Joe Bob Briggs: Cameras Are Making Us Stupid (Taki's Magazine)
Pretty soon now, I'm counting on it, somebody is gonna fly to Fiji, rent a bamboo villa that sits on stilts over the lapping waves hitting the pristine seashore, order a fruity drink in a coconut shell, stretch out on a veranda that juts out into an inlet where porpoises frolic and play, wait till the setting sun starts to disappear over the horizon, admire the soft orange glow over the Southern Pacific, and then not take a picture of it!
Stephen Dowling: Nine Artists Who Hated Their Own Albums (BBC)
Belle & Sebastien's Stuart Murdoch was rather sniffy to BBC Music about the band's much-feted second album If You're Feeling Sinister, which the band performed in its entirety at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago. He's not the first artist to become less than enthusiastic about an album. Here, BBC Music looks at a raft of other albums disowned by their creators.
Born Joseph Louis Barrow, this American athlete achieved the status of a nationwide hero within the United States in the 1940's. By what name is he better known?
The phrase "Shot heard round the world" has been applied to many events. What was the original incident noted as the "Shot heard round the world"?
Opening shot of the Battle of Concord in 1775
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"The shot heard round the world" is a phrase that refers to the opening shot of the Battle of Concord in 1775, which began the American Revolutionary War and led to the creation of the United States of America. The phrase has subsequently also been applied to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 (which began World War I) as well as other events.
The phrase comes from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn" (1837) and refers to the first shot of the American Revolution at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, where the first British soldiers fell in the battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. Historically, no single shot can be cited as the first shot of the battle or the war. Shots were fired earlier that day at Lexington, Massachusetts, where eight Americans were killed and a British soldier was slightly wounded, but accounts of that event are confused and contradictory. The North Bridge skirmish did see the first shots by Americans acting under orders, the first organized volley by Americans, the first British fatalities, and the first British retreat.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
The battles at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, which began of
the American Revolution.
Alan J answered:
The opening shot of the Battle of Concord in 1775.
Randall wrote:
Start of the American Revolutionary War
mj said:
By the rood bridge that arched the flood
Their flag to the April breeze unfuled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world
That shot was at the Battle of Concord.
zorch responded:
The Battle of Lexington.
Dave replied:
The first shot at the beginning of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775 (the morning after Paul Revere's ride). The Revolutionary war raged on for over 8 years until Great Britain recognized the independence of the new nation in the Treaty of Paris (1783), although the British didn't undertake any major military campaigns against the colonists after the British surrender at Yorktown (1781).
Jon L wrote:
Was it the first shot fired in the Boston massacre?
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
"The shot heard round the world" is a phrase that refers to the opening shot of the Battle of Concord in 1775, which began the American Revolutionary War and led to the creation of the United States of America.
Adam answered:
The opening shot of the Battle of Concord in 1775, which began the American Revolutionary War.
Deborah replied:
The interwebz haz several ideas, and I'm going with the first shot fired at the Battle of Concord, which began the American Revolutionary War.
Lots of steady, unrelenting rain. Half of my backyard is underwater. Winter's here.
Micki responded:
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which started WWI.
Dave in Tucson wrote:
"The shot heard around the world" was fired at Lexington at the start of
the American Revolution.
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• When Billy Crystal was attending Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, he hosted a jazz show on the campus radio station, but he ran into a problem: a severe lack of jazz records. According to Mr. Crystal, in West Virginia Roy Clark is considered a jazz musician. (Keep in mind that Mr. Crystal is a professional comedian.) To solve his problem, he wrote a letter to John Hammond, the head of Columbia Records, a music company that has recorded many great jazz records. In the letter, Mr. Crystal mentioned his father and uncle, who had both been involved in a major way in jazz. (He says that he also mentioned Roy Clark and what West Virginians thought of him.) In response, Mr. Hammond sent Mr. Crystal 50 classic Columbia jazz albums along with a catalog and an offer for Mr. Crystal to buy more jazz albums at the low price of $1 each.
• Bill Cosby sometimes does favors for friends. One of the kids he grew up with is Bootsie Barnes, who became a professional saxophone player. He played mostly in small clubs for little money, but Mr. Cosby invited him to open for him at the Jones Beach Theater on Open Island, where Bootsie was able to play for 10,000 appreciative people. In Reno, Nevada, one of Bill Cosby's friends from before he became really famous opened up a McDonald's. To help make the opening a success, Mr. Cosby showed up, wearing a red jogging outfit, and signed autographs. One little girl saw his red jogging outfit and asked, "Is that Santa Claus?" Her mother replied, "No, dear, that's Bill Cosby. He's better than Santa Claus."
• When comedian Margaret Cho was just starting out, she often was too timid to go into the green room (the place where entertainers hang out as they wait to perform - and after their performances); therefore, she would hang around outside the door. One day, the green room was empty, so Ms. Cho and some of the other newby entertainers she had met standing outside the door went in and had a seat. When she became a star, Ms. Cho invited into the green room any newby entertainers she saw timidly hanging around the door.
• While entertaining the Desert Storm troops, comedian Jay Leno used to eat military food in mess halls and tease the troops by exclaiming, "Boy! This stuff is delicious! What is this - Thanksgiving dinner? I can't believe you guys are complaining!" The soldiers responded by throwing spoons at him. They also gave him a list of people - spouses, parents, other family members, boyfriends or girlfriends - to call when he returned to the United States. Mr. Leno personally made all the calls they requested.
• As a child actor, Hector Gray had a chance to work with comedian Stan Laurel, of Laurel and Hardy fame, in England. He remembers that Mr. Laurel was very kind to the children, and he often took them - a few at a time - on trips to see sights. He was also very generous and bought them many children's books as gifts.
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• While working at Darmstadt, Rudolf Bing knew a comedian who was completely bald, but had three wigs with different lengths of hair. The comedian would wear the short-haired wig for a while, then the medium-haired wig. When he finally put on the long-haired wig, he would tell everyone he needed a haircut. Whenever the comedian began to wear the short-haired wig again, everyone complimented him on his haircut.
• When he was a youngster, Billy Crystal loved the Beatles, and he wanted to grow his hair long like the Beatles wore their hair. Therefore, when he went to the barbershop, he always asked his barber to leave his hair long in back. Unfortunately, every time he went to the barbershop, the barber cut his hair short everywhere, including in back. When Billy complained, the barber would explain, "Your mother called."
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'FBI', then a RERUN'NCIS: The 3rd One'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 10/24/19) are Steve Carell and Toby Keith.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 10/30/19) are Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton.
NBC starts the night with the chestnut 'Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas', followed by 'How To Train Your Dragon: Homecoming', then a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'Making It'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Kevin Delaney, Felicity Jones, Tomi Adeyemi, and Burna Boy.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 10/9/19) are Ted Danson, Elizabeth Olsen, and Diane Von Furstenberg.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 9/24/19) are Elizabeth McGovern, Allen Leech, and Hugh Bonneville.
ABC opens the night with the FRESH'Brad Paisley Thinks He's Special', followed by the FRESH'CMA Country Christmas'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Henry Cavill, Chris Shepherd, and Beck.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Flash', followed by a FRESH'Arrow'.
Faux has a FRESH'The Resident', followed by a FRESH'Empire'.
MY recycles an old 'Chicago PD', followed by another old 'Chicago PD'.
A&E has 'Garth Brooks: The Road I'm On' (part 1), followed by the FRESH'Garth Brooks: The Road I'm On' (part 2).
AMC offers the movie 'Fred Clause', followed by the movie 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation', then the movie 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation', again.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-Caretaker, Pt. 1
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-Caretaker, Pt. 2
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-Parallax
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-Time and Again
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-Phage
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 6-The Cloud
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 7-Eye of the Needle
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 8-Ex Post Facto
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 9-Emanations
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 10-Prime Factors
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 11-State of Flux
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 12-Heroes and Demons
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 13-Cathexis
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 14-Faces
[8:00PM] CHRISTMAS WITH THE KRANKS (2004)
[10:00PM] JACK FROST (1998)
[12:15AM] CHRISTMAS WITH THE KRANKS (2004)
[2:15AM] JACK FROST (1998)
[4:30AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 10 - EPISODE 12-The Doctor Falls (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', then another FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
FX has the movie 'Martian',, followed by the movie 'Hidden Figures'.
History has 'The Curse Of Oak Island', followed by a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island: Digging Deeper', then a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island', followed by a FRESH'Kings Of Pain'.
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[7:00A] Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
[9:30A] Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
[12:00P] Star Trek: The Motion Picture: The Director's Edition
[3:00P] Predator 2
[5:30P] Predators
[8:00P] Independence Day
[11:00P] Independence Day
[2:00A] Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
[4:30A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Pajama Party
[5:00A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Reba Eats and Pterri Runs
[5:31A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - To Tell the Tooth (ALL TIMES EST)
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[6:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:05am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:40am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:15am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:50am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:25am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:00am] Funny Face
[12:30pm] The Nutty Professor
[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] Hap and Leonard: The Two-Bear Mambo - The Two-Bear Mambo
[4:00am] Hap and Leonard: The Two-Bear Mambo - Ho-Ho Mambo
[5:00am] Hap and Leonard: The Two-Bear Mambo - T-Bone Mambo (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Harry Potter & The Order Of The Phoenix', followed by the movie 'Harry Potter & The Half Blood Price'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Jay Baruchel and Garrett Millerick.
How to handle political ads on social media has become a growing concern as the 2020 U.S. presidential election approaches.
Facebook has taken most of the heat, after refusing to remove an ad for President Trump's (R-Fabulist) reelection featuring false information about his opponent Joe Biden.
While political ads on social media do not adhere to different rules than political ads on TV, they have come under specific scrutiny because of their unique ability to disseminate - broadly and rapidly -- bad information, and the platforms' inability to properly police them.
Compared to TV, online ads can spread lies at an alarming rate -- bolstered by machine-learning algorithms that can identify target audiences at enormous speed and scale.
60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl asked Wojcicki, "Have you taken down any of President Trump's ads at all?" YouTube's CEO responded, "There are ads of President Trump that were not approved to run on Google or YouTube." When pressed for an example, Wojcicki added, "Well, they're available in our transparency report."
Two external members of the Nobel literature prize committee quit on Monday after criticizing the scandal-hit Swedish Academy.
The 233-year-old Academy was forced to introduce several new measures after a sex scandal involving the husband of a former member escalated into a bitter row that meant it had to postpone the award for 2018.
External members were added to assist the Nobel committee in choosing prize candidates for the Academy to vote on.
Author Kristoffer Leandoer said he was leaving because he had "neither the patience nor the time" to wait for the committee to complete its reforms.
Leandoer said his decision was not linked to the decision to award the 2019 prize to controversial Austrian writer Peter Handke, for which the Academy has received criticism both domestically and internationally.
If you want to feel super old, here's some news: Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill turns 25 in 2020. But it's time to dig out your '90s tour T-shirts: Like an edgier Lilith Fair, Morissette's tour will also feature fellow alt-rock stars from that era, openers Garbage and Liz Phair.
Rolling Stone reports that next year will also include a new album for Morissette, her first since 2012's Havoc And Bright Lights. Her ninth studio album Such Pretty Forks In The Road will be released on May 1. Today she also releases that album's lead single: "Reasons I Drink," a catchy anthem to self-medication, rhapsodizing that "I feel such rapture and my comfort is so strong" post drink, drug, eating, or shopping "to survive this sick industry" that she's heading into once again.
The jam-packed tour includes 31 North American tour dates in two months. Pre-sales will begin Tuesday, December 10 at 11:00 a.m. local time, with general on-sale open on Friday, December 13 at 11:00 a.m. local time, in case you're still looking for a holiday gift for that aging Riot Grrrl on your list.
The news that comedian Pete Davidson is demanding that fans sign a $1 million NDA to attend his comedy shows has received widespread ridicule and attention. But even if his groupies violate the rules of the agreement, the "Saturday Night Live" star might not legally be able to prove that they owe him such a large sum of amount.
"I personally haven't seen one as high as $1 million in a long time," says attorney-at-law Ricardo P. Cestero of Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP, who practices in Los Angeles. He notes there have been a few exceptions. "I've seen $1 million in liquidated damages in NDAs for reality shows where the production company doesn't want the results released before it airs." For Davidson, a "$1 million provision will be hard to enforce," Cestero added.
Cestero elaborated on the taxing legal logistics that Davidson would have to bring forth to a judge if he decides to sue a fan for divulging the contents of his comedy show.
"It would be hard for Pete Davidson to establish that he and the people attending show reasonably anticipated $1 million in damages," Cestero said. "It's just a number to scare people away from breaching. Now, that wouldn't make entire agreement unenforceable, it would simply mean that Davidson is going to actually have to prove the harm that's actually suffered from whatever post is in violation. The agreement is enforceable, but I would be surprised if the court would award the million dollars in liquidated damages."
Cestero said comedians often use NDAs to keep their jokes from overexposure, and that it is entirely possible that Davidson is hyperaware of social media, hence the agreement.
The chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Monday joined several Democratic senators in urging the cancellation of an auction of wireless spectrum used by U.S. law enforcement agencies because of the costs and difficulty of moving them to alternatives.
Congress in 2012 ordered the sale by 2021 of the T-Band wireless spectrum used by police and firefighters in major U.S. cities, as well as refineries and utilities, as part of a tax bill.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said Monday the agency "has extensively analyzed the T-Band and concluded that moving forward is not viable - relocation costs for public safety licensees would likely far exceed any potential auction revenue, making it impossible to fund the relocation...."
Democratic Senators Edward Markey, Charles Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand and Robert Casey introduced legislation on Oct. 30 to rescind the auction.
In June, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study said it would cost between $5 billion and $6 billion to move users to other bands of spectrum and warned alternative bands of spectrum for many public safety users are limited or nonexistent.
When workers with a whale strandings agency in Scotland performed a necropsy on a recently beached sperm whale, they found a gruesome surprise: The animal had died with around 220 lbs. (100 kilograms) of trash in its stomach.
The young male sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) washed ashore on Nov. 28 at Luskentyre beach in Scotland's Outer Hebrides islands. It died shortly thereafter, a representative with the Scottish Marine Animal Strandings Scheme (SMASS), part of the Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme at Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) in Aberdeen, wrote on Facebook on Dec. 1.
Fishing nets, rope bundles, tubes and an assortment of plastic garbage formed a compact mass - a so-called litter ball - inside the 20-ton whale, "and some of it it looked like it had been there for some time," according to the post.
Because whales' skin and blubber insulate them so effectively, bacteria inside a whale corpse can multiply quickly even when air temperatures are low. As the bacteria help to decompose the remains, they produce gases that then build up pressure inside the body, and the sperm whale on the Scottish beach was no exception - it "sort of exploded" upon investigation, according to the Facebook post.
"By the time we got to it, [it] had been dead for 48 hours and pretty much most of the guts blew out of the side when we stuck a knife in it," an SMASS representative wrote.
Russia is to set up a new online site for its national encyclopedia after President Vladimir Putin said Wikipedia was unreliable and should be replaced.
The move will ensure people can find "reliable information that is constantly updated on the basis of scientifically verified sources of knowledge," a government resolution said.
Putin last month proposed replacing the crowd-sourced online encyclopedia Wikipedia with an electronic version of the Great Russian Encyclopaedia - the successor to the Soviet Union's main encyclopedia.
The Great Russian Encyclopaedia is already available in a basic electronic format.
The famed Belgian Carnival town of Aalst wants to renounce its place on the U.N. cultural heritage list, saying it is sick of widespread complaints that this spring's edition contained blatant anti-Semitism.
Town officials say the float objected to, with stereotypical depictions of hook-nosed Jews sitting on piles of money, was trying to make a joke and they contend no one should try to muzzle humor of any kind during the three-day Carnival.
Aalst mayor Christoph D'Haese said Sunday that city officials "have had it a bit with the grotesque complaints and Aalst will renounce its UNESCO recognition."
UNESCO, Jewish groups and the European Union have condemned the float as anti-Semitic, with the EU saying it conjured up visions of the 1930s.
Aalst is one of Europe's most famous Carnivals and it is a celebration of unbridled, no-holds-barred humor and satire. Politicians, religious leaders and the rich and famous are relentlessly ridiculed during the three-day festival ahead of Roman Catholic Lent.
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