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• Scott Adams, cartoonist and writer of Dilbert, does fewer continuing stories than other comics creators. He feels that all too often the end of the story isn’t funny and therefore is just a wasted day. In fact, he once created a continuing story in which Dogbert created giant menacing cucumbers while doing genetic research. However, he says, “I realized halfway through the series that there was no way this could end well, so I just did an editor’s note saying I realized it wasn’t funny and so I thought I’d just stop there.” His readers agreed that the giant menacing cucumber story was “going nowhere” and that Mr. Adams was right to end the story.
Creativity
• Of course, Ann M. Martin, the author behind the Baby-Sitters Club series of books, is creative, and so are the other members of her family. When Ann and Jane, her sister, were young, their playroom was always a mess. Edie, their mother, in a delightful phrase, referred to it as “toy soup.” On a train trip, Jane and Ann imitated Louise Fitzhugh’s book character Harriet the Spy; they spied on their neighbors, like Harriet, and they wrote down in a secret notebook what they had seen, like Harriet. Hank, their father, is an artist who has created illustrations for children’s books, including a few written by his daughter Ann, and he has created cartoons that have appeared in The New Yorker. One of his New Yorker cartoons shows the Mad Hatter tea party from Alice in Wonderland. The Mad Hatter asks a guest, “Excuse me, may I see your invitation?” The unexpected guest is Piglet of Winnie the Pooh fame.
• Maya Angelou needs a place where she can create for long stretches of time without interruption. When she is away from home, sometimes for long periods of time, she will rent a hotel room to use as a writing space. She tells the hotel management not to interrupt her by having someone change the sheets, as she won’t be using them because she will be sleeping elsewhere. At 5:30 a.m. she enters the room and works until early afternoon. Sometimes, she will write after dinner until late at night. During one prolonged stint of creativity, the hotel management slipped this note under her door: “Ms. Angelou, please let us get in there and change the sheets. We think they are moldy.” She ignored the note.
• Stan Lee offered a genuine NO-PRIZE to Marvel comicbook readers who were sharp enough to spot a typographical or other embarrassing error. To each of these intelligent readers, Mr. Lee sent an empty envelope bearing the words “CONGRATULATIONS! This envelope contains a genuine Marvel Comics NO-PRIZE, which you have just won!” These envelopes are now collectors’ items.
• George Jean Nathan was a good writer. Once, he wrote a long newspaper article about a race he did not even see. The editor liked it so much he posted it on a bulletin board as a good example of vivid writing.
Critics
• As you would expect, critic Roger Ebert is a rich source of anecdotes in his writings about movies. For example, his review of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? contains two excellent anecdotes: 1) In Bette Davis’ next-to-last film, The Whales of August, Ms. Davis co-starred with silent-film (and beyond) star Lillian Gish. At one point, the film’s director, Lindsay Anderson, said, “Miss Gish, you have just given me a perfect close-up.” Ms. Davis overheard, and she said, “She should. The bitch invented ’em.” 2) Victor Buono never married, and people occasionally wondered about his sexuality. Mr. Buono, a man of wit and intelligence and excess poundage, said, “I’ve heard about actors being asked ‘Why have you never married?’ They answer with the immortal excuse ‘I just haven’t found the right girl.’ No one’s asked me yet. If they do, that’s the answer I’ll give. After all, it was good enough for Monty Clift or Sal Mineo.” (Both Mr. Clift and Mr. Mineo were gay actors.)
With 33 albums and singles that were certified Gold and Platinum in the U.S by RIAA, and a beloved entertainer of his era, he was born Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. By what name is he known professionally?
Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. (December 31, 1943 – October 12, 1997), known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, activist, and humanitarian, whose greatest commercial success was as a solo singer. After traveling and living in numerous locations while growing up in his military family, Denver began his music career with folk music groups during the late 1960s. Starting in the 1970s, he was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the decade and one of its best-selling artists. By 1974, he was one of America's best-selling performers, and AllMusic has described Denver as "among the most beloved entertainers of his era".
Denver recorded and released approximately 300 songs, about 200 of which he composed. He had 33 albums and singles that were certified Gold and Platinum in the U.S by RIAA certification with estimated sales of more than 33 million units. He recorded and performed primarily with an acoustic guitar and sang about his joy in nature, his disdain for city life, his enthusiasm for music, and his relationship trials. Denver's music appeared on a variety of charts, including country music, the Billboard Hot 100, and adult contemporary, in all earning 12 gold and four platinum albums with his signature songs "Take Me Home, Country Roads", "Annie's Song", "Rocky Mountain High", "Calypso", "Thank God I'm a Country Boy", and "Sunshine on My Shoulders".
Denver appeared in several films and television specials during the 1970s and 1980s. He continued to record in the 1990s, also focusing on environmental issues by lending vocal support to space exploration and testifying in front of Congress in protest against censorship in music. He lived in Aspen for much of his life where he was known for his love of Colorado. In 1974, Denver was named poet laureate of the state. The Colorado state legislature also adopted "Rocky Mountain High" as one of its two state songs in 2007.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
John Denver.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
The late, great John Denver. I enjoyed his music.
Randall wrote:
John Denver
Billy in Cypress said:
John Denver
Alan J answered:
John Denver.
Jacqueline responded:
John Denver
Stephen F replied:
John Denver
mj wrote:
With a name like that
I might get high, too. I wouldn't even need to travel to the Rocky
Mountains. John Denver.
Roy, still a Never Trumper in Tyler, TX replied:
Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. Must've figured that John Denver would sound much nicer when disc jockeys in the '70s played his music. It also looked a lot better on his album covers.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
John Denver
David of Moon Valley said:
eeeesh....
…….the late John Denver…i may not be in the Rocky Mountains but i will be high later…(and Not listening to John Denver i am sorry (or not) to say…)
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
Hmmmm…seems to me that’s John Denver.
Woke up and it’s 35°.So much for fall.
John I from Hawai`i says,
John Denver
zorch said:
John Denver
Daniel in The City answered:
John Denver.
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John Denver
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John Denver
DJ Useo said:
My wife loves John Denver, & gave me the answer. Personally, I was stumped. As a thank you, I got her his best of cd.
BttbBob wrote:
John Denver, and he looked like this when I saw him Oct '72 at the DAR Constitution Hall in Washington DC...
Fat City (later the Starland Vocal Band) opened and accompanied him on and off throughout... That was during my first military manifestation as a 19 y/o Army medic finishing up some Tech training started at Bethesda Naval and practiced up on at Fort Belvoir's hospital near Mount Vernon...
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'Jimi Hendrix Segue' (Seriously) - Funny thing, the guy I went with to see Denver that night was a 23 y/o ROTC Signal Corps 2nd LT 'Butter Bar' electronics nerd that handled the hospital's Comms system. Kid looked like Rick Moranis and even though he was older and was an officer I couldn't keep from thinking of him as a kid... Anyway, the kid was a huge Jimi freak and had everything ever recorded by Hendrix, vinyl and tape, legal and bootleg, that he played on his monumental wall of sound in his off post apartment. To this day I've never seen an individual's system beat the kid's. He had 3-4 of every type of stereo equipment that you can think off. His pre-amp's pre-amp had a pre-amp... that kinda thing... So, I'd sit there with him groovin' on Jimi and sharing some 'God's Flowers' (thanks, Bart) and "...everybody's high" (Thanks, John. I enjoyed the bejabbers outta yer show)...
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Happy Veteran's Day to all my brothers and sisters of the DD-214 Guild...
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) replied:
Why that's John Denver. Did I tell you I partied with John Denver? Well I did. First with Chad Mitchell Trio, before John Denver, then with the Mitchell Trio with John Denver. It was in Rapid City, South Dakota. Way back when.
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Music: "Journey to the End of East Bay" (Cover of Song by Rancid)
Album: DRUNK DIAL #4: THE HOUND OF LOVE
Artist: The Hound of Love
Record Company: Drunk Dial Records
Record Company Location: Portland, Oregon
Info: “Get artists into the studio. Get them drunk. Have them write and record an original song and then cover a classic. We release the results on seven-inch records [and digital downloads].” — Drunk Dial Records
“These songs were written and recorded on the Ides of March 2019 , drunk on Jägerbomb, PBR, Rainier, and Twisted Tea.”
Price: $1 (USD) for track; $2 (USD) for two-track single
Someone crazy being enough to sabotage everything after being fired is why we give no notice when firing someone (staffer or contractor) & call in security.
I had a contractor who was particularly crazy. As the COTR on the contract for her services, I called her company representative & informed them that we would no longer use her services because of several violations of protocol and service. The representative offered to send over security from their company to help get her off the premises. I accepted the offer, AND I contacted our security. Sent a note via our secure system to the rest of our staffers and our other contractors to report to a room on a different floor no later than 9 AM the next day and to stay there until I came to get them. The next morning, everyone quietly left our space one by one or reported directly to the "safe" room. When security from the company arrived, our security guys brought them up. Crazy employee was given some cardboard boxes to put personal things in while security stood right beside her and observed. Then they escorted her out of the building.
I got my wobbly knees under control and went to the safe room to tell everyone, including my boss and his boss, that we could return to our office space and resume work.
And that is why we shouldn't give Predator & his minions over 70 days to sabotage things. You hope a new administration will transition properly. But every now & then you get the crazy person, and you need to have security prevent them from destroying your system or records and frog-march them off the premises immediately.
Linda >^..^<
We are all only temporarily able bodied.
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Amazing Race', followed by a FRESH'SWAT', then another FRESH'SWAT'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Olivia Colman, Gillian Anderson, an Kylie Minogue.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Ethan Hawke, Lewis Black, and Carter McLean.
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 Michael Strahan, Brené Brown, and Patty Smyth.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Max Greenfield, and Ashe & Niall Horan.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 10/8/19) is Natalie Portman.
ABC fills the night with the FRESH'The 54th Annual CMA Awards'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Dr. Phil McGraw, John King, and Maren Morris.
The CW offers a FRESH'Devils', followed by a FRESH'Coroner'.
Faux has a FRESH'The Masked Singer', followed by a FRESH'I Can See Your Voice'.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by another old 'Dateline'.
A&E has the movie 'The Bourne Supremacy', followed by the movie 'The Bourne Ultimatum', then the movie 'American Sniper'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Green Mile', followed by the movie 'Bad Boys'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE CHANGING FACE OF EVIL
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - WHEN IT RAINS ...
[8:00AM] THE KARATE KID
[11:00AM] THE KARATE KID PART II
[1:30PM] HEARTBREAK RIDGE
[4:30PM] THE PATRIOT
[8:00PM] THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER
[11:00PM] THE PATRIOT
[2:30AM] HEARTBREAK RIDGE
[5:30AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - YOU'RE NO FUN ANYMORE
[5:45AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - FULL FRONTAL NUDITY (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', then another FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of SLC', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'The Heat', followed by the movie 'Book Club'.
History has the movie 'American Sniper', followed by a FRESH'Hunting Hitler', then the FRESH'Variety's Salute To Service'.
IFC -
[6:00am] The Three Stooges - I'll Never Heil Again
[6:15am] Blazing Saddles
[8:15am] Airplane II: The Sequel
[10:15am] Airplane!
[12:15pm] Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb
[2:30pm] The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
[5:00pm] Body Of Lies
[8:00pm] The Wolf Of Wall Street
[12:00am] Baroness Von Sketch Show - All I'm Saying Is Her Car Has Eyelashes
[12:30am] Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb
[2:45am] Mystery Science Theater 3000 - City Limits
[5:00am] Baroness Von Sketch Show - All I'm Saying Is Her Car Has Eyelashes
[5:30am] Baroness Von Sketch Show - I've Got A Date With A Gnome And He Is Hawt! (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 10:30am] the andy griffith show
[11:00am] captain phillips
[2:00pm - 10pm] criminal minds
[11:00pm] the a word
[12:22am] criminal minds
[1:23am] criminal minds
[2:24am] criminal minds
[3:25am] deutschland 89 - Magic
[4:33am] deutschland 89 - Operation Condor
[5:40am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Noah', followed by the movie 'Gods Of Egypt'.
Stevie Wonder, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan will be among the entertainers honoring nurses in a star-studded benefit virtual concert on Thanksgiving.
Nurse Heroes announced Tuesday that the concert called Nurse Heroes Live will stream on the organization’s YouTube and Facebook along with LiveXLive on Nov. 26 at 7 p.m. EST. The benefit will provide money for a variety of programs including scholarships for nurses and their children.
Whoopi Goldberg will host the concert with special appearances by Oprah Winfrey and Billy Crystal.
Other performers include Josh Groban, Black Eyed Peas, Pitbull, The Wailers, Carole King, Maluma and Andrea Bocelli.
The nurses of New York’s Northwell Health will be the first beneficiaries of the concert. The event will also showcase 50 nurses from the hospital in an ensemble performance with several celebrities.
The post-election Nov. 7 edition of Saturday Night Live had a perfect timing as it followed a big news day, in which Joe Biden was declared winner of the election. Delayed by the Notre Dame-Clemson football game, SNL, with host Dave Chappelle and musical guest Foo Fighters, averaged a 2.62 rating in Live+Same Day adult 18-49 rating and 9.064 viewers overall, according to official national ratings from Nielsen.
SNL was television’s #1 highest rated entertainment telecast in 18-49 since ABC’s Academy Awards on Feb. 9 (5.33 in 18-49). In total viewers, this is television’s #1 most-watched entertainment program since the season premiere of NBC’s America’s Got Talent on May 26 (9.877 million). The Nov. 7 SNL is also television’s #1 highest-rated comedy telecast in 18-49 since the Big Bang Theory series finale on May 16, 2019 (3.23).
This is the highest SNL 18-49 rating in three-and-a-half years, since May 13, 2017 (with host Melissa McCarthy & musical guest Haim, 2.74) and the highest most watched SNL telecast since then, behind the Dec. 21, 2019 show hosted by Eddie Murphy with musical guest Lizzo (9.981 million).
Among all programs on YouTube over the weekend, SNL generated the #1, #2 and #3 most-viewed videos, with Biden’s Victory Cold Open (10.0 million views), Chappelle’s Stand-Up Monologue (7.4 million) and Weekend Update: Rudy Giuliani on Trump’s Election Lawsuits (4.2 million).
Keith Richards is so old-school that when he does his interviews — he’ll do so from a landline.
The Rolling Stones icon isn’t a fan of technology. Years ago he admitted to not owning an iPod when the device was most popular. He’s one of the few people who hasn’t downloaded Zoom during the pandemic. And he doesn’t even own a cell phone.
“I’m not at all hooked in any high-tech internets,” he says. “I don’t even have a (cell) phone, man. I’m talking to you from on a landline. Why would I want a (cell) phone? You crazy?”
The unbothered 76-year-old rocker has been home for a full year now — a first for Richards, he reveals. He, Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts wrapped part of their No Filter Tour in August 2019, and they had plans to hit the road again in May 2020, but things changed following coronavirus outbreak.
“I saw the garden grow, really quite unbelievable,” Richards explains. “Usually I come, it’s spring and suddenly it’s fall when I get back. I spent the whole summer actually admiring the garden and also doing a bit of gardening myself; watering the veggies and the stuff. I got into a more probably normal way of life, which is un-normal.”
The handgun used by the late Sean Connery in the first James Bond film is the star attraction in a Hollywood auction next month.
The semi automatic Walther PP gun, which along with its smaller model the PPK became one of the film franchise's best known images, is expected to fetch between $150,000 and $200,000 at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills on Dec. 3, the auction house said on Monday.
The de-activated gun was used by Connery in "Dr. No" in 1962. Connery, who originated the James Bond role on screen, died on Oct. 31 at age 90.
"The silhouette of 007 holding this gun would go on to become the James Bond franchise's most iconic image and one of the most recognizable pop culture references of all time," Martin Nolan, executive director of Julien's Auctions, said in a statement.
Though the COVID-19 pandemic has captured the country's attention, the U.S. has also been facing another deadly, but less visible, public health crisis. "Diseases of despair" or those related to substance abuse, alcohol dependency and suicidal thoughts and behaviors, have been surging in the U.S. over the past decade, according to a new study.
Diagnosis of diseases of despair increased by 68% between 2009 and 2018 among a cohort of people studied in the U.S., according to a study published today (Nov. 9) in the journal BMJ Open. Strikingly, diagnoses related to suicide increased by 170% in that time frame, the authors found.
Previous research hinted that despair-related diseases were increasing across the U.S. but mainly focused on mortality.
These trends coincide with decades of economic decline for less educated and unskilled workers, stagnant or falling wages and incomes, lower marriage rates and increases in single-parent households, and fewer people who are actively working or looking for work, according to the study.
A Vatican investigation into ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has found that a series of bishops, cardinals and popes downplayed or dismissed reports that he slept with seminarians, and determined that Pope Francis merely continued his predecessors’ naive handling of the predator until a former altar boy alleged abuse.
The Vatican took the extraordinary step on Tuesday of publishing its two-year, 400-plus-page internal investigation into the American prelate’s rise and fall in a bid to restore credibility to the US and Vatican hierarchies, which have been shattered by the McCarrick scandal.
Francis defrocked McCarrick, 90, last year after a Vatican investigation confirmed decades of allegations that the globe-trotting envoy and successful church fundraiser had sexually molested adults as well as children.
The Vatican had reports from authoritative figures dating back to 1999 that McCarrick’s behavior was problematic, yet he continued to rise to become an influential cardinal, kingmaker and emissary of the Holy See’s “soft diplomacy.”
For the second time in only a matter of months, a cable accident has occurred at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, causing yet more damage to one of the world's largest and most powerful radio telescopes.
In August, astronomers and science-lovers alike were aghast to see a giant hole ripped through the facility's massive reflector dish, resulting from a broken auxiliary cable that fell and smashed into the structure, leaving an ugly gash measuring 30 metres (100 feet) long.
In the months since, engineers and workers at the observatory have been making preparations for a complex repair job, with work initially scheduled to begin this week. Unfortunately, a second cable failure taking place on Friday evening local time has now complicated the situation further.
Both cables were connected to the same support tower, and it's possible the second break was triggered by additional strain after the first failure.
As the US intensifies its focus on the Arctic, the gap between its icebreaker fleet and Russia's has become a concern, underscored in recent weeks by the breakdown of one of the US's two icebreakers as it sailed north.
In mid-August, a fire aboard US Coast Guard cutter Healy, a medium icebreaker that mainly supports scientific research, cut short its planned deployment to the Arctic, forcing it to return to homeport in Seattle.
That left the US with only one operational icebreaker, the 44-year-old Polar Star. Polar Star is the US's only heavy icebreaker and is prone to breakdowns and other problems.
Polar Star typically makes an annual resupply run to Antarctica's McMurdo Station, but that was canceled this year due to COVID-19. With Healy out of operation, the Polar Star is being dispatched to the Arctic "to help protect the nation's maritime sovereignty and security in the region," the Coast Guard said in late October.
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