Froma Harrop: The Future of Paper (creators.com)
All through the long winter night, my digital gadgets lay snug in their recharging docks as Enya crooned on the iPod. It was on such a wintertide eve last December that I resolved to figure out all the things these wonderful devices could do - other than have me tend to their ravenous energy needs and update their programs.
George Varga: "2009: A Record Year for Albums, but Gems in Pop and Jazz Often Hidden: (creators.com)
The numbers tell the story about the fate of albums in 2009 - and it's a paradoxical one. A decade ago, about 30,000 albums were released each year, although even the most devoted listeners could only manage to hear a fraction of them. This year, that number was more than 100,000, even as the number of stores selling recorded music continued to plummet.
George Varga: Lady Gaga is a Pop Steamroller (creators.com)
How big is Lady Gaga, dance-pop's hottest new star and the undisputed "It Girl" of the year? So big that the seating capacity for her Dec. 19 concert at the San Diego Sports Arena was nearly doubled - from a half-arena size of 6,000 to 10,800 - and still sold out two weeks in advance.
Eric Hynes: The Critic-Proof Films of 2009 (slate.com)
Plug your ears and alert the kids: 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel,' the follow-up to 2007's surprise box-office smash, 'Alvin and the Chipmunks,' opens on Friday. Besides being the silliest-titled sequel since 'Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo,' the semi-animated, sonically assaultive jukebox comedy has a shot at achieving an elusive distinction: 'The Squeakquel' might well be critic-proof.
President Obama says, "We are on the cusp of making health care reform a reality,"
Others say it is merely an expansion of health care insurance opportunities with little reform of the present system. Meanwhile, insurance stocks rocket skyward on the NYSE... Help me out here, would ya? What do you think?
Here, by the way, is a totally negative opinion of the whole shebang by a progressive, not a Rethug.
In 2002, the Ramones were ranked the second-greatest band of all time by Spin magazine, trailing only The Beatles
Source
Alan J was first, and correct, with:
The Ramones
Charlie wrote:
They were a great band, though I wouldn't rate them quite that high. Some no doubt prefer them to the Beatles, however.
The Ramones.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, answered:
Merry Christmas Marty and all.....the Ramones
Sally said:
(Sob, sob), in 2002 (moan, sob), the second-greatest band of all time (huge sniffle, sob, sob), by Spin magazine (sob, sob), was, "The Ramones" (sob, sniffle, sob)...
Missing Marty already...
PS: Merry Christmas, my BCE friends, sob, sob, sob...
PPS: Great idea, MAM, though in the same financial boat as you, I'm in! How about the other readers?? We can do it, gang!!
-pgw responded:
The Ramones
Marry X-mas.
MAM noted:
The Ramones were ranked as the second-greatest band of all time by Spin magazine in 2002.
Marian the teacher replied:
the Ramones
And, Joe S responded:
Marty send me an address by e-mail and I'll send you a check. I don't do PayPal for personal reasons. Everybody else---send Marty some money! Marty, consider maybe 3 or 4 or 5 pages a week instead of 7. Give yourself a little break, you know if you get enough money. People! Send Marty some money!
Ok, today's question. The answer is the Ramones. THE RAMONES!!?? THE RAMONES!!?? I detest the Ramones! I would rank them second from the WORST band ever, one better than these guys..
There wasn't a Christmas miracle, but I am very grateful to the readers who have helped out.
Christmas Eve the motherboard fried, so I'm even more screwed than initially thought.
The back-up computer pooped out last month, and because of shaky finances, I let it slide. Luckily, the tech
was able to get it running this afternoon, so we're kinda, sorta back in business, but missing a lot of elements.
Opted to have the motherboard replaced and add another hard drive, while keeping the old one. It should be ready Tuesday.
Since all the Trivia stuff (and a whole lot more) is in the dead computer, and because today was so busy, gonna let the old question ride another day.
Please help save the e-page.
Yeah, the timing sucks - welcome to my life. : )
Please save the e-page while there's time!
Tonight, :
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by the made-for-TV-movie 'Jesse Stone: Thin Ice', and a RERUN'Cold Case'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', then pads the left coast with local crap, some or all of an old 'Monk', and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
ABC fills the night with the movie 'The Sound Of Music'.
The CW offers fills the night with the movie 'Good Boy!'.
Faux has a FRESH'Brothers', followed by another FRESH'Brothers', then a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Cleveland Show', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by a RERUN'American Dad'.
MY recycles an old 'That 70s Show', followed by another old 'That 70s Show', then an old 'House', folllowed by another old 'House'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Green Mile', followed by the movie 'Jeremiah Johnson', then the movie 'First Blood'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Britain's Missing Top Model - Episode 4
[1:00 PM] Top Gear Polar Special
[2:00 PM] Top Gear Winter Olympics Special
[3:00 PM] Victor Victoria
[6:00 PM] Arthur
[8:00 PM] Absolutely Fabulous - Ep. 2 Happy New Year
[8:40 PM] Absolutely Fabulous - Ep. 3 Sex
[9:20 PM] Absolutely Fabulous - Ep. 4 Jealous
[10:00 PM] Absolutely Fabulous - Episode 1
[10:30 PM] Absolutely Fabulous - Episode 2
[11:00 PM] Absolutely Fabulous - Ep. 3 Morocco
[11:40 PM] Absolutely Fabulous - Ep. 4 New Best Friend
[12:20 AM] Absolutely Fabulous - Ep. 5 Poor
[1:00 AM] Absolutely Fabulous - Ep 6 Birth
[1:30 AM] Absolutely Fabulous - Ep 1 Door Handle
[2:00 AM] Absolutely Fabulous - Ep. 2 Happy New Year
[2:40 AM] Absolutely Fabulous - Ep. 3 Sex
[3:20 AM] Absolutely Fabulous - Ep. 4 Jealous
[4:00 AM] Absolutely Fabulous - Episode 1
[4:30 AM] Absolutely Fabulous - Episode 2
[5:00 AM] BBC World News
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criiminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has 'Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity', 'Bill Engvall: Aged And Confused', 'Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed', and the movie 'Accepted'.
FX has the movie 'Spider-Man 3', followed by the movie 'Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer', then the movie 'The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen'.
History has 'Time Machine', followed by 6 'Pawn Stars'
IFC -
[6:25 AM] Little Fish
[8:25 AM] Renaissance
[10:20 AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[10:45 AM] Before Sunrise
[12:30 PM] Waking Ned Devine
[2:05 PM] Renaissance
[4:00 PM] Before Sunrise
[5:50 PM] Waking Ned Devine
[7:30 PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[8:00 PM] The Object of Beauty
[9:45 PM] Alien Visitor
[11:25 PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[12:00 AM] Drugstore Cowboy
[1:45 AM] The Object of Beauty
[3:30 AM] Alien Visitor
[5:05 AM] Before Sunrise (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[03:25 AM] Ran (1985)
[06:15 AM] Adaptation
[08:15 AM] The Thing About My Folks
[09:55 AM] The Tonto Woman
[10:35 AM] Blog Wars
[11:45 AM] Alice Neel
[01:15 PM] Madame Tutli Putli
[01:35 PM] Slingshot Hip Hop
[03:05 PM] A Slim Peace
[04:05 PM] Blog Wars
[05:05 PM] Alice Neel
[06:30 PM] Slingshot Hip Hop
[08:00 PM] A Slim Peace
[09:00 PM] Broken Noses
[10:20 PM] Slingshot Hip Hop
[11:50 PM] Flutter
[12:00 AM] Spectacle - Season 2: Spectacle: Elvis Costello With... Levon Helm, Nick Lowe, Richard Thompson, Allen Toussaint
[01:00 AM] Gummo
[02:30 AM] My Best Friend
[04:10 AM] Broken Noses
[05:30 AM] Gummo (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Men In Black II', followed by the movie 'National Treasure'.
Workers shape a snow sculpture featuring the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest prior to the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin, Heilongjiang province December 18, 2009. The 26th Ice and Snow Festival will kick off on January 5, 2010, local media reported.
Photo by Sheng Li
Paramount's worst fears are confirmed: "Star Trek" was the most pirated film of 2009, according to a new report.
According to data from TorrentFreak, "Star Trek" was downloaded nearly 11 million times this past year, just edging "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" (10.6 million). The films were among the biggest of the year at the box office.
At the other end of the box-office scale, "Sherlock Holmes" director Guy Ritchie's "RocknRolla" ranked No. 3. It grossed less than $26 million worldwide.
Interestingly, for all the fuss about the "Wolverine" leak, the film came in at No. 9 with 7.2 million. The FBI earlier this month charged a man with violation of federal copyright law, alleging he uploaded the film to the Web last spring.
Actor Charlie Sheen, star of the hit sitcom "Two and a Half Men," has been released from jail in the Colorado ski resort city of Aspen after his Christmas Day arrest on domestic violence charges, police said.
Sheen, 44, was booked on felony charges of second-degree assault and menacing, and a misdemeanor charge of criminal mischief, all of which were "coupled with a domestic violence component," the Aspen Police Department said.
He was released on Friday evening after posting an $8,500 bond, and faces a court hearing on February 8. Police declined additional comment, saying a news release would be issued on Monday with any new details.
Police did not identify the person whom Sheen was accused of assaulting. But various websites have said Sheen shoved his third wife, Brooke Mueller, during a heated quarrel. TMZ reported that Mueller had been drinking heavily when she dialed 911 about 8:30 a.m. MST (10:30 a.m. EST), and subsequently recanted her allegations against Sheen.
Police say Ivana Trump has been escorted off a plane in Florida after she became belligerent when children were running and screaming in the aisles.
Authorities say the first ex-wife of billionaire Donald Trump cussed at the children Saturday, and when flight attendants on the New York-bound plane tried to calm her, she became even more aggravated.
Her spokeswoman, Catherine Saxton, did not immediately return a telephone message. Trump filed for divorce from her fourth husband earlier this month.
Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies asked Trump to voluntarily exit the plane, but they said she refused. She was then escorted off.
In this April 27,2009 photo released by family friend Carol Summers showing, Actors Connie Hines, left and Alan Young, of the sixties television show 'Mr. Ed' at Young's residence in Los Angeles. Hines, who died a week ago at age 78, went on to make a lasting impact on a generation of Baby Boomers as Carol Post, the pretty, perky, young newlywed who never let it bother her that her husband, Wilbur, was seen by everybody else as a nut case with a horse he thought could talk only to him.
Photo by Carol Summers
Vic Chesnutt, the folk-rocker whose sometimes dark reflections on life were influenced in part by a car wreck that left him paralyzed, has died. He was 45.
Family friend Christina Stuckey, who answered the phone at Chesnutt's home, confirmed the death to The Associated Press. Chesnutt's record label, Constellation Records, said in a statement on its Web site that Chesnutt died on Christmas Day, Friday.
Chesnutt worked with such notable artists as R.E.M. lead singer Michael Stipe and guitarist Guy Picciotto of the punk band Fugazi.
He recently had toured with his Vic Chesnutt band, a "supergroup" of sorts featuring members of Canadian bands Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra, as well as Picciotto.
However, Chesnutt had recently struggled with a lawsuit filed by a Georgia hospital after he racked up surgery bills totaling some $70,000, the Athens newspaper reported. He said he couldn't afford more than hospitalization insurance and couldn't keep up with the payments.
The problems baffled his Canadian bandmates, Chesnutt said.
"There's nowhere else in the world that I'd be facing the situation I'm in right now. They cannot understand what kind of society would inflict that on their population," he said. "It's terrifying."
A red panda looks up from a snack as animals at the Toronto Zoo receive their Christmas treats on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009 in Toronto.
Photo by Chris Young
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 musicians?
Just plain vile, filthy rumors?
This is your place.
noted:
