Chocolate Charlie or Willy Wonka?

Charlie Bucket was the book's original star

(American Vintage Tales) Nobody realized what the "Chocolate Factory" was hiding, not even sassy, greedy, entitled Veruca Salt. It becomes clear that this whole franchise is not about the kids. Like Gilligan's Island, it's really a morality play about human archetypes and personifications of the Seven Deadly Sins under a sweet and sinister examiner. That's why it resonates so well.

• BOOK: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• FILM: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
• Why is Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka so weird?
• List of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory characters

Lust for child sex star Brooke Shields?

(Ming) The disturbing story of Brooke Shields

Brooke Shields (1977)

• Forbidden Fruit, Playboy model, kiddy star Brooke Shields
• Innocent jailbait, hooker simulator, tease 
• Typecast in child molester, accused incestuous Jew, and great Jeffrey Epstein-friend Woody Allen's Annie Hall and her hit launch Pretty Baby about a child prostitute
• Jeffrey Epstein Files associate Woody Allen's sexual abuse allegation
• She dated accused Christian child molester Scott Baio ("Chachi" from Happy Days fame and Charles in Charge of underage actress Nicole Eggert he was inappropriate with, allegedly, according to victim), bisexual John Travolta, and deceased John Kennedy, Jr.

Pretty Baby (XXX)

Brooke Christa Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American model, child actress, Hollywood star, and current president of the Actors' Equity Association [2].

A child model starting at the age of 11 months [3], Shields gained widespread notoriety for her leading role in Louis Malle's film about a child hooker (sex trafficked indentured servant prostitute) Pretty Baby (1978) [which would be X-rated on most planets but not this one], in which she appeared in nude scenes shot when she was just 11 years old. Welcome to Hollywood, kid!

 

What can I say? I like them young

This piqued Woody Allen's interest so much that he hired her to play his child love interest in the hit romcom Annie Hall (1977), though her sexy and provocative scenes were later edited out of the movie after The Woodman took Shields' Momager Teri Shields on a date that didn't go so well.

Shields continued to model into her late teenage years and starred in several dramas in the 1980s, including The Blue Lagoon (1980), and Franco Zeffirelli's Endless Love (1981).

In 1983, Shields suspended her modeling career to attend Princeton U, where she graduated with a bachelor's degree. More

What if Brooke did standup comedy?

(NextUp Comedy) Discovering Sex | Lara Ricote (post-colonial trauma with man from the Netherlands for a nice Mexican girl in Buddhist Thailand) PG-13 or NC-17 rating, if YouTube rated standup

Universe twice as old as thought? (video)

British astrophysicist Dr. Becky Smethurst, University of Oxford, Christ Church (Dr. Becky on YouTube, July 27, 2023; Sheldon S., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Has JWST shown that the universe is TWICE as old as we thought?!

With all the CGI, color enhancements, photographic manipulations, projections, and theoretical mathematical calculations, this slice of heaven/space could be any age (James Webb Telescope)

It's really big: JWST prepped on earth

(Dr. Becky) The great Dr. B. has attitude, doubting that new evidence and explanations for the current data suggest the universe is older than we thought.

• JWST: James Webb Space Telescope

A new research study has come out claiming that to explain the massive galaxies found at huge distances in James Webb Space Telescope images, the universe is older than we think, at 26.7 billion years (rather than 13.8 billion years old).

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  JWST: Note two tiny white ants in foreground.

  00:00 - Introduction: #JWST's massive galaxy problem
• 01:48 - Our current best model of the Universe: λ-CDM
• 03:16 - The problems with λ-CDM and the "Crisis in Cosmology"
• 04:28 - Getting distance from redshift
• 05:13 - A new model of the Universe: a HYBRID of "tired light" and expansion of the Universe
• 06:25 - The history of "tired light" and why it was eventually dismissed (Tolman Surface Brightness Test)
• 08:18 - What Gupta (2023) have found
• 09:30 - The change to the calibration of redshift and distance (and the new age of the Universe)
• 10:02 - What other problems does this new model help solve?
• 11:07 - The observational evidence that this new model ignores...
• 12:39 - How else do we explain JWST's massive galaxy problem? Universal IMF issues
• 14:35 - Outro: the legacy of JWST
• 15:23 - Brilliant
• 16:46 - Bloopers Video filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV

This video dives into that study, looking at what model they used to get at that claim (a combination of the expansion of the universe and "tired light" ideas of redshift), how this impacts our best model of the universe and the so-called "Crisis is Cosmology," and why Dr. B. is not yet convinced.

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#astronomy #cosmology My previous YouTube video on how JWST’s massive galaxies are no longer “impossible” • JWST's "too massive" galaxy problem s... Gupta et al. (2023; is the universe 26.7 billion years old?) academic.oup.com/mnras/advance... Labbé et al. (2023; over-massive galaxies spotted in JWST data) arxiv.org/pdf/2207.12446.pdf Arrabal Haro et al. (2023; z~16 candidate galaxy turns out to be z=4.9) arxiv.org/pdf/2303.15431.pdf Zwicky (1929; "tired light" hypothesis raised for first time) pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073...

JWST observing schedules (with public access): stsci.edu/jwst/science-ex... JWST data archive: mast.stsci.edu/portal/Mashup... Twitter bot for JWST current observations: twitter.com/JWSTObservation. The successful proposals in Cycle 2 (click on the proposal number and then "public PDF" to see details): stsci.edu/jwst/science-ex...

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Bart Simpson (Phil & Ted's Sexy Boomer Show)

Nancy Cartwright, Phil Proctor, Ted Bonnitt; Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Xmas Lisa became a vegan Buddhist was the best X-mas of all. She still got Xmas gifts.

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Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer Show (KPFK 90.7 FM)

Nancy Cartwright (a.k.a. “Bart Simpson”) is the voice of Bart, Maggie, and many other characters on The Simpsons. As such she is at the center of a cultural phenomenon -- the longest-running TV series in American history.

The show has made Americans laugh for over 34 years. In this fun and engaging interview, Cartwright offers a fascinating inside look at how The Simpsons is made, how it navigates controversies, and how it remains a hit in a “woke” society.

Richard Gere and Lisa meditate in Springfield.

She shares a Cinderella story of how her career began in Ohio, thanks in large part to a record promoter and Yogi Bear. Hear it all on PHIL AND TED'S SEXY BOOMER SHOW, June 21, 2022.

ABOUT: Phil Proctor is a humorist, author, actor, and best known as a founding member of the groundbreaking comedy group “Firesign Theatre,” which got its start on KPFK.org. Ted Bonnitt is a writer, host, and producer of national entertainment podcasts, radio, TV and film programming, including with members of Firesign Theatre. He hosted the “The Bernie Fleshkin Show” on WBAI (Pacifica NY) for ten years.

• Laraine Newman on Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer Show
• Phil and Ted's SEXY BOOMER Show: Archives (KPFK FM)

How CIA is spying on Macs, iPhones, Apple

Julian Assange (youtube.com); Seth Auberon (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Cell phones are "beacons" tracking and recording users. Social media helps: VIDEO

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Space: "Star Factory"

Combination of observations from the UK Infrared Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope is seen in an undated image. Part of a survey in which British astronomers spotted a star factory in the constellation Orion, it shows parts of the Orion Molecular Cloud being illuminated by nearby stars and glowing a green color. The jets punch through the cloud and can be seen as a multitude of tiny pink-purple arcs, knots, and filaments. The young stars that drive the jets are usually found along each jet and are colored golden orange (Reuters/UKIRT/JAC/Spitzer Telescope/Handout).

• Video: Vision of Hubble
• Complete Coverage of the Hubble Space Telescope
• New Hubble Images: When Galaxies Collide

(SPACE.COM) To commemorate almost two decades of photographing the wonders of the universe, the Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a peculiar group of interacting galaxies that contains a "cosmic fountain" of stars, gas, and dust that stretches about 100,000 light years. Over the past 19 years, Hubble has taken many images of galactic collisions and close encounters.

The new image of a trio of galaxies, called Arp 194, looks as if one of the galaxies has sprung a leak. The bright blue streamer seen in the image is really a stretched spiral arm full of newborn blue stars. This stellar activity typically happens when two galaxies interact and gravitationally tug at each other. More>>