I made a mashup once that I was really proud of. The first comment I got was from someone I considered a "biggie" on the mashup scene. Too bad for me all he said was "No, just no." So, in that spirit, I offer you now, eight mashup concepts to say "No" to.
Next week I'll be back with the Halloween mashup roundup. Hopefully. Not too many being posted so far this year. Akk!
Bess Lovejoy: Fond Farewells (Lapham's Quarterly)
In September 1963, a month after the publication of The American Way of Death, Jessica Mitford wrote a letter to her mother-in-law: "Book news. I'll have to do this staccato style, as there's so much…60,000 copies now in print...will be number-four best-seller in next Sunday's Times…huge spread in both Life and Time...reviews are pouring in from all over, not a bad one in the lot so far…masses and masses of letters, and all good…Everyone is saying it's a revolution in burial customs. Can't wait to get back to the revolution (in living customs)."
College Humor: We Bought This Guy's Dreadlocks Banana For $2,600!
One week ago, we all heard about Henry Gribbohm, the New Hampshire man who lost his $2,600 life savings trying to win an X-Box in a (possibly rigged) carnival game, then ended up with a giant stuffed banana with dreadlocks as a consolation prize.
OnlyLeigh: Night of the Raging Fangirls (YouTube)
Who are the new girls at the fangirls club meeting? Why are they so spooky? What is happening to all the girls? Who will save us??? ...And now, the weather.
The Bowery Boys were fictional New York City characters who were the subject of feature films released by Monogram Pictures from 1946 through 1958.
The Bowery Boys were successors of the "The East Side Kids," who were the subject of films since 1940. The group originated as the "Dead End Kids", who originally appeared in the 1937 film Dead End. A few of the actors previously appeared together as "The Little Tough Guys."
The original main characters were Terrence Aloysius "Slip" Mahoney (Leo Gorcey), Horace Debussy "Sach" Jones (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (Billy Benedict), and Chuck (David Gorcey, sometimes billed as David Condon). The proprietor of the malt shop where they hung out was the panicky Louie Dumbrowski (Bernard Gorcey - Leo and David's father).
Like a streetwise Abbott and Costello, Gorcey and Hall became a cohesive comedy duo, extending their verbal and physical humor into broader slapstick comedy that served to increase the popularity of the series. In 1953 Edward Bernds, a new producer and director who had previously worked with The Three Stooges, transformed the series into lucrative kiddie-matinée fodder, with Gorcey and Hall re-enacting gags borrowed from the Stooges. (Huntz Hall cited Shemp Howard, who appeared in three Little Tough Guys films, as a major influence during this latter phase in the series.)
In all, there were 48 Bowery Boys films (the longest feature-film series in motion picture history), with the final film, In the Money, being released in 1958. Only Huntz Hall and David Gorcey had remained with the series since 1946.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
The Bowery Boys. I think i watched about a million of those things, but I never really got into it.
Alan J wrote:
The Bowery Boys
mj said:
If I remember, these guys
Took up way too many Saturday mornings. They were the Bowery Boys.
Lois Of Oregon responded:
You sadden me with you query of "who were Satch and Slip".
The question SHOULD be "who were Dippy and Spit"! Feh, the
Bowery Boys were but a cynical and avaricious exploitation
of the Dead End Kids, milking the popularity of middle aged
actors at the end of their careers. Maybe we should not
judge them. They probably needed money for drugs, as do we
all in our golden years. Yet, let us remember them as they
were, participants in a film of monumental importance that
should be mandatory viewing today, inasmuch as it is a view
into our near future, for everything old is new again! Let
us not forget the "DEAD END" KIDS!
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
The Bowery Boys
Adam answered:
The Bowery Boys.
Marian said:
The Bowery Boys
DJ Useo responded:
The answer is deffo "The Bowery Boys", although the act was known by a few
other names as well, like "The East Side Kids".
I liked them more when I was a teenager, but I still enjoy them occasionally.
In many ways, their films remind me of a type of pre-television series.
They made a lot of them, and quite a few per year, apparently.
Sach was a funny dope, but I really enjoyed slips'
employment of exaggerated vernacular.
I suspect the copyright has lapsed, since unrelated stuff like this has appeared.
Thanks for the fun trivia question.
MAM wrote:
The Bowery Boys ~ 48 "Bowery Boys" films.
Terrence Aloysius Mahoney (Slip) Leo Bernard Gorcey and Horace Debussy Jones (Sach) Henry "Huntz" Richard Hall.
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali, answered:
First they were "The Dead End Kids" and then they were the "East Side Kids. "And Finally the "The Bowery Boys" were created in 1945 starringTerrence Aloysius "Slip" Mahoney (Leo Gorcey ), Horace Debussy "Sach" Jones (Huntz Hall ), Bobby (Bobby Jordan ), Whitey (Billy Benedict ), and Chuck (David Gorcey , sometimes billed as David Condon). "Sunshine" Sammy Morrison ("Scruno" in the East Side Kids films), declined the invitation to rejoin the gang (later stating in an interview that he "didn't like the setup", possibly referring to the idea of Gorcey and Hall being in the forefront, and being paid much more than the other members).
I liked them more when they did movie work, but they were no "Three Stooges".
Sally said:
I think that, "The Bowery Boys" was the film series that revolved around Aloysius Mahoney (Slip) and Horace Debussy Jones (Sach)?
If you disliked the 3 Stooges, The Bowery Boys were even worse!
PS: I have been on the phone all day, calling people and reminding them to get out and vote on WEDNESDAY's special election for state senator. We have a seat open,and my darling Corey Booker will win against the evil tea bagger, Steve Lonegan. Booker is now the mayor of Newark, NJ. His dad died a few days ago, and Lonegan chose that day to attack Booker in the most vicious attack ever!! But, isn't that's how these baggers roll?
BttbBob replied:
Ya mean these guys?
They are "The Bowery Boys" (alternatively, "The Dead End Kids" or "The East End Kids"). Though affable, clever and seemingly harmless, they were rogues and rascals, nascent 'Wise Guys' as it were, and NOT the kind I'd want my daughters to bring home for me to meet. Nope... Definitely not worthy... Next!
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However, I will allow that those "Bowery Boys" were nowhere near as nefarious as the original "Bowery Boys"...
... and "Bill the Butcher" really was their leader. Although, in reality he died well before the main setting of this movie
Gangs of New York (2002) - IMDb in 1863. And, I believe the gang 'color' actually was red, not blue. BTW, they were associated with the Democratic Party of that time. You know, Tammany Hall and "Boss" Tweed... not to cast any present day aspersions, mind you now. If anything, time has flipped the major political parties and their ethos and characteristics, I'm thinkin'... including the colors.
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Happy Birthday this to:
(87) JoeS! I had this signed especially for you! No, that's a lie. But, I would if I could...
(66) I read a couple of days ago that she says that she and her husband has sex at least twice a day, every day. I think that's grand... Really...
(54) A great film. The Thomaston prison mentioned in the film was the only prison in Maine when I was CG stationed in nearby Rockland. I use to bird hunt along the river behind the prison well within sight of the guard towers. It's an old forbidding fortress of a structure. The guards would eye us with binoculars, but ignored us as we were obviously hunters and we stayed well away from the walls and grounds proper...
And, Joe S said:
Well evidently it was the Bowery Boys. I didn't know that. I've never seen a Bowery Boys movie and I'm not really sure what it's all about.
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Survivor', followed by a FRESH'Criminal Minds', then a FRESH'CSI: The Original One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Bill O'Really (R-Collaborator), the Head and the Heart.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig is Robin Williams.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Revolution', followed by a FRESH'L&O: SVU', then a FRESH'Ironside'.
On a RERUNLeno (from 9/26/13) are Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ron Paul, and Little Big Town.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 9/9/13) are are Steve Harvey, the cast of "Duck Dynasty", and Kanye West.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/16/13) are are Greta Gerwig, Molly Crabapple, and Pierce the Veil.
ABC begins the night with the FRESH'Toy Story Of Terror', followed by the FRESH'Back In The Game', then a FRESH'Modern Family', followed by a FRESH'Super Fun Night', then a FRESH'Nashville'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Danny McBride, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Michael Franti.
The CW offers a FRESH'Arrow', followed by a FRESH'The Tomorrow People'.
Scheduled on a FRESHArsenio Hall are Jackie Chan, Judy Greer, and Gary "G-Thang" Johnson.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'MLB Playoffs', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.
A&E has 3 hours of old 'Duck Dynasty', followed by a FRESH'Duck Dynasty', then a FRESH'Bad Ink'.
AMC offers the movie 'Friday The 13th Part VII: The New Blood', followed by the movie 'Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 2 - Ep 2 - Tooth and Claw
[9:00AM] MERLIN - Season 2 - Ep 3 - The Nightmare Begins
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 18 - Allegiance
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 19 - Captain's Holiday
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 20 - Tin Man
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Sebastian's
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 2 - D-Place
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 2 - Giuseppi's
[4:00PM] ROYAL BABIES
[5:00PM] CLEOPATRA
[9:00PM] BURTON AND TAYLOR
[11:00PM] BURTON AND TAYLOR
[1:00AM] ROYAL BABIES
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 8 - Episode 1
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 8 - Episode 2
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 2 - Episode 9
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 2 - Episode 10 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', 'Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles', followed by a FRESH'Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles', then a FRESH'Top Chef'.
Comedy Central has an old 'Colbert Report', an old 'Jon Stewart', 'Key & Peele', 'South Park', another 'South Park', still another 'South Park', followed by a FRESH'South Park', then a FRESH'Key & Peele'.
On a RERUNJon Stewart (from 9/30/13) is Bill O'Really (R-Propagandist).
On a RERUNColbert Report (from 10/8/13) are Paul Giamatti.
FX has the movie 'Paranormal Activity', followed by the movie 'Paranormal Activity 2', then a FRESH'American Horror Story'.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers', and another 'American Pickers'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] The Savages
[8:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Gillian Jacobs Wears a Red Dress with Sail Boats
[9:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[9:15AM] Daltry Calhoun
[11:15AM] Robin Hood: Men in Tights
[1:30PM] The Savages
[4:00PM] Daltry Calhoun
[6:00PM] The Matador
[8:00PM] Shanghai Noon
[10:30PM] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
[1:30AM] Red Dragon
[4:15AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[4:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Gillian Jacobs Wears a Red Dress with Sail Boats
[5:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Andy Richter Wears a Suit Jacket and a Baby Blue Button Down Shirt
[5:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Sarah Silverman Wears a Black Dress With a White collar (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Ten for Grandpa
[6:15AM] The Writers' Room-New Girl
[6:45AM] The Bridge on the River Kwai
[10:15AM] The Darjeeling Limited
[12:15PM] Fantastic Mr. Fox
[2:00PM] Moulin Rouge
[4:45PM] Lost in Translation
[7:00PM] Dream School-Jeff Corwin, Soledad O'Brien, David Arquette & Doriana Sanchez
[8:00PM] Any Given Sunday
[11:30PM] Any Given Sunday
[3:00AM] Cliffhanger
[5:30AM] The Writers' Room-Game of Thrones (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Ghost Hunters', another 'Ghost Hunters', followed by a (F) 'Ghost Hunters', thena FRESH'Ghost Mine'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Ke$ha, Jesse Bering, Leven Rambin, Fitz and the Tantrums.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton smiles next to musician Elton John after receiving the Founders Award during the Elton John AIDS foundation in New York October 15, 2013.
Photo by Eduardo Munoz
The duo of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler proved such a success at hosting the Golden Globes in January that they've been signed up for the same job for the next two years.
NBC, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and producers of the Golden Globes announced the unusual two-year commitment on Tuesday. Next year's Golden Globes will be held in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Jan. 12.
They were bathed in critical love for their performance this year, with Associated Press critic Frazier Moore calling them "the night's biggest winners." They got laughs without being polarizing, as was the case with predecessor Ricky Gervais. Poehler even poked fun during the show at the Hollywood debate over whether Gervais was too hard-edged in mocking Hollywood stars.
More important than critical support, Fey and Poehler were good for business. The Golden Globes had their best ratings in six years for the most recent presentation, and were up 17 per cent over the 2012 show.
Directors Joel (L) and Ethan Coen arrive for the premiere of their film 'Inside Llewyn Davis' as part of the BFI London Film Festival in central London, October 15, 2013.
Photo by Olivia Harris
As he prepared to read from the Philip Roth novel "The Plot Against America" on Tuesday, Alec Baldwin looked to the table on his left and checked out the author's photos on the Roth books arranged in a semicircle.
"Look how handsome he is," Baldwin said of the dark-eyed novelist, famous for such ribald fiction as "Portnoy's Complaint" and "Sabbath's Theater." "If I looked like that, I would have written books with a lot of sex in them, too," Baldwin said.
Baldwin and fellow actors John Rothman and Paul Carlin were featured at a free midday event in Manhattan, reading from three Roth novels: "The Plot Against America," ''Portnoy's Complaint" and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Plot Against America." Hundreds gathered at Temple Emanu-El for a tribute co-sponsored by the Library of America, which publishes hardcover editions of classic literature, and by the cultural advocacy project Toward International Peace Through the Arts (TIPA).
While the 80-year-old Roth is the only living novelist to have all his work released by the Library of America and has received more than a table's worth of prizes, a temple seemed an unlikely setting for praise. Roth is a longtime non-believer whose books were often criticized by Jews for reinforcing Jewish stereotypes.
But the day's first speaker, Rabbi Joshua Davidson, spoke warmly of Roth and the author himself had planned to attend before falling ill last week. Still recovering from an infection, Roth sent a note of apology, lamenting that a "microbe made a deal with my intestine and knocked me down."
Superman and Asterix have more in common than meets the eye, according to a new exhibit at Paris' Immigration History Museum.
Comic sketches and magazines from 1913 to the present show how comic books the world over were shaped by the immigrant story, from French Asterix's "foreign" Polish and Italian authors, to American Superman's Eastern European co-creators.
Drawing on 500 sketches and documents from some 117 artists, the exhibit opening Wednesday explains how immigrants on the fringes of society were attracted to the subculture of comic books.
Comic characters themselves are also often masked allegories for being foreign, from Asterix, the yellow-haired Gaul who fights Romans and travels around the world, to the alien Kal-El, who tries to live on earth among humans despite his super powers, the exhibit argues.
Actress Jacqueline Bisset poses at a special screening of "12 Years a Slave" at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles, California October 14, 2013. The movie will open in limited release in the U.S. on October 18.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
A judge said he did not see an urgent need to intervene in the affairs of Casey Kasem after a court-appointed attorney told him Tuesday the ailing radio host is receiving adequate medical care for advanced Parkinson's disease.
Attorney Samuel Ingham told Judge Roy Paul that he had visited Kasem and did not see an immediate need for a conservatorship, However, Ingham said he still lacked information about Kasem's doctors and treatments.
Kasem's daughter Julie Kasem filed a petition last week for a temporary conservatorship, accusing her father's wife of blocking her and two of her siblings from seeing their father and preventing them from making decisions about his medical care.
Kasem continues to live at home with his wife and their adult daughter, but his three children from a previous marriage say they are being blocked from visiting him and having a say in his care.
Paul appointed an independent doctor to review Kasem's medical records and to meet with him then report back to the court before a Nov. 19 court hearing.
Harry Belafonte has sued the estate of Martin Luther King Jr. in New York over the fate of three documents he tried to sell at auction.
The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan. It seeks unspecified damages and a court declaration Belafonte is the rightful owner.
The documents are an outline of a Vietnam War speech by King, notes to a speech King never got to deliver in Memphis, Tenn., and a condolence letter from President Lyndon B. Johnson to King's wife after the civil rights leader's 1968 assassination.
The lawsuit says Belafonte was preparing to auction the items in 2008 when the estate blocked it.
Jimmy Jean Louis, Robert Gossett, Louis Gossett Jr. and LeVar Burton attend Fox Searchlight's Los Angeles Premiere of 12 Years A Slave, on Monday, October, 4th, 2013 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Todd Williamson
A Dutch initiative to combat illegal cannabis cultivation through the use of marijuana-scented "scratch-and-sniff" cards has gone nationwide to alert citizens to what their neighbours may be up to.
The expansion comes after a pilot project launched three years ago to combat illegal weed plantations by helping people to recognise the smell proved a success.
Backed by police, city councils and energy service providers who have their electricity stolen, thousands of cannabis-odoured cards will be distributed in four Dutch cities including Amstelveen near Amsterdam, a spokesman for the initiative said.
The proportion of people able to sniff out an illegal plantation increased from 40 to 60 percent, Dutch daily Trouw reported.
Japan's Fukushima Industries said Tuesday it was rethinking its "Fukuppy" mascot, after the Internet erupted in sniggers over a name that recalls the catalogue of mishandling at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
The Osaka-based refrigerator maker, whose name derives from its founder and has nothing to do with the area hit by an atomic catastrophe, has been ridiculed on social networking sites for the name it gave its egg-like mascot, which has blue wings and red feet.
"I'm Fukuppy. Nice to meet you," the smiling character with a human face tells visitors to the company's website. "I think I'm kind with a strong sense of justice but people say I'm a little bit scatterbrained."
Fukushima Industries unveiled "Fukuppy" in April, blending the first part of the company name -- Fuku -- and the end of the English word "happy", saying it represented the corporate philosophy of being a happiness-creating company.
Actor John Goodman arrives for the premiere of Coen brothers film Inside Llewyn Davis as part of the BFI London Film Festival in central London, October 15, 2013.
Photo by Olivia Harris
A Holocaust survivor's family urged New York's highest court Tuesday to let them keep an ancient gold tablet that their late father somehow obtained in Germany after World War II.
Attorney Steven Schlesinger argued that the estate of Riven Flamenbaum has a legal claim, whether the native of Poland bought the relic from a Russian soldier or simply took it to compensate for losing his family at Auschwitz, the concentration camp where he spent several years.
"Under the Soviet rules at the time, there was permission to pillage and plunder," Schlesinger said. "My client could have taken it in retribution."
The tablet was in the collection of the Vorderasiatisches Museum, a branch of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, before the war. The family argued that the museum's failure to reclaim the tablet for 60 years was an unreasonable delay, undercutting its claim. Schlesinger said Flamenbaum had been told by Christie's in 1954 that the small tablet was a fake and kept it at home. It's now in a safety deposit box on Long Island.
"There's no such thing as a right of pillage," museum attorney Raymond Dowd said. "Reparation has nothing to do with this case."
The Indian government is digging for treasure after a civic-minded Hindu village sage dreamt that 1,000 tons of gold was buried under a ruined palace, and wrote to tell the central bank about it.
The state Archaeological Survey of India has sent a team of archaeologists to the village of Daundia Khera in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. They are due to start digging on Friday, Praveen Kumar Mishra, the head archaeologist in the state, told Reuters.
Yogi Swami Shobhan Sarkar says the gold he dreamt of belonged to a nineteenth-century ruler, Rao Ram Bux Singh. He says he wants it in government hands to help India recover from an economic crisis.
"I cried the day I realized that India is going to collapse economically," the seer told the Mail Today newspaper. The dead ruler's spirit has been roaming the palace and asking for the gold to be dug up, he added.
The "Twin Towers in Tribeca" art installation created by British street artist Banksy is seen down in Tribeca in New York City, October 15, 2013. Banksy is a pseudonym for an England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director and painter who tries to keep his identity a secret.
Photo by Jason Szenes
A California marine instructor's leisurely weekend snorkel turned into the discovery of a lifetime when she found the carcass of a massive, eel-like creature of a species thought to have inspired legends of giant sea serpents.
Catalina Island Marine Institute instructor Jasmine Santana spotted the 18-foot (5.5-meter) oarfish, which is as thick as a man's torso, while snorkeling in clear waters off the island's coast on Sunday afternoon, the institute said.
The creatures are found in all temperate to tropical waters, but because they dive to depths of 3,000 feet, they are rarely seen and remain largely unstudied. Little is known about their behavior, the nonprofit educational institute said.
It took a group of 15 adults to pull the fish's massive carcass up the beach to a better viewing area, the institute said. Its longest serving employee, Mark Johnson, could not believe his eyes. "In 32 years here," he said. "I have never seen anything like this!"
The body of the fish appeared almost perfectly intact. The institute sent tissue samples and video footage to a University of California at Santa Barbara fish expert, and is awaiting a final determination on the species.
Fish are seen in a pond during the traditional carp haul in the village of Stankov, near the south Bohemian town of Trebon, October 15, 2013. Carp harvest starts in October ahead of the forthcoming Christmas season.
Photo by David W Cerny
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