M Is FOR MASHUP - May 26th, 2021
More Rock Wars Mashups!
By DJ Useo
DJ Axcess
( www.djaxcess.de/#!/page_SPLASH ) has released “Rock Wars Episode 2”
( rock-wars.de ) a new 35-track comp that yields large pleasure to listeners. Tons of great bootleggers flex their musical muscles on this comp. You’ll find folk like DJ Schmolli, Matzemix, TheHomogenicChaos, Mixmstrstel, & many more, doing pairings like The Weeknd vs Billy Idol, The Cranberries vs Twenty One Pilots, The Offspring vs Maroon 5, & tons more!
Additionally, you can still obtain episode 1 of “Rock Wars” from the same site. Not a comp to miss, imho. Please send in your response to this free collection, & I’ll run them here.
Have the day of good - DJ Konrad Useo
from Bruce
Anecdotes
Heaven and Hell
• Mark Twain attended a large dinner where the topic of conversation was Heaven and Hell. Mr. Twain remained quiet — something very uncharacteristic of him. When a woman asked him, “Why don’t you say something? I would like to hear your opinion,” he replied, “Madam, you must excuse me. I am silent of necessity — I have friends in both places!”
• A Cardinal and a Congressman died and went to Heaven. The Cardinal was given barely adequate accommodations, but the Congressman was given a luxurious mansion to live in. The Cardinal asked St. Peter about the different accommodations, and St. Peter replied, “In Heaven we have lots of Cardinals — but he’s our only Congressman.”
• Will Rogers was a human being who felt for other human beings. When fellow comedian Eddie Cantor was sad because his grandmother wasn’t still alive when he was a hit in the 1917 Ziegfeld Follies, Will comforted him by saying, “Now, Eddie, what makes you think she didn’t see you? And from a very good seat?”
• A man asked a Zen master what would happen after the Zen master died. The Zen master calmly replied, “I will enter Hell.” “Enter Hell?” the man said. “You are a paragon of virtue. Why would you enter Hell?” The Zen master answered, “If I don’t enter Hell, who will enlighten you?”
• Radio announcers always keep a record handy to play in case a live feed goes dead. When technical difficulties interrupted a Sunday morning sermon broadcast, the announcer grabbed the handy record and played it. It was Cab Calloway singing, “You’ll Never Get to Heaven That Way.”
• Agnellus Andrew used to act as a consultant on Catholic affairs for the BBC. BBC TV producer Hugh Burnett asked him how he could get the official Catholic view concerning Heaven and Hell. Mr. Andrew sent him a one-word memo: “Die.”
Holocaust
• In southeast Poland, Andrew Sheptitsky was head of the Greek Catholic Church. During World War II, he helped save over 150 Jews from the Nazis by hiding them in monasteries, convents, churches, and his home. To a Jewish man who had been hidden in a monastery, and who sometimes pretended to be a monk in order to avoid capture by the Nazis, Mr. Sheptitsky said, “I want you to be a good Jew, and I am not saving you for your own sake. I am saving you for your people. I do not expect any reward, nor do I expect you to accept my faith.”
• Archbishop Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, later to be Pope John XXIII, was apostolate delegate to Turkey during the days of the Nazis. The German ambassador, Franz von Papen, came to him to see if Rome would support the German army’s fight against the “atheistic Communists.” Archbishop Roncalli was unimpressed and replied, “What shall I tell them about the millions of Jews your countrymen are murdering in Germany and in Poland?”
• During World War II, Father Jonas of Vidukle, Lithuania, used his church to hide 30 Jewish children. The Nazis discovered that Jewish children were hiding there, and they battered down the door of the church and entered. Father Jonas told the Nazis that they would have to kill him before they could harm the children. The Nazis murdered Father Jonas, and then they murdered the children.
• Many people, including religious, resisted Nazi efforts to commit genocide against the Jews in Italy. Frequently, Jewish children were hidden in convents and monasteries. At a Carmine convent, unfortunately, Nazis discovered 50 Jewish children and took away most of them. Only two were saved — the mother superior succeeded in hiding two little girls under her skirts.
• Movie director Steven Spielberg is Jewish, and some of his relatives survived being in concentration camps during the Holocaust. As a three-year-old boy, he learned to count by reading the numbers tattooed on a relative’s forearm.
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Last Night
Been watching them trot out the guest hosts on 'Jeopardy!', and there have been jocks & docs & news readers, but there hasn't been a single game show host.
FWIW, good game show hosts are hard to find - think Hugh Downs, or Bill Cullen, or Alex Trebek.
A good game show host does more than smirk his way through a loaded question, turn mouth-breather, wait for a scripted punchline, then feign hilarity.
Yes, the answers are on the card in front of him, but a good game show host makes you think he already knows the answer, regardless.
He has to be smarter than average and fast on his feet, while making the show the star.
Watching poor Buzzy try so hard tonight, decided my perfect candidate would be Craig Ferguson.
Sponsored Content
John Oliver
Two major station groups said that they were reviewing their processes for airing sponsored content following a segment that aired on HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver in which the show paid to get an interview on the air featuring a spokesperson for a fake “sexual wellness blanket.”
The crux of the segment was Oliver’s criticism of local stations that air sponsored programming that look like news segments. Even though they are labeled as being sponsored segments, Oliver said that they still allow people to pay to get on the air with dubious medical devices and claims.
So Oliver and his team hatched a fake device, a “sexual wellness blanket,” and then set up a fake spokesperson to be interviewed by an on-air personality for segments on three stations, KTVX-TV in Utah, KVUE-TV in Austin and KMGH-TV in Denver. Oliver said that the segments ran after the show paid $1,750, $2,650 and $2,800, respectively, to each station.
Stations are required to make sponsorship identification announcements, but Oliver made the argument that too often the labels are fleeting to the viewer.
In the segment, Oliver also referenced the $13.4 million in FCC fines imposed on Sinclair Broadcast Group ( ~ Sinclair Broadcasting does not observe MLK Day as a paid holiday ~ ) in 2017 for failing to identify spots promoting the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Utah as sponsored content. The company eventually reached a $48 million settlement with the FCC to close three cases, including the disclosure of sponsored content. The current acting chairwoman of the FCC, Jessica Rosenworcel, criticized the settlement as insufficient. The issue of sponsorship identification also was before the FCC last month, when the commission voted to require when stations lease time on their airwaves.
John Oliver
Prime-Time Nielsens
‘NCIS’
The Nielsen company’s latest rankings of popular television and streaming shows have one thing in common — “NCIS” at the top.
The Disney+ Marvel miniseries, “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” was the second most-streamed show that week. Six episodes were available, and 796 million minutes of the show were streamed.
All of the other programs in Nielsen’s top 10 that week were on Netflix. They included the young adult fantasy series “Shadow and Bone,” the game show “The Circle,” the science fiction movie “Stowaway” starring Anna Kendrick, the old Nickelodeon comedy “Nicky, Ricky, Dicky and Dawn” and broadcast reruns “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Criminal Minds.”
Fox News Channel was the most popular cable network with a 2.04 million average in prime time. MSNBC had 1.43 million, TNT had 1.39 million, ESPN had 1.38 million and HGTV had 1.12 million.
For the week of May 17-23, the top 20 programs in prime-time, their networks and viewerships:
1. “NCIS,” CBS, 8.73 million.
2. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 8.26 million.
3. “FBI,” CBS, 7.59 million.
4. “The Equalizer,” CBS, 7.13 million.
5. “Chicago Fire,” NBC, 6.84 million.
6. “Chicago Med,” NBC, 6.62 million.
7. “American Idol,” ABC, 6.5 million.
8. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 6.19 million.
9. “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 6.18 million.
10. “911,” Fox, 5.93 million.
11. “Chicago PD,” NBC, 5.64 million.
12. NBA Playoffs: Golden State vs. L.A. Lakers, ESPN, 5.62 million.
13. “The Neighborhood,” CBS, 5.56 million.
14. “FBI: Most Wanted,” CBS, 5.48 million.
15. “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 5.45 million.
16. “Bob Hearts Abishola,” CBS, 5.39 million.
17. “The Masked Singer,” Fox,, 5.23 million.
18. “911: Lone Star,” Fox, 5.2 million.
19. “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 5.18 million.
20. “Bull,” CBS, 5.08 million.
‘NCIS’
Handwritten Poems To Auction
Emily Brontë
A "lost library" of British literature, including rare handwritten poems by Emily Brontë and works by Robert Burns, is to be auctioned off at Sotheby's.
The contents of the Honresfield Library, which has re-emerged after almost 100 years in obscurity, will go up for sale at three separate auctions.
Emily's poems are expected to fetch somewhere between £800,000 and £1.2m.
An annotated Brontë family copy of Bewick's History of British Birds - famously referenced in the opening pages of Jane Eyre by Emily's sister Charlotte - could go for between £30,000 - £50,000, estimates suggest.
Emily Brontë
Sued Over Street Art Stamp
Vatican't
One night in early 2019, Rome street artist Alessia Babrow glued a stylized image of Christ she had made onto a bridge near the Vatican. A year later, she was shocked to learn that the Vatican had apparently used a reproduction of the image, which featured Babrow’s hallmark heart emblazoned across Christ’s chest, as its 2020 Easter postage stamp.
Babrow sued the Vatican city-state’s telecommunications office in a Rome court last month, alleging it was wrongfully profiting off her creativity and violating the intent of her artwork. The lawsuit, which is seeking nearly 130,000 euros ($160,000) in damages, said the Vatican never responded officially to Babrow’s attempts to negotiate a settlement after she discovered it had used her image without consent and sold it.
“I couldn’t believe it. I honestly thought it was a joke,” Babrow told The Associated Press in an interview, standing steps from St. Peter’s Square. “The real shock was that you don’t expect certain things from certain organizations.”
The Vatican is home to some of the greatest artworks ever made, and it vigorously enforces its copyright over everything from the Sistine Chapel to Michelangelo’s Pieta. But now the tables have turned, and the Vatican stands accused of violating the intellectual property rights of a street artist.
Copyright lawyers familiar with the case say it is an important benchmark for Italy and evidence of the increasing appreciation for Banksy-style street art. They say it underscores that even anonymous graffiti or “guerrilla art” deserves protection against unauthorized corporate merchandising, or, in this case, church merchandising.
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The Fight To Whitewash
US History
On 25 May 2020, a man died after a “medical incident during police interaction” in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The man was suspected of forgery and “believed to be in his 40s”. He “physically resisted officers” and, after being handcuffed, “appeared to be suffering medical distress”. He was taken to the hospital “where he died a short time later”.
It is not difficult to imagine a version of reality where this, the first police account of George Floyd’s brutal death beneath the knee of an implacable police officer, remained the official narrative of what took place in Minneapolis one year ago. That version of reality unfolds every day. Police lies are accepted and endorsed by the press; press accounts are accepted and believed by the public.
The laborious project of establishing truth in the face of official lies is one that Americans embraced during the racial reckoning of the summer of 2020, whether it was individuals speaking out about their experiences of racism at work, or institutions acknowledging their own complicity in racial injustice. For a time, it seemed that America was finally ready to tell a more honest, nuanced story of itself, one that acknowledged the blood at the root.
But alongside this reassessment, another American tradition re-emerged: a reactionary movement bent on reasserting a whitewashed American myth. These reactionary forces have taken aim at efforts to tell an honest version of American history and speak openly about racism by proposing laws in statehouses across the country that would ban the teaching of “critical race theory”, the New York Times’s 1619 Project, and, euphemistically, “divisive concepts”.
The movement is characterized by a childish insistence that children should be taught a false version of the founding of the United States that better resembles a mythic virgin birth than the bloody, painful reality. It would shred the constitution’s first amendment in order to defend the honor of those who drafted its three-fifths clause.
US History
Fight Over Israel Oath
Georgia
A federal judge has ruled that a Georgia law requiring some people to sign an oath involving Israel is unconstitutional.
A documentary filmmaker who refused to sign the oath sued the state last year, saying the law is in violation of free speech rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
Requiring people who want to do business with the state to pledge that they are not engaged in a boycott of Israel is “unconstitutional compelled speech,” U.S. District Court Judge Mark H. Cohen wrote in his recent ruling.
Georgia's law, passed in 2016, requires some people to sign an oath pledging not to boycott Israel in order to do business with the state of Georgia.
In her federal lawsuit, Abby Martin says she refused to sign the oath, and her scheduled appearance at a Georgia Southern University media conference was then cancelled.
Georgia
Melting Glaciers Unleash Mercury
Greenland
Greenland's melting ice sheet is unleashing an astonishing amount of mercury into the nation's rivers and fjords.
Downstream of three glaciers in the southwest, researchers have found coastal ecosystems are swimming in high concentrations of the heavy metal, which can build up in the food web to toxic levels.
The quantity of mercury observed in three glacial rivers and three fjords in Greenland was among the worst in recorded history. In fact, researchers say the concentrations here are only matched by the polluted waterways of Industrial China, which overall produces about one-third of the world's mercury pollution.
As Greenland's glaciers continue to melt in line with our worst-case scenarios, experts are worried even more trapped mercury (Hg) could one day be released into the environment.
"We didn't expect there would be anywhere near that amount of mercury in the glacial water there," says climate scientist Rob Spencer from Florida State University (FSU).
Greenland
Breaks Auction Record
‘The Sakura’
It’s pink, it’s massive and it just sold at auction for $37 million ($US29.28 million) to an anonymous buyer.
‘The Sakura’ set a new auction record when it became the largest purple pink flawless diamond ever to be sold at the Christie’s Magnificent Jewels auction.
At 15.8 carats, the ring will surely make a statement for the lucky buyer.
And, it wasn’t the only pink diamond that went under the hammer at the auction with ‘The Sweet Heart’, a vivid pink heart shaped diamond ring, selling for $8.3 million (US$6.5 million).
While smaller than The Sakura, The Sweet Heart is still a whopping 4.19 carats, meaning it sold for $1.9 million (US$1.5 million) per carat.
‘The Sakura’
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