'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Comment
NRA Convention in Pittsburgh
I found it is interesting that both the ABC affiliate (WTAE - Channel 4) and NBC affiliate (WPXI - Channel 11) here in Pittsburgh used African-American reporters in covering the NRA Convention. As we all know the make-up of the NRA is mostly suburban-rural geographically and white male in populace. Mostly a Nascar dad conglomeration. Was it just a coincidence or maybe it was an intentional misguidance to show people in a swing state for November that the far right NRA is racially diverse. Lets face it, a majority of NRA members would rather see an African-American at the other end of a gun then have any social or direct contact with them.
~ deeee
Thanks, deee!
I remember way back when WPXI was WIIC, and 'Chiller Theater' with the fabulous 'Chilly Billy' - AKA: Bill Cardille got me through lots of Saturday nights babysitting.
Can also remember a bout of 'homesickness' that was cured by a viewing of 'Night Of The Living Dead', with Bill Cardille playing a reporter.
And, how much hope George Romero gave kids from that neck of the backwoods.
Protest Music
Rock Against Bush
The Wall Street Poet
The Higher Rates Poem
© 2004 **********
For more financial verse:
http://www.wallstreetpoet.com
from Mark
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Reader Suggestion
Cool Music
This is a compilation of several bands that appeared at HEATSTOCK, a blues festival that takes place every summer north of Lapeer.
I am the drummer on tracks by Bob Willett and the Blues Devils, as well as Ben Moore and the Blues Express.
If you decide to purchase one, tell Mike Boulan that Maddog sent you, OK.
Maddog
Way cool, Maddog!
Thanks!
New Book
'No Chimp Left Behind'
NO CHIMP LEFT BEHIND - An Explanication Of The Presidential Origin Of The Speechities
By Cassandra Sagan, with illustrations by Winky Wheeler
What if the reason the president don't speak so goodly am because he or him
is really an hairless chimpanzee what was switched at birth? That's the
premise of Cassandra Sagan's new political satire. Incorporating actual
quotes from George Dubya, NO CHIMP LEFT BEHIND is the story of President
Victor Vincent Thorn, or "Double V", and the renegade band of
Bushonic-speaking 'panzees who control his every move.
Please visit our all-new website: www.nochimpleftbehind.com.
Listen to
Cassandra's ukulele rendition of "No Chimp Left Behind" co-written by
Resident George W. Bush. Run your mouse over the Bush Chimp on the
Testimonials page! The more hits we get, the sooner we'll show up on search
engines.
Thanks, Albert!
Damn, I love ukes!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Still sunny & cool.
Got some tomato, pepper & broccoli plants in the ground this afternoon.
Talked to dear old Dad in PA tonight. He & the Babe are planning a trip to the Catskills for a polka-fest.
The magnolia trees are in bloom & the scent is heavy tonight.
Tonight, Wednesday, CBS begins the night with '60 Minutes II', followed by a RERUN 'King Of Queens', then a RERUN
'Yes, Dear', followed by '48 Hours'.
On a RERUN Dave (from 3/30/04) are Matthew Perry and Lou Reed.
On a RERUN Craiggers are Jamie-Lynn DiScala, Kevin Smith, andJeff Cesario.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN 'The So-Called Most Outrageous Moments On Live TV', followed by a FRESH 'West Wing', then
a FRESH 'Law & Order'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Bill Maher, Lacey Chabert, and David Bowie.
On a RERUN Conan are Drew Barrymore, Paul Rudd, the Walkmen.
On a RERUN Carson Daly are Damon Wayans, Anna Paquin, and the Von Bondies.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN 'My Wife & Kids', followed by another RERUN 'My Wife & Kids', then a
FRESH 'The Bachelor', followed by a FRESH 'Extreme Makeover'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Nia Vardalos, Cal Ripken Jr., and Mike O'Connell.
The WB offers a FRESH 'Smallville', followed by a FRESH 'Angel'.
Faux has a FRESH 'That 70s Show', followed by a FRESH 'American Idol', then a FRESH 'The O.C.'.
UPN finally has a FRESH 'Enterprise', followed by a FRESH 'I'm Still Alive'.
A&E has 'American Justice', 'Biography' (David Koresh), another 'American Justice', and 'City Confidential'.
AMC offers the movie 'Donovan's Reef', followed by the movie 'Catch-22', then the movie 'Twelve O'Clock High'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Walters;
[7pm] 'My Hero' - The Older Man;
[7:40pm] 'Absolutely Fabulous' - Iso Tank;
[8:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 1;
[9pm] 'My Family' - The Last Resort;
[9:40pm] 'Absolutely Fabulous' - Magazine;
[10:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances - Episode 2;
[11pm] 'My Family' - The Last Resort;
[11:40pm] 'Absolutely Fabulous' - Magazine;
[12:20am] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 2;
[1am] 'My Hero' - The Older Man;
[1:40am] 'Absolutely Fabulous' - Iso Tank;
[2:20am] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 1;
[3am] 'My Family' - The Last Resort;
[3:40am] 'Absolutely Fabulous' - Magazine;
[4:20am] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 2;
[5am] 'The Office' - Episode 3;
[5:40am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 3;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'West Wing', followed by the movie 'Mystic Pizza', 'Keen Eddie', and 'West Wing'.
Comedy Central has 'MAD TV', 'Crank Yankers', 'Insomniac', 'South Park', 'South Park', and 'Chappelle's Show'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is John Gibson.
History has all 'Modern Marvels' all night.
IFC -
[6AM] 'Time Code';
[8AM] 'The Poor And The Hungry';
[10AM] 'The Trip To Bountiful' (1985);
[12PM] 'Dinner Game' (1998);
[1:30PM] 'At The Angelika 83' (2003);
[2PM] 'Me You Them' (2000);
[4PM] 'Not One Less' (1999);
[6PM] Short: 'Period Piece';
[6:30PM] 'At The Angelika 83' (2003);
[7PM] 'Happy Accidents' (2000);
[9PM] 'Ghost World' (2001);
[11PM] 'The Very Thought Of You' (1999);
[12:30AM] 'Ghost World' (2001);
[2:30AM] 'Afterglow' (1997);
[4:30AM] 'The Very Thought Of You' (1999). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'Invasion'.
Sundance -
[4:30AM] 'The Slaughter Rule' (Feature);
[6:30AM] 'Rhapsody in August' (Feature);
[8:10AM] 'Meeting Che Guevara and the Man from Maybury Hill' (Short);
[8:30AM] 'Little Buddha' (Feature);
[10:35AM] 'Siddhartha' (Feature);
[12PM] 'Till Human Voices Wake Us' (Feature);
[1:40PM] 'War and Peace' (Jang Aur Aman) (Feature);
[4PM] 'Personal Velocity: Three Portraits' (Feature);
[5:30PM] 'Barcelona' (Feature);
[7:15PM] 'Peter's Friends' (Feature);
[9:00PM] 'Henry V' (1989) (Feature);
[11:30PM] 'Till Human Voices Wake Us' (Feature);
[1:10AM] 'The Sea' (World Cinema);
[3AM] 'Personal Velocity: Three Portraits' (Feature);
[4:30AM] 'Peter's Friends' (Feature). (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM:
TCM pays tribute to
Anthony Quinn, who was born on this day in 1915.
[6am] 'MGM Parade Show #23' (1955);
[6:30am] 'Back To Bataan' (1945);
[8:30am] 'China Sky' (1945);
[10:15am] 'Lust For Life' (1956);
[12:30pm] 'Requiem For A Heavyweight' (1962);
[2:15pm] 'Guns For San Sebastian' (1968);
[4:15pm] 'The Shoes of the Fisherman' (1968);
[7pm] 'Private Screenings: Anthony Quinn' (1999);
[8pm] 'They Died With Their Boots On' (1941);
[10:30pm] 'Hawaii' (1966);
[2am] 'The Last Emperor' (1987);
[5:45am] 'Khartoum' (1966). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks at the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention in Washington Tuesday, April 20, 2004.
Photo by Gerald Herbert
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
New Costume Shown on DVD
Darth Vader
Fans can get a first look at the new Darth Vader costume from the 2005 "Star Wars: Episode III" prequel on the upcoming DVD collection of the original trilogy, Lucasfilm announced Monday.
The first three "Star Wars" films debut for the first time in digital format on Sept. 21.
The Darth Vader featurette promises an interview with creator George Lucas discussing how Jedi warrior Anakin Skywalker became the fearsome space villain.
Darth Vader
www.starwars.com
'Blender' Names
50 Worst Songs
Blender Magazine is publishing its list of the 50 worst songs in its May issue. The songs were selected for "crap-tastic melodies," were poorly performed, or just didn't make any sense to the folks at the magazine.
Starship's "We Built This City," from 1985 topped the list. "The truly horrible sound of a band taking the corporate dollar while sneering at those who take the corporate dollar," the magazine said of the tune.
Billy Ray Cyrus' "Achy Breaky Heart" was second, followed by Wang Chung's "Everybody Have Fun Tonight." "If this song was a party, you'd lock yourself in a bathroom and cry," quipped Blender.
Limp Bizkit's "Rollin" was Number 4, and Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby," was five.
Rounding out the top ten worst songs ever are Huey Lewis and the News with "The Heart of Rock and Roll," "Don't Worry, Be Happy," by Bobby McFerrin, Eddie Murphy's "Party All the Time," "American Life," by Madonna and "Ebony and Ivory," the duet by Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney.
50 Worst Songs
Blender Magazine
Actress Goldie Hawn introduces the Dalai Lama to a packed audience at the Orpheum Theater in Vancouver, Canada, Monday April 19, 2004, before the start of the Celebration of Peace concert.
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Raps U.S. Policy in Iraq
Jermaine Jackson
Pop star Michael Jackson's brother, Jermaine, in the Gulf to promote understanding between Muslims and his fellow Americans, said Tuesday that Muslims are "the new Negroes in America."
Jermaine, a convert to Islam and dressed in white Arab garb, has been speaking about Islam and U.S. "adventures" in Iraq to enthusiastic audiences at Koranic centers and universities in the Gulf Arab state of Bahrain.
He disapproved of Muslim extremism, which has been on the rise in the wake of the U.S. occupation of Iraq last year.
"I understand their feelings but do not approve of their methods. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong," he said.
Jermaine Jackson
Cigarette Withdrawal
Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt said on Tuesday he reluctantly quit smoking for months of intense physical training to prepare for his role as Greek hero Achilles in the film "Troy" but admitted he was now glad he kicked the habit.
In an interview with the German magazine "Cinema" before the May release of the film in the United States and Germany, Pitt said he spent many unpleasant months working out with a fitness trainer to build up muscles to play the legendary warrior.
"I had to quit smoking," Pitt said when asked about the hardest part of the getting ready for the film about the Trojan war. "I'm now happy about it because these things were killing me. But at first I was really missing my cigarettes.
"The withdrawal was so hard that I was ready to kill -- which was actually helpful for the role I was playing," he said.
Brad Pitt
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Goes to U.N. to Fight Hunger
Lauren Bush
Resident Bush's fashion model niece went to work for the United Nations on Tuesday to urge young Americans to do more to stop hunger around the world.
Lauren Bush, 19, was named honorary spokeswoman for a new U.N. World Food Program project aimed at students to organize anti-hunger campaigns, fundraising events and letter-writing appeals to elected officials, corporate and civic leaders.
"I feel like if we can change the mindset of the next generation, that there will be solutions to this problem. ... That's kind of my goal," said Bush, who last week made a three-day visit to Guatemala to learn about hunger there.
Bush, the daughter of the resident's brother Neil ('Silverado'), said she hoped to visit Africa, where the need to feed people is greatest.
Lauren Bush
Actor Ben Affleck plays in the World Poker Tour Championship Tuesday, April 20, 2004 at the Bellagio Resort Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The tournament runs through Friday and the winner will take home almost $ 3 million.
Photo by Joe Cavaretta
To Perform on Airline Flight
Sheryl Crow
On May 4, Sheryl Crow is to perform on board a United Airlines flight marking the launch of United's partnership with Sony's new Connect Online Music Service.
"I like to think of it as taking in-flight entertainment to all new heights," Dave Keenan, vice president of UAL Loyalty Services, quipped to The Associated Press.
Crow, a select group of fans and invited guests will fly from Chicago to Los Angeles. Crow is slated to perform for 40 minutes with a guitar player for an acoustic set.
Sheryl Crow
Ring Fetches $59,750 at Auction
Kim Basinger
Actress Kim Basinger on Tuesday sold her 3.7-carat diamond engagement ring from ex-husband Alec Baldwin for $59,750 to a Beverly Hills jewelry dealer, who predicted a fan would "pay crazy money for that."
The actress, a noted animal rights activist, auctioned the modern Tiffany & Co. ring and some other jewelry at Christie's to raise money for The Performing Animal Welfare Society.
The group runs a California refuge for abused, retired and surplus elephants, lions, bears and other captive wildlife.
Kim Basinger
Shakes Up Management At ABC
Disney
ABC prime time chiefs Susan Lyne and Lloyd Braun have left the struggling television network, owner Walt Disney Co. said on Tuesday, as it announced a long-anticipated shake-up that elevates two of its cable executives to head the company's media operations.
ABC Cable Networks Group President Anne Sweeney and ESPN sports cable network President George Bodenheimer were named co-chairs of a newly created media networks unit, that includes ESPN, ABC and Disney's cable operations, the company said.
No. 4 broadcaster ABC has been struggling with its prime time schedule for years and a management shake-up had been expected for weeks.
Disney
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Not Likely to Play on TV
'The Passion of the Christ'
Despite being the year's biggest box-office blockbuster so far, "The Passion of the Christ" seems unlikely to find a home on the four biggest broadcast networks.
Mel Gibson's Icon Productions has been shopping the movie to TV. Only ABC has confirmed turning it down, but executives speaking on condition of anonymity said it was doubtful for CBS, NBC and Fox, too.
Besides the film's violent content, a television network that airs "The Passion" would also inherit controversy about it. Some Jewish organizations objected to the movie for fear it would cause bad blood between Christians and Jews.
The movie has also reportedly been shopped to pay cable networks, where content would not be much of an issue. HBO would not comment, but executives there have privately said the network has a full plate of movie premieres already scheduled for the next year.
Showtime has passed on the movie, a network spokesman said.
'The Passion of the Christ'
Dancers of the Parsons Group strike a pose in this undated photo by Martin Schoeller that originally appeared in 2wice Magazine. The life-sized photograph is part of 'Dance Cards,' a new exhibit featuring dance luminaries in moments of theatricality and chance, at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater through June 8, 2004.
Photo by Martin Schoeller
Pleads No Contest to DUI
Dennis Rodman
Former NBA star Dennis Rodman pleaded no contest to drunken driving in an October motorcycle crash outside a Las Vegas striptease club.
A judge fined Rodman $1,000, ordered him to serve 30 days of home detention, and required him to use a device in Nevada that will measure his blood-alcohol content before he can start his car for the next year to prevent him from driving after drinking alcohol.
Dennis Rodman
Sought French Citizenship
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist Pablo Picasso applied for French citizenship just before German troops invaded France in 1940, but was turned down because police saw him as a Communist sympathizer, a new exhibition shows.
Picasso's brief letter of application, featuring his instantly recognizable signature, is the highlight of an exhibition of 40 years of police surveillance of the celebrated artist, which opened at the Paris Police Museum Tuesday.
The exhibition shows authorities kept tabs on Picasso from his arrival in Paris in 1901, starting with a domestic intelligence report which said he was staying with a suspected anarchist and concluded that he must share the same politics.
Picasso, renowned for his fierce pride, never forgave the slight and although he never again set foot in Spain proclaimed he would die Spanish. The artist, who joined the Communist Party after the liberation of France in 1945, died in 1973 without seeing democracy restored in Spain.
Pablo Picasso
Plans Benefit Album
Marion 'Suge' Knight
Rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight plans to produce a hip-hop album to benefit financially troubled families of soldiers in Iraq once he gets out of prison at the end of the month, he said in a statement on Tuesday.
In a statement, the founder of Death Row Records said he will work with various artists and record labels to pull together a hip-hop album benefiting the families who are confronting mounting financial burdens.
"I'm not taking any kind of political stance on the war," said Knight, adding he hopes to have the record on store shelves by Christmas.
Marion 'Suge' Knight
Nielsen Ratings
Prime-Time
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for April 12-18. 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. (4) "The Apprentice," NBC, 28 million viewers.
2. (1) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 23.8 million viewers.
3. (X) "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 23.1 million viewers.
4. (5) "Survivor: All-Stars," CBS, 20.4 million viewers.
5. (12) "Without a Trace," CBS, 17.1 million viewers.
6. (X) "Friends," NBC, 16.8 million viewers.
7. (13) "Law & Order," NBC, 16.2 million viewers.
8. (X) "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 15.3 million viewers.
9. (26) "Fear Factor," NBC, 14.7 million viewers.
10. (22) "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," NBC, 14.3 million viewers.
11. (5) "Friends," NBC, 13.5 million viewers.
12. (20) "Crossing Jordan," NBC, 13.3 million viewers.
13. (9) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 13.2 million viewers.
14. (X) "Miss USA 2004," NBC, 13.1 million viewers.
15. (18) "Cold Case," CBS, 12.9 million viewers.
16. (15) "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 11.2 million viewers.
17. (23) "Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit," NBC, 11.2 million viewers.
18. (17) "60 Minutes," CBS, 11.2 million viewers.
19. (X) "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 11 million viewers.
20. (62) "The O.C.," Fox, 10.5 million viewers.
Prime-Time
Two environmentalist hold baby turtles in Popayan, 230 miles southwest of Bogota, Colombia, Monday, April 19, 2004. Some 6,000 turtles were found packed in boxes aboard an intermunicipal bus. The smugglers had planned to sell the turtles in Ecuador, police said.
Photo by J.George
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