Henry Rollins: Wacken 2013 or Bust (LA Weekly)
Almost every summer for the last two and a half decades, I have been performing at European music festivals. I try to get onstage at as many of them as I can. I never get as many as I want, but I am grateful for what comes my way.
MYDEARPEABODY: "Mark Millar and Todd McFarlane: Ladies, Comics Aren't For You" (io9)
I mean, it's comic creators Todd McFarlane (Spawn), Len Wein (Wolverine) and Gerry Conway (The Punisher), right? If they say comics aren't for women, as they recently did, who am I to argue? Oh, yeah. I'm a human being AND a lifelong comic fan with a brain AS WELL AS a vagina, and I call bullshit.
M.H. Forsyth: Hamlet is Banned (The Inky Fool)
I had to quickly check a particular line in Hamlet, so I Googled Hamlet MIT, because the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has put the entire works of Shakespeare up on the Internet. … A message came up from the British Library telling me that access to site was blocked due to "violent content". Now, Hamlet is a violent play. I see that. When the curtain comes down there's a lot of bodies on the boards. But...
VINCZE MIKLÓS: The Coolest and Weirdest Artworks That Are Visible from Space (io9)
How do we know that aliens aren't watching us right now? We don't. There could be cloaked vessels right on our doorstep. Luckily, some intrepid souls have been creating some illustrations for our new friends. Here are some of the wackiest pictures that are visible on Google Earth.
What does the Oxford English Dictionary define as "The department of theological science concerned with 'the four last things: death, judgement, heaven and hell'."?
Eschatology is a part of theology, physics, philosophy, and futurology concerned with what are believed to be the final events of history, the ultimate destiny of humanity - commonly referred to as the "end of the world" or "end time".
The Oxford English Dictionary defines eschatology as "The department of theological science concerned with 'the four last things: death, judgement, heaven and hell'."
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Eschatology
mj said:
I always found this amusingly close to scatology
The branch is eschatology, and it is, for the most part bull shit.
Charlie wrote:
Eschatology
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Eschatology
Adam answered:
Yes I thought so- Eschatology.
Marian is off on an adventure.
Dale of Torrid Diamond Springs, Norcali,
Eschatology or any system of religious doctrines concerning last or final matters as death judgment or an afterlife. OH NO!! THE WORLD IS GOING TO END!!!!!! They try to mix science and theology, which is like mixing oil and drinking water. I just saw Gasland II over the weekend on HBO and highly recommend its viewing. We are creating our own end of times by allowing the pursuit of all fossil fuels over many alternative technologies. Instead people believe in this Bullshit!!! But then there was Mimi Rogers in "The Rapture"
Sally said:
I am thinking that, "Theology," in the Oxford English Dictionary is defined as, "The department of theological science concerned with 'the four last things: death, judgement, heaven and hell.'"
Oh well, even if I'm wrong, this is funny (and true).
PS: According to "Voice of Russia" (My bible)
"Solar tsunami to eradicate mankind?
Reportedly, that's what Edward Snowden shared with the world. He leaked documents that predict a series of solar flares, set to occur in September of 2013, that will kill hundreds of millions of people by disabling all electronic devices. The documents collected by Snowden offer proof that the Central Intelligence Agency learned about the existing threat 14 years ago.
Are you packing up and flying to a safe galaxy far, far away?
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MAM wrote:
Eschatology ~ concerned with what are believed to be the final events of history, the ultimate destiny of humanity - commonly referred to as the "end of the world" or "end time".
BttbBob said:
What? Egad! I-do-not-know... I am not at all well-versed in theological science, I gotta admit (nor will I probably ever be - can we talk about boats or trout, maybe?) It's gotta be some kinda weirdness word that 99.999...% of the populace doesn't know, and I'd put money on that! (Hoo-ha, would this be a great "Final Jeopardy" question, or what? Alex says, "and the "Final Jeopardy" category is 'Theological Science' - cue commercial as contestants faint - Har!) Anyway... On to join the >1% of the populace that does know. Let's see, now... It's Eschatology... Hmmm...
Well, whadda ya know! I feel smarter already!...
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Memo to Michelle from AZ - Re: "for BttbBob: "Cosmos" pg.308"...
Okay... But, tell us what YOU think, eh? Please, expound... I did...
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A Very Happy Birthday this day to:
My daughter, Andrea... she's 30 today... and still dancing as you can see...
Paul from NH said:
Kinda looks like Jackie deShannon who toured with them early on.
And Kevin in DC offered:
The pic of the woman with the Beatles looks like an early version of
photoshopped (the Fabs poses make them look like they are from different
pics) but, I think it may be Pattie Boyd. She had a chin that could appear
very square like that in some pics, weak and rounded in others. She wore
her bangs and eye makeup like that. Lennon's cap looks like it's "Help"
filming era.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The 2nd One', then a RERUN'Person Of Interest'.
On a RERUNDave (from 7/31/13) are Matt Damon and Hanni El Khatib.
On a RERUNCraig (from 4/22/13) are Kat Dennings and Philip Kerr.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'Hollywood Game Night', followed by a FRESH'America's Got Talent'.
On a RERUNLeno (from 7/26/13) are Katy Perry, Cris Collinsworth, and Kacey Musgraves.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 3/12/13) are Charles Barkley, Allison Williams, Clive Davis, and Justin Timberlake.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 3/15/13) are Anthony Jeselnik and Royal Teeth.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Extreme Weight Loss', followed by a RERUN'Body Of Proof'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Josh Duhamel, Adam Perry Lang, and Luke Bryan.
The CW offers a FRESH'Whose Line Is It Anyway', followed by a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway', then a FRESH'Capture'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'So You Think You Can Dance'.
MY recycles an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', yet another 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Storage Wars New York', then another FRESH'Storage Wars New York', followed by a FRESH'Barter Kings'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Godfather', followed by the movie 'The Godfather: Part II'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 4 - Episode 13
[8:40AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 4 - Episode 14
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 13 - Deja Q
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 14 - A Matter of Perspective
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 15 - Yesterday's Enterprise
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 3 - Ep 2 - The Fenwick Arms
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Finn McCool's
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 9 - Le Bistro
[4:00PM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 4 - Episode 13
[4:40PM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 4 - Episode 14
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 2
[7:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 3
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 4
[9:00PM] CONAN THE BARBARIAN (1982)
[11:30PM] CONAN THE BARBARIAN (1982)
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 1
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 2
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 3
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 4 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', another 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH'Interior Therapy With Jeff Lewis', and 'Real Housewives Of OC'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's ' Jon Stewart John Oliver', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', yet another 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Drunk History', then a FRESH'The Jeselnik Offensive'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart John Oliver is Joshua Oppenheimer.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Rep. John Lewis.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Step Brothers', then the movie 'Step Brothers', again.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', yet another 'Pawn Stars', 'The Legend Of Shelby The Swamp Man', another 'The Legend Of Shelby The Swamp Man', followed by a FRESH'The Legend Of Shelby The Swamp Man', then another FRESH'The Legend Of Shelby The Swamp Man'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] The Catechism Cataclysm
[7:45AM] City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
[10:15AM] The Core
[1:00PM] City Slickers
[3:30PM] City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
[6:00PM] Maximum Overdrive
[8:00PM] The Warriors
[10:00PM] The Warriors
[12:00AM] Low Winter Sun-Pilot
[1:00AM] Maximum Overdrive
[3:00AM] Cruising
[5:15AM] Action-Blood Money
[5:45AM] Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Saturday Night Fever
[8:00AM] Skin Deep
[10:15AM] The Killing Fields
[1:15PM] Saturday Night Fever
[3:15PM] Skin Deep
[5:30PM] The New Tenants
[6:00PM] Don't Say a Word
[8:00PM] Heathers
[10:00PM] Big Trouble in Little China
[11:45PM] Heathers
[1:45AM] Big Trouble in Little China
[3:30AM] Don't Say a Word
[5:30AM] Man Shops Globe-Turkey (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Face Off', followed by a FRESH'Face Off', then the FRESH'Heroes Of Cosplay'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Liam Hemsworth, Chloe Grace Moretz, and J. Cole.
Actress Sandra Bullock accepts the Choice Summer Movie Star: Female Award at the Teen Choice Awards at the Gibson amphitheatre in Universal City, California August 11, 2013.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
The return of "Breaking Bad" for the start of its final eight episodes on Sunday reached nearly double the biggest audience the show had ever had for an episode.
The Nielsen ratings company said Monday that 5.9 million people watched Sunday's episode, which featured a gripping confrontation between star Bryan Cranston's Walter White character and the brother-in-law who had suddenly realized White was the drug kingpin he had been searching for. The Emmy Award-winning series, which began in 2008 on AMC, ends in September.
"Breaking Bad" has grown steadily through the help of word of mouth and critical acclaim. It averaged 1.2 million viewers per episode for its first season and nearly 2.6 million for its most recent season.
Sunday's ratings also are dramatic evidence of how a critically acclaimed show grows its fan base during a hiatus through people who check it out on DVDs or video on demand.
Actor Jim Parsons accepts the Choice TV Actor: Comedy Award at the Teen Choice Awards at the Gibson amphitheatre in Universal City, California August 11, 2013.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
A Jane Austen museum said Monday it has received 100,000 pounds ($155,000) from an anonymous benefactor to help it buy the writer's ring back from singer Kelly Clarkson.
Earlier this month, the British government placed a temporary export ban on the gold-and-turquoise ring in the hope that money could be found to keep it in Britain.
The Jane Austen's House museum said it had raised 103,200 pounds of the 152,450-pound asking price since launching a fundraising campaign on Friday, most of it from a single anonymous donation.
The museum at Austen's former home in Chawton, southern England, had hoped to buy the ring last year but was outbid when it sold for five times the estimated price.
Clarkson - an Austen fan who owns a first edition of the author's novel "Persuasion" - was the successful buyer. But she has been prevented from taking the ring home to the U.S. by a power that allows the British government to temporarily halt the export of works judged to be national treasures.
Darius Rucker has hit the top of the charts both as frontman for Hootie and the Blowfish and as a country artist. And now, he has a street named after him.
The street leading to the North Charleston Coliseum in South Carolina where Hootie and the Blowfish played in the 1990s shortly after it opened was renamed Darius Rucker Boulevard on Monday.
Rucker grew up in the Charleston area and was on hand for the ceremony along with North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey.
Rucker says he may return to the coliseum this fall to play a country set.
Australian actress Rebel Wilson poses after winning the Choice Actress in a comedy film for her role as Fat Amy in "Pitch Perfect" at the Teen Choice Awards at the Gibson amphitheatre in Universal City, California August 11, 2013.
Photo by Fred Prouser
"Star Wars" filmmaker George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson became parents to a baby girl born via surrogate, his representatives said on Monday.
Everest Hobson Lucas was born on August 9 and is the first biological child for Lucas, 69, and Hobson, 44, the director's representatives said. Lucas also has three adopted children, Amanda, 32; Katie, 25; and 20-year-old Jett Lucas.
Lucas, the creator of the "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" franchises, wed Hobson, the president of Ariel Investments, in California in June this year. Directors Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola and Ron Howard were among the guests.
This is the second marriage for Lucas, who was previously married to Oscar-winning film editor Marcia Lou Griffin from 1969 to 1983.
Las Vegas police are investigating whether employees went too far for reportedly helping the guitarist of Guns N' Roses execute a grand romantic gesture.
Daren Jay "DJ" Ashba posted a photo on Instagram Saturday of himself and his girlfriend, Colombian actress and model Nathalia Henao, wearing helicopter headgear. He thanked the Las Vegas police department for "the most amazing" private helicopter tour over the city, saying it ended in a field at police headquarters, where he proposed amid roses and "a bottle of the bubble stuff."
Guns N' Roses' publicist confirmed the validity of the Instagram account to The Associated Press. She said the couple met three years ago in Rome and got engaged Wednesday.
Las Vegas police issued a statement Saturday acknowledging two civilians were granted a ride-along in a helicopter, although they didn't mention names and didn't offer many details.
French composer, performer and music producer Jean-Michel Jarre performs during the 49th International Festival of Carthage at the Roman Theatre of Carthage in Tunis August 12, 2013.
Photo by Anis Mili
The Missouri State Fair on Monday imposed a lifetime ban on a rodeo clown whose depiction of President Barack Obama getting charged by a bull was widely criticized by Democratic and Republican officials alike.
The rodeo clown won't be allowed to participate or perform at the fair again. Fair officials say they're also reviewing whether to take any action against the Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association, the contractor responsible for Saturday's event.
The entertainment during the bull riding contest featured a clown wearing a mask of Obama with an upside down broomstick attached to his backside. Spectators were asked if they wanted to see "Obama run down by a bull." Many in the audience responded enthusiastically.
Numerous Missouri officials denounced the act after video and photos were posted online. Some Democratic Missouri lawmakers suggested Monday that there should be financial consequences for the fair.
The fair said in a written statement announcing the clown's ban that he had engaged in an "unconscionable stunt" that was "inappropriate and not in keeping with the Fair's standards." The fair's press release did not identify the clown.
Over the weekend Republican National Committee chief Reince Priebus doubled down on his threat to withhold 2016 GOP presidential debates from CNN and NBC if the networks air planned programs on Hillary Rodham Clinton.
On CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday, host Candy Crowley asked Mr. Priebus whether he'd throw Fox News into the debate penalty box as well, given a New York Times report that a Fox sister company is in talks to produce the Hillary Clinton miniseries now slated to appear on NBC.
Priebus made it clear Fox would not be included in any RNC boycott. First of all, he downplayed the Times report, saying he "doesn't know the truth of anything you're talking about," and that "I'm not going to boycott the food trucks that service all of the same companies."
Then he said he's really aiming at the networks that may put Clinton shows on the air, whether the programs are scripted entertainment dramas or news documentaries.
Colombian dancers Diana Hernandez and Hugo Osorio participate in an exhibition dance during the 8th World Salsa Festival in Cali August 11, 2013. The city of Cali is known as the world's capital of Salsa, according to the city's official tourism website.
Photo by Jaime Saldarriaga
"The Houdini Of Impersonation And False Documents."
Marc Dreier
Eighteen contemporary artworks have been transferred to a hedge fund victimized in a massive $400 million fraud scheme, the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office said Monday.
The works by such boldface artists as Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko and Damien Hirst had belonged to Marc Dreier, a once-prominent Manhattan lawyer whom prosecutors called "the Houdini of impersonation and false documents."
Dreier is serving 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to money laundering and other charges in 2009. The scheme involved the sale of hundreds of millions of dollars in fake promissory notes to hedge funds.
U.S. marshals turned over the works, valued at some $33 million, to New York-based Heathfield Capital Limited.
Authorities say Dreier received $670 million between 2004 and 2008 from the sale of fictitious securities, spending much of it on a lavish lifestyle that included millions of dollars worth of art, beachfront homes on both coasts and a yacht.
A Tennessee judge's decision to change a baby's first name from Messiah to Martin is drawing strong reactions from people who believe the judge overstepped her powers and those who think parents' creativity should have some limits.
The hubbub started when the boy's mother sought an order to establish paternity. It included a request for the judge to determine the child's last name.
When Ballew heard Messiah's first name, she decided it should be changed, too, saying the child could face problems with the name Messiah.
The name on his birth certificate was Messiah DeShawn Martin. The judge changed it to Martin DeShawn McCullough, giving the boy his father's last name while replacing Messiah with his mother's surname.
"The word messiah is a title, and it's a title has only been earned by one person, and that one person is Jesus Christ," she told WBIR-TV in an interview from her office, which had a ceramic figurine of Joseph and Mary with baby Jesus on her desk. A copy of the Ten Commandments hung on the wall.
Pedestrians walk across the Andy Warhol bridge on Monday, Aug. 12, 2013 in downtown Pittsburgh. More that 1,800 knitters have covered the bridge in 3,000 feet of colorful yarn. Volunteers worked all weekend to attach 580 blanket-sized, hand- knitted panels to the pedestrian walkways. Organizers say it is the nation's largest yarn bomb.
Photo by Gene J. Puskar
Researchers have found what they say are specialized bone tools made by Neanderthals in Europe thousands of years before modern humans are thought to have arrived to share such skills, a discovery that suggests modern man's distant cousins were more advanced than previously believed.
In a paper published online Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers discuss their discovery of four fragments of bone in southwestern France that they say were used as lissoirs, or smoothers, to make animal hides tougher and more water-resistant.
The researchers believe the oldest tool is 51,000 years old, while the other three are between 42,000 and 47,000 years old. Similar tools are still used by leather workers to this day.
Until now, scientists have believed that modern humans taught the Neanderthals how to make the tools, but modern humans are only believed to have reached central and western Europe 42,000 years ago.
The 1972 movie "The Day the Clown Cried" - starring Jerry Lewis as a failed circus clown who is employed to entertain and lead children into a concentration camp gas chamber during the Holocaust - has never seen the light of day.
Speaking at the Cannes Film Festival in May, where he had a film showing for the first time in more than 20 years, Lewis told reporters: "No one will ever see it, because I'm embarrassed."
"I believed in the work and the way it should have been, and it wasn't," said Lewis at the time.
"The Simpsons" and "Spinal Tap" star Harry Shearer saw a private screening in 1979 and told Spy Magazine: "This movie is so drastically wrong, its pathos and its comedy are so wildly misplaced, that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve on what it really is."
Born Barbarella Catton in Quebec City in 1946, she became an exotic dancer at age 14 and later moved to California, where Meyer discovered her at a topless bar. After an audition, Meyer cast her in Motor Psycho, without any previous acting experience.
She went on to star in more films by Meyer than any of his other leading ladies. In the 1965 exploitation film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Haji played Rosie, one of three adventure-seeking go-go-dancers.
While her roles in Meyer's films were mainly known for provocative outfits and violence, Haji said Faster, Pussycat, Kill! Kill! proved that women could play strong roles in film, as well. She would go on to star in four more films by Meyer.
"There are lots of fast cars, female domination, [and] lots of fantasies for men, but without the women being taken advantage of, so it was for women also," she said in a 2005 interview.
Francesca "Kitten" Natividad, Meyer's ex-partner, announced Haji's death on her Facebook fan page. No cause of death was given. "Today I lost my dear friend Haji... I love you and miss you so so much... RIP," she posted.
An Andean Condor, one of the world's biggest flying birds, is seen inside a cage at a veterinary hospital in Los Andes, approximately 80 km (50 miles) north of Santiago, August 12, 2013. Authorities are investigating the discovery of at least 20 Andean Condors, found poisoned on Sunday afternoon next to a road in Los Andes. Two of the Condors were discovered to be dead, and director of Santiago's Metropolitan Zoo added that two foxes were also found dead, according to various media reports.
Photo by Ivan Alvarado
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