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Re: David's Granola
Hey Marty
Thanks for including
David's Recipe for Granola
on your page yesterday.
When I live in the mountains we used to make a similar concoction. Instead of using "Golden Syrup" we used pure maple syrup.....heavy on the almonds and either currents or golden raisins.
I could hike for days and just munch on granola.
In the sixties, I was doing commercial singing. One of my first jobs was the lead vocal for a new "healthy" alternative to wheaties...I could never shake the chorus line...."All I want is a bowla Vita Crunch Granola!"
I come from a family of five boys. We used to call granola "Fart Food"....big warning to all "Eaters".......chew those oats thoroughly!
Great job David.....I'm going down to the food mill right now and get some!
Purple Gene
Thanks, Purp!
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Russ Baker: Bush's Incompetent Criminals (russbaker.com)
Did you hear the one about the president's top domestic policy adviser? Tired of helping the president pick the pockets of the poor and middle class on behalf of the rich, he found a more profitable target. Or Target, actually.
Fred Barnes: Change the Subject (weeklystandard.com)
The Republican strategy for 2006.
Cassidy Hartmann: Not a Pretty Picture (philadelphiaweekly.com)
The Inquirer publishes photos of dead American soldiers-but only online.
Don Button: Local artists against the war (newsreview.com)
As the third anniversary of the war in Iraq draws near, SN&R turns its pages over to artists and offers these six posters for your consideration
Joshua Holland: Womenomics 101 (AlterNet.org)
According to Harvard's Project on Global Working Families (PDF), the United States is one of only five countries out of 168 studied that doesn't mandate some form of paid maternal leave. The only other advanced economy among those five was Australia's, where women are guaranteed an entire year of unpaid leave. That puts the U.S. -- the wealthiest nation on the planet -- in the company of Lesotho, Papua New Guinea, and Swaziland.
Barbara Ehrenreich: Those Corporate Homewreckers (The Progressive. Posted on AlterNet.org)
It's just not possible to be a responsible parent or spouse if your work leaves you with barely enough time to shower.
David Swanson: Media Avoids Covering Vote on Permanent Bases (afterdowningstreet.org)
Something is happening in Iraq that most Americans have never heard about, but many Americans think the war is being fought for: the United States is building what look like permanent military bases.
PAUL KRUGMAN: Bogus Bush Bashing (The New York Times)
"The single word most frequently associated with George W. Bush today is 'incompetent,' and close behind are two other increasingly mentioned descriptors: 'idiot' and 'liar.' " So says the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, whose most recent poll found that only 33 percent of the public approves of the job President Bush is doing.
Froma Harrop: 'Dump a genealogical Republican'
ABOUT A WEEK BEFORE the 2000 election, a dozen prominent Rhode Island environmentalists gathered to toast Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee. They didn't even mention his Democratic opponent's name. Six years later, you wonder whether they're going to do the same dumb thing.
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny but still cooler than seasonal.
No new flags.
Bowl Nets More Than $7,000
Richard Pryor
A ceramic bowl painted by Richard Pryor raised $7,099 in an online auction benefiting an Ohio animal rights group.
The bowl, in which Pryor painted a self-portrait before he died, was sold to GoldenPalace.com, an Internet-based casino company known for buying items online for charity and publicity.
Pryor sent the bowl to the Geauga Humane Society weeks before his death on Dec. 10.
"Richard and I were both there in spirit and I know he did everything he could to help the auction along," Pryor's widow, Jennifer, said in a statement. "I couldn't be more delighted that he's still helping animals."
Richard Pryor
Anti-War Benefit Concert
'Bring 'Em Home Now!'
Michael Stipe, Susan Sarandon, Cindy Sheehan and others marked the third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq with a concert to benefit groups campaigning against the war.
Profits from the ticket sales will go to anti-war groups including Gold Star Families for Peace, which counts Sheehan among its founding members, and Veterans Against the War.
'Bring 'Em Home Now!'
Hosting Peabody Awards
Jon Stewart
First the Oscars and now the Peabodys. Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central's award-winning fake news program "The Daily Show" and host of the Academy Awards earlier this month, will host the Peabody Awards ceremony June 5 in New York City.
"Jon Stewart will provide a refreshing combination of journalistic smarts and comic genius to our ceremony," Horace Newcomb, director of the Peabody Awards, said in the statement. "He has an enormous respect for the Peabody culture, so who better to host our landmark 65th anniversary celebration?"
The awards, the oldest in broadcasting, are considered among the most prestigious and selective prizes in electronic media.
Jon Stewart
May Tour
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand is in talks to launch a concert tour in the fall, her first since a brief "farewell" trek in 2000, her manager said Tuesday.
The possibility was first raised in a gossip column in Tuesday's issue of the New York Post, but its assertion that ticket prices would top out at $1,500 was incorrect, a source close to her camp told Billboard.com.
Sources say Rolling Stones promoter Michael Cohl is in talks to produce the Streisand tour. History shows that Streisand, who turns 64 next month, has not balked at exorbitant ticket prices, and that consumers have not balked at paying them.
Barbra Streisand
Expands 'Adult Swim' Block
Cartoon Network
"Adult Swim" is on the grow. Cartoon Network said Monday that it will expand its late-night block by a half-hour Monday-Thursday starting next week.
As of March 27, the Monday-Thursday "Adult Swim" block will begin at 10:30 p.m. instead of 11 p.m. and run through 5 a.m. The expanded block will kick off with an hour of "Futurama" episodes from 10:30-11 p.m. Monday-Thursday, followed by a rotating lineup of "Aqua Teen Hunger Force," "Robot Chicken," "Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law" and "The Boondocks."
The Friday 11 p.m.-6 a.m. "Friday Night Fix" block of fan-favorite "Adult Swim" episodes will remain intact, and the Saturday "Adult Swim" block will continue to begin at 10 p.m.
Cartoon Network
New Documentary
Harry Nilsson
Harry Nilsson, the ridiculously talented singer-songwriter singled out by the Beatles as their favorite "group," is the deserving subject of an appropriately lively documentary.
While "Who is Harry Nilsson (and Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?)" is more successful in answering the second part of that question, it takes a real good stab at tackling the first part with the help of a stellar lineup of those who knew the enigmatic man as well as anybody could have, including Brian Wilson, Ringo Starr, Robin Williams, Randy Newman, Jimmy Webb, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Monkee Micky Dolenz and the Smothers Brothers.
Writer/director John Scheinfeld, who previously produced the Grammy-nominated "Beautiful Dreamer: The Story of Brian Wilson and Smile" demonstrates a real feel for his subject's milieu, and he seamlessly mixes testimonies from those who worked with and/or partied with Harry (including the voice of the late John Lennon) with rare TV appearances (like the too-hip-for-the-room "Playboy After Dark") as well as Nilsson's own voice from a recently discovered oral biography.
Harry Nilsson
Friend Attacks TV Seance
John Lennon
Yoko Ono's longtime friend and spokesman on Tuesday said an upcoming TV seance to contact her late husband, ex-Beatle John Lennon, was tacky, exploitative and far removed from the icon's way of life.
"John Lennon was an amazing communicator of heart, mind and spirit. He still speaks to those who choose to listen to his recordings. That was the medium he chose to speak with us. A 'pay per view' seance was never his style," said Elliot Mintz, Ono's spokesman.
"In the end, such a show only benefits the producers. It's another example of the misuse of John's affirmation of life as opposed to the preoccupation of his death," Mintz wrote.
"The proposed show strikes me as being tasteless, tacky and exploitative," Mintz said.
John Lennon
Hospital News
Pete Fountain
Jazz clarinetist Pete Fountain appears to be recovering well after quadruple bypass heart surgery Monday night.
Fountain hadn't been feeling well since Mardi Gras. His Half Fast Marching Club made its trek down St. Charles Avenue without him on Fat Tuesday for the first time in 46 years.
Fountain, a New Orleans native, lost his $1.5 million house, as well as his gold records and 10 musical instruments to Hurricane Katrina.
Pete Fountain
Donates $1M to Paralysis Project
Gloria Estefan
Gloria Estefan, who was temporarily paralyzed in a tour-bus accident 16 years ago, is donating $1 million for the creation of a human clinical trials program at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis.
The gift, announced Tuesday by the singer and her producer husband Emilio Estefan, is targeted to position Miami Project scientists to move quickly toward human trials as promising research is discovered.
Estefan, 48, serves on the Board of Directors of The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis, the national fundraising arm of The Miami Project, a leader in spinal cord injury research.
Gloria Estefan
Chef Sort of Returns
'South Park'
"South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker vowed vengeance last week in their running battle with Scientology - and Wednesday night's new-season premiere appears to be the start.
The Comedy Central cartoon begins its 10th season with an episode titled "The Return of Chef!" The character's return follows by just a few days Isaac Hayes' statement that he was quitting because he could no longer accept the show's satirical blasts at religion.
Hayes didn't return to voice the new episode, but there's widespread speculation that the mischievous Stone and Parker used creative editing of his voicing from past shows to fashion new dialogue.
'South Park'
Ready to Rachmaninoff
Woodstock
A performing arts and music center on the original Woodstock concert site will open July 1 with a performance by the New York Philharmonic.
The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts also announced it will host a two-day Woodstock anniversary concert the weekend of Aug. 12-13. No artists have been lined up for that show.
The 4,800-seat summer pavilion is up the hill from the stage that drew some 400,000 fans in August 1969 to listen to the likes of The Who and Janis Joplin. In the '90s, portions of the old farm 80 miles northwest of New York City were bought by local millionaire Alan Gerry, who created a not-for-profit foundation to operate a performance site.
Woodstock
Lay Offs
Disney
The Walt Disney Co. said on Tuesday that about 30 of the 168 employees of Circle 7, the animation unit working on the animated sequel "Toy Story 3," have been laid off, and others have been reassigned to other animated features.
The company also said it is exploring what to do with Circle 7, which it created to crank out sequels to the hit films it made with Pixar Animation Studios Inc. while the two studios haggled over a new distribution deal for Pixar films. Disney decided instead to buy Pixar in a stock deal valued in January at $7.4 billion.
The company said it would help find new jobs for artists who were not reassigned to Disney Feature Animation on such films as "Rapunzel Unbraided," "American Dog" and "Meet the Robinsons."
Disney
Launches 'Stalker' Map
Gawker.com
The popular blog Gawker.com has launched a new "Gawker Stalker" feature that pinpoints the locations of readers' random celebrity sightings on the Internet, using a Google map of Manhattan.
Gawker, which had been posting map-free "Stalker" sightings for two years, is now digging in its heels against famously protective celebrity publicists. They're complaining that the cheeky feature encourages creepy stalking, placing the rich and famous in harm's way with just the click of a mouse.
Coen has hired two interns to update the map daily with readers' sightings, down to the exact time, restaurant and cross-streets. Early Tuesday afternoon, there were sightings of Nicole Richie ("petite and cute"), Naomi Campbell ("telling her assistant to hurry up"), Ashanti ("her perfume reeks") and Kenny Rogers ("looked exactly like he's had a ridiculous amount of work done").
Gawker.com
Looking for Love
Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers is looking for love in cyberspace. So far, no luck. The 72-year-old red-carpet critic and comedian said she and assistant Matt Stewart created a profile for her on Match.com.
The profile lists Rivers as looking for a man between the ages of 65 and 75.
As far as children go, Rivers already has one, daughter Melissa, as well as a 5-year-old grandson, Edgar. Her Match.com profile answer under the children section says "probably not."
Joan Rivers
Turns Down Tony Blair
Thom Yorke
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke says he turned down the chance to discuss climate change with Tony Blair because the British prime minister has "no environmental credentials."
"I got so stressed out and so freaked out about it. Initially when it came up I tried to be pragmatic," Yorke told New Music Express magazine in an issue out Tuesday. "But Blair has no environmental credentials as far as I'm concerned."
"It was like talking to Blair's spin doctors. It was all getting weird. It was just obvious there was no point in meeting him anyway, and I didn't want to," he said.
Thom Yorke
Prime-Time Nielsen
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for March 13-19. Top 20 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. (1) "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox, 32.77 million viewers.
2. (2) "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 28.09 million viewers.
3. (5) "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 21.13 million viewers.
4. (8) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 19.01 million viewers.
5. (9) "The Unit," CBS, 18.07 million viewers.
6. (13) "NCIS," CBS, 17.55 million viewers.
7. (12) "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 17.37 million viewers.
8. (20) "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," ABC, 16.21 million viewers.
9. (25) "Deal or No Deal" (Monday), NBC, 15.52 million viewers.
10. (20) "60 Minutes," CBS, 15.23 million viewers.
11. (14) "The New Adventures of Old Christine," CBS, 15.09 million viewers.
12. (17) "Cold Case," CBS, 14.62 million viewers.
13. (28) "American Inventor," ABC, 14.15 million viewers.
14. (30) "ER," NBC, 13.98 million viewers.
15. (31) "24," Fox, 13.72 million viewers.
16. (X) "The Loop," Fox, 13.70 million viewers.
17. (4) "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 13.55 million viewers.
18. (X) "Survivor: Exile Island," CBS, 12.68 million viewers.
19. (X) "The New Adventures of Old Christine" preview, CBS, 12.36 million viewers.
20. (41) "Deal or No Deal (Friday), NBC, 12.23 million viewers.
Ratings
In Memory
Joseph Bova
Joseph Bova, an actor with comedic talent whose career included a Tony Award nomination for the Broadway play "The Chinese and Dr. Fish," died March 12. He was 81.
Besides plays, movies and television appearances, Bova's career included hundreds of voice-overs. His Tony nomination came in 1970.
He got his break on Broadway in 1959 as Prince Dauntless the Drab in "Once Upon a Mattress," based on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Princess and the Pea."
"Uncle Joe" Bova was the host/performer of WABC TV Ch. 7 NYC's weekday evening version of "The Little Rascals Show" from Monday September 23, 1957 to Friday September 9, 1960.
From 1980 to 1989, he played Bert Barry in "42nd Street."
Joseph Bova
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