• The statue of Abraham Lincoln inside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., depicts Lincoln sitting. That is the result of a conscious decision made by its sculptor, Daniel Chester French. The statue is inside a building created by architect Henry Bacon, and the building resembles the Parthenon, a Greek temple with huge vertical marble pillars. If the statue were to depict Lincoln standing up, the impact of his figure would be lost among all the other vertical lines. Of course, Mr. French made many other artistic decisions when creating his statue of Lincoln. For example, one foot is forward, while the other is close to the chair Lincoln is sitting on. One of Lincoln’s hands is open, while the other is closed. In addition, one of Mr. Lincoln’s hands has a tapping finger because Mr. French noticed that Mr. Lincoln was using a finger to tap while talking to his generals in a photograph taken by Matthew Brady.
• Pablo Picasso was a genius when it came to art, and he could create works of art from things other people regarded as junk. In 1942, he took a discarded bicycle seat and pair of handlebars and created a sculpture he called Head of a Bull, which he then cast in bronze.
Surrealism
• Surrealists André Breton and Jacques Vaché used to go to movie theaters, but they ignored whatever movie was showing. Instead, they brought wine and food and had a picnic while everyone else watched the movie. However, Mr. Vaché occasionally attended plays for real. If he liked a play that the audience hated, he would threaten to shoot the members of the audience. (Perhaps unsurprisingly, Mr. Vaché died of an opium overdose.)
• In 1938, when surrealism was new and few people knew what it was, comedian Gracie Allen had an exhibition of her paintings at a prestigious New York gallery. According to George Burns, her husband, everyone knew Gracie was a surrealist painter because no one understood her paintings, many of which had titles such as “Man Beholds a Better Mouse Trap and Buys a Mohair Toupée.” Later, the exhibition went on a U.S. tour.
Telephones
• Theodore Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, used to live in an apartment near a fish store. His telephone number was one digit different from the telephone number of the fish store, and he used to occasionally get wrong numbers from people ordering fish. When that happened, he drew a picture of the order — say, two haddock — on a piece of cardboard from his laundry service and sent it to the fish store along with the rest of the order information.
• Dick Sears worked at the Walt Disney studios in the early days as head of the Story department. He once saw an unusual name in the telephone and decided to make a call: “Hello, is this Gisella Werberserk Piffl? … I’m an old friend of your brother’s. We were classmates at Cornell. … Oh, you’ve never had a brother who attended Cornell? I’m sorry — you must be some other Gisella Werberserk Piffl.”
Television
• On The Dick Van Dyke Show, the episode “October Eve” is about a painting that has Laura Petrie’s head, but the nude body of another woman. (The character Laura Petrie was played by Mary Tyler Moore.) The episode was based on a real-life experience of writer Bill Persky, who had gone to an art gallery and seen a painting that closely resembled his wife. Jerry Paris, who played Jerry Helper on the series, had a similar experience. He and his wife had visited a prison, where a prisoner had sketched his wife’s face. After they had left the prison, the prisoner used his imagination to create a nude drawing of Mrs. Paris, then sent it to their home as a present.
The International Date Line (IDL) is an imaginary line of demarcation on the surface of Earth that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole and demarcates the change of one calendar day to the next. It passes through the middle of the Pacific Ocean, roughly following the 180° line of longitude but deviating to pass around some territories and island groups.
People traveling westward around the world must set their clocks:
Back by one hour for every 15° of longitude crossed, and Forward by 24 hours upon crossing the International Date Line.
For anyone traveling eastward, they must set their clocks:
Forward by one hour for every 15° of longitude crossed, and Back by 24 hours upon crossing the International Date Line.
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Billy in Cypress U.$.A. was first, and correct, with:
The IDL roughly follows the meridian of 180-degree longitude.
Mark. said:
180º longitude.
mj wrote:
If the Prime Meridian
Is agreed upon as 0°, the IDL is ± ± 180°.
Alan J answered:
180 degrees.
Kevin in Washington DC (Hiding in Lost River, WV), replied:
The International date line falls on the 180 degree line of longitude (mostly).
Dave responded:
Zero degrees, the prime meridian.
Randall wrote:
180°
Jacqueline said:
180 degrees. West side of the line of demarcation is always ahead.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
180 degrees longitude north-south line on the Earth
Daniel in The City answered:
180°
Deborah, the Master Gardener responded:
The IDL follows the 180° of longitude, mostly.
The sky to the west is ominously dark, and my local radio station is reporting thunderstorms in the Bay Area, moving east. I hope we get some rain here, but the cloud cover is helping to keep the temperature down. Very odd weather, for sure.
BttbBob replied:
Proper mariners know this, of course, it's 180º of Longitude... Even if they haven't crossed it from east to west thus entering the Domain of the Golden Dragon and receiving a spiffy certificate for doing so, proper mariners know...
No, I don't have one...
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Nor do I have one of these for crossing the Equator (0º Latitude) which turns you into a Shellback, a son or daughter of Neptune, instead of a lowly Pollywog...
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That's okay... I might be a Pollywog, but I got to sit in the chair and drive these, day or night, fair weather or foul... Coast Guard 44' Motor Lifeboats... Not many can say that.
Our informal motto - 'You gotta go out, but you don't have to come back'...
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Kinda funny that the two worst disasters to hit America since Pearl Harbor, 9/11 & Covid-19, both occured during the presidencies of the two men who lost the popular vote.
Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS begins the night on the East Coast with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'FBI', then LIVE'Dem Convention', followed by
begins the night extra early on the left coast with LIVE'Dem Convention', followed by a RERUN' NCIS', followed by a RERUN'FBI', then the local crap that usually airs at 7pm.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Regina Spektor.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Jeremy Zucker.
NBC starts the night on the East Coast with a FRESH'America's Got Talent', followed by LIVE'Dem Convention'.
NBC starts the night extra early on the left coast with LIVE'Dem Convention', followed by a FRESH' America's Got Talent', then the local crap that usually airs at 7pm.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Hugh Jackman, Lili Reinhart, and Buju Banton.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Russell Crowe, Patton Oswalt, the Lemon Twigs, and Thomas Land.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 2/24/20) are Lana Condor and Sofia Carson.
ABC opens the night on the East Coast with a RERUN'Modern Family', followed by another a RERUN'Modern Family', then 'What Would You Do?', followed by LIVE'Dem Convention'.
ABC opens the night extra early on the left coast with LIVE'Dem Convention', followed by a RERUN'Modern Family', followed by another RERUN'Modern Family', then 'What Would You Do?', followed by the local crap that usually airs at 7pm.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel, with guest host Kerry Washington, are Stacey Abrams and Chloe x Halle.
The CW offers a FRESH'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', followed by a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', then a RERUN'Tell Me A Story'.
Faux has a RERUN'Hell's Kitchen', followed by a RERUN'Prodigal Son'.
MY recycles an old recycles an old 'Chicago PD', followed by another old 'Chicago PD'.
A&E has 2 hours of old 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Storage Wars', then another FRESH'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Extreme Unboxing', then another FRESH'Extreme Unboxing'.
AMC offers the movie '2 Fast 2 Furious', followed by the movie 'The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift', then the movie 'Fast & Furious'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Way of the Warrior
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Way of the Warrior
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Visitor
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Indiscretion
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Rejoined
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Starship Down
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Relics
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Schisms
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - True Q
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Rascals
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - A Fistful of Datas
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Quality of Life
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Chain of Command
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Chain of Command
[8:00PM] ESCAPE PLAN
[10:30PM] POINT BREAK
[1:00AM] ESCAPE PLAN
[3:30AM] POINT BREAK (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Million Dollar Listing LA', another 'Million Dollar Listing LA', followed by a FRESH'Million Dollar Listing LA', then a FRESH'Backyard Envy'.
Comedy Central has all old 'The Office' all night.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show it's The Daily Social Distancing Show.
FX has the movie 'The Mummy', followed by the movie 'Truth Or Dare'.
History has 'America's Book Of Secrets: Special Edition', followed by a FRESH'America's Book Of Secrets'.
IFC -
[7:00A] South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
[9:00A] Piranha 3D
[11:00A] The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
[1:00P] Galaxy Quest
[3:30P] Kick-Ass 2
[6:00P] Parks and Recreation
[6:30P] Parks and Recreation
[7:00P] Parks and Recreation
[7:30P] Parks and Recreation
[8:00P] Parks and Recreation
[8:30P] Parks and Recreation
[9:00P] Parks and Recreation
[9:30P] Parks and Recreation
[10:00P] Parks and Recreation
[10:30P] Parks and Recreation
[11:00P] Parks and Recreation
[11:30P] Parks and Recreation
[12:00A] Parks and Recreation
[12:30A] Parks and Recreation
[1:00A] Parks and Recreation
[1:30A] Parks and Recreation
[2:00A] Parks and Recreation
[2:30A] Parks and Recreation
[3:00A] Parks and Recreation
[3:30A] Parks and Recreation
[4:00A] Piranha 3D (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[6:30am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[7:00am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[7:30am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[8:00am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[8:30am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[9:00am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[9:30am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[10:00am] monk - Mr. Monk Meets The Candidate
[11:00am] monk - Mr. Monk Meets The Candidate
[12:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And The Psychic
[1:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk Meets Dale The Whale
[2:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk Goes To The Carnival
[3:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk Goes To The Asylum
[4:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And The Billionaire Mugger
[5:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And The Other Woman
[6:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And The Marathon Man
[7:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk Takes A Vacation
[8:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And The Earthquake
[9:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk Meets The Red-Headed Stranger
[10:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And The Airplane
[11:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk Goes Back To School
[12:00am] columbo - Lovely But Lethal
[1:45am] columbo - Double Exposure
[3:30am] the andy griffith show
[4:00am] the andy griffith show
[4:30am] the andy griffith show
[5:00am] the andy griffith show
[5:30am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'GI Joe: Retaliation', followed by the movie 'Gods Of Egypt'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 7/14/20) is John Lithgow.
Democrats will intersperse their lineup of speakers and musical acts at this week’s convention with four entertainment figures who long have been active in party politics: Eva Longoria, Tracee Ellis Ross, Kerry Washington and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Longoria will appear on Monday, Ross on Tuesday, Washington on Wednesday and Louis-Dreyfus on Thursday.
Louis-Dreyfus will appear on the same night that Joe Biden accepts the Democratic nomination. She already has headlined a fundraiser for the former vice president, having appeared with him in a parody video during the run of Veep. Longoria spoke at the 2012 Democratic convention in Charlotte, NC.
The convention also will feature performances from Leon Bridges, The Chicks, Common, Billie Eilish, Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, Billy Porter, Maggie Rogers, Prince Royce and Stephen Stills. Other speakers and celebrities will be announced in the coming days.
Lilly Wachowski confirmed a popular fan theory earlier this month when she acknowledged that The Matrix trilogy, which she wrote and directed with sister Lana Wachowski, was in fact a transgender allegory. “I’m glad that it has gotten out that that was the original intention,” the filmmaker said in a video for Netflix Film Club.
In a new interview with Yahoo Entertainment, the series’ star Keanu Reeves reacted to Wachowski’s revelation, admitting he was unaware of those particular deeper meanings.
“I never spoke to Lilly about that, she never conveyed that to me,” Reeves told us during an interview promoting the new installment of what’s now his other sci-fi trilogy, Bill & Ted Face the Music, where he was joined by costar Alex Winter (watch above).
“I think The Matrix films are profound, and I think that allegorically, a lot of people in different versions of the film can speak to that. And for Lilly to come out and share that with us, I think is cool.”
Reeves began filming the upcoming sequel The Matrix 4 in San Francisco in February, but the production was shut down due to the coronavirus in mid-March.
Kenan Thompson is the latest member of the NBC family to fill in for Simon Cowell on his NBC competition series America’s Got Talent.
The SNL star will serve as a guest judge on this Tuesday and Wednesday’s live telecasts of the Terry Crews-hosted AGT, alongside fellow judges Howie Mandel, Heidi Klum and Sofia Vergara. Cowell will skip this season’s opening live shows as he is recovering from a complex back surgery following an electric bike accident over the weekend.
In addition to his work on SNL, which he joined in 2003, and comedy competition series Bring The Funny, he stars in upcoming NBC comedy Kenan alongside Don Johnson and Chris Redd.
Last week, Kelly Clarkson filled in for Cowell on the show, which airs Tuesday from 8-10 pm and Wednesday from 8-9 pm.
America’s Got Talent ranks as this summer’s number one series on the big four networks in every key measure – adults, men and women 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54, plus total viewers – as well as with kids 2-11 and teens 12-17. It remains the summer’s top alternative series in total viewers for a 15th consecutive season and has led NBC to 18-49 wins among the big four on every Tuesday night so far this summer.
Stuart D. Baker has been fired from the Adult Swim animated series “Squidbillies” after posting comments about Dolly Parton and the Black Lives Matter movement on social media.
Baker, who performs under the name Unknown Hinson, posted on his Facebook profile about Dolly Parton voicing her support for the Black Lives Matter movement. In doing so, he referred to Parton as a “freak titted, old Southern bimbo” and a “slut.” In another post, he wrote “HAVE FUN [sic] forsaking your own race, culture, and heritage.”
Series creators Jim Fortier and Dave Willis made the announcement Monday via the show’s official Twitter handle. They wrote, “We’re aware of the extremely offensive and derogatory social media posts made late last week by Stuart D. Baker. The views he expressed do not reflect our own personal values or the values of the show that we and many others have worked hard to produce over the past 15 years. For those reasons, production of Squidbillies will continue without Mr. Baker, effective immediately.”
Baker has voiced the main character Early Cuyler on “Squidbillies” since the show first started in 2005. Over 100 episodes of the series have been produced to date, with the show having been renewed for a thirteenth season last year. It is one of the longest-running shows on Adult Swim alongside “Robot Chicken,” both of which started in 2005.
The show centers on a family of squids living in the mountains of Georgia. It is unclear at this time if the character Early will be written off the show or if they will bring in a new voice actor to play him.
Coronavirus cases are already surfacing in K-12 schools that have reopened, but the federal government is not tracking these outbreaks, and some states are not publicly reporting them, making it more difficult to determine how the virus is spreading, experts say.
Scores of students and staff members have been quarantined because of potential COVID-19 exposure in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Indiana, among other states.
But there is no official national tally of school-linked COVID-19 cases, and some states are not reporting how many outbreaks have occurred or how many students and staff members have been infected. Instead, they are leaving it up to local officials to decide which information to make public and which information to share more narrowly with affected students and families. Researchers say the absence of a comprehensive accounting is hampering efforts to identify which safety practices can best prevent cases in schools from spreading.
“Without good data that tracks cases over time — and shows how one case turns into many cases — there's just no way to answer that question,” said Emily Oster, an economist at Brown University and co-founder of COVID Explained, a team of researchers studying the pandemic. “In January, we'll be in the same position that we are in now, and kids still won't be in school.”
Even among the states that have committed to sharing data, there are major gaps and inconsistencies in reporting policies. Each state sets its own definition for an “outbreak” — usually a certain number of cases linked to a single site. Most said they would not specify the district or school that was affected, citing privacy concerns. And only a handful of states said they would report the actual numbers of infected students and staff.
US first lady Melania Trump has been filmed appearing to refuse to hold the hand of her husband President Donald Trump.
The footage, that was widely circulated on social media on Monday morning, was filmed on Sunday evening as they climbed down the steps of Air Force One.
In the footage, the president attempted to hold the first lady’s hand as they both left the aircraft, but Ms Trump seemingly moved her hand away from his.
The president then appeared to attempt to hold Ms Trump’s hand again, but the first lady moved it away, before he put his hand on her lower back as they walked down the steps in windy conditions.
Some users joked that the first lady had joined the Democratic “resistance,” and podcast host Fernand R Amandi tweeted: “Welcome to the resistance @FLOTUS,” while comedian Jena Friedman wrote: “The Resistance is Melania’s hand.”
A "lucky" mobile phone number has sold for a whopping 2.25 million yuan ($300,000) after hundreds of people vied online for the right to use the apparently auspicious string of digits.
The number ends in five eights, a sought-after combination in China as the word "eight" in Mandarin sounds similar to the word for "prosperity".
The number was among assets seized and ordered auctioned by a court in Beijing, and an online sale attracted more than five thousand bids between Saturday and Sunday.
Eight is the most sought after digit, and so prized in China that the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing started officially at eight minutes past eight on the eighth day of August, the eighth month.
The number four, which in Mandarin sounds similar to "death", is least favoured.
A phone number ending in eight sevens holds the record on the auction platform for fetching 3.91 million yuan at a 2017 auction.
On Sunday, the thermometer at Death Valley's Furnace Creek, located in the deserts of Southern California, soared to 130 degrees Fahrenheit, according to NOAA's Weather Prediction Center. If verified, it would be the hottest temperature recorded in the U.S. since 1913, and perhaps the hottest temperature ever reliably recorded in the world.
The historic reading is just a small part of a massive, intense and long-lasting heat dome smothering the West Coast that will continue to get worse through Tuesday.
The highest temperature ever recorded on Earth was also observed in Death Valley — 134 degrees Fahrenheit in 1913. However, many experts contend that temperature reading, along with various other temperatures recorded that summer, was likely an observer error.
Phoenix, Arizona, is right in the middle of this current heat dome, but even before that it was exceedingly hot. This summer is already the hottest on record for the desert city. By Thursday, Phoenix is expected to see its 44th day this year of at least 110 degrees. That shatters the 2011 record of 33 days.
According to Climate Central, the western U.S. is warming the fastest of all the regions in the continental U.S. Some areas have warmed 3 to 5 degrees during summer just since 1970 due to human-caused climate change. That means heat waves start out at a higher baseline and heat domes have more cumulative heat to concentrate, pushing heat waves into uncharted territory.
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