESH'Resurrection', followed by a FRESH'Revenge'.
The CW offers a RERUN'Celebrity Name Game', followed by another RERUN'Celebrity Name Game', then an old 'Friends', followed by another old 'Friends', then 1½ hours of what passes for local news and other fluffery.
Faux has a FRESH'The Simpsons' (Treehouse of Horror XXV), followed by a FRESH'Brooklyn Nine-Nine', then a FRESH'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH'Mulaney'.
MY has 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 'Seed Of Chucky', 'Walking Dead', followed by a FRESH'Walking Dead', then a FRESH'Talking Dead'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] NATURE'S WEIRDEST-Episode 3
[7:00AM] NATURE'S WEIRDEST-Episode 4
[8:00AM] HIDDEN HABITATS-Ep 9 - Amazon
[8:30AM] HIDDEN HABITATS-Ep 10 - Svalbard
[9:00AM] PLANET EARTH: HUMAN PLANET-Ep 8 - Cities - Surviving the Urban Jungle
[10:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 8 - La Gondola
[11:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 6 - Ep 5 - Barefoot Bob's
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 2 - Leone's
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 6 - Ep 15 - Amy's Baking Company
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR: INDIA SPECIAL
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR: TOP 41-Episode 5
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR: SEASON 16 SPECIAL
[6:30PM] PITCH BLACK
[9:00PM] THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK
[11:30PM] PITCH BLACK
[2:00AM] THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK
[4:30AM] TOP GEAR: SEASON 16 Special (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ', then a FRESH'Manzo'd With Children', 'Real Housewives Of NJ', and 'Manzo'd With Children'.
Comedy Central has 'Jeff Dunham: Spark Of Insanity', 'Jeff Dunham: Minding The Monsters', followed by the movie 'Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby'.
FX has the movie 'The Amazing Spider-Man', followed by the movie 'Men In Black III', then the movie 'Men In Black III', again.
IFC -
[6:00AM] BATMAN-WHEN THE RAT'S AWAY, THE MICE WILL PLAY
[6:33AM] BATMAN-THE THIRTEENTH HAT
[7:06AM] BATMAN-BATMAN STANDS PAT
[7:39AM] BATMAN-THE JOKER GOES TO SCHOOL
[8:12AM] BATMAN-HE MEETS HIS MATCH, THE GRISLY GHOUL
[8:45AM] BATMAN-TRUE OR FALSE-FACE
[9:18AM] BATMAN-HOLY RAT RACE
[9:51AM] BATMAN-THE PURR-FECT CRIME
[10:24AM] BATMAN-BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME
[10:57AM] BATMAN-THE PENGUIN GOES STRAIGHT
[11:30AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-ELLIE KEMPER WEARS A PURPLE RUFFLED SLEEVELESS TOP & LAVENDER FLATS
[12:00PM] PORTLANDIA-CELERY
[12:30PM] PORTLANDIA-THE TEMP
[1:00PM] PORTLANDIA-ECOTERRORISTS
[1:30PM] PORTLANDIA-NO-FO-O-FO-BRIDGE
[2:00PM] JACKIE BROWN
[5:15PM] JAWS
[8:00PM] ARMY OF DARKNESS
[9:45PM] 28 WEEKS LATER
[12:00AM] THE HILLS HAVE EYES 2
[2:00AM] 28 WEEKS LATER
[4:15AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-CLARK GREGG WEARS A NAVY BLAZER & WHITE COLLARED SHIRT
[4:45AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-JASON SCHWARTZMAN WEARS A STRIPED SHIRT & HIGH TOP SNEAKERS
[5:15AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-COBIE SMULDERS WEARS A STRAPLESS BLACK & WHITE DRESS
[5:45AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-AZIZ ANSARI (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Loredana, Esq.-Don't Come Back in a Body Bag
[7:00AM] Love Lust-Love Lust & Street Eats
[7:15AM] Kingpin
[9:45AM] Weird Science
[11:45AM] 9 to 5
[2:15PM] The Witches of Eastwick
[4:45PM] The Perfect Storm
[7:30PM] Blade Runner
[10:00PM] Aliens
[1:00AM] Aliens
[4:00AM] Factory Girl (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Birth', followed by the movie 'Lost Souls'.
Canadian rock musicians Robbie Robertson (L) and Garth Hudson, surviving members of The Band, are inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto, Canada, 18 October 2014. The 17th annual Walk of Fame celebrates Canadians who have achieved excellence in music, film, television, literature, visual and performing arts, sports, science and innovation.
Photo by Warren Toda
The Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. will present Gena Rowlands with its career achievement award, the group announced on Saturday.
An 84-year-old veteran of film, TV and theater, Rowlands is particularly celebrated for helping to usher in a bold new commitment to realism in American screen acting in the 1960s and '70s, never more so than in her grittily layered, emotionally fearless performances for the writer-director John Cassavetes. Their 10-picture collaboration, which included such films as "Shadows" (1959) and "Faces" (1968), earned Rowlands two Oscar nominations for best actress, in "A Woman Under the Influence" (1975) and "Gloria" (1981).
Cassavetes received the L.A. critics' career achievement award in 1986, making him and Rowlands the first husband-and-wife duo to be so honored in the group's nearly 40-year history.
The group also voted to honor longtime member and past president Leonard Maltin with a special citation in recognition of his 40-year career as a film critic and historian. It's not the first time LAFCA has celebrated one of its own; past honorees include Charles Champlin and Kevin Thomas.
British comedian, Russell Brand attends the Britain Needs a Pay Rise march in London, Britain, 18 October 2014. The mass demonstration was organised by the Trade Union Congress (TUC), a federation of trade unions in England and Wales, to call for an economic recovery for all. Official figures show that wages have fallen every year since 2010.
Photo by Hannah McKay
When she got off school last Thursday, Huang Qiufeng, the high spirited 12-year old daughter of migrant workers, dropped by the local library in this scruffy village on the outskirts of Beijing, as she does from time to time.
She found it closed, replaced by a convenience store. The brightly painted letters on the wall spelling out "BOOK" were obscured by shelves full of instant noodles.
"The people here were very nice and I really liked the library," Qiufeng said. "But now it's gone."
And so had ten other children's libraries across China run by Li Ren, an educational charity. The libraries are among the victims of a sweeping orthodoxy laid down by President Xi Jinping, who continues to consolidate his power. While crackdowns on budding expression here come and go, the new variant is spreading its net more widely, ensnaring even prominent moderate voices.
In recent weeks and months, scholars have seen their books banned after they voiced sympathy for pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong; artists with independent ideas have been silenced; lawyers representing political prisoners have been locked up; and human rights campaigners and civil society activists have been detained by the hundreds.
Even if, like me, you have a love for all things Middle-earth, it's easy to say that Peter Jackson has probably gone overboard with his trilogy of films based on The Hobbit. (My point of view? Two films would have been plenty, and they don't need to be as long as they are, but I'm still happy to overindulge and spend more time in his gorgeous version of Middle-earth).
However, if you just don't have the attention span for more than eight hours of Hobbit movies, the YouTube stop-motion artists Brotherhood Workshop have condensed the story of The Hobbit down into 72 tight seconds (it is a kid's book, after all) and animated it using Lego's Hobbit-themed minifigs and sets. The results are simultaneously hilarious but also quite fun for Middle-earth fans - the whole thing feels like it could easily have been produced by Lego itself. It's also quite reminiscent of the surprisingly charming world of the Lego: The Hobbit video game. But if you're new to the story of The Hobbit and plan on reading the books and / or watching the films, we'd recommend not watching this clip - as tongue-in-cheek as it is, it does give away one of the main climactic points of the book.
As for the many extra stories that Jackson embellished or created to pad out his trilogy, Hobbit purists will be satisfied with this presentation - it sticks right to the plot of the book, with no details on what Gandalf is up to when he keeps splitting off from Bilbo and his company of dwarves. If you need the full, over-the-top, Peter Jackson treatment, the final film in his Hobbit trilogy opens on December 17th.
Director Takashi Miike holds the Maverick Director Award he received as he poses at the Rome Film Festival, October 18, 2014.
Photo by Alessandro Bianchi
A Halifax scientist is back from the Arctic with groundbreaking research - giant trout with giant implications for conservation in the north.
Steve Campana and his team from the Bedford Institute of Oceanography spent part of the summer in Victoria Island mapping northern lakes and trying to figure out what is in them.
"The biggest lake trout we caught was 1.2 metres and weighed about 35 pounds [16 kilograms]," said Campana. "It was a nice trout."
The scientific team was only able to sample a small number of the 500,000 lakes in the region.
The copy infringement lawsuit claiming that Fox comedy "New Girl" was ripped off from two unknown writers was dismissed by a judge, but the plaintiffs can refile and amend their complaint.
According to legal documents filed in the U.S. District Court of Central California obtained by TheWrap on Friday, Judge Stephen Wilson described writers Stephanie Counts and Shari Gould's complaint against Fox, William Morris Endeavor, show runner Elizabeth Meriwether and executive producer Peter Chernin as "ambiguous."
In the initial lawsuit filed in January, Counts and Gold said their script, at the time a feature screenplay called "Square One," was passed to Meriwether and former Fox chief Peter Chernin's Chernin Entertainment, both of whom were represented by William Morris Endeavor. The writers allegedly worked with WME and an independent producer from 2006 to 2010 before the relationships broke down.
Then, in February 2011, the lawsuit says the plaintiffs heard about the pilot for the Zooey Deschanel sitcom, which, like their script, featured a quirky girl who had just gone through a bad breakup and moved in with three men. The lawsuit details dozens of other specific similarities between the "Square One" script and the pilot for "New Girl."
Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds (C) is inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto, Canada, 18 October 2014. The 17th annual Walk of Fame celebrates Canadians who have achieved excellence in music, film, television, literature, visual and performing arts, sports, science and innovation.
Photo by Warren Toda
FBI chief James Comey renewed a call Thursday for broader authority to tap into emerging technologies, saying the Edward Snowden revelations have led to unwarranted mistrust of law enforcement.
Comey said revelations about widespread surveillance have led to a climate which could hinder the ability to catch criminals and terrorists, underscored by new efforts to encrypt smartphones to make them inaccessible to investigators, even with a warrant.
Comey's comments sought to renew the debate about the FBI "going dark," or being unable to access encrypted calls and messages from new apps and services which fall outside the traditional realm of "wiretaps."
The FBI had been calling for changes to the US law covering wiretapping in 2013, but that debate was shelved after the revelations from former NSA contractor Snowden in June last year about vast surveillance of telephone and online communications.
Northern Ireland-born contemporary artist 'Cyborg' Neil Harbisson presents his lecture 'hear colors' during at the Art&Fashion Forum in Poznan, Poland, 18 October 2014. Harbisson is contemporary artist and cyborg activist best known for creating the first cyborg antenna and for being the first person in the world to have an antenna implanted in his skull. The antenna allows him to perceive visible and invisible colours such as infrareds and ultraviolets via sound waves as well as receive images as sounds, videos as sounds, music or phone calls directly into his head. In 2004, he was officially recognized as a cyborg by a government.
Photo by Marek Zakrzewski
Federally owned schools for Native Americans on reservations are marked by remoteness, extreme poverty and a lack of construction dollars. They also are among the nation's lowest performing.
The Obama administration is pushing ahead with an improvement plan that gives tribes more control. But the effort is complicated by the disrepair of so many buildings, not to mention the federal legacy of forcing American Indian children from their homes to attend boarding schools.
Consider Little Singer Community School, with 81 students on a remote desert outpost. The vision for the school came in the 1970s from a medicine man who wanted area children to attend school locally. Here's the reality today: a cluster of rundown classroom buildings containing asbestos, radon, mice and mold.
Students often come from families struggling with domestic violence, alcoholism and a lack of running water at home, so nurturing is emphasized. The school provides showers, along with shampoo and washing machines
Teachers have no housing, so they commute together about 90 minutes each morning on barely passable dirt roads.
Francisco Flores of Danza Azteca Guadalupana dances in the 31st annual Viva la Vida parade in Austin, Texas, on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014. The Viva la Vida Festival is Austin's largest and longest-running Day of the Dead celebration. In addition to the parade, the event had Latino entertainment and food, art activities and community altars.
Photo by Jay Janner
The Swedish armed forces stepped up a military operation off the coast of Stockholm on Saturday where they were investigating a report of "foreign underwater activity".
More than 200 men, Swedish stealth ships, minesweepers and helicopters have been searching an area of the Baltic Sea about 50 kilometres (30 miles) east of the Swedish capital since Friday evening, following a tip-off from what the military called a "credible source".
"I have decided to increase the number of units in the area -- units with specialised sensors," Commander Jonas Wikstroem told reporters at a press conference in Stockholm.
"We still judge that the information we received yesterday was very trustworthy," he added, but declined to comment on what the military had discovered after more than 24 hours sweeping the sea around islands in Stockholm's archipelago.
Swedish defence analysts cited by local media speculated that a foreign submarine may have been in the area to replace old spy equipment or to monitor a Swedish naval exercise.
A model presents a creation by Japanese designer Taro Horiuchi during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Tokyo, Japan, 18 October 2014. The presentation of the 2015 Spring/Summer collections runs from 13 to 19 October.
Photo by Christopher Jue
The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
1. (2) Beyoncé / Jay Z; $6,166,059; $115.88.
2. (1) One Direction; $6,058,097; $84.06.
3. (3) Paul McCartney; $3,278,753; $129.58.
4. (4) Katy Perry; $1,777,708; $101.72.
5. (6) Bruno Mars; $1,494,035; $80.50.
6. (5) Phish; $1,459,975; $53.58.
7. (7) Luke Bryan; $1,456,031; $50.78.
8. (13) Rod Stewart / Santana; $1,173,683; $102.84.
9. (10) Dave Matthews Band; $1,158,340; $57.38.
10. (8) Jason Aldean; $1,126,238; $48.50.
11. (New) Queen + Adam Lambert; $1,097,505; $92.24.
12. (11) Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers; $1,006,858; $92.03.
13. (9) Zac Brown Band; $976,284; $50.28.
14. (14) Blake Shelton; $891,302; $50.41.
15. (12) Michael Bublé; $885,712; $84.16.
16. (15) "Walking With Dinosaurs"; $815,721; $41.12.
17. (16) Mötley Crüe; $740,977; $50.68.
18. (17) Journey / Steve Miller Band; $702,951; $64.40.
19. (New) Eric Church; $663,712; $48.62.
20. (18) Brad Paisley; $541,085; $34.49.
Shoppers walk past an Indian traditional creative artwork "Kolam," a form of sandpainting, for the upcoming Diwali, or the Hindu festival of lights at a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014. The festival falls on Oct. 22.
Photo by Lai Seng Sin
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