'Best of TBH Politoons'
CELEBRATES YEAR OF RELEASES
DJ CLIVE$TER
By DJ Useo 
88 singles,mixes,& remixes later, a year has
passed for Austrian Online Artist DJ Clive$ter.Tracks
like "Follow me (Revisited)" & "Ode To Louisiana"
have been much-played by Online radio shows & mp3
browsers alike. Interested Bootleg fans have come to
enjoy the splendid & regular releases.
From his website
www.clivester.multiply.com the talented
producer has crafted tracks with hip hop, Pop-rock &
enough other styles to induce a large following on the
web. Videos have accumulated through the
creatively-lucrative year-that-was with "Check Up On
The Time Warp", "Mega-Blast Of Dragula",& "Pump Up
The Convoy" giving much pleasure to many.
6 volumes of singles have been issued &
absorbed so far.In addition,9 longer pieces in his
"60 Minute" series have been issued to wide acclaim.
The hour series - each in a varying genre - Reggae,
Mashups, House & others,are finestkind examples of
the best in each field.Needless to say, mixing on
them is among the best.No novice to production, he's
brought much depth & energy to his sound.
Recently thrown into the mix is a weekly online
radio show featuring the latest & hottest bootleg
tracks from an international array of like-minded
DJ's.Tune in to
www.myclubbingspace.com on
Saturdays for the boots that bite the ears you like.
As Neckice said "88 F-in works!!!!!!!! you are like
lightnin'! Glad to have all these in my Clivester
file!
Give me some feedback at DJ Clive$ter
Freshly Updated!
Dick Eats Bush
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
E&P Staff: A First? All 7 'NYT' Columnists -- From Left to Right --Agree on Something (The 'Surge') (editorandpublisher.com)
With Paul Krugman ... hitting President Bush's plan to dramatically increase U.S. troop levels in Iraq -- which he labels a "surge" but others call an escalation-- this completes perhaps a first: All seven regular opinion columnists at the paper (Krugman, David Brooks, Thomas Friedman, Maureen Dowd, Nicholas Kristof, Bob Herbert and Frank Rich) are in agreement on a vital issue.
Paul Kiel: FL-13: Dem Sends Shot across The Bow (tpmmuckraker.com)
If there was any doubts as to whether Democrats would take a hands-on approach to the election dispute in Florida's 13th District, Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-CA) resolved them late last week.
Lauren Dunn: Five Minutes With: David Kuo (campusprogress.org)
Q: What issues do you think should be at the top of the agenda today?
A: I think it's easy today. Let's start with genocide. We can all reach the conclusion that genocide is bad and should be stopped. If we can't agree on stopping genocide in Darfur, why the hell are we talking about anything else? If we can't have massive outrage and a massive call to stop what is happening in Darfur, why is anybody in politics today?
Ernest Waititu: Web site allows students to comment on ... professors (athensnews.com)
Comments about professors by students on the Web site, www.ratemyprofessor.com, range from the good to the nasty to the exceedingly hilarious. "Instant amnesia walking into this class. I swear he breathes sleeping gas," writes one student to other prospective students about a dull professor he had taken a class with (not at Ohio University). "Bring a pillow," adds another. "Your pillow will need a pillow," posts a third student.
Rate My Professors: Funniest Ratings
* You can't cheat in her class because no one knows the answers.
* His class was like milk, it was good for 2 weeks.
* Houston, we have a problem. Space cadet of a teacher, isn't quite attached to earth.
* I would have been better off using the tuition money to heat my apartment last winter.
* Three of my friends got A's in his class and my friends are dumb.
Jim Phillips: Cartoonist specializes in 'heightened moments of terribleness' (athensnews.com)
When I spoke with cartoonist Nicholas Gurewitch by phone Friday, I think I half-expected him to be at least a little bit snide and alienated.
Seth Stevenson: A "Television for Men and Women." Huh? (slate.com)
Sony's convoluted Bravia ad.
Portrait of the artist: Neil LaBute, writer/director (guardian.co.uk)
'Critics are the greatest threat to art today. Criticism has become bastardised'
David Bruce: Wise Up: Dance (athensnews.com)
* In 1975 at the Kirov Theater, Ludmila Lopukhova had the misfortune to fall on stage while dancing in Yuri Grigorovitch's "Legend of Love." She recovered quickly and finished the dance, but as she exited, the director of the Kirov, Igor Belsky, said, "What a catastrophe!" Ms. Lopukhova calmly replied, "Who does not fall will never learn to fly."
Reader Comment
Republicans' Alternate Reality
Hello -
I didn't see Boehner speak this quote, but wonder what the context was - a
rare moment of candor or just some republican alternate reality.
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Another hot, sunny, dry summer-like day in January.
Worst Dressed List
Mr. Blackwell
Pop star Britney Spears and hotel heiress Paris Hilton, dubbed the "Screamgirls" by Mr. Blackwell, landed at the top of the former designer's annual worst dressed list on Tuesday.
In Blackwell's 47th annual report, Camilla Parker-Bowles, wife of Britain's future king, Britain's Prince Charles, placed an ignominious second as the "duchess of dowdy" and a "royal wreck" because of her penchant for feathered hats.
Blackwell put "Freaky Friday" actress Lindsay Lohan in third place, calling her "tragically trapped in fashion's fast lane."
Singers Christina Aguilera ("all crass, no class") and Mariah Carey ("queen of catastrophic kitsch") came in fourth and fifth.
"American Idol" judge Paula Abdul, and actresses Sharon Stone, Tori Spelling and Sandra Oh, were also deemed fashion fiascoes, while Blackwell said Meryl Streep's wardrobe made him want to weep.
Mr. Blackwell
Trading Appearances
O'Really & Colbert
It may feel like looking into the mirror for Bill O'Reilly and Stephen Colbert next week.
The Fox News Channel host and Colbert, who has essentially based his comic character every evening on Comedy Central on him, will trade appearances on each other's programs Jan. 18.
"I'm really looking forward to speaking to a man who owes his entire career to me," O'Reilly said.
"I look forward to the evening," Colbert said. "It is an honor to speak face-to-face with a broadcasting legend, and I feel the same way about Mr. O'Reilly."
O'Really & Colbert
Nobel Laureate On Milan's Catwalk
Dario Fo
Dario Fo, the Nobel literature laureate known for his irreverent satirical plays, is to appear on Milan's catwalk next week, twinning fashion with art.
Fo, who at 80 ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Milan in May, is to introduce the men's fashion show of the Romeo Gigli brand on January 18 with a short theatrical performance.
He will strut the catwalk surrounded by life-sized reproductions of Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna's "Triumph of Caesar" paintings, whose colors match the Italian fashion house's new collection, and discuss the role of fashion.
Dario Fo
Disney Loves Rabies Radio
Glenn Beck
CNN Headline News and radio talk-show host Glenn Beck will join ABC's "Good Morning America" as a regular commentator, ABC News said Tuesday.
Beck's radio show can be heard on 232 radio stations and XM satellite radio, and his television offshoot has boosted the ratings for CNN Headline News, where it airs twice each evening.
"Glenn is a leading cultural commentator with a distinct voice," said Jim Murphy, senior executive producer of "Good Morning America." "At times, he is the perfect guest for many of the talk propaganda topics we cover on morning news programs."
Glenn Beck
Disney's Love For Hate Radio
Spocko
The mainstream media have yet to report on the story of a blogger whose website was shut down after he began spotlighting inflammatory rhetoric common to several talk radio hosts on KSFO, an ABC Radio-owned station in San Francisco.
In 2006, a blogger named Spocko began spotlighting inflammatory rhetoric common to several talk radio hosts on KSFO, an ABC Radio-owned station in San Francisco. Spocko compiled a litany of examples on both his weblog, Spocko's Brain, and in numerous letters to corporations advertising on KSFO. He noted that KSFO hosts had claimed to have put "a bull's-eye" on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), advocated hanging various New York Times editors, called for the murder of millions of Muslims, and so on. This letter-writing campaign apparently got results, as major advertisers such as MasterCard, Bank of America, and Visa reportedly pulled their ads from the station. But as numerous blogs have noted in recent days, on December 21, ABC Inc., a subsidiary of the Disney-ABC Television Group, apparently issued a cease-and-desist letter targeting Spocko and his blog for copyright violation. Specifically, ABC alleged that by posting brief audio clips of various talk radio hosts on KSFO, the site was "in clear violation" of the station's copyright. The letter demanded that the owner of the site "remove the content immediately." Soon after, according to Spocko, his Internet service provider shut down his blog.
But while this story has received widespread coverage in the blogosphere, the mainstream media have yet to report on it.
Spocko
Wedding News
Shaffer - Cumming
Alan Cumming married illustrator Grant Shaffer in a civil ceremony outside London over the weekend, the actor's spokeswoman, Bianca Bianconi, said Tuesday.
"Not only are we so happy to be able to celebrate our love for each other, but also to be able to do it in a country that properly recognizes the rights of same sex couples," Cumming, 41, said in a statement released by Bianconi.
"As residents of America we would have loved to marry there, but we hope that soon the civil rights that we have been afforded in the U.K. will be available to all gay Americans, and we look forward to celebrating not only our marriage, but the end of prejudice."
The couple, who had been dating two years, were married Sunday at the Old Royal Naval College in the town of Greenwich, Bianconi said. Among the 140 guests were Ian McKellen, Geri Halliwell, Rufus Wainwright, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Monica Lewinsky.
Shaffer - Cumming
New Stamp Honors
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald - the First Lady of Song - is being honored on a new postage stamp.
The 39-cent stamp will be released Wednesday at ceremonies at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, and will be on sale across the country. It's the 30th stamp in the agency's Black Heritage series.
"She would be very honored, very pleased and a little surprised," said Ray Brown Jr., Fitzgerald's son. "She didn't go through life expecting all the accolades that she got. She was just happy to do her thing and be the best that she could be."
Ella Fitzgerald
'Charlie's Angels' Case Dismissed
Robert Wagner
Veteran actor Robert Wagner's claim for millions of dollars in profits from the "Charlie's Angels" movies was rejected by a Los Angeles appeals court.
Wagner had claimed he was entitled to a share of the proceeds from 2000's "Charlie's Angels" and 2003's "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" on the grounds he had helped develop the 1970s television show on which they were based.
Wagner's lawsuit had argued that he was eligible for a share of the profits because the films were exploitations of the television series he and his late-wife Natalie Wood had helped to develop.
Robert Wagner
$83 Million Stock Bonus
Howard Stern
Sirius Satellite Radio paid shock jock Howard Stern a bonus worth nearly $83 million on Tuesday for surpassing subscriber goals set in a 2004 contract that had already turned heads with its $500 million compensation package.
The freewheeling and ribald Stern joined Sirius one year ago, jumping from the FM dial where he rose to become one of radio's biggest stars but frequently bridled at government indecency regulations and ties with his corporate bosses.
At the time, analysts had forecast the company would grow to about 3.5 million subscribers by the end of 2006. Sirius and Stern agreed to an added bonus in the event that the number of subscribers exceeded that forecast by more than 2 million.
Last week, the company reported that it ended 2006 with more than 6 million subscribers, at the middle of a forecast range made in December, triggering the bonus payment of about 22.1 million shares. Sirius closed at $3.76 on Tuesday.
Howard Stern
Er Ist Ein Deutscher
SpongeBob
Soon children will be able to meet SpongeBob SquarePants in his own world rather than just watching the yellow sea sponge cartoon character on television.
Nickelodeon, the children's multi-media entertainment brand owned by Viacom Inc, has agreed a deal to set up a 15,000 square-meter adventure park in Germany where its most popular characters will be brought to life.
"Nickland" will be situated at Movie Park Germany, close to Dortmund in western Germany, and is set to open in April, Nickelodeon and Movie Park Germany said in a statement on Tuesday.
SpongeBob
Storage Auction
Whitney Houston
Designer costumes worn by Whitney Houston hit the auction block Tuesday, along with some castoffs typically seen on the curb after a yard sale: water-damaged vinyl records and a battered coffee maker.
Those items and 400 other lots were being sold because the Grammy-winning singer, 43, had fallen about $175,000 behind on storage fees for several tons of concert gear, including speakers and amplifiers, used on her 1999 tour.
Any money earned beyond what is owed for storage will go to Houston's company, Nippy Inc., said Jeffrey Campisi, a lawyer for Speed of Sound, which has been tending to the items.
Whitney Houston
Zoo Puts Human Apes On Display
Australia
An Australian zoo has put a group of humans on display to raise awareness about primate conservation -- with the proviso that they don't get up to any monkey business.
Over a month, the humans will be locked in an unused orangutan cage at Adelaide zoo, braving the searing heat and snacking on bananas. They will be monitored by a psychologist who hopes to use the findings to improve conditions for real apes in captivity.
Audiences can vote for their favourite "ape" via mobile phone text messages, in the style of reality television shows, and at the end of the month, a "super human" will be selected to represent the zoo.
Australia
Finally Hibernate
Insomniac Russian Bears
Russian bears at Moscow Zoo have finally dropped off into their hibernation slumber despite months of insomnia caused by a record mild start to winter, zoo officials said on Tuesday.
Russia's arctic winters, which scuttled the occupation plans of both Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler, came to an end this year in European Russia with no snow and temperatures so warm that bears were left pacing around and unable to sleep.
"The bears have finally fallen asleep and they have not woken up yet," Natalia Istratova, a spokeswoman for Moscow Zoo, said by telephone.
Insomniac Russian Bears
Seeds Reflect Survival Efforts
Jamestown
Seeds and plant remains preserved in a well at America's first permanent English settlement suggest the Jamestown colonists were not just gentlemen with few wilderness survival skills, as they are often portrayed, but tried to live off the land by gathering berries and nuts.
At least one tobacco seed, possibly representing the earliest known evidence of the cultivation at Jamestown of the cash crop that helped the settlement survive financially, was also discovered among samples from the 17th-century well.
While more research needs to be done elsewhere at Jamestown, the lack of plant material from Europe in this well suggests the settlers adapted to the environment by using local food resources as they learned what was edible from their contact with Indians.
Jamestown
Spearheads Giant Banana Project
Cesar Saez
Why not release a giant banana in Mexico so it can fly over Texas? That's a Montreal artist's reason for releasing a 985-foot banana-shaped airship into the sky late next year.
The helium-filled balloon, made of bamboo and synthetic paper, is expected to float from Mexico into Texas airspace, where it will circle for up to a month, The Globe and Mail newspaper reported.
Artist Cesar Saez - who was born in Argentina, but now lives in Montreal - said it is up to individual viewers to interpret his art, according to the report.
Cesar Saez
Nielsen's Top-20
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for Jan. 1-7. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.
1. (X) NFL Playoffs: Dallas at Seattle, NBC, 26.77 million viewers.
2. (3) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 26.12 million viewers.
3. (X) "NFL Pre-Game Show," NBC, 20.29 million viewers.
4. (2) "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 18.71 million viewers.
5. (X) "NFL Post-Game Show," Fox, 16.8 million viewers.
6. (21) "Law & Order: SVU," NBC, 15.17 million viewers.
7. (X) College Football: Notre Dame vs. LSU, Fox, 14.417 million viewers.
8. (21) "Shark," CBS, 14.416 million viewers.
9. (12) "Without a Trace," CBS, 14.19 million viewers.
10. (15) "Cold Case," CBS, 14.12 million viewers.
11. (X) College Football: Boise St. vs. Oklahoma, Fox, 13.78 million viewers.
12. (23) "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," ABC, 13.42 million viewers.
13. (37) "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," NBC, 13.38 million viewers.
14. (15) "NCIS," CBS, 13.05 million.
15. (X) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," (Thursday, 8 p.m.), CBS, 13.02 million viewers.
16. (35) "Numb3rs," CBS, 12.35 million viewers.
17. (6) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 12.15 million viewers.
18. (X) "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 12.1 million viewers.
19. (9) "Criminal Minds," CBS, 11.96 million viewers.
20. (24) "Brothers & Sisters," ABC, 11.87 million viewers.
Ratings
In Memory
Iwao Takamoto
In a career that spanned more than six decades, Iwao Takamoto assisted in the designs of some of the biggest animated features and television shows, including "Cinderella," "Peter Pan," "Lady and the Tramp" and "The Flintstones."
But it was Takamoto's creation of Scooby-Doo, the cowardly dog with an adventurous heart, that captivated audiences and endured for generations.
Takamoto died Monday of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Warner Bros. spokesman Gary Miereanu said. He was 81.
Born in Los Angeles to parents who had emigrated from Japan, Takamoto graduated high school when World War II began. He and his family were sent to the Manzanar internment camp in the California desert, where he learned the art of illustration from fellow internees.
Despite a lack of formal training, he landed an interview with Walt Disney Studios when he returned to Los Angeles and was hired as an apprentice.
Takamoto worked under the tutelage of Disney's "nine old men," the studio's team of legendary animators responsible for its biggest full-length films before moving to Hanna-Barbera Studios in 1961. There he worked on cartoons for television, including "Josie and the Pussy Cats," "The Great Grape Ape Show," "Harlem Globe Trotters" and "The Secret Squirrel Show."
Takamoto also created other famous cartoon dogs such as Astro from "The Jetsons" and Muttley, the mixed-breed that appeared in several Hanna-Barbera animations. He also directed the 1973 feature "Charlotte's Web."
Takamoto was survived by his wife, Barbara, son Michael and stepdaughter Leslie.
Iwao Takamoto
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