Garrison Keillor: Some New York thoughts on solitude
I stood around looking at J.D. Salinger stuff last Friday, his old black Royal typewriter, family snapshots, and typewritten letters, at the New York Public Library, and it was a wonder to see. I'm one of the many millions for whom The Catcher in the Rye was an important book back in my teens and back then, Salinger was famous for guarding his privacy. He didn't do interviews, was never on TV, and so was portrayed in the press as a crank, an anti-social weirdo. It's clear from the exhibit that he was not.
Greg Sargent: "Memo to vulnerable GOP senators: You're already on video, and it's bad" (Washington Post)
Sometime within the next couple of weeks, every GOP Senator who is facing a tough reelection campaign will have to vote on whether he or she wants to hear new witnesses and evidence at President Trump's impeachment trial. So it's worth noting that three of them are already on video from last fall refusing to answer a very simple question: Is it or is it not appropriate to press a foreign leader to help dig dirt on a domestic political rival? The three Senators -- Cory Gardner of Colorado, Martha McSally of Arizona, and Joni Ernst of Iowa -- all face tough races, though Gardner and McSally are probably more vulnerable than Ernst.
When this single was released it was the longest song to enter the Billboard Hot 100, where it spent 4 weeks at number-one in 1972. What is the title of this song where them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye?
"American Pie" is a song by American singer and songwriter Don McLean. Recorded and released on the American Pie album in 1971, the single was the number-one US hit for four weeks in 1972 and also topped the charts in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. In the UK, the single reached number 2, where it stayed for 3 weeks, on its original 1971 release while a reissue in 1991 reached No. 12. The song was listed as the No. 5 song on the RIAA project Songs of the Century. McLean's combined version is the fourth longest song to enter the Billboard Hot 100 (at the time of release it was the longest), in addition to being the longest song to reach number one.
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Randall was first, and correct, with:
American Pie
Mark. wrote:
American Pie.
Mac Mac said:
American Pie
Alan J answered:
American Pie.
Stephen F responded:
American Pie
mj replied:
The day the music died
Has different meanings to different generations, but I'm going with the
Buddy Holly plane crash that leads off American Pie.
Dave wrote:
American Pie. Its still the longest single that was #1. Besides the US Billboard chart "American Pie" topped many international charts as well.
Roy, the Never Trumper Snowflake from Tyler, TX replied:
1972 was probably the first year of my transition from rock & roll to country music, and "Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie" had a great deal to do with it. After suffering through it only a couple of times during my 20-minute commute in Newport News, VA, I became able to change the station within the first three notes of that song. Sorry, Don McClean, but that was all I could tolerate.
David of Moon Valley wrote:
'72 - senior year a high school...jeepers but that was a lifetime ago...at least...anyway, i digress, sorry...American Pie it was/is i believe...
Micki said:
Bye, bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry. Then good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singing "This'll be the day that I die, this'll be the day that I die."
I could almost sing it all from memory, all 8.33 minutes of it.
Dave in Tucson answered:
The song is American Pie. Seems Don McLean tried to shoehorn every
cultural, especially rock music cliche he could into it.
Deborah responded:
Thanks to your clue, I didn't have to look it up: It's "American Pie," by Don McClean. Lordy, I played it on my guitar and knew all the lyrics. Not that I understood them, mind you, I was a mere teenager.
The sun has returned and my bike shall see it. Happy to get outside without getting wet.
Cal in Vermont replied:
American Pie. Endless fun trying to decode the events depicted in the song through the often-thick fog of recreational, um, activities.
John I from Hawai`i says,
Bye bye Miss American Pie
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
American Pie
Daniel in The City said:
American Pie
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, answered:
American Pie.
Rosemary in Columbus responded:
Bye, Bye , Miss American Pie
Billy in Cypress U$A replied:
The Day the Music Died, it was an easy one to remember.
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• When Simon Doonan, the world-famous window dresser at Barney's in New York, began aerobics, one of his fellow enthusiasts was a reporter for the National Enquirer, and she constantly asked him if he had any dirt on celebrities. He never did, but actress Shelley Winters came into Barney's one day, and he saw her buy a pair of leather pants - size six. Ms. Winters is a wonderful actress, of course, but she is not a size six. The leather pants were not a gift, and she was not planning on wearing them; instead, she was planning on hanging them on her refrigerator door as a reminder of why she wanted to lose weight: to fit into size-six leather pants. At his next aerobics class, Mr. Doonan told the National Enquirer reporter what he had witnessed, and she took notes. Soon an item about Ms. Winters and her size-six leather pants appeared in the National Enquirer, and soon a check for $50 arrived in Mr. Doonan's mailbox with the notation "for Shelley Winters item." Mr. Doonan felt guilty, and he wondered if he had betrayed Ms. Winters. But the next day, some designer aerobics wear arrived at Barney's. Among the items was a pair of cycle shorts by Stephen Sprouse. They were orange, black, and white, and they cost $50. Mr. Doonan bought the cycle shorts and stopped feeling guilty. He says, "I was the talk of my aerobics class that night."
• Anton Dolin once danced with Alexandra Danilova at a time when she was overweight. After he had lifted her several times in the Blue Bird pas de deux, he complained to her, "I am a dancer - not a porter!" Ms. Danilova began dieting immediately.
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• The Guerilla Girls engage in activism for artists who are women or people of color. They wear gorilla masks and are anonymous, taking on the names of deceased famous women creators. Guerilla Girl "Frida Kahlo" once was out of costume and talking with some other people to art dealer Diane Brown. By them was a poster that the Guerilla Girls had put up. Diane's young son read the poster out loud: "Diane Brown […] shows less than ten percent women artists or none at all." He then asked his mother, "What does that mean, Mommy?" She did not answer him, but later when she appeared in a CNN TV special titled Gender Wars, she complained that the Guerilla Girls had attacked her because she showed less than fifty percent women artists. "Frida Kahlo" complains, "Math is soooo hard for women." By the way, Guerilla Girl "Käthy Kollwitz" was out of costume and talking to a male chief curator and his female assistant when the male chief curator turned to "Käthy Kollwitz" and said about his female assistant, "I think she's a Guerilla Girl." "Käthy Kollwitz" asked why he thought that, and he explained, "Because every time we propose a group show, or get an announcement from another museum, she always counts the number of women artists. Don't you think that's ridiculous?" Guerilla Girl "Käthy Kollwitz" replied, "Not at all. All women count."
You might find the article linked below interesting. Carrie Ann's very right--invisible. You're hurting & others can't see it so you fear they think you're faking. And so many problems/diseases are invisible--lupus, Sjogrens, arthritis, migraines, depression, etc. You can't understand all that another person is coping with; appreciate how brave & tough they are just to survive each day.
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'Young Sheldon', followed by a RERUN'The Unicorn', then another RERUN'Young Sheldon', followed by a RERUN'Mom', then the FRESH'The Gayle King Grammy Special'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Chris Cuomo, David Alan Grier, and Algiers.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach, and Demetri Martin.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Superstore', followed by a FRESH'The Good Place', then a FRESH'Will & Grace', followed by a FRESH'Perfect Harmony', then a RERUN'L&O: SVU'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Noah Centineo, Wendy Williams, and Griselda.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Eric McCormack, Lewis Black, Chelsea Cutler, and Adam Marcello.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Fortune Feimster.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Station 19', followed by a FRESHGrey's Anatomy', then a FRESH'A Million Little Things'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Kumail Nanjiani and Sting.
The CW offers a FRESH'Supernatural', followed by a FRESH'Legacies'.
Faux has a FRESH'Last Man Standing', followed by a FRESH'Outmatched', then a FRESH'Deputy'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.
A&E has 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Alaska PD', followed by a FRESH'60 Days In'.
AMC offers the movie 'Jack The Giant Slayer', followed by the movie 'Ghostbusters', then the movie 'Ghostbusters II'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] MAN VS. WILD - Sahara (Part 1)
[7:00AM] MAN VS. WILD - Desert Survivor (Part 2)
[8:00AM] MAN VS. WILD - Panama (Part 1)
[9:00AM] MAN VS. WILD - Jungle (Part 2)
[10:00AM] MAN VS. WILD - Patagonia (Part 1)
[11:00AM] MAN VS. WILD - Andes Adventure (Part 2)
[12:00PM] WILD ALASKA - Spring
[1:00PM] WILD ALASKA - Summer
[2:00PM] WILD ALASKA - Winter
[3:00PM] WILD WEST - Desert Heartlands
[4:00PM] WILD WEST - The High Country
[5:00PM] WILD WEST - Restless Shores
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH: YELLOWSTONE - Winter
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH: YELLOWSTONE - Summer
[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH: YELLOWSTONE - Autumn
[9:00PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - Australia
[10:32PM] PLANET EARTH: ONE AMAZING DAY
[12:30AM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - Australia
[2:02AM] PLANET EARTH: YELLOWSTONE - Winter
[3:01AM] PLANET EARTH: YELLOWSTONE - Summer
[4:00AM] PLANET EARTH: YELLOWSTONE - Autumn
[5:00AM] CHIMPS OF THE LOST GORGE (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Below Deck', 'Project Runway', followed by a FRESH'Project Runway', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'War For The Planet Of The Apes', followed by the movie 'Transformers: Age Of Extinction'.
History has 'Swamp People', another 'Swamp People', followed by a FRESH'Swamp People', and another 'Swamp People'.
IFC -
[6:00A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Stolen Apples
[6:30A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - The Gang's All Here
[7:00A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Party
[7:30A] The Three Stooges - I'm a Monkey's Uncle
[7:45A] The Three Stooges - A-Ducking They Did Go
[8:10A] The Three Stooges - All Gummed Up
[8:35A] The Three Stooges - All the World's a Stooge
[9:00A] The Three Stooges - A Pain in the Pullman
[9:30A] Rudy
[12:00P] Saving Private Ryan
[4:00P] We Were Soldiers
[7:00P] Full Metal Jacket
[9:45P] Full Metal Jacket
[12:30A] We Were Soldiers
[3:30A] Saving Private Ryan (ALL TIMES EST)
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[6:20am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:55am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:00am] Ghosts of Mississippi
[1:00pm] Law & Order
[2:00pm] Law & Order
[3:00pm] Law & Order
[4:00pm] Law & Order
[5:00pm] Law & Order
[6:00pm] Law & Order
[7:00pm] Law & Order
[8:00pm] Law & Order
[9:00pm] Law & Order
[10:00pm] Law & Order
[11:00pm] Law & Order
[12:00am] Law & Order
[1:00am] Law & Order
[2:00am] Law & Order
[3:00am] Invictus (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Edge Of Tomorrow', followed by the movie 'RIPD'.
Whoopi Goldberg's inclusion on Star Trek: The Next Generation was famously a labor of self-directed love; when the series' producers were told, ahead of their second season, that one of the planet's most successful and beloved comedians/movie stars was practically begging to be in their struggling syndicated space show, they reportedly assumed it was a joke. But Goldberg was entirely sincere. As a fan of the original series-and especially Nichelle Nichols' Uhura-the Ghost Oscar winner had a deep desire to appear on the Enterprise-D, trading mysterious banter with Patrick Stewart and doling out advice as wise-beyond-her-apparent-years bartender Guinan. And although she was never a regular cast member-owing to Goldberg's busy schedule-Guinan appeared in 29 episodes of the series, as well as two of the movies, Generations and Nemesis, and was an indelible part of many of the show's most memorable moments.
Fast forward nearly 30 years: While she still acts with some regularity (including in the upcoming The Stand, where she'll be playing Mother Abigail), Goldberg now devotes much of her time to her regular role on ABC's The View. Which is exactly where she got confirmation today that she no longer needs to go looking for Star Trek, because Star Trek will come looking for her. In this case, courtesy of former co-star Stewart:
If your heart needed any warming today, look no further than Whoopi Goldberg's expression of joy after Stewart formally invites her to appear on the second season of his CBS All Access series Star Trek: Picard. The series has trucked pretty heavily in Next Generation cameos in the run-up to its release next week (including appearances from Brent Spiner, Marina Sirtis, and Jonathan Frakes), but Goldberg was so far absent. But no more: The show has already been renewed for a 10-episode second season, so, fates willing, we'll see Jean-Luc and Guinan trading banter yet again some time in the very near future.
Mr. Peanut, the world's most famous legume, is dead, according to his longtime employer, Planters. He was 104.
The jaunty and jovial pitchman recognized around the globe for his rakish top hat, trusty cane, and eccentric monocle, died during a pre-Super Bowl ad. Fans around the world reacted with social media enthusiasm and skepticism but in the advertising world there was a sense that an era had passed.
Planters, the snack company, posted the ad on social media, a move that some critics said was rubbing salt in a fresh wound. The ad shows Mr. Peanut in a car accident in the Nutmobile and, making the scenario nuttier, the famous snack mascot was inexplicably accompanied by Wesley Snipes and Matt Walsh.
Not everyone joined the tearful outpouring of grief. Conspiracy theorists were skeptical that Mr. Peanut did in fact die. Many postulated that Planters might be playing a shell game that pays off during Super Bowl LIV. Dismissive non-fans, meanwhile, predicted a quick replacement for the icon and noted that it would be hard for Planters to stop with just one.
Attendees at a "furries" convention in Northern California rushed to help a woman they saw getting beaten by a man outside their conference venue, authorities said Wednesday.
San Jose police officers responded to a disturbance in the city's downtown at 11:57 p.m. on Friday to find six people who "were trying to restrain a male who was assaulting a female," according to a police statement.
Demetri Hardnett, a 22-year-old San Jose resident, was booked on suspicion of felony domestic violence, officials said.
The people who jumped in to help the woman were attendees at a San Jose Convention Center gathering called Further Confusion 2020 or FurCon, NBC Bay Area reported. The convention draws people who enjoy dressing up as anthropomorphic animals, many of them animal-themed characters from movies, cartoons, books, or comics.
The suspect tried to fight the two convention goers, before four or five other attendees joined the melee to keep the man down for police, according to the Ryans.
The U.S. Department of Transportation has proposed new rules that would reign in the menagerie of service animals passengers have been carrying on flights under the guise of being service animals - the new rules would only allow specially trained dogs to fly under the service animal designation.
If this rule takes effect, the DOT would be cracking down on passengers using the loophole to travel with pets, effectively grounding miniature horses, turkeys, cats and various other critters that travelers have brought aboard flights as service animals.
While insisting that it "recognizes the integral role that service animals play in the lives of many individuals with disabilities," the DOT said in a statement its new proposed rule is aimed at "reducing the likelihood that passengers wishing to travel with their pets on aircraft will be able to falsely claims their pets are service animals." An approved service animal will be defined as a "dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of a person with a disability."
In recent years, the DOT has seen the number of complaints from passengers about unruly service animals on domestic and foreign airlines skyrocket from 719 in 2013 to 3,065 in 2018.
Fewer than half of American adults know how many Jews were killed in the Holocaust, according to a survey published ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27.
Forty-five per cent of those asked by the Pew Research Center about the number of Jews killed by the Nazis gave the correct answer of approximately 6 million.
From multiple choice answers, 12% selected about 3 million, and 2% selected less than 1 million. Another 12% said more than 12 million Jews died in the Holocaust. One in three people (29%) said they were not sure or did not answer.
According to the survey of almost 11,000 Americans, 69% said the Holocaust happened between 1930 and 1950. One in 10 people thought it took place between 1910 and 1930, and 2% answered between 1890 and 1910. One in 100 people thought it was later than second world war, answering 1950-1970; and 18% did not know or gave no answer.
The Pew survey also found that only 43% of respondents knew that Hitler became German chancellor through a democratic political process, with one in four people believing he and his supporters violently overthrew the government.
For the past 15,000 years, a glacier on the northwestern Tibetan Plateau of China has hosted a party for some unusual guests: an ensemble of frozen viruses, many of them unknown to modern science.
Scientists recently broke up this party after taking a look at two ice cores from this Tibetan glacier, revealing the existence of 28 never-before-seen virus groups.
Investigating these mysterious viruses could help scientists on two fronts: For one, these stowaways can teach researchers which viruses thrived in different climates and environments over time, the researchers wrote in a paper posted on the bioRxiv database on Jan. 7.
Studying ancient glacial microbes can be challenging. That's because it's extremely easy to contaminate ice core samples with modern-day bacteria. So, the researchers created a new protocol for ultraclean microbial and viral sampling.
The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, (aka the Ghent Altarpiece) has been through a lot since it was completed in 1432.
The masterpiece - created by brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck - was painted for St. Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium. For around a century it sat there minding its own business, before it was taken apart and pieces of it stolen by a vicar. Then, it was nearly destroyed in a fire caused by rioting Calvinists, and stolen by Napoleon's troops.
During the First World War, it ended up in a museum in Berlin, and its return to Ghent became one of the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles. It was returned, only for part of it to be stolen (again) in 1934 for ransom money. This part of the painting was never returned, and the painting's ordeal still wasn't over. In the Second World War, Hitler and Göring decided that they too desperately wanted the painting.
The Nazis managed to get their hands on it in a castle in the south of France where the Belgians had attempted to conceal it. Hitler then stored the painting in the Altaussee salt mine alongside other artworks including Michelangelo's Madonna of Bruges and Vermeer's The Astronomer. Towards the end of the war, the salt mine and its contents were going to be blown up. Fortunately, the local mine administration and the miners obstructed the order, and in May 1945 the artworks - including the Ghent Altarpiece - were seized by the Monuments Men.
The painting, which depicts a sheep on an altar surrounded by worshippers (happens all the time), has been under restoration since 2012 inside a specially constructed laboratory. During the restoration process, scientists used X-ray fluorescence scans to discover that the lamb - the centerpiece of the whole artwork - had been painted over during the 16th century.
During the Stone Age in what is now western Cameroon, four children who perished before their prime were buried in a natural rock shelter. Now, thousands of years later, an analysis of the ancient DNA found in their bones has revealed secrets about the people who lived there many millennia ago, according to a new study.
Perhaps the most surprising finding is that these children are not related to the modern-day Bantu-speaking cultures that reside in the region today, the researchers said. Rather, the Stone Age youngsters are genetically closer to the present-day hunter-gatherer groups of Central Africa, which are not closely related to Bantu speaking groups, the researchers found.
This realization and others, including that a previously unknown "ghost" population contributed genetically to the people who live in Africa today, is shedding light on what is still the most genetically diverse region for humans in the world today, the researchers said.
Researchers have found countless artifacts and 18 human burials at the Shum Laka rock shelter, which people have used for at least 30,000 years. But the new study focused on the burials of four children, who lived as the Stone Age transitioned into the Metal Age (also called the Stone-to-Metal Age) in western Central Africa.
Although they lived thousands of years apart, these children were distant cousins, the researchers found. About one-third of their DNA came from ancestors who were more closely related to hunter and gatherers in western Central Africa. The other two-thirds came from an ancient source in West Africa, including a "long lost ghost population of modern humans that we didn't know about before," study senior researcher David Reich, a population geneticist at Harvard University, told Science magazine.
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