Mark Morford: 40 Billion Ways to Dance (SF Gate)
Every day it's the same: At any given moment, someone, somewhere is discovering something either quiet or grand, miniscule or momentous, that changes the way we think, the way we hold space, the way we perceive the mind, the world, the galaxy and even reality itself, to the point where we will likely never be the same again.
Eddie Deezen: Why were There Two Darrins on Bewitched? (Nreatorama)
Bewitched is an icon in pop culture and in the history of '60s television. The show ran from 1964 to 1972 and had a hugely successful 8-year run. But the question remains in every person's head who has watched or been a fan of Bewitched: why the two different Darrins?
David Bruce: Wise Up! Children (Athens News)
When Burt Rutan was growing up, he was obsessed with aircraft. He would take the model airplanes his older brother crashed and use their parts to create his own designs. To test the aircraft, he persuaded his mother to drive the family car at high speeds while he held his newly designed aircraft out the window to see how it acted. Later, he started designing plans for aircraft that could be built at home by hobbyists. To test the designs for parts, he would tie the parts to the top of his car, and then drive the car at high speeds. His business was very successful, and he enjoyed working there so much that he called his aircraft factory the "candy store."
Groucho glasses, also known as the beaglepuss, are a humorous novelty disguise based on the stage makeup that caricature comedian Groucho Marx wore (i.e., large fake mustache, eyebrows, and glasses). They typically consist of black horn-rimmed glasses with attached eyebrows, large plastic nose, bushy moustache, and occasionally with an attached plastic cigar. Considered one of the most iconic and widely used of all novelty items, Groucho glasses were first marketed in the early 1940s and are instantly recognizable to people throughout the world. Groucho glasses today are often used as a shorthand for slapstick.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Groucho Glasses
Lois Of Oregon said:
First guess...remembering Snagglepuss, the bright pink LGBT
Cougar of Hanna Barbara fame, it followed that Beaglepuss
must be Huckleberry Hound's alter ego, and Snagglepuss' Gay
love interest in some lost episode of "The Unmasked
Avenger". However an image search revealed that the
Beaglepuss is in fact a device used to humiliate cats. A
very dangerous hobby, considering the average house cat's
ability to hold a grudge.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Groucho glasses
Adam answered:
Groucho Glasses.
Sally said:
As I recall, they were designed to look like Groucho Marx.
PS: I slipped on some wet leaves on my back porch the other day. Thankfully, I caught myself on the railing, but hurt my wrists (at least it's not my bad hip)! Still hurts to type though...
Marian responded:
Groucho glasses
Dale of Diamond Sprungs, Norfallcali, replied:
Knew this one too. Groucho Glasses. The real thing is much gooder, if not the betterest! Read "The Groucho Letters" for real entertainment, zany times will be ahead for youz. Remember Erin Fleming?
MAM wrote:
"Groucho Marx" Glasses with Nose and Mustache.
BttbBob said:
Zounds! The wonderful things that one learns here, eh? Well, maybe not wonderful all the time, I will allow (and my agent will vigorously remind me).
But, this... this... this is amazingly wonderful. To deny it would be to deny that absurdity can often be zuberistically (I just made up that absurd word) damn fun (and is mandatory once-a-day behavior in "My Perfect World")... Behold!
I don't have one, but I damn sure want one now! Yes! I have to go out today and hunt one down. Hmmm? Where? Well, no matter now. I'll come up with it.
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And it's a beautiful sunny November day to do it in, too! Yes, a tad chilly... 25º right now here at 9am... But, up to 40 by 5pm (just when the sun is starting to set)... Winter is very near...
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However, a "Happy Campfire" can be fun right now...
Yea! Toasty warm! Hurrah!... (Hoo boy, we later added more big logs - we had more than plenty, cut, stacked and dry - and when the wind picked up steady from across the river, we coulda smelted iron ore in the middle of it - Seriously - a natural blast furnace. The huge glowing embers within were almost painful in their intensity to directly look at when it got dark...)
'The Barcia Camp' By-the-Manistique 11-9-13
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Happy Birthday this day to:
(50) "Maya" attracted my attention for some time...
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Big Bang Theory', followed by a FRESH'The Millers', then a FRESH'The Crazy Ones', followed by a FRESH'2½ Men', then a FRESH'Elementary'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Claire Danes, Will Forte, and Metric.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Donald Sutherland and Casey Wilson.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Parks & Recreation', followed by another FRESH'Parks & Recreation', then a FRESH'Sean Saves The World', followed by a FRESH'The Michael J. Fox Show', then a FRESH'Parenthood'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Craig Ferguson and JRand featuring Flo Rida.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Damian Lewis, Steve Coogan, Sheryl Crow, and Wanz.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Erin Foley, "Dear Mr. Watterson", and Two Door Cinema Club.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Once Upon A Time In Wonderland', followed by a FRESH'Grey's Anatomy', then a FRESH'Scandal'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Sarah Silverman, David Blaine, and Charlie Wilson.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Vampire Diaries', followed by a FRESH'Reign'.
Scheduled on a FRESHArsenio Hall are Taye Diggs, Terrence Howard, and Morris Chestnut, Harold Perrineau, and Robert Glasper Experiment featuring Anthony Hamilton.
Faux has a FRESH'The X Factor', followed by a FRESH'Glee'.
MY recycles an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Beyond Scared Straight'.
AMC offers the movie 'Twister', followed by the movie 'Men In Black'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 7 - 42
[9:00AM] TORCHWOOD - Season 1 - Ep 9 - Random Shoes
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 26 - Time's Arrow - Part 1
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 1 - Time's Arrow, Part 2
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 2 - Realm of Fear
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 10 - Zeke's
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 10 - Dillon's
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Bonapartes
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 8
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 9
[6:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 9 - Fiesta Sunrise
[7:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 12 - Charlie's
[8:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 6 - Ep 1 - La Galleria 33, Part 1
[9:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 6 - Ep 2 - La Galleria 33, Part 2 NEW
[10:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 15 - Zocalo
[11:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 6 - Ep 1 - La Galleria 33, Part 1
[12:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 6 - Ep 2 - La Galleria 33, Part 2
[1:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 15 - Zocalo
[2:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 11 - Spin-A-Yarn Steakhouse
[3:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 10 - Zeke's
[4:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 10 - Dillon's
[5:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Bonapartes (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', 'Real Housewives Of Miami', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Miami', and another 'Real Housewives Of Miami'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', '@midnight', 'Key & Peele', 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', another 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', 'Tosh.0', and 'South Park'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Geoffrey Rush.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Alexis Ohanian.
FX has the movie 'X-Men: First Class', followed by a FRESH'Anger Management', then the movie 'X-Men: First Class'.
History has 3 hours of old 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Pawn Stars', then another FRESH'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:15AM] Blade Runner
[8:45AM] About a Boy
[11:00AM] Hulk
[2:00PM] Blade Runner
[4:30PM] Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
[7:00PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Rashida Jones Wears a Black Blazer & Flowered Pants
[7:30PM] The Birthday Boys-Rock and Roll
[8:00PM] The Warriors
[10:00PM] A Dream of Flying
[10:15PM] The Warriors
[12:15AM] Outland
[2:45AM] Crank: High Voltage
[4:45AM] The Birthday Boys-Rock and Roll
[5:15AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Pee-wee Herman Wears a Halloween Costume
[5:45AM] Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] This Way Up
[6:15AM] The Color Purple
[9:30AM] Lost in Translation
[11:45AM] Another Earth
[1:45PM] The Manchurian Candidate
[4:30PM] Once Upon a Time in Mexico
[6:45PM] ...And She Was My Eve
[7:00PM] The Outsiders
[9:00PM] The Returned-Julie
[10:15PM] In the Cut
[12:45AM] The Returned-Julie
[2:00AM] The Outsiders
[4:00AM] The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (ALL TIMES EST)
Actress and singer Jennifer Hudson poses on her star after it was unveiled on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California November 13, 2013.
Photo by Kevork Djansezian
Mylene Paquette, a 35-year-old from Quebec in Canada, on Tuesday made history by becoming the first North American to make a west-to-east solo crossing of the Atlantic by rowboat.
Paquette set out from Halifax, Canada on a 7.31-metre (23-foot) boat on July 6. She arrived in the northwestern French port of Lorient on Tuesday evening after 129 days at sea.
The 2,700-nautical mile journey crosses an area known for violent winds of up to 100 kilometres (60 miles) per hour and waves of up to 12 metres (40 feet).
Ten people had previously rowed solo across the Atlantic from west to east -- considered more arduous than an east-to-west crossing -- but none had been from North America.
Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci is interviewed as he arrives for a gala screening of his film "The Last Emperor" in 3D at the AFI Fest 2013 in Hollywood, California, November 10, 2013.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Country singer Bobbie Gentry is being honored in her home state with a marker on the Mississippi Country Music Trail.
Gentry was born Roberta Lee Streeter in Chickasaw County in 1944. She is probably best known for her 1960's hit "Ode to Billie Joe." The track earned her Grammys for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1968. Her other hits include "Fancy," ''Mornin' Glory" and "Mississippi Delta."
The Mississippi Country Music Trail started in 2010 with a marker in Tupelo, Miss., to recognize the birthplace of Elvis Presley. Other markers include Jimmie Rodgers, Charley Pride, Conway Twitty, Jerry Clower, Faith Hill and Tammy Wynette.
Gentry's marker is being unveiled Thursday in Greenwood, Miss.
A 1969 painting by Francis Bacon set a world record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction and a sculpture by Jeff Koons broke a world auction record for a living artist at a Manhattan sale on Tuesday.
"Three Studies of Lucian Freud" was purchased for $142.4 million at Christie's postwar and contemporary art sale Tuesday evening. The triptych depicts Bacon's artist friend.
The previous record for Bacon's artwork sold at auction was the British artist's 1976 "Triptych." That sold for $86 million in 2008.
Also up for sale at Christie's evening auction was Koons' whimsical "Balloon Dog (Orange)," a 10-foot-tall stainless steel sculpture resembling a twisted child's party balloon. It sold for $58.4 million, a world auction record for the artist and a world auction record for a living artist, said Christie's. The auction house did not reveal the buyer.
Director Steve McQueen (R) smiles next to actress Lupita Nyong'o and actor Chiwetel Ejiofor at the 18th annual "Men of the Year" party in Los Angeles, California November 12, 2013.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
One of the rarest and most threatened mammals on earth has been caught on camera in Vietnam for the first time in 15 years, renewing hope for the recovery of the species, an international conservation group said Wednesday.
The Saola, a long-horned ox, was photographed by a camera in a forest in central Vietnam in September, the WWF said in a statement Wednesday.
The animal was discovered in the remote areas of high mountains near the border with Laos in 1992 when a joint team of WWF and Vietnam's forest control agency found a skull with unusual horns in a hunter's home. The find proved to be the first large mammal new to science in more than 50 years, according to the WWF.
In Vietnam, the last sighting of a Saola in the wild was in 1998, according to Dang Dinh Nguyen, director of the Saola natural reserve in central province of Quang Nam.
This year is the seventh warmest since records began in 1850 and rising sea levels caused by climate change are aggravating the impact of storms such as Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday.
More greenhouse gases in the atmosphere meant a warmer future, and more extreme weather, was inevitable, WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud said in a statement during November 11-22 climate talks among almost 200 nations in Warsaw.
The WMO said the first nine months of the year tied with the same period of 2003 as seventh warmest, with average global land and ocean surface temperatures 0.48°C (0.86°F) above the 1961-1990 average.
The WMO said it was likely to end among the top 10 warmest years since records began in 1850.
Actor Will Ferrell and his wife Viveca Paulin pose at the 18th annual "Men of the Year" party in Los Angeles, California November 12, 2013.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Spike Lee has asked a federal judge to throw out lawsuit filed by a Florida couple who say the movie director mistakenly retweeted their address as the home of George Zimmerman.
Lee's attorneys filed a motion Tuesday to dismiss the lawsuit brought by Elaine andDavid McClain. The director's attorneys argued the lawsuit should be tossed out since the couple reached a $10,000 settlement with Lee last year.
The McClains contend the settlement only covered damages through the March 2012 settlement date and didn't include suffering that occurred afterward, including the aftermath last July of Zimmerman's acquittal in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
The McClains received death threats and had to move out of their home after the original Twitter post, they said in their lawsuit.
Protesters against corporate sponsors of the COP hold banners during a mock auction to sell off the climate to the highest corporate bidder during the 19th conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP19) at the National Stadium in Warsaw November 13, 2013.
Photo by Kacper Pempel
Russia's legendary Bolshoi ballet was embroiled in a new scandal Wednesday after an American ballerina accused the theatre of demanding $10,000 to allow her to dance solos.
Texan Joy Womack, 19, a young dancer hired last year after graduating from Bolshoi's dancing school, said in an interview with the Izvestia daily that she dreamt of solo roles only to be told she would have to pay a bribe in order to perform.
"I found out that I have to pay $10,000 for variations, to perform in one production, to dance a part," she told the newspaper. "A specific person named me this figure, but I don't want to say his name."
She said she had asked artistic director Sergei Filin to review her dancing, but he allegedly refused and told her that he did not need to.
Womack said she danced in the corps-de-ballet despite signing a soloist contract, and could not secure more important roles despite praise from her superiors.
Women make the traditional Korean side dish "kimchi", or fermented cabbage, at a charity event at Seoul City Hall Plaza in Seoul November 13, 2013. More than 3,000 volunteers made 250 tonnes of kimchi on Wednesday to give away to needy people during the winter season.
Photo by Kim Hong-Ji
Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan reached a record high in 2013 as farmers seek to "insure" themselves ahead of NATO forces' withdrawal next year, the United Nations said Wednesday.
The area under cultivation rose by 36 percent in 2013, the UN drugs agency UNODC said in its annual report on Afghanistan, while production of opium, the main ingredient in heroin, jumped almost 50 percent compared with last year.
There are fears that the departure of the bulk of the US-led NATO troops, who currently number around 75,000, by the end of 2014 will throw the war-torn nation into chaos and insecurity.
The report said that in 2013 the area under opium poppy cultivation rose to 209,000 hectares from the previous year's total of 154,000 -- higher than the previous peak of 193,000 hectares in 2007.
A model displays a creation by designer Yana Chervinskaya during an avant-garde international fashion show contest at the University of Technology and Design in St. Petersburg, November 13, 2013.
Photo by Alexander Demianchuk
The Weather Channel is trying a novel approach to turn around some flagging ratings: It is reemphasizing weather.
As part of a redesign that debuted this week, viewers will be able to see their local forecasts on-screen whenever they tune in, even during commercials. The NBC Universal-owned network is also increasing its capacity to cast aside regular programming during severe weather conditions.
"Think of it as the ESPN for weather," said David Clark, network president.
Effectively, The Weather Channel is trying to have it both ways by reengaging the weather nerds and not abandoning shows that offer more than a forecast. The network began introducing longer-form programs like "Storm Stories" a few years ago for the same business reason that MTV largely stopped playing videos - to encourage viewers to hang around for more than a few minutes at a time.
The Weather Channel has averaged 210,000 viewers over the past year and 284,000 during the morning hours that represent its peak viewing period, the Nielsen company said. Those are the lowest averages in the past five years; in 2011 the network averaged 271,000 viewers for the full day and 362,000 in the morning.
Mitchell, who was believed to be the last surviving adult castmember from the legendary CBS sitcom, died Nov. 11 of heart failure at her condominium in Westwood, her sister-in-law, the Oscar-nominated Sunset Blvd. actress Nancy Olson, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Mitchell was the widow of Jay Livingston, the pop composer and lyricist who collaborated with Ray Evans on the Academy Award-winning songs "Mona Lisa" (performed by Nat King Cole), "Que Sera, Sera" (Doris Day) and "Buttons and Bows" (Bob Hope). The couple was married from 1992 until his death in 2001.
Mitchell joined the cast of Lucille Ball's I Love Lucy for the 1953-54 season and appeared in three episodes. In one, "Lucy Tells the Truth," Marion gets frank opinions about her new hat and her laugh during the girls' weekly bridge game. (Lucy has bet Fred and Ethel Mertz $100 that she can go 24 hours without telling a lie.)
"Marion, stop cackling. I've been waiting 10 years for you to lay that egg!" Lucy says.
In 1972, Mitchell was the voice of Laurie Holiday on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series The Roman Holidays.
Born Nov. 4, 1919, in Toledo, Ohio, Mitchell was a radio star on such shows as The Great Gildersleeve and Fibber, McGee & Molly, and she became good friends with Ball during the redhead's radio days on My Favorite Husband. She came to Los Angeles in the 1940s and transitioned to television on such shows as I Married Joan.
This undated handout image provided by the Smithsonian Institution shows a 3-D rendering of Abraham Lincoln's life mask, held at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. the Smithsonian is launching a new 3D viewer online Wednesday Nov. 13, 2013 to give people a closer look at artifacts in their own homes. The data can also be downloaded, recreated with a 3D printer and used to help illustrate lessons in history, art and science in schools. Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough says museums face a greater challenge than the digitization of documents in libraries or archives because artifacts are three-dimensional. He's calling on museums to speed up their work to innovate and digitize collections to make artifacts accessible online for a generation born in the Internet age.
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