Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Black Man stars in 2nd Highest Rated TV Drama
He usually does a line, pose,glasses, and a walk off stage left. So about 20 seconds each. Twice an episode. Then he does a command pose, and a solution pose. So we are talking about 1:20 with just Caruso. Plus his dialog on the show where people walk up to him and talk or he interrogates someone. Considering that the show is only about 33 minutes long that is a significant amount of screen time. On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Hell, if they took out all the shots of David Caruso *posing* in CSI Miami, how much time would be left? - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 7:22:17 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Black Man stars in 2nd Highest Rated TV Drama They probably wanted to do NCIS Miami but there is already CSI Miami. Hmmm I wonder how many actual minutes of show CSI Miami exists if they took out the scenic shots, and lab montages? On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: I personally find the original NCIS surprisingly watchable. Still, I was very surprised to see it at the top of the ratings. Perhaps I shouldn't have been. NCIS is one of the rare television programs that has gone UP in ratings every season it has been on. I have not yet seen NCIS:LA. In either case, the success of NCIS:LA does not bode well for Network television. NCIS: Miami, anyone? ~(no)rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: Well, like I said a couple of weeks ago. the NCIS: LA show completely failed to engage me. I've already stopped watching. given that it's not as good as the original (which I never watched), I won't miss missing it. Sad state of affairs for TV. What's funny, though, is the end of the article calls The Mentalist an original show, but it's not: a bunch of regular cops stand around while some kind of specialist with a unique talent/perspective helps solve crimes? Try Monk, Psych, Castle and others with the same basic formula. - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 10:21:29 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Black Man stars in 2nd Highest Rated TV Drama Forty-four years after Bill Cosby co-starred in I Spy, a black man headlines the second highest rated drama on television. The larger issue of cookie cutter television addressed in the article below is chilling. ~rave? http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=139632 Why 'NCIS:LA' Is Getting the Best Ratings of the Season for a New Show CBS's Formula to Keep Viewers and Advertisers Happy Is Also a Sign of Trouble for Original Scripted Fare By Brian Steinberg Published: October 13, 2009 NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Every Tuesday at 9 p.m., a group of government-backed investigators helps save the nation from rogue operatives, terrorists or federal employees who go astray for any number of reasons -- all with lots of action and just a touch of humor. CBS 'NCIS: LA' If the question, Haven't I seen this somewhere before? echoes in the back of your mind, chances are you might be watching CBS, which seems to be making a concerted effort to maintain sizable audiences for its schedule by building programs with concepts its viewers already find familiar. NCIS: LA, a West Coast tweak on the original NCIS that centers on the premise above, appears to be the most-watched freshman program of the infant 2009-2010 season. For the week ending Oct. 4, about 17.4 million people watched the program, according to Nielsen; the only drama that topped it was its predecessor, NCIS, which was the most-watched broadcast show of the week (NBC's Sunday Night Football is the only thing that kept the L.A.-centered spin-off from taking second place among viewers, though ABC's Dancing with the Stars had a higher household rating than the new show). Popular with advertisers too Advertisers like the spin-off, too; according to CBS executives, the program is reaching a high sellout in the fourth quarter market for so-called scatter advertising, or ad time purchased closer to air date. Because it fluctuates based on the immediate market, scatter is taken as a good sign of a program's overall popularity with marketers. Recent advertisers on NCIS: LA included Home Depot, Wal-Mart Stores and Pfizer's Lipitor. NCIS took in around $118 million in advertising during the 2008-2009 season, according to TNS Media Intelligence. Yet the success of NCIS: LA illustrates an emerging dilemma for the biggest TV networks in the land: To keep the large audiences that advertisers demand of them, they aren't able to experiment much with new show concepts or quirky ideas. Indeed, the CW's schedule includes three hours a week of
[scifinoir2] Coming to America 2: Nurse's aide returns as King
HARRISBURG, Pa. An African man who worked for years as a nurse's aide in the United States, caring for the elderly and sick, is back in his homeland to be crowned king of his people in the mountains of western Uganda. Charles Wesley Mumbere's coronation is scheduled Monday in the Kasese district. He will rule over Rwenzururu, a kingdom of about 300,000 people roughly the size of Pittsburgh that is now recognized by the national government. Mumbere, who is in his 50s, lived in the United States for 25 years. He kept his royal roots secret until July, when he granted an interview to The Patriot-News of Harrisburg as he was preparing to return to Uganda. I find it was very good interacting with the people I was taking care of, he told the newspaper at the time. It was very lovely and friendly. In the 1960s, Mumbere's father, Isaya Mukirane, led a secessionist movement by an ethnic group known as the Bakonjo, and they recognized him as their king. Mumbere inherited the title at 13 and took charge of the kingdom when he turned 18. I grew up in the mountains, fighting in the war, he said. When he was 30, the Bakonjo and the government negotiated an agreement that provided for Mumbere to be sent to the United States for an education. Mumbere arrived in 1984 and attended a business school until his government stipend was stopped amid political upheaval in Uganda. In 1987, he gained political asylum, trained as a nurse's aide and took a job in a suburban Washington nursing home to pay his bills, the newspaper said. In 1999, he moved to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's capital, where he worked for at least two health care facilities. He was very loyal, a very hard worker, a very private person, said Johnna Marx, executive director of the Golden Living Center-Blue Ridge Mountain on the outskirts of Harrisburg. Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/16/charles-wesley-mumbere-nu_n_324249.html
[scifinoir2] Neighbors mistake body for Halloween decoration
http://deofew.notlong.com Neighbors mistake corpse for Halloween display (AFP) 1 hour ago LOS ANGELES Residents at a California apartment building failed to alert police to the body of their dead neighbor because they thought it was a Halloween display, local media reported Saturday. The decomposing body of Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed, 75, had lain in plain view of neighbors, slumped over a balcony chair, for at least three days before police were called to the Marina Del Rey building on Thursday. The Los Angeles Times reported that Zayed had a single gunshot wound to one eye, and had apparently been dead since Monday. Neighbors told a reporter with RMG News that they noticed the body on Monday but didn't bother calling authorities because it looked like a Halloween dummy. An official with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department told the newspaper that Zayed's death was an apparent suicide, but no further details were available. Halloween, which falls annually on October 31, and is often celebrated in the United States with elaborate displays outside houses featuring carved pumpkins, fake insects and gory decorations. Copyright © 2009 AFP. All rights reserved
Re: [scifinoir2] Neighbors mistake body for Halloween decoration
And of course, the mailman didn't look either... Welcome to LA. :) On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: http://deofew.notlong.com Neighbors mistake corpse for Halloween display (AFP) – 1 hour ago LOS ANGELES — Residents at a California apartment building failed to alert police to the body of their dead neighbor because they thought it was a Halloween display, local media reported Saturday. The decomposing body of Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed, 75, had lain in plain view of neighbors, slumped over a balcony chair, for at least three days before police were called to the Marina Del Rey building on Thursday. The Los Angeles Times reported that Zayed had a single gunshot wound to one eye, and had apparently been dead since Monday. Neighbors told a reporter with RMG News that they noticed the body on Monday but didn't bother calling authorities because it looked like a Halloween dummy. An official with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department told the newspaper that Zayed's death was an apparent suicide, but no further details were available. Halloween, which falls annually on October 31, and is often celebrated in the United States with elaborate displays outside houses featuring carved pumpkins, fake insects and gory decorations. Copyright © 2009 AFP. All rights reserved Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links -- Bringing diversity to perversity for over 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Coming to America 2: Nurse's aide returns as King
Wow. You just never know sometimes. On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: HARRISBURG, Pa. — An African man who worked for years as a nurse's aide in the United States, caring for the elderly and sick, is back in his homeland to be crowned king of his people in the mountains of western Uganda. Charles Wesley Mumbere's coronation is scheduled Monday in the Kasese district. He will rule over Rwenzururu, a kingdom of about 300,000 people – roughly the size of Pittsburgh – that is now recognized by the national government. Mumbere, who is in his 50s, lived in the United States for 25 years. He kept his royal roots secret until July, when he granted an interview to The Patriot-News of Harrisburg as he was preparing to return to Uganda. I find it was very good interacting with the people I was taking care of, he told the newspaper at the time. It was very lovely and friendly. In the 1960s, Mumbere's father, Isaya Mukirane, led a secessionist movement by an ethnic group known as the Bakonjo, and they recognized him as their king. Mumbere inherited the title at 13 and took charge of the kingdom when he turned 18. I grew up in the mountains, fighting in the war, he said. When he was 30, the Bakonjo and the government negotiated an agreement that provided for Mumbere to be sent to the United States for an education. Mumbere arrived in 1984 and attended a business school until his government stipend was stopped amid political upheaval in Uganda. In 1987, he gained political asylum, trained as a nurse's aide and took a job in a suburban Washington nursing home to pay his bills, the newspaper said. In 1999, he moved to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's capital, where he worked for at least two health care facilities. He was very loyal, a very hard worker, a very private person, said Johnna Marx, executive director of the Golden Living Center-Blue Ridge Mountain on the outskirts of Harrisburg. Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/16/charles-wesley-mumbere-nu_n_324249.html Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links -- Bringing diversity to perversity for over 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] Pimpsicle
Q. Pimpsicle? A. (Scott Sanders, director of Black Dynamite): It was a pilot about a frozen pimp. His son finds and de-thaws him, but his son is physically older than his father; and then they become private eyes together. I, personally, am surprised this wasn't picked up. ~rave!
Re: [scifinoir2] Pimpsicle
Wow... I can see the commercials now. Bitch betta have my money (Cutaway) I need to hide from da po-lice. Hmmm what's this? Suspended animation project? This looks like a good place to hide for a while... THURSDAYS ONLY ON ABC!... Right after Hong Kong Phooey the movie... On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: Q. Pimpsicle? A. (Scott Sanders, director of Black Dynamite): It was a pilot about a frozen pimp. His son finds and de-thaws him, but his son is physically older than his father; and then they become private eyes together. I, personally, am surprised this wasn't picked up. ~rave! Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links -- Bringing diversity to perversity for over 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] What Are You Reading?
Anathem bu Neal Stephenson and Dream Of Perpetual Motion by author's name escapes me. It's an advance copy that isn't out until next march. B --- On Thu, 10/15/09, B Smith daikaij...@yahoo.com wrote: From: B Smith daikaij...@yahoo.com Subject: [scifinoir2] What Are You Reading? To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, October 15, 2009, 8:50 AM My semi-legendary To be Read pile is starting to thin out just a bit and it needs to be fed before it goes feral. Any suggestions? My wife has the last book of the John Twelve Hawks Fourth Realm trilogy The Golden City hanging around and I may add it to the list. I just finished an urban fantasy by Seanan McGuire called Rosemary and Rue. i liked it but I figured out the central mystery way too early and it made the book drag a bit. Plus I was hoping for something a little more gritty. I have two books waiting to be read that might fit the bill: Child of Fire by Harry Connolly. It's about a not so nice guy in debt to an even meaner wizard. I've heard it's a bit grittier than the Harry Dresden series and I'm in the mood for something similar. Next is Tom Sniegoski's A Kiss Before The Apocolypse. I first read his work in a collection called Mean Streets that featured a Harry Dresden story. The work that hooked me most was Sniegoski's story Noah's Orphans. Remy Chandler was the seraphim Remiel who gave up his glory after the last war in Heaven. He lived as a human but apart until the 20th century. He fell in love, got drawn back into the great game of Heavenly politics and had to hold back an apocolypse or three. In Noah's Orphans he is drawn into the mystery when someone kills the Old Man Noah. To say more would spoil it. I came into the middle of the series and mistakenly read the second book of the series which has some uncanny parallels to the current season of Supernatural. So now I'm finally reading the first book. So what's on your list?
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: What Are You Reading?
Both are available readily from sellers at half.com starting at about .75 and going up to 15-40 dollars for brand new copies. Lots are available in good condition for less than $4 dollars. I love half.com Bosco --- On Thu, 10/15/09, B Smith daikaij...@yahoo.com wrote: From: B Smith daikaij...@yahoo.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: What Are You Reading? To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, October 15, 2009, 5:35 PM Good luck finding them. I found my copies when I was scrounging around in the basement and quickly put them on the shelf of honor. --- In scifino...@yahoogro ups.com, Martin Baxter truthseeker013@ ... wrote: I will, B. As for the two you recommend, I know that they're good. So good, in fact, that I was going to buy them at a B Dalton, and someone stole them when I put them down to use the Little Lifeform's Room. The manager told me that he'd rung them up personally, the *only* copies. Been meaning to re-order them. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com From: daikaij...@. .. Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:13:15 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: What Are You Reading? Mieville is a bit hit or miss with me. He has great ideas and can write beautifully but sometimes his work seems to run out of steam and limp to a conclusion. I loved The Scar but was bit underwhelmed by Iron Council. Please let me know how The City and The City turns out. Have you ever read anything by Mark Sumner? He wrote two damned fine books in the late 90s called Devil's Tower and Devil's Engine. They take place in an alternate American West where magic exists due to a apocolyptic event during Civil War. They might be something you'd enjoy. --- In scifino...@yahoogro ups.com, Martin Baxter truthseeker013@ wrote: Right now, B, I'm reading China Miewille's The City and The City (the second The City mirror-reversed) , about a detective investigating the murder of a woman who seems to be a prostitute. The detective soon realizes that the woman is from a version of the city that exists in the same space as the city he's in. After that, I've got Brent Weeks' Night Angel trilogy, in which a young boy learns to become an assassin, but only after he masters the one unique magical gift he has. (Problem is, he doesn't know what the gift is just yet.) If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com From: daikaiju66@ Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:50:34 + Subject: [scifinoir2] What Are You Reading? My semi-legendary To be Read pile is starting to thin out just a bit and it needs to be fed before it goes feral. Any suggestions? My wife has the last book of the John Twelve Hawks Fourth Realm trilogy The Golden City hanging around and I may add it to the list. I just finished an urban fantasy by Seanan McGuire called Rosemary and Rue. i liked it but I figured out the central mystery way too early and it made the book drag a bit. Plus I was hoping for something a little more gritty. I have two books waiting to be read that might fit the bill: Child of Fire by Harry Connolly. It's about a not so nice guy in debt to an even meaner wizard. I've heard it's a bit grittier than the Harry Dresden series and I'm in the mood for something similar. Next is Tom Sniegoski's A Kiss Before The Apocolypse. I first read his work in a collection called Mean Streets that featured a Harry Dresden story. The work that hooked me most was Sniegoski's story Noah's Orphans. Remy Chandler was the seraphim Remiel who gave up his glory after the last war in Heaven. He lived as a human but apart until the 20th century. He fell in love, got drawn back into the great game of Heavenly politics and had to hold back an apocolypse or three. In Noah's Orphans he is drawn into the mystery when someone kills the Old Man Noah. To say more would spoil it. I came into the middle of the series and mistakenly read the second book of the series which has some uncanny parallels to the current season of Supernatural. So now I'm finally reading the first book.
RE: [scifinoir2] Re: What Are You Reading?
Thanks, Bosco, even though I don't partake of online buying. (Say it's safe all you like -- I'll have my body double do the listening as I run screaming.) And, B, regarding The City and The City -- just finished it, and I'm giving it a thumbs down. Had promise, but got lost in its own prose. _ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222986/direct/01/
RE: [scifinoir2] Pimpsicle
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RE: [scifinoir2] Pimpsicle
Okay, let's cast it. Fred Williamson (since he's still angry about not being in Black Dynamite) and Lee Thompson Young. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: ravena...@yahoo.com Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:47:37 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Pimpsicle Q. Pimpsicle? A. (Scott Sanders, director of Black Dynamite): It was a pilot about a frozen pimp. His son finds and de-thaws him, but his son is physically older than his father; and then they become private eyes together. I, personally, am surprised this wasn't picked up. ~rave! _ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222984/direct/01/
RE: [scifinoir2] Neighbors mistake body for Halloween decoration
Used to live in L.A. I'm surprised that they noticed a body at all. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: ravena...@yahoo.com Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:52:58 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Neighbors mistake body for Halloween decoration http://deofew.notlong.com Neighbors mistake corpse for Halloween display (AFP) – 1 hour ago LOS ANGELES — Residents at a California apartment building failed to alert police to the body of their dead neighbor because they thought it was a Halloween display, local media reported Saturday. The decomposing body of Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed, 75, had lain in plain view of neighbors, slumped over a balcony chair, for at least three days before police were called to the Marina Del Rey building on Thursday. The Los Angeles Times reported that Zayed had a single gunshot wound to one eye, and had apparently been dead since Monday. Neighbors told a reporter with RMG News that they noticed the body on Monday but didn't bother calling authorities because it looked like a Halloween dummy. An official with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department told the newspaper that Zayed's death was an apparent suicide, but no further details were available. Halloween, which falls annually on October 31, and is often celebrated in the United States with elaborate displays outside houses featuring carved pumpkins, fake insects and gory decorations. Copyright © 2009 AFP. All rights reserved _ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222985/direct/01/
RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Black Man stars in 2nd Highest Rated TV Drama
Dangit, Keith! If I'd checked my e-mail before I walked out the door, I would've been able to watch CSI: Miami when it came on at five to take a measure. However, rough guesstimate from me is 11 minutes and three seconds. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:07:15 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Black Man stars in 2nd Highest Rated TV Drama Hell, if they took out all the shots of David Caruso *posing* in CSI Miami, how much time would be left? - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 7:22:17 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Black Man stars in 2nd Highest Rated TV Drama They probably wanted to do NCIS Miami but there is already CSI Miami. Hmmm I wonder how many actual minutes of show CSI Miami exists if they took out the scenic shots, and lab montages? On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: I personally find the original NCIS surprisingly watchable. Still, I was very surprised to see it at the top of the ratings. Perhaps I shouldn't have been. NCIS is one of the rare television programs that has gone UP in ratings every season it has been on. I have not yet seen NCIS:LA. In either case, the success of NCIS:LA does not bode well for Network television. NCIS: Miami, anyone? ~(no)rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: Well, like I said a couple of weeks ago. the NCIS: LA show completely failed to engage me. I've already stopped watching. given that it's not as good as the original (which I never watched), I won't miss missing it. Sad state of affairs for TV. What's funny, though, is the end of the article calls The Mentalist an original show, but it's not: a bunch of regular cops stand around while some kind of specialist with a unique talent/perspective helps solve crimes? Try Monk, Psych, Castle and others with the same basic formula. - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 10:21:29 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Black Man stars in 2nd Highest Rated TV Drama Forty-four years after Bill Cosby co-starred in I Spy, a black man headlines the second highest rated drama on television. The larger issue of cookie cutter television addressed in the article below is chilling. ~rave? http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=139632 Why 'NCIS:LA' Is Getting the Best Ratings of the Season for a New Show CBS's Formula to Keep Viewers and Advertisers Happy Is Also a Sign of Trouble for Original Scripted Fare By Brian Steinberg Published: October 13, 2009 NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Every Tuesday at 9 p.m., a group of government-backed investigators helps save the nation from rogue operatives, terrorists or federal employees who go astray for any number of reasons -- all with lots of action and just a touch of humor. CBS 'NCIS: LA' If the question, Haven't I seen this somewhere before? echoes in the back of your mind, chances are you might be watching CBS, which seems to be making a concerted effort to maintain sizable audiences for its schedule by building programs with concepts its viewers already find familiar. NCIS: LA, a West Coast tweak on the original NCIS that centers on the premise above, appears to be the most-watched freshman program of the infant 2009-2010 season. For the week ending Oct. 4, about 17.4 million people watched the program, according to Nielsen; the only drama that topped it was its predecessor, NCIS, which was the most-watched broadcast show of the week (NBC's Sunday Night Football is the only thing that kept the L.A.-centered spin-off from taking second place among viewers, though ABC's Dancing with the Stars had a higher household rating than the new show). Popular with advertisers too Advertisers like the spin-off, too; according to CBS executives, the program is reaching a high sellout in the fourth quarter market for so-called scatter advertising, or ad time purchased closer to air date. Because it fluctuates based on the immediate market, scatter is taken as a good sign of a program's overall popularity with marketers. Recent advertisers on NCIS: LA included Home Depot, Wal-Mart Stores and Pfizer's Lipitor. NCIS took in around $118 million in advertising during the 2008-2009 season, according to TNS Media Intelligence. Yet the success of NCIS: LA illustrates an emerging dilemma for the biggest TV networks in the land: To
RE: [scifinoir2] M$ slipped a flaw into Firefox
Bastiches. Even though I'm safe because, as stupid as it may sound, I never accept M$ updates. The icon's sitting in my tray right now, asking to be dealt with. Haven't had any troubles yet, and I've had this laptop for three years now. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:07:17 -0700 Subject: [scifinoir2] M$ slipped a flaw into Firefox Adding to the reasons why M$ should be ran out of business.http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=4614tag=nl.e589 -- Bringing diversity to perversity for over 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ _ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141665/direct/01/
RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Black Man stars in 2nd Highest Rated TV Drama
rave, I didn't think I'd like NCIS, when they did its REALLY clumsy spinoff from JAG. I watched the premiere ep only by accident, and fell for it. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: ravena...@yahoo.com Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:40:53 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Black Man stars in 2nd Highest Rated TV Drama I personally find the original NCIS surprisingly watchable. Still, I was very surprised to see it at the top of the ratings. Perhaps I shouldn't have been. NCIS is one of the rare television programs that has gone UP in ratings every season it has been on. I have not yet seen NCIS:LA. In either case, the success of NCIS:LA does not bode well for Network television. NCIS: Miami, anyone? ~(no)rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: Well, like I said a couple of weeks ago. the NCIS: LA show completely failed to engage me. I've already stopped watching. given that it's not as good as the original (which I never watched), I won't miss missing it. Sad state of affairs for TV. What's funny, though, is the end of the article calls The Mentalist an original show, but it's not: a bunch of regular cops stand around while some kind of specialist with a unique talent/perspective helps solve crimes? Try Monk, Psych, Castle and others with the same basic formula. - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 10:21:29 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Black Man stars in 2nd Highest Rated TV Drama Forty-four years after Bill Cosby co-starred in I Spy, a black man headlines the second highest rated drama on television. The larger issue of cookie cutter television addressed in the article below is chilling. ~rave? http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=139632 Why 'NCIS:LA' Is Getting the Best Ratings of the Season for a New Show CBS's Formula to Keep Viewers and Advertisers Happy Is Also a Sign of Trouble for Original Scripted Fare By Brian Steinberg Published: October 13, 2009 NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Every Tuesday at 9 p.m., a group of government-backed investigators helps save the nation from rogue operatives, terrorists or federal employees who go astray for any number of reasons -- all with lots of action and just a touch of humor. CBS 'NCIS: LA' If the question, Haven't I seen this somewhere before? echoes in the back of your mind, chances are you might be watching CBS, which seems to be making a concerted effort to maintain sizable audiences for its schedule by building programs with concepts its viewers already find familiar. NCIS: LA, a West Coast tweak on the original NCIS that centers on the premise above, appears to be the most-watched freshman program of the infant 2009-2010 season. For the week ending Oct. 4, about 17.4 million people watched the program, according to Nielsen; the only drama that topped it was its predecessor, NCIS, which was the most-watched broadcast show of the week (NBC's Sunday Night Football is the only thing that kept the L.A.-centered spin-off from taking second place among viewers, though ABC's Dancing with the Stars had a higher household rating than the new show). Popular with advertisers too Advertisers like the spin-off, too; according to CBS executives, the program is reaching a high sellout in the fourth quarter market for so-called scatter advertising, or ad time purchased closer to air date. Because it fluctuates based on the immediate market, scatter is taken as a good sign of a program's overall popularity with marketers. Recent advertisers on NCIS: LA included Home Depot, Wal-Mart Stores and Pfizer's Lipitor. NCIS took in around $118 million in advertising during the 2008-2009 season, according to TNS Media Intelligence. Yet the success of NCIS: LA illustrates an emerging dilemma for the biggest TV networks in the land: To keep the large audiences that advertisers demand of them, they aren't able to experiment much with new show concepts or quirky ideas. Indeed, the CW's schedule includes three hours a week of revamps of two old Fox hits, Melrose Place and 90210. One can make the argument that ABC's new Flash Forward serves up the same elements -- mystery, long story arcs, riddles -- that made its soon-to-end Lost such a showpiece, and that its new Modern Family sitcom steals its documentary-style storytelling from NBC's The Office. One might even suggest that the premise for another successful CBS show, The Good Wife, is ripped from the headlines -- making it something that already
RE: [scifinoir2] Black Man stars in 2nd Highest Rated TV Drama
Keith... and the problem is? If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:15:05 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Black Man stars in 2nd Highest Rated TV Drama You do realize that fifty years from now, we will have: NCIS: Sub-orbital Platform 5 Law and Order: Lunar Colony CSI: Obama Station Bones on Mars - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 11:16:27 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Black Man stars in 2nd Highest Rated TV Drama I think it all comes down to the direction and writing. Psych has good writing. (Monk too) NCIS takes the Bush approach and just gets by so any spinoff show from anything on CBS tends to be even weaker. You can almost see the stereotyped studio boss chewing on a cheap cigar saying we need a spin off boys. Whataya got? How about NCIS LA?? Great I love it! We'll hire some hard body types and some hot babes! The kids will eat this stuff up! On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: Isn't it, though, Keith? I never picked up on NCIS:LA, after the intro it got on NCIS. And I don't see the original angle on The Mentalist either, save for the title. IMO, it wishes it were half as good as Psych is. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:53:38 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Black Man stars in 2nd Highest Rated TV Drama Well, like I said a couple of weeks ago. the NCIS: LA show completely failed to engage me. I've already stopped watching. given that it's not as good as the original (which I never watched), I won't miss missing it. Sad state of affairs for TV. What's funny, though, is the end of the article calls The Mentalist an original show, but it's not: a bunch of regular cops stand around while some kind of specialist with a unique talent/perspective helps solve crimes? Try Monk, Psych, Castle and others with the same basic formula. - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 10:21:29 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Black Man stars in 2nd Highest Rated TV Drama Forty-four years after Bill Cosby co-starred in I Spy, a black man headlines the second highest rated drama on television. The larger issue of cookie cutter television addressed in the article below is chilling. ~rave? http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=139632 Why 'NCIS:LA' Is Getting the Best Ratings of the Season for a New Show CBS's Formula to Keep Viewers and Advertisers Happy Is Also a Sign of Trouble for Original Scripted Fare By Brian Steinberg Published: October 13, 2009 NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Every Tuesday at 9 p.m., a group of government-backed investigators helps save the nation from rogue operatives, terrorists or federal employees who go astray for any number of reasons -- all with lots of action and just a touch of humor. CBS 'NCIS: LA' If the question, Haven't I seen this somewhere before? echoes in the back of your mind, chances are you might be watching CBS, which seems to be making a concerted effort to maintain sizable audiences for its schedule by building programs with concepts its viewers already find familiar. NCIS: LA, a West Coast tweak on the original NCIS that centers on the premise above, appears to be the most-watched freshman program of the infant 2009-2010 season. For the week ending Oct. 4, about 17.4 million people watched the program, according to Nielsen; the only drama that topped it was its predecessor, NCIS, which was the most-watched broadcast show of the week (NBC's Sunday Night Football is the only thing that kept the L.A.-centered spin-off from taking second place among viewers, though ABC's Dancing with the Stars had a higher household rating than the new show). Popular with advertisers too Advertisers like the spin-off, too; according to CBS executives, the program is reaching a high sellout in the fourth quarter market for so-called scatter advertising, or ad time purchased closer to air date. Because it fluctuates based on the immediate market, scatter is taken as a good sign of a program's overall popularity with marketers. Recent advertisers on NCIS: LA included Home Depot, Wal-Mart Stores and Pfizer's Lipitor. NCIS took in around $118 million in advertising during the 2008-2009 season, according to TNS Media Intelligence. Yet the
RE: [scifinoir2] Fwd: Fred Williamson Hates on 'Black Dynamite'
(standing ovation) Martin (intends to try the buck-naked thing, once he gets an SO) If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:12:43 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Fwd: Fred Williamson Hates on 'Black Dynamite' so again, how is 'Tropic Thunder a more fitting homage? I think it'd be hard to pull off a serious period piece specifically dealing with Blaxploitation without it being somewhat comedic. For one thing, Blaxploitation is itself a built-in caricature of the times and some of our fantasies. Black men didn't roam with abandon in the late '60s and early '70s, wearing fly clothes, beating up white criminals and pillars of society, with impunity. Tough PI's or Fixers didn't literally spit in the Man's face, or threaten bigoted white cops, while their more with-it peers stood around in awe of the tough black men. Brothers weren't running around gunning down criminals in the streets, then going home to have sex with the black, white, or Asian woman of their choice every day (or sometimes all at once). White police commanders didn't let Black vigilantes take out their own justice in the street, trusting that they'd let them know if and when they needed to get involved. Some of that revenge fantasy fed--and feeds, in some cases--a long-simmering need to get back at Da Man, but it was also a bit over the top at times, and made one chuckle as often as cheer. The Brothers were so cool it hurt, the white guys so slimy, stupid, racist, or incompetent, they were often like cardboard characters. And our Sisters certainly weren't always as manifestly subservient as depicted in those films. One of my fav scenes from Shaft is when his hardworking girlfriend comes home, arms loaded down with groceries, to find Shaft lying buck naked on her couch. I felt like a machine today, baby, he croons, that's no way for a man to feel. Next thing you know, she's put the groceries down and gives him what he needs. What a woman, huh: works all day, buys grocery, gives out sex on demand, does as she's told, never questions her man. Of course the day before/after that tender moment, Shaft has bedded other women. I've lost count of how many times Bernie Casey, Roundtree, Williamson, etc., walked up to a woman, all but snapped his fingers at her, beds her, then unceremoniously tells her something like Get lost baby. I got work to do. Can you say fantasy? And let's not even get started on the pimps, prostitutes, street snitches and other supporting characters that added more than a bit of color and flavor. There's a lot of exaggeration in those flicks, a magnification of what was good and bad of the times, of our greater goals and baser desires, of needs to protect our people, and thirst to get back at white folks. and sometimes, of dreams for men simply to run around like some kind of modern-day conqueror, slaying his fellows and dominating his women. A movie like that can be played straight, certainly, and I hope someone will do that. But many of those movies were already comedic by their amplification of the very cliches they were depicting, and I think White is just playing on that, the same way Keenan Ivory Wayans did with I'm Gonna Get You Sucka. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 11:19:20 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Fwd: Fred Williamson Hates on 'Black Dynamite' It could be that he feels that because his character was an important icon to black cinema that it shouldn't be compromised by comedy. Like not being able to make a joke about Jesus. But he fails to realize that most people under 30 don't know who the hell he is! On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: Keith, I'm thinking that the cumulative effects of all of those shots to the head he took when he played for the Rams are showing. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:57:15 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Fwd: Fred Williamson Hates on 'Black Dynamite' I think Williamson might be playing this up a bit for kicks. I mean, how can one decry this movie as offensive for being too comedic, then say that Robert Downey Jr's role in Tropic Thunder is a proper homage? * http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/entertainment/movies/13439/1 Fred Williamson Hates on
RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Interracial Couple Denied Marriage License By Louisiana Justice Of The Peace
And the answer would be, _ __ ___ ___ _ ___... If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:17:04 -0700 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Interracial Couple Denied Marriage License By Louisiana Justice Of The Peace The question should then be, did you ask your black friends their opinion on this? On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: And the funny/pathetic thing about this? He said, I'm not racist. I have Black friends. As if it might excuse his mindset. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: daikaij...@yahoo.com Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:48:04 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Interracial Couple Denied Marriage License By Louisiana Justice Of The Peace I'm glad this came to light. Justices of the Peace have their own little fiefdoms and no one probably ever called him on his bullshit. He tried to grandstand and now the state will have to come down on him. Tangipahoa Parish wasn't exactly rife with interracial couples back in the day but with Southeastern University continuing to grow and more affluent folks moving into the area from other places it was bound to happen sooner than later. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... wrote: Maybe he is trying to prevent any future Obamas from being born? On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@...wrote: Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the South will rise again. Because sh*t does float. -- Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. Get it now.http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222986/direct/01/ -- Bringing diversity to perversity for over 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. Get it now. -- Bringing diversity to perversity for over 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ _ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222984/direct/01/
RE: [scifinoir2] FW: Time-travelling Higgs sabotages the LHC. No, really
Okay. Yes, I have seen it, loved it. Used to have the video, until I lost it in a fire. To this day, the tirgger word they used, Antwerp, still sticks in my head. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:05:36 -0700 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: Time-travelling Higgs sabotages the LHC. No, really I misspelled it. The correct title was Lathe of heaven. I didn't like the most recent version of it. Here is a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lathe_of_Heaven On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: No, doesn't strike a chord. Is it a movie? Couldn't find it listed in IMDb. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:12:53 -0700 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: Time-travelling Higgs sabotages the LHC. No, really Ever see the Lave? On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:44 AM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: All of those possibilities are intriguing to me, but I'm really fond of the doorway into the heart of space and time cracking open. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:04:27 -0700 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: Time-travelling Higgs sabotages the LHC. No, really Here is a short blurb on it http://survive2012.com/index.php/galactic-alignment.html On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: What alignment is that? There was the Grand Alignment (the Great Conjunction) back in the '80s,and nothing happened. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 5:31:11 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: Time-travelling Higgs sabotages the LHC. No, really This kind of all falls into the 2012 Doomsday scenarios. There are at least one real possibility of something happening when the solar system aligns itself around Dec 2012. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Tracey de Morsella tdli...@multiculturaladvantage.com wrote: From: Chris de Morsella [mailto:cdemorse...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 11:25 PM To: 'tracey demorsella' Subject: RE: Time-travelling Higgs sabotages the LHC. No, really Time-travelling Higgs sabotages the LHC. No, really Richard Webb, physics features editor Could the Large Hadron Collider be sabotaging itself from the future? That's the suggestion of a couple of reasonably distinguished theoretical physicists, which has received a fresh airing in the New York Times today. Actually, it's the Higgs boson that is doing the sabotage. Apparently, among the many singular properties of the Higgs that the LHC is meant to discover could be the ability to turn back time to stop its cover being blown. Or as the New York Times puts it: the hypothesized Higgs boson... might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather. That is the ultimate reason, suggest the duo - Danish string theory pioneer Holger Bech Nielsen and the Japanese physicist Masao Ninomiya - why Congress stopped the funding for the USA's Superconducting Super Collider in 1993, and why the LHC itself suffered such an embarrassing meltdown shortly after starting up last year. Reading the first paper from a couple of years ago and the follow-up last week, it's not quite clear to me how or why the Higgs contrives to influence the minds of Congressmen, or cause LHC magnets to overheat from its point of discovery some time in the future. Even trying to consider how it would achieve such feats makes my own magnets overheat. The authors clear up some of the mystery by describing their model as starting with a series of not completely convincing, but still suggestive, assumptions. Some more excitable corners of the physics blogosphere have been considerably less polite about the theory. Even more fun is Nielsen and Ninomiya's suggestion of how their theory might be tested:
RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Limbaugh dropped from group bidding for St Louis Rams
If this happens, I've got somewhere you can hide from retaliation. :-) If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:19:58 -0700 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Limbaugh dropped from group bidding for St Louis Rams Maybe he could take his money and make the crazy redneck channel? He could have the 700 club all day Sunday. On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: The biggest piece of comic relief out of this, IMO, was watching Pat Buchanan trying to defend the Drugster's right to own on Hardball yesterday, with Rev Sharpton in the opposition chair. He dredged up the Tawana Brawley Incident, tried to link Sharpton to the Duke lacrosse team rape case and threw in two or three matters so tangential to the actual affair that it made Buchanan look all the more like a senile version of Strom Thurmond. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: dar...@darylelockhart.com Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:05:00 -0400 Subject: [scifinoir2] OT: Limbaugh dropped from group bidding for St Louis Rams Everybody chill. We got this. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Controversial conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been dropped from a group trying to buy the St. Louis Rams after several black NFL players objected and the league commissioner weighed in against Limbaugh's divisive comments. It has become clear that his (Limbaugh's) involvement in our group has become a complication and a distraction to our intentions, said SPC Worldwide Chairman Dave Checketts, who is leading the bid to buy the National Football League team and keep it in St. Louis. We have decided to move forward without him and hope it will eventually lead us to a successful conclusion, Checketts said in an emailed statement. Several black NFL players have told newspaper reporters they would never play for a team owned by Limbaugh because of remarks they found racially objectionable, including his comment that the media wanted Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb to succeed because he is black. Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay on Tuesday said he could not consider voting to approve Limbaugh as an owner because of comments that were inappropriate, incendiary and insensitive, according to an Associated Press report posted on the NFL's website. According to the report, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told the NFL Fall League Meeting: I think divisive comments are not what the NFL is all about. I would not want to see those kind of comments from people who are in a responsible position within the NFL. Checketts' group is bidding for the Rams as part of a sale being conducted by Goldman Sachs. While the process limits Checketts on what he can say, he obtained special permission to clarify the investor group's intentions, he said. A spokeswoman for Limbaugh could not immediately be reached for comment. Checketts, who owns the National Hockey League's St. Louis Blues, wants to keep the Rams based in St. Louis, and to bolster these efforts, his group had invited Missourians to join them, leading to Limbaugh getting involved. Limbaugh was to have had a limited partnership role, said Checketts, and little day-to-day involvement. A native of Missouri, Limbaugh is one of the most highly paid figures in broadcast media and an ardent football fan who came close to landing a spot as a commentator on Monday Night Football on ABC in 2000. Three years later, Limbaugh, who played football in high school, joined ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown. After a month on the show, he resigned amid controversy over his remarks about McNabb. Limbaugh was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and later worked for the Kansas City Royals baseball team. Forbes magazine recently valued the Rams at $913 million, ranking them 25th out of 32 NFL teams. Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. Get it now. -- Bringing diversity to perversity for over 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ _ Hotmail: Powerful Free email
RE: [scifinoir2] Re: What Are You Reading?
I've purchased a lot of stuff online and never had a problem. It's just as likely your credit card number will be stolen by your waiter or the person at grocery check out or by criminals rigging your ATM. That said, you can always fix the issue like so: Buy a prepaid Visa or Amex. Load it up with the amount of your purchase plus shipping. Make said purchase with pre-paid card with absolutely no risk to any of your bank accounts or credit accounts. Alternately feel free to spend inordinate amounts of time browsing used book stores. I know I HATE doing that( he said jokingly.) On a related note, my kid now has a weekly appointment less than a mile from the biggest half price books in the city. I've been there every week for two months now and I have pulled some badass finds!!! Bosco --- On Sat, 10/17/09, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: What Are You Reading? To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, October 17, 2009, 4:29 PM Thanks, Bosco, even though I don't partake of online buying. (Say it's safe all you like -- I'll have my body double do the listening as I run screaming.) And, B, regarding The City and The City -- just finished it, and I'm giving it a thumbs down. Had promise, but got lost in its own prose. Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. Get it now.
Re: [scifinoir2] Pimpsicle
We also need Huggy Bear. On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote: Okay, let's cast it. Fred Williamson (since he's still angry about not being in Black Dynamite) and Lee Thompson Young. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: ravena...@yahoo.com Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:47:37 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Pimpsicle Q. Pimpsicle? A. (Scott Sanders, director of Black Dynamite): It was a pilot about a frozen pimp. His son finds and de-thaws him, but his son is physically older than his father; and then they become private eyes together. I, personally, am surprised this wasn't picked up. ~rave! -- Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. Get it now.http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222984/direct/01/ -- Bringing diversity to perversity for over 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Fwd: Fred Williamson Hates on 'Black Dynamite'
ha-ha! - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 5:52:18 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Fwd: Fred Williamson Hates on 'Black Dynamite' (standing ovation) Martin (intends to try the buck-naked thing, once he gets an SO) If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:12:43 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Fwd: Fred Williamson Hates on 'Black Dynamite' so again, how is 'Tropic Thunder a more fitting homage? I think it'd be hard to pull off a serious period piece specifically dealing with Blaxploitation without it being somewhat comedic. For one thing, Blaxploitation is itself a built-in caricature of the times and some of our fantasies. Black men didn't roam with abandon in the late '60s and early '70s, wearing fly clothes, beating up white criminals and pillars of society, with impunity. Tough PI's or Fixers didn't literally spit in the Man's face, or threaten bigoted white cops, while their more with-it peers stood around in awe of the tough black men. Brothers weren't running around gunning down criminals in the streets, then going home to have sex with the black, white, or Asian woman of their choice every day (or sometimes all at once). White police commanders didn't let Black vigilantes take out their own justice in the street, trusting that they'd let them know if and when they needed to get involved. Some of that revenge fantasy fed--and feeds, in some cases--a long-simmering need to get back at Da Man, but it was also a bit over the top at times, and made one chuckle as often as cheer. The Brothers were so cool it hurt, the white guys so slimy, stupid, racist, or incompetent, they were often like cardboard characters. And our Sisters certainly weren't always as manifestly subservient as depicted in those films. One of my fav scenes from Shaft is when his hardworking girlfriend comes home, arms loaded down with groceries, to find Shaft lying buck naked on her couch. I felt like a machine today, baby, he croons, that's no way for a man to feel. Next thing you know, she's put the groceries down and gives him what he needs. What a woman, huh: works all day, buys grocery, gives out sex on demand, does as she's told, never questions her man. Of course the day before/after that tender moment, Shaft has bedded other women. I've lost count of how many times Bernie Casey, Roundtree, Williamson, etc., walked up to a woman, all but snapped his fingers at her, beds her, then unceremoniously tells her something like Get lost baby. I got work to do. Can you say fantasy? And let's not even get started on the pimps, prostitutes, street snitches and other supporting characters that added more than a bit of color and flavor. There's a lot of exaggeration in those flicks, a magnification of what was good and bad of the times, of our greater goals and baser desires, of needs to protect our people, and thirst to get back at white folks. and sometimes, of dreams for men simply to run around like some kind of modern-day conqueror, slaying his fellows and dominating his women. A movie like that can be played straight, certainly, and I hope someone will do that. But many of those movies were already comedic by their amplification of the very cliches they were depicting, and I think White is just playing on that, the same way Keenan Ivory Wayans did with I'm Gonna Get You Sucka. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 11:19:20 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Fwd: Fred Williamson Hates on 'Black Dynamite' It could be that he feels that because his character was an important icon to black cinema that it shouldn't be compromised by comedy. Like not being able to make a joke about Jesus. But he fails to realize that most people under 30 don't know who the hell he is! On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: Keith, I'm thinking that the cumulative effects of all of those shots to the head he took when he played for the Rams are showing. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:57:15 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Fwd: Fred Williamson Hates on 'Black Dynamite' I think Williamson might be playing this up a bit for kicks. I mean, how can one decry this movie as offensive for being too comedic, then say that
Re: [scifinoir2] FW: Time-travelling Higgs sabotages the LHC. No, really
maybe... :)- Original Message -From: "Martin Baxter" truthseeker...@hotmail.comTo: "SciFiNoir2" scifinoir2@yahoogroups.comSent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 6:02:40 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada EasternSubject: RE: [scifinoir2] FW: Time-travelling Higgs sabotages the LHC. No, really Maybe Deity's jsut getting up a reay good wind-up..."If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Granthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVikTo: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.comFrom: keithbjohn...@comcast.netDate: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:57:54 +Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: Time-travelling Higgs sabotages the LHC. No, really Yeah, me too, but i'm not sure the Earth is any closer or any more deserving of being smited now than we have beenat other times in our past. As bad as things are, as horrible as Man treats Man, we have made some small progress over the centuries. I would think that a Most High would have slapped us down for the depradations of African slavery, the Holocaust, the Inquistion. American Idol. - Original Message -From: "Martin Baxter" truthseeker...@hotmail.comTo: "SciFiNoir2" scifinoir2@yahoogroups.comSent: Friday, October 16, 2009 7:39:32 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada EasternSubject: RE: [scifinoir2] FW: Time-travelling Higgs sabotages the LHC. No, really Keith, IMO, I've always thought that the Mayans were thinking more wrath-of-Deity as the engine of destruction. Looking a the world right now, I could see it happening."If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Granthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.comFrom: keithbjohn...@comcast.netDate: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:05:50 +Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: Time-travelling Higgs sabotages the LHC. No, really Hmm...i don't see anything that would presage the end of the world. Just because the Solar System will be in this position, it doesn't mean any type of gravitational or radiation-based phenomena will affect us--unless a collapsing star happens to point its deadly radiation right at Earth, which *could* prove fatal. But that doesn't have to have anything to do with a Galactic Alignment. They mention that one guy thinks the North Celestial Pole will shift, but that's not the same thing as the North Magnetic Pole here on the Earth, and that's not scheduled to complete its flip for millennia yet. One also can't base any doomsday scenarios on things such as our Solar System being in Aquarius or any other Zodia, because those bodies as such only exist from our perspective. I don't think a single Zodia sign is composed of stars that are actually anywhere close to each other. And then the article even mentions that the Maya--most often cited for there supposed prescience in ending their calendar in 2012--probably just chose Dec 21 because it's the start of winter, and that anything that might accrue from 2012 could take decades to roll around. I haven't yet read any scientific data to make me think we'll suddenly be besieged by tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunami, the loss of the ozone layer, or anything like that. And I can't find anything to indicate the Universe or God (take your pick) really cares about 2012. I'll do some more research on this, but I wonder if 2012 might be similar to all the Year 2000 Millennial fear, our attempt to bring some sort of meaning to the world? Everyone was running around as 2000 approached, worried about Armaggedon and the Second Coming or something. Me? I chuckled wryly, wondering why God or the Universe would care about a calendar date based on Christian/Roman systems, why anyone would think the Universe has a special love for Base 10 numbers (Why is 2000 more powerful than, say Year 3H?), and why so few people realized that Jesus was most likely born around 4 BC anyway, meaning the true Millennium came and went in 1996.- Original Message -From: "Mr. Worf" hellomahog...@gmail.comTo: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.comSent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 11:04:27 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada EasternSubject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: Time-travelling Higgs sabotages the LHC. No, really Here is a short blurb on it http://survive2012.com/index.php/galactic-alignment.html On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: What alignment is that? There was the Grand Alignment (the Great Conjunction) back in the '80s,and nothing happened.- Original Message -From: "Mr. Worf" hellomahog...@gmail.comTo: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.comSent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 5:31:11 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada EasternSubject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: Time-travelling Higgs sabotages the LHC. No, really This kind of all falls into the 2012 Doomsday scenarios. There are at least one real possibility of something happening when the solar system aligns itself around Dec 2012. On Wed, Oct 14,
