'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
'The Hollywood Hustle'
Re: artful dodger
This is going to sound like one of those 'my dog peed on my homework' stories but I have to suddenly prepare for a trip to Iceland, yes Iceland - some people will do anything for a paying gig.
I'll be reading the pages from my laptop but I won't be able to put anything together for a while.
Anyway, I hope all's well with you and I look forward to being entertained by your stuff while I'm in the frozen tundra. Or whatever they have in Iceland.
artful dodger
Thanks for the 'heads up,' a.d.
Pack your thermals, and have a great time!
Reader Comment
Re: Alice Cooper
Hey Marty:
Love your page. Especially links to Worst Country Song Titles and Bad Album Covers. They have become a reliable source of humor.
"Get your biscuits in the oven and your buns in the bed.
She offered her honor, he honored her offer, and all night long it was offer and honor."
About Alice Cooper-he's a disgusting Republican pig.
Plays GOLF, for chrissake.
Wears those matching white belts and shoes.
Drinks martinis.
Ed from Mission Viejo, CA
Thanks, Ed!
Back in the late 70s - early 80s, Alice did a great thing. The Hollywood Sign was falling apart, and of course, no one wanted to pay to fix it up. Alice & Dick Clark gathered a bunch of celebs & other well-to-do-folk &
got the sign back to spec. Alice bought the first 'O' in honor of Groucho.
Two of my early loves were Groucho & that damn sign. So, even though Alice has truly gone to the dark side, I still have a fond memory.
from Mark
Another Bumpersticker
Reader Comment
Re: TOM PAXTON
Here's the page where I found Tom Paxton's "Short Shelf Life" songs.
The trouble is, their shelf lives may be a lot longer than Tom anticipated.
Tom Paxton
- Ray McL
Thanks, Ray!
Reader Comment
1 Dead In Ohio
Re: the death of the large man in Ohio....
This is from a Yahoo news story regarding the death of a large Ohio man after struggling with police....
"The officers later knocked Jones to the ground and fell on him, and jabbed or clubbed him with nightsticks at least a dozen times over several minutes until he was handcuffed. They kept yelling, "Put your hands behind your back!" as they struggled to handcuff him. "
As a person of some size myself, and as someone with arthritis problems (which affects many large sized people), I would NOT have been able to comply with the police officer's command. Forget for a moment the man was black, I wonder if it wasn't also because he was very large (read - fat). There are lots of people who face that kind of discrimination every day.
It would have been physically impossible for me to comply with the officers demands. I bet few officers have even thought of how hard it is for large people to do the same things their smaller counterparts can do.
just a thought.
~ Ducks
Thanks, Ducks!
Contributor Comment
Re: Racist Ohio
I've been there...I know....
Rob
Thanks, Rob!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny & breezy.
Woo hoo! Ray Berry is back!
Has anyone else noticed that Ahnold's hair is now 'Raygun Red'?
Local breaking news is the Goodyear Blimp has crashed at its homebase up the road in Carson. Bummer. They fly over the house frequently, and we will miss it.
Tonight, Thursday, CBS starts the night with a FRESH 'Survivor: Pearl Islands', followed by a RERUN
'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation', then a RERUN 'Without A Trace'.
On a RERUN Dave are Halle Berry and Lance Armstrong.
On a RERUN Craiggers are Jack Black, Roselyn Sanchez, and Dido.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN 'Friends', followed by a FRESH 'Tracy Morgan', then a FRESH
'Will & Grace', followed by a FRESH 'Scrubs', then a FRESH 'ER'.
Schedueled on a FRESH Jay are Gwyneth Paltrow and Alicia Keys.
Schedueled on a FRESH Conan are Sarah Jessica Parker, Paul Giamatti, and Fountains of Wayne.
Schedueled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Eva Mendes, Jimmie Johnson, and Pete Yorn.
ABC begins the evening with a FRESH 'Threat Matrix', followed by a RERUN 'Extreme Makeover', then 'Primetime Thursday'.
Schedueled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Jessica Alba, Joe Jackson, and Michelle Branch, with this week's guest co-host Lenny Clarke.
The WB offers a RERUN 'Steve Harvey's Big Time', followed by a RERUN 'Jamie Kennedy', then a RERUN 'Run Of The House'.
Faux has a FRESH 'Tru Calling', followed by the 'special' - 'Funniest Wedding Outtakes'.
UPN fills the night with 'WWE Smackdown!'.
A&E has 'American Justice', 'Biography' (Scott Hamilton), and 'Holiday Ice Dreams'.
AMC offers the movie 'Stalag 17', followed by the movie 'The Enemy Below', then the movie 'In Harm's Way'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Springthorpe;
[7pm] 'House Invaders' - Trowbridge;
[7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Hull;
[8pm] 'House Invaders' - Blackburn, Lancashire;
[8:30pm] 'House Invaders' - Kirkham, Lancashire;
[9pm] 'Faking It' - Radiographer to Fashion Photographer;
[10pm] 'Coupling' - The Melty Man Cometh;
[10:40pm] 'Coupling' - Coupling;
[11pm] 'House Invaders' - Blackburn, Lancashire;
[11:30pm] 'House Invaders' - Kirkham, Lancashire;
[12am] 'Faking It' - Radiographer to Fashion Photographer;
[1am] 'Coupling' - The Melty Man Cometh;
[1:40am] 'Coupling' - Coupling;
[2am] 'House Invaders' - Blackburn, Lancashire;
[2:30am] 'House Invaders' - Kirkham, Lancashire;
[3am] 'Faking It' - Radiographer to Fashion Photographer;
[4am] 'Coupling' - The Melty Man Cometh;
[4:40am] 'Coupling' - Coupling;
[5am] 'House Invaders' - Blackburn, Lancashire;
[5:30am] 'House Invaders' - Kirkham, Lancashire; and
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'West Wing', followed by the movie 'Highlander', 'Queer Eye', and 'West Wing'.
Schedueled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Sen. John Kerry.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Hell's Angels', 'Motorcycles'< and 'Dead Reckoning'.
SciFi has the movie 'Interceptor Force', followed by the movie 'Interceptor Force II'.
SPIKE has the 'Video Game Awards', hosted by David Spade.
TCM celebrates the mostly forgotten Tom Keene all morning,
some valor in the afternoon ('The Red Badge Of Courage' (1951) has a cast worth noting -
Andy Devine as 'The Cheerful Soldier',
Audie Murphy [the most decorated soldier of WWII] as
'The Young Soldier', and the one & only Bill Mauldin as 'The Loud Soldier - a film that does for warmongering what 'Babe' did for bacon consumption), a short 2-film tribute to Deanna Durbin (she's 82 today), and
then 5 films from the fabulous director, Billy Wilder.
[6am] 'Ghost Valley' (1932);
[7am] 'Partners' (1932);
[8:15am] 'The Saddle Buster' (1932);
[9:15am] 'Renegades Of The West' (1933);
[10:15am] 'Son of the Border' (1933);
[11:30am] 'The Red Badge Of Courage' (1951);
[1pm] 'The Fighting 69th' (1940);
[2:30pm] 'Command Decision' (1948);
[4:30pm] 'It's A Date' (1940);
[6:15pm] 'Lady On A Train' (1945);
[8pm] 'The Fortune Cookie' (1966);
[10:30pm] 'The Front Page' (1975);
[12:30am] 'Witness For The Prosecution' (1957);
[2:30]am 'One, Two, Three' (1961); and
[4:30am] 'The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes' (1970). (ALL TIMES EST)
Former world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali (R) jokes with his daughter May May as she presents him with the Freedom Award at the 'Time to Give' Gala benefiting the AfghanistanWorld Foundation, in Los Angeles, December 2, 2003. Ali was honored for his humanitarian efforts on behalf of Afghan children.
Photo by Lucy Nicholson
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Angry AIDS Funds Stalled in Congress
Bono
Irish rock star Bono said on Wednesday he was "infuriated" to discover the U.S. Congress has not yet passed a spending bill that includes money for a global fund to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and Malaria.
The lead singer of U2, who has founded an advocacy group for issues affecting Africa and who earlier this year met resident Bush to press his cause, said 500,000 people could die from AIDS in Africa in the next few months who might be able to live if there was money for treatment.
The House of Representatives is due to return from a holiday break next week to clear the spending bill that would provide the first installment for Bush's five-year, $15 billion plan to combat AIDS. But the Senate now appears unlikely to follow suit until late January.
Bono
Commander of the British Empire
Billy Connolly
Comedian and actor Billy Connolly eschewed his normally zany attire for a somber black top hat and tails Wednesday when he went to Buckingham Palace to receive an award from Prince Charles on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II.
Connolly was made a Commander of the British Empire, or CBE, for services to entertainment from Prince Charles, whom he said had commented on his smart dress.
"Usually when he sees me I've got breeks on — you know those Scottish corduroy breeks (trousers) that come to the knee with woolly socks, or I'm in a kilt," Connolly told reporters after being given the honor.
"I normally look like an unemployed window cleaner," the Scottish comic added.
Billy Connolly
Judge Throws Out Lawsuit
Barbra Streisand
A judge threw out a 10-million-dollar lawsuit brought by superstar Barbra Streisand against an amateur photographer who snapped her cliff-top mansion from the air.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Allan Goodman dismissed the notoriously private diva's invasion of privacy suit, ruling that her action infringed on the right to freedom of speech.
Software millionaire and photographer Ken Adelman said he was "ecstatic" that the suit filed against him and his wife Gabriella in May had failed.
Barbra Streisand
Democratic presidential candidate Dick Gephardt speaks with reporters after joining the picket line with striking grocery workers, at Pavilions in West Hollywood, California, December 3, 2003. More than 70,000 Southern California grocery workers are currently on strike over a plan by three supermarket chains to cut employee health-care benefits.
Photo by Jim Ruymen
Newest UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador
Princess Caroline
Monaco's Princess Caroline brought the paparazzi in tow this week when she was made a Goodwill Ambassador at UNESCO's Paris headquarters.
A lightning storm of flashbulbs and a squad of television cameras caught the moment Tuesday when Caroline received the honour from the director of the UN Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, Koichiro Matsuura, in front of a crowd of VIPs and celebrities.
The princess, dressed in a white outfit, vowed to support UNESCO's programme of fighting illiteracy in the world.
Princess Caroline
Criticizes Jagger for Knighthood
Keith Richards
Keith Richards has criticized his old friend and fellow Rolling Stone Mick Jagger for accepting a knighthood.
In an interview published in the December issue of the music magazine "Uncut," the Stones' guitarist was quoted as saying, "I thought it was ludicrous to take one of those gongs (awards) from the establishment when they did their very best to throw us in jail," in a reference to his and Jagger's 1967 conviction on drug offenses, later overturned on appeal.
"He defended himself by saying that (Prime Minister) Tony Blair insisted that he took the knighthood. Like that's an excuse. Like you can't turn down anything. Like it doesn't depend how you feel about it."
Keith Richards
Uncut magazine
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Promos Include Free 3-Day Subscription
Napster
In an effort to drive business over the holiday season, Napster has announced a series of promotions.
As part of the campaign, Roxio-owned Napster will offer a free three-day trial of its subscription service during December. Consumers who subscribe to the service after their free trial ends will receive five free permanent downloads.
Additionally, Napster has inked a deal with RadioShack to distribute pre-paid cards that allow consumers to buy tracks without a credit card. The Napster Card-which is also distributed through RiteAid, Best Buy, CompUSA, Kroger, Safeway, ExxonMobil, Duane Reade, Diamond Shamrock and Speedway/SuperAmerica-offers 15 downloads for $14.85.
Napster
Shirin Ebadi seen in this photo taken on Tuesday Dec. 2, 2003 at her Tehran, Iran office listens to a question from a reporter. Hard-liners prevented the Nobel Peace Prize winner from making a speech at a women's university in Tehran on Wednesday, jeering at her a week before she is scheduled to receive the prize, witnesses said. 'Shame on you! Hypocrite!' chanted about 60 women who barred Ebadi's way as she approached the venue at Al-Zahra University in north Tehran.
Photo by Hasan Sarbakhshian
Baby News
Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow and boyfriend Chris Martin are expecting their first child next summer, her publicist said Wednesday.
The couple were "pleased" to confirm the pregnancy, publicist Stephen Huvane said in a statement. He declined to say whether there were wedding plans.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Cancelled
'John Walsh Show'
"The John Walsh Show," a low-rated syndicated chat show featuring the host of "America's Most Wanted," has been canceled after a little over a year on the air.
Production will cease next week, but the show will screen through the end of the February sweeps, said syndicator NBC Enterprises. The show's staff was told of the decision at a meeting on the set Tuesday.
'John Walsh Show'
Cancels Southeast Asian Tour
Limp Bizkit
Limp Bizkit has canceled the Southeast Asian leg of their world tour, citing terrorism fears in the region, local media reported Wednesday.
"The band wishes to extend their deepest apologies to their fans in Southeast Asia and promise to return once security for their fans can be assured," concert promoter Michael Hosking told the Straits Times newspaper.
The newspaper said the American rap-rock band cited U.S. State Department warnings of "increased security risks" for the no-show. Hosking told the newspaper that appearances in the Indonesian resort island of Bali, Thailand and the Philippines have also been scrapped.
Limp Bizkit
Judge Orders Eviction
Bottom Line
A Manhattan judge has ordered the eviction of the Bottom Line nightclub from the Greenwich Village space it has occupied for the past 30 years.
Civil Court Judge Donna Recant found that the club, which had no lease and admittedly owed more than $190,000 in back rent, must relinquish its space to its landlord, New York University.
The Bottom Line's lawyer, Mark Alonso, said Wednesday that he expected the ruling, but hinted that the club could reopen at another site.
Bottom Line
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Britain's Bad Sex Fiction Award Winner
Aniruddha Bahal
An Indian investigative journalist Wednesday won Britain's little-coveted Bad Sex in Fiction Award for a turbo-charged account of a lovers' tryst that likens their amours to a speeding Bugatti sports car.
Aniruddha Bahal, who posed as an arms dealer to expose an Indian military bribery scandal in 2001, flew to London to receive the prize from rock singer Sting before an audience of 500 people.
Now in its 11th year, the dubious honor is awarded by the Literary Review magazine for the most inept description of sexual intercourse in a novel.
Aniruddha Bahal
A recent undated photgrpahed released by the Governemnt News Network showing part of a 2,500 year-old 'rare and nationally significant' Iron Age chariot. Workers constructing a highway through northern England unearthed the Iron Age burial chamber containing a two-wheeled chariot and its owner, archaeologists said Wednesday Dec. 3, 2003.
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FCC Recommends More Murdoch 'Consolidation'
News Corp
News Corp.'s proposed takeover of DirecTV, the nation's largest satellite television provider, should be approved by the Federal Communications Commission with certain conditions, the FCC's staff recommended after studying the deal.
An FCC official, speaking on condition of anonymity Wednesday, said the staff backed the $6.6 billion deal if DirecTV more quickly offers local over-the-air broadcast channels to its customers, and if an arbitration mechanism is set up to handle disputes between News Corp.'s Fox broadcasting arm and cable television companies.
News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch has said the acquisition would not harm competition or limit consumer choices. He said the merger will improve DirecTV, providing consumers with more local TV stations and better high-speed Internet access.
News Corp
FCC's News Corp.-DirectTV site
Sues More File Swappers
Recording Industry of America
The Recording Industry of America on Wednesday filed 41 new lawsuits against Internet users who trade songs online, saying the legal campaign was producing a growing number of settlements and drawing greater public support.
The RIAA said it had reached monetary settlements with 220 Internet users it had accused of illegally copying and distributing music online through peer-to-peer networks such as Kazaa and Morpheus.
The trade group, representing the largest record labels, has now sued 382 peer-to-peer users since September to deter a practice that the industry believes cuts into CD sales.
Recording Industry of America
Banned Paintings on Show in London
D.H. Lawrence
A series of paintings not seen in public in England for more than 70 years after they were banned for being obscene went on show in a central London bookshop on Wednesday.
Some of the paintings by controversial writer D.H. Lawrence feature naked men and women in thinly-disguised sexual poses and were banned in July 1929 during an exhibition in London.
Lawrence is better known as the author of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" -- a book about an adulterous affair between an aristocratic woman and her gamekeeper that was banned the instant it was written in 1928. That ban was lifted in 1960.
In principle the ban on the paintings still stands -- although police said they were unlikely to take any action unless there was a complaint by a member of the public.
D.H. Lawrence
Britain To Recognize Wrongs - 250 Years Late
Acadians
Two and a half centuries after their mass deportation, the Acadians of Canada have finally been granted official recognition of "historical wrongs" done to their ancestors.
The Canadian government has signed a draft "royal proclamation" that recognized the wrongs committed by the British royals during a tragic episode known as the "Great Displacement" from what is now Canada in the 18th century.
Acadians, or French-speaking Catholics, had been living in what is now Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
But on July 28, 1755, the council of Nova Scotia ordered their deportation because of their refusal to pledge unconditional allegiance to the British Crown.
As a result more than 10,000 settlers were loaded on British ships and sent to Britain or far-away British colonies in the Americas. Many settled in Louisiana, where they became known as "Cajuns."
Acadians
Lying Liars, Again
White House Changes Story
In another White House correction, the Bush administration on Wednesday changed its story of a British Airways pilot's spotting of Air Force One during the president's stealth trip to Iraq last week.
The original story -- which held that the airline's pilot had talked to Air Force One and that he kept the secret of resident Bush's Thanksgiving Day flight to Baghdad -- had been told by White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett to reporters as he sought to portray the drama of Bush's trip.
But after British Airways denied such a conversation took place, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said on Wednesday the airline's pilot never contacted Air Force One. "The conversation was between the British Airways plane and the London control tower," McClellan said.
British Airways said it could not confirm the White House's new version of the Air Force One story. "We've had no reports from any of our pilots with regard to Air Force One," airline spokeswoman Honor Verrier said.
White House Changes Story
Makes Rare Appearance
Mark Twain's Frog
A threatened species of frog thought to have inspired Mark Twain's tale of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" has been rediscovered in the county, 34 years after the frogs were last seen in the area.
The children of a cattle rancher found the California red-legged frogs while playing around watering holes on their property, wildlife officials said Tuesday. They asked that the location not be disclosed as researchers work to protect the frogs and their habitat.
A Fish and Wildlife Service biologist verified the discovery, locating one male and two female frogs in October. The last such sighting in Calaveras County was in 1969.
Mark Twain's Frog
www.jumpingfrog.org
www.frogtown.org
www.r1.fws.gov/news
Nominations
People's Choice Awards
Bill Cosby, Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks are the "favorite all-time entertainer" nominees for the 30th People's Choice Awards, honoring stars of film, music and television.
Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer, stars of the sitcom "Two and a Half Men," will host the live CBS telecast from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, scheduled for Jan. 11.
The nominees (so far):
Favorite all-time entertainer: Bill Cosby, Clint Eastwood, Tom Hanks.
Favorite movie actor: Johnny Depp, Mel Gibson, Denzel Washington.
Favorite movie actress: Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts.
New television drama: "Cold Case," "Joan of Arcadia," "The O.C."
New television comedy: "Hope & Faith," "Two and a Half Men," "Whoopi."
Television drama: "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "ER," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."
Television comedy: "Everybody Loves Raymond," "Friends," "Will & Grace."
Male television performer: Kelsey Grammer, Ray Romano, Martin Sheen.
Female television performer: Jennifer Aniston, Debra Messing, Oprah Winfrey.
Reality-based television show: "Fear Factor," "Survivor: Pearl Islands," "The Bachelor."
Talk-show host: Jay Leno, David Letterman, Oprah Winfrey.
Male musical performer: Eminem, 50 Cent, Tim McGraw.
Female musical performer: Faith Hill, Beyonce Knowles, Shania Twain.
Musical group: Alabama, Brooks & Dunn, matchbox twenty
People's Choice Awards
Alles echt: Trotz der unwirklichen Farben hat hier nur die Natur gewirkt. Die aufgehende Sonne färbt die Wolken bei Marktoberdorf im Allgäu in verschiedene Gelbtöne. Mit Temperaturen um die 16 Grad sorgen Föhnwinde im Voralpenland für einen ungewöhnlich milden Dezemberanfang.
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