To introduce a 2011 appearance by Michele Bachmann on Jimmy Fallon’s show Late Night, his house band, The Roots, played Fishbone’s song “Lyin’ Ass Bitch”.
The 1977 TV miniseries Roots was programmed by ABC to air on several consecutive nights in prime time. It was considered a revolutionary approach to programming a miniseries, since most until then were aired once or twice a week over several weeks’ time. It was revealed years later that the reason the network changed their approach with Roots was so they could get the show “out of the way” in a hurry, because they felt nobody would watch the story if it aired over a longer period of time.
Back to the Roots was a 1971 John Mayall album where he brought back some of the more famous musicians of his previous bands to play with him. These included Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor, Harvey Mandel, Keef Hartley, and John Almond.
James Lindsay Almond was Governor of Virginia 1958-1962.
When I was a little fellow we took a trip to Richmond, and toured the building
where the Governor’s office was located. Governor Almond was away at the
moment, so we did not get to meet him, but his friendly staff allowed me to
set in his chair. Somewhere among our family albums there is a photo of me
in the Governor’s chair.
Governors of Virginia are limited, by the Commonwealth’s constitution, to a single term and are not eligible for reelection.
The Commonwealth Club of California is a non-profit, non-partisan educational organization based in Northern California. Founded in 1903, it is the oldest and largest public affairs forum in the United States. Membership is open to everyone.
Much of the male-only top leadership of the world gathers annually at Bohemian Grove in northern California, to drink, piss, watch the Cremation of Care ceremony at the owl shrine, and, oh yeah, make their nefarious plans for evil domination. Richard Nixon called it “the most faggy goddamn thing you could ever imagine, that San Francisco crowd that goes in there; it’s just terrible! I mean I won’t shake hands with anybody from San Francisco.”
Ansel Adams took many photos of San Francisco early in his celebrated photographic career.
One of Adams’s photographs is in the recorded files depicting Earth on the Voyager spacecraft.
On March 20, it was announced that Voyager 1 may have been the first man-made object to leave the Solar System, last August 25. However, it is still under debate as to whether the new region is interstellar space or an unknown region of the Solar System.
Yes, this image of the Golden Gate Bridge… in San Francisco!: http://re-lab.net/welcome/images/image104.gif
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Starfleet’s USS Voyager, commanded by Capt. Kathryn Janeway, was an Intrepid-class light cruiser.
In the “Bookshop” sketch first performed by Marty Feldman and John Cleese before Monty Python and later recorded by Monty Python, an annoying customer pesters a bookstore clerk mercilessly seeking a variety of obscure and odd titles, one of which is The Amazing Adventures of Captain Gladys Stoutpamphlet and her Intrepid Spaniel Stig Amongst the Giant Pygmies of Beckles, Volume Eight.
Amazing Grace may have been recorded more times than any other song, even with renditions sung to the tune of The House of the Rising Sun excluded. Singers who’ve recorded this song include Louis Armstrong, Chet Atkins, John Baez, Pat Boone, Sarah Brightman, Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, Judy Collins, Sam Cooke, Dion, Aretha Franklin, Jerry Garcia, Boy George, Al Green, Lee Greenwood, Arlo Guthrie, Merle Haggard, Burl Ives, Alan Jackson, Mahalia Jackson, Janis Joplin, Brenda Lee, Jerry Lee Lewis, Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, Lou Rawls, Kenny Rogers, Diana Ross, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon, Rod Stewart, Ike & Tina Turner, Jimmy Witherspoon, Tammy Wynette, and groups like Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, The Byrds, The Everly Brothers, The Three Tenors, The Vienna Boys’ Choir and The Weavers.
“All You Need is Cash” was a post-Monty-Python project by Eric Idle, which was a mock documentary of the pre-fab four – the Rutles. Songs for the project were written by ex-Bonzo Dog Band (and part-time Python) Neil Innes as dead-on parodies of actual Beatles songs.
The Rutles/All You Need Is Cash featured cameos by SNL alums Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi (as an Allen Klein character), Gilda Radner (as an abused “person on the street” interviewee), and Bill Murray as well as real Beatle George Harrison (as a reporter).
When George Harrison saw The Rutles/All You Need Is Cash (which he also helped produce), his immediate response was: “Instant Karma’s gonna get ya.” Paul McCartney reportedly hated it, until he found out that Eric Idle was a fellow Liverpudlian.
It’s not clear, at least if Paul’s wives and children are excluded, who the 2nd most famous McCartney is, though whoever it is must be a very distant 2nd. One candidate, if a minor spelling deviation is admitted, would be George Macartney, variously Ambassador and Governor. He is famous for his remark after the Seven Year’s War that Britain then controlled a “vast Empire on which the sun never sets.”
The USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-C, was an Ambassador-class starship, seen only in one episode, Star Trek: The Next Generation’s “Yesterday’s Enterprise.”
The poinsettia is called the “flame leaf” in Central America or “flower of the holy night” and was first taken to the US by Dr Joel Poinsett, the US’s first ambassador to Mexico.
Canada does not have an ambassador to the United Kingdom.