Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Devo's Bob Casale dead of heart failure, brother says
From: CNN
Devo guitarist Bob Casale died Monday, his brother and band mate announced Tuesday. Casale was 61.
He was known by fans as "Bob 2" since he played alongside guitarist Bob Mothersbaugh, the brother of Devo co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh.
"As an original member of Devo, Bob Casale was there in the trenches with me from the beginning," his brother Gerald Casale said in a Facebook posting. "He was my level-headed brother, a solid performer and talented audio engineer, always giving more than he got."
The new-wave band began after Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh met as art students at Kent State University. The group wrote its first music in May 1970 -- the same month National Guard troops fired on antiwar protesters on the Kent State campus, killing four students.
Devo actively toured in recent years, including a televised performance playing at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada.
"He was excited about the possibility of Mark Mothersbaugh allowing Devo to play shows again," Gerald Casale wrote in his brother's death announcement. "His sudden death from conditions that led to heart failure came as a total shock to us all."
Mark Mothersbaugh issued a statement Tuesday saying he was "shocked and saddened" by Casale's death.
"He not only was integral in Devo's sound, he worked over 20 years at Mutato, collaborating with me on 60 or 70 films and television shows, not to mention countless commercials and many video games," said Mothersbaugh. "Bob was instrumental in creating the sound of projects as varied as Rugrats and Wes Anderson's films. He was a great friend. I will miss him greatly."
Mutato is the name of the band's headquarters, a landmark on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard.
The band's name was derived from the word "de-evolution" -- the idea that humans are regressing into a destructive herd mentality, Gerald Casale told CNN in an interview in February 2010.
"When you think about 1980, if somebody would have showed you in a crystal ball (for) 2010, you would have thought it was a bad joke," Casale said. "De-evolution happened and now everybody agrees. They don't think we're crazy. They know that it was true."
Devo drummer Alan Myers, who was with the group from 1976 to 1986, died last year.
Dish of the Day #1343: Must Love Dogs Week
Every Monday through Friday a new Dish of the Day is featured. If you haven't yet voted in last week's Deep Dish Pool Party, choose your three favorite hunks in the sidebar poll here.
EDITOR’S PICKS: THE 100 SEXIEST MEN OF 2013
From: Manhunt Daily
36.
CHRIS MESSINA
Without diminishing his extensive resume of professional accomplishments, a crush on Chris Messina has essentially become synonymous with a crush on Dr. Danny Castellano. Messina has established himself as one of the dreamiest characters on TV without even having completed his second season on The Mindy Project. His appeal runs deep with both men and women, as evidenced by an extreme straight girl gushing session I overheard at a recent Christmas party. (Oh, and hello, thighs!) I can’t remember if I interjected to talk about his penis, but knowing my drunken self, it’s not out of the realm of possibilities.
Actor Chris Messina is one of those guys you see on TV and in the movies, and you don’t know his namebut your dick does. His perky buttocks first bared themselves when he played Claire’s Republican yet very sweet and sexy boyfriend on the final season of Six Feet Under. And now he’s on The Mindy Project. And dancing!
This post has no nudity, but it does reveal Chris as an exceptionally good dancer with a knack for playing the hottest, most thoughtful love interests ever. Cue someone in the comments telling me there’s a movie out there where he plays a pedophile with scabies.
I miss Aaliyah.
Alpine Skiing - Women's Giant Slalom - 2104 Winter Olympics
Tina Maze
Gold Medal
Slovenia
Tina Maze (born 2 May 1983) is a Slovenian World Cup alpine ski racer. She is one of just six women who have won in all five World Cup events and one of three who have won in all five disciplines in a single season. Maze has 23 World Cup victories and is the current world champion in super-G and Olympic champion in downhill and giant slalom (with the downhill gold being the first gold medal at Winter Olympics for Slovenia). She was the world champion in giant slalom in 2011, and won the overall World Cup in the 2013 season. In this season, she listed 11 victories and won a record number of World Cup points – 2414, beating the previous record of Hermann Maier of 2000 points from the 2000 season. In that season, she won the Super-G and Giant Slalom titles, finished first in the Combined event (although no globe was awarded) and finished second in Slalom and Downhill. Maze also improved previous Maier's record of podium finishes in a single season (22) with 24 podiums. In 2005, 2010, 2011, and 2013, she was awarded the title of the best Slovenian female athlete of the year.
Mikaela Shiffrin
5th Place
USA
Mikaela Shiffrin (born March 13, 1995) is a World Cup alpine ski racer with the U.S. Ski Team, specializing in the technical events of slalom and giant slalom. She is the reigning World Cup and world champion in slalom.
Snowboard - Men's Snowboard Cross - 2014 Winter Olympics
Pierre Vaultier
Gold Medal
France
Pierre Vaultier (born on 24 June 1987) is a French snowboarder and soldier, specializing in snowboardcross.
Alex Deibold
Bronze Medal
USA
Height: 6’2”
Current Residence: Boulder, Colo.
College: Westminster College
Olympic Experience:
2014 Olympic Winter Games, bronze medalist in men's snowboard cross
Career Highlights:
2013-14 Lake Louise World Cup, bronze
2012-13 Sochi World Cup, silver
2012 X Games Aspen, 4th
2011 World Championships, 26th
2007 World Championships, 15th
2007 U.S. Snowboardcross Championships, 3rd
11-time world cup top-10 finisher
Seven-time X Games Aspen participant (2005-07, 2010-12, 2014)
Fun Facts: Hobbies include biking, surfing, climbing, backpacking and playing golf.
Freestyle Skiing - Men's Ski Halfpipe - 2014 Winter Olympics
David Wise
Gold Medal
USA
David Wise (born June 30, 1990) is an American freestyle skier. He won the gold medal at Winter X Games XVI in the SuperPipe. David Wise won the Gold Medal at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Wise is married and has a daughter, Nayeli. He currently lives in Reno, NV. Wise is a Christian.
Top 100 Hits Of The Ladies Of the 80′s
From: The Backlot
#84
“Girlfriend”
Pebbles
Before she retired and became a minister, Pebbles had three top ten hits in the late 80′s and early 90′s. Her best song “Giving You The Benefit” hit in 1990 and can’t be included here, but “Girlfriend” and “Mercedes Boy” had nice rides up the chart, with ‘Girlfriend” peaking at #5 in 1988. I still say she should have recorded a duet with 80′s pop hunk Dino. It would have been Pebbles & Dino! Get It? Get it?
Speed Skating - Men's 10000 m - 2014 Winter Olympic
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Jorrit Bergsma
Gold Medal
Netherlands
Jorrit Bergsma (born 1 February 1986) is a Dutch speed skater and marathonskater. At the 2014 Winter Olympics, he won the gold medal in the 10000 m.
Bergsma is engaged to American speed skater Heather Richardson.
Emery Lehman
10th Place
USA
Emery Lehman (born June 13, 1996) is an American speed skater who is scheduled to represent the United States at the 2014 Winter Olympics where he will compete in the 5000 and 10000 meter events. Lehman started playing ice hockey at age six, taking up speed skating in an attempt to improve his hockey at age nine. He excelled at the sport, winning his first national time at age 12. Two year later, he won the United States junior title in the 5000 meters. The next year, he won four junior national titles.
Lehman won the senior 2012–2013 National Championship in the 5000 meters and three titles at the junior championships. He then won a gold and bronze medal at the World Junior Championships. In his senior year of high school, Lehman won the 10000 meters at the 2013–2014 US Senior Championship/Olympic Trials and took second place in the 5000 meters. As of 2014, he holds two national junior speed skating records.
Biathlon - Men Mass Start 15km - 2014 Winter Olympics
Emil Hegle Svendsen
Gold Medal
Norway
Emil Hegle Svendsen (born 12 July 1985) is a Norwegian biathlete. He won two gold medals and one silver at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. He has won five individual gold medals and five relay gold medals at World Championships.
He skis with Strindheim IL, based in Trondheim.
Tim Burke
21st Place
USA
Timothy John "Tim" Burke (born February 3, 1982 in Paul Smiths, New York) is a U.S. biathlete. At the 2007 World Championships in Antholz, he made US history by finishing 7th in the men's 20 km race. On December 20, 2009, he became the first ever US biathlete to lead the overall Biathlon World Cup.
February 20th is Love Your Pet Day
How’s your relationship with your favorite furry friend? Love Your Pet Day is a chance to show your cat, dog, tortoise or [insert other] how you really feel. Treats, pampering and all the the attention that the little guy or gal can handle are a great way to celebrate!
Short Track - Ladies' 3000 m Relay - 2014 Winter Olympics
Gold Medal
Korea
Kong Sang-jeong
(홍콩은 상 - 정에게)
Kong Sang-Jeong (born 22 June 1996 in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province) is a South Korean short track speed skater who won a gold Olympic medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in 3000 metre relay.
Shim Suk-hee
(심석희)
Shim Suk-Hee (Hangul: 심석희; born 30 January 1997 in Gangneung, Gangwon-do) is a South Korean short track speed skater. She won a gold medal in the 1500 m event in 2012. In the following 2014 Winter Olympics, she has won a silver medal in the 1500 m and a gold in the 3000 m relay.
Kim A-lang
(김아랑)
Kim A-Lang (Hangul: 김아랑) (born August 22, 1995) is a South Korean short track speed skater.
Cho Ha-ri
(조해리)
Cho Ha-Ri (Hangul: 조해리, Hanja: 趙海利) (born 29 July 1986) is a short track speed skater who competes for South Korea. She is the 2011 Overall World Champion.
Park Seung-hi
(박승희)
Park Seung-Hi (Hangul: 박승희, Hanja: 朴勝羲) (born 28 March 1992) is a Korean short track speed skater. She is the 2010 Overall World Champion. She won two bronze medals at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
The USA did not have any athletes in this event.
Nordic Combined - Individual Gundersen LH / 10km - 2014 Winter OIympics
Jørgen Graabak
Gold Medal
Norway
Jørgen Nyland Graabak (born 26 April 1991) is a Norwegian Nordic combined skier and Olympic gold medalist.
He hails from Trondheim and represents the club Byåsen IL. He competed for Norway at the 2014 Winter Olympics. After not participating in the Normal Hill race, he replaced Mikko Kokslien in the Large Hill event and came back from 6th place after the jump to win gold.
Taylor Fletcher
20th Place
USA
Taylor Fletcher (born May 11, 1990) is an American Nordic combined skier who has competed since 2006 and ski jumper since 2010. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 11th in the team large hill ski jumping event and 45th in the Nordic combined 10 km individual large hill event.
Fletcher's best World Cup finish was 3rd in the HS 109/ 10 km event in Seefeld (Austria) in January 2013.
'Green Acres' star Mary Grace Canfield dies
She played handyman Ralph Monroe on the TV series.
From: USA Today
From: USA Today
Mary Grace Canfield, a veteran character actress who played handywoman Ralph Monroe on the television show Green Acres, has died. She was 89.
Her daughter, Phoebe Alexiades, says Canfield died of lung cancer on Saturday at a hospice in the California coastal town of Santa Barbara.
Canfield had appearances on a number of TV shows during a four-decade career, including General Hospital and The Hathaways. She was Harriet Kravitz on four episodes of the 1960s series Bewitched.
But she was best known for her role of Ralph Monroe in some 40 episodes of Green Acres, which ran from 1965 to 1971.
Monroe greeted folks in the town of Hootersville with a cheery "howdy doody," wore painters' overalls and was forever working on the Douglas family's bedroom with her brother, Alf.
Academy Award for Best Original Song
1974
"We May Never Love Like This Again" — The Towering Inferno
Music and lyrics: Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn
The 10 Hottest Winter Olympians Of The Past 10 Winter Games
From: The Backlot
1992
Bjørn Dæhlie, the crimson cross-country king
Dæhlie is a cultural icon in his native Norway, which isn't a surprise considering he tallied up 12 Olympic medals (eight gold) and became a very successful businessman in real estate and fashion. But back in Albertville in ’92, he was a redheaded youngster who took no time at all to dominate the games alongside his fellow countryman Vegard Ulvang. He also has the studly side-grin of Robert Redford. And that matters too.
Happy Birthday today February 18th
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February 18th is Battery Day
Where would we be without the humble battery? Take a moment to consider how many of your household items use batteries – from cars to remote controls and hand-held devices, Battery Day is all about celebrating and recognizing just how important the simple battery is to our way of life.
February 18th is Cow Milked While Flying In An Airplane Day
Today is Elm Farm Ollie Day, also known by the more descriptive title, Cow Milked While Flying In An Airplane Day. On February 18, 1930, a Guernsey cow named Nellie Jay or Elm Farm Ollie was flown from Bismarck, Missouri 72 miles to St. Louis for the International Air Exposition. The flight, besides being a great publicity stunt, was intended to let scientists study the effect of flight on animals.
While in the air, Elm Farm Ollie was milked. Then the milk was sealed in paper cartons attached to miniature parachutes and dropped on the people of St. Louis.
“Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.”
Favorite Pic of the Day for February 18th
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Favorite Hunk Of The Day: February 18, 2008
Steven Strait
OMG, the face, the hair, the torso, the lips, Steven Strait has it all!!!
Steven Strait (born March 23, 1986) is an American actor, fashion model, and rock singer.
Strait was born and raised in Greenwich Village, New York City, New York. His ancestry is English, Dutch, and Italian. He attended Village Community School, Xavier High School and took classes at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. During his teen years, Strait modeled for several magazines, including: L'uomo Vogue, Spoon magazine, Details, Surface, Hollister Co., and Pop magazine, and worked with photographers Bruce Weber, Herb Ritts, and Ellen von Unwerth. Weber featured Strait in his 2001 book, All-American: Short Stories.
Strait began taking acting lessons at the age of eleven. In the sixth grade, he began to take performing classes at the Village Community School. Although forced into it at first, he found a passion for acting after he performed live for the first time. He has worked at both the Stella Adler Acting Studio and the Black Nexxus Acting Studio in New York City.
In 2004, he moved to California to pursue a career in acting. After his first audition, he received an acting job, and in 2005, he appeared in his first movie, Sky High, where he played a teenage superhero named Warren Peace. He covered The Fixx song "One Thing Leads to Another" for the film's soundtrack.
His next movie starring role was in Undiscovered, about young singers and actors in the entertainment industry who want to become stars. In 2006 he starred as Caleb Danvers in The Covenant, a horror/thriller film which opened on September 8, 2006. Strait appeared opposite Camilla Belle in 10,000 BC, a film about prehistoric Earth, released in March 2008. He played a young mammoth hunter, D'Leh, as he travels through unknown lands on a quest to rescue his people from slavery.
Strait appeared in the 2008 movie Stop-Loss as Michael Colson. In 2009, he played Tony, the son of Andy Garcia's character, in the movie City Island.
In November 2010, he appeared as a guest star on NBC's TV show Chase, where he played Jackson Cooper, a fugitive with a dark past who manipulates his teenage girlfriend with promises of freedom from her father and a life filled with romance and adventure.
Starting in 2012, Strait co-starred on the Starz series Magic City, which centered on Miami mobsters and other characters from Miami Beach in the late 1950s. Strait plays the son of Jeffrey Dean Morgan's character, Ike Evans.
In 2012, Strait played Freddy in the sci-fi thriller After. The story centered around two bus crash survivors who wake to discover that they are the only people left in their small town.
The 12 Hottest Winter Olympians Stripped Out Of Their Snowy Gear
From: Queerty
Charlie White
Figure Skater
USA
Charlie White (born October 24, 1987) is an American ice dancer. With partner Meryl Davis, he is a two-time (2011, 2013) World champion, the 2010 Olympic silver medalist, two-time (2010, 2012) World silver medalist, five-time Grand Prix Final champion (2009–2013), three-time Four Continents champion (2009, 2011, 2013) and six-time U.S. national champion (2009–2014). They won a bronze medal in the team event at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Davis and White teamed up in 1997 and they are currently the longest-lasting dance team in the United States. They are the first American ice dancers to win the World title. At the 2006 NHK Trophy, they became the first ice dancing team to receive level fours on all their elements.
Davis and White are the current world record holders in the short dance, free dance, and total combined score.
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