'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Recommendation
from Lorena
Spoken-word queen Alix Olson on Tour
"Alix brought me to my feet. She is an ingenious poet, a
brilliant performer, a funny person, a serious thinker. She
is quite simply extraordinary." -Howard Zinn,
author/activist
Alix Olson was a member of the 1998 Nuyorican National
Championship Slam Team, as well as winner of the 1999
OutWrite National Slam. Since then, she has been a touring
folk poet and spoken word artist, performing nationally and
internationally at hundreds of colleges, clubs and
festivals, including the FalaDura Festival in Porto,
Portugal, the International Poetry Festival in Rotterdam,
Netherlands, Amsterdam's Gay Games, and the LGBT Cultural
Arts Festival in London, England.
Alix has shared the stage with such artists/activists as
Michael Moore, Pete Seeger, Christine Lavin, Catie Curtis,
Howard Zinn, Ntzoke Shange, Leslie Feinberg, Alix Dobkin and
many others. Alix has headlined events such as The National
Organization for Women's national conference, National
Lesbian Summit, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's
Creating Change, and GenderPAC.
Alix's 2002 year-round tour is once again sending her around
the country, including colleges, festivals such as the
National Women's Music Festival. Check www.alixolson.com for
tour dates.
-- Lorena
Thanks, Lorena
New Site
Georgo W. Hynkel
The official website of the glorious emperor Georgo W. Hynkel and his holy empire USamania is online now. Our nice leader Hynkel will be very proud whether you link his site.
www.strikefree.net
usamaina.en
Got this link in the mail - the translating needs a bit of tweaking, but I got the gist of their message - ; )
Stairway to Gilligan's Island
from Kip
Everytime I told somebody about this song, they thought I was making it up.
Here's a page about it.
Stairway to Gilligan's Island
(You can play the song by starting the record player.)
~~ Kip
Thanks, Kip!
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Weather has cooled a bit.
Pulled down the suitcases to let them air out, but just seeing them freaked the cats. (The cats freak easily.)
Cleaned the fish bowls, too. The red fish ('Red') has been with us since kindergarten, and the blue fish ('Blue') since the 1st grade. The yellow fish ('Goldie') from 2nd grade and the silver/blue fish (Pepsi) from 3rd grade are now fertilizing the bay tree.
A whole day without any changes to the Vegas plans! A freaking record!
Tonight, Thursday, CBS starts with a fresh 'Survivor: Thailand', then the season premiere of 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation', and then the series premiere of 'Without A Trace'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave is Tightrope daredevil Phillipe Petit.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers are Tony Danza, Kelli Williams, and New Found Glory.
NBC begins with the season premiere of 'Friends', then the season premiere of 'Scrubs', followed by the season premiere of 'Will & Grace', then the series premiere of 'Good Morning, Miami', and finally the season premiere of 'ER'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Jennifer Love Hewitt and Donnie Wahlberg.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan are Joe Pantoliano and Coldplay.
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly are Joe Rogan and Jimmy Fallon.
ABC starts with the season premiere of 'Monk', then a fresh 'Push, Nevada', followed by 'PrimeTime Thursday'.
The WB has a fresh 'Family Affair', followed by a fresh 'Do Over', a fresh 'Jamie Kennedy', and a fresh 'Off Centre'.
Faux has the movie 'Rush Hour'.
UPN has 'WWE Smackdown'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Big Dog Watch Continues
Bill Clinton
Former United States President Bill Clinton and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo visit the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) center in Abuja, September 24, 2002.
Clinton, on a one-day visit to Nigeria, as part of a West African tour aimed at promoting efforts to curtail the AIDS epidemic, and encouraging economic development.
Photo by George Esiri
'The Two Towers' Trailer Online Monday
'Lord of the Rings'
The trailer for "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" will premiere on America Online on Monday.
Starting at 12:01 a.m., fans can download images for the second film in the adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy trilogy. A day later, the trailer will appear on the movie's Web site.
The trailer will start appearing in North American theaters on Oct. 4 and will go worldwide throughout the month.
The third film, "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," is scheduled to come out in December 2003. All three movies were shot simultaneously.
'Lord of the Rings'
"The Lord of the Rings" Web site
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Seminar
'Decision-Making at the White House'
When it came to power in the Clinton White House, key players included people like Al Gore, Madeleine Albright, Janet Reno and Stephanie Streett.
While few might be familiar with Streett, she had an important role as Clinton's director of scheduling. Now she plans to discuss her unique behind-the-scenes view.
Streett and a panel of other former Clinton administration insiders are scheduled to share their thoughts during a Nov. 12 seminar at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
The program, titled, "Decision-Making at the White House: The President's Time," will focus on how a president's time is managed, particularly in a time of crisis.
The Nov. 12 seminar will feature Clinton confidant and counsel Bruce Lindsey, who until now has been virtually silent about his White House experiences.
The panel also will include Maggie Williams, the former chief of staff for the first lady and now the chief of Clinton's office, and former White House chief of staff Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty.
Organizers say the program will be the first in a series of seminars on American presidencies.
'Decision-Making at the White House'
www.ualr.edu
Xinzheng, Henan Province
Royal Tomb
Horse skeletons are seen at an ancient royal tomb unearthed in the city Xinzheng, in Henan province, on September 17, 2002. The tomb dates back to the Zheng kingdom of the Spring and
Autumn period in Chinese history, more than 2,000 years ago. According to archaeologists digging at the site, more than 20 kings of Zheng were buried there. Picture taken September 17, 2002.
Urging Lawmaker Intervention
Musicians & Royalties
A group of musicians including Don Henley and Jennifer Warnes urged California lawmakers to intervene and protect them from what they say are unfair contracts that give
recording companies the opportunity to withhold royalties with impunity.
The musicians, whose careers span seven decades, also charged Tuesday that the recording industry systematically underreported sales to reduce royalty payments.
Contracts are "dishonest," "indecipherable" and "laughably one-sided," said Warnes who, despite selling some 30 million albums since 1968, said she didn't receive her first royalty check until 1991.
"There's no penalty for negligent underreporting," said Henley of the Eagles. He said the contracts are the same at any major label so "you can't shop around and get a better deal."
Contracts between a musician and a label stipulate that any failure to pay royalties is not a material breach of contract, said Simon Renshaw, a manger of several music acts with the Beverly Hills-based agency The Firm.
"It's catch me if you can, and then I'll repay you some of the money I stole from you, and then we'll start again. That's the game. It's institutionalized," Renshaw told a joint hearing of the state Senate Committee
on Judiciary and the state Senate Select Committee on the Entertainment Industry.
Musicians & Royalties
To Visit Mount Airy
Andy Griffith
Andy Griffith is coming back to Mount Airy.
The 76-year-old actor, who brought fabled Mayberry to life on "The Andy Griffith Show," will make a public appearance Oct. 16 for the dedication of a section of U.S. 52 in his honor.
Gov. Mike Easley will be the keynote speaker, with Griffith scheduled to speak afterward.
Griffith's visit comes just three weeks after the 13th annual Mayberry Days, a festival scheduled to run Friday through Sunday that celebrates the characters and spirit of The Andy Griffith Show.
Griffith usually skips Mayberry Days and has been reluctant to make a public appearance in his hometown. The last time was June 1, 1957, when he was greeted with a
parade for his movie "No Time For Sergeants."
Andy Griffith
Ben 'Starsky' Stiller & Owen 'Hutch' Wilson
'Starsky & Hutch'
Owen Wilson will join Ben Stiller in "Starsky & Hutch," an action comedy set for a February start.
The Warner Bros. film takes its inspiration from the ABC series with Paul Michael Glaser (Starsky) and David Soul (Hutch), which bowed in 1975. Stiller
is playing Starsky and Wilson will play Hutch.
Todd Phillips ("Road Trip"), who wrote the last draft of the script with Scott Armstrong, will direct.
'Starsky & Hutch'
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
'Broadcasting's Pulitzer'
Peabody Awards
Now that Conan O'Brien has returned to his "Late Night" lair and Emmymania is over, let's take a look at the other TV award: the Peabody.
It's the one you may not know, at least beyond its offhand designation as "broadcasting's Pulitzer."
It's the one without a big TV show, "and the envelope please" suspense, and the staggering array of categories. (In fact, the Peabody has no fixed categories or even an annual quota of winners.)
Like the Emmy, the Peabody recognizes outstanding achievement in broadcasting and cable TV. But, unlike the Emmy, it also honors achievement in radio and new media like CD-ROMs and the Web, and does it all from an international perspective.
It's the one that, unlike the self-congratulating Emmys, isn't decided by peer voting. Its 15 judges come from diverse backgrounds including industry, the arts, education, journalism and government.
For a lot more, Peabody Awards
www.peabody.uga.edu
Oakland A's - Mariners Game
Seattle Streaker
A streaking fan is chased down by security officers in the outfield during the fifth inning of the Oakland Athletics against the Seattle Mariners game at Safeco Field in Seattle, Washington on September 24, 2002. The fan was apprehended. arrested and taken off the field after disrupting play for 10 minutes.
Photo by Anthony P. Bolante
Alive & Well
Jason Mewes
Jason Mewes is alive and well. Mewes, who played the long-haired, drug-loving "Jay" in Kevin Smith's "Clerks," "Mall Rats," "Chasing Amy" and "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back,"
was reportedly on the lam or even feared dead after his friends told the Chicago Sun-Times they hadn't seen him in 10 months. An arrest warrant had been issued for him after
he violated probation on a heroin conviction. But last month, Mewes made an appearance at a film festival in Malibu to promote his new indie movie "RSVP," and he'll host a
talent show Oct. 17 at Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va. "The rumors of his death are greatly exaggerated," chuckled Mewes' agent, Nancy Oeswein. "I just got off the
phone with him. He's certainly not in hiding. He just moved to L.A." For some folks, living on the Left Coast is as good as being dead.
Jason Mewes
Creating Crime Saga For NBC
David Mamet
Pulitzer Prize-winning scribe David Mamet ("Glengarry Glen Ross") has agreed to create an hourlong drama series for NBC's fall 2003 schedule.
The series will be a sort of "'Robin Hood' meets 'Mission: Impossible' meets 'The A-Team,"' according to NBC senior VP for drama Chris Conti.
Mamet will earn a mid-six-figure sum for writing the script and will serve as an executive producer. The untitled series will be produced for NBC by Paraiah Television.
David Mamet
BartCop TV!
To Host Fishing Show
Lech Walesa
Lech Walesa, the founder of the Solidarity labor movement and Poland's former president, has found a new outlet for his opinions — a national television program on fishing.
"I've tried many subjects so I can add one more," Walesa — a keen angler — said Tuesday of the offer from the TV3 station to host the weekly show, which will start next month. Still, he wasn't
promising to keep his thoughts on other issues to himself.
The 1983 Nobel Prize winner and former shipyard electrician now keeps busy on the speaking circuit addressing concerns like globalization, and remains a popular draw in the United States.
Walesa said he will not be paid for hosting the fishing show.
Lech Walesa
Schwangau, Germany
Neuschwanstein
Castle Neuschwanstein is surrounded by snow covered trees Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2002 at Schwangau, Germany, after early snowfalls blanketed the area.
Photo by Diether Endlicher
30 years ago this fall I visited Neuschwanstein under the auspices of Pepperdine. Neuschwanstein was built by 'Mad' Lugwig (he was a contemporary of Abraham Lincoln) of Bavaria.
It was a glorious autumn day, and the surrounding woods were full of trees with colored leaves. It was also the first time I heard 'Aqualung', and I sorta-kinda remember a breakfast of eggs & hash. : )
Added To Dictionary
Jedi & Klingons
Science fiction's "Jedi" warriors and "Klingon" bad guys have entered the newest edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, along with "asylum seekers," "asymmetrical warfare" and "spin control."
The first new edition in nearly a decade of the short version of the classic word bible will appear Thursday, with 3,500 new entries, from "ass-backwards" to "warp drive."
New slang terms include "get real" and "badass."
There are also 500 new quotations. Among the writers whose literary citations appear for the first time are best sellers Tom Clancy and Nick Hornby, Bridget Jones author Helen
Fielding and, inevitably, Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling.
But although new words from science fiction films like Star Wars and Star Trek have made it, words coined for the Harry Potter books are still too new to appear.
Jedi & Klingons
Alleged Video Makers Arrested in CA
'Bumfights'
Two men who allegedly paid street people to fight each other as part of the Internet video sensation "Bumfights" have been arrested in San Diego, police said on Tuesday.
The arrests of Las Vegas residents Zachary Bubeck, 24, and Ryan Edward McPherson, 19, followed a three-month probe by the La Mesa Police Department into the "Bumfights" tapes, Lt. Raul Garcia said. La Mesa is a suburb of San Diego.
Police said they were still looking for two other Las Vegas residents, as well as others who may have been involved in the production of "Bumfights."
Producers claim to have sold more than 300,000 copies of "Bumfights" over the Internet for $19.99 each.
"Bumfights, Vol 1" -- touted by its producers as "the fastest-selling independent video" featuring "drunks" and "crackheads" -- shows bedraggled men engaging
in fistfights and acts of self-abuse, such as running headlong into steel doors and leaping off bridges.
They are due in court on Oct. 10 for a preliminary hearing.
'Bumfights'
Baby News
Griffin Arthur Fraser
"The Mummy" star Brendan Fraser is a daddy.
The 33-year-old's wife, Afton, gave birth to a son last week, the actor's publicist, Kelly Bush, said Wednesday.
Griffin Arthur Fraser was born Sept. 17 at an undisclosed location in Los Angeles, she said.
It was the first child for Fraser and his wife, who married in 1998.
Griffin Arthur Fraser
St. Petersburg Zoo
Marmosets
Marmoset monkeys look out of their cage, September 25, 2002, in St. Petersburg's Zoo after they were isolated from visitors. Twelve Marmoset monkeys with a street value of $300 USD each, were stolen from the St. Petersburg Zoo last night.
Photo by Alexander Demianchuk
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