• In Austria, operatic tenor Leo Slezak sometimes heard musical societies play at dances for summer visitors. Often, as the night wore on and the band members became drunker and drunker, the music declined in quality. Once, he saw a band member stuff a sausage into the mouth of a tuba, thus preventing the tuba player from getting any sound at all from his instrument.
• John Steed, the sartorially perfect spy on the TV series The Avengers, does a lot of drinking—especially champagne—so of course he has a hangover cure, which we learn in the episode “A Touch of Brimstone.” The cure is to play the National Anthem because it “gets you to your feet.”
Animals
• Arturo Toscanini once conducted the New York Philharmonic in a Sunday radio broadcast of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. A flock of canaries was loose in an apartment while the occupant listened to the broadcast. The canaries were silent for the symphony’s first three movements, but when the Choral Finale began they flew to the radio, settled on it, and sang with the music. Maestro Toscanini was greatly pleased with this story.
• George White was a producer of revues during the Roaring Twenties. Often, he sat in the ticket office and sold tickets for his revue and was amused whenever someone he had never met demanded good seats because of being “a personal friend of George White’s.” By the way, Mr. White thought it was a good day when he lost $100,000 at a horse race because he immediately stopped betting on the horses.
• When Tallulah Bankhead appeared with a monkey in Conchita at the Queen’s Theatre, it did not go well. When the monkey first appeared on stage, it grabbed Tallulah’s black wig, then ran away, revealing Tallulah’s blond hair. The audience laughed, and Tallulah turned a cartwheel on stage.
Art and Artists
• Joe Greene of Stillwater, Oklahoma, does not like good things to go to waste. In the summer of 2012, he looked in a trashcan outside a church in Stillwater and saw the corner of an old wooden frame. He took it out and looked at it. The glass pane in front was smeared with ketchup and barbeque sauce. He said, “It had been buried in somebody’s picnic.” He took it and left. For about six weeks, he ignored it, and then he looked at it again. On the back was a photocopied newspaper article about Doel Reed and some contest-entry forms for an arts festival in Taos, New Mexico. From 1924 to 1959, Mr. Reed had worked in the art department at Oklahoma A&M College, which is now Oklahoma State University. In 1967, he created the drawing in the frame. Mr. Greene called a friend who is an artist, and the friend advised him to take the drawing to the art department of Oklahoma State University. Chris Ramsey, the head of the art department, advised him to have the drawing reframed. He did, and the drawing looked brand-new. Mr. Greene then donated the drawing to Oklahoma State University in honor of his wife, Dixie Mosier-Greene, who is part of the university’s philosophy department faculty. The drawing is titled “Near Ledoux,” and now it hangs in the Oklahoma State University Bartlett Center for the Visual Arts. Oklahoma State University art historian Louise Siddons said about the drawing and its artist, “It’s just really direct and clearly drawn. He just communicates how it felt to be in that place in that light.” Mr. Greene is proud to have rescued the work of art. He said, “My life is weird. And it gets weirder all the time.”
• Rembrandt van Rijn didn’t have to worry about models. The people depicted in his Night Watch are all people who paid him to be in the painting. Those who paid more got a better position in the painting. By the way, Vincent van Gogh painted 22 portraits of himself. This does not mean that he had a big ego; rather, he was always so broke that he could not afford to hire models to sit for him.
• Landscape artist Joseph Turner (1775-1851) painted his Peace: Burial at Sea of the Body of Sir David Wilkie, using some very dark colors for the sails. Clarkson Stanfield objected to the “funereal and unnatural blackness of the sails,” but Mr. Turner replied, “I only wish I had any color to make them blacker.”
What American comedian, poet, and dancer, probably best known for his appearances as a panelist on game shows, was nicknamed "the poet laureate of television"?
"Coconut" is a novelty song written and first recorded by American singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson, released as the third single from his 1971 album, Nilsson Schmilsson. It was on the U.S. Billboard charts for 14 weeks, reaching #8, and was ranked by Billboard as the #66 song for 1972. It charted minorly in the UK, reaching #42. "Coconut" did best in Canada, where it peaked at #5. It was later featured in the films The Addams Family, Reservoir Dogs, Practical Magic, Dick, and Hey Arnold!: The Movie; and heavily referenced on the television show Bones.
The lyrics feature Nilsson singing three characters (a narrator, a woman and a doctor), each in a different voice. The song describes a story in which a woman has a stomach ache and calls her doctor who prescribes the same drink that gave her the stomach ache in the first place. With the help of her brother, they concoct a beverage consisting of lime and coconut. When the sister calls the doctor late at night, the doctor (annoyed at being awakened by such a complaint) laughs her off and recommends that she "put the lime in the coconut and drink 'em both together"—then call him in the morning.
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Cal in Vermont replied:
One puts de lime in de coconut. Nowadays, one puts de lime in the neck of a bottle of Corona beer.
Tom C responded:
You would put the lime in the coconut and drink them both together.
zorch said:
Put the lime in the coconut.
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
You put the lime in the coconut and drink it all up.
That was a song we as a family sang during long car trips with our kids. It was fun and fortunately we all sing well with. That song was a favorite; we rarely sang it the same way twice.
Thanks for inspiring happy memories, Marty.
John I from Hawai`i says,
In the coconut
Bob from Mechanicsburg, Pa answered:
"she put de lime in de coconut"
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame, replied:
"Put de lime in de coconut." Strange song!
Michelle in AZ responded:
In de coconut
DJ Useo wrote:
The "Lime in the Coconut". As a youth, I wondered why, but as an a-dult, I get it.
Billy in Cypress U.S.A. said:
"In The Coconut", but I say that it should be in the margarita.
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“Lookit, Martians! is a four-piece pop punk band hailing from Olympus Mons [Mountain] on planet Mars, but currently residing in Mannheim, Germany, Earth.
“Founded by members of pop-punk veterans The Barbecuties in response to the very unpunk pandemic and the resulting boredom on the planet, Lookit, Martians! made first contact with earthlings in 2020. While encountering incredible tristesse and social-distancing, these four extraterrestrials decided to stay and spread some groovy interstellar vibes next to secretly taking-over world dominance.
“Stylistically, Lookit, Martians! is heavily influenced by old school pop punk (Nah! Not that modern cute boy suck-up stuff!) in the vein of bands like The Ramones, Green Day, Teen Idols or Teenage Bottlerocket. So if you’re into sugar-sweet girl meets boy vocals and hip-shaking harmonies, these Martians and Martianettes might exactly be your thing!”
Lookit, Martians! is: Fee - Vocals, Guitar
Sid - Vocals, Bass
Coli - Guitar, Vocals
Sven - Drums
Did anyone besides me notice that Will Smith quoted a line verbatim from a character in "Lawrence of Arabia?" Anthony Quinn played the Sheik of the Howietat, Auda, whom Lawrence wishes to persuade to join the fight with the Arabs against the Turks. Lawrence correctly labels the murderous brigand as such, to which deeply "insulted" Auda replies that he is "a river to my people".
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Young Sheldon', followed by a FRESH'The US Of Al', then a FRESH'Ghosts', followed by a FRESH'How We Roll', then a FRESH'Bully'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Jane Krakowski, James McAvoy, and Arlo Parks.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Maria Bakalova, Stephen Merchant, and Wet Leg.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN'L&O', followed by a RERUN'L&O: SVU', then a RERUN'L&O: Overkill'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Sienna Miller, Judd Apatow, and Big Thief.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Ben Stiller, Rose Matafeo, and Brooke Colucci.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Station 19', followed by a FRESH'Grey's Anatomy', then a FRESH'Big Sky'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 3/24/22) are Gwen Stefani, Jude Hill, and Wilderado.
The CW offers a FRESH'Walker', followed by a FRESH'Legacies'.
Faux has a FRESH'MasterChef Junior', followed by a FRESH'Call Me Kat', then a FRESH'Welcome To Flatch'.
MY recycles an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then an old 'King Of Queens', followed by another old 'King Of Queens'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Nightwatch'.
AMC offers the movie 'Armageddon', followed by the movie 'Sixteen Candles', then the movie 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High'.
BBC -
[6:30AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[7:30AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[8:30AM - 1:30PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[2:30PM] HOOK
[5:45PM] THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES
[9:00PM] THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES
[12:15AM] MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
[2:15AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT WAR
[3:00AM] WILD PATAGONIA
[4:00AM] WILD PATAGONIA
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Top Chef', followed by a FRESH'Top Chef', 'Top Chef: Family Style', and way too much 'Chrisley Knows Best'.
FX has the movie 'Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby', followed by the movie 'Thor: The Dark World', then a FRESH'Atlanta'.
History has 'Swamp People', another 'Swamp People', followed by a FRESH'Swamp People'.
IFC -
[6:00am - 3:30pm] Three's Company
[4:00pm - 9:30pm] Two And A Half Men
[10:00pm - 3:00am] Scrubs
[3:30am] Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Human Duplicators
[5:45am] Life Of Brian (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 9:30am] the andy griffith show
[10:00am - 10:00pm] law & order
[11:00pm - 2:00am] perry mason
[3:00am - 5:30am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Wanted', followed by the movie 'xXx: Return Of Xander Cage'.
Celebrated U.S. cellist Yo-Yo Ma joined refugees from the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in the Portuguese capital Lisbon on Tuesday for a performance of Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik.
Ma joined young Afghan and Portuguese musicians on a small stage at the National Conservatory, where the refugees who arrived last December are studying.
“They risked their lives for something they believed in and you, in Lisbon, opened your hearts and risked ... all kinds of things in order to do what is human,” he said.
Portugal granted asylum to a 273-person group, including some 150 students, from the Afghanistan National Institute of Music as they fled Afghanistan in the wake of a Taliban takeover last August. Ma had a hand in helping them get out of Afghanistan.
The late Native Hawaiian hula teacher Edith Kanaka’ole is among five women who will be individually featured on a U.S. quarter next year as part of a program that depicts notable women on the flip side of the coin.
The U.S. Mint said Wednesday the other side of each quarter will show George Washington.
It described Kanaka’ole, who died in 1978, as a composer, chanter, dancer, teacher and entertainer.
The U.S. Mint said the other four women to appear on the coin next year were: Bessie Coleman, the first African American and first Native American woman pilot; Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady and author; Jovita Idár, the Mexican American journalist and activist; and Maria Tallchief, who was America’s first prima ballerina.
Back in December, Warner Bros. announced that its Blue Beetle movie—based on one of the DC Comics heroes of the same name, specifically the younger, more recent one—was shifting its release strategy from HBO Max to theaters, a fun reversal of every movie the studio put out in 2021. With that level up, the movie has also apparently earned the ability to attract big-name actors, no offense to Xolo Maridueña (who is starring as the eponymous Blue Beetle), with Deadline reporting that Sharon Stone has joined the cast as the film’s villain.
But it’s that apparent villain’s name that is the most interesting part of this, provided you know your Blue Beetle lore: Deadline says she’ll be a woman named Victoria Kord… as in Ted Kord, as in the old Blue Beetle. This character is apparently being created for this film and doesn’t have a history in the comics, but Deadline thinks she’s the wife of Ted Kord. If she’s a villain, then, what does that mean for Ted Kord? Is he a villain? Did he die and his wife turned into a bad guy?
The fact that the Kord family is involved at all is somewhat surprising, since you don’t really need Ted Kord’s Blue Beetle to tell a story about the new Blue Beetle, whose secret identity is a teenage named Jaime Reyes. Unlike the old Beetle, who was basically Batman but without the dour disposition and with a different theme (beetles instead of bats, you see), the newer Blue Beetle gets his powers from an alien artifact that looks like a beetle and latches onto his back, allowing him to activate a somewhat beetle-like suit of armor with various transforming weapons attached.
Blue Beetle, directed by Angle Manuel Soto, will be in theaters (not HBO Max!) on August 18, 2023. (Also, yes, Sharon Stone was in the Catwoman movie, which was technically based on a DC comic. We couldn’t find a place to naturally bring that up.)
Lara Logan — the former 60 Minutes star reporter, turned Fox Nation host, turned far-right screedster — has spoken out in the most explicit terms yet about her break up with Rupert Murdoch (R-Evil Incarnate)’s company in the wake of her comments comparing Dr. Anthony Fauci to a genocidal Nazi psysician.
“I was dumped by Fox,” Logan said in a Monday video interview on a right-wing streaming show, “That’s what happened to me.”
In earlier interviews, Logan had voiced some optimism of a return to Fox’s good graces, hoping for a possible return to Fox Nation. “I don’t know at this point how that’s going to turn out,” she said in January, adding of the controversy she’d stirred, “They might not care!”
But in an appearance Monday on the “The Stand Up America US Show” [sic], Logan described her separation from Fox as a definitive breakup, describing the network’s apparent decision to “dump” her as a gift from the heavens. “God has intervened in my life in very significant ways to spare me from being tainted,” Logan said. “I was taken off the air at Fox just before they went into a whole marathon of war porn in Ukraine.”
While most Americans have sympathized with the victims of Putin’s deadly blitz, Logan has consistently echoed Russian talking points, decrying (as Putin has propagandized) a plague of “Nazis” in Ukraine, while also touting the Russian dictator as a geopolitical hero — “the man standing between us and this New World Order.”
Eleven years ago, Facebook was caught red-handed after it hired a prominent public relations firm to try to plant stories harshly criticizing Google’s privacy practices in leading news outlets.
In 2018, it hired the PR firm Definers to do opposition research on the company’s critics, including billionaire philanthropist George Soros. The company’s longtime head of communications, Elliot Schrage, took the blame for approving the hiring of Definers and similar firms and left Facebook.
On Wednesday, The Washington Post reported that Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is using similar tactics to go after another rival TikTok. Meta, the Post reported, hired a Republican consulting firm called Targeted Victory to “orchestrate a nationwide campaign” against TikTok.
Targeted Victory, according to the Post, contracted with dozens of public relations firms across the U.S. to help “sway public opinion against TikTok” by planting local news stories and helping place op-eds targeting TikTok around the country, the story says.
The Post obtained internal emails from Targeted Victory that outlined a campaign to undermine TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. The firm used a mix of “genuine concerns and unfounded anxieties” about TikTok in order to try to turn public and political sentiment against it.
Protestors picketing Jay-Z’s Gold Party on Sunday evening, March 27, warmed up by having a party of their own. They erected a step-and-repeat at the end of the Chateau Marmont’s driveway, projected a logo reading “Boycott” in massive blade lettering across the hotel’s exterior, strung lights along Marmont Lane, donned glow sticks, led raucous chants and played disco hits from a DJ rig.
They’d shown up after the billionaire musician had declined to move his event from the grounds of the legendary Sunset Strip property, which has been embroiled in controversy since 2020, when Chateau Marmont owner André Balazs laid off nearly all of his employees at the onset of the pandemic without providing severance packages or extended health insurance. Months later, more than 30 staffers told The Hollywood Reporter about long-simmering workplace issues, including allegations of systemic racial discrimination and sexual misconduct. The UNITE HERE Local 11 hospitality union has led a boycott of the hotel since 2021 and made public appeals for Jay-Z to respect the boycott after the Gold Party’s location was revealed.
But by the 11 p.m. start time, activity was clustering along Sunset Boulevard, where the Gold Party’s main entrance funneled guests inside a lounge space formerly known as Bar Marmont. Private security personnel and nearly two-dozen LAPD officers cordoned protestors behind barricades to a corner of sidewalk abutting Selma Avenue. There, they aimed to catch the attention of the fleet of black Cadillac Escalades and GMC Yukon Denalis slowly pulling up, then idling, in the lengthy valet line.
The party went on despite the protest. Janelle Monáe and Saweetie soon arrived. They were joined by, among others, Emily Ratajkowski, Daniel Kaluuya, Kim Kardashian, Timothée Chalamet, Rosario Dawson, Michael B. Jordan, Mindy Kaling, Tiffany Haddish, Tyler Perry, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Zoe Kravitz. Questlove was inside spinning “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” as his best documentary Oscar — which he’d won earlier in the night for Summer of Soul — stood sentinel at his DJ rig, as seen on his Instagram account.
Ancient, primordial helium that was forged in the wake of the Big Bang is leaking from Earth's core, scientists report in a new study.
There's no cause for alarm. Earth isn't deflating like a sad balloon. What it does mean is that Earth formed inside a solar nebula – the molecular cloud that gave birth to the Sun, a detail about our planet's birth that has long been unresolved.
Helium on Earth comes in two stable isotopes. By far the most common is helium-4, with a nucleus containing two protons and two neutrons. Helium-4 accounts for arund 99.99986 percent of all the helium on our planet.
The other stable isotope, accounting for just about 0.000137 percent of Earth's helium, is helium-3, with two protons and one neutron.
It's the Helium-3 isotope that has been detected leaking out of Earth's interior, mostly along the mid-ocean volcanic ridge system, giving us a pretty good indication of the rate at which it escapes the crust.
A Ukrainian family who came to Hawaii for a long-awaited vacation ended up watching from the islands in shock as bombs started dropping on their country. Now, more than a month later, they remain stranded on Oahu without access to their house, money, family or friends.
They’ve found support through the local canoe paddling community, which set them up with a place to stay and raised money online to help get them settled. They do not know if they will ever be able return to their home.
Vasyl and Marina Prishchak and their three daughters, ages 5, 10 and 16, arrived in Hawaii in the middle of February and had an idyllic, three-week beach vacation planned before Russia invaded Ukraine.
“This vacation changed our life,” said Vasyl Prishchak, who along with his wife owns a cosmetics company with stores in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. ”We don’t know how we return to Ukraine and what we will do, we will begin from zero, from scratch.”
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