Mark Shields: Thanksgiving: The Near-Perfect Holiday (Creators Syndicate)
To celebrate Thanksgiving, this most American of this country's holidays, you do not have to go into debt. You do not have to dress up, or rent or buy any expensive costume. Nobody makes a financial killing on this Thursday in November. OK, Ocean Spray, the cranberry company in my native Massachusetts, makes a buck or two, but the proper observance of Thanksgiving does not tempt any one of us anywhere to go Chapter 11 - and nobody risks losing his eyesight to a cherry bomb.
Chris Lee: In 'The Taqwacores,' Muslim punk rockers raise compelling ideas (Los Angeles Times)
They are, to be sure, ideas that go unexplored in the Koran: Is it a sin to slam dance? Can a person wear his hair in a mohawk, smoke weed like Snoop Dogg and still call himself a devout Muslim under the eyes of God? The micro-budgeted feature "The Taqwacores" - which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and is now playing in theaters in New York and Los Angeles - tackles such issues head-on.
David Bruce has 39 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $39 you can buy 9,750 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," and "Maximum Cool."
In case you haven't noticed (haha), the 'Holiday Season' onslaught has begun. (Actually, it did the day after Halloween, but no matter). The economic hopes and dreams of countless retailers, wholesalers, grocers, catalog companies, Internet discounters, hotels, motels, airlines, bus lines, restaurants, bars, credit card loan-sharks and the Salvation Army are depending on YOU for their very survival... Or, so they say... In addition, as always, elbowing their way in like a bunch of 'Red-haired Step-Children" demanding attention are those, too, who push the whole 'Peace on Earth, Good Will Towards Men... Reason for the Season' agenda despite the overwhelming evidence that those sentiments might actually happen for only, like, two seconds... If'n we're lucky... So.. Looking at 'The Big Picture'...
What is your overall attitude regarding the upcoming festivities?
A.) Joy to the World! It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!
B.) Is it over yet?
C.) Sigh... It is, what it is... I'll make it through... somehow... I think...
Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for eleven seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC, having been created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles. The show is set in the Cheers bar (named for the toast "Cheers") in Boston, Massachusetts, where a group of locals meet to drink, relax, chat and have fun.
Source
Marian was first, and correct with:
Boston, and you can find a Cheers Bar there and maybe firends.
Alan J said:
Boston
RICHARD mc D wrote:
Only a guess, Boston?
BadtotheboneBob answered:
Boston... Right, Jane?
mj responded:
Same one where Sam pitched
Boston
Charlie replied:
Boston.
This is too easy.
Uncle Sky wrote:
Cheers was in Boston.
Here's a gift for your favorite pathologist :
Vodka; With Christian Infants
A short time ago the company "EZ Protocols" announced a start-up of vodka brand that is called "Kabbalah vodka - with Christian infants" - the newest quality benchmark on the super premium segment of the Russian market. The vodka is expected to have a distinguished wheat flavor. Special water, enriched in silver, gold and platinum ions along with neat and stylish design will bring anyone back to the best traditions of a ritual table. As a present, every bottle has a unique handmade infant inside, which is made of fortified glass.
Adam replied:
Boston, of course.
Boston Jane responded:
"Cheers" was set in Boston, snd the namesake bar and hotel are still
there, originally called the Bull & Finch, on the lower end of Beacon
Hill, across from the Public Garden. Now the bar a tourist attraction.
Locals seldom go there.
Sally said:
"Cheers," is a Boston bar, "where everybody knows your name..."
It's really an actual bar in Boston.
During the run of the show, I visited Bean Town and was going to go into the bar, but it was so mobbed, didn't think it was worth it. But, I can tell you, first hand, it's there!!
PS: I have been working out in the yard all afternoon, and yet the leaves keep falling. The gks are coming over tomorrow to help gamma rake... :)
MAM wrote:
The bar, Cheers, is in Boston, Mass.
And, Joe S responded:
Boston
Nobody on TV sounds like where they are supposed to be from. Nobody on Cheers sounds like Boston, Nobody on Northern Exposure sounds like Alaska. Everyone has a generic accent and sound like newscasters who come from nowhere. Matlock does sound like he may have been from Georgia, before he went to college and law school, but that's the exception to the rule. I really like Detroit 187, and although sometimes a character will now refer to a soft drink as "pop" and not "soda", they still don't sound like Michiganders. This is what people (some people) from Michigan sound like; .
Yes, I had a TV show in the 80s. All my personal videotapes were stolen
years ago so I had no way to prove it when I drunkenly claimed to non-believers
that I once had a TV show, but now there's proof. Overview, produced by Michael
Nesmith, has been posted to YouTube! That's Taylor Negron at the top and me in
the mullet at 2:35.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race', then a FRESH'Undercover Boss', followed by a FRESH'CSI: The 2nd 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 the FRESH'On The Red Carpet At The AMAs', followed by the LIVE (tape-delayed & edited on the left coast) '2010 American Music Awards'.
The CW fills the night with the movie 'The Avengers'.
Faux has a RERUN'Cleveland Show', followed by a RERUN'Simpsons', then a FRESH'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'Cleveland Show', then a FRESH'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH'American Dad'.
MY recycles an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'The Closer', followed by another old 'The Closer'.
A&E has 3 hours of 'Paranormal State', followed by a FRESH'Psychic Kids: Children Of The Paranormal'.
AMC offers the movie 'From Dusk Till Dawn', followed by a RERUN'The Walking Dead', then a FRESH'The Walking Dead'.
BBC -
[7:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 Morgan's
[8:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[9:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[10:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[11:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[12:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[1:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[2:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[3:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[4:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[5:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[6:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 6
[7:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - 4 - Rhod Gilbert, Rihanna
[7:45 PM] Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
[10:00 PM] Luther - Episode 6
[11:15 PM] Luther: Inside Look - Episode 6
[11:30 PM] Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
[1:45 AM] Luther: Inside Look - Episode 5
[2:00 AM] Luther - Episode 6
[3:15 AM] Luther: Inside Look - Episode 6
[3:30 AM] Law & Order: UK - Ep 8 Samaritan
[4:30 AM] The Inbetweeners - Episode 1
[5:00 AM] The Inbetweeners - Episode 2
[5:30 AM] The Inbetweeners - Episode 3
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', still another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta'.
FX has the movie 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall', followed by the movie 'You Don't Mess With The Zohan'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', yet another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'IRT Deadliest Roads', then a FRESH'Top Gear'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Little Fish
[8:00AM] The Grid
[8:15AM] The Honeymoon Killers
[10:05AM] The Minus Man
[12:05PM] Arrested Development
[12:35PM] Arrested Development
[1:05PM] Arrested Development
[1:35PM] Arrested Development
[2:05PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[2:35PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[3:05PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[3:35PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[4:05PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[4:35PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[5:05PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[5:35PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:05PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:35PM] Bug
[8:25PM] Bullet
[10:00PM] Undeclared
[10:30PM] Undeclared
[11:00PM] The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
[11:30PM] Arrested Development
[12:00AM] Bug
[1:45AM] Bullet
[3:15AM] The Piano
[5:15AM] The Grid
[5:30AM] The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:10 AM] Nights Of Cabiria
[8:15 AM] Girl By The Lake
[10:00 AM] E2: DESIGN II - Adaptive Refuse in the Netherlands
[10:30 AM] E2: DESIGN II - Architecture 2030
[11:00 AM] Cities On Speed - Shanghai (Episode 3, Season 1)
[12:00 PM] ICONOCLASTS - Lenny Kravitz + Lee Daniels (Episode 2, Season 5)
[1:00 PM] THE DAY BEFORE - DVF
[1:30 PM] THE DAY BEFORE - Versace
[2:00 PM] THE DAY BEFORE - Alexander Wang
[2:30 PM] THE DAY BEFORE - Narciso Rodriguez
[3:00 PM] THE DAY BEFORE - Nina Ricci
[3:30 PM] THE DAY BEFORE - Jeremy Scott
[4:00 PM] Cities On Speed - Shanghai (Episode 3, Season 1)
[5:00 PM] Nights Of Cabiria
[7:05 PM] The Art of Speed: Jeff Koons at 180 MPH
[7:35 PM] ICONOCLASTS - Tom Ford on Jeff Koons (Episode 6, Season 1)
[8:35 PM] Hannah Takes The Stairs
[10:00 PM] The Darjeeling Limited
[11:35 PM] Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic
[12:45 AM] Hannah Takes The Stairs
[2:15 AM] The Darjeeling Limited
[3:50 AM] Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic
[5:00 AM] I'm Gonna Explode (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'The Grudge 3', followed by the movie 'Halloween: The Curse Of Michael Myers'.
Oscar-nominated actor/producer Harrison Ford, right, with Kirk Douglas,left, at Santa Barbara International Film Festival event Friday, Nov. 19, 2010.Ford received the fifth annual Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film at the event.
Photo by Spencer Weiner
The audience at Thursday's performance of "Fela!" on Broadway got an extra thrill when an unannounced guest arrived - the first lady.
Michelle Obama and six girlfriends stunned theatergoers when she arrived at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on 49th Street to catch the Tony Award-winning musical about Fela Kuti, the Afrobeat artist and Nigerian political activist.
"When the audience realized that she was in the audience, they just went nuts," said Stephen Hendel, who co-conceived and produced the show. "People started standing up and applauding, saying 'We love you!' and 'We love you, Michelle!' It took a minute or so to get the audience to settle down."
The musical features dancers mingling with the audience and the first lady's group was seated along Row G, where many of the dancers cross over. The Secret Service asked the dancers not to change their performance but to give Obama some extra space.
Diego Luna, right, and his wife, Camila Sodi arrives at the Gucci launch of the children's collection at Gucci Rodeo Drive on Saturday Nov. 20, 2010, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Katy Winn
Peru said on Friday that Yale University has agreed to return thousands of artifacts taken from the Machu Picchu archeological site in the Andes in the early 1900s, and the pact could end a bitter controversy.
According to Peru, the elite U.S. university has some 40,000 of artifacts including pottery, jewelry and bones from the ruins of the mountaintop Incan site that is one of South America's leading tourist attractions.
President Alan Garcia said on state-run television he had worked out a deal with Yale officials and that the pieces would start arriving in Peru early next year.
A Yale spokeswoman declined to provide immediate comment.
The artifacts were sent out of Peru after a Yale alumnus, U.S. explorer Hiram Bingham, rediscovered Machu Picchu in 1911. Peru contends that the objects were lent to the New Haven, Connecticut, school for 18 months but never sent back.
More change is afoot for "American Idol," which will air on a different night for its upcoming 10th season.
The Fox TV network said its hit singing contest will move from its longtime Tuesday and Wednesday night broadcasts to Wednesday and Thursday when it returns. Its season debut is Jan. 19.
The switch means more big change for "American Idol," which is bringing in new judges Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez after the departures of Simon Cowell, Ellen DeGeneres and Kara DioGuardi. Randy Jackson will be back on the panel.
Fox's decision to move the series, announced Friday, comes as "American Idol" must fight to keep its No. 1 spot. The show's ratings have been declining, with this year's finale between winner Lee DeWyze and runner-up Crystal Bowersox drawing about 24 million viewers, down 5 million from 2009.
Singers, painters and television presenters were demonstrating across the Netherlands on Saturday against the government's plans to slash funding and subsidies for the arts as part of an (EURO)18 billion ($25 billion) austerity package.
Thousands of members of the public also were attending events around the country, and organizers called for protesters to scream together to express their anger at the changes.
On Thursday the Dutch parliament approved plans to raise sales tax from six percent to 19 percent on tickets to theaters, cinemas, rock concerts and other cultural events.
The new right-wing administration also has pledged to cut funding for the arts by (EURO)200 million ($274 million) in the coming five years.
A wet cement block is seen after Cher put her name, hand and footprints in it during a ceremony in the forecourt of the Grauman's Chinese Theatre inHollywood, California November 18, 2010.
Photo by Danny Moloshok
Christies' says a Paris auction of prints by the late American photographer Richard Avedon, including a multicolored four-frame picture of the Beatles, has brought in (EURO)5.5 million ($7.5 million).
Auctioneers say an outsized print of the 1955 photograph of model Dovima with elephants at a circus was the top earner at the sale - reaping (EURO)841,000 ($1.15 million) alone.
The psychedelic-toned Beatles shot from 1967 brought in (EURO)445,000 ($608,000). The third-highest take came from a photograph of model Stephanie Seymour cheekily baring herself.
It was the largest auction of works by Avedon, who died in 2004. The auction was aimed to raise money for the Richard Avedon Foundation.
The publisher of Sarah Palin's forthcoming book filed a lawsuit against Gawker Media on Friday for leaking pages of "America By Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag" before its release next week.
The legal complaint was filed Friday in federal court in Manhattan, said a spokeswoman for HarperCollins Publishers. The filing came two days after Gawker published images of 21 of the book's pages and its dedication page. In response, Palin tweeted, "Isn't that illegal?"
Her publisher contends it is. The lawsuit asks that Gawker be banned from what it terms "further copyright infringement" and that Gawker deliver the source material to the publisher so it can be destroyed. HarperCollins is also seeking financial damages.
Gawker did not immediately respond to e-mails seeking comment Friday evening, but an item published the day before and titled "Sarah Palin Is Mad at Us for Leaking Pages From Her Book" defended the blog's actions and linked to websites defining the fair use doctrine of copyright law.
Models display creations from the collection 'The Empire' by the Serbian designer Olga Olja Ivanjicki, presented by Serbian fashion house Mona, in Skopje,Macedonia, on Saturday, Nov. 20, 2010.
Photo by Boris Grdanoski
Every year, American schools pay more than $8.6 billion in bonuses to teachers with master's degrees, even though the idea that a higher degree makes a teacher more effective has been mostly debunked.
Despite more than a decade of research showing the money has little impact on student achievement, state lawmakers and other officials have been reluctant to tackle this popular way for teachers to earn more money.
Just this week, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said the economy has given the nation an opportunity to make dramatic improvements in the productivity of its education system and to do more of what works and less of what doesn't.
Duncan told the American Enterprise Institute on Wednesday that master's degree bonuses are an example of spending money on something that doesn't work.
Pope Benedict XVI has opened the door on the previously taboo subject of condoms as a way to fight HIV, saying male prostitutes who use condoms may be beginning to act responsibly. It's a stunning comment for a pontiff who has blamed condoms for making the AIDS crisis worse.
The pope made the comments in an interview with a German journalist published as a book entitled "Light of the World: The Pope, the Church and the Signs of the Times," which is being released Tuesday. The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano ran excerpts on Saturday.
Church teaching has long opposed condoms because they are a form of artificial contraception, although the Vatican has never released an explicit policy about condoms and HIV. The Vatican has been harshly criticized for its position.
Benedict said that condoms are not a moral solution to stopping AIDS. But he said in some cases, such as for male prostitutes, their use could represent a first step in assuming moral responsibility "in the intention of reducing the risk of infection."
A contortionist performs on stage at the adult entertainment exhibition Erotica 2010 at Olympia centre in London November 20, 2010. REUTERS/Luke Macgregor
Prince William and his fiancée Kate Middleton should be Britain's next king and queen, not the heir to the throne Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, two polls showed on Saturday.
An ICM poll, published in Britain's News of the World newspaper, showed that 64 percent of people wanted William and his future bride as next in line to the throne, while a YouGov poll in the Sunday Times found the majority of Britons thought William would make a better king than his father Charles.
Charles, 62, is currently next in line to the throne, now occupied by his mother Queen Elizabeth, 84. The British public has no say in who should be their next king or queen, a largely symbolic role in a country run as a parliamentary democracy.
The ICM survey also found that fewer than one in five people wanted the crown to pass to Charles and Camilla. The YouGov poll showed that 44 percent of people thought Charles should make way for his son to become the next king, against 37 percent who thought he should not.
A pastor who said Facebook was a "portal to infidelity" and told married church leaders to delete their accounts or resign once testified that he had a three-way sexual relationship with his wife and a male church assistant.
The Rev. Cedric Miller confirmed the information reported Saturday by the Asbury Park Press of Neptune, which cited testimony he gave in a criminal case in 2003. The relationship had ended by that time.
Miller gained national attention when he issued the Facebook edict this week. He said it came about because much of the marital counseling he has performed over the past year and a half has concerned infidelity stemming from the social-networking website.
The 48-year-old leader of Living Word Christian Fellowship Church in Neptune Township had claimed Facebook ignites old passions, and he ordered about 50 married church officials to delete their accounts with the social networking site or resign from their leadership positions.
A long-haired Chihuahua named "Momo" (Japanese for "Peach") sits on the grass during an examination to become a police dog in Yamatokoriyama, western Japan November 12, 2010. The brown-and-white Chihuahua, a first for Japan and perhaps the world, was one of 32 successful candidates out of 70 dogs, passing a search and rescue test by finding a person in five minutes after merely sniffing their cap.
You have reached the Home page of BartCop Entertainment.
Make yourself home, take your shoes off...
Go ahead, scratch it if it itches.
The idea is to have fun.
Do you have something to say?
Anything that increased your blood pressure, or, even better, amused or entertained?
Do you have a great album no one's heard?
How about a favorite TV show, movie, book, play, cartoon, or legal amusement?
A popular artist that just plain pisses you off?
A box set the whole world should own?
Vile, filthy rumors about Republican hypocrites?
Just plain vile, filthy rumors?
This is your place.
wrote:
responded:
