Joe Bob Briggs: Who's Afraid of the Joker?(Taki's Magazine)
"I dressed up as the Joker on Halloween and absolutely no one was scared. I didn't get kicked out of public places. I wasn't suspected of being a serial killer on my way to a murder spree. Nobody mistook me for a revolutionary trying to inflame the disenfranchised populace. In fact, people constantly stopped me to pose for pictures. Do you know how humiliating this must be for the makeup artist who painted the jagged Joker smile on my face?"
Jonathan Chait: Kamala Harris Admits Evil Neoliberal Scheme to Educate Low-Income Kids (NY Mag)
O'Connor does not quite denounce all education per se. But he does flay Harris for designing a program that assumes many parents will continue to put in eight-hour days, with some commuting time, instead of a socialist paradise where they clock out at 2:30. "Rather than reshaping society to accommodate the needs of workers," he writes. "Harris's plan is designed to keep more people working for longer, suiting the interests of their employers." The first part of that sentence - "Rather than reshaping society …" - is so perfect. Why would Harris try to give low-income students a better education when she could simply reshape society? How heartless! How neoliberal!
James D. Walsh: The Senseless Death of Deadspin (NY Mag)
Offside Tavern in Chelsea was crowded for game seven of the World Series, but bartender Nick Costa noticed a group of patrons who seemed strangely "low energy" during the game. "There were a lot of pissed-off faces in that crowd," said Costa, who also owns Offside. When someone from the group approached the bar wearing a Deadspin sweatshirt, Costa learned why: "I was like, 'Oh, shit, you work at Deadspin?'" "'I used to work at Deadspin,'" responded Laura Wagner, who had resigned from the website earlier that day. Costa, a Deadspin reader, covered Wagner's tab.
Steve ScorseseLand (Taki's Magazine)
Martin Scorsese is trending on Twitter for denouncing superhero movies as being more like theme parks than films because "Cinema is an art form that brings you the unexpected." And yet the director's The Irishman proves that the expected can have its cinematic pleasures.
One of the most iconic masks in movie history is worn by the Michael Myers character in the Halloween franchise. The 1978 horror film was produced on a very limited budget, so the mask was purchased at a magic shop and spray painted. Whose face is under the paint?
The dohyo is the ring in which sumo wrestling bouts are held. A modern dohyo is a circle of rice-straw bales 4.55 meters in diameter, and for official tournaments (honbasho) is mounted on a square platform of clay 6.7m on a side, and 34 to 60 cm high. The surface is covered by sand.
A new dohyo is built prior to each tournament by the yobidashi (ring attendants), who are responsible for this activity. The process of building the dohyo takes three days, and is done with traditional tools. The clay used is taken from the banks of the Arakawa River in Saitama Prefecture. However, with growing urbanization clay from Ibaraki Prefecture has started to be used. The dohyo is removed after each tournament, and in the case of Nagoya, pieces are taken home by the fans as souvenirs.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
A Dohyo is the ring in which sumo wrestling is done.
Randall wrote:
Sumo Wrestling
Dave said:
Sumo. The Dohyo is the raised ring the wrestlers do battle in.
Alan J answered:
Sumo Wrestling.
mj replied:
The term has a familiar ring to it
It's the big boy's play pen for Sumo wrestlers. Okay, it's just a circle
on the floor, but the idea's the same.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
The dohyo is the ring in which sumo wrestling bouts are held
Daniel in The City replied:
Sumo
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I was perusing the pages of Politico Playbook and came across this gem of information:
-- NATIONAL JOURNAL'S @AlexClearfield: "#NY02: Email to me from former Rep. Rick Lazio (R), who represented part of this district from 1993-01: 'I just heard the news about Pete King's announcement and I will be thinking through what that means for the district - beyond the obvious.'"
I guess the Lick is thinking of running. The first photo shows how & why Rick got his Bartcop nickname!
Then I remembered the former congressman who ran for senate and charged Hillary Clinton on stage in an attempt to bully her. This led to his defeat in the election.
After Rick disappeared, I further remembered an issue of
Bartcop Vol.214, from the way back machine, July 6, 2000, where JennyQ1 supplied a graphic of the
long lost Mr. Lazio on a milk carton titled: "Have you seen me?"
Interestingly enough the title of the
Bartcop issue 214 was: "It's Giuliani Time." Before 9/11, it had to do with the attack on five women in central park where the women were trashed by the republican right wing and a little known real estate slum lord named Donald J. Trump. It never stops. Quid pro Quo
• Al Capp, the cartoonist of Li'l Abner, was a master at keeping his audience interested in his comic strip. He always made sure that the storylines of his comic strip ended on Wednesdays. That way, he had a few days to build up audience interest in a new storyline before the Sunday hiatus. Mr. Capp once explained, "If I ended one on a Saturday, millions of my readers would have nothing to worry about over the weekend and would forget me and turn to Popeye."
• Architecture magazine once hired Margaret Bourke-White to take some photographs of a new schoolhouse that was being constructed. She looked over the scene, but although the schoolhouse was impressive, the rubbish of construction marred its location. No problem. She cleared away what rubbish she could, then visited a florist shop to buy flowers to stick in the muddy ground and make it look attractive.
• The Renaissance painter Raphael (1483-1520) was supposed to paint the first floor of the palace of his friend Agostini Chigi, but Raphael fell in love and because of the time he spent wooing his lady love, his friend despaired of ever having his palace painted. Fortunately, Mr. Chigi solved the problem by having Raphael's lady love move into his palace until the painting was completed.
• Impressionist painter Claude Monet wanted to paint a large canvas measuring eight feet by seven feet. Normally, this would not be a problem, but Monet wanted to paint it outdoors, and he had to figure out a way to reach all parts of the canvas. Eventually, he dug a trench in the ground so that he could raise or lower the painting as needed.
• In 1977, Pop artist Andy Warhol attended a dinner given at the White House by President Gerald Ford. Mr. Warhol wore a formal white jacket and pants, and a white tie. Because the dress pants itched, underneath them Mr. Warhol wore a pair of blue jeans.
Royalty
• When Queen Hatshepsut ruled ancient Egypt, it was the world's most powerful nation. When her father, Thutmose I, died without a male heir, she married her half brother, as was common in Egypt's royal family then, and they ruled Egypt together. Her husband, Thutmose II, died after ten years of marriage, and his son by a concubine became Pharaoh Thutmose III. He was still a child, so Queen Hatshepsut became regent of Egypt. However, after seven years as regent, she named herself the King of Egypt. Because males dominated ancient Egyptian society, and because she wanted to reassure the ancient Egyptians that the kingship was in good hands, Queen Hatshepsut made sure artists portrayed her as a man. Ancient Egyptian works of art show her wearing the false beard that pharaohs wore, and they show her without breasts. She was also called "His Majesty," although ancient scribes sometimes referred to her as "His Majesty, herself." Most Egyptologists give her high marks because during her twenty-year reign Egypt was both prosperous and peaceful.
• Celebrity photographer Richard Young was in Tangiers, Morocco, to shoot Malcolm Forbes' 70th birthday party. The morning after the party, Mr. Young learned that his flight back to London had been delayed. He saw King Constantine of Greece walking to his private plane, so he called to him, "Good morning, sir. Is there any chance of a lift back to London? I'm delayed." The king waved to him, but kept on walking. The captain of the plane then approached Mr. Young and said, "King Constantine would love to give you a lift to London, but sadly he is flying to Austria."
• Author and artist Edward Lear, of A Book of Nonsense fame, once gave a series of art lessons to Queen Victoria. Of course, coming from a family who had been royalty for a very long time, she had many, many portraits and other works of art hanging in the palace. One day, she took Mr. Lear on a tour of the palace, showing him many of the works of art there. He was amazed at such a wealth of art and exclaimed, "Oh! Where did you get all these beautiful things?" Queen Victoria replied, "I inherited them."
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'FBI', then a FRESH'NCIS: The 3rd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Liev Schreiber, Daniel Kaluuya, and Cold War Kids.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Laurie Metcalf, Jenny Slate, and Billy Lockett.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'This Is Us', then a FRESH'New Amsterdam'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Kristen Bell, Judd Apatow, and Danny Brown.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Taron Egerton, Steve Kornacki, Mark Fischbach, and Chris Johnson.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Tyler Perry.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'The Conners', followed by a FRESH'Bless This Mess', then a FRESH'mixed-ish', followed by a FRESH'black-ish', then a FRESH'Dolly Parton: Here She Comes Again!'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Patrick Stewart, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Carrie Underwood, and Old Dominion.
The CW offers a RERUN'The Flash', followed by a RERUN'Arrow'.
Faux has a FRESH'The Resident', followed by a FRESH'Empire'.
MY recycles an old 'Chicago PD', followed by another old 'Chicago PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire', followed by the movie 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1', then the movie 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 21-Frame of Mind
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 22-Suspicions
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 23-Rightful Heir
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 24-Second Chances
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 25-Timescape
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 26-Descent (Part 1)
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 1-Descent (Part 2)
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 2-Liaisons
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 3-Interface
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 4-Gambit (Part 1)
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 5-Gambit (Part 2)
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 6-Phantasms
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 7-Dark Page
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 8-Attached
[8:00PM] LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003)
[12:30AM] LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003)
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 16-The Offspring (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', then another FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', 'Real Housewives Of Dallas', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central has 2 hours of old 'The Office', an hour of old 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Tosh.0', then a FRESH'The Jim Jefferies Show'.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show is Noah Baumbach.
Scheduled on a FRESHLights Out with David Spade are Rob Schneider, Esther Povitsky, and Matteo Lane.
FX has the movie 'Despicable Me 2', followed by the movie 'Despicable Me 3'.
History has a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island: Digging Deeper', followed by a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island', then a FRESH'King Of Pain'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - Violent Is the Word for Curly
[6:15A] Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
[8:15A] Behind Enemy Lines
[10:45A] Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
[1:30P] Minority Report
[4:30P] First Blood
[6:30P] Rambo: First Blood Part II
[8:45P] Rambo III
[11:00P] Tropic Thunder
[1:30A] Cliffhanger
[4:00A] The Three Stooges - Violent Is the Word for Curly
[4:05A] The Three Stooges - We Want Our Mummy
[4:30A] Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00am] M*A*S*H
[6:30am] M*A*S*H
[7:00am] M*A*S*H
[7:30am] M*A*S*H
[8:00am] M*A*S*H
[8:30am] M*A*S*H
[9:00am] M*A*S*H
[9:30am] Body of Lies
[12:30pm] The Devil's Own
[3:00pm] Criminal Minds
[4:00pm] Criminal Minds
[5:00pm] Criminal Minds
[6:00pm] Criminal Minds
[7:00pm] Criminal Minds
[8:00pm] Criminal Minds
[9:00pm] Criminal Minds
[10:00pm] Criminal Minds
[11:00pm] Criminal Minds
[12:00am] Criminal Minds
[1:00am] Criminal Minds
[2:00am] Criminal Minds
[3:00am] Friday the 13th
[5:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:35am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Valerian & The City Of A Thousand Planets', followed by the movie 'Mad Max: Fury Road', then a whole lotta 'Futurama'.
On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver ripped into frivolous lawsuits meant to silence dissent, an issue with which he has personal experience: two years ago, Last Week Tonight was sued by Bob Murray, the then CEO of Murray Energy, the largest private coal company in America, after the show did a segment highly critical of the coal executive.
Since then, "because the case has been in litigation, we haven't been able to discuss it", Oliver explained. But Murray recently dropped the lawsuit, "so we can finally tell you exactly what happened - which is honestly worth doing, not only because it's a crazy story, but it actually points to a much bigger problem here".
But first, Oliver offered some background on the Murray lawsuit: Murray objected to Oliver's characterization of him as "someone who looks like a geriatric Dr Evil" and a segment in which a staff member dressed up as a squirrel and delivered the message "Eat shit, Bob!" on a large check (in reference to a former employee's diss of the CEO written on a $3.22 bonus check).
Murray's lawsuit sought damages, because he claimed that "nothing has ever stressed him more than this vicious and untruthful attack". It's "an odd thing to say", Oliver commented, "given that, as I just mentioned, he oversaw a company whose mine collapse in Utah resulted in the deaths of nine people.
"Obviously, the lawsuit was a bullshit attempt to silence us," Oliver continued, "perhaps best exemplified by a motion that Murray filed to try to get a gag order to prevent us from rebroadcasting the story or even having it up online." (The piece is still online, "big time", at www.stillontheinternetbigtime.com.)
Tyler, The Creator's Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival is always entertaining - last year featured Kanye West and Kid Cudi performing inside a giant glass box. But it inadvertently outdid itself this year with surprise appearances from Drake - who was booed offstage by a crowd that was expecting Frank Ocean - and, of all people, former adult-film star and Donald "Lumpy" Trump (R-Unfit) paramour Stormy Daniels, who joined YG for his song "FDT (F- Donald Trump)." Held at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, the show also featured Tyler, Solange, Earl Sweatshirt, DaBaby, 21 Savage, FKA twigs, Juice WRLD and Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def).
Daniels, who admitted being paid hush money before the 2016 election by the Trump Campaign to keep quiet about their affair, may have overstated her case by saying, "My name is Stormy F-ing Daniels, and I am the reason that Donald Trump is f-ed." YG then asked "You f-ed Donald Trump?!" She replied, "I wouldn't call it f-ing, I just laid there."
As for Drake, fans had been expecting a surprise appearance since Tyler first announced the lineup, as the poster featured question marks indicating an unnamed headliner - and even though Frank Ocean has never performed at the festival, as Tyler's former bandmate in Odd Future, it wasn't much of a stretch.
Instead, there was Drake, who performed nine songs wearing a "Siamese Dream"-era Smashing Pumpkins T-shirt. But when he asked the increasingly restless crowd whether they wanted him to continue, they chanted "We want Frank!"
Dolly Parton has gotten plenty of ink in the headlines over the years, but she's also been inking her body… or as she puts it, "decorating" her body.
The country legend has never flaunted her body art, but she opened up about her tattoos to "Good Morning America."
"I got them to cover scars or things," she said. "If I have to get a scar for any reason, I never can kind of get rid of that purple look. So I thought, 'Well, I'm going to kind of decorate these with some flowers or little butterflies or whatever.'"
The rumor about Dolly's tattoos first came to light in 2011 when Roseanne Barr spoke to late night host Craig Ferguson.
"Do you know who's totally tattooed? I shouldn't even tell this. Dolly Parton is totally tattooed," the former "Roseanne" star said. "She showed me. She's got all these awesome tattoos all over her body-no black or blue lines, all like, pastel gorgeous bows all over everything."
Comedy legend John Cleese said there may be no point in trying to argue with Fox News viewers who support President Donald Trump.
"[T]he people who support him are basically so ignorant because they only ever get news from Fox News," the Monty Python alum told The Daily Beast. "I don't know what you say to people like that."
"To me, it's like people who go and watch professional wrestling and don't realize that it's fixed. If they can't see it when it's right under their nose, I have no idea how they're going to realize how wrong they are."
Cleese also called Trump "an extraordinary caricature of an asshole."
The United Nations and Kenyan government on Monday came under fire on the eve a global conference on sexual and reproductive health with Christian groups claiming hosting the event was promoting abortion and homosexuality in the east African nation.
More than 6,000 participants - including heads of state, government ministers, financial institutions, donors and civil society groups - from 160 nations are due at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Nairobi.
The three-day meeting will focus on issues ranging from maternal deaths and child marriage to sex education and female genital mutilation.
But the Holy See, as well as local faith-based groups and pro-life campaigners, have criticized the gathering that starts on Tuesday.
CitizenGo, as well as some Kenyan parliamentarians and Catholic bishops said the meeting - which will include discussions on access to sexual health services for the LGBT+ community - will also encourage homosexuality.
It is one of the biggest birthday celebrations in the world: millions of Sikhs will Tuesday mark the 550th birth anniversary of the founder of their religion, the Guru Nanak.
The annual celebration has been given extra significance this year with the opening of the Kartarpur Corridor, a secure, visa-free passage between arch-rivals India and Pakistan that gives Indian Sikhs access to the place where the guru died in 1539, now one of the religion's holiest sites.
Sikhism is a monotheistic religion born in the 15th-century in Punjab -- meaning the land of five rivers, a region spanning parts of what is now India and Pakistan.
Five and a half centuries later, Sikhs number up to 30 million worldwide, with a rich diaspora in places such as Canada, the US and Europe -- although the vast majority remain in India.
Once rulers of the Punjab, they were considered a martial race by the British colonisers.
On Thursday evening, Japan's Emperor Naruhito will dress in pure white robes and be ushered into a dark wooden hall for his last major enthronement rite: spending the night with a goddess.
Centred on Amaterasu Omikami, the sun goddess from whom conservatives believe the emperor has descended, the "Daijosai" is the most overtly religious ceremony of the emperor's accession rituals after his father Akihito's abdication.
Scholars and the government say it consists of a feast, rather than, as has been persistently rumoured, conjugal relations with the goddess.
At about 7 p.m., Naruhito enters a specially-built shrine compound by firelight, disappearing behind white curtains.
In a dimly-lit room he kneels by piled straw mats draped in white, said to be a resting place for the goddess, as two shrine maidens bring in offerings of food, from rice to abalone, for Naruhito to use in filling 32 plates made from oak leaves.
A tiny creature that looks part-deer, part-mouse hadn't been seen in nearly 30 years. Now, with a series of camera traps, researchers have caught the silver-backed chevrotain, also called the Vietnam mouse-deer, meandering about its tree-filled home.
With the distinguishing silver line down its back that starts just behind its shoulders, the silver-backed chevrotain (Tragulus versicolor) looks a bit like a deer, but it's the size of a large house cat. The species is thought to be endemic to Vietnam and was first described in the early 20th century and again in 1990. Since then, the silver-backed chevrotain had been "missing."
"There was no reason to think that it was extinct, but at the same time, we didn't know that it wasn't extinct," said Andrew Tilker, an officer of Asian species at Global Wildlife Conservation and a doctoral student at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin. "No scientist or naturalist had any idea whether it was still out there," added Tilker, who was a senior author of a new study describing the findings.
As part of Global Wildlife Conservation's Search for Lost Species initiative, the researchers set out to search for the silver-backed chevrotain. An Nguyen, an associate conservation scientist at Global Wildlife Conservation and a doctoral student at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, led the search.
Nguyen and his team traveled around Vietnam and spoke with villagers and forest rangers who reported having seen animals similar to the silver-backed chevrotain roaming about the tropical forests of the Greater Annamites, a region in Vietnam and Laos known for its high concentration of endemic species.
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