The fabulous & productive Yitt
( www.yittmashups.com )
is a home producer well worth following. His tracks are inventive, & extremely well-produced. He's made lots of singles, & full albums available, with the latest being the completely ingratiating "YITT - The Yittles"
( www.yittmashups.com/music ) . The theme is obvious to Fab Four fans, with the complete album devoted to cool new pairings with other artists like Led Zeppelin, Tom Petty, CCR, & 10 more.
The appeal holds up completely from beginning to end. I went for every cut in a big way, with "Let Fire And Rain Be" (James Taylor vs Beatles) really sending me as one of my top faves. We'll all be playing this collection often. I urge you to grab it now, as mashup albums tend to quickly vanish forever.
Many thanks to Yitt for the kicks this brings. I hope he enjoys the creative process much, as we all feel the benefit.
ps. Thanks to everyone for the July 12th Birthday greetings. I celebrated with a very private party I dj-ed for. & then I aged a year all at once! Lol. Also, Mrs Useo baked me my favorite cake, a pineapple upside-down cake. So snecking good.
• Ludo works hard to build an audience. Phil Kosch, a member of Chicago's Treaty of Paris, learned how driven the band was when he invited them to play a free show in Naperville, Illinois. He says, "We kind of neglected to tell them it was under a canopy, next to a river with this really bad sound system." This kind of free show with bad venue and bad sound equipment was not a problem for Ludo; instead, it was an opportunity to further build their audience. Members of Ludo work hard to reach the audience, for Ludo has worn out two vans in four years. They definitely make sure to spend time with the audience. On the Warped Tour, members of Ludo were shocked that members of other bands did not spend time shaking hands with members of the audience. And audience members do appreciate that kind of contact. In 2006, the band played their "Cinco de Mustache" show in St. Louis. Present was an Island Records vice president, who was impressed by seeing "1,200 kids singing along to all the songs," says Dan Friedman, a lawyer who handles Ludo's record contracts. In fact, the vice president was so impressed that he offered Ludo a record deal, saying, "You'll have paper within a week."
• The Ramones worked hard at their concerts, touring constantly and playing even when they were ill. In their early days, bass player Dee Dee Ramone was making $125 a week but had a $100-a-day drug habit. Still, he showed up on time for concerts - for one thing, Johnny Ramone fined band members $25 for showing up late. One concert, because of the drugs, Dee Dee was ill, so he made his way to the side of the stage and vomited - but he kept on playing! Also early in their career, Johnny Ramone was playing guitar so fast and furiously - creating a wall of sound with his downstrokes - that he cut his fingers. He kept playing although so much blood ended up on his T-shirt that the audience thought he had smuggled in blood capsules to use in the act. Later, as a result of the relentless touring, Johnny developed such thick calluses on his fingers that it was impossible to cut them.
• The Bangles had several hits in the 1980s, and like other bands, occasionally a member left the band and was replaced. For example, in 2005 bassist Michael Steele left the band. Why? Reality got in the way. Most of the Bangles have children, and they put family first, fitting in Bangles time whenever they can. Ms. Steele was the only member of the band without children, and Bangles lead singer Susanna Hoffs says, "Fair enough: she doesn't have kids, so she has more time to really devote to music, and it was probably extremely annoying to her when Back to School Night or something might bring down an entire tour, y'know? But that's just how it is for us. But I really wish her well."
• At age 16, White Rabbits bass player Adam Russell dropped out of high school because he was annoyed that his teachers insisted that he listen to them instead of reading books such as philosophy texts by Nietzsche, Moby Dick, and physics textbooks during class. Later, he moved to New York where he played music and got a job in the Strand bookstore, for which he had to take a test before being gainfully employed. The test included such questions as "Who wrote The Age of Innocence?" and "Who wrote Catcher in the Rye?" Not surprisingly, he had no trouble passing the test.
In 1965, Herman's Hermits second US no. 1 hit was a British music hall song from 1910 that paid tribute to a British monarch. What is the title of this song?
The Steagles was the team created by the temporary merger of two National Football League (NFL) teams, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles, during the 1943 season. The teams were forced to merge because both had lost many players to military service during World War II. The league's official record book refers to the team as "Phil-Pitt Combine", but the unofficial "Steagles", despite never being registered by the NFL, has become the enduring moniker.
The Steagles 1943 season was the Philadelphia franchise's first winning season in its history and the second for Pittsburgh's.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
American football, NFL to be precise.
Billy in Cypress U$A said:
Football
Alan J answered:
Football.
Randall wrote:
football
mj replied:
A WWII phenomenon
When the call to service left them undermanned, the Pittsburgh Steelers
and Philadelphia Eagles fielded a combined football team.
Cal in Vermont responded:
Football. The temporary 1943 mash-up of the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles came about as a response to the national crisis of War when so many of their players joined the military
zorch said:
Football. They were a combination of the Steelers and the Eagles.
David of Moon Valley wrote:
huh....
woulda been football…or so the sage old wikiness tells me…combo a the Steelers and Eagles…who'd a thunk it?
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
The "Steagles" is the popular nickname for the team created by the temporary merger of two National Football League teams, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles, during the 1943 season.
DJ Useo wrote:
That'd be football. A sport I like. I used to be pretty good at it, but I gave it up after hurting quite a few opponents.
I switched to the marching band. That way I still got into the games for free, & didn't shatter peoples' bones near as much.
Jacqueline said:
The Steagles was going to be the name of NFL teams the Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles back in 1943.
Daniel in The City answered:
American football, during WWII
Rosemary in Columbus responded:
Football in 1943
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame replied:
The answer is Football.
Dave
Pro football. A bit before my time. In 1943 so many NFL players were serving in the military the two Pennsylvania NFL franchises, the Steelers and the Eagles, were short handed. So the league merged the teams in order to play that year. Many of the players were classified by the Selective Service as 4F because of physical issues that rendered them unfit for military service, such as being blind in one eye, or stomach ulcers. The merger was important to the NFL because the league was able to field 8 teams in 1943 and didn't have to shut down. The merged team was competitive and ended 5-4-1, narrowly missing the championship playoff.
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...So the president and the RNC decamped for Jacksonville, Florida, where Trump's little buddy Ron DeSantis would be only too delighted to host a superspreader event, no questions asked. Then Florida's covid numbers spiked, which is HOLY GOD HORRIBLE!, and too late the RNC realized they'd have been better off staying in North Carolina, which is HILARIOUS!
..How will the RNC plan a party for 15,000 people who may or may not show up, with just a few weeks to find a venue and book the various food, swag, and security vendors?
This is too perfect. I grew up in Florida, and live here still (stop that sniggering!), and I hafta say this time of year is great for non-beach outdoor events; 95% humidity on average, temps in the high 90s. Late August so not a breath of wind, nor a cloud in the sky, except for the daily half hour torrential downpour. The MAGA folks should enjoy discovering the meaning of the term "swamp ass" (taint sweat, fyi)
Once the sun goes down they'll get to meet our official state insect (no, not Ron DeSantis): the mosquito! Tiny annoying bloodsuckers packed with West Nile virus, swarms of them, drawn to human exhalations like flies to shit. That will be fun to watch.
I see no possible downside to this genius plan
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Spectacular afternoon electrical storms are common in Florida during that time of year.
Linda >^..^<
We are all only temporarily able bodied.
As if 2020 hasn't been crappy enough, the freaking ShamWow guy is back, and hawking ShamWow masks.
Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Tough As Nails', followed by a FRESH'Game On!', then a RERUN'SEAL Team'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Ricky Gervais and W. Kamau Bell.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 6/3/20) are Rep. Val Demings and M. Ward.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Chicago Med', followed by a RERUN'Chicago Fire', then a RERUN'Chicago PD'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are James McAvoy, Stacey Abrams, and My Morning Jacket.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers is Charlize Theron.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 11/18/19) is Constance Wu.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'United We Fall', followed by another FRESH'United We Fall', then a RERUN'The Conners', followed by a RERUN'American Housewife', then a FRESH'Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel, with guest host Sebastian Maniscalco are Kelly Ripa, Ryan Seacrest, and J.J. Watt.
The CW offers a FRESH'The 100', followed by a FRESH'Bulletproof'.
Faux has a RERUN'MasterChef', followed by a FRESH'Ultimate Tag'.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by another old 'Dateline'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Fugitive', followed by the movie 'Demolition Man', then the movie 'Escape Plan'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Heart of Glory
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Arsenal of Freedom
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Symbiosis
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Skin of Evil
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - We'll Always Have Paris
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Conspiracy
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Neutral Zone
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Child
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Where Silence Has Lease
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Elementary, Dear Data
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Outrageous Okona
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Loud as a Whisper
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Schizoid Man
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Unnatural Selection
[8:00PM] TOTAL RECALL
[10:30PM] PITCH BLACK
[1:00AM] TOTAL RECALL
[3:30AM] PITCH BLACK (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of BH', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of BH', then another FRESH'Real Housewives Of BH', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'Furious 7', followed by the movie 'xXx: Return Of Xander Cage'.
History has 'Forged In Fire', another 'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire', and another 'Forged In Fire'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - Horses' Collars
[6:30A] The Three Stooges - If a Body Meets a Body
[7:00A] Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Space Mutiny
[9:15A] The Heartbreak Kid
[11:45A] Semi-Pro
[1:45P] Grown Ups
[4:00P] The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
[6:00P] Parks and Recreation
[6:30P] Parks and Recreation
[7:00P] Parks and Recreation
[7:30P] Parks and Recreation
[8:00P] Parks and Recreation
[8:30P] Parks and Recreation
[9:00P] Parks and Recreation
[9:30P] Parks and Recreation
[10:00P] Parks and Recreation
[10:30P] Parks and Recreation
[11:00P] Parks and Recreation
[11:30P] Parks and Recreation
[12:00A] Parks and Recreation
[12:30A] Parks and Recreation
[1:00A] Varsity Blues
[3:30A] The Heartbreak Kid (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am] the andy griffith show
[6:30am] the andy griffith show
[7:00am] the andy griffith show
[7:30am] the andy griffith show
[8:00am] the andy griffith show
[8:30am] the andy griffith show
[9:00am] the andy griffith show
[9:30am] the andy griffith show
[10:00am] the andy griffith show
[10:30am] the andy griffith show
[11:00am] the andy griffith show
[11:30am] columbo
[1:15pm] columbo
[3:00pm] criminal minds
[4:00pm] criminal minds
[5:00pm] criminal minds
[6:00pm] criminal minds
[7:00pm] criminal minds
[8:00pm] criminal minds
[9:00pm] criminal minds
[10:00pm] criminal minds
[11:00pm] criminal minds
[12:00am] criminal minds
[1:00am] criminal minds
[2:00am] criminal minds
[3:00am] graveyard shift
[5:00am] the andy griffith show
[5:30am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Harry Potter & The Order Of The Phoenix', followed by the movie 'Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince'.
In a plot twist right out of 30 Rock, NBC's biggest local affiliate groups have decided not to broadcast the network's upcoming 30 Rock reunion special, meaning at least half the country won't be able to see it when it debuts Thursday night. Vulture has learned that Gray Television, Hearst, Nexstar, Tegna, and Sinclair Broadcast Group - huge TV-station groups whose NBC affiliates reach about half the country's TV homes - have told NBC that they are planning to preempt Thursday's remotely filmed hour.
The apparent reason for the decision, per sources familiar with the matter: The station owners think the 30 Rock reunion, which was produced by the NBCUniversal ad-sales division as a replacement for the usual upfront presentation, is too much of a promotion for the company's new Peacock streaming platform. Station owners are understandably worried about Peacock siphoning viewers from linear TV, particularly since the new platform will offer next-day reruns of NBC shows on its premium tier (and week-late access to reruns on its free level). Reps for station groups contacted by Vulture, including Gray and Sinclair, did not respond to requests for comment. An NBC rep confirmed the preemptions but declined further comment.
This last-second revolt doesn't mean audiences won't be able to see Liz Lemon and the gang back in action. NBC owns its own stations in the nation's ten biggest TV markets, including New York and L.A., so viewers in about 40 percent of the country can still tune in as scheduled on Thursday at 8 p.m. In addition, NBC will post the full special to its NBC.com website, cable video on demand platforms, and, yes, Peacock on Friday morning. (Hulu users take note: The special will not stream there.) But Lemonheads living in Las Vegas or South Bend, Indiana (where Gray runs the NBC affiliate), will have to wait a few hours to see what's up with the Girlie Show gang.
It's not unprecedented for TV-station affiliates to preempt programming from the network; individual stations do it all the time for sports or news coverage, and every once in a while if a local station thinks the content of a program is too controversial for that city or town. Stations have also at times pulled very low-rated shows from prime time and replaced them with local or syndicated content due to financial considerations, i.e., they think they can make more money with nonnetwork programming. But a boycott of a prime-time special across multiple major station groups is not common at all, and is possibly a symptom of station groups' unhappiness with NBCU's Peacock plans.
Jimmy Fallon returned to his Rockefeller Center studio Monday, after months of shooting The Tonight Show from his home. He is the first late night host to return to the studio amid the COVID-19 pandemic. "I want to say thank you to everyone who helped us get back to where we are now, wearing masks, social distancing, washing hands, quarantining, it all helps," he said.
The late night host and New York resident has been filming his show from home since the novel coronavirus pandemic hit the state harder than any others in the U.S. in early March. Since the outbreak, New York has seen more than 200,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and upwards of 20,000 deaths related to the infectious disease. But the state's daily number of new confirmed cases has been declining since its high of approximately 11,500 cases in mid-April, with daily positive test results below 1,000 new cases a day for the past two weeks, amid a phased approach to reopening. New York City is in phase three of a four-phase reopening process, with the rest of the state in phase four.
Monday's episode opened with a jazzy number that sees Fallon walk to work taking proper COVID-19 precautions. In the opening, Fallon dons a crisp grey ensemble. His new accessory? A blue face mask.
Fallon last taped a show from The Tonight Show's 30 Rock home on March 12.
After 28 seasons, Tom Bergeron will no longer be hosting "Dancing With the Stars." Erin Andrews, his co-host since season 18, has also departed the show.
Bergeron made the announcement on Twitter on Monday night, saying he had just learned the show would be moving on without him.
"Just informed @DancingABC will be continuing without me. It's been an incredible 15 year run and the most unexpected gift of my career. I'm grateful for that and for the lifelong friendships made. That said, now what am I supposed to do with all of these glitter masks?" he tweeted.
Bergeron co-hosted all 28 seasons of the dance competition show from 2005 through 2020, spanning 15 years and nearly 450 episodes.
Dirty Dancing fans, prepare to have the time of your life all over again. For years, visitors to the Mountain Lake Lodge in Pembroke, Va., where the 1980s classic was filmed were greeted with a dry bed where Mountain Lake used to be. That's the body of water where Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) hoisted new dance partner Baby (Jennifer Grey) in the air as they prepared to wow the crowd at the all-important talent show that closed out the season at the film's fictional Catskills resort. Twelve years after the water receded, recent news reports show that Mountain Lake is suddenly filled again ... and we owe it all to geological anomalies.
After the lake drained, researchers swarmed into the suddenly dry area to study why it dramatically flowed away like the wind. They eventually determined that Mountain Lake exists on a natural cycle of rising and receding waters thanks to its one-of-a-kind "plumbing" system consisting of small holes that routinely drain away the H2O.
"When the lake drains - when it actually empties out - it is cleaning itself by moving sediment that has accrued in the bottom of the lake down through that rather complex plumbing system to actually make the lake bigger, deeper, and to keep it clean," Roanoke College environmental studies professor Jon Cawley told The Guardian in 2015. Researchers have reportedly determined that Mountain Lake reaches its lowest point roughly every 400 years. That means that you'll be able to practice your lifts up until the year 2420 when the area is poised to dry up completely again.
Transport for London (TfL) has removed Banksy's new coronavirus-themed artwork from a London Underground carriage.
The Bristol artist uploaded footage captioned "If you don't mask - you don't get" to social media on Tuesday afternoon, showing him spray-painting a Circle line train with stencilled depictions of rats.
One creature appeared to be sneezing pale blue droplets of virus across a carriage window, while one struggled under a face mask and another used the protective gear as a parachute.
Hours later, TfL confirmed that the artwork was removed "some days ago due to our strict anti-graffiti policy", but said it would welcome Banksy to recreate his message "in a suitable location".
Rome returned a stolen Banksy artwork to France on Tuesday after the famed street artist's homage to the victims of the 2015 Paris attacks was found in Italy.
The image of a young girl in mourning was painted with stencil and white paint on an emergency door of the Bataclan concert hall in Paris where Islamic State gunmen killed 90 people nearly five years ago.
It was found in the attic of an abandoned farmhouse in the central Italian region of Abruzzo last month.
The chief prosecutor of L'Aquila, the capital of Abruzzo, and the head of Italy's police in charge of cultural heritage handed over the work to France's ambassador Christian Masset at a Bastille Day ceremony.
The artwork was then displayed inside the French embassy in Rome's Farnese Palace.
A neglected site where the Alaska territorial flag was designed, sewn and first flown will be demolished despite last-minute efforts by Alaskans and a preservation group to save it.
The Seward City Council voted Monday to raze the Jesse Lee Home, once a Methodist-run facility where orphans and other displaced children from Alaska Native villages were sent, many after the Spanish Flu epidemic of a century ago.
The home's most famous resident was Benny Benson, a 13-year-old Aleut who won a territory-wide contest in 1927 with his flag design - seven gold stars forming the Big Dipper, pointing to the larger golden North Star, all on a field of blue. The design became the state flag after Alaska was admitted into the union in 1959. Benson is believed to be the only Indigenous person to design a state flag.
The plan is to raze the two remaining rundown buildings of the Jesse Lee Home and eventually build a memorial at the site with community input.
The children's home was moved to Seward from Unalaska and opened in 1925. It operated there until it was heavily damaged in the 1964 Alaska earthquake, and the children were moved to Anchorage in 1966.
The world's largest soaring bird-the Andean condor-can stay aloft for 5 hours and cover more than 100 miles of real estate without flapping its wings, according to new research.
Weighing upwards of 33 pounds (15 kg) and with a wingspan reaching 10 feet (3 meters), Andean condors are a physically impressive species. New research published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows the dramatic extent to which these scavengers can stay aloft and conserve energy as they patiently search for carrion on the ground.
Gliding from one air current to another, Andean condors spend nearly all of their flying time in this soaring mode, flapping their wings a mere 1.3% of the time, according to the new research, co-authored by Swansea University biologist Emily Shepard.
From 2013 to 2018, Shepard and her colleagues tracked eight Andean condors near Bariloche, Argentina, which they did by attaching flight-recorders capable of logging every wingbeat made by the birds during flight. The purpose of this exercise was to measure the effects of different weather conditions on condor flight. In total, the scientists managed to chronicle some 250 hours of data.
In the most extreme example, an Andean Condor spent five hours in the air without having to flap, during which time the bird covered 106 miles (172 km). David Lentink, a biologist from Stanford University who wasn't involved in the new study, described the results as "mind-blowing," as he told The Guardian.
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