'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Jazz From Hills
Trimmed Bush and Hedges
BBC Tonight
'The Young Ones'
I hope you're ready for a good laugh cause tonight's 'The Young Ones' on BBCAmerica is, imho, the best of the series.
The show starts with the boys sitting around discussing the most important thing to a collegeman, a young woman nicknamed "yellow pages". Then one of Vyv's dirty socks makes a break for it. Well, after such a dangerous hunt its time to go to the laundry. Except that Rick wants to kill himself, but Neil asks if Rick can do it by swallowing so many laxitives. We then switch to the world above where a scientist has made a major discovery, 4 tiny people living in his microscope. He is interupted by the person who brings in the real elephant man.
But back to our heros, they get to the laundrette where there are nothing but hassles. Suddenly Neils remembers that the lads have been picked to go on Univeristy Challange. Motorhead provides the change of scene music. Vyv losses his head on the trip up while looking to see why the sign says "Do Not Stick Head Out Window". The train stops while it is being held up by Mexican bandits.
When they finally arrive Vyv introduces the guard to the team mascot, a pig-ferret named Bacon Sandwich. Mike reminds the host, Bambi of their past. While Vyv asked about the video nasty in Bambi's past. Then they get to the show. The lads find themselves falling behind until Vyv gets out his trusty hand grenade and blows the other team sky high. Their lead though lasts just until a gigantic sticky bun falls on them.
The music is good, Motorhead in their prime, the pace is fast and the script has some of their best jokes. Its a VCR Keeper.
~ Mr. Hawk
Kerry/Edwards
At stake is our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor
Thanks, Mr. Hawk!
Linnk from Bruce
Banners
from Mark
Another Bumpersticker
Reader Humor
Ancient Republican Proverb
Teach a man to light a fire and he will be warm forever.
But throw him into the fire and he will never again complain about being cold.
Thanks, Bruce!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny, breezy & cooler than usual.
Legoland was a lot of fun, but, jeez - $168 just to get 2 adults & 2 kids through the front gate.
Wasn't crowded at all - no line was longer than 5 minutes.
My legs feel like we walked for miles - probably because we did. Wasn't home long til the kid melted into bed.
I haven't archived anything in awhile - been waiting til I figure out why I can't load a whole page.
Passersby look in the window a store in lower Manhattan, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2004, in New York where an anti-Bush poster was on display. The poster reads. '100 Reasons Not To Vote For Bush.' Even before the start of the convention, protesters are making their opinion clear by posting signs such as these throughout the city.
Photo by Kathy Willens
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Irish Fans Queue Overnight
Bill Clinton
Hundreds of dedicated Irish fans of ex-US president Bill Clinton braved wind and rain to queue overnight in the centre of Dublin to ensure they got the chance to meet him at a bookshop signing session.
Eason's bookstore in O'Connell Street said about 500 people were in a line stretching around the block prior to an hour-and-a-half book signing by Clinton to promote his memoirs, "My Life".
Clinton and his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, arrived in Dublin on Tuesday.
He is due to travel to Belfast for another book signing on Thursday, while she will deliver a university lecture in Londonderry, also in Northern Ireland.
Bill Clinton
Urging GOP Protests
Al Franken
Al Franken wants you to get up out of your chairs, open your windows, stick your heads out and yell ... fuggedaboutdit? Well, yes.
In the spirit of Paddy Chayefsky's classic movie monologue from "Network," the liberal comedian on Wednesday urged New Yorkers - and other Americans - to simultaneously scream the all-purpose local wisecrack at the moment that resident Bush accepts the nomination.
Franken said the Sept. 2 protest, called the "Great American Shout-Out," will not "tax our public safety system at all."
Franken said he expected the shouts to last less than five minutes. Out of "respect for the office of the presidency," he asked that participants quiet down once Bush begins speaking so "people can hear him give a bad speech."
Unlike the movie version - "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" - this protest has been tailor-made for regional dialects, Franken said.
In his native Minnesota, people are to yell "Oh no ya don't!" in an exaggerated accent.
In California, the suggested shout is: "No way, dude!"
Air America has created a Web site, www.thegreatamericanshoutout.org, where participants can plan "shout parties" or let their solo shout be counted.
Al Franken
Comedians, clad in period clothes, dance on a stage Place de la Bastille in Paris, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2004, as the city recalled jubilant scenes from the liberation and honored its liberators. Paris' tribute to its liberation was the last in a series of 60th anniversary commemorations by France marking critical moments leading to the capitulation of Germany and the end of World War II.
Photo by Jacques Brinon
Makes Las Vegas Appearance
Roy Horn
Injured illusionist Roy Horn made a rare public appearance on the Las Vegas Strip on Tuesday night, signaling thumbs-up from his wheelchair at a Cuban revue he and partner Siegfried Fischbacher are co-producing.
"He stayed for the whole show and loved it," Dave Kirvin, a spokesman for Siegfried & Roy said Wednesday, adding that Horn met with "Havana Night Club" cast members after the Tuesday night performance.
Siegfried & Roy are also involved in an animated television show, "Father of the Pride," that debuts next week on NBC.
Roy Horn
Arrested in Sudan Protest
Danny Glover
U.S. actor Danny Glover was arrested on Wednesday on the steps of Sudan's embassy in Washington during a protest against the humanitarian crisis in the country's Darfur region.
Before he was led away in handcuffs by the uniformed division of the U.S. Secret Service, Glover addressed a small crowd of protesters, calling for a peacekeeping force to stop the violence in western Sudan.
"We want an end to the hostility," declared Glover, a star of the "Lethal Weapon" films. He was charged with disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Secret Service said.
Danny Glover
GOP In NYC
Planned Responses
Thousands of people waving pink slips will line Broadway for three miles, their jobless-in-America protest stretching from the site of the Republican National Convention to Wall Street.
Near the Brooklyn Bridge, a mammoth red megaphone will amplify election-year opinions from a variety of people 24 hours a day.
While the Republicans meet at Madison Square Garden, America's biggest city will offer edgy spectacles in its streets, squares, parks and stages, featuring such people as Lauren Bacall, Robert Altman, Margaret Cho, Spike Lee, John Sayles, Marisa Tomei and Slick Rick.
Venues throughout New York's five boroughs will host actors, musicians, painters, scientists, photographers, comedians, writers, poets, filmmakers, spiritual leaders - and just ordinary citizens.
for more, Planned Responses
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Guthrie Publisher & Jib Jab
Ludlow Music
This song is my song, this song is your song. That's the agreement reached between the publishers of Woody Guthrie's classic "This Land is Your Land" and JibJab Media, creators of an animated Internet short that uses the tune in a comic sendup of resident Bush and Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaigns.
With nary a jab thrown, Ludlow Music, the song's publisher, agreed in a settlement Tuesday to allow the cartoon - one of the biggest Internet draws of the summer - to keep using the song.
In return, JibJab dropped a lawsuit against Ludlow that sought an order saying its use of the song was protected because it was a parody and "This Land" was in the public domain.
The creators also agreed to provide a link on their Web site to the song's original lyrics and to donate 20 percent of any profits to the Woody Guthrie Foundation.
Ludlow Music
JibJab
Woody Guthrie Foundation
EFF's copy of the 1945 sheet music (pdf file)
Pittsburgh Brewing Company, makers of Iron City beer, unveiled a new aluminum beer bottle at a news conference in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2004. The brewery has partnered with Alcoa Inc., the world's largest aluminum maker, to produce aluminum bottles that keep beer colder for longer, Alcoa officials said.
Photo by John Heller
Resting After Surgery
Rodney Dangerfield
Rodney Dangerfield underwent a seven-hour operation Wednesday to replace a heart valve, his spokesman told The Associated Press.
"I'm pleased to announce that Rodney Dangerfield made it through his surgery and is currently resting comfortably in intensive care over at UCLA," said the spokesman, Kevin Sasaki.
Dangerfield, 82, is expected to be hospitalized about a week and should be able to return to work in about two months, Sasaki said.
Rodney Dangerfield
Joining Cast of 'Everwood'
Anne Heche
Anne Heche will join the cast of "Everwood," the WB drama about a Manhattan brain surgeon who relocates in a Colorado mountain town.
The actress, who has starred in the movies "Wag the Dog" and "Six Days, Seven Nights," will play the role of Amanda Carver, the Patron Saint of the town of Everwood, the WB announced. The show's main character, played by Treat Williams, becomes involved with Heche's character while helping her cope with her husband's paralysis.
Anne Heche
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
U.S. Raids
Song Swappers
U.S. agents have raided the homes of five people who allegedly traded hundreds of thousands of songs, movies and other copyrighted material over the Internet, Attorney General John Ashcroft said on Wednesday.
Agents raided residences in Texas, New York and Wisconsin early on Wednesday and seized computers that they suspect were involved in a nationwide file-trading network.
The raids marked a sharp escalation of the years-long legal battle surrounding unauthorized copying over peer-to-peer, or P2P, networks.
Targeted in the raids were people operating "hubs" in a file-sharing network based on Direct Connect software.
Song Swappers
Chinese youths dressed as anime characters rehearse backstage during the Sixth Shanghai Animation and Cartoon Fair, August 25, 2004. China is among the countries benefiting from the growing popularity of computer animation, an industry worth about $30 billion globally, an industry specialist said.
Photo by Claro Cortes IV
Unsuitable for GOP Delegates
'Naked Boys Singing'
The Statue of Liberty. Bloomingdale's. The Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. A stage full of naked guys singing. Oops! The city's tourist bureau has pulled an off-Broadway show called "Naked Boys Singing" from a list of discounted offerings to visiting Republican delegates, after the Republican National Committee complained it wasn't suitable.
The gay-themed show, billed as a musical revue that "celebrates the splendors of male nudity in comedy, song and dance," has received generally good reviews and hasn't created much of a stir since it began its run six ted much of a stir since it began its run six years ago. Its 2,127 performances make it the 10th longest-running off-Broadway show.
When members of the RNC's Committee on Arrangements began to review the list of offerings, the show's title caught their eye, and they asked that it be removed from the tourist bureau's Web site.
In fact, before the show was removed from the site, about a dozen people - presumably delegates - had purchased tickets using the special code offered on the Web site. Those tickets will be honored.
'Naked Boys Singing'
Sues Lawyer Over Divorce Imbroglio
Drew Carey
Drew Carey sued his former lawyer Dennis Ardi for purportedly involving "The Drew Carey Show" star in a scheme to defraud Ardi's wife during their bitter divorce, court documents showed on Wednesday.
Carey's lawsuit demanded $4 million in damages from Ardi, whom he accused of lying in a sworn statement submitted in the divorce about whether he would demand a vested interest, known as a "lock-in agreement," in Carey's earnings from the show.
During the divorce proceedings, Ardi asked Carey to sign a statement swearing that he and Ardi did not have a "lock-in" agreement, and that his payments of 5 percent of his earnings to Ardi would stop if he was fired, the lawsuit said.
After the divorce was completed in June of 2002, Ardi demanded a "lock-in" clause from Carey despite the comedian's earlier sworn statement, the lawsuit said.
Drew Carey
Members of Green Dragon, a street theater group committed to creative expression of political dissent, rally on 5th Avenue dressed as 'Paul Revere' and 'Paula Revere' before riding on their 'horse-cycles' warning New Yorkers 'The Republicans are coming', Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2004, in New York. The 30 members of the group, dressed in star-spangled 18th-century garb, staged street theater they called ``Paula Revere's Ride'' on Tuesday as part of a demonstration against the Republican National Convention, which comes to New York next week. They invited patriotic revelers to join their ``American Revel-ution.''
Photo by Jennifer Szymaszek
Scientists Favourite Film
Blade Runner
The 1982 movie 'Blade Runner' was the favourite when 60 scientists were questioned by the Guardian, including evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, the newspaper reported Wednesday.
Stanley Kubrick's epic, 2001: A Space Odyssey, came in a close second, followed by the first two films of George Lucas's Star Wars trilogy: Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back.
Asked to pick their favourite authors, the scientists chose: Isaac Asimov (I, Robot); John Wyndham (Day of the Triffids and Chocky); and Fred Hoyle (The Black Cloud).
The other writers chosen, in descending order, were Philip K. Dick, H.G. Wells, Ursula Le Guin, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Frank Herbert and Stanislaw Lem.
Blade Runner
In Memory
Dennis 'D-Roc' Miles
Dennis Miles, the hockey-masked rhythm guitarist with rapper Ice-T's hard-rock band Body Count, has died after a battle with lymphoma.
Miles, whose stage name was D-Roc, died Aug. 17 in California. He was 45.
Two other members of Body Count have already died: drummer Beatmaster V succumbed to leukemia in 1996 and bassist Mooseman was killed in a drive-by shooting in 2000.
In the wake of the controversy over the album and single "Cop Killer" during Body Count's early '90s heyday, D-Roc wore a hockey mask on and off-stage. "He didn't want to get caught up in the hype of being a star," said lead guitarist Ernie C, who hoped Body Count would continue in some form.
Dennis 'D-Roc' Miles
In Memory
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a Swiss-born psychiatrist and author who gained international fame for her landmark work on death and dying, has died in her suburban Phoenix home. She was 78.
Kubler-Ross, who wrote the groundbreaking 1969 book "On Death and Dying," died Tuesday night of natural causes while surrounded by close friends and family, colleague David Kessler said on Wednesday.
Kessler told Reuters that Kubler-Ross, also known for her pioneering work in hospice care, died with children playing in the room and the television she loved to watch playing in the background.
Kubler-Ross, who moved to Arizona nine years ago following a series of strokes, had just finished her second book with Kessler -- "On Grief and Grieving," which is to be released next year.
During her five-decade career, she would establish herself as an expert in the field with more than 20 books, countless lectures and workshops on terminal illness and death. But it was her outline of the five stages of death -- denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance -- that would make her known to everyday people.
Born in Zurich as one of triplets, she wrote in her autobiography "The Wheel of Life" that her eyes were opened by a visit to a former Nazi concentration camp when she volunteered to work for the International Voluntary Service for Peace in 1945.
In 1957, she graduated from medical school at the University of Zurich and moved to New York after marrying Manny Ross, who was a doctor. It was while working at a New York hospital that she would start her life's work with terminally ill patients
"They were shunned and abused, nobody was honest with them," she once said. After a stint in Colorado, she moved to Chicago in the mid-1960s, where she would establish her reputation through lectures to medical and theology students.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
African Lion female cub Asali, right, and her brother Johari, bottom left, play with a pinata while mother Kuchani looks on at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2004. The two cubs discovered the pinata as a treat to celebrate their first birthday.
Photo by Rob Griffith
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