Archive for the 'Entertainment' Category

I have always harbored fearful thoughts when ‘ice’ is in the name of an entertainer or in the name of the show. Others include ICE STATION ZEBRA and any Ed Sullivan-type acts employing mice or lice.

Monday, July 10th, 2006

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(building)thirdreichinruins.com; (burning car) det.news.com
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W was probably miffed because they wouldn’t allow him to reprise his “Oh, where are those weapons of mass destruction?” bit which had brought down the house a few years ago.

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

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May 3, 2006
After Press Dinner, the Blogosphere Is Alive With the Sound of Colbert Chatter
By JACQUES STEINBERG
Mark Smith, a reporter for The Associated Press who is president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, acknowledges that he had not seen much of Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central before he booked […]

“Say it ain’t so, Garofalo! What’s next? Will she support an Andrew Dice Clay Telethon? Ah’m feelin’ flush witha vapuhs.”

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

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Garofalo gushes over Scientology-linked project
By Jeannette Walls
MSNBC
Updated: 2:45 a.m. ET May 2, 2006

Why is Janeane Garofalo touting a Scientology-linked project?
The actress and talk-show host has done two segments on her Air America radio show “Majority Report,” heaping praise on the controversial New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, a program based on […]

While working outside this week-end, I listened to a bird’s monotonously repetitive song and growled toward the tree branch, “Buy a @#%^*! fake book!” Then I wondered why birds could not learn new songs. I wasn’t joking. Now I read this!

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

Wednesday, April 26, 2006 · Last updated 10:02 a.m. PT
Songbirds may be able to learn grammar
By SETH BORENSTEIN
AP SCIENCE WRITER
WASHINGTON — The simplest grammar, long thought to be one of the skills that separate man from beast, can be taught to a common songbird, new research suggests.
Starlings learned to differentiate between a regular birdsong “sentence” […]

Who could this be?

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

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