I realize only six Christmas mashup album aren’t nearly enough, so here’s working links for DJ BC’s “Christmash” series, “Santastic”. Simply look down the page for
all nine volumes
( djbc.net/christmash/ ) . This series is all original, made-for-these-comps mashups by a large batch of the world’s greatest bootleggers. Appearing are such faves as Go Home Productions, Faroff, Divide & Kreate, Solcofn, & so very many more.
Now, a quick mention that the 2
Audioboots
( audioboots.org/ ) Christmas mashup albums are still linked, & highly listenable. We took a break from releasing a new volume this year, but these two past volumes are chock full of newly created tracks by people like SMASH, rappy, DJ Spider, Rudec, & many more. Obtain them
from thesetwo links
( audioboots.org/Albums/XM2018/ )
I’ll be going on now about hundreds of more Christmas mashups, but I’ll spare you the full spiel here on BARTCOP E. Just know that over the next Christmas week, I’ll be home citing track after track. ( Unless my wife stops me, lol )
• After coming out as a lesbian for the first time to her audience, stand-up comedian Judy Carter had a good set and the audience gave her a standing ovation. She started crying because the audience had accepted her for who she was.
• Whenever people ask lesbian humorist Ellen Orleans what the Bible says about homosexuality, she says that the last time she checked, it said, “Love thy neighbor.”
Gifts
• Early in the careers of country comedy duo Homer and Jethro, work (and pay) was hard to get, and consequently, food was hard to get. During this period of poverty, Jethro had a birthday, and Homer bought him a present with the little bit of money he had—a hot dog and a Coke. The birthday present was much appreciated.
• When Jewish comedian Myron Cohen bought a farm, his friend Bill Robbins brought him a house-warming present—a cow. Mr. Robbins said, “She’s a real Holstein. But to make her feel more comfortable, maybe we’d better change her name to Goldstein.”
• Gay men tend to like comedian Margaret Cho. One gay man sent her a beautiful basket of Vidal Sassoon hair care products, which pleased her until she realized that all of the products were for dry and damaged hair. Ms. Cho says, “Thanks, bitch.”
Husbands and Wives
• One of Fanny Brice’s three husbands was Nicky Arnstein, a small-time con man. Mr. Arnstein was a talker: a person who was always going to make it big, but who got most of his money from rich women. Still, he was handsome, and he understood the good things in life—that is, the good things in life that are expensive. Eventually, he spent time in prison after being convicted of masterminding a bond robbery. Fanny stayed true to Nicky while he was in prison, even naming her and Nicky’s second child after Nicky’s lawyer. Fanny never believed Nicky was involved in the bond robbery; she once told the press, “Mastermind? He couldn’t mastermind an electric bulb into a socket.”
• Margaret Dumont played a high-society woman who was the target of Groucho Marx’s amorous (and money-grubbing) affections in 12 years of films by the Marx Brothers. Once, a reporter—influenced perhaps by the many marriage proposals Groucho made to Ms. Dumont on screen—wrote that the two were married in real life. When Ms. Dumont told Groucho that the reporter’s mistake was embarrassing, he replied, “Embarrassing? I’ve just written a magazine article about my wife, and the magazine is printing her picture. When the article comes out, I’ll be arrested for bigamy.”
• Comedian Rita Rudner got married in a courthouse, and she and her husband didn’t spend a lot of money on wedding photographs. Instead, both of them brought cameras. She asked a passerby to take their photo, so her wedding photo shows her and her husband smiling, and in the background are a soft drink machine and a man drinking a Diet Coke. However, it could have been worse, and it was. Her husband’s camera contained a very old roll of film, and when it was developed, in addition to the one wedding photo, she saw lots of photos of her husband’s old girlfriends.
• Zero Mostel’s relationship with his second wife, Kate, was sometimes stormy. Once, they decided to separate. Kate was in bed, turned away from her husband, while Mr. Mostel thundered around the room, packing his suitcase. Finally, he said, “Aren’t you going to turn around and say good-bye?” She did, and saw Zero standing by the bed holding a suitcase and dressed only in his hat, socks, and shoes. She laughed and told him to come to bed.
• Charlie Chaplin and Jim Tully were walking in Hollywood on a side street when they came across a wedding party. The group recognized Mr. Chaplin and asked if he would mind having his photograph taken with the bride and groom. He consented, and after the photo was taken, started walking again with Mr. Tully. For a while, the much-married Mr. Chaplin walked with his head down, then he said, “Poor devils.”
"Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau" is the national anthem of Wales. The title, taken from the first words of the song, means "Old Land of My Fathers" in Welsh, usually rendered in English as simply "Land of My Fathers". The words were written by Evan James and the tune composed by his son, James James, both residents of Pontypridd, Glamorgan, in January 1856. The earliest written copy survives and is part of the collections of the National Library of Wales.
Glan Rhondda (Banks of the Rhondda), as it was known when it was composed, was first performed in the vestry of the original Capel Tabor, Maesteg (which later became a working men's club), in either January or February 1856, by Elizabeth John from Pontypridd, and it soon became popular in the locality.
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Wales.
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Wales.
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Wales
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Wales.
Dave wrote:
Wales. Its news to me that Wales is still considered a country.
Deborah, the Master Gardener responded:
I’m going with a WAG: Welsh.
Dense fog moved in Sunday night, dissipated for a couple hours Monday afternoon, and moved back in last night, so there was no stargazing for us. Cold, damp, foggy — yep, NorCal winter.
David of Moon Valley replied:
Wales!
Cymru am byth
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
"Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau" is the national anthem of Wales
DJ Useo wrote:
It be "Wales". Can you deduce from my attached pic why I know this fact?
Daniel in The City answered:
Wales
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame replied:
The answer is Wales.
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Info: This is a collection of 18 Christmas songs rendered in surf style by various artists.
“As this project is a fundraiser, any purchase of the CD over $20 will also receive a download card for RETURN OF THE WASAGAS LP.”
“This CD was produced in order to raise funds for Pinetree Stables / Cat Sanctuary in Grand Bahamas. Every cent from the sale of this CD / digital downloads will go to the sanctuary which spays, neuters, vets and feeds all the abandoned cats on the island. “
“Every artist on this project donated their time and music. Their generosity should be commended. I am proud to call them all my friends.”
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CBS starts the night with a RERUN'A Holly Dolly Christmas', followed by the RERUN'Garth & Trusha Live! A Concert Holiday', then a RERUN'SWAT'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 12/7/20) are Meryl Streep and Chris Stapleton.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 12/4/20) are Kevin Bacon and Jamie Oliver.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Chicago Med', followed by a RERUN'Chicago Fire', then a RERUN'Chicago PD'.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 11/14/20) are Gal Gadot, Ricky Martin, an Lana Del Rey.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 11/16/20) are Kaley Cuoco, Cazzie David, and Valerie Franco.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 12/11/19) is John Legend.
ABC begins the night with the chestnut 'Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town', followed by a FRESH'The Great Christmas Light Fight'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 12/10/20) are Emily Blunt, Kyle Chandler, and Sturgill Simpson.
The CW offers the RERUN'Silent Night: A Song For The World'.
Faux has a RERUN'I Can See Your Voice', followed by another RERUN'I Can See Your Voice'.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by another old 'Dateline'.
A&E has 2 hours of old 'Court Cam', followed by 2 hours of FRESH'Court Cam'.
AMC offers the movie 'Four Christmases', followed by the movie 'Elf', then the movie 'Polar Express'.
BBC -
[12:04AM] HAPPY FEET
[2:32AM - 4:30AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[5:30AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - BLOOD, DEVASTATION, DEATH, WAR AND HORROR
[5:45AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - SALAD DAYS
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[12:00PM - 7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[8:00PM] CADDYSHACK
[10:00PM] MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
[12:00AM] CADDYSHACK
[2:00AM] MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (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'Bravo's Chat Room'.
FX has the movie 'FX's A Christmas Carol', followed by 'FX's A Christmas Carol', again.
History has 'Forged In Fire', another 'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire', and 'Forged In Fire'.
IFC -
[6:00am] 30 Minutes Or Less
[8:00am] Fight Club
[11:15am] Run All Night
[1:45pm] Taken 2
[3:45pm] John Wick
[6:00pm] Casino Royale
[9:30pm] Quantum Of Solace
[12:00am] Two And A Half Men
[12:30am] Two And A Half Men
[1:00am] Casino Royale
[4:30am] Quantum Of Solace (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:15am - 8:30am] the andy griffith show
[9:00am] national lampoon's european vacation
[11:00am] vegas vacation
[1:00pm] national lampoon's vacation
[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 'Transformers: The Last Knight', followed by the movie 'Harry Potter & The Goblet Of Fire'.
The Recording Academy has announced the honorees for its 2021 Special Merit Awards.
The Lifetime Achievement Award honorees are Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Lionel Hampton, Marilyn Horne, Salt-N-Pepa, Selena, and Talking Heads.
Ed Cherney, Benny Golson and Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds are Trustees Award honorees; and Daniel Weiss is the Technical Grammy Award recipient. The honorees will be recognized on the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards on Jan. 31, 2021. Given the challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, more details about the special award presentation event will be announced at a later date, according to the announcement.
According to the announcement, the Lifetime Achievement Award celebrates performers who have made outstanding contributions of artistic significance to the field of recording, while the Trustees Award honors such contributions in areas other than performance. The Recording Academy’s National Board of Trustees determines the honorees of both awards. Technical Grammy Award recipients are voted on by the Academy’s Producers & Engineers Wing Advisory Council and Chapter Committees, and are ratified by the Academy’s Trustees. The award is presented to individuals and companies who have made contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording industry.
For the second time in a month, weekly vinyl album sales in the U.S. hit a new record high.
A total of 1.445 million vinyl albums were sold in the week ending Dec. 17 (up 9% compared to the previous week) – the biggest week yet for vinyl LP sales since Nielsen Music/MRC Data began electronically tracking music sales in 1991. The previous record week was set only two weeks earlier, when 1.253 million were sold in the week ending Dec. 3.
The top-selling vinyl album in the week ending Dec. 17 was Taylor Swift’s Folklore, with 23,000 copies sold (up 543%). Folklore got a big boost from sale pricing and promotion in Swift’s official webstore, where it’s available in assorted color variants.
The industry could hit another record high in the week ending Thursday, Dec. 24, as that tracking week will capture a full seven shopping days leading up to the Christmas Day holiday on Friday, Dec. 25.
Vinyl album sales have surpassed 1 million in a single week four times, and three of those have occurred in the last month: 1.445 million (week ending Dec. 17), 1.253 million (week ending Dec. 3) and 1.195 million (week ending Dec. 10). The other million-selling week came in 2019, when 1.243 million were sold in the week ending Dec. 26, 2019.
Oneita and Clive Thompson on Monday celebrated their freedom after spending more than two years – 843 days – living in sanctuary in Philadelphia churches to avoid deportation.
The Jamaican couple said they received notice from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week that the agency will support their case to stay in the country, The Philadelphia Inquirer first reported. Over the course of two years, the Thompsons gained national attention as one of many undocumented families that sought refuge in churches after President Donald Trump came into office.
"You just feel victorious," Oneita told USA TODAY on Monday. "Like a burden has just fallen off the shoulders."
Oneita said she and her husband came to the U.S. in 2004 to flee gang violence. Federal officials denied them asylum but they were given permission to work. In 2018, the Thompsons, who have five children, received a notice to leave the country.
The New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia, a faith-based immigrant advocacy group, supported the Thompsons and helped them find refuge.
Donald Trump (R-Loser) is living in an "alternate reality", televangelist Pat Robertson (R-Grifter) said on Monday, as he called on the president not to run for the White House again in 2024.
Acknowledging Joe Biden's election victory, Mr Roberston said it was time for the defeated incumbent to "move on", adding that the "electoral college has spoken".
His comments came as team Trump filed another desperate Supreme Court challenge to Mr Biden's victory in Pennsylvania, a state the president-elect carried by some 80,000 votes.
Speaking to the Christian Broadcasting Network, Mr Robertson, who is considered an ally of Mr Trump, said he believed Mr Biden will be sworn in come 20 January next year.
In his interview, Mr Robertson also predicted that the vice president-elect, Kamala Harris, would take over from Mr Biden "not too long after the inauguration", a claim repeatedly pushed by Republicans during the election campaign.
About 40 migrant women who were held at a Georgia detention center have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging they were subjected to medical abuse through nonconsensual or unnecessary procedures while in the facility.
The complaint, filed late Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, also claims women at the Irwin County Detention Center were retaliated against for speaking out against Dr. Mahendra Amin, of Ocilla, Georgia, who has been accused of the medical abuse.
About 40 women filed sworn testimony in the case, "revealing a relentless pattern of unnecessary and non-consensual medical procedures, including unwanted gynecological surgeries and other non-consensual medical interventions," according to a statement released with the complaint.
The filing also claims Irwin staff had been told about the medical abuse or neglect since at least 2018, but "nonetheless continued a policy or custom of sending women to be mistreated and abused by Respondent Amin."
The lawsuit said the women were retaliated against for speaking by such tactics as being placed in solitary confinement, being physically assaulted or deported or nearly deported. The United States has already deported several of Amin's former patients.
Bruce Bartman has been charged with unlawful voting and perjury over allegations that he pretended to be his dead mother to cast a ballot in the November election for President Donald Trump (R-Crooked) in Pennsylvania.
Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer announced the charges in a press release Monday. Bartman was arraigned Friday and released on $100,000 bail, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. If convicted on all charges, the 70-year-old Bartman could spend up to 19 years in prison.
"This is the only known case of a 'dead person' voting in our county, conspiracy theories notwithstanding," Stollsteimer said in a statement. "Further, the prompt prosecution of this case shows that law enforcement will continue to uphold our election laws whenever presented with actual evidence of fraud and that we will continue to investigate every allegation that that comes our way."
Prosecutors said Bartman registered two dead people - his mother, Elizabeth Bartman, and his mother-in-law, Elizabeth Weihman - as Republican voters in August. He used the state's online voter-registration portal, which allows residents to register to vote using their driver's license number or the last four digits of their Social Security number, prosecutors said.
Voter fraud is extremely rare in the US. A database maintained by the conservative Heritage Foundation found only 193 convicted cases of voter fraud between 2000 and 2020, during which about 250 million votes were cast. Republicans frequently make baseless claims that voter fraud has a larger scope and scale, while pushing for laws that would make it harder for people to vote.
The giant iceberg that's been drifting through the South Atlantic looks to have experienced a major break-up.
Tuesday's latest satellite imagery reveals major fissures in the tabular berg known as A68a, with huge blocks of ice starting to separate and move away from each other.
A68a, which calved from Antarctica in 2017, has been floating off the coast of South Georgia island.
The bergs get given a prefix letter depending on which quadrant of the Antarctic they calve from, plus a number to designate their position in the sequence of big breakaways. Fragmentations then earn a suffix letter.
Just last week, a big piece broke from A68a and this was called A68d. You can see "d" trailing behind the main berg in another Sentinel-1 image from Monday processed by Pierre Markuse.
Orchids are usually prized for their grace and loveliness, but a newly described species from Madagascar probably won't be winning any beauty contests. Its small flowers are a mottled brown, and it resembles a moldy paper bag (or maybe an eyeless, wormlike head with a mouth gaping in a silent scream or to consume your soul).
It's no wonder that the newfound species has been called "the ugliest orchid in the world" by the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew) in the United Kingdom, which recently placed the homely newcomer at the top of a list highlighting species discovered in 2020, representatives said in a statement.
The leafless orchid, named Gastrodia agnicellus, grows underground in decaying leaf litter for most of its life cycle, and is nourished by fungus. In addition to the "small, brown and rather ugly" orchid, researchers and collaborators with RBG Kew described more than 150 plants and fungi this year, according to the statement.
In 2019, British botanist Johan Hermans, an RBG Kew honorary research associate, found a number of G. agnicellus orchids hiding under leaf litter in a humid Madagascar forest. Their lumpy, oblong shapes hinted that the flower belonged to a group known as potato orchids, and the blooms, which measure about 0.4 inches (1.1 centimeters) in length, emit a "noticeable musk rose-like scent" that intensifies when air temperatures are warmer, Hermans wrote in a study published Nov. 5 in the journal Curtis's Botanical Magazine.
Other newly described species on the list include a scaly, heat-resistant shrub that thrives in Namibian salt pans (Tiganophyton karasense); a Peruvian plant with purple tubers that could be a new food crop (Ipomoea noemana); and a vibrant, colorful bromeliad — a family of tropical, flowering plants that includes the pineapple — from Brazil (Acanthostachys calcicola) that grows on limestone cliffs and may be pollinated by hummingbirds, according to the statement.
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