A huge plus from Bootie Mashup are the many awesome mashup collections they release. They always go to the extra trouble of posting these superb mp3 albums. We all feel the benefit from them.
Who could ask for more, when more is already available? ;) Join in the fun, & check out the completely free volumes in the Bootie Mashup series. Big thanks to Adriana A, & all the Bootie Mashup regulars for the tons of joy you’ve brought, & will continue to bring.
Pardon me now, I have lots more mashup zip files to open!
• In the 1930s, writer Alice Mary Norton had her name legally changed to Andre Norton because at that time men were able more easily than women to sell their writing. Ms. Norton became the famous author of such fantasies as Witch World and Star Gate.
Nobel Prizes
• The Nobel Prizes are awarded by a committee of 11 Swedish men. For a prize to be given, the 11 men have to vote unanimously; otherwise, no prize is given in that category in that year. This means that one or two men on the committee can keep certain nominees from winning. In 1976, Saul Bellow won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Previously, he had been on the short list of writers considered for the award, but two men on the selection committee had opposed his winning. However, the two men died, and Mr. Bellow won the award. When he heard the inside story of how he had been chosen for the award, Mr. Bellow said, “Oh, you mean it only took two men to die for me to get the Nobel Prize!”
• Princess Grace of Monaco sent John Steinbeck a congratulatory letter when he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, so Mr. Steinbeck asked his wife to look up the proper way to address an envelope to a princess so he could reply with the proper etiquette. Mrs. Steinbeck did so, then asked if he knew the proper way to begin the letter. “Sure,” said Mr. Steinbeck. “I’ve already written it: ‘Princess Grace, honey — .’”
• Dorothy Parker taught at Los Angeles State College, where she discovered that the students were “narrow.” She had them read John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, but the students disliked the book, saying it was dirty. However, when Mr. Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the students’ attitudes changed. According to Mrs. Parker, “After that, they behaved as if they had given it to him.”
Old Age
• In his old age, James M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, was forced to write with his left hand instead of his right. His secretary, Lady Cynthia Asquith (who got her job partly because she didn’t know how to type — Mr. Barrie disliked the sound of a typewriter), later wrote, “I remember his announcing this change quite formally, as though in dismissing his right hand he were giving notice to a servant of many years faithful service.”
• While visiting China, African-American author Alice Walker met the great Chinese woman writer Ding Ling, who had been imprisoned for opposing the subjection of women. Although Ding Ling was still writing at age 80, she wished that she could have back the time she had lost while being persecuted. She told Ms. Walker, “Oh, to be 67 again!”
Plays
• Actor Robert Morley enjoyed changing the dialogue of the plays he appeared in, including Peter Ustinov’s Halfway Up the Tree. When Mr. Ustinov saw the play, he told Mr. Morley that it was “very funny.” Mr. Morley said, “That’s a relief, Peter. By this time I’m usually not talking to the author.” Mr. Ustinov replied, “What? Not even talking to yourself?” When Mr. Morley left the play and was replaced by actor Jimmy Edwards, Mr. Ustinov said, “I think Jimmy Edwards will be great. My only concern is what he will do to Bob Morley’s script.”
• It’s easy to believe that Alexander Woollcott was the real-life inspiration for Sheridan Whiteside, the very unpleasant guest in George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s comic play The Man Who Came to Dinner. After all, Mr. Woollcott once wrote in Mr. Hart’s guest book: “This is to certify that on my first visit to Moss Hart’s house I had one of the most unpleasant times I ever spent.”
Sapphire is a precious gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum, consisting of aluminum oxide (a-Al2O3) with trace amounts of elements such as iron, titanium, chromium, vanadium, or magnesium. It is typically blue, but natural "fancy" sapphires also occur in yellow, purple, orange, and green colors; "parti sapphires" show two or more colors. Red corundum stones also occur but are called rubies not sapphires. Pink colored corundum may be either classified as ruby or sapphire depending on locale. Commonly, natural sapphires are cut and polished into gemstones and worn in jewelry. They also may be created synthetically in laboratories for industrial or decorative purposes in large crystal boules. Because of the remarkable hardness of sapphires – 9 on the Mohs scale (the third hardest mineral, after diamond at 10 and moissanite at 9.5) – sapphires are also used in some non-ornamental applications, such as infrared optical components, high-durability windows, wristwatch crystals and movement bearings, and very thin electronic wafers, which are used as the insulating substrates of special-purpose solid-state electronics such as integrated circuits and GaN-based blue LEDs.
Sapphire is the birthstone for September and the gem of the 45th anniversary. A sapphire jubilee occurs after 65 years.
The Logan sapphire, the Star of India, The Star of Adam and the Star of Bombay originate from Sri Lankan mines. Madagascar is the world leader in sapphire production (as of 2007) specifically its deposits in and around the town of Ilakaka. Prior to the opening of the Ilakaka mines, Australia was the largest producer of sapphires (such as in 1987). In 1991 a new source of sapphires was discovered in Andranondambo, southern Madagascar. That area has been exploited for its sapphires started in 1993, but it was practically abandoned just a few years later—because of the difficulties in recovering sapphires in their bedrock.
Source
Cal in Vermont was first, and correct, with:
Madagascar topped the list of world production of sapphires in 2007. They also currently lead the world in the production of vanilla. And lemurs. And probably nature documentaries.
Mark. said:
Madagascar.
Randall wrote:
Madagascar?
Alan J answered:
Madagascar.
Jacqueline responded:
Sri Lanka.
Dave replied:
Madagascar. But that answer seems to vary over time, and if we are talking about gem quality sapphires, the answer might be Kashmir. The distribution of sapphire mines is world wide, mainly in Asia and the Americas. I didn’t read about any sapphires originating in Europe or Russia.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Madagascar is the world leader in sapphire production
Daniel in The City responded
Madagascar
Billy in Cypress U. $. A. said:
Madagascar
DJ Useo wrote:
I suspect the answer is an African country, but I don't know which. Well-played, M.
Rosemary in Columbus answered:
Madagascar
Deborah, the Master Gardener responded:
Running really late — air cleared and I rode with a friend along one of the most scenic roads in our county, and it’s toast…shades of gray, black, burnt brown…I had hoped to clear my head, but filled it with hurt for friends and strangers alike whose lives are so dramatically changed.
My WAG is Australia. The opals from that country are amazing, so why shouldn’t their sapphires be so, as well?
mj took the day off.
Jon L took the day off.
Micki took the day off.
Ed K took the day off.
John I from Hawai`i took the day off.
David of Moon Valley took the day off.
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) took the day off.
Harry M. took the day off.
Michelle in AZ took the day off.
Kevin in Washington DC took the day off.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame took the day off.
Stephen F took the day off.
Roy, the Texas Snowflake, keeping his distance in Tyler took the day off.
Leo in Boise took the day off.
Kenn B took the day off.
Dave in Tucson took the day off.
George M. took the day off.
Doug in Albuquerque, New Mexico, took the day off.
-pgw took the day off.
Gary K took the day off.
Roy the (now retired) hoghead (aka 'hoghed') ( Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. ~Frank Zappa ) took the day off.
DAngelo took the day off.
Saskplanner took the day off.
Gateway Mike took the day off.
Steve in Wonderful Sacramento, CA, took the day off.
MarilynofTC took the day off.
Paul of Seattle took the day off.
Brian S. took the day off.
Gene took the day off.
Tony K. took the day off.
Noel S. took the day off.
James of Alhambra took the day off.
BttbBob has returned to semi-retired status.
~~~~~
Info: prostatepaladin, a fan, wrote, “Give thanks to these German bards, who bring us this powerful record, wreathed in lush pastoral folklore. Favorite track: Count and Nun.”
woltersharkonnen, a fan, wrote, “The riffs stomp marvelously, the sound is voluminous and differentiated at the same time and singer Caro has gained enormous charisma. She resolutely sings about the bloody fate of lustful counts, tells of entopian petroglyphs or how the hero's bones were turned to dust by poison arrows armed with flowers. I see the hordes of frocks in my mind's eye as they stand in front of the stage shaking their fists and sing along with foam at their mouths.” — translated from woltersharkonnen’s original German.
Price: €1 (EURO) for track; €5 (EUROs) for 16-track album
I'm hanging up butterfly wrangling.
A tree trimming incident this morning resulted in the loss of all my plants and their inhabitants.
I'm bummed, but it was fun while it lasted.
Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS fills the night with the FRESH'The 55th Academy Of Country Music Awards'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert is Drew Barrymore.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are John David Washington, Michael McIntyre, and Glass Animals.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'America's Got Talent', followed by a RERUN'Ellen's Game Of Games', then a RERUN'Chicago PD'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Sharon Stone, Shaquille O'Neal, and Kylie Minogue.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Cynthia Nixon, Michael Stipe, Larry Wilmore, and Sonny Emory.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 4/7/20) are Adam Rodriguez and Kesley Cook.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'The Goldbergs', followed by a RERUN'black-ish', then a RERUN'The Conners', followed by a RERUN'American Housewife', then it's TBA.
Jimmy Kimmel (from 9/8/20), with guest host Josh Gad, is Daisy Ridley.
The CW offers a FRESH'The 100', followed by a FRESH'Coroner'.
Faux has a RERUN'MasterChef', followed by another RERUN'MasterChef'.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by another old 'Dateline'.
AMC offers the movie 'Rocky Balboa', followed by the movie 'The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - FIELD OF FIRE
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - CHIMERA
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - INTER ARMA ENIM SILENT LEGES
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - BADDA-BING, BADDA-BING
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - PENUMBRA
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - 'TIL DEATH DO US PART
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE SURVIVORS
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - WHO WATCHES THE WATCHERS?
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE BONDING
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - BOOBY TRAP
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE ENEMY
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE PRICE
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE VENGEANCE FACTOR
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE DEFECTOR
[8:00PM] TITANIC
[12:30AM] TITANIC
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE PRICE (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of BH', another 'Real Housewives Of BH', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of BH', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
Comedy Central has all old 'South Park' all night.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show it's The Daily Social Distancing Show.
FX has the movie 'The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift', followed by the movie 'Furious 7'.
History has 'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire: Judges' Cut'.
IFC -
[6:00am] The Three Stooges - Three Missing Links
[6:30am] The Three Stooges - Up In Daisy's Penthouse
[6:45am] Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return - The Beast Of Hollow Mountain
[8:45am] Envy
[11:00am] Galaxy Quest
[1:30pm] The Dukes Of Hazzard
[3:45pm] The Final Destination
[5:45pm] Final Destination 2
[7:45pm] Final Destination 3
[9:45pm] Final Destination
[12:00am] Parks And Recreation
[12:30am] Parks And Recreation
[1:00am] Parks And Recreation
[1:30am] Parks And Recreation
[2:00am] Parks And Recreation
[2:30am] Parks And Recreation
[3:00am] Parks And Recreation
[3:30am] Parks And Recreation
[4:00am] Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Gauntlet - Experiment 1206: Ator
[5:40am] The Three Stooges - Slippery Silks (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 - Lady In Waiting
[1:15pm] columbo - Short Fuse
[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] close up with the hollywood reporter - Drama Showrunners
[4:00am] perry mason
[5:00am] perry mason (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'American Sniper', followed by the movie 'The Da Vinci Code'.
Jon Stewart returned to Capitol Hill Tuesday after a 15-year battle fighting for the 9/11 victims' compensation fund. But this time, the comedian is advocating for veterans affected by burn pits.
"Welcome to another exciting episode of 'When is America going to start acting like the great country we keep telling ourselves we are?'" Stewart said during a press conference just outside the Capitol.
Stewart appeared alongside Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Calif., 9/11 first responder advocate John Feal, former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and veterans affected by burn pits to unveil new legislation on the issue.
The bill, Presumptive Benefits for War Fighters Exposed to Burn Pits and Other Toxins Act of 2020, would entitle service members to lifetime health care coverage if they were present at a burn site and suffer from cancer or any respiratory disease linked to carcinogenic toxins.
"To put it simply, the bill says that if you were there, you are covered, plain and simple," Gillibrand said.
The latest Biden campaign fundraiser had plenty of statements about the importance of the next election, the urgency of defeating Donald Trump, and all that is at stake for the future.
But it also was a bit surreal, as Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton joined with Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler, who spoofed them on Saturday Night Live.
“You’ve each played one of us on Saturday Night Live. Can you just …walk us through what that process is like?” Harris asked the two comedians.
“Like, in front of you?” Rudolph answered, as Clinton let out a loud laugh. “That’s embarrassing.”
The low-dollar virtual event, which drew more than 100,000 donors, raised more than $6 million for the Biden Victory Fund.
CNBC host Jim Cramer called Nancy Pelosi “Crazy Nancy,” while interviewing her on Tuesday, echoing president Donald Trump, who has repeatedly mocked the house speaker using that name.
Cramer made the remark during an interview with the house speaker on Tuesday morning, while he questioned her about the likelihood of a new coronavirus relief package being approved soon.
“What deal can we have, Crazy Nancy?” the host said, before he immediately told Ms Pelosi: “I'm sorry, that was the president. I have such reverence for the office, I would never use that term.”
The house speaker briefly laughed and told Cramer: “But you just did, but you just did,” before she then agreed that she knew what the host meant with the remark.
Ms Pelosi added: “Let me just say this, anything the president says is a projection of his own insecurities. He calls other people crazy because he knows he is.
Weed sales are skyrocketing and socially distanced classrooms are in session: The COVID pandemic comes to South Park when Comedy Central’s long-running animated series returns Sept. 30 with a one-hour episode titled “The Pandemic Special.”
The supersized episode, as with all subsequent new episodes of the show’s 24th season, will be available on HBO Max 24 hours after the Comedy Central premiere.
“The Pandemic Special” finds Randy seizing on a growing pot market as he comes to terms with his role in the COVID-19 outbreak. Cartman, still in pajamas from remote learning, is none too thrilled about returning to the “slavery” of the school classroom where teachers seem to have been replaced by cops. Nothing, says Comedy Central, resembles the normal everyone once knew.
In the real world, HBO Max licensed South Park last year for a deal estimated at more than $500 million. The series has been renewed for three more seasons by Comedy Central, with HBO Max subscribers getting next-day access to new episodes – as well as the entire South Park library – across internet-connected devices.
America's reputation among some allies has fallen to its lowest point in nearly two decades, according to a global survey.
The findings of the Pew Research Center poll reflect public perceptions of the US in 13 countries.
Positive views of the US has fallen to a median of 34% across the countries surveyed, and only 16% confidence in President Trump.
An overwhelming majority - 84%- said the US has handled coronavirus badly.
Though favourable views of the US has been falling in recent years, in 2020, the perceptions in several countries were the lowest Pew had seen since it began polling on the subject some 20 years ago.
Wildlife experts in New Mexico say birds in the region are dropping dead in alarming numbers, potentially in the "hundreds of thousands."
“It appears to be an unprecedented and a very large number,” Martha Desmond, a professor at New Mexico State University’s department of fish, wildlife, and conservation ecology, told NBC’s Albuquerque affiliate KOB.
In a video posted by Las Cruces Sun News, journalist Austin Fisher shows a cluster of dead birds he discovered while on a hike on Sept. 13 in the state’s northern Rio Arriba County.
Desmond said it is difficult to say how many birds are dying, but that there have been reports across the state. “I can say it would easily be in the hundreds of thousands of birds."
Patagonia has added a blunt message to the tag on its newest line of shorts: "Vote the a--holes out."
The tags are a call to vote against politicians who deny climate change, according to Patagonia spokesperson Tessa Byars.
"They were added to our 2020 Men's and Women's Road to Regenerative Organic Stand-Up Shorts because we have been standing up to climate deniers for almost as long as we've been making those shorts," Byars said.
The message is something the founder of Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard, has been saying for several years, according to Byars.
"It refers to politicians from any party who deny or disregard the climate crisis and ignore science, not because they aren't aware of it, but because their pockets are lined with money from oil and gas interests," Byars said.
When Marven Robinson was a kid, any mention of spirit bears was met with hushed dismissal from the elders in his community, the Gitga’at First Nation of Hartley Bay, British Columbia. Since the 19th century, Indigenous peoples in the area learned to keep the bears with ghostly coats a secret to protect them from fur traders.
As the ancient legend goes, the Wee’get (meaning the “raven,” known as the creator of the world) turned every 10th black bear white to remind people of the pristine conditions of the Ice Age.
Spirit bears are white-coated black bears that inherit their pale fur from a rare recessive gene. Known as moksgm’ol, meaning “white bear”, spirit bears are sacred to the Indigenous people who live in the Great Bear Rainforest, a 6.4m-hectare swath of land in central and northern British Columbia.
Despite growing public interest in the bruins, scientific understanding of them is still nascent. But a recent collaborative study by the Kitasoo/Xai’xais and Gitga’at First Nations and academic researchers has revealed that the white bear is rarer and more vulnerable than previously thought.
Researchers spent eight years combing 18,000sq km of the rainforest, placing lures on barbed wire to collect hair samples from black and spirit bears and map out the presence of the white bear gene. While scientists had previously estimated there were anywhere between 100 to 500 white bears, the study concluded the gene that causes spirit bears is up to 50% rarer than previously thought. Urgently, about half of spirit bear hotspots fall outside of British Columbia protected areas, making their habitats vulnerable to logging, mining and drilling projects.
You have reached the Home page of BartCop Entertainment.
Do you have something to say?
Anything that increased your blood pressure, or, even better, amused or entertained?
Do you have a great album no one's heard?
How about a favorite TV show, movie, book, play, cartoon, or legal amusement?
A popular artist that just plain pisses you off?
A box set the whole world should own?
Vile, filthy rumors about Republican hypocrites?