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normally put out a mashup collection of Seasonal tracks this time of year. However, the pandemic really has everyones attention, so the submissions shrunk to only two tracks. Sigh. Of course, we’ll all be fine without a new Christmas comp, but I still long for what could have been.
My best personal response was from a pal in France who asked me who Perry Como was. :D A very understandable response, as I sure wouldn’t know who was a big time Christmas track star over there back in the 50s.
I’ll continue searching around for more Christmas mashups, so hopefully next week I can offer y’all a nice round-up of new ones. Meanwhile, don’t fret any about shopping, merely count your blessings & survive. May the Good Lord bless you during these troubled times.
• As a little girl, Sandra Bernhard used to enjoy putting a layer of Elmer’s glue on the palm of her hand, letting it dry, then peeling it off—for one thing, the glue had a very nice smell. One day, her father saw her with the glue, and he asked, “Are you sniffing that glue? Well, I sure hope you never sniff airplane glue.” Young Sandra responded, “No, I never would—it can give you brain damage!” This conversation made young Sandra start thinking, and that night, she tried to remember the lyrics of songs from Broadway musicals that she often sang around the house. After a few hours of self-torture, she went to her parents’ bedroom and told them that she had brain damage. (She didn't, of course.)
• Eddie Cantor was a very popular comedian in early 20th-century America. Being in show business often requires frequent and prolonged absences from home, and after Mr. Cantor had been on an extended tour, he came home late one night and the next morning relaxed in his living room, reading the morning newspaper while waiting for breakfast. His four-year-old daughter came into the living room, saw him, then shouted for her mother, “Mama, mama, come here quick—that man is here again.”
• As a child, comedian Cathy Ladman listened over and over to the comedy album Nichols and May Examine Doctors, memorizing it, even though she didn’t understand all of the album. In fact, after she said her prayers, she would recite part of the album to her mother, who responded by saying, “That’s nice, dear”—but who, Ms. Ladman says, must have searched her Doctor Spock book to find out if this kind of behavior in a child was deviant.
• Comedian Jerry Lewis got his first laugh the first time he stepped on stage. When he was a kid, his father, a singer in vaudeville, allowed Jerry to sing, “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” At the end of the song, the audience began to applaud. As Jerry was making a bow, his foot slipped and hit a footlight, which exploded, causing the audience to laugh. Jerry decided that he liked the laughter, and so he became a comedian.
• Because of his white hair and large moustache, Mark Twain resembled Melville Fuller, the Chief Justice of the United States. While Mr. Twain was visiting Washington D.C., a little girl saw him, mistook him for Mr. Fuller, and asked, “Mr. Chief Justice Fuller, won’t you write something for me in my autograph book?” Mr. Twain agreed, wrote, “It’s glorious to be full but it’s heavenly to be Fuller,” then signed his own name.
• When she was growing up, comedian Margaret Cho worked in her parents’ bookstore, which was located in an area heavily populated by gay men. At first, she was scared of them because they dressed in leather and looked tough, even though the worst thing that happened was one of them smiled at her and told her, “I like your purse.” As soon as she was old enough to realize that they were gay, she felt safe.
• Groucho Marx’s son, Arthur, wanted a BB gun when he was 10 years old. However, Groucho didn’t want to get him one, because of the danger, so he said, “As long as I’m the head of the house, you’re not going to get a gun!” Arthur replied, “Dad, if I get a gun, you won’t be the head of the house!”
• When he was a child, Eddie Cantor served as a waiter to the camp directors of Surprise Lake Camp. He was a very efficient waiter—he never waited for the directors to finish their desserts, but would snatch them away half-eaten so he could finish eating them in the kitchen.
• When comedian Sandra Bernhard was a little girl, she decided to see if she could sleep an entire night with a wad of chewing gum in her mouth. Of course, when young Sandra woke up, her mother had to use scissors to cut the gum out of her hair.
What article of clothing is named after James Brudenell, a British Army Major General who led the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War?
A cardigan is a type of knitted garment that has an open front.
Commonly cardigans have buttons: garments that are tied are instead considered a robe. A more modern version of the garment has no buttons and hangs open by design.[citation needed] By contrast, a pullover (or sweater) does not open in front but must be "pulled over" the head to be worn. It may be machine- or hand-knitted. Traditionally, cardigans were made of wool but can now be made of cotton, synthetic fibers, or any combination thereof.
The cardigan was named after James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, a British Army Major General who led the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. It is modelled after the knitted wool waistcoat that British officers supposedly wore during the war. The legend of the event and the fame that Lord Cardigan achieved after the war led to the rise of the garment's popularity – supposedly, Brudenell invented the cardigan after noticing that the tails of his coat had accidentally been burnt off in a fireplace.
The term originally referred only to a knitted sleeveless vest, but expanded to other types of garment over time. Coco Chanel is credited with popularizing cardigans for women because "she hated how tight-necked men's sweaters messed up her hair when she pulled them over her head." The garment is mostly associated with the college culture of the Roaring Twenties and early 1930s, being also popular throughout the 1950s, the 1970s and the 1990s. Cardigans have also regained popularity during the 2010s.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Cardigan.
Randall wrote:
cardigan
James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan
Jacqueline said:
Cardigan
Alan J answered:
The Cardigan Sweater.
Billy in Cypress responded:
The Cardigan
Mac Mac replied:
Cardigan
zorch said:
The Cardigan
Cal in Vermont wrote:
That would the cardigan coat/sweater. Nothing about balaclavas, though they became a favorite of goons the world over.
Dave responded:
Cardigan sweater. From what I read in Wikipedia the infamous 7th Earl of Cardigan was one of the pig headed upper class twits that the British Empire employed as officers in its armies and navies regardless of their ability or lack of. Besides that the twit had the most absurd looking chin whiskers.
Deborah, the Master Gardener replied:
James Brudenell was the 7th Earl of Cardigan — the cardigan sweater was named after him. I’m a fan of sweaters in general, and wine cardigans in particular. So thanks to the Brits we have sandwiches and cardigans.
Glad the E.C. did their job; now bracing for what the sore losers will do next.
Dave in Tucson wrote:
The answer for today is the cardigan sweater. Named after the 7th Earl of Cardigan of the Charge of the Light Brigade fame. He was arrogantly incompetent yet brave and decent to his men.
Michelle in AZ said:
Cardigan; as he was the Earl of
Daniel in The City answered:
Cardigan
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Cardigan Sweater
DJ Useo replied:
The Cardigan sweater. I suspect it was originally intended as a punishment. Lol.
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Artist: EMH Classical Music / Czech Symphony Chamber Group
Record Company: EMH Classical Music
Record Company Location: Spring City, Utah
Info: “The EMH Classical Music Library was created with the belief that there could be better recordings of the world’s classical music. The result is a collection of over 200 cuts featuring great classical works such as Vivaldi’s FOUR SEASONS, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 OVERTURE, Mozart’s EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK, and SYMPHONY 40 as well as excerpts from Dvorak’s NEW WORLD SYMPHONY, just to name a few.”
“Your favorite Christmas music done in the style of Vivaldi’s FOUR SEASONS.”
All Arrangments by Nicholas Greer.
Price: $1 (USD) for track; $9.99 (USD) for 13-track album
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Amazing Race', followed by a FRESH'SEAL Team', then a FRESH'SWAT'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Tom Hanks and Leslie Odom Jr.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Nicole Kidman, Kerry Washington, and Phoebe Bridgers.
NBC opens the night with the RERUN'Christmas Spectacular Starring The Radio City Rocketters At Home Holiday Special', then the sorta-FRESH'SNL Christmas Special'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Tina Fey, Patty Jenkins, and Marcus King.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Stacey Abrams and Holland Taylor.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 2/3/20) is Ilana Glazer.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'The Great Christmas Light Fight', followed by a FRESH'For Life'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Post Malone, Kawhi Leonard, and Lewis Capaldi.
The CW offers a FRESH'Devils', followed by a RERUN'Penn & Teller: FU'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'The Masked Singer'.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by another old 'Dateline'.
A&E has 2 hours of old 'Court Cam', followed by a FRESH'Court Cam', then another FRESH'Court Cam', followed by still another FRESH'Court Cam', then yet another FRESH'Court Cam'.
AMC offers the movie 'Scrooged', followed by the movie 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation', then the movie 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[2:00PM] UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE LYCANS
[4:00PM] UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS
[6:00PM] UNDERWORLD: EVOLUTION
[8:00PM] HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS
[10:00PM] NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB
[12:15AM] HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS
[2:15AM] NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB
[4:30AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - THE SPANISH INQUISITION
[5:15AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - NJORL'S SAGA (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 'Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials', followed by the movie 'The Equalizer 2', then the movie 'The Revenant'.
History has 'Forged In Fire', another 'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire', and another 'Forged In Fire'.
IFC -
[7:00am] Piranha 3D
[9:00am] Jackass: Number Two
[11:15am] Jackass 3.5
[1:15pm] Jackass 3D
[3:30pm] Jackass: The Movie
[5:30pm] Jackass 2.5
[7:00pm] Fool's Gold
[9:30pm] Fool's Gold
[12:00am] Two And A Half Men
[12:30am] Two And A Half Men
[1:00am] This Is 40
[4:00am] Jackass: The Movie (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 9:30am] the andy griffith show
[10:00am] the mist
[12:45pm] carrie
[3:00pm - 2:00am] criminal minds
[3:00am] perry mason
[4:00am] perry mason
[5:00am] perry mason (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'The Goonies', followed by the movie 'The Last Witch Hunter'.
Joe Biden is set to sit down with Stephen Colbert for the first time since being elected President.
President-Elect Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden will appear for an exclusive interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday December 17.
It marks Biden’s latest interview on the CBS show – he made headlines when he appeared on the show on May 21 2020 while campaigning to become President.
It also marks Biden’s sixth appearance overall on The Late Show with his first visit in 2015.
The Highwomen won three awards, including album, song and duo/group of the year, at the Americana Honors and Awards. The late John Prine was given artist of the year honors.
The Americana Music Association announced the winners online on Tuesday this year after their awards show, normally held in Nashville, Tennessee, was cancelled because of the pandemic.
Prine, who died in April due to complications from COVID-19, was a titan among the Americana music community, having won artist of the year three times previously and received a lifetime achievement award in 2003.
The Highwomen, a supergroup made up of Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby, Maren Morris and Amanda Shires, won for their self-titled debut record and song of the year for “Crowded Table,” which was written by Carlile, Hemby and Lori McKenna.
Brittany Haas won instrumentalist of the year for her work as a fiddle player who has collaborated with Steve Martin, Béla Fleck, Abigail Washburn and more.
HBO Max, per chief content officer Casey Bloys, will honor a request from Dave Chappelle regarding the streaming availability of Chappelle's Show.
This decision was announced at Variety's Virtual FYCFest on Tuesday. According to Bloys, he and Chappelle had talked, with Bloys ultimately coming to the realization that the celebrated comedian's situation regarding the classic series was due to a "very unique and specific and emotional" issue.
"So at the end of the year, at the end of this year, December 31st, we'll also, you know, we're going to honor his request and take the show down," Bloys said, noting that he didn't want to go too deep regarding the nature of their discussions.
Prior to the HBO Max decision, it was reported that Netflix was taking the series down. According to Chappelle, he doesn't get compensated when ViacomCBS licenses Chappelle's Show to Netflix, HBO Max, or other streaming platforms.
"I found out that these people were streaming my work and they never had to ask me or they never have to tell me," Chappelle said during a recent stand-up performance. "Perfectly legal 'cause I signed the contract. But is that right?" He also addressed his frustrations with the streaming deals during his post-election Saturday Night Live monologue.
The Hollywood Commission has released its final report and recommendations – lots of them – based on its groundbreaking survey of sexual harassment and discrimination in the entertainment industry, concluding that while Hollywood has made real progress towards being more diverse and inclusive, “There is much more to be done.”
“To its credit, the Hollywood community has signaled that it is moving in a new direction,” Commission chair Anita Hill wrote in an op-ed that accompanies the final report. “The pace of progress and the re-imagining of our workplace puts inclusivity in the spotlight and gives entertainment an auspicious opportunity to reshape itself with diversity and inclusion firmly at the center of its business model, decision making, strategies, operations, and output. Now is the time to recommit to diversity and inclusion as a business imperative, a social mandate, and a safeguard against future crisis. Put simply, it is the right thing to do.”
The final report, called “Culture & Climate,” sums up the previously published findings of a survey of more than 9,600 current and former industry workers, categorized into four broad topics: accountability, bias, sexual harassment and assault, and bullying. Each of those separate reports found that despite progress and greater awareness in recent years, several indicators of “troubling workplace attitudes and behaviors” still persist.
Going forward, the final report makes numerous recommendations to the industry, in varying degrees of specificity, on everything from best practices for a harassment-free workplace, to accountability for bullies and sexual harassers. Generally, it wants to help workers and companies by creating a corporate culture committed to the transparent reporting and investigating of complaints to “ensure that a commitment to diversity is embraced and modeled throughout the organization, particularly at the highest levels.”
Attorney Daniel Uhlfelder, lawyer by day and Grim Reaper by night, took Florida governor Ron DeSantis to court over the state's response to the Covid-19 pandemic – but is now facing “repercussions” that he says are an effort to punish and silence him.
In his guise as the Reaper, the lawyer shot to notoriety by stalking beaches with a scythe over the summer to instil the fear of death into Florida.
His alter ego, Mr Uhlfelder, sued the governor in a failed bid to force the closure of all beaches and a statewide stay-at-home order.
While that case and appeal were dismissed, lawyers for Mr DeSantis on Friday urged the court of appeals to sanction Mr Uhlfelder for what they called an abused of the justice system that diverted resources from the Covid pandemic response.
The call for repercussions against Mr Uhlfelder follows the police raid of Florida's ousted Health Department data scientist, Rebekah Jones, who accused the state government of manipulating Covid-19 data.
Sarah Palin, the former half-term governor of Alaska and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, joined the GOP campaign trail in Georgia, urging supporters to “crush” the vote for senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler to avoid “another rigged election.”
“Georgia, we need you to not just show up 5 January, not just to win, but to crush it,” said Ms Palin, who was addressing a crowd of supporters in Marietta on Friday.
Ms Palin attended her first event of the campaign called the “Save America Tour”, which was organised by the conservative group Club for Growth. She has repeated the claims President Trump has been making of the election being rigged against him.
Before Ms Palin, representative-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene also addressed the crowd and said: "We all know for a fact that Joe Biden did not win Georgia. We know that Georgia re-elected Donald J Trump."
According to NBC News, when questioned why she was repeating election conspiracy theories that have already been debunked by multiple courts and Georgia's Republican governor and secretary of state, Ms Greene said: "Those aren’t conspiracies that have been debunked. Those are real things that happened and they haven’t been debunked."
In 2017, NASA space probes detected a massive, human-made 'barrier' surrounding Earth.
And tests have confirmed that it's actually having an effect on space weather far beyond our planet's atmosphere.
That means we're not just changing Earth so severely, scientists are calling for a whole new geological epoch to be named after us - our activities have been changing space too.
In 2017, the Van Allen Probes detected something strange as they monitored the activity of charged particles caught within Earth's magnetic field - these dangerous solar discharges were being kept at bay by some kind of low frequency barrier.
When researchers investigated, they found that this barrier had been actively pushing the Van Allen Belts away from Earth over the past few decades, and now the lower limits of the radiation streams are actually further away from us than they were in the 1960s.
The re-analysis of an old fossil has revealed features never seen before in a dinosaur, including a long, fur-like mane along its back and a pair of stiff structures jutting out from its shoulders. Scientists say these elaborate decorations were likely used for display, in what is a very early version of peacocking.
Introducing Ubirajara jubatus, a theropod dinosaur that lived 110 million years ago in the supercontinent Gondwana. In addition to brandishing an impressive mane along its back, Ubirajara featured two pairs of straw-like structures that likely protruded from its shoulders. This feature has never been seen before in a non-avian dinosaur, and it’s reminiscent of the long display feathers seen in the extant male standardwing bird-of-paradise.
That Ubirajara used these elaborate structures for display is a distinct possibility, according to the authors of the new study, published today in the journal Cretaceous Research. The chicken-sized Ubirajara may have flashed the adornment to attract a mate, intimidate male rivals, or scare off potential predators.
The sex of the specimen could not be determined, but this flamboyant display would suggest a male, given differences seen in modern male and female birds. Modern birds and ancient theropods share a common ancestor, and this discovery suggests the whole peacocking thing is something the two groups inherited from earlier dinosaur relatives. Or they acquired the same strategy independently—tough to know.
The partial skeleton was found decades ago in the Crato Formation of northeastern Brazil, and it was preserved across two slabs of limestone that, when combined, “align with each other perfectly,” wrote the authors. The specimen eventually made its way to Germany, where it’s being stored at the State Museum of Natural History in Karlsruhe. Recently, a team of paleontologists decided to take another look at the fossil with a high-resolution digital X-ray machine, revealing the previously unseen features.
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