M Is FOR MASHUP - March 2nd, 2011
The Bootlegging Kings
By DJ Useo
The Bootlegging Kings
(sung to the tune of 'My Favorite Things'.)
By DJ Petrushka
Glitching in Pellas and looping with mentals,
Hot 'lectro basslines and some incidentals,
explicit samples paired with violin strings,
Mixed by a few of the bootlegging kings.
Ace of Clubs, Aggro1, Bobby Martini,
Colatron, Copycat, Loo and Placido,
Dunproofin, Lobsterdust, mixing all night,
Forever displaying their ableton might.
Gaga on White Stripes makes excellent mashes,
Snoopdogg that raps on my U2 sure splashes,
Eminem vocals that swear over strings,
mashed by a few of the bootlegging kings.
Frog the Dawg bites,
Mighty Mike stings,
when I hit download,
I play all their mashes upon my ipod,
Gave to me by a Gyyyy-bo mod.
[Repeat all verses that you liked]
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DJ Useo here now. I want to offer DJ Petrushka my thanks for accepting my offer to compose
a mashup version of the famous Rodgers & Hammerstein 'My Favorite Things' tune.
She is one wicked wordsmith & might consider writing a poem for other commissions.
Her email is patty7354@yahoo.com <>
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Sandy Banks: A life ends, but lessons will live on (Los Angeles Times)
A beloved relative is gone, but her gritty, loving spirit endures.
Steve Lopez: Union job paid for an education that paid off (Los Angeles Times)
I've been thinking lately about the union job that paid for my college degree. First, because attacking unions has become a national sport. And second, because I've been notified by San Jose State that the school wants to give me an honorary doctorate.
George Skelton: Searching for brave Republicans (Los Angeles Times)
In refusing to be part of the solution, the party could hurt itself as well as California.
Jim Hightower: BILLIONAIRE BULLIES
Not all of the bullies are in schoolyards these days - quite a few have graduated to the executive suites of Corporate America.
Paul Krugman's Blog: The Truth About Pensions (New York Times)
Dean Baker has a deeply enlightening analysis of state pension shortfalls (pdf), containing a lot of stuff I didn't know.
Paul Krugman's Blog: That Iraq Feeling (New York Times)
I don't watch cable news, or actually any kind of TV news. But I gather that there's a virtual blackout on the huge demonstrations in Wisconsin, except on Fox, which portrays them as thuggish and violent.
Charlie Brooker: I don't hate Macs, but they do give me a syncing feeling (Guardian)
They make you feel good, Apple products - until you try to do something they don't want you to do.
Roger Ebert's Journal: You Can Draw, and Probably Better Than I Can
In the early 1980s I met a laughter therapist named Annette Goodheart who told me I could draw. She was at the conference in Boulder to speak on laughter therapy, a subject she took very seriously indeed, and lectured about how we could be healthier in mind and spirit if we laughed more.
John Paul Newport: If Keith Richards Played Golf... (Wall Street Journal)
The aging rocker's thoughts on playing guitar mimic what Fred Couples, now 51, says about his game.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Family (Athens News)
When Derek Jeter and his sister, Sharlee, were growing up, their parents made them sign a handwritten contract that contained such things as their curfew, the grades they were expected to get, the chores they were expected to do around the house - and a promise to stay away from drugs and alcohol. Sharlee says, "I always tried to negotiate, but Derek just sat there and nodded. It was hard having this older brother who did everything he was supposed to do."
David Bruce has 41 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $41 you can buy 10,250 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," and "Maximum Cool."
Hubert's Poetry Corner
"Murder for the Presidency?"
wrote:
said:
From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'
Reader Suggestions
Michelle in AZ
Reader Recommendation
'some guy'
wisc. recall election on the horizon?
Thanks, guy!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny and a bit warmer.
Tops Watson
Rush Holt
Turns out all it took to top Watson, the "Jeopardy"-winning computer, was a rocket scientist.
U.S. Rep. Rush Holt of New Jersey is just such a scientist.
The success of Holt - a five-time champion during the trivia show's original run 35 years ago - topped the IBM computer Monday night in a "Jeopardy" exhibition match of congressmen vs. machine held at a Washington hotel.
Holt, a Democrat from the Princeton area, built a lead in categories including "Presidential Rhyme Time," in which the correct response to "Herbert's military strategy" was "Hoover's maneuvers." The congressman also correctly identified hippophobia as the fear of horses.
Holt played the first round along with Rep. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican. At the end of the round, Holt had earned $8,600 to Watson's $6,200.
Rush Holt
New Motion Picture Association Lobbyist
Christopher Dodd
Former senator Christopher Dodd, a veteran Democrat who spent his last years in the Senate pushing through a major financial reform law, will become the new chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America.
Dodd, a failed presidential candidate who finished five terms as a senator in January, will take up his role as the high-profile head lobbyist of the MPAA on March 17, the organization said on Tuesday in a statement.
The MPAA represents Hollywood's major film and television studios in government and business affairs, and for decades the job of CEO has been among the most coveted among federal lobbyists for its close ties to the media industry.
Dodd, who was also active in health care reform legislation and a top member of the foreign relations committee in the Senate, fills a spot vacated last year by Dan Glickman when he becomes chairman and chief executive officer of MPAA.
Christopher Dodd
Judge Rules Against League
NFL
The NFL breached its agreement with the league's players' union when it negotiated new television deals a federal judge ruled on Tuesday, a decision that could impact on an eventual lockout.
The union had argued that the structure of the NFL's contracts with television partners was designed to give it a $4 billion stockpile of cash to help it through any lockout.
The current Collective Bargaining Agreement between the league and the union (NFLPA) expires on Thursday.
U.S. District Court Judge David Doty agreed the deals had breached parts of the CBA and ordered that a hearing should be held to consider damages to be paid to the union and any injunction on use of the resources.
"This ruling means there is irrefutable evidence that owners had a premeditated plan to lock out players and fans for more than two years," the NFLPA said in a statement.
NFL
Formal Presentation
National Medal of Arts
Actress Meryl Streep, singer-songwriter James Taylor and author Joyce Carol Oates are among the cultural luminaries named on Tuesday as recipients of prestigious White House awards for the arts and humanities.
President Barack Obama is slated to formally present the 2010 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal to 20 honorees -- 10 recipients for each -- in a ceremony at the East Room of the White House on Wednesday.
Besides Streep, the Oscar-celebrated film actress, and Taylor, the Grammy-toasted recording star, the latest Medal of Arts winners include composer and producer Quincy Jones, jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins and author Harper Lee, whose literary classic "To Kill a Mockingbird" earned a Pulitzer Prize.
Other 2010 arts medalists were: playwright-producer Robert Brustein; pianist Van Cliburn; abstract expressionist sculptor Mark di Suvero; poet Donald Hall and the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.
Rounding out the list of humanities medalists were librarian Daniel Aaron, cultural historian Jacques Barzun; writer Wendell E. Berry; Hispanic literary scholar Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria; biographer and literary critic Arnold Rampersad; and Stanley Nider Katz, longtime president of the American Council of Learned Societies.
National Medal of Arts
NY Times Leaves
Frank Rich
Frank Rich, a prominent New York Times op-ed columnist and former chief theater critic, is leaving the newspaper to work for New York magazine, the Times said on its Web site on Tuesday.
Rich, who became well known during a 30-year career at the Times first for his acerbic theater reviews and later for unapologetically liberal-leaning op-ed columns, will write a monthly column for the Manhattan-based weekly, and also serve as editor-at-large for a new section built around the column.
"There is no greater newspaper than the Times," Rich said in a memo the Times sent to staff announcing his departure.
But Rich said a year's worth of reflection and consultation with friends and colleagues convinced him that New York would afford the opportunity "to write with more reflection, variety and space than is possible within the confines of a weekly newspaper column."
Frank Rich
Musicians Offer To Return Without Contract
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
The striking musicians of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra say they will return to work without a contract in an effort to end a nearly five-month walkout.
Musicians' spokesman Karl Pituch said Tuesday that they're offering to submit unresolved contract issues to binding arbitration and play while those issues are resolved. He says musicians and management would need to negotiate terms of that return.
A message seeking comment was left with orchestra spokeswoman Elizabeth Weigandt. She earlier said that an announcement by the musicians about a possible return was "an encouraging development" but that management couldn't respond until it had all of the details.
Musicians walked off the job Oct. 4. Management suspended the remainder of the season Feb. 19 after musicians rejected what management described as a "final offer."
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
New Inductees
Country Hall of Fame
Singer Reba McEntire, who has had a string of No. 1 hits for the past three decades, is among three country singers and musicians who will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Country Music Association said on Tuesday.
McEntire, who has 35 No. 1 country music singles and has sold 55 million albums worldwide, is recognized in the "Modern Era Artist" category. She will be honored along with songwriter and producer Bobby Braddock and honky tonk singer-songwriter Jean Shepard.
The three new nominees increase the membership in the Country Music Hall of Fame from 112 to 115 inductees. Ceremonies for Braddock, Reba, and Shepard will take place at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville later this year.
Shepard, 77, who influenced singers such as Dolly Parton, broke ground as one of the first female country stars who had dozens of hits for three decades, including her 1953 duet with Ferlin Husky called "A Dear John Letter".
Braddock becomes the first inductee in the new songwriter category, which will be awarded every third year, rotating with "Touring musician" and "Nonperformer" categories.
Country Hall of Fame
Spent Night In The Cooler
Christina Aguilera
Authorities say Christina Aguilera's boyfriend has been released from jail, hours after he was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and the singer was taken to a West Hollywood jail until she sobered up.
Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore says 25-year-old Matthew Rutler was stopped near the Sunset Strip after he burned rubber and fishtailed onto a street Tuesday morning with Aguilera in the car.
Whitmore says Rutler's blood-alcohol content was 0.09 percent - just slightly above the legal limit. He was freed after posting $5,000 bail.
Aguilera was freed earlier. She was arrested on suspicion of being publicly drunk, but Whitmore says it was out of concern for her safety and she won't be prosecuted.
Christina Aguilera
Dior Shit-Cans Bigot
John Galliano
French fashion house Christian Dior fired its star designer John Galliano on Tuesday after an online video clip circulated around the world showing him hurling anti-Semitic abuse at people in a Paris bar.
Dior Chief Executive Sidney Toledano said the "odious nature" of Galliano's comments and behavior on the video led Dior to relieve Galliano of his duties after 15 years as the label's chief designer and just three days before Dior's catwalk show at Paris Fashion Week.
The snowballing sequence of events surrounding Galliano's departure included an unheard of practically Dior-free Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday and prompted Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman -- who has a deal to promote Dior perfume -- to voice her disgust with the British designer in a formal statement late on Monday.
The saga started on Thursday evening when Paris police said they had been called to La Perle bar in the trendy Marais district where they encountered an inebriated Galliano delivering a torrent of abuse to a couple on the bar's terrace.
Dior suspended Galliano on Friday and another similar complaint, dating back to a separate incident in the same bar in October, was subsequently made to the police. On Monday the video surfaced on the Web site of Britain's Sun tabloid.
John Galliano
Sues Star Magazine
Katie Holmes
Katie Holmes has sued publishers of Star Magazine for libel over a magazine cover that insinuated she was a drug addict.
Her attorney, Bert Fields, says in a statement that that the January cover that featured the headline "Katie DRUG SHOCKER!" was not supported by the actual story inside the magazine. He called the cover, which featured a disheveled photo of Holmes, "untrue, unethical and unlawful."
Holmes says in a statement that Star, which is published by American Media Inc., knew the story was false and published it to sell magazines.
The magazine says in a statement it is standing by its story, which it says raises significant concerns about Scientology practices.
Katie Holmes
Farm Troubles
Roseanne Barr
Hawaii County says illegal work was done to move dirt on comedian Roseanne Barr's 46-acre macadamia nut farm.
The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reported Tuesday the county sent a letter dated Feb. 24 to Barr's Big Buck Land Trust in Encino, Calif., instructing the trust to submit a completed grading permit application.
County public works engineer Kelly Gomes told the newspaper a grading permit is required to move more than 100 cubic yards of earth.
Neighbor Roree Oehlman says all-terrain vehicle trails have been bulldozed on Barr's property in Honokaa. Oehlman filed a complaint about the work "in the interest of public safety."
Roseanne Barr
Book Deal
Bristol Palin
It's official: Bristol Palin (R-Opportunist) has a book deal.
The daughter of former half-term Alaska governor Sarah Palin (R-High Maintenance) has signed with William Morrow to publish "Not Afraid of Life," to come out this summer. Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, announced Tuesday that the memoir would provide "an inside look at her life."
Bristol Palin (R-Hypocrite For Hire), 20, has become a "celebrity" in her own right, through her broken relationship with her child's father, Levi Johnston, and through her time as a contestant on the totally unrigged (cough, cough) "Dancing With the Stars."
Bristol Palin
Legionella Bacteria Found
Playboy Mansion
Health officials investigating a respiratory illness that infected some 200 people after a party at the Playboy Mansion said on Tuesday they had found the bacteria that causes Legionnaires disease in a water source there.
But the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said it was still unclear if the Legionella bacteria, commonly found in wet environments, were responsible for the outbreak of infection.
"We are still considering several possible causes of illness," Dr. Jonathan Fielding, the department's director, said in a written statement.
The health department said that about 200 people reported becoming sick with fever, chills, coughs and general malaise after a social event at the Playboy Mansion on the last day of the DOMAINfest internet investment conference in February.
Playboy Mansion
London Council Confiscates
'Baby Gaga'
A London council has confiscated supplies of breast milk ice cream from a specialist parlour which launched the new flavour in the capital last week on concerns the frozen treat may spread viruses.
Westminster Council said it had visited the Icecreamists restaurant in London's Covent Garden and removed all ice cream containing breast milk for testing after being contacted by members of the public and the Food Standards Agency.
"Selling foodstuffs made from another person's bodily fluids can lead to viruses being passed on and in this case, potentially hepatitis," Brian Connell, Westminster Council's cabinet member for business, said on Tuesday.
He added that the owner had agreed to cease making and serving the ice cream while it was being tested.
Matt O'Connor, founder of the restaurant where the "Baby Gaga" ice cream made from breast milk, Madagascan vanilla pods and lemon zest was launched on Friday, dismissed the concerns, saying they were "complete rubbish."
'Baby Gaga'
Maine Vs. Pa
Whoopie Pie
It consists of two round, textbook-thick, palm-sized chocolate cakes that sandwich a creamy vanilla filling to create one sinfully rich snack. It's the whoopie pie, a snack so beloved that residents in two states have cooked up a good-natured tug of war over which place is its rightful home - Maine or Pennsylvania?
A state legislator in Maine whipped up passions when he introduced a bill in January to make the whoopie pie Maine's official state dessert. Like a group of chefs tweaking a recipe, a legislative committee has since dropped "dessert" in favor of making the snack Maine's official "treat."
No matter - residents in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County say that's just baloney. Those round mounds of cakey goodness originated from kitchens of the area's Amish families, dating back generations, they say.
Maine state Rep. Paul Davis got things brewing with a bill to laud the whoopie pie. Davis got the idea from speaking with people at the Maine Whoopie Pie Festival, which last year attracted 4,000 visitors to Dover-Foxcroft, part of Davis' district.
Word of Davis' bill reached the Pennsylvania Dutch Convention and Visitors Bureau in Lancaster, and organizers there decided to answer back. They touted a web site - www.saveourwhoopie.com - that likened Maine's actions to "confectionary larceny."
Whoopie Pie
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for Feb. 21-27. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "Academy Awards," ABC, 37.92 million.
2. "Oscar's Red Carpet Live, Part 3," ABC, 26.61.
3. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 22.72 million.
4. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 21.76 million.
5. "NCIS," CBS, 21.32 million.
6. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 18.69 million.
7. "Oscar's Red Carpet Live, Part 2," ABC, 16.03 million.
8. "The Mentalist," CBS, 14.79 million.
9. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 13.15 million.
10. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 12.41 million.
11. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 12.35 million.
12. "Oscar's Red Carpet Live, Part 1," ABC, 12.14 million.
13. "The Good Wife," CBS, 11.86 million.
14. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 11.65 million.
15. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 11.54 million.
16. "Mike & Molly," CBS, 11.2 million.
17. "Survivor: Redemption Island," CBS, 10.93 million.
18. "CSI: NY," CBS, 10.9 million.
19. "Glee," Fox, 10.58 million.
20. "Hawaii Five-0," CBS, 10.45 million.
Ratings
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