'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
He's B-a-a-a-a-a-a-c-k!
The Worried Shrimp
Bad News, Good News
'The Vidiot' e Finito
The Bad News is - Roxanne (AKA: The Vidiot) has decided it's time to stop updating her always useful site.
The Good News is - she's working on a new site.
For now, the only page from her old site to be updated with any degree of regularity is
'pissed'.
Thanks, Roxanne. You did a great job, and as much as I hate to see you 'go', I look forward to your next creation.
Thanks for being so easy to work with and for so much great work.
'The Idiot Song'
from Alvin
'All bad precedents began as justifiable measures.'
--
Julius Caesar, quoted in Sallust's Conspiracy of Catiline {1st c.
B.C.}
MIDI
THE IDIOT SONG
{Sung to 'The Ketchup Song' by Las Ketchup}
Bush is silly, wild and greedy
He's no brainy, and he's lazy
Bush is also trigger happy
Totally incompetent
Naughty and adventurous
The 'Lord of the Idiots!'
Finding Osama and wiping out Al Qaeda
The Taliban's out, forget about that
He couldn't care less of capturing bin Laden
Dump America's crusade to a premature end
He is much more concerned with - Saddam Hussein!
He is painful, the Lord of the Idiots - he's cruel
Tormenting and devilish; sly and comical like dad
He is painful, the Lord of the Idiots - he's cruel
Tormenting and devilish; sly and comical like dad
He is painful, the Lord of the Idiots - he's cruel
Tormenting and devilish; sly and comical like dad
He's a walking contradiction
The sickest of them all
Bush will reign and rule this nation
It's nice to remember
He's got sympathy for the millionaires
God Almighty, is he a bad leader!
Finding Osama and wiping out Al Qaeda
The Taliban's out, forget about that
He couldn't care less of capturing bin Laden
Dump America's crusade to a premature end
He is much more concerned with - Saddam Hussein!
He is painful, the Lord of the Idiots - he's cruel
Tormenting and devilish; sly and comical like dad
He is painful, the Lord of the Idiots - he's cruel
Tormenting and devilish; sly and comical like dad
He is painful, the Lord of the Idiots - he's cruel
Tormenting and devilish; sly and comical like dad
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He is painful, the Lord of the Idiots - he's cruel
Tormenting and devilish; sly and comical like dad
He is painful, the Lord of the Idiots - he's cruel
Tormenting and devilish; sly and comical like dad
He is painful, the Lord of the Idiots - he's cruel
Tormenting and devilish; sly and comical like dad...
~~ Alvin D
Thanks, Alvin!
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
A pleasant, mostly sunny day. Just trying to get everything back to what passes for normal around here.
In an effort to be 'helpful', our houseguest rearranged my 'stuff' around the computer. If you've sent me something in the last couple of weeks & got no response, please re-send it.
The kittens are sleeping & hiding more than usual, and who can blame them.
Tonight, Sunday, as is tradition, CBS opens the night with '60 Minutes', and follows with a fresh 'Becker' then a RERUN 'Raymond' and cap the evening with the fresh made-for-tv movie 'Martin & Lewis.'
NBC opens the night with an hour-long RERUN of 'Friends' and follow it with the movie 'Runaway Bride'.
ABC starts the night with the movie 'The Santa Clause' then follows with a fresh made-for-tv movie, 'The Pennsylvania Miners' Story'.
The WB rolls out 'The Wizard Of Oz', and follows it with a RERUN 'Family Affair'.
Faux begins the night with a RERUN 'Futurama', then a RERUN 'King Of The Hill', then a fresh 'Simpsons' (Marge's boob-job), followed by a fresh 'King Of The Hill',
then a fresh 'Malcolm' followed by a RERUN 'Malcolm'.
UPN has 'Buffy', 'Enterprise', and 'Stargate SG-1'.
Weekly rerun of 'The Osbournes' on MTV at 10:30pm (est) - FRESH Shows start this Tuesday, 26 November at 10:30pm (est)
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Or reviews?
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Receives Keys to Anaheim
No Doubt
It was a return to the Tragic — uh, Magic Kingdom for rock band No Doubt.
The Anaheim-bred band received the keys to the city Friday at Disneyland, which the band mocked in its 1995 hit album "Tragic Kingdom."
Lead singer Gwen Stefani even had a confession.
"I wanted to work at Disneyland," she admitted. "I wanted to sing songs at the Disneyland Hotel. ... I used to come dancing here."
No Doubt
Nebraskans Snap Up Tickets
Bono & Ashley Judd
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is a good draw in this city, but he's no Bono or Ashley Judd.
Fans hoping to see the lead singer of U2 speak at a World AIDS Day awareness program took just 17 minutes Friday morning to pick up free tickets. It took
40 minutes for all the seats at the Lied Center to be claimed for a Gorbachev appearance in March.
Bono and actress Judd will join an AIDS activist from Africa at the Dec. 1 event.
Bono & Ashley Judd
U2 Web site
Circles of Hope Award
Coretta Scott King
Civil rights leader Coretta Scott King denounced the Bush administration's foreign policy as she accepted an award for her work in the gay community, saying homeland security should focus
on domestic problems ranging from hate crimes to homelessness.
"A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create more terrorists and drain as much as 200 billion taxpayer dollars, which should be invested in human development here in
America," the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., said. "It seems to me that true homeland security ought to be more about providing health care for every citizen, and less about
reshuffling bureaucratic agencies and undermining our civil liberties."
King, 75, was honored Friday night with a Circles of Hope Award from the Metropolitan Community Foundation, a gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender organization that feeds the homeless
and provides services to about 20,000 needy people each year in San Francisco.
Following several long standing ovations and countless proclamations of "thank you" and "amen" shouted from the packed Fairmont Hotel ballroom, King said she isn't finished
fighting. She said more resources must be spent to find a cure for HIV, and hate crime laws must strengthened to include sexual orientation.
Patti LaBelle later embraced King and belted out "The Lord's Prayer" followed by a rendition of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" that honored Martin Luther King, who
was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, Tenn.
"I know she should be our next president," LaBelle joked. "She just gives so many people so much hope."
Coretta Scott King
www.mccsf.org/mcf/
Mort Walker Faces Lawsuit
Charlie Brown vs. Beetle Bailey
It's Charlie Brown vs. Beetle Bailey in a legal battle for as many as 44 original "Peanuts" comic strips.
The trust that controls Charles Schulz's strip, which features the antics of Charlie Brown, his dog Snoopy and friends Linus and Lucy, has sued Mort Walker, creator of the strip "Beetle Bailey," and
his International Museum of Cartoon Art to regain strips that Schulz lent Walker in 1978.
Walker founded the museum in Connecticut in 1974. It moved to New York and then to Boca Raton, Fla., where it closed in July of this year. The plaintiffs contend the museum no longer needs Schulz's strips
because it closed, and are concerned the museum will sell the strips to pay its debts.
Lawyers on both sides said they hope to reach an agreement.
Charlie Brown vs. Beetle Bailey
International Museum of Cartoon Art
MTV Concert
Alicia & 'P. Diddy'
Pop icons Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and Alicia Keys said Saturday the world knew too little about the devastating AIDS pandemic in Africa and promised to work daily to make the reality known.
In South Africa for an MTV concert Saturday that will be part of a World Aids Day television special targeting a global audience of up to two billion people, they said musicians had a special
responsibility to talk to young people about HIV/AIDS.
Combs and Keys were the star attractions at a concert that will form part of a 90-minute MTV music television special that will be broadcast on December 1, World Aids Day.
MTV executive Bill Rodie told Reuters the program would go out directly to the pop channel's potential audience of one billion young people and would be given free to any other broadcaster, boosting
the audience to a potential two billion.
He said the artists were performing free and the program would include a video-taped message from former President Nelson Mandela, who is South Africa's most powerful AIDS campaigner.
Kevin Carroll, community affairs manager for jeans makers Levi Strauss & Co, said his company, MTV, and the separate foundations of Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen had been planning
the Staying Alive Concert broadcast for a year.
Alicia & 'P. Diddy'
Admits Not Reading Novels
Michael Kinsley
The job seems impossible from the start: As a nonfiction judge for the National Book Awards, you get six months to read some 400 books on everything from environmental science to backroom politics.
At least one of this year's voters, columnist and television commentator Michael Kinsley, says he didn't even try.
In a column posted Thursday on the online magazine Slate, Kinsley acknowledged he looked at only a fraction of the submissions. He likened the awards to choosing "the best rhubarb pie at the state fair"
and hinted that he didn't complete Wednesday's winner: Robert Caro's 1,000-page "Master of the Senate," the third volume of his Lyndon Johnson biography.
"Once every seven or eight years, Robert Caro wheels out another gargantuan volume in his legendary biography of Lyndon Johnson, now up to Vol. 6: The Kindergarten Era (Part 1)," Kinsley wrote. He said
he agreed to be a judge out of "mainly vanity and a desire for free books."
Michael Kinsley
National Book Foundation
Hired Lawyers for VH1 Case
Liza & David
Liza Minnelli is getting ready for a legal fight against VH1.
She and David Gest have hired a lawyer, the same guy who represented Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel in his losing murder trial. The lawyer, Michael Sherman, said Minnelli and Gest have
hired him "to seek appropriate remedies and take appropriate action" -- whatever that is.
VH1 pulled the plug on Minnelli's planned reality television show, complaining that Gest was impossible to work with. A VH1 spokeswoman said they weren't "given the cooperation" they
needed to make the show happen. The network does say through it all, Minnelli was terrific.
About 60 hours of footage was shot, including segments with Ray Charles and Luther Vandross. The lawyer said he thinks "people would have enjoyed seeing it." And, he says "the case
is not necessarily about money, it's about fairness."
Liza & David
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Urges Students to Graduate
Jay-Z
Rapper Jay-Z, with a bottle of water in one hand and a microphone in the other, told an audience at the city's Cass Technical High School about the importance of staying in school.
"I'm just here to let y'all know it's real," Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, said Thursday.
The students had won a contest sponsored by radio station WDTJ-FM by having good school attendance. The prize was Jay-Z as principal for a day.
Only students with grade point averages of 3.0 or higher — 1,209 of them, or half of the school's student body — were invited to the rally.
Jay-Z
Lopburi, Thailand
Sunflowers
Thai tourists chat at the middle of a sunflower field in Lopburi province, 71 miles north of Bangkok Sunday, Nov. 24, 2002. Photo by Apichart Weerawong
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Highly Recommended
Steve Guttenberg
Steve Guttenberg has come back from the Hollywood Z-list. The "Police Academy" star is out promoting his new flick, "PS Your Cat Is Dead," and stopped by the Los Angeles club Belly
for an "American Rap Stars" party. Guttenberg caught Spinderella and MC Lyte's performances while smoking "funny" cigarettes with rappers Sticky Fingaz and Fredro "Onyx" Star. Fledgling
rapper B.I., who broke away from the group, said: "Not only does 'the Gutte' have the best movies, he has the best herb."
Steve Guttenberg
Pic Set to Open Palm Springs Fest
'Callas Forever'
Franco Zeffirelli's "Callas Forever," starring Jeremy Irons and Fanny Ardant, will open the 14th annual Palm Springs Intl. Film Festival on Jan. 9, marking its North American premiere.
In the picture's fictionalized version of the final days of opera legend Maria Callas, portrayed in the film by Ardant, a Faustian impresario and talent agent (Irons) enters the diva's life,
convincing her to make an ill-fated comeback.
In real-life, Callas was a longtime friend of Zeffirelli. The picture, which also stars Joan Plowright, is in English, French and Italian, with English subtitles.
'Callas Forever'
Sonny Bono once referred to Palm Springs as 'Death's Waiting Room.'
Marvel Comics Prequel
'Captain America'
Marvel Comics is shaking up one of its iconic superheroes — and some fans — with a series that imagines the original "Captain America" as a black Army recruit.
Since 1941, the series has followed the escapades of Steve Rogers, the scrawny, white Army reject who gained supernatural powers after drinking super-soldier serum.
In the new prequel, called "Truth: Red, White & Black" — which Marvel Comics feted at a launch event in Philadelphia on Friday — the Army first tests the serum on three black recruits, one of whom gains superpowers.
"(The concept) is that basically these guys were sacrificed to create and shore up the whole 'Captain America' myth," said writer Robert Morales, who is crafting the series with illustrator Kyle Baker.
About 100,000 copies of "Truth" are being printed, Morales said. That's about 10,000 more than the usual run for "Captain America," which is the 10th-best selling comic, according to a Marvel spokesman.
'Captain America'
Marvel Enterprises
The Museum of Black Superheroes
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Fan of Kylie Minogue
Prince Charles
Prince Charles watched Australia's Kylie Minogue guest appearance in a West End comedy Thursday evening, telling her afterward: "You were fantastic."
Minogue is the latest in a string of stars to appear in "The Play What I Wrote," a stage tribute to British comedy duo Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. The diminutive diva dressed as a bald, portly monk
and performed a song-and-dance routine.
Minogue appeared, reportedly at the prince's request, to raise funds for his Prince's Trust charity.
It was Prince Charles' second viewing of the Kenneth Branagh -directed play, which has impressed critics and audiences with its blend of wordplay and knockabout farce.
Prince Charles
Off The Coast Of Argentina
Iceberg
A 700-meter iceberg is seen some 200 kilometers from the coastal city of Mar del Plata, Argentina, Nov. 22, 2002. Specialists said the iceberg, was an unusual find during the springtime
in the southern hemisphere.
Photo by Jorge Mangione
New Wristwatch
Lauren Bush
''Rumor has it'' that presidential niece Lauren Bush is getting a $15,000 wristwatch for helping trim the world's most decadent Christmas tree at Harry Winston on Monday.
The 7-foot tree, made entirely of chocolate, will be decorated with $25 million worth of diamonds . . .
Lauren Bush
Linked to Threat to L.A. Times Reporter
Steven Seagal
Action star Steven Seagal and a Los Angeles private detective were linked on Friday to a bizarre harassment episode against a Los Angeles Times reporter probing alleged links between Seagal and the Mafia.
Anthony Pellicano, private eye to the stars, was charged on Friday with possessing illegal weapons after the FBI searched his Los Angeles office for evidence that he hired an
ex-convict suspected of threatening Times reporter Anita Busch in June.
According to an affidavit by FBI Special Agent Stanley Ornellas, Pellicano hired 59-year-old Alexander Proctor to burn Busch's car to stop her from writing a negative article
about one of Pellicano's celebrity clients. Proctor has been jailed since October on a charge of interference with commerce by threats of violence.
On June 20, Busch, a longtime show business reporter and former editor of the Hollywood Reporter, found a dead fish, a rose and a note saying "STOP" on the hood of her car
parked in front of her home. The vehicle's windshield was smashed.
Busch told police that shortly afterward she was approached by two men in a car who told her to stop writing the Seagal stories. In August, a Vanity Fair editor who wrote a
feature about the plot reported being threatened at gunpoint by two men in a car.
Steven Seagal
Opening Business
Linda Tripp
Linda Tripp is going into business with the Christmas Sleigh, a year-round holiday shop scheduled to open next month in Virginia horse country.
After her involvement in the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, Tripp moved to a cottage near Middleburg, about 40 miles west of Washington.
Tripp and her daughter, Allison, 23, a senior at Radford University, are listed with proprietor Dieter Rausch as "partners or officers" of the firm Atila LLC on the
store's business license application. Rausch did not return messages left at a home number that is the same as Linda Tripp's.
Linda Tripp
Exploding Beer Cans Fly
Bear Beer
A 25-year-old Lancaster County business went up in flames Thursday as fire quickly engulfed part of a beer distribution business in East Petersburg.
At one point, flames could be seen from one-half mile away, and exploding beer cans were flying out of the roof.
The fire destroyed Bear Beer Distributor offices. Both floors of the offices are now completely burned out.
The two-alarm fire did very little damage to the rest of the building, including the warehouse.
Four people were inside the offices when the fire started. They reportedly tried to put out the fire with two fire extinguishers, but couldn't stop the flames.
Bear Beer
Denies Sending Diana Slurs
Prince Philip
In an unusually long statement from Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth's husband denied reports that he sent insulting letters to his late daughter-in-law.
"Prince Philip wishes to make it clear that at no point did he ever use the insulting terms described in media reports, nor that he was curt or unfeeling in what he wrote," it
read. "He regards the suggestion that he used such derogatory terms as a gross misrepresentation of his relations with his daughter-in-law and hurtful to his grandsons." The statement
referred to a report in the Mail on Sunday tabloid newspaper two weeks ago in which Diana's faith healer said she had been shown insulting letters from Philip to the princess.
"They were the nastiest letters she ever received," Simone Simmons was quoted as saying by the paper. "He called her a trollop and a harlot, and said she was damaging the royal family."
Philip, who has always denied any rift with Diana, is a plain-talker prone to verbal gaffes.
He once told British students in China: "If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed" and asked Australian Aborigines if they still threw spears at each other.
Prince Philip
Hospital News
Frances Bay
Actress Frances Bay, who has played grandmothers and other elderly women in scores of movies and TV shows, was in critical condition after surgery to amputate
part of her right leg, a hospital spokeswoman said.
The 83-year-old actress, who portrayed Adam Sandler's grandmother in "Happy Gilmore," was struck by a car Thursday in Glendale.
She underwent surgery Thursday night at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center where doctors amputated her right leg below the knee, said hospital spokeswoman Adelaida De La Cerda.
Bay broke both her legs and suffered a head injury, multiple abrasions and a possible broken arm in Thursday's accident, De LA Cerda said Friday.
Bay has appeared in dozens of TV shows, including a memorable recurring role on "Seinfeld" as the elderly lady mugged by Jerry Seinfeld in a fight over a rye.
She also had a recurring role on "The Hughley's" as Mrs. Fitch.
She has appeared in more than 50 movies, including last year's "The Wedding Planner" with Jennifer Lopez. Others include "Twins" with Arnold Schwarzenegger,
"Inspector Gadget" with Matthew Broderick and "Big Top Pee-wee" with Paul Reubens.
Frances Bay
In Memory
Hadda Brooks
Hadda Brooks, a pianist known in the mid-1940s as "Queen of the Boogie" and later as a torch singer with hits such as "That's My Desire," has died. She was 86.
Brooks died Thursday at White Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles. She underwent open-heart surgery a few weeks ago, her manager Russ Paul said.
Brooks' first single, the 1945 hit "Swingin' The Boogie," launched her career and helped establish the Los Angeles-based Modern Records, which became the West Coast's premier postwar R&B label.
As a singer in the late 1940s and '50s, Brooks scored hits such as "Trust in Me," "Don't Take Your Love From Me" and "Dream." She also sang in several films and, in the early 1950s, became the first African American entertainer to host a television variety show.
"She was a beautiful woman and had a really sexy bedroom kind of voice," said Austin Young, a filmmaker who is completing a documentary on Brooks.
Born Hadda Hopgood in Los Angeles in 1916, she begged her parents for piano lessons at the age of 4 and later studied classical music.
In 1941, she married Earl "Shug" Morrison, who played for the Harlem Globetrotters. Morrison died of pneumonia within a year, and she never remarried.
She took Brooks as her stage name and recorded songs for 12 years with Modern, London Records and Columbia's Okeh label.
On Benny Goodman's recommendation, Brooks appeared in a nightclub scene in the 1947 Virginia Mayo comedy "Out of the Blue." She also sang in "The Bad and the Beautiful" and "In a Lonely Place."
Her career experienced a resurgence in 1987 after she performed at Perino's, a landmark Los Angeles restaurant. Rave reviews brought other jobs, including a four-week engagement at Michael's Pub in New York City, which prompted a New York Times critic to call her "a phenomenon."
In 1993, the Smithsonian-based Rhythm and Blues Foundation presented her with its Pioneer Award at the Hollywood Palace. A year later, Virgin Records issued a compilation of Brooks' early recordings.
In 1995, she was back in the recording studio for the first time in decades, recording "Time Was When," a CD for Pointblank/Virgin Records. In 1999, the label released "I've Got News for You," a 50-year retrospective, which included eight new tracks.
Brooks is survived by her sister Kathryn Carter. A private memorial service was being planned.
Hadda Brooks
For some great photos - Hadda Brooks
In Memory
Buddy Kaye
Buddy Kaye, a songwriter and lyricist who wrote hits for Perry Como, Frank Sinatra and Barry Manilow, has died. He was 84.
Kaye died Thursday in Rancho Mirage, his son Richard Kaye said in a statement.
Kaye published about 400 songs in a career spanning six decades. Often collaborating with other songwriters, Kaye co-wrote "Till the End of Time," which became a hit for Como in 1945. Another song, "'A' - You're Adorable (The Alphabet Song)," was a No. 1 hit for Como and the Fontaine Sisters in 1949.
Other memorable songs included "Full Moon and Empty Arms," which was performed by Frank Sinatra in 1946, and "The Old Songs," which was one of Barry Manilow's signature songs.
Kaye was also responsible for "I'll Close My Eyes," which was recorded by Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington and others, and "Little By Little," and "All Cried Out," both hits for Dusty Springfield.
Kaye was the co-writer of the theme song to the television show "I Dream of Jeannie" and produced a musical adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's "The Little Prince." The album, narrated by Richard Burton, won a Grammy for Best Recording for Children in 1975.
Born Jules Leonard Kaye in New York City in 1918, he is survived by his wife Lillian, three children and three grandchildren.
Buddy Kaye
In Memory
Parley Baer
Parley Baer, a character actor who was the mayor on "The "Andy Griffith Show," the voice of the Keebler cookie elf in TV commercials and the voice of Chester on radio's "Gunsmoke," died Friday. He was 88.
The jowly, balding actor appeared in more than 50 movies, including 1950s Westerns and 1963's "Gypsy." He was the Senate majority leader in the 1993 movie "Dave."
Baer also made scores of TV appearances in shows ranging from "Bonanza" and "Hogan's Heroes" to "L.A. Law" and "Star Trek: Voyager."
He was the voice of Chester Proudfoot, Dodge City deputy, on radio's "Gunsmoke" in the 1950s and early 1960s. During the same period he was Darby, Ozzie Nelson's next-door neighbor, on TV's "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."
Parley Baer
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