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Honor Thy Father:
Soul singer Barry White, battling kidney failure, is resting comfortably while doctors conduct tests to find a suitable transplant donor among his eight children, a spokesman said on Thursday.

I can’t wait. Even if it sucks, this picture is just too cool.

Elvis Costello, Johnny Winter, Keith, Homer, Mick, Lenny Kravtiz, Brian Setzer

** perhaps that’s Gregg Allman instead of Johnny Winter. All I can see online is that Tom Petty and Robbie Williams will also be featured as voices.

It’s pretty weird to see the most recent Mitsubishi TV ad – Toronto’s CN Tower is clearly visible in the city skyline they show in the first second, and a great deal of the footage shows a car driving past Honest Ed’s, at Bathurst and Bloor.

I finally saw CSI, in fact CSI: Miami, which features two NYPD Blue alums. It was the worst show. The crime and crime solving stuff was somewhat interesting, but the whole thing was just so cold. The hard facts of science, of investigation, whatever. And this ridiculous belief that the only tool they have for solving any crime is forensic evidence. No interest in interrogation. No dialogue, just a lot of shots of people plucking hairs off the wall and putting them in plastic baggies. It just felt totally dehumanized. At least they gave Kim Delaney a different shaped hairdo somehow, but it seems like there’s just no acting, and no way to engage in the show.

Bummer.

I love this web-based translation of webpages:

Absolutely recommendable for children!!! Cult indication trick series , 27 March 2001
Rezensentin/Rezensent: (littletiger@firemail.de) from Cologne, North-Rhine/Westphalia
Doctor Snuggles is an absolutely sweet and kultige child indication trick series, which I looked at as a child very gladly and all parents for their children recommend most warmly can. The characters of the series are really suitably selected (doctor Snuggles, the inventor, Ms Reinlich, whom schrullige however love-worth lady housekeeper and nibble, the mouse and before all the camel in the rainbow dream country with the Lavendelschaafen… simply blumig!!!). I can simply only recommend this completely classical and warmherzige child Zeichenrickserie. It is an enriching for each child room and the correct mixture from adventure and “welfare world”. For children starting from 5 geeinget!!! Although the series is from the 80’s, it has still a place in the child hearts earned… 5 stars *****

On the shuttle between the rental car place and the airport, I encountered the driver, named Gust. “Like a gust of wind, fellas…” was his bellow to me and the other passenger. He was hale and hearty and ruddy and white-haired and all that stuff. “Gotta get my shades on fellas. It’s a real sunny day! Wasn’t supposed to be sunny, was supposed to be cloudy!”

We sat in silence, neither of us having much to say. Gust began to drive, and then began to sing “Danny Boy.” Quietly at first, as if he was humming to himself, but frequently building to enormously loud crescendoes. He had a very nice voice, in fact, with vibrato, melisma, and tremolo. Neither of us looked at each other, and it felt somehow both uncomfortable and simultaneously kinda neat. The singing continued uninterrupted, except for quick exchanges on the radio with the other shuttle drivers “Lawrence Road? You’re creeping up on me you bastard!” or a seamless shift from lyrics to cussing “Damn! Sons of bitches” when the other folks on the road were too slow. By the time we approached the airport (“Nearly there fellas”) he had shifted into “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning” and was actually getting rather lounge-y in moments, punctuating his singing lines with the occasional spoken “Okay…”

My hotel room has this totally cool Safetymix Visu-Temp (c) shower faucet. A little thermometer indicates how hot the water is!

A moral victory for Eric Cartman?

Have you noticed they keep referring to Ira Einhorn as a “hippie” or “former hippie”
or “hippie guru?” On CNN they said “And I wonder what THAT hippie was smoking
if he expected people to believe that story…”

The story of Canadian Thanksgiving is here. Author is Helen Buttery????

And here’s Mick and Keith on the Simpsons

Kermit the Frog and his felt friends return to record stores this month with “The Muppet Show: Music, Mayhem and More — The 25th Anniversary Collection.” The retrospective album features favorite songs and snippets of dialogue from the television series that made household names out of Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and friends, along with Muppet house band Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem. The disc also includes classic tracks such as “Rainbow Connection” and “The First Time It Happens” from the troupe’s popular films, like “The Muppet Movie” and “Muppets From Space.” We spoke with Kermit the Frog on the set of the Muppets’ latest movie.

Q: Have you got any gray hairs coming in yet?

A: No. In case you haven’t noticed, frogs don’t actually have hairs — gray,

green or otherwise. What we have are these pointed collars, and when frogs get older, we start dropping points. Kind of like the stock market. So far, I seem to be holding up pretty well. I’m as green and wet behind the ears as I’ve ever been.

Q: How do you stay young?

A: A couple of things: First, I soak in pond scum daily. Trust me, if you sat in pond scum as much as I do, you’d be as green as I am. Second, I work with a personal trainer, Miss Piggy. She really knows how to motivate me. For instance, if I don’t want to get up and run, she chases me. That’ll get you moving. And finally, I have a picture of Dorian Green in the attic. It ages instead of me.

Q: Have you tried the Zone diet?

A: No, I’m not on the Zone diet. It sounds delicious. How do you cook a Zone? I do eat light — glowworms, lightning bugs, that sort of thing. And when I go out to dinner with Miss Piggy, I’m lucky to eat anything at all.

Q: Do you eat insects or lint?

A: Insects. Fat free, although sometimes I’ll splurge and get a large order of flies. I’ve never eaten lint. Does it taste anything like Zone? However, my good friend the Great Gonzo can do wonders with lint. Give him a Laundromat and a wok and he’ll whip up a meal that will make strong men cry, old women sigh and small children beg for broccoli.

Q: “The Muppet Show” started around the same time as punk rock. Do you think you were the first rocker with green hair?

A: Once again, frogs do not have hair. You might want to talk to someone about this amphibian hair fetish of yours. But I was very involved with the very early punk scene. I remember meeting Johnny Rotten when he was known as Jack Overripe. Heck, I even used to go to the club CBGBs, which many people don’t realize was brought to you by the letters C, B and G.

Q: What do you look like in leather trousers?

A: This isn’t part of your hair fixation, is it? OK then, I’ll answer. I’ve got long spindly legs, so whenever I put on leather trousers I look like Mick Jagger with googlier eyes, no lips and no hair. Not a pretty picture, believe you me.

Q: Do you have any tattoos or piercings?

A: Yes, I have been pierced, but it wasn’t on purpose, it was kind of a fishing accident. As for tattoos, until recently I didn’t have any. But then I did a guest spot on “Animal Planet” and got tagged by Steve Irwin. It’s great for migrating, but otherwise it’s kind of a pain.

Q: What kind of rock ‘n’ roll antics do you get up to in the tour bus?

A: Oh, we’ve been pretty tame ever since Ozzy Osbourne mistook me for a bat.

Since then, I try not to stick my neck out. But, of course, when you travel with pigs and bears, things get wild. Like any band, we’ve been there, done that and can’t remember a single thing about any of it.

Q: Did any of your guests, like Elton John or Liza Minnelli, try to corrupt you?

A: Not in the least. Both Elton and Liza were wonderful and are still good friends of ours. You see, the kind of guest stars we had on “The Muppet Show” had all been in show business for years, and so they were used to working with pigs and rats and the like. If anything, we corrupted the guest stars, or at least made them consider a career change.

Q: What’s your poison?

A: You must be thinking of toads. Frogs aren’t usually poisonous. However, if you’re talking about what I like to drink to loosen up, I must admit I’m kind of partial to Grasshoppers.

Q: Is there any good graffiti in “The Muppet Show” bathroom?

A: Sure, and if you want to see it, stop by and I’ll get you the best seat in the house.

Q: Have people in the music industry suggested dumb things to you, like maybe you should sound like No Doubt?

A: Other than suggesting that we leave the music industry, those people have pretty much left us alone. Oh sure, some people thought I should start a boy band called N’ Swamp, do a Marilyn Manson sing-along Christmas video or try out for the second season of “Amphibian Idol.” But I don’t want us to sound like anyone else. And I think it’s safe to say that no one else wants to sound like us.

This is an interesting one – phone just rang, picked it up and an obviously recorded voice said “I’m sorry. I must haved dialed the wrong number.” and then the line goes dead. Some telemarketer something – or some telephone number verification thing. Yikes.

I found some discussion of it here and here.

I just ordered wireless networking gear – potentially could sit out back in the nice weather and do my work, online, whenever I want. Very exciting leap!

I can’t wait to see the Mick Jagger version.