Cider and Metal

Is there nothing greater?

http://www.thescreenmusic.com/

the prince cover wasn't bad either (for a metal band)

Study Finds "Daily Show" on Par With Nets

Jon Stewart doesn't just think he's smarter than everyone else. He might actually BE smarter than everyone else.

Julia R. Fox, an assistant professor of telecommunications at Indiana University, has conducted a study that says that the popular "fake news" show is just as substantive as network coverage.

The study, "No Joke: A Comparison of Substance in The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Broadcast Network Television Coverage of the 2004 Presidential Election Campaign," will be published next summer by the Journal of Broadcast and Electronic Media, published by the Broadcast Education Association.

"It is clearly a humor show, first and foremost," Fox said of Stewart's program. "But there is some substance on there, and in some cases, like John Edwards announcing his candidacy, the news is made on the show. You have real newsmakers coming on, and yes, sometimes the banter and questions get a little silly, but there is also substantive dialogue going on ... It's a legitimate source of news."

Fox, along with two grad students at Indiana University, examined broadcast nightly newscasts on July 26-30, August 30-31 and September 1-3 in 2004. Then they studied episodes of "The Daily Show" on July 27-30, August 31 and September 1-3 in 2004.

What the study found is that while there is considerably more humor than substance on "The Daily Show," there is more hype (polls, political endorsements and photo ops) than substance on broadcast newscasts.

"Interestingly, the average amounts of video and audio substance in the broadcast network news stories were not significantly different than the average amounts of visual and audio substance in 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart' stories about the presidential election," she wrote in the paper.

Source: TMZ.com

Bibi and Beyonce

just wanted to let everyone know about my beautiful, effervescent, yogi friend who now plays guitar for beyonce. get 'em girl!

More Naught Republic Messages

"It's vile. It's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction." --Mark Foley, on Bill Clinton, in 1998

Un Abrazo

Un Abrazo
Category: Friends

¡Es increíble todo lo que puede hacer un abrazo!
Puede darte ánimos, cuando estás algo triste.
Puede decirte, "Te amo tanto"
O, "¡Vaya! Cómo odio ver que te vayas".

Un abrazo es, "¡Qué bueno que estés de vuelta!"
y "¡Qué bueno es verte!" o "¿Dónde estuviste?"
Un abrazo puede calmar el dolor de un niño
y ¡producir un arco iris después de la lluvia!

¡El abrazo! No hay duda que sin él,
nos costaría mucho sobrevivir.
Ya no tienes que preocuparte,
porque un abrazo es la manera de decir "Lo siento".

Un abrazo es delicioso, tibio y encantador,
¡debe ser la razón por la que Dios nos dio los brazos!
Los abrazos son muy buenos para las madres y para los padres,
muy dulces para las hermanas, y muy gratos para los hermanos.

Casi seguro que para algunas de las tías favoritas
Son mejores que sus plantas.
A los gatitos les encanta. Los cachorritos no pueden vivir sin los abrazos.

Ni siquiera los jefes de estado los dejan de lado.


Un abrazo puede romper la barrera del idioma
¡y hacer muy brillante el día más sombrío!
Y ni siquiera tienes que preocuparte en guardarlos...

Porque mientras más das, ¡más tendrás!

Así que, no te demores... abre los brazos,

¡Y DALE UN GRAN ABRAZO A ALGUIEN, HOY DÍA!

Graffitti Bridge

"It's hard to see green, when there;s so much blue".

Why, Yanni, have you foresake me?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-celebrity-0307yanni,1,5734177.story?coll=chi-entertainmentfront-hed