'Best of TBH Politoons'
M Is FOR MASHUP - May 9th 2007
Shake Your Summer Booty!
By DJ Useo
I have had the huge pleasure in recent weeks of
coordinating over 25 bootleggers in producing the
first-ever bootleg boxset. It's 40 tracks including a
disc-length megamix of the mashup tunes that will
light up your long, hot summer. After viewing some retro
album covers I was sure I wanted to assemble a boot
project around the anti-winter theme featuring a
bikini-clad female archetype on the cover to maintain
the nostalgic attraction of summer's past.
Reader Follow Up
MPEACHW Plate
Man, this doesn't happen very often in this state! It has alot to do, I'm sure, with the bad publicity they were getting both in and outside the state. Thanks, Marty, for running the story a few days back, helping to publicize the ridiculous event!
MPEACH plate won't be recalled by DMV
Heather Morijah will get to keep her "MPEACHW" license plates after all.
State officials reversed their position on Monday, rescinding a recall notice of Morijah's personalized license plates, which encourage the impeachment of President Bush. The state Division of Motor Vehicles sent Morijah a letter last month saying the plates were being recalled because someone had complained about the message.
Rapid City Journal
Tiera
Thanks, Tiera!
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Alan S. Blinder: Free Trade's Great, but Offshoring Rattles Me (washingtonpost.com)
I'm a free trader down to my toes. Always have been. Yet lately, I'm being treated as a heretic by many of my fellow economists. Why? Because I have stuck my neck out and predicted that the offshoring of service jobs from rich countries such as the United States to poor countries such as India may pose major problems for tens of millions of American workers over the coming decades. In fact, I think offshoring may be the biggest political issue in economics for a generation.
Tim Dowling: Humiliation - the latest weapon in America's war on crime (guardian.co.uk)
Going public with punishment is a way of demonstrating that something - however useless or counterproductive - is being done. Behind the thief sign order there is clearly a judge who wants to see his name in the paper.
Jim Hightower: MORE CORPORATE WAR AGAINST WORKERS (jimhightower.com)
The Chicken Littles are crying that if all new NAFTA-style trade deals are required to include protections for labor in all the countries involved - well, goodness gracious, the sky will fall! What has them so panicky is a proposal by congressional Democrats to rein-in the labor abuses that have come with these corporate-written trade deals. Are the Democrats suggesting radical protections that would put an impossible burden on global business? Judge for yourself: One provision would ban the use of child labor. Another bans slave labor. A third says that workers would have the right to form unions.
Frank Rich: Is Condi Hiding the Smoking Gun? (The New York Times)
If, as J.F.K. had it, victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan, the defeat in Iraq is the most pitiful orphan imaginable. Its parents have not only tossed it to the wolves but are also trying to pin its mutant DNA on any patsy they can find.
David Sirota: Econ 101: How Free Traders Distort "Comparative Advantage" (huffingtonpost.com)
Alan Blinder has a very interesting op-ed in the Sunday Washington Post about "free" trade and job outsourcing. He has been attacked lately for being an economist who is actually pointing out that "free" trade may not be the perfect thing its fundamentalist proponents have been saying it is.
Joel Stein: He'll take one MRE, hold the ambush (latimes.com)
Sampling the food that soldiers eat on the battlefield.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-stein4may04,0,5487019.column?coll=la-util-opinion-commentary
Jaime O'Neill: Toby Keith: Working Class Hero, or Rich Asshole? (smirkingchimp.com)
Not surprisingly, Toby's a Republican, like many of the startlingly wealthy country music people. Here is what Toby Keith had to say about his political affiliation: "My dad and granddad would roll over in their graves if they knew I voted Republican. My dad used to say, 'We don't have enough money to be Republicans.' Well, I do have enough."
David Bruce: Wise Up: Education (athensnews.com)
I recently received a letter from the graduate assistant director at Ohio University's Ping Recreation Center. In part, the letter states, "The Ohio University Waterski Club will be traveling to Dale Hollow to participate in spring training. The team will leave Tuesday, May 8, 2007 and return to Athens on Sunday May 13, 2007." Interesting. This club team is going to take a week off in the middle of the quarter to go on a waterskiing vacation. OU is already known as the Party School and as the Plagiarism School. Now we may as well be known as the Vacation School.
Portrait of the artist: Jasmin Vardimon, choreographer (guardian.co.uk)
'My advice? Do it only if you cannot live without it'.
Steve Young: Bad Luck Can Be The Best Luck of All. Hilton, Baldwin and Hasselhoff Have An Opportunity of a Lifetime (smirkingchimp.com)
You want to get healthier? Exercise more. Eat better. Lower your stress.
Contributor Question
missing pic
Hi. I saw that you were having problems. One of the pictures doesn't
work-the
Poiret gown.
TTFN,
Baron Dave
--
"What doesn't have credibility today is the truth." -- Bill Moyers,
The Daily Show 6/22/05
Thanks, Baron Dave!
The pic of the Poiret gown (& the archiving of yesterday's page) were finally uploaded around 7:30am, just after the kid left for school.
Started uploading around 10:30 last night, and called it a day a bit after 3:30am.
Normally, it takes 5-7 minutes per item uploaded, but last night it closer to 20 minutes.
The FTP timed out after each item, and wouldn't reopen, so I had to shut it down completely and then reopen it.
I've run virus & adware scans, defragged, rebooted - every trick I've ever learned, to no avail.
Argh.
Reader Tip
Moose & Bear
Hey Marty !
Moving back to Alaska in July.
This is from down in Homer - a poor moose who met a bear.
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CAUTION, Very GORY
Part 1 - Bear & Moose - Homer, AK
Part 2 - Bear & Moose - Homer, AK
Part 3 - Bear & Moose - Homer, AK
Vic
soon to be back in Alaska
Thanks, Vic!
Came across this:
"Odd sounds outside their home woke Gary and Terri Lyon early Sunday morning, so Gary got up to check it out. He looked outside and saw a 500-pound grizzly bear killing an adult moose in their driveway.
"I saw this wildlife spectacle of a full-grown brown bear on a moose and the moose fighting for its life," Gary said.
The couple put their dog inside, grabbed their cameras and started filming the attack as the grizzly battled the moose down the driveway, finally killing it. They posted the video on YouTube.
"She tore apart the chest cavity, ripped out the heart and ate it," Gary said. "It was like she knew that's what kept it alive."
For the rest: Bear kills moose in Alaska driveway
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
97°, 5% humity, and too much wind.
Wildfire
Griffith Park
A wildfire roiled through rugged brush-covered hills in the city's sprawling Griffith Park on Tuesday, triggering evacuations of the city zoo, a museum and other popular sites as dangerously hot and dry conditions plagued Southern California.
A towering column of smoke rose over the middle of the city as hundreds of firefighters and five water-dropping helicopters rushed to Los Angeles' landmark park - a mix of wilderness, cultural venues, horse and hiking trails and recreational facilities set on more than 4,000 acres on the hills between Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley.
Rangers evacuated the park's Vermont Canyon area, which includes the Los Angeles Zoo, two golf facilities, a merry-go-round and a magnate school, said Jane Kolb, a city Department of Recreation and Parks spokeswoman.
Griffith Park
Under Construction In LA
Grammy Museum
The Grammy, coming up on its 50th birthday, is finally getting a home of its own.
A Grammy museum, now under construction, is scheduled to open in September 2008, across the street from the Staples Center, where next year's 50th annual Grammy Awards will be staged.
The museum, which is to encompass 30,000 square feet, has been in the planning stages for years. It will include a theater and exhibitions.
Grammy Museum
Auction Brings $1.1M
Grateful Dead
An auction of Grateful Dead memorabilia Tuesday brought in more than $1.1 million for items collected by the band's longtime road manager.
The collection of Lawrence "Ram Rod" Shurtliff included a 1975 cream-colored Travis Bean electric guitar played by vocalist and lead guitarist Jerry Garcia, which fetched $312,000, according to Bonhams & Butterfields Auctioneers.
Shurtliff passed away in 2006. He started as a truck driver for the band in 1967 and went on to become president of the group's board of directors when the Dead incorporated in the 1970s.
Grateful Dead
Foundation Awards
James Beard
Rick Bayless, a chef credited with changing the profile of Mexican food in the U.S., has received one of the top James Beard Foundation Awards. His 20-year-old Chicago restaurant, Frontera Grill, has been named outstanding restaurant for 2007.
Taking another of the foundation's major awards, outstanding chef, was Michel Richard, owner of Michel Richard Citronelle in Washington.
Outstanding Restaurateur is Thomas Keller, The French Laundry, Yountville, Calif.
For the rest - James Beard
NBC Orders Fourth Season
'Medium'
NBC has handed out an early renewal to "Medium," which will return for a fourth season in the fall.
The Patricia Arquette supernatural drama, a middling performer in the ratings, is averaging 8.5 million viewers so far this season, down from 11.2 million at the same time last year.
'Medium'
Wedding News
Campbell - Light
Actress Neve Campbell, best known for her roles on the 1990s Fox TV series "Party of Five" and the "Scream" horror movies, has married British actor John Light, People magazine reported on Monday.
Citing Campbell's representative, the celebrity magazine said Campbell and Light wed last Saturday in Malibu, a wealthy beach community just outside Los Angeles.
Campbell - Light
Arrested Again
Tom Sizemore
Tom Sizemore, on probation for a drug rap, was arrested Tuesday for investigation of possessing methamphetamine as he sat in a car outside a Bakersfield hotel.
The 45-year-old actor, of Calabasas, was arrested after drugs were found in his car outside the Four Points Sheraton hotel, said police Detective Greg Terry.
Sizemore was arrested and booked at the Kern County Jail for investigation of possession of methamphetamine, being under the influence of a controlled substance and possession of narcotic paraphernalia, the detective said.
Tom Sizemore
HBO Head Takes Leave
Chris Albrecht
HBO chief executive Chris Albrecht said he was taking a leave of absence to regain control of his alcoholism following a weekend assault arrest in Las Vegas.
On Sunday in Las Vegas, the HBO chairman and chief executive was arrested for investigation of assaulting his girlfriend outside the MGM Grand casino. The arrest came just hours after Saturday's Oscar De La Hoya-Floyd Mayweather Jr. boxing match aired on pay-per-view by HBO.
Albrecht was booked into the Clark County Detention Center and held for investigation of a misdemeanor battery-domestic assault. He was later released.
Chris Albrecht
Lawsuit Dismissed
Andy Griffith
A man who changed his name to Andy Griffith and ran for sheriff did not harm the actor who played Mayberry's folksy sheriff on the "Andy Griffith Show," a federal judge ruled.
U.S. District Judge John Shabaz on Friday dismissed the lawsuit brought by Andy Samuel Griffith, who played Sheriff Andy Taylor on the popular 1960s TV series.
The suit claimed William Harold Fenrick violated trademark and copyright laws and the actor's privacy after he changed his name last year to Andrew Jackson Griffith. The suit was filed the day after the independent candidate came in a distant third in his race for Grant County sheriff in southwestern Wisconsin.
Andy Griffith
Faux Renews Talkshow
Spike Feresten
Fox has picked up its Saturday late-night comedy "Talkshow With Spike Feresten" for a second season.
Additionally the network is in talks to bring back sketch comedy show "Mad TV" for a 13th season, but sources said a deal is not imminent.
"Talkshow," hosted by former "Seinfeld" writer Spike Feresten, will continue to air in the midnight-12:30 a.m. time period, unless a new deal for "Mad TV" is not reached.
Spike Feresten
Over 1 Million Advance Orders At Amazon
Harry Potter
Amazon.com Inc. said on Tuesday it had booked more than 1 million advance orders for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," scheduled for release in late July.
The online retailer also lowered its price on the book to $17.99 from $18.89. It said it would honor the lower price for customers who had already ordered the book, the seventh in the wildly popular series by J.K. Rowling about a boy wizard and his struggle against the forces of evil.
More than 620,000 copies have been ordered in advance in the United States, with more than 250,000 in the United Kingdom, Amazon said. Advance orders for this book have surpassed those in 2005 for Rowling's sixth release, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."
Harry Potter
Vienna Library Service
Erotica Hotline
This isn't the typical whispering you might expect to hear at a library. Vienna's City Hall has launched a "sex hotline" to raise money for the capital's main public library, officials said Tuesday.
It's unusual, but it's not particularly raunchy: Callers pay 39 euro cents (53 cents) a minute to listen to an actress read breathless passages from erotica dating to the Victorian era.
City Hall set up the hotline earlier this month to help the library raise cash for planned remodeling and expansion, Austrian media reported.
Anne Bennent, a famous Austrian stage and film star, reads passages from the Vienna library's collection of 1,200 works of erotic fiction from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, the library said.
Erotica Hotline
Tossed From Steakhouse
O.J.
The owner of an upscale steakhouse in Louisville said he asked O.J. Simpson to leave his restaurant the night before the Kentucky Derby because he is sickened by the attention Simpson still attracts.
Ruby - who owns restaurants in Cincinnati, Louisville and Belterra, Ind. - said Simpson, who was in town for the Derby on Saturday, came in with a group of about 12 Friday night and was seated at a table in the back. A customer came up to Ruby and was "giddy" about seeing Simpson, Ruby said.
He said he went to Simpson's table and said, "I'm not serving you." Ruby said when Simpson didn't respond, he repeated himself and left the room.
Ruby said Simpson soon came up to him and said he understood and would gather the rest of his party to leave.
O.J.
Where Have They Gone?
TV Viewers
Maybe they're outside in the garden. They could be playing softball. Or perhaps they're just plain bored.
In TV's worst spring in recent memory, an alarming number of Americans drifted away from television the past two months: More than 2.5 million fewer people were watching ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox than at the same time last year, statistics show.
The viewer plunge couldn't have come at a worse time for the networks - next week they will showcase their fall schedules to advertisers in the annual "up front" presentations.
TV Viewers
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-Time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for April 30-May 6. 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. (2) "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 28.75 million viewers.
2. (1) "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox, 26.73 million viewers.
3. (6) "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 21.23 million viewers.
4. (7) "House," Fox, 21.12 million viewers.
5. (4) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 19.02 million viewers.
6. (5) "Dancing With the Stars" (Monday), ABC, 18.97 million viewers.
7. (10) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 17.24 million viewers.
8. (9) "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 17.16 million viewers.
9. (12) "Dancing With the Stars Results" (Tuesday), ABC, 16.26 million viewers.
10. (16) "Without a Trace," CBS, 14.71 million viewers.
11. (19) "NCIS," CBS, 13.82 million viewers.
12. (16) "Survivor: Fiji," CBS, 13.74 million viewers.
13. (16) "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 13.71 million viewers.
14. (19) "Cold Case," CBS, 13.7 million viewers.
15. (22) "Criminal Minds," CBS, 13.28 million viewers.
16. (44) "King of Queens," CBS, 13.03 million viewers.
17. (23) "CSI: NY," CBS, 13 million viewers.
18. (24) "Shark," CBS, 12.5 million viewers.
19. (15) "Lost," ABC, 12.33 million viewers.
20. (14) "Deal or No Deal" (Monday), NBC, 12.09 million viewers.
Ratings
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