Last night I had the huge pleasure of listening to DJ Winkle's Halloween edition of his super-fine Boise radio show "Bangers & Mashups". Winkle played two hours of Halloween bootleg mixes, plus, with a large helping of tracks from "Monster Mashups To Play In The Dark". His regular show is always excellent, but I found he really excelled in his Samhain special. The
replay for his broadcast is here
( www.radiofreeamerica.com/dj/dj-winkle )
I'm having a very scary Halloween already, as I've developed an infection after some surgery. I expect to recover, though, or I'll require more extensive doctor cutting. Send me your well-wishing every time you stream this stuff, & have a great Halloween!
Andrew Tobias: Giving You Permission
… yes, the Republican Senate should stop spending all its time trash-talking impeachment and turn its attention, instead, to the numerous bills the Democratic House passed this year to lower prescription drug prices, institute universal background checks, raise the minimum wage, reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, lighten the student loan burden, assure a paper ballot paper trail, and so much more (the Equality Act!), that would make life a little easier for average Americans and protect our democracy. Bills nobody ever talks about because we all know the Republicans will not even consider - let alone pass - them. Why do we accept that?
Mary Beard: To clap or not to clap? (TLS)
The reverse happens with our first-year lecture audiences. In the first week of term, when you have finished speaking, you regularly get a round of applause. By week two, you don't. It maybe that your second lecture is worse than your first; but more likely the new students have got the message that you just don't clap, or do jazz hands for that matter, after a university lecture.
Mary Beard: Sticks and stones … (TLS)
I also wondered more about the role of criminal law. I deplore some of the rubbish I get on Twitter ("I am going to cut your head off and rape it" is at the far end of the spectrum, but not the furthest). But what do I want to happen to those guys (and I think they are guys) who sent that? Does locking them up help? I suspect that, if anything, it just makes them hate me more.
Mary Beard: The Princess of Asturias
What was in a way most impressive was that no one at the ceremony (unlike me in this blog!) made a big deal of this … There were no tributes to Chory's "triumph" over illness, nor to the elderliness of Brook, or whatever. And, of course, we all had a great time (and no worries, for me, about that extra copa de vino).
A variation on the Mashed Potato was danced to in this 1962 novelty song that is narrated by a mad scientist whose monster rises from his slab to perform a new dance. What is the title of this graveyard smash?
Itch (also known as pruritus) is a sensation that causes the desire or reflex to scratch. Itch has resisted many attempts to be classified as any one type of sensory experience. Itch has many similarities to pain, and while both are unpleasant sensory experiences, their behavioral response patterns are different. Pain creates a withdrawal reflex, whereas itch leads to a scratch reflex.
Unmyelinated nerve fibers for itch and pain both originate in the skin; however, information for them is conveyed centrally in two distinct systems that both use the same nerve bundle and spinothalamic tract.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Itching.
Mac Mac said:
Itching
Randall wrote:
itching
Alan J answered:
Itching.
Dave replied:
Itch. Sensation that makes you scratch.
Photos: Dog scratching itch | Trump cat scratching post | Trump simultaneously pretending to scratch his forehead and vulgarly flipping the bird to a female astronaut- who said he can't multi-task?
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, responded:
Fight fight fight
Fight fight fight
It's Itchy!
Itchiness that is!
Deborah said:
Pruritus is a fancy word for itchy skin.
The wind was very slight yesterday, and didn't pick up again until about 10 Tues. morning. The smoke was thick at sunrise, however, making the sun a giant red rubber ball.
David of Moon Valley wrote:
really?!
severe itching?! geez learned my new word for the day so i can go back to bed....
DJ Useo answered:
Itching. A worthwhile pursuit, as long as you don't over-do it.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame replied:
The answer is itching.
Happy to be back online after the power was out where we are in Northern California for a few days. Feeling so sorry for all those affected by fires at both ends of our state! As one of my neighbors remarked, we have had the inconvenience of having no electricity and throwing out the food in our refrigerators, which is minor compared to those who have lost their homes!
Joe S responded:
Because of pruitus I keep well stocked with back scratchers. I keep two under the pillow on either side of my bed so they are handy no matter which side I may be sleeping on. I've got one at my computer, one at the kitchen table, one at the dining room table, and one at my recliner. I also keep two in the car, can't be too careful.
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BANDCAMP MUSIC THAT YOU PROBABLY WON'T HEAR ON THE RADIO
Music: "Little Deuce Coupe" from the album FLIP YOUR LID
Artist: Beach Brats
Artist Location: Melbourne, Australia
Info: A fun little project playing Beach Boys hits with a Ramones vibe.
FLIP YOUR LID is the first main release from Melbourne Ramones/Beach Boys mash-up band, Beach Brats.
After a hectic summer spent off the coast hanging loose, shooting the breeze and what-not, The Brats were keen to keep the good vibes going and record some sweet beach-in' tunes.
These initial 6 tracks are some of the Beach Boys earliest hits, when times were simpler with songs all about cars, girls and surfing.
NOTE: Beach Brats are a not-for-profit punk rock outfit!
ANY/ALL money raised will be donated to a worthy cause that aims to make the world a little bit better :-)
• Many of Alexander Rodchenko's 3D sculptures are replicas because he and his wife were forced to burn the originals during a very cold winter in 1943 in Moscow. According to Alexander Lavrentiev, his grandson, "They had a small iron furnace in their flat. The temperature outside was -30C. By burning wood, they could raise the temperature inside to just under freezing." Mr. Rodchenko spent most of his life in Russia, and he could speak only Russian. Of course, these facts limited his contact with European artists. In 1925, he visited Paris, where he met Pablo Picasso. Unfortunately, they did not speak each other's language, and so all they could do was to bow their heads to each other.
• Edward Lear, author/illustrator of A Book of Nonsense, traveled widely in the 19thcentury in order to paint landscapes of lands not then frequently visited by Europeans. In Albania, he was sketching a castle when a shepherd visited him. Seeing the sketch, the shepherd immediately began shouting, "SHAITAN!" - a word that means "DEVIL!" The shepherd had never seen anyone create such a work of art before, and he thought that it had to be the work of the devil. The news of the presence of the "devil" spread, and many villagers shut their doors when Mr. Lear approached, and other villagers threw stones at him. Near Jerusalem, Mr. Lear drew some Arabs, not realizing that Islam forbids such images. When the Arabs saw what he had done, they pulled his beard and robbed him of his money, his handkerchiefs, and his hard-boiled eggs.
• When President George W. Bush moved into the White House, he hung his favorite painting in the Oval Office. The painting depicts two horsemen following a cowboy charging up a steep trail. President Bush has said that the painting depicts a Methodist circuit rider charging ahead to spread the word of God. Unfortunately, that is incorrect, but at least the truth is funnier than the untruth. W.H.D. Koerner painted the scene for the Saturday Evening Post in 1916 to illustrate a story titled "The Slipper Tongue" about a smooth-talking horse thief. The painting really depicts the horse thief fleeing from a mob of people who want to lynch him.
• Works of art can become lost, and not just in the usual way. For example, a bust of William Shakespeare is thought to have been on exhibit in the outdoors on Lookout Mountain at the Lookout Mountain National Military Park near Chattanooga, TN. Officials searched for the bust, but they were unable to find it. Apparently, it is still there - hidden under vegetation such as poison ivy. Susan Nichols of Save Outdoor Sculpture! says, "I call outdoor sculpture 'orphans of the cultural community.' Outdoor sculpture often suffers from benign neglect, as well as from the environment. We need to become more active and vigilant in caring for them."
• When famed portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh was a young man, he arranged to take the portrait of the great photography pioneer Edward Steichen, but he was so in awe of the great man that the photography session was a failure, and he had to ask Mr. Steichen to reschedule another session. Mr. Streichen was gracious and did so, and at the second session he told Mr. Karsh that he had also been in awe as a young photographer. One hot day he had carried heavy photography equipment to the gateway of Monet's château. Unfortunately, as he said, "I was too in awe of the great artist to ring the bell."
• Early in his adult life, independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch had a job in Paris delivering paintings from a gallery to other galleries or to the homes of people who had purchased the paintings. Once, he and a co-worker had to deliver approximately 100 pieces of an artwork that was a huge painting with holes torn in it so that the artist could paint on different surfaces. Unfortunately, Mr. Jarmusch and his co-worker accidentally ran over the painting, leaving tire marks on it. Fortunately, the private collector who had bought the painting did not notice anything wrong with it.
I worked at the American School in Monrovia, Liberia in the early 1980s--in a period between coups. (It was in Liberia that I met dear Lenny.) Of all the places I've been, Liberia is the poorest. We had more Peace Corps people in Liberia than any other country. Liberia has one of the largest leper colonies in the world (visited it while there). It has been a large Voice of America location. I had not realized that Predator is doing this to Liberians who have escaped the desperate conditions there to come here. I support anyone getting out of the WRETCHED conditions in Liberia. We have had a special relationship with the people there for well over 100 years, and it should continue. This is a travesty!
As Steph points out, people were not booing the presidency, they were showing that we do not support the corrupt, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic, grifting, vile, narcissistic Orange Dick. This was a good read:
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Survivor', followed by a FRESH'SEAL Team', then a FRESH'SWAT'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Norman Reedus, Cynthia Erivo, and Miranda Lambert.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Chicago Med', followed by a FRESH'Chicago Fire', then a FRESH'Chicago PD'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Emilia Clarke, Bobby Cannavale, Booker T. Jones, and FKA Twigs.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are John Krasinski, Joel Kim Booster, and Amy McGrath.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 9/19/19) is Chelsea Handler.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'The Goldbergs', followed by a FRESH'Schooled', then a FRESH'Modern Family', followed by a FRESH'Single Parents', then a FRESH'Stumptown'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Rob Lowe, Mackenzie Davis, and Chris Porter.
The CW offers a FRESH'Riverdale', followed by a FRESH'Nancy Drew'.
Faux might fill the night with LIVE'World Series Baseball - Game 7', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by another old 'Dateline'.
A&E has a FRESH'Ghost Hunters: Most Haunted', followed by a FRESH'World's Biggest Ghost Hunt: Penhurst Asylum', then a FRESH'Ghost Hunters'.
AMC offers the movie 'Halloween', followed by the movie 'Halloween: Resurrection', then the movie 'Halloween'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 3-D.P.O.
[7:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 4-Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
[8:00AM] ALIEN RESURRECTION (1997)
[10:30AM] ALIEN (1979)
[1:00PM] ALIENS (1986) -
[4:00PM] DRACULA II: ASCENSION (2003)
[6:00PM] DRACULA 2000 (2000)
[8:00PM] INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE: THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES (1994)
[10:00PM] BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1982)
[12:30AM] DRACULA II: ASCENSION (2003)
[2:30AM] DRACULA III: LEGACY (2005)
[4:30AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 11 - EPISODE 1-The Woman Who Fell to Earth (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', another 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central has 3 hours of old 'South Park', followed by a FRESH'South Park', then a FRESH'Crank Yankers'.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show is Sen. Amy Klobuchar.
Scheduled on a FRESHLights Out with David Spade are Louis Anderson, Joey Diaz, and Sarah Tiana.
FX has the movie 'The Mummy', followed by the movie 'Deadpool', then a FRESH'American Horror Story'.
History has 'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire: Cutting Deeper', then a FRESH'Forged In Fire'.
IFC -
[6:00A] Night Flight - The Heartbreakers
[6:15A] Night Flight - Pop Poetry
[6:30A] Night Flight - Vocal Vanguards
[6:45A] Night Flight - Fame!
[7:00A] Fright Night
[9:30A] Eight Legged Freaks
[11:45A] Creepshow
[2:30P] The Cabin in the Woods
[4:30P] The 'Burbs
[6:45P] The Princess Bride
[9:00P] Knocked Up
[12:00A] Baroness von Sketch Show - Humanity is in an Awkward Stage
[12:30A] Baroness von Sketch Show - There's A Special Place in Hell
[1:00A] The Princess Bride
[3:15A] Knocked Up (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:05am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:40am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:15am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:50am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:25am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:30am] Clueless
[11:30am] The Wedding Planner
[2:00pm] The Whole Nine Yards
[4:00pm] Law & Order
[5:00pm] Law & Order
[6:00pm] Law & Order
[7:00pm] Law & Order
[8:00pm] Law & Order
[9:00pm] Law & Order
[10:00pm] Law & Order
[11:00pm] The Cry
[12:16am] Law & Order
[1:15am] Law & Order
[2:15am] The Cry
[3:31am] The Andy Griffith Show
[4:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[4:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:05am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:40am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'The Night Before Halloween', followed by the movie 'Jeepers Creepers 3'.
Raised by Wolves, a serialized sci-fi series from Ridley Scott, will premiere on the direct-to-consumer platform HBO Max. The announcement was made during the WarnerMedia Day investor presentation Tuesday afternoon.
The 10-episode drama, starring Travis Fimmel, was originally set up at TNT with a straight-to-series order. This marks the second series to migrate from WarnerMedia's basic cable networks to the upcoming streamer, joining TBS comedy Search Party. Additionally, HBO Max's head of original content Sarah Aubrey, who ordered Raised By Wolves while leading original series for TNT, brought with her some of her development at the linear network.
Produced and directed by Scott in his TV directorial debut, Raised By Wolves was created by Aaron Guzikowski (Prisoners) who serves as writer and showrunner. The series, which recently wrapped production in Cape Town, South Africa, centers on two androids tasked with raising human children on a mysterious virgin planet. As the burgeoning colony of humans threatens to be torn apart by religious differences, the androids learn that controlling the beliefs of humans is a treacherous and difficult task.
Another upcoming TNT sci-fi series, Snowpiercer, also was to relocate, to sibling TBS, WarnerMedia announced in May. That decision was recently reversed. TNT's scripted series portfolio includes Animal Kingdom, Claws, which is heading into its final season, and the upcoming Snowpiercer and Tell me Your Secrets. The network has been ramping up its unscripted content over the past year.
Olivia Newton-John's black leather jacket and very tight pants from "Grease", complete with a broken zipper, go up for auction this week as the top item in a sale to help raise money for her cancer treatment centre in Australia.
The outfit that marked the singer's transition from demure high schooler to sexy Sandy Olson for the "You're the One That I Want" duet with John Travolta in the 1978 movie musical is expected to fetch up to $200,000, Julien's Auctions said.
"The pants have a broken zip and I had to be stitched into them because they were made in the '50s," Newton-John, 71, told Reuters Television ahead of the sale.
The British-born, Australian-raised actress, who is battling breast cancer for a third time, is selling more than 500 items. They include her original script from the film, estimated at up to $4,000, the pink gown she wore to the "Grease" premiere in Los Angeles, estimated at $3,000-$5,000, and a custom Pink Ladies jacket given to her by the "Grease" cast and crew.
The auction will take place at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills on Saturday and a portion of the proceeds will go to the Wellness and Research Centre.
Former Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss will no longer be developing the next Star Wars film trilogy for LucasFilm, Deadline Hollywood reports. Instead, they'll be focusing on developing new films and series for Netflix, part of a lucrative nine-figure deal they signed in August with the streaming giant.
"We love Star Wars," Benioff and Weiss told Deadline Hollywood. "When George Lucas built it, he built us, too. Getting to talk about Star Wars with him and the current Star Wars team was the thrill of a lifetime, and we will always be indebted to the saga that changed everything. There are only so many hours in the day, and we felt we could not do justice to both Star Wars and our Netflix projects. So we are regretfully stepping away."
Benioff and Weiss signed onto Star Wars back in February 2018, before the much-maligned (by fans) final season of Game of Thrones aired on HBO earlier this year. They had been developing a series called Confederates for HBO, a fictionalized alternative history of the US where the South won the Civil War and slavery remained legal. The series was tabled, ostensibly due to scheduling conflicts rather than in response to an online outcry over the controversial premise. Then came the backlash against the GoT finale, even sparking an online petition with 1.75 million signatories calling for a remake. (As we noted in our review of the finale, that's not how any of this works.)
The duo has kept a fairly low public profile since then before igniting a fresh controversy with a panel appearance over the weekend at the Austin Film Festival. The men adopted a self-deprecating stance that didn't land well with the audience, joking about their lack of experience and marveling that George R.R. Martin entrusted his life's work into their hands as they pretty much learned the ropes on the job. So the news that Benioff and Weiss are no longer involved with Star Wars might be seen as good news by many.
It does kind of throw a fork in the works for Lucasfilm's long-range plans for the franchise. Currently, The Mandalorian debuts on the new Disney+ streaming service November 12, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker-the final installment in the most recent trilogy that concludes the long-running "Skywalker saga"-hits theaters December 20. The Benioff and Weiss project was intended to launch the next stage of the Star Wars cinematic saga, slated for 2022.
Over 150 items of music gear from Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine's career - including signature guitars, amps, pedals and more instruments used onstage and in the recording studio - will soon be available to fans via the Reverb.com marketplace.
"When you've been playing and touring for as long as I have, you tend to amass quite a collection of gear. They're great instruments and they represent more than 40 years of playing, but I've got more than I could possibly use myself," Mustaine said of the sale.
"I owe so much to my fans. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't even have all this gear. I'd rather give it back to them than let it sit and collect dust." The Official Dave Mustaine Reverb Shop opens November 4th.
The sale includes over 20 of Mustaine's signature guitars - like the "Holy Grail" V (#1 of only 33 made) and his Zero Korina (#10 of 50 made) - as well as the band's stage-used Akai MPC1000 drum machine, a drum kit featuring Peace Sells-era artwork and dozens more music gear from his personal collection, with many of the items also autographed by Mustaine.
Brian Sweeney has a long list of complaints about Amazon, from the way it treats warehouse workers to the low taxes it pays and its effort to win concessions from cities to bring in jobs. So when he learned the online retail giant had poured $1 million into remaking the Seattle City Council with more business-friendly candidates, he pulled out his wallet.
The New York resident sent $15 to socialist council member Kshama Sawant, a target of the online retail giant. While that doesn't compare to Amazon's unprecedented spending on October 14, about 1,900 others also have donated to Sawant since then, her campaign says. It's a dramatic rise in support and a reflection of the risk Amazon is taking as it splashes into the politics of its liberal hometown.
Many in Seattle aren't happy with the council, but they also don't like a company headed by the world's richest man, Jeff Bezos, trying to influence their vote. As historic income inequality fuels homelessness and soaring housing prices, progressives elsewhere don't like it either.
"Amazon could do this in hundreds of places around the country with all the money they're not paying in taxes," said Sweeney, a 28-year-old software engineer turned carpenter in Valley Stream, New York.
With seven of the nine Seattle council seats in play November 5, business interests see an opportunity to shift city leadership closer to the political center and away from a bent to potentially tax big companies to fund homeless services or improve public transit.
A newly discovered virus seems to lack the proteins needed to replicate itself. Yet somehow, it's thriving, according to a new study.
To find this mysterious virus, a group of researchers in Japan have spent nearly a decade analyzing pig and cow poop for novel viruses. These dirty environments, where lots of animals constantly interact, are a good place for viruses to quickly evolve, according to a statement from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in Japan.
The researchers have found on farms several novel viruses that have recombined - meaning that two or more viruses have swapped genetic material. But they were particularly intrigued when they found a new type of enterovirus G (EV-G), which is composed of a single strand of genetic material. This new virus was formed from an enterovirus G and another type, called a torovirus.
Mysteriously, the newly discovered microbe lacks a feature present in all other known viruses - so called "structural proteins" that help the parasite attach to and enter host cells, then replicate. Though the new enterovirus lacks the genes that code for these structural proteins, it does have a couple of "unknown" genes, according to the researchers.
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Oct. 21-27. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. NFL Football: Green Bay at Kansas City, NBC, 18.32 million.
2. NFL Football: Washington at Minnesota, Fox, 13.77 million.
3. World Series Game 1: Washington at Houston, Fox, 12.28 million.
4. World Series Game 3: Houston at Washington, Fox, 12.22 million.
5. World Series Game 2: Washington at Houston, Fox, 12.01 million.
6. "NFL Pregame Show," NBC, 11.87 million.
7. World Series Game 5: Houston at Washington, Fox, 11.39 million.
8. "NCIS," CBS, 11.35 million.
9. NFL Football: New England at N.Y. Jets, ESPN, 11.33 million.
10. "60 Minutes," CBS, 11.22 million.
11. World Series Game 4: Houston at Washington, Fox, 10.22 million.
12. "Football Night in America," NBC, 9.52 million.
13. "FBI," CBS, 8.88 million.
14. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 8.67 million.
15. "NFL Pregame Show," Fox, 8.3 million.
16. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 8.08 million.
17. "The Voice" (Monday) NBC, 8.05 million.
18. "Chicago Fire," NBC, 7.88 million.
19. "Chicago Med," NBC, 7.84 million.
20. "This is Us," NBC, 7.07 million.
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