Mark Morford: How to eat an Internet troll (SF Gate)
But I don't feel so bad about shunning the trolls entirely, never responding, never engaging them in the slightest. After all, if sadists and hate-mongers don't have an audience, if their targets offer only pity them and know them to be just a sad, lonely, ragtag army of sociopathic narcissists, they will have nothing left to feed on, and will resort to the only action left: they will merely eat themselves alive.
Therese Oneill: 4 Russian Travel Tips for Visiting America (Mental Floss)
"Showing up at a business associate's home uninvited in the United States is not acceptable. You may be invited to a picnic -if you've known each other for several years and are social outside the office. As a rule, the invitation will be only on a weekend, and you don't have to prepare for something extravagant. Everything is the same as ours, only with far less booze. Bring something sporty - ball, badminton, Americans are certainly fervent fans of these things."
Therese Oneill: 10 Japanese Travel Tips for Visiting America (Mental Floss)
In Japan, each person eating gets as many individual dishes as needed for the meal. Sometimes more than 10 dishes per person are used. In America, there is a method where a large bowl or dish is placed in the middle of the table, and you take as much as you like from there, and put it on a big dish said to be a "dinner plate."
Guy Pulls Out Sign on Gophers Kiss Cam (YouTube)
This guy came prepared with a sign at the Minnesota Gophers men's hockey game vs. Michigan on Friday, Feb. 14, 2014 at Mariucci Arena in Minneapolis, MN.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Shakespeare (Wise Up!)
Early in his career, actor Patrick Macnee had the opportunity to audition for Sir Laurence Olivier to get a part in a Shakespearean play. After the audition, Olivier told him, "No. Nothing for you now. Come back in another 10 years."
The California Raisins were a fictional rhythm and blues musical group as well as advertising and merchandising characters composed of anthropomorphized raisins. Lead vocals were sung by musician Buddy Miles. The California Raisins concept experienced high popularity in the mid-to-late 1980s principally through claymation TV commercials and animated specials, winning an Emmy Award and one nomination.
On March 28, 1997 Entertainment Weekly published "The 50 Best Commercials of All Time" as its cover story. The article ranked The California Raisins' premiere advertisement, "Lunchbox," at #15 with comments by ad agency executive Claude Jacques and described the Raisins as "The coolest wrinkled musicians this side of the Stones."
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
The California Raisins.
I'll take the Stones, wrinkles or no.
On the T.A.M.I. Show (1964)
But then...
"all rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire"
~Grace Slick (74).
"He considers it juvenile and vain for people his age to still be performing rock and roll."
On Tetsu Yamauchi (67), former bassist for Free and The Faces.
Lois The Liquored Up Of Oregon said:
First and foremost, I must thank Dale for his kind comment
about Elvis' "exasperated colon", which, by the way, would
be a most excellent name for a band! And speaking of musical
groups, today's trivia answer is "The California Raisins",
whom, I might say, look suspiciously as though they
themselves might have actually emerged from Elvis' colon.
Except for the big one, who strongly resembles Morgan
Freeman's left testicle. Sorry, hope I wasn't out of line
with that last one. It's the malt liquor talkin'.
P.S. to Bad To The Bone Bob, you should have used a picture
of Smokey Robinson being molested by the letter U when he
was on Sesame Street. I have never recovered from viewing
that, nor do I think I ever shall.
Alan J wrote:
The California Raisins
Jim from CA, retired to ID, took the day off.
Adam answered:
The California Raisins.
Marian replied:
The California Raisins
Dale of Diamond Springs, Drought Norcali, responded:
The California Raisins. Led by the late great Buddy Miles!! The Electric Flag for a very short time was the greatest American Band. Period. Buddy and Mike Bloomfield, and the gang.
Sally said
"The California Raisins" were described as, "The coolest wrinkled musicians this side of the Stones."
Love these guys, they are SO cool!!
PS: My morning care kids have been having, 'delayed openings' of school - which means I have had them 4+ hours in the mornings this week. Trying to keep them out of the snow and slush has been trying for me and for them. Today, I went to the Mall (just to get out of the house) and I found out what mothers and day care providers have been doing with their kids - the Mall was awash with youngsters! And, they were running wild, up and down the aisles, and all over the Mall - getting off all that energy...
Then, I got home, and my kiddies returned as their dad was working overtime... Love my children, but I am pretty, 'kiddie outted' for the day, LOL!
DJ Useo replied:
Ok, I'll be honest. I know this answer because I collect novelty music records.
I get a big laugh from the 'music' of the California Raisins.
I may not play them often, but when I do, they strike me as ludicrously funny.
Btw-If any of you like novelty music also, be sure and visit MUSIC FOR MANIACS.
It's the best novelty music blog on the net.
(Also, Richard Cheese is having a close out sale at his site.
He does really listenable novelty music.)
MAM wrote:
"The California Raisins" ~ Made their moves courtesy of a breakthrough use of Claymation in 1986 (models were adjusted up to 24 times per second). The purple ones spawned over 200 products, made it into the
Smithsonian, and starred in seven ads.
California Raisins Commercial (1986)
BttbBob responded:
...an' that advert idea failed with me cuz I never bought nary a dagnab raisin.
I loathe raisins... always have... even as a kid after a few mouthfuls o' the nasty things. I, right then and there, decided that they looked and tasted like... well, never mind. (The song is cool, though)
Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Lyrics - YouTube
~~~~~
Happy Birthday this day to:
(86) If I see this film listed, I make plans to watch it if I can...
(47) ...and Cindy still has it goin' on.
(67) For me, there's no other word than, 'Cute', to describe Sandy...
(79) My famous Uncle Bob (4 years ago he was inducted into the "Michigan Motor Sports Hall of Fame") got out the Air Force in the mid-50's and stayed where he was stationed - Albuquerque, NM. He got into the local racing circuit there and drove against the local favorite - Bobby Unser...
Born this day:
(1902-1984) I can get lost in a large book of his photographs... Mesmerized
And, Joe S said:
I wracked my brain trying to come up with the answer, I just couldn't think of any wrinkled musicians cooler than the Stones. Little did I know the answer would involve mythical, claymation cartoon characters. Well, I'm here to tell ya, me and Carla, we don't like the California Raisins.
We like Marvin Gaye. We also like
Creedence Clearwater Revival. That's what we like.
The Raisins in their proper place.
Caught a bit of
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
(or, as purists prefer, "Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo") tonight. First time I saw it, the marquee said
"Die Guten, die Bösen und die Hässlichen".
So, should we have a pick-the-Oscars-winners contest?
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', followed by a RERUN'The Millers', then a RERUN'The Crazy Ones', followed by a RERUN'2½ Men', then a RERUN'Elementary'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Joss Christensen, Gus Kenworthy, Nick Goepper, Keri Russell, and Terry Fator.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lisa Vanderpump.
NBC fills the night with FRESH'2014 Olympic Winter Games'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Michelle Obama, Will Ferrell, and Arcade Fire.
Seth Meyers in 4 days.
Carson 'The Scab' Daly is pre-empted.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'The Taste', followed by a RERUN'Scandal'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Jonah Hill, Willie & Korie Robertson, and Jetta.
The CW offers a RERUN'The Originals', followed by a RERUN'Reign'.
Scheduled on a FRESHArsenio Hall are Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Sage the Gemini.
Faux has a FRESH'American Idol', followed by a FRESH'Rake'.
MY recycles an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
A&E has 3 hours of old 'Duck Dynasty', 'Wahlburgers', and another 'Wahlburgers'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Departed', followed by the movie 'Invincible', then the movie 'Snakes On A Plane'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO: THE DOCTORS REVISITED - THE TENTH DOCTOR
[8:30AM] DOCTOR WHO: THE DOCTORS REVISITED - THE ELEVENTH DOCTOR
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO: THE COMPANIONS
[10:00AM] TORCHWOOD - Season 2 - Ep 10 - From Out of the Rain
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 19 - Lessons
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 20 - The Chase
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Revisited: Glass House
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 7 - Oscars
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 6 - The Granary
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 8
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 9
[6:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 10 - Zeke's
[7:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 1 - Blackberry's
[8:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 6 - Ep 12 - Yanni's
[9:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 6 - Ep 13 - Prohibition GrilleNEW
[10:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 9 - El Greco
[11:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 6 - Ep 12 - Yanni's
[12:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 6 - Ep 13 - Prohibition Grille
[1:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 9 - El Greco
[2:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 10 - Zeke's
[3:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Revisited: Glass House
[4:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 7 - Oscars
[5:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 6 - The Granary (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days', followed by a FRESH'Inside The Actors Studio' (Matthew McConaughey), 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', and 'Shahs Of Sunset'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', and another 'It's Always Sunny In Philly'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Ronan Farrow.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Gen. Stanley McChrystal.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Bad Teacher', then the movie 'Bad Teacher', again.
IFC -
[6:00AM] The Matador
[8:00AM] The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
[10:30AM] Eraser
[1:00PM] The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
[3:30PM] Maximum Overdrive
[5:30PM] Bad Ass
[7:30PM] The Big Lebowski
[10:00PM] Portlandia-The Celery Incident
[10:15PM] Beerfest
[12:45AM] The Big Lebowski
[3:15AM] Beerfest
[5:45AM] Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Dragonslayer
[8:30AM] Waiting for Guffman
[10:15AM] Christine
[12:45PM] An Education
[3:00PM] Legal Eagles
[5:30PM] Working Girl
[8:00PM] Law & Order-Savages
[9:00PM] A Few Good Men
[12:00AM] Unfaithful
[2:45AM] Traffic (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Stargate', followed by the movie 'The Last Airbender'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Chris O'Donnell, Sage Kotsenburg, and Needtobreathe.
Now's the time to cash out your life insurance policy and have a little fun, because, according to Norse mythology, the world is ending this Saturday.
Sorry to be a bummer, but you should know we're about 100 days into an epic battle that will culminate with the earth falling into the sea, NPR explains.
For those whose understanding of Norse mythology begins and ends with the Marvel Comics' version of "Thor," the story behind Ragnarok, aka the "Viking apocalypse," or "doom of the gods," is arguably more spectacular and imaginative than anything Hollywood could dream up.
Here's what's coming, according to Time magazine. On Saturday a huge battle commences among the various Norse gods. All the heavy hitters will be in attendance - Thor, Odin and Loki to name but a few.
NPR reports that in York, England, "Viking enthusiasts" are gathering at the Jorvik Viking Festival for a parade and mock battle. Experts from the Jorvik Viking Centre in the U.K. have predicted the world's end on Feb. 22, the Independent reports.
Mexican actress Salma Hayek, left, poses with her husband François-Henri Pinault, of France, prior to the start of the Gucci women's Fall-Winter 2014-15 collection, part of the Milan Fashion Week, unveiled in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014.
Lincoln Center will honor Rob Reiner with its 41st annual Chaplin Award.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced Tuesday that the director and actor will receive the award at a gala April 28. Film Society Board Chairman Ann Tenenbaum called the 66-year-old Reiner a "master multi-hyphenate" who has made "some the most enduring and entertaining films in recent history."
Son of the comedy legend Carl Reiner, the Bronx-born Reiner has directed films including "When Harry Met Sally ...," ''This Is Spinal Tap," ''The Princess Bride" and "Stand By Me." His acting work has ranged from "All in the Family" to, most recently, "The Wolf of Wall Street."
Previous Chaplin Award honorees include Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock and Tom Hanks. Last year, it was given to Barbra Streisand.
The saying "You are what you eat" is hardly new, but what about what your relatives ate? A new study suggests maternal grandmothers play a much bigger part in the health of grandchildren than previously believed.
Kuzawa and his team found grandmothers who consistently ate nutritious food while pregnant and provided optimal nourishment for their children during formative years had heavier, healthier grandchildren.
Kuzawa has been studying some 3,000 Filipino women since 1983 to discover what effect diet had on their grandchildren, starting with their pregnancies. He studied their children from infancy through adulthood, with these children now in their late 20s.
Members of the punk group Pussy Riot, including Nadezhda Tolokonnikova in the aqua balaclava, center, and Maria Alekhina in the red balaclava, left, perform next to the Olympic rings in Sochi, Russia, on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. Cossack militia attacked the punk group with horsewhips earlier in the day as the artists - who have feuded with Vladmir Putin's government for years - tried to perform under a sign advertising the Sochi Olympics.
Photo by David Goldman
Wild bumblebees worldwide are in trouble, likely contracting deadly diseases from their commercialized honeybee cousins, a new study shows.
That's a problem even though bumblebees aren't trucked from farm to farm like honeybees. They provide a significant chunk of the world's pollination of flowers and food, especially greenhouse tomatoes, insect experts said. And the ailments are hurting bumblebees even more, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
"Wild populations of bumblebees appear to be in significant decline across Europe, North America, South America and also in Asia," said study author Mark Brown of the University of London. He said his study confirmed that a major source of the decline was "the spillover of parasites and pathogens and disease" from managed honeybee hives.
The new study did not look at colony collapse disorder, which is more of a mysterious problem in North America than elsewhere. Other diseases and parasites have killed even more honeybees than the more recent colony collapse disorder.
"To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee has settled the federal lawsuit she filed against a museum in her south Alabama hometown over its sale of souvenirs featuring her name and the title of her book, court documents show.
An attorney for the Alabama native filed a motion Tuesday in federal court in Mobile saying Lee had reached an agreement with the Monroe County Heritage Museum in Monroeville.
The document did not provide details on the settlement, and a lawyer for the museum, Matthew Goforth, declined to comment Wednesday. He cited the terms of settlement negotiations.
Lee, 87, has had a stroke and lives in Monroeville after years of splitting time between the town of 28,000 and New York.
Now, the museum has changed its website name to http://www.monroecountymuseum.org . Items aren't offered for sale online. The site says the gift shop "offers dozens of custom items available ONLY in Monroeville."
U.S. actor Dennis Haysbert addresses the media at the European Parliament building in Brussels, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. Actors and MEP's will perform the play 'Speak Truth To Power' , a project of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights.
Photo by Yves Logghe
The nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese has agreed to pay $720 million to clergy abuse victims over the past decade and released internal files that showed Cardinal Roger Mahony shielded priests and ordered a surrogate to withhold evidence from police, yet Mahony and other archdiocese leaders are unlikely to face criminal charges.
With the final $13 million settlement of existing old cases announced Wednesday, Mahony has emerged from the scandal with his reputation tarnished, but his place in the church intact - even after being publicly rebuked by his successor for internal church files showing that he and others worked to protect priests, keep parishioners in the dark and defend the church's image.
By settling the cases, the archdiocese avoids a trial in which Mahony would have been publicly questioned under oath about what plaintiffs' lawyers said was an attempt to thwart a Los Angeles police investigation.
During a deposition unsealed Wednesday, Mahony acknowledged he told an underling not to give police a list of altar boys who had worked with the Rev. Nicolas Aguilar Rivera. He testified he wasn't trying to hinder police, but didn't want the boys to be scarred by the investigation and that he felt the altar boys were too old to be potential victims of the Mexican priest.
Police later found that 25 of Aguilar Rivera's alleged victims were altar boys and the other victim was training with the priest to be one, said Anthony DeMarco, a plaintiff attorney.
After giving his deposition last year, Mahony traveled to Rome, where he helped elect the new pope. A month ago, he celebrated Mass with Pope Francis at the Vatican before having a private meeting with him.
Britain's High Court has quashed a legal challenge against the detention under anti-terrorism laws of the partner of Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who brought leaks from former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden to world attention.
David Miranda had asked the court to rule on the legality of his detention and nine-hour questioning under terrorism legislation last August when he landed at London's Heathrow Airport en route from Berlin to Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
British authorities seized items from Miranda which they said included electronic media containing 58,000 documents from the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), Snowden's former employer, and from its British counterpart, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).
Schedule 7 allows for individuals to be stopped, detained for up to nine hours and have their items confiscated as they travel through ports and airports in order to determine whether they are involved in planning terrorist acts.
Edward Snowden, the former US National Security Agency analyst who revealed US surveillance of phone and Internet communications, was elected rector of Glasgow University in Scotland on Tuesday.
The analyst was nominated by a group of students at the university who said they had received his approval through his lawyer.
The largely symbolic post of rector mainly involves representing the university's students. The successful candidate is expected to attend meetings with the governing body and other authorities.
Previous holders of the rector's post at Glasgow University include Winnie Mandela and Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu.
Italy's billionaire former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is officially divorced, paving the way for a possible future marriage with a woman almost 50 years his junior, Italian media said Wednesday.
According to gossip website Dagospia and others, Berlusconi's brown-haired, shapely young girlfriend Francesca Pascale has already bought her wedding dress.
"Now Silvio Berlusconi can marry for the third time," following his divorce from Veronica Lario, the Corriere della Sera newspaper said.
"After three children, 22 years together and four years of separation, they are officially divorced," it said.
However, the two are still in dispute about the financial details of the divorce settlement after a lengthy and acrimonious legal battle.
Ultra-orthodox Jewish bride Rivka Hannah Krois stands beside her groom Aaron Krois (2nd R) after their traditional wedding ceremony in the Mea Shearim neighbourhood of Jerusalem February 18, 2014.
Photo by Ronen Zvulun
Reports from tens of thousands of bird-counting volunteers show a southern invasion of Arctic-dwelling snowy owls has spread to 25 states, and frigid cold is causing unusual movements of waterfowl.
Results are still coming in from the four-day annual Great Backyard Bird Count sponsored by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, National Audubon Society and Bird Studies Canada. Sponsors say the event, which ended Monday, drew participants from a record 127 countries, surpassing last year's 110. Most were from the U.S. and Canada.
Preliminary results show more than 2,500 snowy owls being reported in 25 states and seven Canadian provinces. The big white owls are in the midst of an irruption, or a sudden invasion of a region in large numbers, which scientists attribute to a population boom in the birds and a scarcity of their preferred food, lemmings, in their normal range on the Arctic tundra.
The most numerous species reported were snow geese, with 1.1 million recorded, followed by Canada geese, European starlings, mallard ducks and red-winged blackbirds.
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