zEN mAN (observing some really sad shit....A father puts an automatic weapon in his 8 year old son's hands....goes to grab the camera...the gun goes off...multiple times.....killing the boy.....sooosad and stupid...and by the way...FUCK THE N.R.A.!))
Paul Krugman: The Widening Gyre (nytimes.com)
The troubles in the banking system, hedge funds and emerging markets are mutually reinforcing. Bad news begets bad news, and the circle of pain just keeps getting wider.
On song (guardian.co.uk)
Tom Jones can't believe his luck. He's a belting balladeer rediscovered as cool, he's a womaniser with a lifelong happy marriage, and then there's the voice - good enough to tussle with Elvis. As the martinis flow, he tells all to Simon Hattenstone.
DANNY SANCHEZ: The Vivacious Viragoes of Virago (curvemag.com)
What comes to mind when you hear the word 'Virago'? "A lot of people know the name because Yamaha used to make a Virago motorcycle. That's how I first became aware of the word. I love motorcycles," reports Amy Schindler, the guitarist of the dynamic musical duo, Virago.
The top pumpkin-producing states in the U.S. include Illinois, Ohio, ____?____, and California.
A Georgia
B Iowa
C Oregon
D Pennsylvania
E Wisconsin
Source
mj was first, and correct, with:
It's sort of a guess
And we do have many pumpkin related traditions (and it was North Eastern indigenous people who introduced them to the invaders), so I'm going with D, Pennsy. Could also be Georgia, but I'm sticking to D.
Alan J answered:
D Pennsylvania
Jim from CA replied:
Pennsylvania
Charlie responded:
Yes we have lots of pumpkins in Ohio, and also in neighboring
D Pennsylvania
Adam in NoHo answered:
I'm going to say D- Wisconsin, because it is sort of near Illinois &
Ohio (but it's something more like C- Oregon).
~ Tony In Philly responded:
D. PENNSYLVANIA
ducks resplied:
I hafta say C: Oregon since the most recent largest pumpkin contest in Half Moon Bay was won for the 2nd year in a row by a guy in Pleasant Hill Oregon.
On the other hand, that┬ just a guess.
Sally said:
I KNOW that you want me to exclaim that the top pumpkin-producing states in the U.S. include Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania (D) and California. That's just how are the folks with PA roots... Personally, I think the missing state is New York and I'm right of course... (Said 'tongue in cheek' here...)
PS: Today Joe S wrote, " I watched Little House a few times on TV because my wife loved the show. I found it a little sappy most of the time...."
To this, Sally P responds: "Oh sure, Joe S, you and I know you loved the show, and shame on you for making your spouse the, 'fall guy!'" (Just joking - but I just couldn't miss that rim shot, Joe :)
PPS: I'm wid ja, Joey b - GO OBAMA '08!!
sodan answered:
Too lazy as usual to look it up. While I suppose it could be any state where the sun shines, I think that there are always a number of entries in the largest pumpkin contest from Oregon, so I'll guess they have a thriving pumpkin sector up there.
Marian the Teacher responded:
Pennsylvania
And, Joe S ("Hmmm. Joe the plumber... plumber... plumber. Why does that sound so familiar? Wait a minute, wait a gosh darned minute here! Didn't Dick Nixon have some plumbers? And didn't those plumbers of Tricky Dick do a bunch of covert, and illegal, actions for him? And weren't those plumbers the ones that broke into the Watergate? I thought so. No wonder the republicans like Joe the plumber so much."
~ I said that.), the retired grape peeler, guessed good:
Don't know. Pennsylvania?
Thanks to Charlie and Tony in Philly for the pictures.
The gentleman who joined Tippi Hedren, Jo Ann Worley, Penn and Teller, and Milt Larsen (co-founder of the Magic Castle) on Hollywood Blvd for the unveiling of the restored Houdini Star was not, as he claimed, Houdini's grandnephew. He is Donald Ferguson and he is not related to Houdini in any way. He calls himself Hardeen H. Houdini and his wife calls herself Cyrene Hardeen Houdini, but, these are stage names.
In yesterday's offering, you noted the death of Anne Pressly: "She had a small role in the new Oliver Stone movie 'W,' which was filmed in Shreveport, La. She appears briefly as a conservative commentator Ann Coulter, who speaks favorably of resident Bush's 'Mission Accomplished' event on an aircraft carrier shortly after the start of the Iraq war."
I think that I speak here for your, 'readers' in saying that the death of this young actress is lamentable regardless of the role(s) she played. To die so violently is intolerable AWA deplorable - and a terrible legacy for her friends and family. God love them and bring them peace.
Thanks, Sally.
More people saw Ms. Pressly in her role as Ann Coulter than ever saw her work as a TV reporter.
I found it interesting that the media accounts were neglecting to mention her character's name in a major motion picture.
As lamentable as her death is, it wouldn't have gotten much traction without the connection to Oliver Stone's movie.
Besides, every actor I've ever known wants their credits listed in their obits.
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'The Mentalist', then a FRESH'Without A Trace'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Regis Philbin and James Taylor.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Pepe the King Prawn, Saffron Burrows, and X.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH 2-hour 'Biggest Loser: Families', followed by a FRESH'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Seth Rogen, David Gregory, and Cold War Kids.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Tina Fey, Peter Sarsgaard, and the Black Crowes.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Rich Eisen and the Knux.
ABC opens the night by rolling out the old chestnut 'It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown', followed by a FRESH'Dancing With The Stars', then a FRESH'Eli Stone'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Kristin Chenoweth, the latest "Dancing with the Stars" castoff, and Alkaline Trio.
The CW offers a FRESH'90210', followed by a FRESH'Privileged'.
Faux is hoping to start the night early with the LIVE'World Series Baseball - Game 5, Take 2 - The 1st Rainout'.
MY has a RERUN'Street Patrol', followed by another RERUN'Street Patrol', then a RERUN'Jail', followed by another RERUN'Jail'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', and a FRESH'Rookies'.
AMC offers the movie 'House On Haunted Hill', followed by the movie 'Jeepers Creepers', then the movie 'Bride of Chucky'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 9
[12:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 10
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 5 The Curry Lounge
[2:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 4
[3:00 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 16 Shepton Mallet 73
[3:30 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 17 Ardingly 68
[4:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 5
[4:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 6
[5:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 11
[5:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 12
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 4 Bonapartes
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Coupling - Ep. 7 Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
[8:40 PM] Gavin & Stacey - Episode 9
[9:20 PM] Absolutely Fabulous - Ep.5 Small Opening
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America
[11:00 PM] Coupling - Ep. 7 Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
[11:40 PM] Gavin & Stacey - Episode 9
[12:20 AM] Absolutely Fabulous - Ep.5 Small Opening
[1:00 AM] Coupling - Ep. 7 Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
[1:40 AM] Gavin & Stacey - Episode 9
[2:20 AM] Absolutely Fabulous - Ep.5 Small Opening
[3:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 4 Minnie Driver, Jimmy Carr
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 16 Shepton Mallet 73
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 17 Ardingly 68
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 24 Sharples
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 25 Smith
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives of Atlanta', followed by another 'Real Housewives of Atlanta', then another ''Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives of Atlanta'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', and 'Bill Burr: Why Do I Do This?'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Steve Martin.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Sherman Alexie.
FX has the movie 'AVP: Alien Vs. Predator', followed by the movie 'The Omen', then a FRESH'The Shield'.
IFC -
[6:30 AM] Jersey Girl
[8:15 AM] Maria Full of Grace
[10:00 AM] Antwone Fisher
[12:05 PM] Jersey Girl
[1:55 PM] IFC News Uncut 2008
[2:00 PM] Maria Full of Grace
[3:50 PM] IFC in Theaters
[4:00 PM] Antwone Fisher
[6:05 PM] The Glass Shield
[8:00 PM] Hell Girl
[8:30 PM] Z Rock
[9:00 PM] IFC Film Blast
[9:15 PM] The Henry Rollins Show
[9:45 PM] IFC Music Blast
[10:00 PM] The IT Crowd
[10:30 PM] IFC Web Blast
[11:00 PM] Hell Girl
[11:30 PM] Z Rock
[12:00 AM] The Return of the Living Dead
[1:35 AM] 4 cylinder 400
[2:00 AM] IFC Film Blast
[2:15 AM] Gunslinger Girl
[2:45 AM] IFC Music Blast
[3:00 AM] The IT Crowd
[3:30 AM] IFC Web Blast
[4:00 AM] The Return of the Living Dead
[5:35 AM] The Glass Shield (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Freddy Vs. Jason', 'ECW', followed by a FRESH'Scare Tactics', and another FRESH'Scare Tactics'.
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] The Grace Lee Project
[06:15 AM] Choking Man
[08:00 AM] Office Tigers: (Episode 4)
[08:30 AM] Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 1: Eat
[09:00 AM] Guerrilla Girl
[10:35 AM] Jump Tomorrow
[12:15 PM] Help!
[01:50 PM] Choking Man
[03:15 PM] It's a Free World
[05:00 PM] Iconoclasts - Season 4: Stella McCartney + Ed Ruscha
[06:00 PM] Jump Tomorrow
[08:00 PM] Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 2: Fashion
[08:35 PM] Eco Documentaries - Season 2: Escape From Suburbia: Beyond the American Dream
[10:15 PM] Outrageous Wasters: Episode 3
[11:15 PM] Half Nelson
[01:15 AM] Ellie Parker
[03:00 AM] Shameless Season 3: Episode 7 |
[04:00 AM] Help!
[05:35 AM] The Wild Horse Redemption (ALL TIMES EST)
Country music star Emmylou Harris sings 'Icy Blue Heart,' written by John Hiatt, during Hiatt's induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductions in Nashville, Tenn., Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008.
Photo by Mark Humphrey
When the Sunday morning political pundits began talking last year about the tab for the war in Iraq hitting $1 trillion, Rob Simpson sprang from his sofa in indignation.
So Simpson, 51, decided to embark "on an unusual but intriguing research project" to put the dollars and cents of the war into perspective. He hired some assistants and spent 12 months immersed in economic data and crunching numbers.
The result: a slim but heavily annotated paperback released, "What We Could Have Done With the Money: 50 Ways to Spend the Trillion Dollars We've Spent on Iraq."
He calculates $1 trillion could pave the entire U.S. interstate highway system with gold - 23.5-karat gold leaf. It could buy every person on the planet an iPod. It could give every high school student in the United States a free college education. It could pay off every American's credit card. It could buy a Buick for every senior citizen still driving in the United States.
Samuel L. Jackson has joined the fight to keep gay marriage legal in California.
The Soul Men actor recorded a radio spot earlier today to urge voters to oppose Prop. 8, the ballot initiative seeking to overturn California's legalization of same-sex unions.
Jackson joins other stars who have taken a stand against Prop. 8, including Brad Pitt, Steven Spielberg, Ellen DeGeneres, Barbra Streisand, Molly Ringwald and Fran Drescher, as well as Pete Wentz and his Fall Out Boy bandmates.
Naturalist Henry David Thoreau might well be surprised that while much of the land around Walden Pond remains undeveloped, many of the plants he knew so well are gone, probably a result of climate change.
Some 27 percent of the species documented by Thoreau in the mid-1800s have disappeared, researchers report in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
And as many as 36 percent exist there in such small numbers that their disappearance may be imminent, report researchers led by Charles C. Davis of Harvard University.
They found that plants that move to an earlier flowering time in warmer weather do well.
Songwriters Matraca Berg, left, John Hiatt, center, and Tom Shapiro, right, are shown after they were inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tenn., Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008.
Photo by Mark Humphrey
When she's not touring or teaching, Buffy Sainte-Marie likes to spend time in her mountain house on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, tapping away at three computers arranged in a semicircle.
"I might be working on a song and I'll turn around and work on a (digital) painting and I'll turn around and work on some curriculum," the legendary musician, social activist and educator who was born on the Piapot Reserve in Qu'Appelle Valley, Sask., said in a recent phone interview from her home.
Sainte-Marie has been using computers since the 1980s to create digital music, art and teaching tools. Yet many people don't realize the different ways she is using technology, she said, explaining why she's releasing the documentary "Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life" on DVD along with her new album, "Running For The Drum," this week. The two will be sold separately in the new year.
"I was not the barefoot folk singer in a granny dress - I was doing electronic music in the '60s," said the singer-songwriter with the distinct vibrato, noting she created the first-ever totally quadraphonic electronic vocal album in 1969 ("Illuminations") and founded the Cradleboard Teaching Project, a free online aboriginal American curriculum, when the World Wide Web was just starting up in 1996.
Police were sent to remove photos by the Russian artist Oleg Kulik from France's main contemporary art fair on the grounds they were zoophiliac, organisers and officials said Monday.
The Paris prosecutor's office dispatched a team of plain-clothes officers to the FIAC international art fair at the Grand Palais in Paris on Friday after it was alerted by customs officials to the nature of some of the works.
Some of the 30 incriminated pictures, taken in the late 1990s, show Kulik naked, appearing to simulate sex with animals.
A judicial official said the photographs -- which were later handed back to the FIAC organisers -- were unhooked on the grounds the show was accessible to minors.
"These images have an unquestionable artistic status since they have been shown, bought, exhibited and edited since the 1990s," FIAC head Bethenod said, adding that Kulik's work was represented in France's national art collections.
In this photo provided by StarPix, actor Malcolm McDowell, left, poses with actor Gerard Butler at the 11th Annual Savannah Film Festival, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008 in Savannah, Georgia.
Photo by Dave Allocca
Divisions of ABC, including ABC News, are starting to make cuts as the worldwide economic gloom deepens.
ABC is the latest in a line of belt-tightening entertainment companies. NBC Universal recently underwent $600 million in cost cuts. ABC and ABC News are trying to limit expenses in an effort that has not yet resorted to layoffs.
In a memo to employees late last week, ABC News president David Westin asked executives to fly in cheaper classes and stay at cheaper hotels, canceled print publications and tightened regulations regarding convention attendance and business lunches. The company's holiday parties also have been canceled.
The Los Angeles Times plans to cut 75 jobs, or 10 percent of its news staff, a response to the world financial crisis that is exacerbating already painful advertising declines at U.S. newspapers.
The cuts are comparable in scale to some that the Times made on the business side of its operations last week, Editor Russ Stanton told employees in an e-mail message that the Times posted on its website on Monday.
It is the second round of news staff layoffs since a previous round was announced in July. The paper has offered buyouts and has cut back staff levels in its news operations from a high of some 1,200 a bit less than a decade ago.
The Times is the largest daily paper owned by Chicago-based Tribune Co, which also publishes The Sun in Baltimore, the Hartford Courant and the Orlando Sentinel. It also is one of the largest U.S. papers, with circulation of about 780,000 -- in the same league as The Washington Post, and closer to The New York Times and News Corp's Wall Street Journal than many other big-city dailies.
Brother-and-sister entertainers Donny and Marie Osmond are extending their variety show at the Flamingo Las Vegas for two more years.
The hotel made the announcement Monday. Flamingo President Don Marrandino cited the success of Donny and Marie's 90-minute greatest-hits multimedia show, which opened September 9.
They will continue to appear at the Flamingo Showroom through October 2010. Financial terms weren't disclosed.
A mannequin portraying U.S. Republican vice-presidential nominee Alaska Governor Sarah Palin hangs by a noose as a mannequin portraying U.S. Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain protrudes from the chimney of a private residence in West Hollywood, California October 27, 2008. Part of a Halloween display, the likenesses drew complaints on Monday, but local officials said the homeowner was covered by free speech rights.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
A movie drama about the life of the Prophet Mohammad is to go into production soon, and will be only the second English-language film of its kind ever made, its producers said on Monday.
"The Messenger of Peace" will be a remake of Moustapha Akkad's "The Message," a 1977 Hollywood classic starring Anthony Quinn which is often applauded by Muslims as an example of how commercial Western cinema can respect Islam.
"We have only the utmost respect for Akkad's work but technology in cinema has advanced since the 1970s and this latest project will employ modern film techniques in its renewal of the first film's core messages," producer Oscar Zoghbi, who worked on the original, said in a statement.
Akkad, the Syrian-born executive producer of Hollywood's "Halloween" horror films, was killed in a suicide bomb attack by al Qaeda on a luxury hotel in Jordan's capital Amman in 2005.
The fictional King Solomon's Mines held a treasure of gold and diamonds, but archaeologists say the real mines may have supplied the ancient king with copper.
Researchers led by Thomas Levy of the University of California, San Diego, and Mohammad Najjar of Jordan's Friends of Archaeology, discovered a copper-production center in southern Jordan that dates to the 10th century B.C., the time of Solomon's reign.
The discovery occurred at Khirbat en-Nahas, which means "ruins of copper" in Arabic. Located south of the Dead Sea, the region was known in the Old Testament as Edom.
A dog was hailed as a hero on Sunday after it risked its life to save a litter of newborn kittens from a house fire, rescuers said.
In a case which gives the lie to the saying about 'fighting like cats and dogs', the terrier cross named Leo had to be revived with oxygen and heart massage after his ordeal. Fire broke out overnight at the house in Australia's southern city of Melbourne, where he was guarding the kittens.
Fire fighters who revived Leo said he refused to leave the building and was found by them alongside the litter of kittens, despite thick smoke.
The four kittens also survived the fire and Sunday Leo, who fire fighters nicknamed 'Smoky', was again back at the house.
Tony Hillerman, author of the acclaimed Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels and creator of two of the unlikeliest of literary heroes - Navajo police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee - died Sunday of pulmonary failure. He was 83.
Lt. Joe Leaphorn, introduced in "The Blessing Way" in 1970, was an experienced police officer who understood, but did not share, his people's traditional belief in a rich spirit world. Officer Jim Chee, introduced in "People of Darkness" in 1978, was a younger officer studying to become a "hathaali" - Navajo for "shaman."
Together, they struggled daily to bridge the cultural divide between the dominant Anglo society and the impoverished people who call themselves the Dineh.
Occasionally, he was accused of exploiting his knowledge of Navajo culture for personal gain, but in 1987, the Navajo Tribal Council honored him with its Special Friend of the Dineh award. He took greater pride in that, he often said, than in the many awards bestowed by his peers, including the Golden Spur Award from Western Writers of America and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America, which elected him its president.
Although Hillerman was best-known for the Navajo series, he wrote more than 30 books, including a novel for young people; the memoir, "Seldom Disappointed"; and books on the history and natural beauty of his beloved Southwest.
He also edited or contributed to more than a dozen other books including crime and history anthologies and books on the craft of writing.
Born May 27, 1925, in Sacred Heart, Okla., population 50, Tony Hillerman was the son of August and Lucy Grove Hillerman. They were farmers who also ran a small store. It was there that young Tony listened spellbound to locals who gathered to tell their stories.
The teacher at Sacred Heart's one-room school house was rumored to be a member of the Ku Klux Klan, so Tony's parents sent him and his brother, Barney, to St. Mary's Academy, a school for Potawatomie Indian girls near Asher, Okla. It was at St. Mary's that he developed a lifelong respect for Indian culture - and an appreciation of what it means to be an outsider in your own land.
In 1943, he interrupted his education at the University of Oklahoma to join the Army. He lugged his mortar ashore at D-Day with the 103rd Infantry Division and was severely wounded in battle at Alsace, France. He returned from Europe a genuine war hero with a Silver Star with Oak Leaf Cluster, temporary blindness and two shattered legs that never stopped causing him pain.
He returned to the university for his degree and, in 1948, married Marie Unzer. Together, they raised six children, five of them adopted.
Hillerman is survived by his wife, Marie, and their six children. Services are pending.
The art work of Philadelphia-born cartoonist Robert Crumb, a 'Spoolmen' character named 'Jessica,' painted on a thread spool, is exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art on Oct. 16, 2008, in Philadelphia.
Photo by Tom Mihalek
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