• Knowing about the gay community can be reassuring. In Colorado, lesbian humorist Ellen Orleans and her girlfriend were sitting in a park watching a thunderstorm up in the mountains. It got dark, and they started walking to their car, worrying about their safety. They heard a rustle in the bushes and a tall man suddenly stepped out in front of them. Ms. Orleans and her girlfriend saw that he was dressed in leather from head to toe and immediately felt relief — he wasn’t a rapist, just a gay man looking for other gay men.
• When gay author Frank DeCaro was interviewed for a job as men’s fashion columnist for the Detroit Free Press, his editor (who didn’t know that Mr. DeCaro is gay) warned him of the job’s “faggot factor” — meaning that almost everyone assumes that all men’s fashion columnists are gay. Mr. DeCaro replied that he didn’t think it would be a problem for him.
• Lesbian author Erika Lopez ran into problems when she visited her grandmother, who was becoming forgetful. Her grandmother kept introducing her to the waiter, Ms. Lopez reminded her grandmother that she is a lesbian, then her grandmother forgot and introduced her to the waiter again. On some days, Ms. Lopez came out to her grandmother 50 times.
• Lesbian author Gail Sausser is tired of reading lesbian novels that have unhappy endings; she strongly prefers a happy ending. Many of her friends are the same way. In fact, one friend always reads the last two paragraphs of any lesbian novel she is considering buying because she wants to make sure it doesn’t have an unhappy ending.
• During his time as a prisoner, gay playwright Oscar Wilde stood on a train platform in drizzling rain while handcuffed to two other convicts. He said to one of the police officers escorting him, “Sir, if this is the way Queen Victoria treats her convicts, she doesn’t deserve to have any.”
• A reader wrote in to Dear Abby to ask, “A pair of gay men is moving in across the street. What can we do to improve the neighborhood?” Dear Abby (Abigail Van Buren) replied, “You could move.”
• Liane de Pougy, an author and the lesbian lover of the American poet Natalie Barney, was reputed to say this during confession: “Father, except for murder and robbery I’ve done everything.”
Halloween
• As a house-guest, Dorothy Parker belatedly discovered that her hostess was a rhymes-with-witch. Entering a bathroom, she discovered a female friend of hers, who pointed to a decrepit toothbrush, then asked, “What do you think our hostess does with that?” Ms. Parker said, “I think she rides it on Halloween.”
Homes
• American poet Natalie Barney was not known for her housekeeping. Someone once pointed out that her house and furniture were dusty, but she merely replied, “The dust is pretty; it’s furniture’s face powder!”
• In 1979, after buying a 23-room, 129-year-old mansion in Bangor, Maine, horror writer Stephen King put a fence around it — the fence is decorated with the figures of bats and spiders.
Illness and Injury
• In a book about children surviving cancer, Erma Bombeck related a story told to her by a father whose daughter had lost a leg to Ewing’s sarcoma. His daughter was in a hospital bed and was emotionally depressed. An orderly came with a wheelchair to take her to the X-ray room. The orderly put her in the wheelchair, adjusted the foot that was sticking out, then began groping for the foot she didn’t have. The girl with the missing leg looked at the orderly for a moment, then smiled and said, “Good luck!”
Brylcreem is a British brand of hair styling products for men. The first Brylcreem product was a hair cream created in 1928 by County Chemicals at the Chemico Works in Bradford Street, Birmingham, England. The cream is an emulsion of water and mineral oil stabilised with beeswax.
It was first advertised on television with the jingle "Brylcreem — A Little Dab'll Do Ya! Brylcreem — You'll look so debonair. Brylcreem — The gals'll all pursue ya; they'll love to run their fingers through your hair!". Another version was "Brylcreem—a little dab will do ya! Use more only if you dare; but watch out! The gals will all pursue ya! They'll love to run their fingers through your hair!"
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Billy in Cypress U. $. A. was first, and correct, with:
Brylcreem
Randall wrote:
Brylcreem
Mark. said:
Brylcreem.
Alan J answered:
Brylcreem.
Mac Mac responded:
Brylcreem
Jacqueline replied:
I know this one---Brylcreem.
Cal in Vermont said:
Brylcreem. If you rubbed a little in your hair, you would look so debonair that the gals would all pursue ya. In my neighbourhood we used Butch Wax and certain types of girls would pursue ya as well. Ah, the lost art of jingle-writing...
Roy, the Libtard Snowflake, livin' the hermit life in Tyler, TX wrote:
As the son of an Army officer, I was never allowed to grow my hair long enough to use this stuff 'til I was a teenager, but after years of using butch wax on my flat top, I became a devotee to Brylcreem, 'cause we only needed a "little dab" of that stuff to slick the hair down.
mj answered:
Barbara Feldon on a tiger skin rug
On the telly sold Brylcreem.
zorch replied:
Brylcreem.
Dave responded:
Brylcreem. A men’s hair treatment that makes your hair oily so you can style it slicked back, if that is the disgusting way you want your hair to look. It seems that Donald Trump’s older sons, Uday and Qusay, still use the product although Brylcreem has fallen out of common use since before they were born. But I guess that oily hair brings back the 1950s for their father, back when ‘Murica was grate.
Photos: The battle of Lake Travis, where the Trump boat cult fought karma and lost. A strung out Uday Trump sweating through the RNC | Qusay Trump | Henry Winkler as the 1950’s character ‘The Fonz’ with oily hair
The Battle of Lake Travis
“Just sit right back and hear a tale,
A tale of a hateful trip,
No smarts were in Lake Travis for
This fleet of tiny ships.
The date was all set to own the libs,
The skippers knaves unsure.
What happened must entail foul play,
On a three hour tour, a three hour tour.
The wake has started getting rough,
The tiny ships were tossed,
They’d not be discouraged by the fate of few
The Trumpers were all sauced, the Trumpers were all sauced”
Maggie Kerr
Stephen F said:
Brylcreem
Kenn B wrote:
Brylcreem...watch our the girls will all pursue ya!
David of Moon Valley replied:
Happy Labor Day (which you seem to do a lot of, frankly)…anyway, i dismember this as being Brylcreem…although during the height of its popularity i was a crewcut head so i didn’t need a dabba anything….
Dave in Tucson said:
That's the jingle for Brylcreem a.k.a. greasy kid stuff. Apparently the
Trump spawn, Uday & Qsay just slather the crap on.
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
Is it a little sad that I can sing the jingle to Bryl-Cream? My dad and brother used it when they got their summer buzz cuts. IIRC, some of the ads featured sexy women running their fingers through men’s hair.
At 7:30 we took the dogs for a walk and it was already 90°. California is going to burn and/or desiccate into oblivion. What a nutty-cuckoo year this is.
Michelle in AZ answered:
Brylcreem
DJ Useo responded:
Brylcreem. An effective slogan, it had. I went to a retro sock hop once, & slicked my hair up with an entire tube. Yuck!
Strangely, the girls liked it & I was a popular dude that night.
Still, it took me a week of showers to get it all out of my hair. My Step-Dad lol'ed at how I looked. He still used that stuff!
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) replied:
it's Brylcreem.
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“Every month of 2019 we released a song. Some of the songs were written the month before they were released, while some songs were written as early as 2009.”
“The Breeze” features vocalist Zelma Stone.
Z Tapes is a Slovakian indie label run by Filip Zemcik.
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Marine layer rolled in and the temperature dropped 20°s.
Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'Love Island', then a RERUN'FBI: Most Wanted'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 8/19/20) are Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Jon Batiste & Nathaniel Rateliff.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'America's Got Talent', followed by a FRESH'Transplant'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Michael Strahan and Big Sean.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Jane Fonda, Jorma Taccone, and BONES UK.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 3/4/20) are Jo Koy and Erinn Hayes.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'Modern Family', followed by another RERUN'Modern Family', then 'What Would You Do'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel, with guest host Josh Gad, is Daisy Ridley.
The CW offers a FRESH'Dead Pixels', followed by a RERUN'Dead Pixels', then a RERUN'Tell Me A Story'.
Faux has a RERUN'Hell's Kitchen', followed by the infomercial 'Fox NFL Sunday 2020 Season Preview'.
MY recycles an old 'Chicago PD', followed by another old 'Chicago PD'.
A&E has 'Biogaphy', followed by a FRESH'Biography'.
AMC offers the movie 'Rocky Balboa', followed by the movie 'I, Robot', then the movie 'True Lies'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - CHANGE OF HEART
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - WRONGS DARKER THAN DEATH OR NIGHT
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - INQUISITION
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - IN THE PALE MOONLIGHT
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - HIS WAY
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE RECKONING
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SKIN OF EVIL
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - CONSPIRACY
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION -THE NEUTRAL ZONE
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE CHILD
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - WHERE SILENCE HAS LEASE
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - ELEMENTARY, DEAR DATA
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE OUTRAGEOUS OKONA
[8:00PM] JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT
[10:30PM] JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT
[1:00AM] THE NOVEMBER MAN
[3:30AM] THE NOVEMBER MAN (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Below Deck Mediterranean', another 'Below Deck Mediterranean', followed by a FRESH'Below Deck Mediterranean', then a FRESH'Backyard Envy', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happened Live'.
FX has the movie 'Peter Robbit', followed by the movie 'Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation'.
History has 'American Book Of Secrets: Special Edition', followed by a FRESH'American Book Of Secrets: Special Edition'.
IFC -
[6:15am] The Three Stooges - Squareheads Of The Round Table
[6:45am] The Three Stooges - Crash Goes The Hash
[7:15am] The Three Stooges - Half-Wits Holiday
[7:45am] Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Gauntlet - Experiment 1205: Killer Fish
[9:30am] Bad Words
[11:30am] Zookeeper
[1:45pm] Envy
[4:00pm] Grandma's Boy
[6:00pm] Parks And Recreation
[6:30pm] Parks And Recreation
[7:00pm] Parks And Recreation
[7:30pm] Parks And Recreation
[8:00pm] Parks And Recreation
[8:30pm] Parks And Recreation
[9:00pm] Parks And Recreation
[9:30pm] Parks And Recreation
[10:00pm] Parks And Recreation
[10:30pm] Parks And Recreation
[11:00pm] Parks And Recreation
[11:30pm] Parks And Recreation
[12:00am] Parks And Recreation
[12:30am] Parks And Recreation
[1:00am] Parks And Recreation
[1:30am] Parks And Recreation
[2:00am] Parks And Recreation
[2:30am] Parks And Recreation
[3:00am] Parks And Recreation
[3:30am] Parks And Recreation
[4:00am] Grandma's Boy
[5:45am] The Three Stooges - You Natzy Spy! (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 Goes To Vegas
[11:00am] monk - Mr. Monk And The Election
[12:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And The Kid
[1:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And The Other Detective
[2:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk Goes Home Again
[3:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk Stays In Bed
[4:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk Goes To The Office
[5:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk Gets Drunk
[6:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And Mrs. Monk
[7:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk Goes To A Wedding
[8:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And Little Monk
[9:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And The Secret Santa
[10:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk Goes To A Fashion Show
[11:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk Bumps His Head
[12:00am] columbo - Murder Under Glass
[1:45am] columbo - Make Me A Perfect Murder
[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 'Angels & Demons', followed by the movie 'Inferno'.
In a wide-ranging Rolling Stone interview ahead of tonight’s (Sept. 7) debut of Biography: The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne on A&E, Ozzy Osbourne said he was “done” with Black Sabbath even though guitarist Tony Iommi is up to play with the legendary lineup again. Osbourne did admit, however, that he regrets not doing Sabbath’s 2017 farewell show in Birmingham with founding drummer Bill Ward.
“I felt really bad about that. It would have been so nice. I don’t know what the circumstances behind it were, but it would have been nice. I’ve talked to him a few times, but I don’t have any of the slightest interest in [doing another gig],” Osbourne said.
Osbourne’s health issues of the last several years have included a Parkinson’s-related diagnosis, a fall, and surgery, and the frontman says that he’s “still in recovery. When they cut into the spine in my neck, they severed my nerves and I got this thing called neuropathy; it’s just nerve pain. That’s giving me a lot of grief now. But, you know, I ain’t dead.”
Of his rehab efforts, he terms his progress as “six steps forward and eight back. Very slow recovery. I ain’t good at being laid up.”
Cardi B, who has interviewed Bernie Sanders twice, has long been vocal about her political affiliations and strong dislike for president number 45 on social media—and now she's opening up about the hate she's received because of it. In an impromptu Instagram Live video on Sunday night, which was prompted by a Twitter argument with conservative Black activist Candace Owens, the rapper talked about the targeted harassment she's endured from various Trump supporters.
She started the video with the camera showing only her hand and metallic pink manicure. "I'm not gonna show my face on this video," she said. "I look like shit, I feel like shit. I'm a little sick and I don't know why the devil decided to try me today, but I'm going to give demons a response today." Then, she reiterated where she stands politically.
"It's not a secret that I use my platform for people to vote. I love politics. I endorse the Democratic party. Everybody knows I don't fuck with Trump like that," she said.
Cardi B went on to explain that the side her fans often don't see is that she gets "harrassed by Trump supporters so much" explaining the kind of hate she receives daily.
"They be degrading me," she said. "They be making fun of me, everything. I ignore them. I don't give a fuck. Let me tell you something. Shit gets so intense that a Trump supporter posted my address and encouraged people to dox my home, to put my house on fire. I literally hired a private investigator, and serve them with a warrant and arrest this boy. This boy was a fucking teenager. His parents were fucking shook."
Tracee Ellis Ross will team up with Sanaa Lathan, Alfre Woodard and Regina King to perform their own take on “The Golden Girls” on Zoom.
In an Instagram post that all four stars shared, which shows them re-creating an old "Golden Girls" picture, it appears that Lathan is Blanche, King is Dorothy, Ross is Rose and Woodard is Sophia.
“We bring to you our rendition of Golden Girls, reimagined with an all-Black cast of your favorite actresses: Alfre Woodard, Tracee Ellis Ross, Sanaa Lathan, and Regina King, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and hosted by Lena Waithe,” reads a description of the project.
“This event is in partnership with Zoom, and the first episode is spotlighting and supporting Color of Change — the nation's largest online racial justice organization,” it adds.
The production, which will take place Tuesday at 9 p.m. Eastern time, is free but requires registration.
Jurassic World: Dominion stars Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum are making the most of their downtime between takes by performing songs together for fun.
The duo, who first starred together as Alan Grant and Ian Malcolm in 1993’s Jurassic Park, are reuniting on screen for the sixth film in the Jurassic series currently in production at Pinewood Studios, just outside of London.
The entire cast and crew are holed up together in a swanky hotel as a coronavirus precaution for the duration of the shoot, giving the pair – who haven’t starred in a movie together since the Steven Spielberg original 27 years ago – plenty of time to catch up.
And one way they’ve found to unwind, as a video shared on Twitter by Neill shows, is by jamming together at the hotel’s piano.
Goldblum, a talented pianist and leader of the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, is tinkling the ivories while singing a duet of ‘I Remember You’ with Neill.
Since the coronavirus pandemic began, herd immunity has been floated by some experts as a possible solution to the deadly virus that has so far killed over 865,000 people worldwide.
Herd immunity is possible when enough people have contracted and become immune to a virus, providing community-wide protection by limiting the number of people who can spread it. And while the strategy is considered controversial and even downright dangerous by many public health experts, it is also reportedly gaining momentum in the White House.
According to a report by the Washington Post, herd immunity is a strategy being pushed by Dr. Scott Atlas — a neuroradiologist with no background in infectious diseases or epidemiology who recently joined the White House as a pandemic adviser.
Atlas denied that he had encouraged the White House to adopt a herd immunity strategy, and on Wednesday White House coronavirus task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx and top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci dismissed the idea that herd immunity was under consideration. An administration official, however, told CNN that the policies being promoted by Atlas are indeed akin to a herd immunity approach.
It’s still uncertain what percentage of a population would need to be immune to the virus in order to attain herd immunity. According to Johns Hopkins University, in general, the answer is 70 to 90 percent of a population, depending on how contagious the infection is. But a model published last month in the magazine Science found that the threshold needed for coronavirus herd immunity could be as low as 43 percent.
Candidates engaging with the QAnon conspiracy theory are running for seats in state legislatures this year, breathing more oxygen into a once-obscure conspiracy movement that has grown in prominence since adherents won Republican congressional primaries this year.
Some of the legislative candidates have repeatedly shared QAnon memes and interacted extensively with social media accounts promoting the conspiracy — which is centered on the baseless belief that President Donald Trump is waging a secret campaign against enemies in the “deep state” and a child sex trafficking ring. Others have acted in ways that leave it unclear whether they believe in the theory or may be merely flirting with the ideas to garner attention.
They make up a tiny share of the thousands of state legislative candidates on the ballot in November and many are longshots, but several, including in Arizona, Minnesota and Wisconsin, are running in competitive districts.
Among those who have engaged with QAnon postings on social media is Dave Armstrong, a Republican candidate for the Wisconsin Assembly. He was asked to run for the seat by the incumbent, a fellow Republican.
In Nevada, independent state Assembly candidate John Cardiff Gerhardt also openly embraces the movement.
As the world warms, many species of plant and animal will have to find new—often cooler—places to live. But things are trickier for sedentary marine creatures like snails, worms, and clams, according to a new study. It finds that in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, many species are spawning earlier in the year, when currents take their larvae southward and into warmer waters—the wrong direction. For some of them, including the sand dollars beloved by beachcombers, this means their range is shrinking.
Earlier spawning is a serious threat. "For species that can't move effectively, it's going to enhance the likelihood that they're going to get really rare and potentially be driven extinct by climate change," says Steve Gaines, a marine ecologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who was not involved in the research. A key question, he says, is whether these species will likely evolve to spawn later or tolerate warmer water. And if they don’t, should biologists try transplanting them to more suitable environments?
Many biologists have assumed marine species can shift habitat fairly easily if their environment changes, but the new study shows things are more complicated for species distributed only via drifting larvae. "The big take-home message is, you can't just assume critters will spread to wherever the climate is congenial for them," adds James Pringle, a physical oceanographer at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, who was not involved with the new work.
This isn't the first study to find that some marine species are shifting their ranges into inhospitable habitats. But those findings have often been dismissed as “noise,” Gaines says. And there have been no explanations for the counterintuitive patterns, says Heidi Fuchs of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, who studies how marine snails—such as the threeline mud snail—spawn and how their larvae drift in currents along the Northwest Atlantic continental shelf.
An endangered killer whale named "Tahlequah," which famously carried her dead calf on her head in mourning for 17 days through the Salish Sea off British Columbia in 2018, is a new mother.
Tahlequah, known to scientists as "J35," gave birth likely on Friday after it was spotted in the Haro Strait, northwest of Seattle, earlier in the week, the Center for Whale Research in the state of Washington said in a statement.
"Hooray! Her new calf appeared healthy and precocious, swimming vigorously alongside its mother in its second day of free-swimming life," the center said.
The center did not release the gender of the new calf. It said that when Tahlequah was spotted she was mostly separate from the other whales and "very evasive" as she crossed the border into Canada.
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