Susan Estrich: Romney Didn't Lose (Creators Syndicate)
Who'da thunk it? Mitt Romney, who walked away with Michigan even as he was losing the nomination four years ago, barely surviving the Michigan primary this time? Much less doing so against a guy who thinks it's snobbish to want to go to college and that a speech by John F. Kennedy makes him want to "throw up."
James Rainey: "Andy Borowitz: Digital stand-up artist" (Los Angeles Times)
When he wrote for TV sitcoms, audience buzz or ratings might roll in over a few days. It could take several stand-up gigs to find the material that truly popped. Today, comedian Andy Borowitz types out ersatz headlines on Twitter or fake news on his Borowitz Report website and gets an instant verdict.
The Water Tank (Art) Project
New York City wants to teach residents to be responsible with water by turning water towers into public works of art. The campaign is called Word Above The Street, it will take place in 2013 and will feature artworks from a myriad of artists, both famous and not, most of which will have a (surprise!) water theme.
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
The Jimi Hendrix Experience were an English-American psychedelic rock band that formed in London in October 1966. Comprising eponymous singer-songwriter and guitarist Jimi Hendrix, bassist and backing vocalist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, the band was active until June 1969, in which time the group released three successful studio albums.
The group came to prominence in the US only after the June 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, one of the first major rock music festivals. The band's performance ended with Hendrix famously setting his psychedelically painted Fender Stratocaster on fire. After the festival they were asked to go on tour with The Monkees. They joined the tour on July 8, 1967 in Jacksonville, FL, the second act on a three-band bill, opened by The Sundowners. Less than two weeks later, and after only a handful of engagements, they left the tour, reportedly frustrated by audience response. The last Hendrix/Monkees concert was performed at Flushing Meadows in Queens, NY.
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| "Well... that depends on what I've lost." -- Davy Jones, The Monkees, "Monkees A La Mode") was first, and correct, with:
Without looking it up, I'm going to guess... The Monkees.
Alan J said:
The Monkees
STEPHEN F wrote:
I am going to say The Jimi Hendrix Experience opened for the Monkees.
Adam answered:
The Monkees- RIP Davey Jones
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
The Monkees
George M responded:
From what I recall, Marty, the Jimi Hendrix Experience served as an opening act for the Monkees.
I suppose you put this question in as a tribute to Davy Jones, which is only fitting.
We must keep rocking, my friend.
Sally said:
I believe the, "Jimi Hendrix Experience" was an opening act for, "The Monkee's" tour around 1967.
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Yup, here it is in black and blue!
PS: In the summer of 1967, Hendrix, et al., were playing at Flushing Meadows, where was held the 1964 World's Fair. Since I had worked at the Fair, I used my connections (I knew someone who knew someone, and so on), and got tickets for that concert, because my friends and I were all becoming major Hendrix fans. (I don't think any of us even knew who were these, "Monkee's.") It really sucked, full of what we now call, "Teeny Boppers" screaming for the Monkee's and booing Hendrix!!
I heard many nasty screams directed towards Hendrix and his band, because they were Black, and cool - and the Monkee's, White and innocent... It really was a mismatch, pairing the two groups together back in those intolerant days in Queens, the last borough in NY before entering the Island, which was referred to as "Whitelandia" back then.
CBS starts the night with '6 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Survivor', then a FRESH'The Good Wife', followed by a FRESH'CSI: The 2nd One'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN'T-Rumps Effrontery & Fluffery', followed by a FRESH'T-Rumps Effrontery & Fluffery'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Once Upon A Time', then a FRESH'Desperate Housewives', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE'GCB'.
The CW fills the night with what passes for local news and other fluffery.
Faux has a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', followed by a FRESH'The Cleveland Show', then a FRESH'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'Napoleon Dynamite', then a FRESH'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH'American Dad'.
MY has an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', yet another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Storage Wars', then a FRESH'Breakout Kings'.
AMC offers the movie 'Braveheart', 'The Walking Dead', followed by a FRESH'The Walking Dead', then a FRESH'Comic Book Men'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] TOP GEAR-Episode 8
[7:00AM] TOP GEAR-Episode 9
[8:00AM] BRITAIN'S BIGGEST BEASTS
[9:00AM] SECRET GORILLAS OF MONDIKA
[9:30AM] SEARCH FOR TIGERS
[10:00AM] TOP GEAR-Episode 10
[11:00AM] TOP GEAR-Episode 11
[12:00PM] THE TAILOR OF PANAMA
[2:30PM] CASINO ROYALE (2006)
[5:30PM] ENTRAPMENT
[8:00PM] CASINO ROYALE (2006)
[11:00PM] ENTRAPMENT
[1:30AM] THE TAILOR OF PANAMA
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR-Episode 9
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR-Episode 11 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', then a FRESH'The Kandi Factory'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Without A Paddle', 'Jeff Dunham: Arguing With Myself', followed by the FRESH'Ralphie May: Too Big To Ignore'.
FX has the movie 'X-Men: The Last Stand', followed by the movie 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine', then the movie 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine', again.
History has 'Ax Men', another 'Ax Men', followed by a FRESH'Ax Men', then a FRESH'Full Metal Jousting'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Tadpole
[8:10AM] Occupations
[8:15AM] The Clearing
[10:15AM] Unknown
[12:00PM] Onion News Network-Asteroid Heads to Earth
[12:30PM] Onion News Network-Missing Baby Kate
[1:00PM] Onion News Network-Fantasy Brainwall
[1:30PM] Onion News Network-Dead Reporter
[2:00PM] Onion News Network-Exposed, Brooke Alvarez
[2:30PM] I Love Sarah Jane
[2:45PM] The Clearing
[4:45PM] Unknown
[6:30PM] The Good Girl
[8:30PM] Monster's Ball
[11:00PM] Portlandia-No Olympics
[11:30PM] Portlandia-Blunderbuss
[12:00AM] Bad Lieutenant
[2:00AM] A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
[4:15AM] Portlandia-No Olympics
[4:45AM] Portlandia-Blunderbuss
[5:15AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[5:30AM] Action-Lights, Camera, Action (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A]
Everlasting Moments
[8:15A]
The Gift
[8:30A]
THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Nick Offerman & Megan Mullally
[9:00A]
THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Lea Thompson & Anthony Michael Hall
[9:30A]
On The Line
[10:00A]
Faintheart
[11:35A]
Mary and Max
[1:15P]
Everlasting Moments
[3:30P]
Faintheart
[5:05P]
Mary and Max
[6:45P]
In A Day
[8:15P]
Gigantic
[11:35P]
The Waiting Room
[1:30A]
Gigantic
[4:50A]
The Red Carpet Issue (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans', followed by the movie 'Jeepers Creepers II'.
Antenna TV has a Monkee Marathon, that started at 5pm EST [2pm PST] Saturday and runs until 10pm (EST) tonight (the last 2 hours are the movie 'Head').
Me-TV offers a tribute to Davy Jones starting at 12:30 pm (EST/PST) with his visit to 'The Brady Bunch', followed by 2 episodes of 'Love American Style' with Davy Jones segments.
French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo waits for the title fight of heavyweight boxing title holder Vladimir Klitschko of Ukraine and Jean-Marc Mormeck of France prior to their IBF/WBO, WBA and IBO world heavyweight championship title fight in Duesseldorf March 3, 2012.
Photo by Kai Pfaffenbach
Whitney Houston's death -- or rather, the crude comments made about Whitney Houston's death by on-air personalities John Kobylt (R-White Bread) and Ken Chiampou (R-Mayonnaise) -- have prompted a number of changes at Los Angeles radio station KFI AM 640.
In a memo "to the Los Angeles Community" issued Thursday, the radio station noted that it has enacted new policies -- and will continue to enact new policies following public criticism over the comments.
According to the memo, the station said that Kobylt (R-Biased) and Chiampou (R-Irrelevant) -- of KFI's "The John and Ken Are Only Funny To Bigots Show" --- will undergo cultural sensitivity training, along with "key staff and management." The station said that the training will further Kobylt and Chiampou's "awareness of the cultural melting pot that is Southern California."
On a broader scale, the station said it is reviewing its talk formats and "will find a platform for auditioning a diverse group of local hosts and guests.
Kobylt and Chiampou sparked outrage -- and earned a week-and-a-half suspension -- in February when, days after Houston's death, they made a number of on-air comments that many considered inappropriate. Among the comments, the pair called Houston a "crack ho," said she had been "cracked out for 20 years," and wondered of her death, "Really? took this long?"
He spent two years in a federal lockup for trying to sell cocaine to undercover agents, and all Wayne Kramer can think about these days is trying to find a way to get back behind bars.
This time, though, the guitar god for rock music's seminal pre-punk band, the MC5, wants to bring his ax with him - and a few dozen others for the inmates to play.
With a little help from friends like the Foo Fighters' Chris Shiflett, former Guns 'N Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke and others, Kramer has formed Jail Guitar Doors USA.
He runs the nonprofit charitable organization with his wife, Margaret, out of the Hollywood studio where he makes a comfortable living these days composing music for movies and television. Over the past two years, Jail Guitar Doors USA has delivered scores of instruments to prisons and jails in Nevada, California and Texas.
After helping to turn Frenchmen Jean Dujardin and Michel Hazanavicius into Oscar winners last weekend for their work in "The Artist," Harvey Weinstein will receive one of the country's highest honors.
The Weinstein Company co-chairman will receive the 2012 Légion d'Honneur, after being personally nominated by President Nicolas Sarkozy.
He will receive the award in a ceremony to take place in Paris. Weinstein will enter the Légion d'Honneur with the grade of "Chevalier."
The news comes a day after Weinstein made headlines for slamming Jean-Marie Le Pen over comments made about his company's film "The Intouchables."
Weinstein lashed out at the former president of France's right-wing National Front party, calling his criticism of the film's message about immigration, "repulsive" and "bigoted."
A woman sells traditional Matryoshka dolls (Russian nesting dolls), one of which bears the image of presidential candidate and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (bottom R), at the Vorobyovy Gory (Sparrow Hills) sightseeing point in Moscow March 3, 2012. Russians will go to the polls for their presidential election on Sunday.
Photo by Pawel Kopczynski
A representative for Alex O'Loughlin says the "Hawaii Five-0" star is taking time away from the show to get treated for problems related to pain medication.
Rachael Wesolowski says in a report by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser that O'Loughlin " is taking a short break to receive supervised treatment for prescription pain medication due to a recent shoulder injury."
Series producer CBS Television Studios and O'Loughlin representatives declined to comment on the nature of O'Loughlin's injuries or his treatment.
O'Loughlin, who portrays crime fighter Steve McGarrett, is known for doing many of his own stunts on the action-packed show. The paper says he reportedly will be absent for at least one episode.
Conservative radio host propagandist Rush Limbaugh (R-Viagra Dependent) apologized to Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke on Saturday for calling her a "slut," among other things.
In a written statement on his website, Limbaugh (R-Bully) said he did not mean to make a personal attack on Fluke.
Limbaugh was under pressure to apologize, as advertisers were pulling ads from his show, and prominent Republicans-including the GOP presidential field-condemned his comments.
Fluke has been at the center of a national debate over contraception. Barred from testifying before an all-male Congressional committee last month, Fluke later testified before a panel of Democratic House members. At issue is a compromise that President Obama reached about how religious institutions provide contraception coverage for their employees.
A man throws coloured powder on others as they celebrate "Lathmar Holi" at village Nandgaon in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh March 3, 2012. In a Holi tradition unique to Nandgaon and Barsana villages, men sing provocative songs to gain the attention of women, who then "beat" them with bamboo sticks called "lathis". Holi, also known as the Festival of Colours, heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated all over India.
Photo by Adnan Abidi
The lead investigator in an Arizona sheriff's investigation into President Obama's birth certificate is selling his report as a book.
Retired detective and volunteer Maricopa County sheriff's posse member Mike Zullo is listed as the co-author of "A Question of Eligibility," an e-book for sale through Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
The book is a copy of the investigation findings presented to the press Thursday.
Zullo's co-author is Jerome Corsi, a well-known political conspiracy writer.
Phoenix television station KTVK reports Corsi denied using $heriff Joe Arpaio (R-Self-Serving), the self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in the country, as a promotional tool to sell his books and theories. Corsi supplied much of the research for the sheriff's office investigation.
Dancers from the Succotz Festival Drum Corps. practice before Britain's Prince Harry visits the Xunantunich Mayan ruin near Benke Viejo, Belize March 3, 2012. The Prince is on a week-long tour through Central America and the Caribbean acting as an ambassador for Britain's Queen Elizabeth as part of her Diamond Jubilee.
Photo by Suzanne Plunkett
'80s sitcom heartthrob turned evangelical Kirk Cameron made his stance on gay rights, and gays in general, crystal clear in an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan last night. Survey says: definitely not pro! After Morgan broached the topic, Cameron deflected by making reference to Christine O'Donnell's gay-marriage-induced walkout of last summer, but the Growing Pains star eventually shared his views:
"I believe marriage was defined by God. Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the Garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't."
Pressed further to acknowledge whether or not he considers "homosexuality a sin," Cameron said:
"I think that it's...unnatural. It's detrimental and ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization."
Devotees pay respects to Buddhist statues at Wat Bang Phra in Nakhon Prathom province, about 80 km (50 miles) from Bangkok March 3, 2012. Thousands of believers from across Thailand travel to the monastery to attend the annual tattoo festival to have their bodies adorned with tattoos and to pay their respects to the temple's master tattooist. They believe the tattoos have mystical powers which ward off bad luck and protect them from harm.
Photo by Sukree Sukplang
Brothers Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko are Ukrainian heavyweight boxers and the first siblings to hold all Heavyweight World Championship titles between them.
Today, 40-year old Vitali lives in the Ukraine and is the leader of the political party UDAR, which has an anti-corruption and pro-European platform. Last month he also won his 12th consecutive fight, retaining his WBC Heavyweight title.
Wladimir, 35, holds five heavyweight titles and will defend them on March 3 when he takes on French boxer Jean-Marc Mormeck in Dusseldorf, Germany. He spoke to Reuters about boxing and his plans for the future.
Q: You're currently working on a documentary about nuclear reactors. Is that because of your personal ties to it? Your father was one of the commanders in charge of cleaning up the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.
A: "My brother and I are children of Chernobyl and it is part of our history. Today we're facing really serious issues with nuclear power plants worldwide. Radiation is something you cannot smell, cannot see, cannot feel, cannot touch. It's out there and could be everywhere. The (effects) of Fukushima will be there for thousands of years. They cannot clean it up just like that. And (the effects) Chernobyl are still being felt.
"I'm definitely against nuclear power plants. Germany gave a good example to the world when they made a political decision to get rid of nuclear power plants -- to close them and look for alternative energy."
Rare photographs of Bob Dylan, shot over a year-long period in the mid-1960s, go on show in Paris next week in an exhibition that captures the moment the protest folk singer morphed into cult rock star.
From 1961 to 1966, Dylan wrote seven albums that marked the history of pop, but also underwent a radical transformation between the first, "Bob Dylan", and the last, "Blonde on Blonde".
Entitled "Bob Dylan: The Rock Explosion 1961-66," the Paris show centres on 60 rare shots by the New York photographer Daniel Kramer, captured at the precise moment Dylan was making the switch from folk to rock.
Speaking in Paris ahead of the opening next Tuesday at the capital's Cite de la Musique, Kramer, now 80, told AFP how he came to spend a year on-and-off with the singer.
He first approached Dylan -- whose real name is Robert Zimmerman -- after seeing the young man in his 20s on television, performing a song called "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll."
A musher runs its team down 4th Avenue during the ceremonial start of the Iditarod trail sled dog race, Saturday, March 3, 2012, in Anchorage, Alaska.
Photo by Marc Lester
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