'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Mr. Hawk
Blackadder
Sorry I wasn't able to keep up lately.
But I did want to drop a few lines about the last show in series 3 of
Blackadder.
In someways this typifies the series, Blackadder meets another
famous person and cracks historical jokes. This week the person is
Wellington, who beat Napoleon at Waterloo. This of course leads to many
soiled boot jokes. The best part of the show is when the Prince and
Blackadder change places and Wellington decides to teach the uppity
manservant a lesson.
The best thing I can say though is that's its better
than watching faux news (but then most things are).
I would like to inform
everyone that BBC america is running the classic Faulty Towers at 2:00 pm
eastern followed by Are You Being Served. Both shows are fun to watch even
after all these years. I just wish they would move them up to around 7:00
pm.
Next up is series 4 set in WWI. It might be a bit like watching the evening
news to some.
On another note I would like to say that my home state of West Virginia has
taken a lot in this war. We had the first hero in Jessica Lynch and now the
poster child for abuse in Lyndde England. We have Bob Byrd, standing alone,
hands shaking with age and rage, in a desperate fight against tyranny.
We had our own sex scandal when the governor had to disclose an affair. But
the worst thing we have had to endure is the visits from King George. We
are a strong people here in our mountains but there is only so much we can
take. Ya'll take him for awhile, we keep smelling dead skunk when he comes.
Mr. Hawk
Dissent is not Terrorism
Freedom is not Legislated
Thanks, Mr. Hawk!
He's B-a-a-a-a-a-c-k!
The Worried Shrimp
"The Bush gangsters are hopping on and off Geneva like Ann Coulter on a first date"
Reader Comment
Lara Flynn Boyle
Another supporter of tax cuts for the wealthy. Actress Lara Flynn Boyle was quoted in the May 31 issue of US Magazine as saying, "I'm 100 percent for Bush. I want my president to be like my agent: not afraid of people, but wants my best interest."
Boyle, 34, admitted that, "I'm Irish Catholic, so a Democrat by blood," but apparently Irish-Catholic John Kerry does not serve her best interest. A Bush spokesman says the campaign would welcome her help: "If she's amenable, obviously we would try to find something interesting and useful for her to do."
Maybe she could serve as the pole for the flag Bush-Cheney will be waving.
~Lar
Thanks, Lar!
Weekly Link
Humor Gazette
from Mark
Another Bumpersticker
The Wall Street Poet
Ahmad We Hardly Knew You
It appears that Ahmad Chalabi hasn't been a good friend to the United States after all. What a surprise.
Ahmad We Hardly Knew You
To the neocon contingent
That surrounds our President,
You appeared the brave Iraqi
That democracy had sent.
You proclaimed with just a little help
Your country could be free,
"No big deal," you assured us,
"And who'll rule then? Why not me?"
Richie Perle you wisely lathered
With your staged Uriah Heep,
Wolfie found your views instructive
"Gosh, he muttered, "this guy's deep."
When your sleazy past was mentioned
And the State Department groaned,
"That's all past and best forgotten"
Neocons loudly intoned.
Now you've burned us, naughty Ahmad,
And to all it's crystal clear,
The one int'rest you've been serving
Wasn't ours, but yours, dear, dear.
All that intel that you fed us
Wasn't off - it was plain quackers.
You'll be paying a comeuppance -
But not, I fear, your backers.
© 2004
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
A little cooler & a bit overcast, but still quite nice.
Talked with dear old Dad tonight. Now that it's finally warm enough to plant his tomatoes, there's been rain daily.
Thought twice before telling him mine are flowering.
Ten members of 'The Sopranos' cast present the 'Top Ten Things Never Before Said on 'The Sopranos'' when they visit 'The Late Show with David Letterman,' Tuesday, May 24, 2004, in New York. From left are: James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Drea de Matteo, Tony Sirico, Jamie-Lynn DiScala, Robert Iler, Steven Van Zandt, Aida Turturro, and Dominic Chianese.
Photo by J.P. Filo
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
19th American Cinematheque Award
Steve Martin
Steve Martin will be honored with the 19th American Cinematheque Award at the Cinematheque's annual benefit gala in the fall, organizers said Monday.
The tribute, set for Nov. 12 at the Beverly Hilton, will air Jan. 23 on AMC. Last year's recipient was Nicole Kidman. The American Cinematheque is a nonprofit group dedicated to the preservation and promotion of movies.
Steve Martin
Gay Cable Network
LOGO
MTV Networks on Tuesday said it plans to launch a new entertainment cable channel catering to gay viewers, in a bid to snatch a piece of the action from successful gay-themed shows such as "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" and "The L Word."
The music television network, a unit of Viacom Inc., plans to launch the channel, called LOGO, on basic cable by February 2005.
MTV executives said programming will be comprised of about 25 percent originally developed shows, with the remainder coming from outside sources.
LOGO
Combat boots bearing the nametags of 800 U.S. soldiers who have died in the war in Iraq are displayed during a exhibit by the American Friends Service Committee near the U. S. Capitol in Washington Tuesday, May 25, 2004.
Photo by Dennis Cook
To Speak at Event in Denmark
Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen, who played King Aragorn in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, will be the main speaker at Denmark's annual Fourth of July celebration.
Mortensen, whose father emigrated to the United States, will speak at the annual Rebild festival in northern Denmark - billed as the biggest Fourth of July party outside of the United States.
"All Danes consider him to be nearly Danish," the organizers said in a statement Monday.
Danes and descendants of emigrants have celebrated the U.S. Independence Day with barbecues, square dancing and country music outside Rebild, a village 155 miles northwest of Copenhagen, since 1912.
Viggo Mortensen
'West Wing' Star Engaged
Allison Janney
Allison Janney of "The West Wing" found her heart in San Francisco, where she and actor Richard Jenik became engaged to marry.
The couple, who live in Los Angeles and have dated for two years, were vacationing in the city May 17 when he popped the question, a spokesman for Janney said Wednesday.
Allison Janney
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Breaking Up
Phish
Phish, the enormously popular jam band that experimented with myriad musical genres and whose legions of dedicated fans made them a younger version of The Grateful Dead, announced Tuesday that they are breaking up.
The surprise announcement came as the band prepared to release a new album, "Undermind," on June 15. They will still embark on a summer tour June 17 at Coney Island in New York City.
Band leader Trey Anastasio made the announcement on www.phish.com.
Phish
The stars behind the hit film of 2000, 'Meet the Parents' are re-united and joined by some formidable future in-laws-in the follow-up comedy, 'Meet the Fockers' due to be released December 22, 2004. This undated publicity photograph shows cast members (L-R) Blythe Danner, Terio Polo, Robert De Dinro and new cast members Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand playing the parents of Greg Focker played by Ben Stiller.
Photo by Tracey Bennett
Off the Hook
Richard Simmons
Richard Simmons was facing a court date after allegedly smacking a strapping 255-pound ex-con who made fun of Simmons' exercise videos.
But the judicial showdown was scrapped when a misdemeanor assault charge against the diminutive diet guru was dropped last Friday by a Phoenix judge, according to Municipal Court records published on The Smoking Gun Website.
Simmons, real first name Milton, got off easy after his victim, Chris Farney, filed a "misdemeanor compromise" that stated "full satisfaction" had been received for the injury inflicted.
No word whether that "full satisfaction" included a cash payout to Farney.
Richard Simmons
Lawyer Quits Minelli-Gest Case
Raoul Felder
Famed celebrity lawyer Raoul Felder has resigned as attorney for music producer David Gest in his bitter divorce battle with Liza Minnelli, saying he often had trouble getting his client on the telephone.
Felder said among his reasons for quitting the case were his busy practice, the six-hour time difference between New York and Hawaii, making communication with Gest difficult, and the fact that Gest was often unavailable "because he's sick a lot."
Raoul Felder
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Pleads Guilty to Misdemeanor
Courtney Love
Rock star Courtney Love pleaded guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor count of being under the influence of a controlled substance and agreed to enter a drug rehabilitation program.
Love, 39, also answered "Yes" several times when asked if she understood the terms of the plea agreement. Sentencing was set for July 16.
Love separately faces felony charges in Beverly Hills, where she has pleaded innocent to illegally possessing prescription painkillers. She could face up to three years and eight months in prison if convicted in that case.
Courtney Love
Visitors inspect Pablo Picasso's 'Massacres in Korea' during the official opening of the exhibition 'Picasso: War & Peace' in central Barcelona, May 25, 2004. The exhibition will continue until September 26.
Photo by Albert Gea
Major Exhibition In London
Edward Hopper
A major exhibition of paintings by Edward Hopper, whose soul-searching works chronicled 20th century America, opens in London Thursday.
It is the first show in England for 23 years of works by the pictorial poet who made aloneness an art form and whose evocative images caught the mood of America from the depression of the 1930s through World War II to the revolutionary 1960s.
Edward Hopper
Feared Lost in UK Warehouse Blaze
BritArt
London police are investigating a warehouse fire thought to have destroyed a major swathe of British art history, a spokesman said on Wednesday.
More than 100 works by Britain's leading contemporary artists are feared lost in the blaze, many of them belonging to millionaire art mogul Charles Saatchi.
Saatchi's collection of contemporary art is one of the world's finest, including such iconic pieces as Damien Hirst's pickled sheep.
BritArt
Probing Filmmaker's Death
James Miller
British police said Tuesday they had been called in to help investigate the killing of an award-winning UK cameraman in the Gaza Strip last year.
James Miller, 34, was shot dead in the Rafah refugee camp last May while working on a documentary about how violence in the occupied territories affects Palestinian children.
Witnesses have described how Miller was shot by an Israeli soldier at night even though he was waving a white flag and a wearing a vest identifying him as a journalist.
Miller was an Emmy award-winning filmmaker, renowned for his haunting images from the world's war zones, including Afghanistan, Chechnya, Kosovo and Sierra Leone.
James Miller
Divorce Finalized
Presley & Cage
Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley took nearly a year and a half to end a marriage that lasted less than four months.
The divorce was finalized Monday, according to court papers filed in Superior Court. The documents show that neither will pay financial support to the other and each will retain any assets they had prior to the marriage.
Presley & Cage
Australia
Weeping Statues
Several statues of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary in an Australian hall have apparently begun weeping and bleeding rose oil, prompting the Catholic Church to launch an investigation, a church official say.
Hundreds of people have flocked to a Vietnamese community hall near St Mary's Church in the Brisbane suburb of Inala after news spread that several statues, crucifixes, tablecloths and a set of prayer beads were oozing rose-scented oil.
The objects, which reportedly began bleeding and weeping a week ago, have been placed behind glass in the hall until investigators can examine them.
Weeping Statues
Prime-Time Nielsen
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for May 17-23. 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) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 25.4 million viewers.
2. (2) "American Idol (Tuesday)," Fox, 23.6 million viewers.
3. (9) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 23.1 million viewers.
4. (3) "American Idol (Wednesday)," Fox, 22.4 million viewers.
5. (11) "Without a Trace," CBS, 19.6 million viewers.
6. (13) "Law & Order," NBC, 19.5 million viewers.
7. (20) "Law & Order: SVU," NBC, 18.4 million viewers.
8. (11) "Everybody Loves Raymond," CBS, 16.1 million viewers.
9. (15) "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 15.2 million viewers.
10. (X) "Law & Order: SVU (Tuesday)," NBC, 14.7 million viewers.
11. (18) "Cold Case," CBS, 14.5 million viewers.
12. (X) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" special, CBS, 14.1 million viewers.
13. (X) "That '70s Show," Fox, 13.5 million viewers.
14. (54) "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," ABC, 13.2 million viewers.
15. (21) "The Bachelor," ABC, 13.1 million viewers.
16. (21) "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," NBC, 13 million viewers.
17. (21) "Crossing Jordan," NBC, 12.9 million viewers.
18. (34) "Las Vegas," NBC, 12.9 million viewers.
19. (28) "CBS Sunday Movie: Reversible Errors, Pt. 1," CBS, 12.8 million viewers.
20. (X) "CSI: Miami" special, CBS, 12.3 million viewers.
Ratings
Maya, a chimpanzee at Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo, holds her twin babies born two days ago in Jerusalem May 24, 2004. Israeli zookeepers suspected some monkey business only after Maya, a 24-year-old chimpanzee, suddenly gave birth to twins despite an apparent lack of virile mates. The happy event at Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo caught everyone by surprise: nobody had noticed Maya was pregnant and Og and Gremlin, the only adult males among 11 chimps at the facility, were sterilized years ago, a zoo official said Tuesday.
Photo by Gil Cohen Magen
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