'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Review
Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars
If I had to pick one word it would be....WOW. This was one great show. They dropped the false drama of night one and went on about the business of creating a great show. Again the special effects were fantastic, the script was tight and the acting was first rate. The killing of D'argo did set up the naming of the child in my mind but I'll let them slide for that. Subplot within subplot weaved together for a dramatic conclusion to a great series. My only wish would have been that they had found some way to bring Zhaan back for the end of the show.
While I did tape it, I can't wait till this one comes out on DVD.
There were also some nice plugs for Earthsea and Battlestar Galactica
~ Mr. Hawk
Kerry/Edwards
At stake is our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor
Recommended Reading
Roger Ebert
Reader Comment
Ahnold's Sex Life
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says his speech backing resident George W Bush at the Republican Convention in August resulted in a cold shoulder from his wife Maria Shriver, a member of the famously Democrat Kennedy family.
"Well, there was no sex for 14 days," Mr Schwarzenegger told former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta in an on-stage conversation in front of 1,000 people.
"Everything comes with side effects," he said, drawing laughter from the crowd.
Why is this toilet-trained gorilla announcing this to the entire world?
Typical RePUGnican. No class!
I can't believe a Kennedy couldn't have done better than this lout.
Terry C
NJ
Thanks, Terry!
It kinda creeped me out, too. If it had been in private, or in a locker room, but, jeez, on camera & locked in for all posterity.
OTOH, bet Maria gets some nice pricey jewelry out of it.
Links from Bruce
Recommended Viewing
Reader Comment
Re: 'Farscape'
Marty,
Thanks for the FARSCAPE: THE PEACEKEEPER WARS coverage - the entire
mini-series airs again in a four-hour strip this Sunday. Good ratings
will encourage the creation of a feature film.
Not to bust Hawk in any way (thanks for the review, sir!) but the
budget - while larger than that for a weekly episode during series
production - was far less than a cinematic feature would require.
Brian Henson and his colleagues simply know how to get the most out
of themselves and the materials at hand.
Here's a FARSCAPE funny: the battle scenes used up every pyro charge
in Australia. They had to send out for more.
FARSCAPE is about hope. So is our imminent election.
Tom
Thanks, Tom!
Reader Suggested Reading
Cirque du Soleil & The Beatles
from Mark
Another Bumpersticker
Reader Suggestions
More Bumper Stickers
George W. Bush: Vote For Me - Because You're
Going To Anyway If You Use A Diebold Voting
Machine
George W. Bush: Vote For Me - Because 9-11 Happened On My Watch
George W. Bush: Vote For Me - Because I Took A
Record Surplus And Turned It Into A Record Deficit
George W. Bush: Vote For Me - Because I Make War By Choice, Not By Necessity
George W. Bush: Vote For Me - Because I'm Not All
That Concerned With Osama Bin Laden
George W. Bush: Please, Canada, Save Us With Your Third-World Flu Vaccines
George W. Bush: The Codpiece President
George W. Bush: Quick, Someone, Think Of A Way To Make Me Look Presidential
George W. Bush: Asleep At The Wheel
George W. Bush: Blowing Off Going To Church Regularly
George W. Bush: Making The Media Cover A Minor
Campaign Speech By Calling It A "Major Address"
George W. Bush: In 2000, I Promised I Wouldn't
Drive The Budget Into Deficit, But I Did. In
2004, I Promise That I Won't Institute A Draft,
But.
George W. Bush: Running The Government Like One
Of My Businesses - Into The Ground
George W. Bush: Don't Expect Me To Solve Problems I Don't Know Exist
George W. Bush: Uniting Zarqawi And Osama
George W. Bush: Getting Things Wrong In Iraq, Getting Things Wrong In America
George W. Bush: The Narrow Partisanship President
George W. Bush: Maker Of The Coalition Of The Bribed And Coerced
Bush/Cheney: Playing Conservatives And Traitors
Dick Cheney: President Snarl
October Surprise: A Terror Alert On Election Day
In Places Where Democrats Live?
October Surprise: Move At The Last Minute Voting
Booths In Places Where Democrats Live?
November 2 Surprise: Lots Registered Democrats Suddenly Aren't Registered?
GOP: Helping America Vote Š As Long As It Votes The "Right" Way
Gallup: Keeping Bush Ahead So The Supreme Court Can Steal The Election
Bill O'Reilly: Family Values And Family Vibrators
Bill O'Reilly: Sometimes Negative Karma Bites You In The Rear
Give Her The $60 Million, Bill, Because She Deserves It
Thanks, Bruce!
National Celibacy Day
November 2nd
National Celibacy Day
November 2
NO DICK - NO BUSH
Thank, JD!
Purple Gene Reviews
Jeffrey Steele
NASHVILLES' GREATEST Nightclub/Bar/Cafe and County Fair Performer JEFFREY STEELE playing at the BLUE BIRD CAFE, September 3rd, 2004:
My brother JD lives in Nashville, Tennessee. I called him up a couple of years ago to ask him if he had ever heard of a songwriter named Jeffrey Steele. (JD and I are both Songwriters)... Well he said Yeah...as a matter of fact he had just seen him play at a Nashville bar called 3rd and Lindsley and JD said he was GREAT....I wanted to know because I had been watching a lot of music videos....Country...and after every song that I really really liked was the name Jeffrey Steele as the songwriter.....Faith Hill ("When the Lights Go Down"), Tim McGraw ("The Cowboy in Me"), Montgomery Gentry ("Chrome" - "Speed"), Tace Adkins ("I'm Tryin'") and on and on and on (all huge # 1 hit singles).... Well I had to see this guy perform...
So I started flying out to Nashville from Oakland, California...to see this Jeffrey at club after club....Douglas Corner, 3rd and Lindsley, the Vue, Gibson Bluegrass Cafe and finally at this world famous venue that only Industry insiders, songwriters and dyed in the wool fans know about - The BLUE BIRD CAFE....only about 50 people can fit in there and it is usually accoustic and so intimate that you can't avoid rubbing elbows and conversing with whomever is starring that particular night! I have gotten to know Jeffrey after seeing him so many times and photographing his performances .....and I have to say, I'm one of his biggest fans........Except for the adoring females.......anyway, I flew out to see him at the Blue Bird Cafe last September 3rd.
Through the owner of the Bluebird and because I was going to "shoot" Jeffrey, we had seats directly in front of a special stage that had been set up for ROCK & ROLL (unusual for Blue Bird). The line around the Blue Bird was finally seated and stirring....then with no big entry, Jeffrey wanders in...muscle shirt and blue bandana over long hair and starts tuning his guitar...his rappoire with the crowd is amazing... the rest of the band arrives and they get ready...this is gonna be awesome. They start out with a song Jeffrey wrote for Rascal Flatts called "My Town"...everybody's singing along. Then Jeffrey launches into a song that Montgomery Gentry did called "Hell Yeah" ...everybody's screaming "Hell Yeah"!!!!
Then a couple wanders in and sits next to me ...it's Billy Ray Cyrus ("Achy-Breaky Heart") and his wife Tish....He's there because Jeffrey has written a song for his new Album ("I Miss my Mullet") ....Jeffrey introduces them to the crowd and starts playing a song called "Unbelievable" (# 1 song for Ricochet)...and then another one called "Something in the Water" (# 1 for Little Texas).....well the crowd is just getting going and Jeffrey removes his blue bandana and denim vest and runs his hands though his hair poppin' serious biceps through his muscle shirt...and the screaming begins....
This guy has written more # 1 country hits than I can count ....but he is a TRIPLE THREAT.....not only is he the hottest country writer in Nashville...not only is he the sexiest "DUDE" on stage ...but he is truly a sensational performer...I mean this guy is a CLOSER...he shuts the house down...nobody ever wants to perform after Jeffrey Steele!
Well, Jeffrey kept performing Hit after Hit and new songs he had written (I really love a song he wrote about his daughter leaving home called "I can't Stop You" and a new Montgomery Gentry hit called "Gone") until it was time for the last request.....He did a new song that is his new single called "Once a Cowboy" and when he was done the crowd just kept screaming and screaming...and then people crowded around the stage to take "Fan" photos next to Mr. Steele.
I would guess that not a single person reading this review has ever seen or heard of Jeffrey Steele.
For me, seeing Jeffrey Steele at the Blue Bird is like seeing Elvis on a Hay Ride....just before he got HUGE....Jeffrey Steele is the NASHVILLE CLUB KING.....and I think one of the greatest writers and performers in the Music Business today!!!!! (
Purple Gene gives Jeffrey Steele 10 "Hell Yeahs" out of 10 for being such a passionate performer and super songwriter.
~ Purple Gene
Thanks, Purple Gene!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Had scattered showers this afternoon, but the wind is blowing hard tonight & the weather-guy-on-tv says there's a real storm on the way.
This is my week to drive carpool.
To Be Honored for Work
Karl Malden
Karl Malden, the gruff, fatherly character actor who won an Academy Award for "A Streetcar Named Desire," will receive a special honor from The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut for his lifetime of stage work.
Malden, 92, will join previous honorees including Jason Robards, Brian Dennehy, Zoe Caldwell, Edward Albee and August Wilson when he collects the award at a Beverly Hills luncheon on Nov. 11.
The award will be presented to Malden by Michael Douglas, who co-starred with him on the 1970s crime TV show "The Streets of San Francisco."
Karl Malden
Visiting 'Regis'
Dave Letterman
David Letterman, who infrequently appears on anyone's show but his own, will make a guest appearance next month on "Live With Regis and Kelly."
Letterman, host of CBS' "Late Show," will appear on Nov. 8, the syndicated morning talk show said Tuesday.
"I think it's nice that he visits our show once every 10 years," co-host Regis Philbin told The Associated Press by phone. "But I'm very pleased."
Dave Letterman
Won't Show 'Entire' Anti-Kerry Film
Sinclair
Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., the nation's largest owner of TV stations, said on Tuesday it would only air part of a documentary critical of Sen. John Kerry's Vietnam war record, as critics demanded it cancel the broadcast altogether or face legal action.
Sinclair has drawn fire over its plans to air the 42-minute documentary "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal," about the Democratic presidential candidate on its more than 60 TV stations on Friday, less than two weeks before the Nov. 2 election.
Sinclair operates in 39 markets that include battleground states Florida and Ohio.
Its stock has fallen almost 17 percent since its plans to air the show were first reported more than a week ago. The shares are down 58 percent in the year to date, and were off 3.5 percent to $6.26 on Tuesday.
For more, Sinclair
PBS Documentary
Kinzua Viaduct
A documentary about a railroad bridge that was once the longest and tallest in the world premiered more than a year after a tornado ripped apart the engineering marvel.
"Tracks Across the Sky" documents the history of the Kinzua Viaduct until shortly before the span fell to the ground in July 2003.
The film premiered yesterday at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford. Public television stations around the nation will start to air the documentary in April.
Kinzua Viaduct
Files New Charges Vs. Fox, O'Really
Andrea Mackris
A Fox News Channel producer who filed a sex harassment lawsuit against talk show host Bill O'Reilly filed new accusations Tuesday, alleging she has lost her job because she complained to Fox about her alleged mistreatment.
A lawyer for O'Reilly and Fox denied that Andrea Mackris has been fired or retaliated against in any way.
The amended lawsuit says Fox's "removal" of Mackris from her job "is in direct retaliation for her complaints of sexual harassment and a sexually hostile work environment at defendants Fox." It is a violation of New York law to fire an employee who complains of sexual harassment.
Andrea Mackris
O'Reilly Hit With Sex Harass Suit - October 13, 2004 @ thesmokinggun.com
Newspaper Suspends Two Reporters
St. Paul Pioneer Press
The St. Paul Pioneer Press suspended investigative reporters Chuck Laszewski and Rick Linsk for three days each after they attended the Oct. 5 "Vote for Change" concert by Bruce Springsteen, R.E.M. and other artists in St. Paul. The tour - held in several battleground states - was aimed at helping oust resident Bush and electing John Kerry.
The Newspaper Guild is contesting the unpaid suspensions.
Pioneer Press Editor Vicki Gowler wrote in a Sept. 27 memo to staff that the paper's ethics policy bars them from activities that would conflict with their employment, including "concerts that are held as political fundraisers." Several other newspapers had issued similar warnings to reporters.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Traced to TV
Mystery Signal
When Chris van Rossman moved into his downtown apartment about a year ago, his parents bought him a new 20-inch color TV with all the bells and whistles.
The flat-screen Toshiba came with its own set of stereo speakers, a 181-channel tuner, built-in VCR, DVD and CD players, a V-chip for parental control over content and, of course, a remote control.
Whatever the reason, van Rossman's TV set sent out a cry for help. It began emitting the international distress signal on the night of Oct. 2.
The 121.5 MHz frequency signal was picked up by an orbiting search and rescue satellite, which informed the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia.
Langley got on the horn to the Civil Air Patrol, an all-volunteer auxiliary to the Air Force, and the CAP got ahold of Benton County Search and Rescue Deputy Mike Bamberger for assistance in locating the source of the signal.
For the rest, Mystery Signal
Sign Thief
Randal Wagner
A Lakewood (CO) Republican stealing campaign signs late one night got nabbed when he ran across a low- hanging driveway chain, fell face first onto a pilfered sign and the concrete and knocked himself unconscious.
Randal Wagner, 50, was loaded into an ambulance, treated at Lutheran Medical Center for abrasions and facial cuts and issued a summons.
Wagner, who unsuccessfully tried to steal a "Dave Thomas" congressional sign that evening, had signs for other Democratic candidates in his Toyota pickup, Wheat Ridge police reported.
Wagner said that he and his wife, Jan, who was driving their pickup that night, "want to apologize to the people" they have offended.
Jan Wagner, who was not cited, said she did not want to discuss what happened. She also is a Republican.
Randal Wagner
Promised Legal Review Is Shelved
The Grand Canyon & 'Creationism'
The Bush Administration has decided that it will stand by its approval for a book claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah's flood rather than by geologic forces, according to internal documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
Despite telling members of Congress and the public that the legality and appropriateness of the National Park Service offering a creationist book for sale at Grand Canyon museums and bookstores was "under review at the national level by several offices," no such review took place, according to materials obtained by PEER under the Freedom of Information Act. Instead, the real agency position was expressed by NPS spokesperson Elaine Sevy as quoted in the Baptist Press News:
"Now that the book has become quite popular, we don't want to remove it."
"Promoting creationism in our national parks is just as wrong as promoting it in our public schools," stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch, "If the Bush Administration is using public resources for pandering to Christian fundamentalists, it should at least have the decency to tell the truth about it."
For a lot more, The Grand Canyon & 'Creationism'
Read the NPS "Talking Points" [PDF Format)
See how a response to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton took shape [PDF Format)
Read the memo from the head of the NPS Geological Resources Division [PDF Format)
View the letter of protest from seven scientific societies [PDF Format)
Learn more about the "Faith-Based Parks" movement within the top echelons of the Bush Administration
Dying Out
Scots Dialect
Since time immemorial, the ability to say "it's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht" has separated the Scots from every other race on the planet.
But no more. New research shows that, even in the north-east of Scotland, the heartland of the rich Doric dialect, the use of the velar fricative - the "ch" sound produced in the back of the throat for words such as loch, broch and fecht - is in danger of dying out.
Young people either have a problem getting their tongues around the linguistic niceties of the Scots language or have just turned their back on tradition.
Scots Dialect
Daily Tally
Newspaper Endorsements
Sen. John Kerry has widened his lead in daily newspaper endorsements, landing five of the seven new additions to E&P's exclusive tally. He holds a 53-36 edge over resident Bush.
It also pushes the Democrat past the 9 million mark in circulation total for backing papers. Bush trails with about 5 million.
Several major papers have yet to be heard from, including: The Washington Post, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Columbus Dispatch, New York Post, Boston Herald, New York Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times, Saint Paul Pioneer-Press, and Denver Post, among others.
JOHN KERRY
53 newspapers total
9,223,340 daily circulation
GEORGE W. BUSH
36 newspapers total
4,987,305 daily circulation
For a lot more, including a state-by-state breakdown of newspapers, Newspaper Endorsements
