Cheech and Chong Fan News

Cheech Marin Discusses Art, Lou Adler, Recording their First Album

2012-02-14T21:44:00.002-05:00

Off-Ramp host, John Rabe, interviewed Cheech Marin for the 89.3 KPCC podcast. The beginning of the podcast concerns Cheech's art collection. Then, Cheech discusses meeting Lou Adler, the difficulties of recording the sketches they were used to performing live and what it was like doing their first film.

There's also a separate interview with Lou Adler. Lou says they went through a couple directors before Lou decided to direct and pay for it himself. He fails to mention, however, that he used Cheech and Tommy's money to pay for it without their permission. There was a lawsuit, etc etc.

In addition, Lou doesn't mention that he signed Cheech and Chong to a really bad record deal. Lou owns all their albums. Producers wouldn't get away with that nowadays, but it was common in the 70s.

Tommy Chong Tells Access Hollywood Whitney Houston Would Still Be Alive If She ‘Stuck To Pot’

2012-02-14T20:21:00.000-05:00

Yesterday, the television show Access Hollywood interviewed Tommy Chong at The Simpson's 500th episode party.

“It’s a sad, sad thing. In a way, though, it was like she was saying goodbye,” he told Access. “Like she was passing the torch onto Adele. It was a tough one to let go. It was like she came by and said, ‘OK, I’m out of here.’ It’s a sad, sad thing.”

Cheech and Chong ...and Tommy and Shelby Tour Dates

2012-02-13T21:41:00.000-05:00

Cheech and Chong keep adding tour dates. And while Cheech is busy doing art and a bad sitcom, Tommy and Shelby Chong are also doing their own dates.

Cheech and Chong: Get it Legal tour dates include Mississippi, California, Indiana, Ontario, Nevada.

Click on the Ticketmaster link above for tickets.

Cheech Marin Guest Speaker at CSUCI CEO Series

2012-02-13T21:24:00.003-05:00

Here is an interview with Cheech Marin at the Martin V Smith School of Business and Economics at CSU in Camarillo, CA. The interviewer is a bit chatty. She talks over everyone she is interviewing.

One of organizers of the event promotes Cheech's web site. Cheech is trying to heavily promote his personal website and twitter page because, as we predicted, Tommy Chong and his son, Paris, have taken over their Facebook, Myspace and Cheech and Chong web page. Neither of the pages are updated. Occasionally, you'll get a Facebook post, but that's it.

When Cheech and Tommy and those horrible folks at Live Nation, sent their lawyers after me, I told them I'll give them the domain name, but let me (someone independent) control it. I told them that they'll argue over the site and it'll never get updated. Their agent insisted this wouldn't be the case.

I was correct. They are arguing over the sites and the sites suck.

They used me to promote their gigs and I was responsible for getting them work and money. I was responsible for reuniting Cheech and Chong. Cheech and Tommy have admitted this in books and articles. Instead of thanking me, they filed UDRP case and won the site. They abandoned me.

CHEECH MARIN TO HOST 'ARTV', THE FIRST ANNUAL FINE ART AWARDS AT MGM GRAND

2012-02-12T23:46:00.000-05:00

Las Vegas, Nevada -- Actor-comedian Richard "Cheech" Marin will host The First Annual Fine Art Awards (ARTV) being held in the Premier Ballroom of the MGM Grand the weekend of October 28th and 29th.

Known for comedy in his many television and film roles, but serious about art, Cheech Marin will welcome the fifty nominated fine artists from around the country at the awards ceremony. The ARTV honored artists work in a total of thirteen categories including oils, acrylics, watercolor, muralists, glass, printmaking, sculpture, mixed media, drawing, new movement/media, public art installation, and group project. There will also be an award given to Artist of the Year.

Cheech Marin is one of the nation's foremost collectors of Chicano/Mexican-American art, and his private collection has grown to be one of the largest of its kind in the world. His "Chicano Visions: American Painters On The Verge" is now on a major tour of art museums nationally through 2008. A second tour titled "The Chicano Collection" featuring digital reproductions of paintings, has just begun its national tour in Los Angeles.

"We are especially pleased to have Mr. Marin as our host," said Audrey Roberts, creator and executive producer of the show. "Not only is he an enthusiast of the art world, but his presence at our awards show brings well-deserved attention to his two important art exhibits which are now touring." Audrey Roberts has long been a champion of the arts. She has been a major contributor to the Nevada Institute for Contemporary Arts, UNLV's Fine Art Gallery, and The Las Vegas Art Museum. "Now more than ever it is time for the arts to flourish," she says of her innovative new awards show, "and this will be unlike anything the public has seen before. This is, after all, ART so the audience can expect many surprises."

In addition to the awards ceremony, the First Annual Fine Art Awards' nominated artists will be creating art in their chosen medium working live outside the Premier Ballroom for the audience to enjoy as they arrive for the ARTV Awards.

"The public rarely gets to see creative artists working, up close and personal," says Ms. Roberts. "They usually only see the finished product hanging in a gallery. We want to give them the bigger 'picture' and a truly unique experience." Ms. Roberts promises there will be many unusual surprises on the red carpet as well.

A special "Lifetime Achievement Award" will be presented posthumously to Anthony Quinn, famous on screen as an Oscar-winning actor, but in private life, an important artist himself. Quinn is a favorite of Las Vegas art collectors. Mr. Quinn's "Lifetime Achievement Award" will be accepted by his widow Katherine Quinn.

For additional information regarding ARTV and the First Annual Fine Art Awards or to purchase tickets to the show please visit the web site at www.artvawards.com. This unique and exciting awards show will be taped for a future televised airing as well.

"We are trying to keep the arts alive and thriving," Ms. Roberts says, "and it is up to all of us to do it."

Machete 2 in the Works

2012-02-07T20:23:00.000-05:00

Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo are working on the sequel to Machete, 'Machete Kills.' No word on whether the previous actors such as Robert Deniro and Cheech Marin will be in the film.

Stan Sheldon Talks About Working on Up in Smoke

2012-02-07T06:49:00.000-05:00

Stan Sheldon is currently playing bass on the Peter Frampton tour. Frampton brought back the original band that played on his hit album, Comes Alive.

However, many of you don't know that Stan played some of the music in Up in Smoke as part of a band which would later be called Ronin. He went by the name Waddy Wachtel.

New York Post Completely Disses Rob!

2012-02-05T12:11:00.000-05:00

Ok, so anyone that's watched the new Cheech Marin/Rob Schneider sitcom, Rob!, knows it's horrible. The jokes are very stupid and simple. There are apparently a lot of stupid and simple people in this country and they're watching this piece of garbage.

All the critics, including us, feel the same way. I'd be embarrassed to be an actor on the show.

In a New York Post article today, Phil Mushnick had some funny things to say about the show.
"In just two episodes, CBS has provided conclusive proof that as long as a network keeps scraping at the bottom of that barrel, it’ll come up with something."
and
“Rob!, ostensibly, is about an Anglo-American marrying into a Mexican-American family. But it’s so much less than that."

Rob Schneider used to make the funniest edgiest comedic films and albums. What happened?!?!

Software Company Creates a Cheech and Chong App which No One will Want and Won't Get Approved

2012-01-24T20:29:00.000-05:00

This press release came out today. A mobile software company paid Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong to use their likeness in a mobile phone app.

We see multiple problems with this:
1. No one wants this app because most Cheech and Chong fans are sixty years old and don't have a smart phone.
2. Cheech and Chong had awesome films in the 70s and 80s, but let's face it, they are has-beens.
3. There's no way Apple will approve a drug-related app.

MEDL Reaches a New High in Mobile With Cheech and Chong
The Grammy-Award Winning Counter-Culture Legends Partner With MEDL Mobile to Bring Their Fans the Biggest, Fattest App Ever

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Jan 24, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- MEDL Mobile, Inc. MEDL, a leader in mobile apps development, announced today that they have partnered with Richard "Cheech" Marin and Tommy Chong of the hugely successful comedy duo Cheech and Chong to create the first official mobile app based on their comedy and brand. The app will be a "super app" full of smaller apps designed to appeal to their fans, including today's younger generation who have embraced their counter-culture comedy some 40 years following the duo's start in the early '70s. The app is slated for soft launch in early 2012 and full launch on April 20, 2012, or "4/20."

Cheech and Chong are widely known and still celebrated for their 1970s and 1980s cult classic films and stand-up routines largely based on the hippie and free love era and their personal love for cannabis. In 2008 they launched the historic reunion tour entitled "Light up America and Canada" followed up by 2010 & 2011's "Get it Legal Tour" and have confirmed production of a new animated film hopefully to be released in 2012.

"You can't really have much more fun than this. The app is being codenamed 'The Blimp' and it's going to be jam packed with games, how-to's, and tools for fans -- not to mention the world's greatest clock," said Dave Swartz, MEDL Mobile co-founder and chief creative officer. "Given the popularity of Cheech and Chong and the loyalty of their following, I think this should be one of our most widely downloaded apps yet."

About MEDL Mobile

MEDL Mobile Inc., an early leader in the emerging mobile applications software market, is engaged in the monetization of mobile apps through four primary revenue generating platforms: (i) development of customized apps for third parties to monetize their particular intellectual property, persona or brand, (ii) incubation of apps in partnership with third parties and from a library of more than 85,000 original apps concept submissions, (iii) sale of advertising and sponsorship opportunities directly to brands and (iv) acquisition of apps from other developers and use of a proprietary application programming interface, or API, to make Apps recommendations for our user base.

For more information about MEDL Mobile, please visit http://www.medlmobile.com .

About Cheech and Chong

Successful beyond their wildest dreams, the iconic comedy duo Cheech & Chong defined an era with their hilariously irreverent, satirical, counter-culture, no-holds-barred comedy routines. Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong's phenomenal success began on the stand-up comedy circuit which led to nine hit comedy albums and eight hit films, breaking box office records, shattering comedy album sales, garnering multiple Grammy nominations and mesmerizing fans for more than a decade.

With nine albums released from 1972 through 1985, Cheech and Chong were nominated for four Grammy Awards, winning the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album with their third album, Los Cochinos, released in 1973. Big Bambu, their second album, was the biggest selling comedy record of all time in 1972 and remained so for many years. Their stunningly successful comedy streak transitioned to film in 1978 with their first movie, "Up In Smoke," the highest grossing comedy of 1978, topping $100 million at the box office. Cheech and Chong co-wrote and starred in a total of eight feature films together, all directed by Chong.

Radio Show Goofs on Cheech Marin

2012-01-21T22:28:00.000-05:00

On Thursday, Cheech Marin was on the Gordon Keith radio show promoting his awful sitcom, Rob. The hosts got on Cheech's nerves. First, they didn't know that the show had debuted the previous week. Then, they said the show, Lost (which Cheech was on), should have also had Tommy Chong on it. That really pissed Cheech off. The true personality of Richard Marin briefly emerged.

Cheech got very silent because Cheech can't stand Chong. He's only touring with him for the money. Cheech has multiple alimonies and lawyer bills. He is going through a nasty divorce. Plus, there are allegations of spousal and child abuse. The last thing he wanted to hear was that Chong should have been on Lost. Cheech never liked playing second fiddle to Chong.

The last time this radio show interviewed Cheech, he hung up. I guess his publicist forgot about the experience and let Gordon Keith interview him again.

Cheech Marin Voted off Celebrity Cook-Off

2012-01-19T08:36:00.001-05:00

Sunday night, Cheech was voted off of the Food Network's Rachael vs. Guy Celebrity Cook-Off. His porterhouse steak butter just wasn't up to snuff. This was episode 3 of the series. Lou Diamond Philips, Mario Fantone and other celebs still remain.

Cheech and Chong are Coming to Indiana

2012-01-16T20:05:00.000-05:00

The Cheech and Chong: Get It Legal tour is coming to Hammond, Indiana.

Tickets go on sale this Wednesday at 10AM local time via the ticketmaster link above.

March 17th
The Venue at Horseshoe Casino
Hammond, IN

Rob = Robbed Me of 30 Minutes of My Time

2012-01-12T21:45:00.000-05:00

We are huge Rob Schneider fans, but tonight's debut of the Cheech Marin/Rob Schneider show, Rob, was horrendous. Typical stereotypical humor we've heard many times before. It's the worst show since Cheech was on the Golden Girls spinoff, Golden Palace.

However, the actor, Eugenio Derbez, was fantastic.

Critics agree:
Rob: "Pilot" Review
'Rob!': Schneider's sitcom lacks laughs
‘Rob’ed of laughs

Cheech Marin and Rob Schneider Do Tons of Press

2012-01-10T21:16:00.000-05:00

Cheech Marin and Rob Schneider are doing tons of press promoting their new sitcom, Rob. They'll be calling in The Howard Stern Show tomorrow.

Watch the case on The Talk here.

TV networks continue to create shows destined for cancellation

2012-01-10T06:51:00.000-05:00

The Daily Nebraskan has a great article about how networks continually create really crappy shows, one of which is the Rob Schneider/Cheech Marin sitcom, Rob.

More Clips from Rob Schneider's New Sitcom, Rob!

2012-01-09T20:50:00.000-05:00

CBS' new sitcom, Rob!, starring Rob Schneider premiere's Thursday.

CBS has posted more commercial.

Cheech and Rob will be on The Talk tomorrow promoting the new show.

David Arquette To Host LA Art Show Party For Charity

2012-01-06T23:11:00.000-05:00

The LA Art Show: Modern & Contemporary, The Los Angeles Fine Art Show: Historic & Traditional, and the IFPDA Print Fair will kick off with a high-profile Opening Night Premiere Party on Wednesday, January 18 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Hosted by actor and The Art of Elysium supporter David Arquette, proceeds from the Opening Night Premiere Party will enable The Art of Elysium to expand its program to bring arts to critically ill hospitalized children and increase the number of school children who visit the Getty through the J. Paul Getty Museum’s Education Department program for Title One School visits.

With more than 5,000 patrons in 2011, the Opening Night Premiere Party and the Los Angeles Art Show has consistently drawn attendees who love art, including museum patrons, political dignitaries, collectors, celebrities, and supporters of arts education, including Halle Berry, Olivier Martinez, Finola Hughes, Russell Young, Shepard Fairey, Kat von D., Cheech Marin, Councilman Tom LaBonge, Chinese Consul General Qiu Shaofang, Executive Director of the DCA Olga Garay and Gayle and Ed Roski. With live performances, installations, and curated exhibitions, the 2012 Opening Night Premiere Party promises to be an exciting evening of art and culture.

The Opening Night Premiere Party will feature an exclusive re-creation of The Myths of Rape, by Elana Mann and Audrey Chan, working with Leslie Labowitz-Starus and Lacy, re-creates a 1977 performance by Labowitz-Starus, originally performed as part of Three Weeks in May. These compelling performance tableaux, typical of 1970s activist street demonstrations, reinforce how activism and interventions are as relevant today as in the past. This unique event is part of Three Weeks in January, a new work by Suzanne Lacy presented by LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) as part of the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival.

A special installation that evening by artist and iconic musician from DEVO, Mark Mothersbaugh, will feature an interactive sculpture of two Scions fused together. Visitors can go inside the sculpture and listen to music. The LA Art Show: Modern & Contemporary will offer a ‘first look’ at the sculpture installation before they are showcased at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles.

A portion of the proceeds from the 2012 Opening Night Premiere Party ticket sales will be donated to The Art of Elysium. Through The Art of Elysium programs, volunteer artists have the opportunity to work with children, adolescents and families in both small and larger group settings for 90-120 minutes in various inpatient and outpatient medical environments. The Art of Elysium provides a wide range of fine and performing arts workshops and activities designed to help children cope with the difficult emotional challenges of illness and hospitalization, promote opportunities for growth and development, encourage socialization, and provide exposure to various artistic skills and disciplines. The Art of Elysium’s programs for hospitalized youth include Fine Arts, Fashion Design, Music, Media/Theatre Arts, and Arts-Based Self-Esteem Programs.

Proceeds generated from Opening Night Premiere Party ticket sales will also support visits for students from Los Angeles area schools to the J.Paul Getty Museum, through the Museum’s fully subsidized Title One bus transportation program. This program ensures that as many students as possible from throughout Los Angeles can visit the Getty and experience its collection and the site through guided and self-guided visits and architecture and garden tours. Each year, more than 100,000 students and their teachers visit the J. Paul Getty Museum at its two locations. These visits provide young people the opportunity to have direct experiences with original works of art.

LA Art Show: Modern & Contemporary, The Los Angeles Fine Art Show: Historic and Traditional and the LA IFPDA Fine Print Fair will take place on January 19-22, 2012 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, West Halls A and B, 1201 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90015. The 2012 Opening Night Premiere Party will take place on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 from 7pm-10pm, with a VIP Patron reception beginning at 6pm. Tickets are $125 and $500. To purchase tickets and see related benefits, please visit www. laartshow2012.eventbrite.com.

For additional information about the LA Art Show: Modern & Contemporary, please visit LA Art Show. For additional information about the Los Angeles Fine Art Show: Historic and Traditional, please visit Los Angeles Fine Art Show. To learn more about The Art of Elysium, please visit www.theartofelysium.org. General admission to the LA Art Show: Modern & Contemporary, Los Angeles Fine Art Show: Historic & Traditional and the LA IFPDA Fine Print Fair is $20 and includes admission to all three shows.

New Trailer Posted for Rob Schneider's New Sitcom

2012-01-03T20:54:00.000-05:00

CBS has posted a new trailer for Rob Schneider's sitcom, Rob. It premieres January 12th.

Attention Iowa. Vote for Ron Paul today.

2012-01-03T11:10:00.000-05:00

Ron Paul is the best candidate. He's this nation's last chance at getting its freedoms back.

LA Art Show: Modern & Contemporary Features New Works by Damien Hirst and David Bailey Among Others

2011-12-30T08:54:00.000-05:00

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The 17th Annual LA Art Show: Modern & Contemporary will feature the California debut of new works by artists Damien Hirst and photographer David Bailey. Locally accessible for the first time, new works by Hirst include ‘The Souls’ series of shimmering foil-‐block butterfly prints and gold foil block skulls ‘Death or Glory.’ Bailey will exhibit new works of still lives, fashion images, and portraits. Both artists are represented by Paul Stolper Contemporary Art Gallery from London, UK.

Additional gallery highlights include a collection of works by one of California’s most significant contemporary artists, Tom Holland. Holland’s work will be presented by David Richards Contemporary from Santa Fe, NM and will feature pieces from the 1960s, a period in which Holland’s work transitioned from traditional painting on a two-‐dimensional plane to more literal, three-‐dimensional constructions. Tom Holland’s work is in the collections of many major museums in the United States, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

Pan American Art Projects from Miami, FL will feature Oakland-‐based artist Tracey Snelling, based on her experiences in China and the United States, creating a cultural dialogue between the two. Jack Rutberg Fine Arts from Los Angeles, CA will showcase a variety of artists including Jordi Alcaraz, Karel Appel, Norman Bluhm, Hans Burkhardt, George Condo, Clarie Falkenstein, Patrick Graham, George Herms, Pablo Picasso, Ruth Weisberg, Jerome Witkin, and Francisco Zuniga. The LA Art Show: Modern & Contemporary will also feature select Chinese galleries that have never exhibited in the United States. Chinese artists include Im Jari and Zhang Xianyong, represented by FQ Projects from Shanghai; China, Jiang Peng Yi, represented by ME Photo Gallery from Beijing; China, and woodblock prints by Liu Qingyuan from CM2 Gallery, from Los Angeles.

The LA Art Show: Modern & Contemporary is committed to showing the highest quality works ranging from Jamie Reid, Ed Ruscha, Armando Romero, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Arshile Gorky, Jim Dine, Andy Warhol, Fernando Botero, and others. Designed to showcase cutting-‐edge artwork as well as forward thinking artists, this show will feature performance pieces, mixed media installations, video installations, contemporary paintings, a sculpture garden, and a series of curated special exhibitions.

The LA Art Show: Modern & Contemporary will feature additional curated spaces including Hypoxia artist James Peterson. Curated by The Los Angeles Art Association, Hypoxia will be a flowing form designed in the likeliness of algae blooms. This ‘organism’ will wash over the space and redefine the momentum of traffic. Fabien Castantier Gallery will present a live art performance by celebrated Parisian graffiti artist, Speedy
Graphito. Graphito will paint on-‐site throughout the 4-‐day show.

The LA Art Show: Modern & Contemporary Symposia Series will focus on the confluence of art & design with interactive discussions led by Milton Esterow, Suzanne Lacy, and a book signing by renowned artist Hunt Slonem.

Additional programming for the LA Art Show: Modern & Contemporary includes Project Spaces which offers solo artist exhibition space to select participating galleries. Galleries invited to participate for project spaces at the 2012 show include Boma Modern from Santa Fe, NM; Davidson Contemporary from Seattle, WA; and The Master League of Arts from Moscow, Russia.

The LA Art Show: Modern & Contemporary will kick off with a high-‐profile Opening Night Premiere Party on Wednesday, January 18 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Hosted by actor and Art of Elysium supporter David Arquette, proceeds from the Opening Night Premiere Party will enable Preview beneficiaries The Art of Elysium to expand its program to bring arts to critically ill hospitalized children and increase substantially the number of school children who visit the Getty through the J. Paul Getty Museum’s Education Department program for Title One School visits.

With more than 5,000 patrons in 2011, the Opening Night Premiere Party has consistently drawn attendees who love art, including museum patrons, political dignitaries, collectors, celebrities, and supporters of arts education. 2011 LA Art Show: Modern & Contemporary attendees included: Halle Berry, Olivier Martinez, Finola Hughes, Russell Young, Shepard Fairey, Kat von D., Cheech Marin, Councilman Tom LaBonge, Chinese Consul General Qiu Shaofang, Executive Director of the DCA, Olga Garay, and Gayle and Ed Roski. With live performances and curated exhibitions, the 2012 Opening Night Premiere Party promises to be more exciting and encompassing.

ET Posts Exclusive Preview of Rachael vs. Guy

2011-12-27T21:29:00.001-05:00

Food Network's new show Rachael vs. Guy Celebrity Cook-Off premieres January 1st. Celebs such as Cheech Marin and Lou Diamond Philips compete.

Last Chance to Pick Up the Cheech and Chong Christmas Head Lights

2011-12-18T20:22:00.000-05:00

This is your last chance to pick up the Cheech and Chong Christmas Head Lights. They are no longer manufactured because of a licensing disagreement between the manufacturer and Cheech and Chong's lawyers.

We have one left!

This Weekend Only! Free Cheech & Chong T-Shirt with $25 Order

2011-12-17T11:26:00.000-05:00

Hempy Holidoobies!

This weekend only, there's no worldwide shipping and handling on anything plus you get a free shirt with every order of $25 or more.

Just put which shirt and size you'd like in the notes section during the checkout process. If you forget, don't worry...we'll email you for this information.

Shipping & handling will be refunded after your order ships

Offer expires Tuesday, December 20th at 12AM New York.

Cheech Marin Comes to the Museum of Monterey

2011-12-13T20:13:00.000-05:00

Cheech Marin brings his collection of small print works by Chicano artists to the Museum of Monterey. The wonderful museum film crew, consisting of Fred Nelson and Bert Rankin, was there to capture the opening.

Exclusive First Look at 'Rob,' Rob Schneider's New Sitcom

2011-12-05T23:07:00.000-05:00

Rob Schneider's new sitcom, Rob!, co-stars Cheech Marin and premiers January 12th.

CHICANITAS: Small Paintings from the Cheech Marin Collection to open at the Snite Museum of Art

2011-12-05T22:58:00.000-05:00

Cheech Marin's CHICANITAS collection is coming to The Museum of Monterey!

Cheech Marin will be at the Museum on December 10 for the show's opening reception!

Get more information on our website:
Museum of Monterey

Miley Cyrus Pot Sketch on SNL...You're like a funny little Cheech Marin.

2011-12-04T10:48:00.002-05:00

Last night, Saturday Night Live had a Miley Cyrus Show sketch. In it, 'Billy Ray Cyrus' says she's like a "funny little Cheech Marin."

Hempy Holidoobies! Free Shipping on Everything Plus a Free Shirt

2011-11-22T22:22:00.002-05:00

Our annual holiday sale has begun.

From now until December 19th, there's no worldwide shipping and handling on anything plus you get a free shirt with every order of $50 or more.

Just put which shirt and size you'd like in the notes section during the checkout process. If you forget, don't worry...we'll email you for this information.

Shipping & handling will be refunded after your order ships

Offer expires Monday, December 19th at 12AM New York.

Gibson GuitarTown on The Sunset Strip Auction Set For Dec. 3

2011-11-16T22:35:00.000-05:00

Gibson GuitarTown on The Sunset Strip, administered by the Gibson Foundation, is completing its yearlong "tour" of the boulevard and has announced the art guitars will be auctioned for charity on Dec. 3, 2011, at Julien's Auctions Beverly Hills Gallery (9665 Wilshire Blvd.) beginning at 2 p.m. The auction will also be accessible online at www.julienslive.com. Proceeds from the auction will benefit the Los Angeles Youth Network, which provides outreach, food, emergency shelter, transitional living and educational enrichment programs for homeless adolescents; West Hollywood Arts & Cultural Commission to further support public art and artists on The Sunset Strip; and the West Hollywood Library.

GuitarTown on The Sunset Strip is a larger-than-life public art exhibit celebrating the people and places that have shaped the legendary music boulevard. More than 20 ten-foot Gibson art guitars have lined the 1.6-mile boulevard since August 2010.

The guitars celebrated various aspects of The Sunset Strip and its history and influence, from guitars honoring Slash, The Doors, Mötley Crüe, Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson and Cheech & Chong to abstract guitars that played upon the architecture and nightlife of the boulevard. The guitars were displayed in prominent and historic locations on The Sunset Strip, including the Whisky a Go Go, The Roxy Theatre, The Comedy Store, Andaz hotel (former "Riot Hyatt") and at the main entrances to The Sunset Strip. A handful of the guitars were also signed by the influential musicians they were inspired by.

"We enjoyed hosting GuitarTown on The Sunset Strip this year. The guitars celebrated the boulevard's history while also giving local artists the opportunity to showcase their talents in a one-of-a-kind setting," noted Sunset Strip Business Association Executive Director Todd Steadman. "The art guitars added to The Sunset Strip experience, and we are pleased that the proceeds from the GuitarTown charity auction will benefit and inspire countless individuals in the Los Angeles area and beyond."

The full list of artists and guitars included in the auction includes:

• "Prince Of Darkness" celebrating Ozzy Osbourne. Created by Nic Adams. Guitar signed by Ozzy Osbourne and Slash.
• "Dr. Feelgood" celebrates iconic Sunset Strip rockers and 2011 Sunset Strip Music Festival honorees Mötley Crüe. Created by Timothy Teruo Watters. Guitar signed by Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx and Vince Neil.
• "Post Cheech & Chong" is a celebration of the comedy duo who got their start at The Roxy Theatre. Guitar signed by Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong.
• "Slash Guitar" celebrates the legendary guitarist and 2010 Sunset Strip Music Festival honoree. Created by Ron English. Guitar signed by Slash and Ron English.
• "Good Time Tonite" celebrates Peter Frampton. Created by Anne Olsen Daub. Guitar signed by Peter Frampton.
• "Good Vibrations" celebrates Southern California icon Brian Wilson. Created by Lauren Evans. Guitar signed by Brian Wilson.
• "Rosas" is a portrait of one of the most famous Sunset Strip girl bands: The Runaways. Created by Sonia Lopez-Chavez. Guitar signed by Cheri Curie.
• "Mickey's Garden" is an homage to the notorious Mickey Cohen. Created by Mark Mahoney. Guitar signed by tattoo artist Mark Mahoney.
• "Timescape" abstract guitar created by compiling images and references to infamous Sunset Strip music legends. Created by Mads Anderson.
• "Jimi Rocks" painted guitar celebrating guitarist Jimi Hendrix. Created by Bruce Bermudez.
• "Star Chords" tribute to Lou Adler, Mario Maglieri and Elmer Valentine, who were instrumental in creating the live music scene on The Sunset Strip with the creation of the Roxy Theatre, Whisky A Go-Go and Rainbow. Created by Jodi Bohassi.
• "Light My Fire" mosaic tiled guitar honoring The Doors. Created by Robin Bott.
• "Star Struck" mixed media guitar that plays upon The Sunset Strip's ties to celebrity and creativity. Created by David "Rudy" Gardner.
• "The Conscious Mind" utilizes surreal imagery to reflect on the mind and the visual landscape inspired by music. Created by Elizabeth Merrit Kong.
• "Candy Stripe" is a jewel-encrusted guitar celebrating Katy Perry. Created by Erin Lareau.
• "Summer Of Love" is a colorful, bejeweled guitar honoring the ‘60s. Created by Juliana Martinez.
• "Path of Most Resistance" examines the built environment on The Strip. Created by art collective Opus 13.
• "The Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo" is a playful, interactive work celebrating Oingo Boingo. Created by John Ottinger.
• "Crusin: Sunset Strip" is a sleek, colorful abstract resin work mimicking the nighttime landscape of The Sunset Strip. Created by R. Nelson Parrish.
• "Making Headlines" is a painted visual compilation of past newspaper headlines from The Sunset Strip and Gibson. Created by Leilani Yosick and Dan Calandro.
• "Dressed To Kill" celebrates Kiss. Created by James Rutman.
• "Mystical Musicians" abstract guitar that reflects on the creative process. Created by Jon Planas. • "Ad Lib" montage reflects the diverse styles of music that exist on The Sunset Strip. Created by Stephanie Pryor.
• "Trigger Happy Jack" uses bold imagery to celebrate the elixir of nightlife. Created by design firm Signature Creative.
Wow.

Rachael Ray and Guy Fieri Host Celebrity Cook-Off

2011-11-15T16:34:00.000-05:00

Food Network stars Rachael Ray and Guy Fieri are hosting a new Celebrity Apprentice-like cooking show which puts eight (mostly) throwback celebs in one kitchen. The show is called Rachael vs. Guy Celebrity Cook-Off, and it premieres January 1 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

Lucky contestants include 90's pop stars Aaron Carter (who is now sporting a goatee) and Joey Fatone (still sporting his goatee), as well as Coolio, Cheech Marin, and Miss USA 2011 Alyssa Campanella.

Ray and Fieri will coach the budding chefs, who are "divided into ‘Team Rachael’ and ‘Team Guy,' [and] each episode features celebrity contestants battling it out in a fun, fast-paced culinary fight-to-the-finish," according to a press release. The winner gets $50,000 for the charity of their choice.

We're expecting a couple of tantrums and cut fingers, since the trailer features some contestants falling to the floor. Also notable: Coolio claims he's "the ghetto gourmet, baby," Joey Fatone says, "Dessertalicious," and for some odd reason there's a piñata.

Rob Schneider Sitcom will Debut January 12

2011-11-15T16:30:00.000-05:00

CBS' new Rob Schneider comedy, ¡Rob!, will debut Jan. 12 at 8:30 p.m., the network announced as part of a pair of midseason premiere dates Monday.

¡Rob!, which stars Schneider as a lifelong bachelor who marries into a tight-knit Mexican family, will take over Rules of Engagement's timeslot; CBS said Rules would return sometime later in the season. ¡Rob! also stars Cheech Marin, Claudia Bassols, Diana Maria Riva, Eugenio Derbez and Lupe Ontiveros.

No word on why CBS would hire Cheech Marin, an alleged wife beater.

Carlos Mencia, Cheech Marin and Tony Plana Come Together to Raise Funds for Language Programs in Schools

2011-11-04T23:06:00.000-04:00

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 31, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Celebrities, golfers and comedy lovers will come together at the Second Annual "Language in Play" Celebrity Golf Tournament and Comedy Concert to benefit The East L.A. Classic Theatre (ECT) on Thursday, November 10, at the Pacific Palms Resort in the City of Industry. The daylong event will benefit ECT's highly acclaimed language arts programs in Southern California schools and is set to begin at 9 a.m. with golf, followed by the comedy concert and dinner at 5:30 p.m., Tickets are available for the all-day activities or only for the comedy concert that includes dinner.

The tourney will get underway with a red carpet VIP welcome, continue with golfing with the stars, and culminate with the comedy of Carlos Mencia and participation by celebrities and special guests from the worlds of entertainment, education, business and government. Celebrities confirmed to date include: Oscar de la Hoya, Edward James Olmos, Maria Conchita Alonso, Elizabeth Pena, Erik Estrada, Jenny Gago, Antonio Sabato, Jr., Esai Morales, Raymond Cruz, Yancey Arias, Emilio Rivera, Yvonne Delarosa, Valente Rodriguez, Joey Medina, Carrie Reichenbach, Paul Gonzalez, Cindy Vela, and Dennis Leoni.

"Arts in education not only transforms the lives of young people, it transforms education itself. By teaching kinesthetically through the arts at the most vulnerable time in their lives, we are able to educate the whole child, exploring self-awareness, developing a capacity for imagination, and connecting children with their true talents," says Tony Plana, Executive Artistic Director of the organization.

ECT is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Department of Cultural Affairs for the City of Los Angeles, Citigroup Foundation, Lynwood Unified School District, Bank of America, AT&T, White Memorial Medical Center, The Department of Education, and Center Theatre Group along with individual contributors.

The Pacific Palms Resort is located at 1 Industry Hills Pkwy, City Of Industry, 91744. Golf packages being at $250, and the comedy concert and dinner tickets are $50. For more information, tickets, registration and sponsorships visit www.eastlaclassicgolf.com or contact ECT at (213) 572-0121 ext. 102.

About East L.A. Classic Theatre

The East L. A. Classic Theatre (ECT) is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization incorporated in 1995 by actor Tony Plana and other Latino artists. ECT integrates professional actors into English language development programs in an engaging, culturally relevant and comprehensive manner as part of the school curriculum and through after-school programs. As the only Latino based Theater Company that offers professionally performed Shakespeare adapted for youth in underserved communities of color, ECT has been able to provide interactive, curriculum-aligned, contemporary productions that compliment current educational mandates. In the greater metropolitan area of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange, and Riverside counties, ECT has provided employment to more than 600 actors, has facilitated literacy development to more than 20,000 at-risk children, and has performed for over 250,000 students and families. For more information about ECT visit www.eastlaclassic.org or call (213) 572-0121.

SOURCE The East L.A. Classic Theatre

Cheech Marin On-Hand as Pixar's John Lasseter Receives Star

2011-11-04T22:57:00.001-04:00

Pixar's John Lasseter received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Cheech Marin was on-hand because he's the token hispanic voiceover guy for all Disney films.

Lasseter is absolutely brilliant. He and Steve Jobs made Pixar a powerhouse animated film company. Creative geniuses.

During the presentation, Lasseter paid tribute to Steve Jobs. He repeated Jobs' only request of Lasseter, which was to "make it great." "Without Steve, Pixar wouldn't exist. These films wouldn't exist. I honor him," he said.

We here at this site miss Steve greatly.

Marijuana Documentary! Coming January 2012

2011-10-23T21:38:00.000-04:00

First Trailer for "Rise and Fall of the Medical Kush Beach Club" documentary. This is the 5 year history of the pot scene in Venice Beach, CA. MKBC was the first marijuana club on the Boardwalk and the last one ever allowed there. Tommy Chong, Rob Van Dam, Sean Kush, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elijah Wood, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Butthole Surfers, The Beatnuts, Uncle Imani, Myka 9, Jim Wirt, The Alcoholics, Geraldo Rivera, Montel Williams, Tavis Smiley, Steven Baldwin and many more celebrities and patient interviews. This is a must see feature documentary about dispensaries! Look for updates on Hashbar TV! (http://www.hashbar.tv) NEW Kushinator Album "We're Stoners" out on 11/11/11 !! Help support the cause, Like and Rate our video and puff on!

Tommy Chong and his Evil Bong Red Carpet Star-Studded Halloween Launch

2011-10-21T20:05:00.000-04:00

MELTDOWN COMICS, 7518 SUNSET BOULEVARD IN HOLLYWOOD

Party guests include Tommy Chong, Gary Busey & many others

Hollywood, CA, October 21, 2011 – Tommy Chong (“Evil Bong,” “Cheech and Chong”) and Gary Busey (“Gingerdead Man,” “Lethal Weapon” and “The Buddy Holly Story”), join the cavalcade of stars from the legendary Producer/Director Charles Band’s Full Moon Pictures as they walk the red carpet tonight from 6-9:00 p.m. at Meltdown Comics, 7518 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood for the blowout ‘Halloween-style’ wild and crazy launch party of Band’s new interactive entertainment film site, FullMoonHorror.com. The site becomes “live” tonight at 7:00pm PT/10 pm ET. (For media credentials see below).

“We have stars and guests dressing up as their favorite Full Moon characters – killer cookies, evil bongs and sexy, murderous vixens,” says Charles Band, founder of Full Moon Pictures and producer/director of over 300 films including the popular “Puppet Master,” “Ghoulies,” and “Subspecies” franchises. “Inside Meltdown Comics we’ve set up a party backdrop to rival any horror film set. What better way to launch our new interactive film site than with a blow-out Halloween party?”

Stars to walk the ghoulish red carpet include: Tommy Chong (“Evil Bong,” “Cheech and Chong”), Gary Busey (“Gingerdead Man,” “Lethal Weapon,” “The Buddy Holly Story”), The master of ceremonies, Producer/Director Charles Band, Jeffrey Combs(“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and “Re-Animator”), Barbara Crampton (“Masters of Horror,” “CSI” and “Gingerdeadman”), Amy Paffrath (MSN’s “Last Night on TV,” “Jersey Shore After Hours”), Stuart Gordon (Director “Re-Animator,” “Honey I Shrunk the kids”), Ted Nicolaou (Director “Subspecies” “Terrorvision”), Selene Luna (“My Bloddy Valentine 3-D” “Gingerdeadman 3”), John Jordan (“American Pie: Book of Love,” “Mad Men” “Evil Bong 1-3”), Jessica Morris (“One Life To Live” “Venom,” “The Haunted Casino”), Robin Sydney (“Masters of Horror” “Gingerdeadman”), William Butler (Director, “Furnace” “MadHouse” “Demonic Toys Revenge”), David DeCoteau(Director “Puppetmaster 3,” “Creepozoids”), Richard Band (Composer & Emmy nominee for “Masters of Horror” “Stargate SGI” and “Puppetmaster”), and many more!

More About FullMoonHorror.com

Charles Band, the legendary and prolific producer/director of over 300 horror, sci-fi and fantasy features (“Puppet Master” “Ghoulies” and “Subspecies” franchises), and founder of Full Moon Pictures, announces the launch of a new interactive entertainment site, www.FullMoonHorror.com, dedicated to all things horror, sci-fi and fantasy. The site, which launches tonight at 7:00pm PT, will feature a mix of new and previously released movies, behind-the-scenes and never-before-seen film clips, live video feeds, interviews with celebrities, industry news, music, contests showcasing fan videos, merchandise, chat rooms, and much more.

FullMoonHorror.com, a relaunch and redesign of FullMoonDirect.com, debuts as an all-inclusive entertainment venue where fans and new users can visit 24/7 for horror, sci-fi and fantasy content.

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View the Launch Press Release of FullMoonHorror.com

Visit: www.FullMoonHorror.com

For more information and for Media RSVPs and Event Press Badges, Contact:
Maryann Ridini Spencer
Ridini Entertainment Public Relations
818-884-0104
maryann@ridinientertainment.com

Ry Mantione
Director of Marketing
323/822-2100
ry@fullmoonfeatures.com

Video: Tommy Chong at Breast Cancer Benefit

2011-10-18T22:55:00.001-04:00

Tommy Chong arriving at breast cancer benefit at Avalon in California.

LA's The Place Catches Up with Cheech Marin

2011-10-16T11:20:00.000-04:00

LA's The Place host Jeff Gaskin chats with legendary comedian Cheech Marin at the Oscar's gifting room. This is where celebrities get expensive things for free even though they can afford to buy them.

Cheech loves getting free things. This is one of the reasons he does so many charity golf tournaments. For instance, if it's a BMW tournament, BMW gives all the participants a beemer for a few weeks.

Tacky? Yes.

Tommy Chong to Speak at New Hampshire Film Festival, His Daughter will Host

2011-10-12T20:11:00.000-04:00

This weekend, Tommy Chong will participate in A Conversation on Comedy at the New Hampshire Film Festival. His daughter, Rae Dawn Chong, will be hosting. A motley crew of performers, writers, and directors currently working in the multi-faceted genre of comedy in a spirited conversation about getting funny onto the screen and the stage.

A CONVERSATION ON COMEDY
2 pm – 4 pm

HOST:
RAE DAWN CHONG
ACTRESS, WRITER

FEATURING:

TOMMY CHONG
PERFORMER, DIRECTOR, WRITER

ADAM JONES
DIRECTOR, WRITER, PRODUCER

JUSTON MCKINNEY
COMEDIAN

JIMMY TINGLE
SOCIAL/POLITICAL HUMORIST

Peter Frampton Talks About Working on Up in Smoke

2011-10-10T10:11:00.000-04:00

Many people don't know this, but music legend, Peter Frampton, was one of the many artists that worked on the Cheech and Chong Up in Smoke Soundtrack.

When asked about it, he says...
“That’s going to be something to talk about till the day I die because everybody loved the movie so much. It was a lot of fun to do that. That’s when I was played with Waddy Wachtel Warren Zevon and those guys. We did most of the soundtrack I mean they used songs from other artist but all the background music was what we recorded for that movie. When they’re driving around in the van you hear the music in the background could be a reggae song or a rock song. I don’t think the songs we did really had names or anything we were just providing music for the background.”

Blast from the Past...Cheech and Chong Introduce Joey Ramone at MTV Music Awards

2011-10-07T21:50:00.001-04:00

This is pretty cool. We've never seen this before. Cheech and Chong introduce Joey Ramone at the 1984 Video Music Awards. Most people didn't even have cable back then.
The event took place at Radio City Music Hall.

Where is she now? Officer Gloria Whitey from Up in Smoke

2011-10-05T21:57:00.000-04:00

Actress Louisa Moritz, who appeared in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Last American Virgin, Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke, Death Race 2000 and over 100 other movies, TV Shows and plays, will be signing movie scene photographs at The Hollywood Show at the Burbank Airport Marriot and Convention Center on October 7-8-9. Last year Louisa had a great time at The Hollywood Show and met many of her fans who were attending the show from all over the world.

Currently practicing law in Los Angeles, Louisa Moritz's website, www.asklouisamoritz.com, features pictures, movie posters and video clips from the many movies and TV shows she appeared in during her show biz career. Included on the website are a number of autographed movie scene pictures that are available for purchase, and in fact she has been getting orders from around the world in recent months. Louisa, a native of Cuba, appeared in the short lived series Chico and the Man, starring the late Freddie Prinz, and was perennial favorite on the famous Match Game TV show.

Started in 1979, The Hollywood Show is perhaps the best known autograph show in the Hollywood area. It is legendary among autograph shows, not only for the celebrities who appear, but the crowds each event brings. It's the only celebrity autograph convention held four times per year. Currently taking place in Burbank, California, The Hollywood Show has earned the reputation of being "THE PLACE" for celebrities to appear, and known worldwide as the perfect place for fans to get "up close and personal" with their favorite stars!

In addition to the fabulous line-up of celebrities offered at each event, The Hollywood Show has teamed up with hundreds of vendors to offer fans the ultimate selection in show related memorabilia and much, much more. The staff of The Hollywood Show works around the clock to bring entertainers and fans together for each of our events. They have a large network of contacts and celebrity relationships that always prove helpful when inviting guests to appear.

Good Times Announces Cheech & Chong Radio Campaign

2011-10-03T19:05:00.001-04:00

Good Times Restaurants Inc. (Nasdaq: GTIM) today announced a new radio campaign featuring iconic 1970’s comedians Cheech & Chong to promote their limited time Santiago’s Green Chile menu.

"We asked our ad agency, Sukle Advertising, to come up with a creative platform that pushes the envelope with breakthrough qualities consistent with our historically irreverent brand personality and they certainly filled that bill with very funny scripts delivered by Cheech and Chong,” said Boyd Hoback, President and CEO. He added, "We originally questioned whether Cheech & Chong are relevant to our customer base, but they are gaining new traction and affinity, particularly with the millennial crowd having appeared on the Simpsons, That ‘70s Show and a national comedy tour. While their personas are still tied to their movie and comedy album characters from many years ago, our ads make light of them turning All Natural and Good Times now being the dispensary of happiness.”

The company said that it has created three radio spots that will air throughout October and November. The ads highlight Good Times’ Cheeseburger Burrito, Green Chile Fries and Green Chile Sliders, all featuring Santiago’s authentic Hatch Valley New Mexico green chile.

Hoback added, "We found that our customers use us primarily for the quality of our all natural, made to order products and because they feel better about themselves for choosing Good Times, so we are aligning our brand communications under the theme of ‘Happiness Made to Order.’ Using Cheech & Chong is a fun, tongue-in-cheek way to bring that to life and not take ourselves too seriously.”

Good Times Burgers & Frozen Custard has 46 restaurants, mostly in Colorado serving premium quality, 100% all natural beef burgers, chicken sandwiches, and fresh frozen custard.

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities laws. The word "intend” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements involve known and unknown risks, which may cause Good Times’ actual results to differ materially from results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These risks include such factors as the uncertain nature of current restaurant development plans and the ability to implement those plans, delays in developing and opening new restaurants because of weather, local permitting or other reasons, increased competition, cost increases or shortages in raw food products, and other matters discussed under the "Risk Factors” section of Good Times’ Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2010 filed with the SEC. Although Good Times may from time to time voluntarily update its forward-looking statements, it disclaims any commitment to do so except as required by securities laws.

Rob Schneider Sitcom Officially Picked Up By CBS

2011-09-26T21:22:00.000-04:00

CBS has officially picked up the currently untitled Rob Schneider sitcom for a mid season replacement.

Rob portrays a seemingly confirmed bachelor who marries into a tight-knit Mexican-American family. The series co-stars Cheech Marin, Lupe Ontiveros (from "As Good as It Gets") and Claudia Bassols.

Schneider will write and executive-produce, along with Lew Morton, of "Futurama" and "Big Lake." Jamie Widdoes is directing. The series is produced by CBS Television Studios, in association with The Tannenbaum Company, which co-produces "Two and a Half Men." Eric and Kim Tannenbaum will serve as non-writing executive producers.

This will mark Schneider's first regular TV gig since the comedy "Men Behaving Badly," which ran from 1996 to 1997.

Video: Hippy Stole My Van

2011-09-22T21:27:00.001-04:00

Another video from the General Mills Fiber One Brownies campaign.

Video: Cheech and Chong General Mills Magic Brownies Ad

2011-09-21T11:04:00.001-04:00

Cheech and Chong Pitch 'Magic Brownies' for General Mills Fiber One Brand

2011-09-21T11:03:00.005-04:00

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. - Now in their 60s and 70s, Cheech and Chong need an extra ingredient in their “magic brownies” – fiber.

General Mills is bringing back the iconic stoners, played by Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, for a promotional campaign for Fiber One 90 Calories brownie snacks. The duo stars in a fictional movie trailer for Cheech and Chong’s Magic Brownie Adventure.

Explaining the idea on its company blog, General Mills said the idea was born when somebody called them “magic brownies” in a marketing meeting, and the concept came to life.

The trailer, posted on YouTube, shows Cheech and Chong on a mission to deliver a van of brownies to a Burning Man-like festival called Flaming Pole. Along the way, they’re reminded that "now that you're getting older, you need a new kind of magic from your brownie".

Cheech & Chong Are Coming to Biloxi

2011-09-20T20:39:00.000-04:00

The Cheech and Chong: Get It Legal tour is coming to the Beau Rivage Theatre in Biloxi, Mississippi March 10th.

Saturday, March 10th.
Beau Rivage Theatre
Biloxi, Mississippi

Tickets go on sale Monday at 8AM local time via the ticketmaster link above.

Slightly Stoopid Show to be Rebroadcast This Saturday

2011-09-16T23:51:00.000-04:00

This past Tuesday, Slightly Stoopid performed a webcast at Bob Weir’s TRI Studios, offering both an acoustic and an electric set. Weir himself joined in for a few songs, including “I Know You Rider,” “Baby I Like it” and “Oceans.” Karl Denson was featured on “Closer to the Sun,” Ivan and Ian Neville appeared on “Cissy Strut,” and Don Carlos (Black Uhuru) joined in for such selections as “Wiseman,” “Hog and Goat,” “Lazer Beam” and “Holiday.” The evening also saw Tommy Chong host a fan Q&A between sets. All of this will be made available to folks for free on Saturday night starting at 6 PM PDT on the TRI Studios website, where the webcast will air on a loop, re-starting every three hours.

Cheech and Other Celebrities Come to Alice Cooper's Album Release Party

2011-09-16T23:12:00.000-04:00

Lots of celebs came out Thursday night to celebrate the release of Alice Cooper's new album, Welcome 2 My Nightmare. The event took place at Hollywood's Whisky A Go-Go.

Flanked by guest guitarists Steve Hunter and Orianthi, Copper started adding rock classics to his hit-laden set -- the Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar," the Animals' "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" -- before bringing out several other guests. Ke$ha, who is featured on Cooper's new album, joined him for "School's Out," which included a bit from Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall," after bouncing around in the upstairs VIP section. Doors guitarist Robbie Krieger accompanied the band as they tore through "Break on Through" and Willie Dixon's "Back Door Man."

Others there to see Alice perform were Tom Morello, his golf buddy, Cheech Marin, and Rob Zombie.

One of June 'Ajax Lady' Fairchild's First Films

2011-09-15T19:48:00.000-04:00

June Fairchild, the beautiful cult scarlet from the 60s and 70s, makes a funny face to acting teacher Henry Jaglom in Jack Nicholson's directorial feature DRIVE, HE SAID (1971) and about seven years later does the same face, then expands on it with an elephant wail, during the famous scene as the "Ajax Lady" in Cheech and Chong's classic first (and best) film UP IN SMOKE (1978). Join the June Fairchild facebook fan page.

Tommy Chong to Host Slightly Stoopid Webcast

2011-09-12T23:18:00.000-04:00

Slightly Stoopid is pleased to announce their live debut at Grateful Dead/Furthur founding member Bob Weir’s TRI Studios on Tuesday, September 13, 2011. The band will perform two sets (acoustic & electric) and the performance will feature guests Karl Denson (Greyboy Allstars, Tiny Universe), Ian Neville (Dumpstaphunk, Funky Meters), and Don Carlos (Black Uhuru), with plenty of surprises in store. In between sets, fans can partake in the first-ever live Stoopid Q&A from TRI Studios, communicating with the band via onscreen Facebook and Twitter feeds. Tommy Chong will be hosting.

TRI Studios is a state-of-the-art performance studio, broadcasting live HD video and audio streams via the Internet. The show will air live at www.tristudios.com at 6:00pm PDT, and will also be offered on re-play at 9:00pm PDT. Each streaming costs $10.00 for access. Tickets are on sale now for both showings and can be purchased by visiting www.tristudios.com or clicking the banner at www.SlightlyStoopid.com. The band members will be featured speakers at the SFMusicTech Summit on Monday, September 12, 2011, in support of this high profile, groundbreaking broadcast.

Slightly Stoopid is currently on their Seedless Summer 2011 Tour making 25 stops in all, including some of the country’s best outdoor venues, such as Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, CO, The Greek Theatre in Berkeley, CA, and Cricket Amphitheater in their hometown of San Diego, CA. As The San Diego Union-Tribune recently reported, “Headlining Cricket for the third year in a row is a coup for the Ocean Beach-based group -- a feat unmatched by blink-182, Jason Mraz, Jewel, P.O.D. or any other nationally prominent San Diego act, past or present.” The complete list of Slightly Stoopid’s Seedless Summer 2011 Tour dates is included below.

Formed in 1995 in San Diego, CA’s Ocean Beach by childhood friends Miles Doughty (guitar, bass, vocals) and Kyle McDonald (guitar, bass, vocals), Slightly Stoopid has become one of the most influential and progressive improvisational musical outfits on the tour circuit. As Amped Up Magazine points out, it’s for good reason. “Slightly Stoopid have perfected one of the rarest and most valuable skills a band can develop: the art of the stealth groove.” Always a festival favorite, Slightly Stoopid has performed at Coachella, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, Outside Lands, Milwaukee Summerfest, Wakarusa, and many others. With their two most recent albums both debuting on Billboard and iTunes charts, the band has sold over 750,000 albums and now releases all material on Doughty and McDonald’s own record label, Stoopid Records.

Chicanitas: Small Paintings from the Cheech Marin Collection to open at the Snite Museum of Art

2011-08-30T00:53:00.002-04:00

SOUTH BEND, IND.- The Snite Museum of Art presents Chicanitas, Small Paintings from the Cheech Marin Collection on view beginning Sunday, September 4, 2011.

This exhibition showcases 65 paintings by 26 painters represented in Cheech Marin’s noted collection of Chicano art. Marin, the entertainer well known for his work in movies, television, and improvisational comedy, has been acquiring art for more than 20 years, and he has amassed one of the most renowned collections of Chicano art in private hands.

The Chicano art movement arose in California in response to the political, cultural, and labor causes of the mid-1960s to mid-1970s. Inspired by the struggles of migrant farm workers led by labor organizer César Chávez, Chicanismo evolved into a general political and cultural revolution within the United States, stressing political self-empowerment, an assertion of cultural pride, and an affirmation of ethnic identity among Americans of Mexican heritage.

The Cheech Marin Collection includes a number of widely exhibited works from the 1980s and 1990s by such first-generation Chicano artists as Carlos Almaraz, Margaret García, Frank Romero, and Patssi Valdez, whose artistic careers began during the Chicano civil rights movement. Many in this generation were political activists, creating posters, graphics, and murals in the monumental tradition of Diego Rivera. Others convey Chicano experience through scenes of daily life in the barrio, expressive portraiture, and surrealist-influenced dreamscapes with a keen psychological edge.

Collector's Statement
The paintings herein are whole, entire and complete unto themselves. There is great power in clarity, and the featured artists have distilled the essence of their individual visions into a format that speaks clearly the message that they want to convey … in other words “size doesn’t matter” – it’s what’s inside the frame that counts.

There is something about the intimacy of a small painting that draws you in and implants itself is the warmth of your memory. For the collector, the small paintings are the ones that remain with them throughout their lives. They are the paintings that are always in their bedrooms or their kitchens or whatever room in which they spend the most time. The owners know every square inch of these paintings and can almost see them in the dark.

In Chicanitas, several young artists are getting their first national exposure. These paintings are their calling cards and they speak with eloquence, style, and clarity. Enjoy!

~ Cheech Marin, Malibu, California, 2011

Mekhi Phifer, Cheech Marin Heading to Psych

2011-08-30T00:51:00.000-04:00

Mekhi Phifer and Cheech Marin will guest-star in an episode of Psych, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.

Phifer, who stars as a not-so-dead dead man on Torchwood: Miracle Day, will play Drake, a member of "Blackapella," the a cappella group Gus (Dulé Hill) belonged to in college. Drake comes to town to honor Deacon Jones (Up in Smoke's Marin), his mentor from childhood. But the deacon is shot while receiving the honor at the local community center, and the group steps in to help Shawn (James Roday) and Gus investigate.

USA sets premieres for Burn Notice, Psych and Covert Affairs

Jaleel White and Kristy Swanson will reprise their roles as Tony and Marlowe, respectively, in the episode. Liza Lapira, who's set to guest-star in ABC's midseason comedy Apartment 23, also will appear.

Psych returns for its sixth season on Wednesday, Oct. 12 at 10/9c on USA.

Finishing Touches Being Put on Cheech and Chong Animation Movie

2011-08-21T23:36:00.000-04:00

The Cheech and Chong Animation Movie may actually see the light of day. Tommy Chong revealed that he and Cheech have finished recording a weed song for the film this past week.

This film was created using entirely of old Cheech and Chong bits to create a story. Not really sure how that's possible.

Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong each received an upfront payment of $100k for this film.

Tommy Chong Remembers Gaye Delorme

2011-08-20T01:14:00.001-04:00

The legendary guitarist, Gaye Delorme, passed away on June 24th after years of declining health. Gaye wrote Earache My Eye and numerous other Cheech and Chong songs and sketches.

The Vancouver Sun interviewed Tommy Chong about his memories of Gaye.

“When I met Gaye, I had just started the Cityworks Improv Company at the Shanghai Junk [nightclub in Chinatown]. It was like fate, the universe put us together. Gaye was really part of the original cast. He was a writer for the comedy, he actually wrote the first bit we ever did.

He was also responsible for getting me out of music,” laughs Chong, who played guitar with soul greats Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers in the '60s. “After I heard him play guitar, I thought well I’d better concentrate on the comedy, because I’ll never be able to play guitar as good as he does.”

During the interview from his home in California, Tommy Chong discusses how Earache My Eye was written. Chong's version of the story constantly changes, similar to the way explanation of how 'Dave' was written constantly changes.

In a 2008 interview with Vue Weekly, Gaye says he and Cheech wrote Earache My Eye. Tommy was going to play guitar, but the guitar went missing. Gaye wound up writing the infamous Earache riff. Tommy got everyone in the studio, except Gaye, completely stoned. Tommy Chong re-recorded the song with Cheech so he could claim it was his own. Tommy frequently claims he wrote the song....which he did not.

There will be a tribute to Gaye Delorme this Sunday from 5-9PM at the Yale Hotel in Vancouver. Tommy Chong will not be attending.

Buzzine Interviews Tommy Chong

2011-08-18T06:41:00.000-04:00

Buzzine interviewed Tommy Chong who was at the Vanguard in Hollywood, California filming the television show The Green Room with Paul Provenza.

Durring the interview, Chong says there are only 11 more Cheech and Chong shows and then he's free.

The second season of ‘The Green Room with Paul Provenza’ premieres new episodes on Showtime every Thursday night at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT beginning July 14, 2011.

Cheech and Chong are Coming to Nevada

2011-08-17T20:45:00.000-04:00

The Cheech and Chong: Get It Legal tour is coming to Primm, Nevada.

Tickets go on sale this Tuesday via the Ticketmaster link above.

October 1
Star Of The Desert Arena at Primm Valley Resorts
Primm, NV

We're Glad Lopez Tonight was Canceled

2011-08-11T22:31:00.000-04:00

George Lopez' show, Lopez Tonight, has been canceled by TBS. He's a funny guy and sure, he had Cheech and Tommy on there multiple times.

However, when the George Lopez show was on the air, his publicist emailed us looking for free Cheech and Chong merchandise. We said we would if the merchandise would be featured on the show. His publicist agreed.

We sent him tons of free merchandise. The items were never featured on the show. His publicist denied he made such a promise. I forwarded him the emails. He stopped denying it, but he implied that his company also represented Cheech and implied he'd cut off my access to Cheech information.

Years later, George Lopez' wife gives him a kidney and then they get divorced. Classic!

Stacey Keach Joins Cast of The Bourne Legacy

2011-08-08T22:51:00.000-04:00

Stacy Keach has joined the cast of Universal's fourth installment of the Jason Bourne franchise titled "The Bourne Legacy."

According to Variety, Jeremy Renner has been cast as the lead.

Edward Norton, Rachel Weisz and Oscar Isaac have also been cast.

Joan Allen and Albert Finney will be reprising their roles from the previous Bourne trilogy as CIA agent Pam Landry and Dr. Albert Hirsch, respectively.

Plot details are being kept under wraps except that the new lead character would not be Jason Bourne but another assassin who went through the same training that Jason Bourne went through.

Cheech and Chong fans may best know him as Sargent Stadanko in Up in Smoke and Nice Dreams.

Cheech and Chong Show at Humphrey's Canceled

2011-07-29T23:57:00.000-04:00

Cheech and Chong's August 5th show at Humphrey's in San Diego has been canceled. Tommy says he doesn't know why. It's either because of poor ticket sales or because Cheech has a television show or movie to work on.

Cheech and Chong Reunion Script is Finished

2011-07-28T20:20:00.000-04:00

Tommy Chong has announced that he's finished writing the Cheech and Chong reunion script. This is not to be confused with the script Tommy's daughters wrote, nor the script Chong wrote when he and Cheech still weren't speaking.

New Line Cinema wanted to do a Cheech and Chong film, but the canceled the project because...Tommy was busted by the Feds and served nine months...and their Director, Larry Charles, left the project to do Borat.

The film probably won't see the light of day. Cheech and Chong don't have a film studio at this point. Plus, Cheech is working full-time on a sitcom with Rob Schneider. The show will debut this January on Fox-TV.

Pee-Wee Herman Talks About Working with Cheech and Chong

2011-07-21T23:50:00.000-04:00

Pee-Wee Herman (Paul Reubens) was at Comic-Con this week talking about his new film. The film, which hasn't actually began filming yet, is a road trip film and is being produced by Judd Apatow.

During the Q&A session, he was asked what it was like being in two Cheech and Chong films (Next Movie and Nice Dreams). He said Nice Dreams was filmed almost entirely in a mansion. This same mansion is now owned by Johnny Depp. Reubens says he doesn't remember much about working with Cheech and Chong...just that they hired a lot of improv actors because they didn't have a script.

Cheech and Chong Are Coming to Reno

2011-07-13T19:46:00.000-04:00

The Cheech and Chong: Get It Legal tour is coming to the Silver Legacy Casino in Reno, Nevada. Tickets go on sale this Saturday.

Cheech and Chong: Get It Legal
Saturday, November 19th.
Silver Legacy Casino
Reno, Nevada
$76.50

Tickets go on sale this Saturday at 10AM local time via the Ticketmaster link above.

Alleged Wife and Child Beater Richard 'Cheech' Marin Turns 65

2011-07-13T01:07:00.001-04:00

Alleged wife and child beater/comedian/actor/art aficionado, Richard 'Cheech' Marin, turns 65 today. He was born July 13th, 1946 in Los Angeles California.

SAN BERNARDINO: California Theatre brings back comedy fest

2011-07-07T21:13:00.000-04:00

The LOL Comedy Festival is returning to the California Theatre of the Performing Arts to tape more specials for the Showtime cable network.

It will bring six headliners to downtown San Bernardino in four evenings, Aug. 25-28.

They are sitcom star Anthony Clark ("Yes, Dear"), Jeff Dye, Jay Mohr, Tommy Chong, Rita Rudner and Willie Barcena, who participated in the 2010 LOL festival at the California Theatre. The DVD of that concert will be released this month.

The 2011 concerts are posted on the California Theatre website but were not yet on sale at www.ticketmaster.com at press time.

The website did not post show times. But according to the event description there will be free entertainment outside the theater, as there was last summer.

The theater coordinated on the street event with the city and other San Bernardino agencies as a line-free way of loading audiences into the theater for the 2010 LOL festival. There were two tapings on July 30 and three on July 31.

The turnout around the theater on July 31 was comparable to the Stater Bros. Route 66 Rendezvous, Joseph Hansen of the California Theatre said at the time. Emil Marzullo, executive director of the San Bernardino Economic Development Agency, described the crowd control as "flawless."

The 2010 event featured nearly two dozen comics, including Tom Arnold, Caroline Rhea, Jon Lovitz and Louie Anderson. More names are yet to be announced for 2011.

The LOL Comedy Festival is only one recent addition to the California Theatre schedule.

California Theatre

LOL Comedy Festival: Aug. 25-28

'Forever Tango': 8 p.m. Aug. 13, $38.50-$77.50

'Rock of Ages': $50-$77.50 plus fees. www.ticketmaster.com

Where: 562 W. Fourth St., San Bernardino

Information: 909-885-5152, www.californiatheatre.net

Tommy Chong's Intense Argument with Drug Czar

2011-06-25T01:37:00.001-04:00

Tommy Chong was on CNN's The Arena. Tommy is pushing Obama issue an executive order rescheduling marijuana from a Schedule 1 to a Schedule 2 drug.

Paul Chabot, a former White House senior advisor of the Office of National Drug Control Policy and founder of the Coalition for a Drug Free California, was also on the show.

Chabot, of course, disagrees with Tommy...and so the argument ensued.

"All President Obama has to do is sign an executive order rescheduling marijuana from Schedule 1, which says it has no medical use whatsoever, to a Schedule 2, which would allow it to be sold by prescription only. Then we'd be all done," Chong said.

Winner of this argument=Tommy Chong.

Big Buds Magazine Interviews Tommy Chong

2011-06-25T01:17:00.000-04:00

This is kind of amusing. Big Buds Magazine interview Tommy Chong at Cypress Hill's 2011 Spring Gathering.

Breaking News...Music Legend Gaye Delorme Dies on Stage

2011-06-24T23:25:00.002-04:00

Sorry for the bad news folks. Music legend, Gaye Delorme, died of a heart attack Thursday night at the young age of 64. He was performing a soundcheck for a show in Calgary, Canada when it happened.

Gaye wrote the legendary guitar riff for Earache My Eye which appeared in Up in Smoke and on Cheech and Chong's Wedding Album. It sold over 14 million copies. He also wrote 'Me and My Old Lady' and 'Chilly Winds' from the film Things Are Tough All Over, as well as wrote other skits. He also played on the soundtrack to Next Movie soundtrack.

Gaye was a huge supporter of this site in it's legal troubles with Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong. He often spoke of similar issues working with the duo. He felt he was never given proper credit for his work with Cheech and Chong.

In a 2008 interview with Vue Weekly, Gaye says he and Cheech wrote Earache My Eye. Tommy was going to play guitar, but the guitar went missing. Gaye wound up writing the infamous Earache riff. Tommy got everyone in the studio, except Gaye, completely stoned. Tommy Chong re-recorded the song with Cheech so he could claim it was his own. Tommy frequently claims he wrote the song....which he did not.

He's worked with a number of other musicians including kd Lang (co-produced her first album) and David Foster. Country fans may know him best from his dirty song 'The Rodeo Song.'

His music was a mosaic of different styles. In a 2008 interview with The Journal, Gaye describes his guitar playing as "swamp style." His true passion was flamenco guitar.

His years of drug and alcohol abuse caused a number of health issues. Gaye developed diabetes and eventually became blind, but this didn't stop him from performing.

There was a benefit for him back in January 2008 because he had suffered a number of injuries from a mugging.

He was a brilliant man and a really nice guy.

“When you’re inspired you really play a different way, but when you start thinking like, ‘Oh yeah, people will really go for this,’ it just dies.”

Bio form Gaye's official website...
Internationally renowned guitarist, vocalist and tunesmith, Gaye Delorme is one of the most recorded aural artists on the North American music scene today. This Grammy-nominated songwriter worked for many years scoring films for Columbia Pictures and recently returned to Canada to embrace his original love of live performance.

Delorme possesses a musical range unparalleled - from gut wrenching blues to improvisational jazz-influenced experimentation to stunning flamenco styling. He has mapped the existing musical territory and beyond. He brings his wide-ranging musical influences, from the country stylings of Chet Atkins and Doc Watson to the Brazilian Jobim, into his production work as well. Gaye has produced such Canadian superstars as k.d. Lang and Jann Arden and co-produced several artists in Los Angeles with critically acclaimed composer David Foster. For the last 10 years Gaye has appeared as signature performer at the Edmonton Folk Festival where he's hosted the International Guitar Stage. His own studio work has brought forth five fantastic albums: the "Blue Wave Sessions", a work much compared with Dire Straight's Mark Knopfler; "Borderline", a country rock innovation; "Beautiful Guitar" an international musical exploration of original compositions for Spanish guitar; "Rodeo Songs", some kickin' country comedy crafted around Gaye's groundbreaking hit; and his latest, a compilation of "Gaye's Best".

Unable to Send Cheech & Chong Orders to Canada

2011-06-17T23:40:00.002-04:00

Due to the ongoing strike of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, USPS is no longer shipping orders to Canada. In other words, we can't ship to Canada until this strike is over.

A strike in Europe is not too far behind and the United States Postal Service only has three months of cash before it goes bankrupt.

This is all part of the globalist's plan for a New World Order. One government. One world currency. The banks will own everything. Your taxes will go directly to the banks as interest on the debt the banks created.

This is what's going on in Greece right now. The banks bankrupted Greece by putting their money in bad investments (derivatives). Now, the banks (Goldman, JP Morgan, etc) are accepting Greece assets as payments....highways, stadiums, everything will be owned by the banks.

The globalists have been planning this for years at the Bilderberg meetings. In fact, there was just a Bilderberg meeting in Switzerland last week. Washington is now run by bank executives. This is how they received the huge bailout. Most of the bailout money went to overseas banks, including Libya.

In case you didn't know, here are the globalists that attended the Bilderberg meeting this year.Note: It's illegal for government officials to make back room deals with other countries. This is why Hillary Clinton was fined for attending the Bilderberg meeting in Virginia a few years ago.

Belgium

Coene, Luc, Governor, National Bank of Belgium

Davignon, Etienne, Minister of State

Leysen, Thomas, Chairman, Umicore

China

Fu, Ying, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs

Huang, Yiping, Professor of Economics, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University

Denmark

Eldrup, Anders, CEO, DONG Energy

Federspiel, Ulrik, Vice President, Global Affairs, Haldor Topsøe A/S

Schütze, Peter, Member of the Executive Management, Nordea Bank AB

Germany

Ackermann, Josef, Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank

Enders, Thomas, CEO, Airbus SAS

Löscher, Peter, President and CEO, Siemens AG

Nass, Matthias, Chief International Correspondent, Die Zeit

Steinbrück, Peer, Member of the Bundestag; Former Minister of Finance

Finland

Apunen, Matti, Director, Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA

Johansson, Ole, Chairman, Confederation of the Finnish Industries EK

Ollila, Jorma, Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell

Pentikäinen, Mikael, Publisher and Senior Editor-in-Chief, Helsingin Sanomat

France

Baverez, Nicolas, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Bazire, Nicolas, Managing Director, Groupe Arnault /LVMH

Castries, Henri de, Chairman and CEO, AXA

Lévy, Maurice, Chairman and CEO, Publicis Groupe S.A.

Montbrial, Thierry de, President, French Institute for International Relations

Roy, Olivier, Professor of Social and Political Theory, European University Institute

Great Britain

Agius, Marcus, Chairman, Barclays PLC

Flint, Douglas J., Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings

Kerr, John, Member, House of Lords; Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell

Lambert, Richard, Independent Non-Executive Director, Ernst & Young

Mandelson, Peter, Member, House of Lords; Chairman, Global Counsel

Micklethwait, John, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist

Osborne, George, Chancellor of the Exchequer

Stewart, Rory, Member of Parliament

Taylor, J. Martin, Chairman, Syngenta International AG

Greece

David, George A., Chairman, Coca-Cola H.B.C. S.A.

Hardouvelis, Gikas A., Chief Economist and Head of Research, Eurobank EFG

Papaconstantinou, George, Minister of Finance

Tsoukalis, Loukas, President, ELIAMEP Grisons

International Organizations

Almunia, Joaquín, Vice President, European Commission

Daele, Frans van, Chief of Staff to the President of the European Council

Kroes, Neelie, Vice President, European Commission; Commissioner for Digital Agenda

Lamy, Pascal, Director General, World Trade Organization

Rompuy, Herman van, President, European Council

Sheeran, Josette, Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme

Solana Madariaga, Javier, President, ESADEgeo Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics

Trichet, Jean-Claude, President, European Central Bank

Zoellick, Robert B., President, The World Bank Group

Ireland

Gallagher, Paul, Senior Counsel; Former Attorney General

McDowell, Michael, Senior Counsel, Law Library; Former Deputy Prime Minister

Sutherland, Peter D., Chairman, Goldman Sachs International

Italy

Bernabè, Franco, CEO, Telecom Italia SpA

Elkann, John, Chairman, Fiat S.p.A.

Monti, Mario, President, Univers Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Scaroni, Paolo, CEO, Eni S.p.A.

Tremonti, Giulio, Minister of Economy and Finance

Canada

Carney, Mark J., Governor, Bank of Canada

Clark, Edmund, President and CEO, TD Bank Financial Group

McKenna, Frank, Deputy Chair, TD Bank Financial Group

Orbinksi, James, Professor of Medicine and Political Science, University of Toronto

Prichard, J. Robert S., Chair, Torys LLP

Reisman, Heather, Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc. Center, Brookings Institution

Netherlands

Bolland, Marc J., Chief Executive, Marks and Spencer Group plc

Chavannes, Marc E., Political Columnist, NRC Handelsblad; Professor of Journalism

Halberstadt, Victor, Professor of Economics, Leiden University; Former Honorary Secretary General of Bilderberg Meetings

H.M. the Queen of the Netherlands

Rosenthal, Uri, Minister of Foreign Affairs

Winter, Jaap W., Partner, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek

Norway

Myklebust, Egil, Former Chairman of the Board of Directors SAS, sk Hydro ASA

H.R.H. Crown Prince Haakon of Norway

Ottersen, Ole Petter, Rector, University of Oslo

Solberg, Erna, Leader of the Conservative Party

Austria

Bronner, Oscar, CEO and Publisher, Standard Medien AG

Faymann, Werner, Federal Chancellor

Rothensteiner, Walter, Chairman of the Board, Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG

Scholten, Rudolf, Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG

Portugal

Balsemão, Francisco Pinto, Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former Prime Minister

Ferreira Alves, Clara, CEO, Claref LDA; writer

Nogueira Leite, António, Member of the Board, José de Mello Investimentos, SGPS, SA

Sweden

Mordashov, Alexey A., CEO, Severstal
Schweden

Bildt, Carl, Minister of Foreign Affairs

Björling, Ewa, Minister for Trade

Wallenberg, Jacob, Chairman, Investor AB

Switzerland

Brabeck-Letmathe, Peter, Chairman, Nestlé S.A.

Groth, Hans, Senior Director, Healthcare Policy & Market Access, Oncology Business Unit, Pfizer

Europe

Janom Steiner, Barbara, Head of the Department of Justice, Security and Health, Canton

Kudelski, André, Chairman and CEO, Kudelski Group SA

Leuthard, Doris, Federal Councillor

Schmid, Martin, President, Government of the Canton Grisons

Schweiger, Rolf, Ständerat

Soiron, Rolf, Chairman of the Board, Holcim Ltd., Lonza Ltd.

Vasella, Daniel L., Chairman, Novartis AG

Witmer, Jürg, Chairman, Givaudan SA and Clariant AG

Spain

Cebrián, Juan Luis, CEO, PRISA

Cospedal, María Dolores de, Secretary General, Partido Popular

León Gross, Bernardino, Secretary General of the Spanish Presidency

Nin Génova, Juan María, President and CEO, La Caixa

H.M. Queen Sofia of Spain

Turkey

Ciliv, Süreyya, CEO, Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S.

Gülek Domac, Tayyibe, Former Minister of State

Koç, Mustafa V., Chairman, Koç Holding A.S.

Pekin, Sefika, Founding Partner, Pekin & Bayar Law Firm

USA

Alexander, Keith B., Commander, USCYBERCOM; Director, National Security Agency

Altman, Roger C., Chairman, Evercore Partners Inc.

Bezos, Jeff, Founder and CEO, Amazon.com

Collins, Timothy C., CEO, Ripplewood Holdings, LLC

Feldstein, Martin S., George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Gates, Robert US Secretary of Defense. Definite conflict of interest.

Gates, William Gates Microsoft Founder,Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has spoken openly about population control via vaccinations.

Hoffman, Reid, Co-founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn

Hughes, Chris R., Co-founder, Facebook

Jacobs, Kenneth M., Chairman & CEO, Lazard

Johnson, James A., Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC

Jordan, Jr., Vernon E., Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC

Keane, John M., Senior Partner, SCP Partners; General, US Army, Retired

Kissinger, Henry A., Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc. Kissinger has warrants out for his arrest for war crimes.

Kleinfeld, Klaus, Chairman and CEO, Alcoa

Kravis, Henry R., Co-Chairman and co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis, Roberts & Co.

Kravis, Marie-Josée, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Inc.

Li, Cheng, Senior Fellow and Director of Research, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution

Mundie, Craig J., Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation

Orszag, Peter R., Vice Chairman, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc

Perle, Richard N., Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

Rockefeller, David, Former Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank

Rose, Charlie, Executive Editor and Anchor, Charlie Rose

Rubin, Robert E., Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Secretary of the Treasury

Schmidt, Eric, Executive Chairman, Google Inc. Google was founded with money given to them by the CIA. Google also purchased Keyhole from In-Q-Tel which had a CIA contract to map the entire world and capture everyone's internet data. This is where Google Maps came from and this is why Google got in trouble in Europe. One of the Google Maps cars had a huge hard drive full of everyone's wireless data (passwords, IP Addresses and more). This data will be used to launch a false flag. There will be a major computer hacking incident which will get Congress to allow an internet kill switch. The legislation has already been written. It allows the government to shut down any site that speaks out against the government. Google also took credit for the uprising in Egypt. They planted articles on Google encouraging the overthrow.

Steinberg, James B., Deputy Secretary of State

Thiel, Peter A., President, Clarium Capital Management, LLC

Varney, Christine A., Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust

Vaupel, James W., Founding Director, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Warsh, Kevin, Former Governor, Federal Reserve Board

Wolfensohn, James D., Chairman, Wolfensohn & Company, LLC

On a related topic, Obama is doing what many leaders do when their economy crashing, create a war(s). For instance, Hitler wanted WWII because Germany's economy was a mess.

Obama and the other Globalists are WWIII. I'm not joking. This is World War Three.

Here are the wars we're in right now...

Afghanistan - Needed to run gas pipeline to Turkey. Also, some good mineral deposits.

Iraq - Oil and allowed Dick Cheney's company, Haliburton to get trillions in no-compete contracts.

Egypt - War was started by Al Quaida (CIA-backed rebels). The globalists wanted a new head of Egypt so they got rid of Mubarek.

Syria

Yemen

Libya - We've been there for over six months, planting sensors so the NATO missiles know their target. The US and Europe are there because Ghadaffi nationalized Libya's oil. In other words, they kicked the European oil companies out of Libya (BP, etc). The oil companies were pissed off. Europe gets their oil from Libya. The US doesn't, but Obama promised the oil companies he'd do this for them. Libya's citizens are tribal and actually like Ghadaffi. They get a free education (including PHD), $20k as a wedding gift, each citizen gets a few thousand dollars per year in oil profit sharing, he built the world's biggest aqueduct which the banks want to own and charge Libyan citizens for.

Pakistan - The Bin Ladin being captured and killed story was bogus. He was a CIA operative whose code name was Tim Osman. There are tons of photos of George Bush, Sr with Bin Ladin when Bush was still in the CIA.

Osama died in early 2001 of kidney failure, diabetes, marfan syndrome and low blood pressure. No dialysis equipment was found at the Pakistan compound, neighbors said that structure had been unoccupied for years, first Obama said Osama put up a fight, then he said he used his wife as a shield, then he said his wife wasn't there, then he said the cameras were off when Seal Team Six went in there, then he said they were watching the entire event via the cameras on their helmets, then Hillary said the photo of Obama, Hillary, etc watching the capture really wasn't them watching the capture, she said she was covering her mouth because she was sick, not excited by what she was seeing on the tv. Bin Ladin DNA tests came back in less than one week, DNA tests take over six weeks, Obama said they buried him at sea because that's Muslim tradition. In actuality, Muslim religion says the body must be buried facing Mecca.

Osama Bin Ladin's death was always going to be George Bush, Jr's 'ace in the hole.' He was going to announce his capture if he needed additional votes to get re-elected. Instead, Obama used it to increase his ratings and use it as an excuse to invade Pakistan.

The plan is to take over the middle east and northern Africa.

All Cheech & Chong T-Shirts $15 + Free Shipping Worldwide

2011-06-13T22:59:00.001-04:00

All Cheech and Chong merchandise comes with Free Shipping and Handling.
All Cheech and Chong shirts are $15.
Farrrr out, man!

Cheech Marin to be in CBS Sitcom with Rob Schneider

2011-06-13T22:57:00.001-04:00

It looks like a Cheech Marin sitcom may actually finally make it to air. This is because it's actually a Rob Schneider sitcom. The show has received a request from CBS for another pilot and backup scripts.

The show is written by Schneider and Lew Morton. It's about Schneider's real life experiences and about his character marrying into a Mexican-American family. Cheech Marin plays the father-in-law.

Eugenio Derbez plays Rob's wife's uncle. Talk about a small world. Eugenio also starred in the Rick Najera's Broadway play, Latinologues...which Cheech Marin directed.

The show, which is currently untitled, would be a mid-season replacement.

Cheech to be on Lopez Tonight this Wednesday

2011-06-13T20:31:00.000-04:00

This Wednesday, Cheech Marin will be on Lopez Tonight on TBS with Steve O.

Cheech & Chong Animated Game Debuts on Facebook

2011-06-13T20:19:00.000-04:00

The creators of Cheech & Chong's Animated Movie have debuted Cheech & Chong's Animated Game on Facebook. The film has been pushed back once again. It should be released on 2012.

Update: Tommy Chong Performed at the Spring Gathering Last Night

2011-06-12T21:18:00.003-04:00

Tommy Chong and his Stoner Metal Music band performed at Cypress Hill's Spring Gathering last night. The band consisted of his son, Paris, on bass, Matt Beal on guitar and Huo on drums. It's bad enough that Tommy Chong's wife, Shelby, was the opening act during the Cheech & Chong reunion tour, but now his son, Paris, is trying to get some nepotism.

To be honest this isn't the first time Paris has performed with his dad. When Tommy was floundering with his dying, post-Cheech standup career, he performed with the kids he conceived with Shelby at some random hippy festivals as Chong and the Family Stoned band. Paris would later push himself into being his dad's manager after his dad took the wrap for Paris and did time for he and Shelby for sending bongs to Pennsylvania via US mail.

No one posted any good video from the show. Most of the vids were terrible because they were recorded using an Android phone. The band reminds me of the ones you'd see in the high school talent show.

Here is some good footage shot with an iPhone 4.

Basketball Jones

Get It Legal

Cheech Marin Tortures the Crowd at the Bonnaroo Festival

2011-06-10T21:52:00.000-04:00

Cheech Marin (no Tommy Chong) hosted the comedy portion of the Bonnaroo Festival last night in Manchester, TN. The jokes were horrible and made the audience feel awkward. He also sang Mexican Americans with a misplaced rap track and sound effects behind him. Torturous!

Tommy (no Cheech Marin) will be performing some new songs with his "new band" Saturday night at the Spring Gathering in San Bernardino, CA.

Cheech and Chong to Tour with Snoop Dogg

2011-06-06T21:07:00.000-04:00

Tommy Chong and Snoop Dogg are organizing "music and medicine" shows. The shows, which will take place this Fall in Northern and Southern California, will be produced by Guerilla Union, the same group that did the highly successful Cypress Hill Spring Gathering and Rock the Bells shows.

Cheech Marin Lists Malibu Home at $5.995 Million

2011-06-01T21:13:00.000-04:00

Cheech Marin has put his second Malibu home up for sale for $5.995 million.

In case you didn't realize, Cheech is and has been filthy rich for a while. He had a Malibu compound of five homes. One of them he lost in his second divorce. He also supposedly has a house in Sea Cliff, San Francisco which is where he got married.

Now, he's trying to sell his beachfront house. Not sure if he plans on using this money to finish settling the second divorce....whom he allegedly beat.

The beachfront house he is selling was designed by Robert Gilbert and built in 1929. It has a low-bluff location with 120 feet of sandy beachfront. There is also a guest house.

420 Comedy Blaze Show at the PAC Canceled

2011-05-26T21:40:00.000-04:00

The 420 Comedy Blaze show, which was set to be hosted by Cheech Marin, scheduled for June 11^th at the North Charleston Performing Arts Center has been canceled.

Refunds are available at point of purchase starting Friday, May 27^th.

Comedy Central to Stream Bonnaroo Comedy Acts

2011-05-26T21:13:00.000-04:00

Comedy Central says it will stream comedy acts from the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival next month.

The network announced Thursday that it will webcast a three-hour show June 12 featuring performances from Bonnaroo's Comedy Tent.

The 10-year-old festival held in Manchester, Tenn., centers on music but has long offered top comedy acts as counter-programming.

This year's performers include Lewis Black, Donald Glover, Eugene Mirman, Cheech Marin and John Waters. Jon Benjamin will host. His Comedy Central show "Jon Benjamin Has a Van" makes its debut in June.

The show will package the acts from the four-day festival. It will stream on ComedyCentral.com and be available on mobile and tablet devices.

Music acts from the festival will be streamed by Vevo.

Tommy Chong will be Performing New Music at Spring Gathering

2011-05-26T21:09:00.001-04:00

Tommy Chong announced today he'll be introducing new music when he performs and hosts this year's Spring Gathering June 11th in San Bernardino, CA. Note: They are not Cheech and Chong songs....They are songs written by a seventy-three year old man trying to stay relevant while not on stage with Cheech Marin.

Everyone should expect to hear the same jokes he's been performing for years as a solo act and during the Cheech and Chong reunion tours. For example, "i had a talk about drugs with my kids, told them when they smoke my weed, they should replace it." and "it's not true what they say about getting raped in prison..it doesn't hurt." etc etc.

Tommy Chong to Guest Star on Franklin & Bash

2011-05-25T21:16:00.000-04:00

Tommy Chong will guest star as a judge on the July 20th episode of Franklin & Bash. Franklin & Bash is a new legal drama/comedy series on TNT starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer. The episode is titled "The Bangover."

Tommy Chong Turns 73

2011-05-24T00:00:00.000-04:00

The dopemaster, Tommy Chong, turned 73 today. Tommy was born May 24th, 1938 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Cheech Opens Estrella TV Upfronts

2011-05-19T06:49:00.000-04:00

Cheech Marin was at Gotham Hall in NYC yesterday for the Estrella TV upfronts. Cheech didn't stick to the written script because he said he'd been recently diagnosed with CSS (can't see shit). Old joke!

Estrella TV is an alernative to Telemundo and Univision.

Jewish American Heritage Local Hero: Zane Buzby

2011-05-17T23:03:00.000-04:00

Zane Buzby, Founder of the Survivor Mitzvah Project was awarded Jewish American Heritage Local Hero of 2011. Here is the video from KCET & Union Bank. Show your support and comment, like and share!!!!!

Zane was Jade East in Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke. She showed up late to the audition because, being from New York, she had no idea where she was going. She improv'd the entire audition.

Zane Buzby, Television Director, Humanitarian and Founder of 'The Survivor Mitzvah Project,' Honored with 2011 Local Hero Award by Los Angeles Television Station KCET and Union Bank

2011-05-17T23:00:00.006-04:00

LOS ANGELES, May 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Zane Buzby, founder and president of The Survivor Mitzvah Project, has been honored with the 2011 Local Hero Award by KCET and Union Bank. Conferred during Jewish American Heritage Month (May), the award recognizes individuals who are making an impact in their communities to enrich the lives of others.

Zane Buzby has spent decades making people laugh as a successful performer turned television comedy director. But her life took a dramatic turn during a 2001 "roots" trip to Eastern Europe. Behind the "Iron Curtain" she connected with elderly Holocaust survivors in their eighties and nineties who were ill and alone, living in abject poverty. They were struggling to survive, lacking the means to buy even the most basic human necessities: food, medicine, heat and shelter. Shocked, Zane felt compelled to help. She and Professor Dovid Katz in Lithuania searched for other survivors in dire need. Her initial aid efforts served as the catalyst for the creation of "The Survivor Mitzvah Project." ("Mitzvah" means "good deed" in Hebrew.)

Partnering with Chic Wolk, a Los Angeles philanthropist, the SMP grew. In 2008, it became a 501c3 non-profit public charity that now helps over 1000 survivors monthly in seven countries in Eastern Europe. This grassroots organization is the only organization worldwide that provides direct and continuous financial aid to these last survivors of the Holocaust who receive no financial aid from any other organization. The Survivor Mitzvah Project is their only lifeline.

"I am honored by this recognition," said Buzby, "especially if it enables more people to find out about The Survivor Mitzvah Project. I have to believe that there are enough good people out there who will say, 'Yes, I will help'. There are still thousands and thousands of survivors living in horrific conditions, still waiting for aid. Time is of the essence."

Zane Buzby is a successful television director, producer, and committed humanitarian. She has directed over 200 episodes of network television including such hit comedies as "Golden Girls," "Newhart," and "Married…with Children." She has produced and directed television series and pilots for CBS, ABC, NBC, HBO, FOX, Columbia Pictures, Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, Disney, Comedy Central and Paramount Pictures.

Buzby began her professional career as a classically trained actor in New York. Discovered by Carl Reiner, she was cast in the feature films "Oh God," "Cheech & Chong's Up In Smoke" (as groupie Jade East), "Cracking Up" (opposite Jerry Lewis) and Rob Reiner's "This Is Spinal Tap" (as the hip Rolling Stone reporter).

Using her directorial skills and story-telling abilities, Ms. Buzby aspires to impart the history and the plight of these survivors to the local community, inspiring people young and old to participate in this urgent humanitarian effort. She has created The Survivor Mitzvah Project's educational archive of their life histories and Holocaust testimonies, as well as a book of their letters. Buzby is currently making a documentary, "FAMILY OF STRANGERS," about the survivors she visits on SMP's humanitarian aid expeditions.

"The real triumph for me is the discovery that one can dramatically change a person's life with a simple act of kindness...To have created a warm and loving family of strangers where before there was only isolation and hopelessness is endlessly gratifying. I believe that by helping these survivors we can write a more hopeful final chapter to the Holocaust, one of friendship, love and kindness."
The year-long Cultural Diversity Partnership will culminate in a gala event in October honoring 11 recipients for 2011.

Another Bad Cheech Marin Pilot Not Picked up by Network

2011-05-11T20:27:00.000-04:00

The Fox Network decided not to pick up the awful 30-minute Cheech Marin sitcom, Outnumbered. It would have been Cheech's first sitcom in almost 20 years.

Inspired by the BBC sitcom, Outnumbered, which is being directed by Larry Charles, revolves around one set of parents Sue (Ana Ortiz) and Pete (Cliff Chamberlain) who are often overwhelmed by their three children. Marin will play Sue's dad, who is taking a pharmacopoeia of prescription pills and believes that sometimes the kids could use a good swat. Marin's only major previous comedy series gig was his role on the Golden Girls spinoff The Golden Palace. The Nash Bridges alum recently did an arc on ABC's Lost and co-starred in Robert Rodriguez's Machete.

This single camera show is so bad that Fox won't even be airing the pilot. The British show this was based on was brilliant. The Cheech & Chong films were brilliant, but Cheech is a terrible comedic actor and was completely miscast.

Some fast facts:

Golden Girls was a horrible sitcom and a horrible failure. It aired on CBS.

Larry Charles was set to direct the Cheech and Chong reunion film which was written by Tommy's daughters.

New Line Cinema, the film studio, scrapped the film after Tommy was arrested.

Larry Charles left the project to do Borat, a huge success.

Larry Charles wrote for Curb Your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld.

Cheech's last attempt at a sitcom was Fox TV's The Ortegas.

Fox kept postponing the show because it was terrible. Back then, most shows on Fox were terrible so this was really terrible.

The Ortegas was originally an NBC show, but they decided they didn't want it.

Bong of the Dead Goes To Cannes Film Festival

2011-05-06T21:09:00.000-04:00

There were those who said it could never be done. There were those who laughed at the idea of one man, one camera and $5000 to film a complete zombie epic, but here we are and that one man, Thomas Newman has proven his detractors wrong. The $5000 zombie film Bong of the Dead by Thomas Newman is going to the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

May 6, 2011 - Vancouver, BC - Bong of the Dead a movie by writer, producer and director Thomas Newman keeps getting better and better news. Film festivals and distributors are lining up to get a piece of flesh from this zombie film and they don't come any bigger than the Cannes Film Festival. Newman received notice that the film Bong of the Dead will be added to the Cannes 2011 program. Newman hit the Indy home run but the good news didn't stop there for this growing star director.

The king of pot comedy Tommy Chong said of Bong of the Dead, "This is a sure winner". Tommy Chong is still being courted to appear at the May 15, 2011 movie premiere in Vancouver at the Rio Theatre so fans will want to stay tuned and hurry up and get some of the few remaining tickets. There will be prizes and giveaways so don't miss out!

For 3 solid years Thomas Newman has been plugging away relentlessly on his dreams by creating his film all by himself in his basement. The movie was originally shot on location 3 years ago with a small crew compiled of close friends and family. He then took the footage which was shot over the course of only 15 days on one camera and went to work editing, mixing music and enhancing over 365 shots by hand!

Now that Thomas Newman is finally getting his much deserved recognition, it looks like the filmmaker is on his way to the big show. If you are in France during the Cannes Film Festival, be sure to check out what all the hype is about as the film will be premiering there on May 12th and 14th.

If you reside in or near Vancouver BC then hop over to the Rio Theatre and catch the film's Vancouver premiere there on May 15, 2011 at the Rio Theatre at 1660 East Broadway, Vancouver at 6:30pm.

More information on the filmmaker and his film at www.bongofthedead.com

Red Alert: Government had Osama Bin Laden Frozen for Years

2011-05-02T00:14:00.005-04:00

This article is reprinted from infowars.com.

CNN and the corporate media report this evening that purported CIA asset Osama bin Laden has been killed by the U.S. military in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital of Islamabad along with other family members.

In an address to the nation, Obama said he ordered the strike that allegedly killed Osama. The remainder of his speech followed the standard war on terror propaganda script.

A small team of Americans killed bin Laden in a firefight at a compound in Pakistan, the president said in a dramatic late-night statement at the White House, the Associated Press reported following Obama’s address.

Obama said the military took custody of his remains. It remains to be seen if the government will attempt to provide evidence that the remains are indeed those of Osama bin Laden.

“The fight against terror goes on, but tonight America has sent an unmistakable message: No matter how long it takes, justice will be done,” said former president Bush. In 2006, Bush admitted that capturing Osama was not a top priority.

In February, 2004, Iranian state radio claimed Osama bin Laden had been captured in Pakistan’s border region with Afghanistan “a long time ago.” Pentagon and Pakistani officials denied the report. “Osama bin Laden has been arrested a long time ago, but Bush is intending to use it for propaganda maneuvering in the presidential election,” the radio report said.

Osama bin Laden died of kidney failure soon after the September 11, 2001, attacks. In 2002, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said bin Laden had kidney disease, and that he had required a dialysis machine when he lived in Afghanistan. That same year, the FBI’s top counterterrorism official, Dale Watson, said, “I personally think he is probably not with us anymore.”

A Taliban leader told the Pakistan Observer on December 21, 2002, that Bin Laden was suffering from a serious lung complication and died in mid-December, in the vicinity of the Tora Bora mountains. The source claimed that bin Laden was laid to rest honorably in his last abode and his grave was made as per his Wahabi belief, according to Fox News.

Alex Jones was told live on the radio in 2002 by high-level Council on Foreign Relations members that Osama Bin Laden had died of kidney failure in early 2002.

“I have it from high level [sources] from inside the Bush administration…that bin Laden died of natural causes and that his family has given the body to the CIA, that they’re gonna roll him out right before the election, that he’s on ice right now. They will claim they killed him right before the election,” Alex said at the time.

“Jones gave a caution that the intelligence could be disinformation but claimed that his base in Austin was extremely close to the Bush administration and similar information received in the past had been credible,” Paul Joseph Watson wrote in August of 2002.

During the 2004 election, CNN reported that Democratic insiders had been told that George W. Bush was going to use the Bin Laden body as an ace-in-the-hole if he thought he was in danger of losing the 2004 election. This confirmed the evidence that Jones had been given by the CFR and others.

In 2003, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told Fox News Channel analyst Morton Kondracke she suspected Bush knew the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and was waiting for the most politically expedient moment to announce his capture.

Benazir Bhutto, who was killed in a suicide attack at the end of 2007, stated that Osama bin Laden had been killed by Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a man convicted of kidnapping and killing journalist Daniel Pearl.

Obama’s announcement follows the release of a highly suspicious birth certificate last week. Both events represent psychological operations that possibly portend more significant events in the days ahead as the U.S. dollar continues to lose its reserve status, the economy fails to recover as promised, and wars expand in Libya, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

Obama’s propaganda stunt arrives as the Democrats kick off their leader’s presidential reelection bid against a number of Republicans contenders who have been highly critical of not only his perceived handling of the economy, but also his management of the manufactured war on terror.

GBK Productions Hosts Official Gift Lounge at 4th Annual George Lopez Celebrity Golf Classic

2011-04-29T06:50:00.001-04:00

This press release came out today. Whenever there's an award show or charity event, a gift lounge is provided. This is what they use to get the celebrities to attend. Charity schmarity, Cheech Marin loves the free gifts. He loves being given a luxury car to use for a few weeks.

Trick-or-treat....give a rich celebrity free stuff.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 29, 2011
GBK (gbkproductions.com), the luxury lifestyle gift lounge and special events company, will be hosting the official gifting lounge for the 4th Annual Celebrity George Lopez Celebrity Golf Classic benefiting The Lopez Foundation. GBK will gift celebrity attendees at their gifting lounge at the Celebrity Golf Classic on Monday, May 2nd from 10AM – 7PM at the Riviera Country Club (1250 Capri Drive, Pacific Palisades, CA 90492). The Lopez Foundation's (http://www.thelopezfoundation.org) mission is to create positive, permanent change for underprivileged children and adults confronting challenges in education and health, as well as increasing community awareness about kidney disease and organ donation.

Celebrities will be gifted by: Caribbean Living Magazine, providing guests with a 1-week stay in the Caribbean; custom golf clubs from DnA Golf; the first wearable video camera that captures your every moment and allows you to share videos instantly by Looxcie; Croton Watches will gift fine timepieces; Fore!! Axel & Hudson will be gifting fedora hats, driver caps, a set of fashion socks and a bamboo/spandex tee or polo shirt; an interactive toy designed to heal through laughter, Laffy Laffalot, $3 of every Laffy sold is donated to the National Children's Cancer Society and the George Lopez Foundation; headphones, earbuds and audio accessories will be provided by Skullcandy; The Brocoli Wad, the real man's money band; OnePiece will gift their OnePiece Jump In, a unique all-in-one hooded sweat suit; travel kit featuring professional skin care products created specifically for men's skin will be given from Glymed Plus ® Advanced Aesthetics; Haan Therapeutics, the latest innovation in anti-aging skin care; exclusive organic candles will be provided by Milena's Boutique; Newhall Labs, LLC will provide the La Bella brand of hair and skin care products, GroWorks hair products and Monkey Brains hair products; RevitaLash will be providing celebs with eyelash conditioner, their new hair product, Hair by RevitaLash and mascara; Protica Research provides high amounts of protein and other nutrition in convenient, ready-to-eat and ready-to-drink formats; WineChateau.com will be providing a wide variety of wines as well as gift certificates; Mama Mia's Beef Jerky will be gifting their home-style beef jerky and Marquez de Valencia, a private label Reposado, a limited production tequila will be on hand for guests to enjoy!

Celebrity golfers will include, host, George Lopez, Aimee Garcia, Andy Garcia, Anthony Anderson, Benjamin Bratt, Billy Bush, Cedric the Entertainer, Cheech Marin, Dave Annable, Don Cheadle, Joe Mantegna, Kenny G, Kevin Nealon, Michael Bearden, Michael Pena, Michelle Rodriguez, Oscar de la Hoya, Tim Allen, Tony Dovolani, Sugar Ray Leonard, William Devane and many others.
About GBK:

GBK, formerly GBK Productions, is a luxury lifestyle gifting and special events company, specializing in entertainment marketing integration. Formed in 2000 by Gavin Keilly, the company's Founder and CEO, GBK consists of five divisions: GBK Celebrity Gifting, GBK Special Events, GBK Weddings, GBK Charitable Consulting and GBK Marketing/Public Relations. Widely known in the entertainment industry for bringing that little extra something into the Gifting Lounge environment, GBK offers its clients a full range of marketing services. For more information on Gavin B. Keilly (CEO), Carla Domen (VP) or GBK, please go to gbkproductions.com.

Secrets Of The Royal Wedding Exposed

2011-04-26T21:29:00.006-04:00

The upcoming royal Wedding of William Mountbatten-Windsor, heir in waiting to the British throne has the UK media in a frenzy of vomit inducing worship and stomach churning sycophantic fawning. Even the US media is pouring over the royals to such an extent that commentators have pointed out that had the modern day corporate media covered the Revolutionary War, it would have firmly supported the British.

The US fought a bloody war of independence against British control of its government and economy, yet the American media has fast become fascinated with an institution that represents everything America is not. This despite the fact that in a recent poll only 6% of Americans said they were at all interested in the event.

Two billion people are estimated to watch this weekend’s royal wedding. Despite the three war fronts, radioactive meltdown in Japan, the evolving 2012 presidential field and any number of other stories, the media’s collective lens will be turned exclusively on a snobbish pompous ceremony that is costing already extremely strained British taxpayers tens of billions to stage.

While the British government balks at the unfolding events in Syria and elsewhere where protests and demonstrations are being brutally curbed, those wishing to protest the antiquated old world elitist values Britain is still forced to accept as “cultural” under the monarchy will be met with stern resistance and a gargantuan police presence this weekend on the streets of London.

Meanwhile, over 40 monarchs from around the world will take their seats at the wedding, among them the dictators and ambassadors from countries with appalling human rights records such as Swaziland, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. Though he was invited, the Crown Prince of Bahrain, whose Gulf state has violently suppressed democracy protests in recent months, has respectfully declined, in order to avoid a public relations scandal. The leaders of Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman, whose military forces have aided the vicious crackdown will all be there, however. The Libyan Ambassador to Britain had his invitation rescinded when it was recently decided that Libya should be bombed back into the stone age.

In addition, a gaggle of “celebrities” have been invited, blatantly in an attempt to whip up more media hype and place a 21st century context on what is essentially a medieval ceremonial show of power.

As London Independent writer and noted Republican Johann Hari has highlighted, the frenzy surrounding the royal family has “a subtly deforming effect on Britain’s character that the ultimate symbol of our country.”

“Our sovereign, is picked on the most snobbish criteria of all: darling, do you know who his father was? Kids in Britain grow up knowing that we all bow and curtsy in front of a person simply because of their unearned, uninteresting bloodline. This snobbery subtly soaks out through the society, tweaking us to be deferential to unearned and talentless wealth, simply because it’s there.”

The pomp and hype of this occasion is part of a deliberate ongoing social engineering campaign to rebuild celebrity and importance around a parasitic and tyrannical elite that still pulls all the strings on the world stage.

This was also emphatically emphasized during the first state visit to London by president Obama in 2009.

Prior to meeting the Queen and her notoriously racist husband, Prince Philip, Obama announced that he “loves” her and that “in the imagination of people throughout America” the queen stands for “decency” and “civility”.

How repugnantly ironic that the first black president of the so called “free world” should refer to the most entrenched prejudiced and elitist institution in Europe as an icon of “civility”!

How disgustingly deplorable that the president should call “decent” a bloodline that has for centuries declared itself as God’s appointed rulers over half of the planet, killing, torturing and maiming anyone who crosses it in order to hold on to that mantle.

Reports also circulated regarding Obama practicing bowing and brushing up on courtly etiquette ahead of the meeting.

Traditional royal protocol dictates that men do a neck bow and women do a slight curtsy — though a handshake is considered acceptable as long as the queen offers her hand first, Politco reported.

When the President met the Queen in a room used to stage audiences with foreign dignitaries, Obama bowed his head and quietly said to her: “Thank you so much for having us” before turning to the Duke, bowing once more and adding: “It’s a wonderful honour.”

Michelle Obama curtsied to the Queen, however, later on she was treasonously caught inappropriately putting her hands on the glorious Monarch. The London Telegraph even issued a report on how the move was “a departure from what is considered appropriate protocol when meeting the Queen.”

Perhaps the most revealing part of the meeting, however, came from the mouth of Prince Philip who could not contain his virulent xenophobia, even in front of the cameras and the press.

In the small talk, the Queen and the Prince asked the President and his wife about their grueling schedule since arriving late on Tuesday evening.

“The time lag,” said the Queen
“You’re just trying to stay awake!” said Philip.

Then the President told the Royals: “I had breakfast with the Prime Minister, I had meetings with the Chinese, the Russians, David Cameron…

“And I’m proud to say I did not nod off in one of the meetings.”

A guffawing Prince Philip then blurted out: “Can you tell the difference between them?”

Apparently Barack Obama replied that he had no trouble telling them apart.

Then Philip, with a wave of his hand, directed the Obamas to turn around for the camera, to which the president nervously replied “of course”.

The Obamas and the Queen managed an astonishing set of uncomfortable false smiles, while Philip didn’t even bother attempting it.

The foursome then joined other world leaders in sipping champagne and devouring canapés, including mini Cornish pasties, smoked quails’ eggs, foie gras and rolls of duck filled with melon.
Watch video of the cringe inducing exchange:

Prince Philip serves as a telling link between the modern day royal family and it’s despicable history. He has made so many racist remarks in public, that they literally fill an entire book.

In 1984 he asked a Kenyan woman “You are a woman, aren’t you?”.

In 1986 he told British students in China ”If you stay here much longer, you will go home with slitty eyes.”

In 1998, during a tour of Papua New Guinea, he told another British student, ”You managed not to get eaten then?”

While on a tour of a company near Edinburgh, Scotland, he saw a poorly wired fuse box. “It looks as though it was put in by an Indian,” he remarked.

During a small town visit in Scotland, in a brief conversation with a driving instructor, he asked, “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the (road) test?”

In a 2002 visit to Australia, Prince Philip asked an Aborigine, “Still throwing spears?”

Also, he once told a group of deaf children standing near a Jamaican steel drum musician, “Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf.”

The list goes on and on. While the media often laugh the remarks off as “gaffes”, they take on a more serious nature when Philip’s background and the organizations he is involved with are more carefully examined.

It is well documented that Prince Philip’s sister, Sophia, was married to Christopher of Hesse-Cassel, an SS colonel who named his eldest son Karl Adolf in Hitler’s honour. Indeed, all four of Philip’s sisters married high-ranking Nazis. The prospect of the former Nazis and Nazi sympathisers attending his 1947 wedding to the future Queen of England meant he was allowed to invite only two guests.

Two years ago, more revelations of Philip’s Nazi links emerged in a book that featured never before published photographs of Philip aged 16 at the 1937 funeral of his elder sister Cecile, flanked by relatives in SS and Brownshirt uniforms.

Another picture shows his youngest sister, Sophia, sitting opposite Hitler at the wedding of Hermann and Emmy Goering. Philip was forced to concede that his family found Hitler’s attempts to restore Germany’s power and prestige ‘attractive’ and admitted they had ‘inhibitions about the Jews’.

Philip also helped start the World Wildlife Fund in 1961 with former Nazi SS Officer Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, who is closely affiliated with the founders of the Bilderberg international power group, and Sir Julian Huxley, Aldous Huxley’s brother, who was also the President of the British Eugenics Society.

In the past, Philip has also attended the ultra secretive ritualistic meeting of elites at Bohemian Grove, where he “stole the show” with an “amusing but salty speech” in 1962, according to the Grove’s own literature (pictured below).

Philip was also trained in the Hilter Youth. His belief in Nazi ideology is clear when one looks at what he has said on the subject of overpopulation.

In the foreword to his 1986 book If I Were an Animal, Prince Philip wrote, “In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.”

Borrowing the idea from American scientists who pioneered the field in the 1930′s, the Nazis advanced the pseudo-science of eugenics and incorporated it into Adolf Hitler’s dream of the Aryan super-race. Bearing in mind Philip’s Nazi connections, his views on the subject of overpopulation are unsurprising, but shocking nonetheless.

Just last year he reiterated these views, announcing that there are too many people in the world, and attacking large families in a television interview, despite the fact that Prince Philip himself has four children and eight grandchildren.

His son, Charles, the next King of England, has continued such ideology as he tours the world in private jets lecturing about the impact of climate change and how too many people are killing the planet.

Charles, who has inherited the entire Duchy of Cornwall estate, which stretches over 135,000 acres across 23 counties mainly in the south-west of England, is also a “patron” of the genocidal Optimum Population Trust, a notorious UK-based public policy group that campaigns for a gradual decline in the global human population to what it sees as a “sustainable” level.

Charles’ fellow patrons at the OPT include Futurist and top Eco-Fascist James Lovelock, who recently called for the ending of freedom in order that an overriding global power made up of “a few people with authority” can oversee the radical stemming of the planet’s human population in order to combat climate change.

Charles and the OPT are closely affiliated with The Royal Society, a 350 year old elitist institution granted royal charter status by King Charles II. The Royal Society is also crawling with eugenics enthusiasts and depopulation fanatics.

John Sulston, currently heading a major Royal Society global population study, most famously played a leading role in the Human Genome Project, the effort to identify and map the thousands of genes of the human genome. Sulston worked under James D. Watson, a notorious eugenicist who has previously argued that black people are inherently less intelligent than whites and has advocated the creation of a “super-race” of humans, where the attractive and physically strong are genetically manufactured under laboratory conditions. Watson is also affiliated with the Royal Society, indeed, in 1993 he received the society’s Copley Medal of honour for “outstanding achievements in research in any branch of science, and alternates between the physical sciences and the biological sciences”.

All of these neo-feudal elitist groups, posing as environmental groups have made it their raison d’etre to introduce hefty carbon taxes on the populations of the developed world and to literally de-develop the industrialized world by cutting carbon emissions by over 90%. It is therefore no surprise that the royals are willing participants.

The royals’ zeal to thin the population of undesirables has little to do with so-called “green credentials,” as is fatuously argued by the corporate media.

As Alex Jones documents in his seminal documentary End Game, this mindset is endemic amongst the elite.

Skip to the bottom of this article for a vast selection of similar quotations from Prince Philip, all advocating culling the “surplus” human population.

Racism within the Royal family is not restricted to Prince Philip, however.

In early 2005 Philip’s grandson, Prince Harry, was forced to publicly apologise for donning full Nazi regalia including a badge of the German Wehrmacht and a swastika armband.

Pictures of Harry wearing the uniform were taken at a friend’s birthday party in Wiltshire, which had the fancy dress theme “colonial and native”.

In 2008 Harry was once again forced to issue an apology for referring to an Asian army colleague as “our little Paki friend” and joking with another that he “looks like a raghead”, an offensive term for an Arab.

In the same week Harry’s father and Philip’s son, Prince Charles, caused another race row after it emerged that he had been calling an Asian friend by the nickname “Sooty”.

In 2004 a rather disgusting story emerged in the U.S. media regarding Princess Michael of Kent, who is the wife of Queen Elizabeth’s first cousin. Princess Michael’s father, Baron Gunther von Reibnitz, was also exposed in the 1980s as a former Nazi party member and SS officer.

The Princess reportedly turned to a table of black New Yorkers in a busy restaurant and chided them for being noisy, adding “You need to go back to the colonies.”

When asked to explain her comments by one of the diners the Princess reportedly said “I didn’t say go back to the colonies, I said, Remember the colonies,” adding that “In the days of the colonies there were rules that were very good.”

Just think about it. A German-born British aristocrat — whose father was in the Nazi SS — in the United States telling African Americans who have been here for centuries to “remember the colonies”? The LA Times noted.

The late Queen mother was also said to be virulently racist by close aids, last year Edward Stourton, the presenter of the BBC’s flagship radio program Today, described her as “a ghastly old bigot”.

According to others, the Queen mother referred to black people as “nig-nogs” or “blackamoors”, opposed all forms of immigration, and thought black Africans incapable of running their own countries. She backed white minority rule in Rhodesia and lamented that former apartheid leader P.W. Botha got bad press.

The Queen mother also criticised Lord Mountbatten, viceroy of India, “for giving away the empire” and his wife because “her mother was half-Jewish”.

Despite all of this the media consistently referred to her the as “nation’s favourite granny”.
But it gets worse…

Before the war began the Queen Mother was a supporter of making concessions to Hitler and the Nazis, a feeling shared by a large number of British aristocrats who admired the way Hitler was dealing with the Communists.

For some 50 years royal documents were held in vaults at Windsor Castle that detailed the abdicated king Edward VIII’s relations with Hitler and the Nazis. They included captured German documents describing the Windsors’ meeting with Hitler in 1937 and plans to restore Edward, the Duke of Windsor to the throne if the Nazis won the war. Some of these documents still remain hidden from the public.

While many have described the Edward VIII and his wife as known sympathisers of the Nazis and their policies, relatives of Wallis Simpson, the American woman whom Edward had an affair with, and the reason for his abdication, have suggested that in fact Edward was excommunicated by the rest of the royal family because he wasn’t friendly enough with the Nazis.

Throughout the Twenties and Thirties, George V and George VI were steadfastly opposed to conflict with their ancestral fatherland.

The modern royal family was founded in 1840 when Queen Victoria married Albert of Saxe-Coburg, a Germany duchy, creating The House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Such was the ill-feeling towards all things German during the First World War that in 1917 Victoria’s grandson King George V – an honorary Field Marshal in the German army – thought it prudent to renounce the German name and titles and adopt that of Windsor, the name of a small town in the home counties of England.

Today many people in Britain suggest that all these facts are no long relevant because the royal family has very little power. This is a huge myth. The Queen is the head of state and as such she can simply replace the British government at any time she chooses, should she wish to do so. The royal family still owns vast swathes of land throughout Britain and the rest of the world, and the Queen still presides as head of state in Canada and Australia.

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Prince Philip, In His Own Words: We Need To ‘Cull’ The Surplus Population

Here is a re-cap of some of the things “HIS ROYAL VIRUS”, Prince Philip has said in public concerning “culling the population”

Reported by Deutsche Press Agentur (DPA), August, 1988.

In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.

Prince Philip, in his Foreward to If I Were an Animal; United Kingdom, Robin Clark Ltd., 1986.

I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist…. I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus.

Press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on the occasion of the “Caring for Creation” conference of the North American Conference on Religion and Ecology, May 18, 1990.

It is now apparent that the ecological pragmatism of the so-called pagan religions, such as that of the American Indians, the Polynesians, and the Australian Aborigines, was a great deal more realistic in terms of conservation ethics than the more intellectual monotheistic philosophies of the revealed religions.

Address on Receiving Honorary Degree from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, July 1, 1983.

For example, the World Health Organization Project, designed to eradicate malaria from Sri Lanka in the postwar years, achieved its purpose. But the problem today is that Sri Lanka must feed three times as many mouths, find three times as many jobs, provide three times the housing, energy, schools, hospitals and land for settlement in order to maintain the same standards. Little wonder the natural environment and wildlife in Sri Lanka has suffered. The fact [is] … that the best-intentioned aid programs are at least partially responsible for the problems.

Preface to Down to Earth by HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1988, p.|8.

I don’t claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in the number of game animals and the need to adjust the “cull” to the size of the surplus population.

Lecture to the European Council of International Schools. Montreaux, Switzerland, Nov. 14, 1986.

The great difficulty about “life” is that we humans are part of it, and it is therefore almost impossible to study objectively…. It therefore tends to be anthropocentric and gives scant attention to the welfare of all the other life-forms which share this planet with us.

…|When the Bible says that man shall have “dominion” over God’s creation, the choice is between understanding dominion as in “having power over,” or dominion as “having responsibility for.”

“Conflict Between Instinct and Reason”

Fawley Foundation Lecture. Southampton University, Nov. 24, 1967.

The conflict between instinct and reason has reached a critical stage in man’s affairs, largely because the explosion of facts has revealed the instincts for what they are and at the same time it has undermined traditional philosophies and ideologies. The explosion of facts has effectively altered mankind’s physical and intellectual environment and when any environment changes, the process of natural selection is brutal and merciless. “Adapt or die” is as true today as it was in the beginning.

Introduction to “Exploitation of the Natural System” section of Down to Earth by HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1988.

It took about three and a half billion years for life on earth to reach the state of complexity and diversity that our ancestors knew as recently as 200 years ago. It has only taken industrial and scientific man those 200 years to put at risk the whole of the world’s natural system. It has been estimated that by the year 2000, some 300,000 species of plants and animals will have become extinct, and that the natural economy, upon which all life depends, will have been seriously disrupted.

The paradox is that this will have been achieved with the best possible intentions. The human population must be properly fed, human life must be preserved and human existence must be made safer and more comfortable. All these things are obviously highly desirable, but if their achievement means putting the survival of future generations at risk, then there is a pressing obligation on present generations to apply some measure of self-restraint.

Address to Edinburgh University Union, Nov. 24 1969.

We talk about over- and underdeveloped countries; I think a more exact division might be between underdeveloped and overpopulated. The more people there are, the more industry and more waste and the more sewage there is, and therefore the more pollution.

The Fairfield Osborne Lecture, New York, Oct. 1 1980.

If the world pollution situation is not critical at the moment, it is as certain as anything can be that the situation will become increasingly intolerable within a very short time. The situation can be controlled, and even reversed; but it demands cooperation on a scale and intensity beyond anything achieved so far.
I realize that there are vital causes to be fought for, and I sympathize with people who work up a passionate concern about the all too many examples of inhumanity, injustice, and unfairness; but behind all this hangs a deadly cloud. Still largely unnoticed and unrecognized, the process of destroying our natural environment is gathering speed and momentum. If we fail to cope with the challenge, the other problems will pale into insignificance.

Introduction to “The Population Factor” section of Down to Earth by HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1988.

What has been described as the “balance of nature” is simply nature’s system of self-limitation. Fertility and breeding success create the surpluses after allowing for the replacement of the losses. Predation, climatic variation, disease, starvation–and in the case of the inappropriately named Homo sapiens, wars and terrorism–are the principal means by which population numbers are kept under some sort of control.
Viewed dispassionately, it must be obvious that the world’s human population has grown to such a size that it is threatening its own habitat; and it has already succeeded in causing the extinction of large numbers of wild plant and animal species. Some have simply been killed off. Others have quietly disappeared, as their habitats have been taken over or disturbed by human activities.

Humans are the Greatest Threat to Survival

Interview with HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in People Dec. 21, 1981 titled “Vanishing Breeds Worry Prince Philip, But Not as Much as Overpopulation.”

Q: What do you consider the leading threat to the environment?

A: Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We’re in for a major disaster if it isn’t curbed–not just for the natural world, but for the human world. The more people there are, the more resources they’ll consume, the more pollution they’ll create, the more fighting they will do. We have no option. If it isn’t controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war.

Address to the Joint Meeting of the All-Party Group on Population and Development and the All-Party Conservation Committee in London, March 11, 1987.

I do believe … that human population pressure–the sheer number of people on this planet–is the single most important cause of the degradation of the natural environment, of the progressive extinction of wild species of plants and animals, and of the destabilization of the world’s climatic and atmospheric systems.

The simple fact is that the human population of the world is consuming natural renewable resources faster than it can regenerate, and the process of exploitation is causing even further damage. If this is already happening with a population of 4 billion, I ask you to imagine what things will be like when the population reaches six and then 10 billion…. All this has been made possible by the industrial revolution and the scientific explosion and it is spread around the world by the new economic religion of development.

Address at the Salford University Degree Ceremony, July 16, 1973.

There may be disagreements about the time scale, but in principle there can be little doubt that the population cannot go on increasing indefinitely. Resources presently being used will not last for ever and pollution in its broadest sense, unless severely checked, is bound to increase with population and industrial activity.

Address to All-Party Conservation Committee in London, Feb. 18, 1981.

I suspect that the single most important gift of progress to conservation has been the development of human contraception techniques.

The survival of the “most important”

Interview with HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in People magazine, Dec. 21, 1981 titled “Vanishing Breeds Worry Prince Philip, But Not as Much as Overpopulation.

Q: Is birth control part of the solution?

A: Yes, but you can’t legislate these problems away. You’ve got to get people to understand the need for it: the more important people, the ones who have responsibilities have got to do it because they’re at the receiving end. They’ve got to accept the measures.

The Chancellor’s Lecture, Salford University, June 4, 1982.

As long ago as 1798, Malthus explained what happens when the factors limiting the increase in any population are removed. One of the factors noticed by Darwin was that all species are capable of producing vastly greater populations than can be sustained by existing resources; populations did not increase at the rate at which they are capable was the basis for his theory of Evolution by Natural Selection.

The relevance to natural selection of this capacity for overproduction is that as each individual is slightly different to all the others it is probable that under natural conditions those individuals which happen to be best adapted to the prevailing circumstances have a better chance of survival. Well, so what? Well, take a look at the figures for the human population of this world. One hundred fifty years ago it stood at about 1,000 million or in common parlance today, 1 billion. It then took about a 100 years to double to 2 billion. It took 30 years to add the third billion and 15 years to reach today’s total of 4.4 billion. With a present world average rate of growth of 1.8%, the total population by the year 2000 will have increased to an estimated 6 billion and in that and in subsequent years 100 million people will be added to the world population each year. In fact it could be as much as 16 billion by 2045. As a consequence the demand on resources of land alone will mean a third less farm land available and the destruction of half of the present area of productive tropical forest. Bearing in mind the constant reduction of non-renewable resources, there is a strong possibility of growing scarcity and reduction of standards. More people consume more resources. It is as simple as that; and transferring resources and standards from the richer to the poorer countries can only have a marginal effect in the face of this massive increase in the world population.

Speech at the Margaret Pyke Memorial Trust Dinner in London, Dec. 14 1983.

So long as they [birth control methods] … remained taboo subjects the chances of making any impression on the human population explosion were that much more remote.
In the introduction to the IUCN Red Data Books which list all animals and plants under threat of extinction, it says that virtually everywhere the major threat to a wild species is loss of habitat to a rapidly increasing human population requiring more space in order to build villages and cities and grow more food. But starvation and poverty cannot be eradicated solely by increased food and resources at the expense of what remains of the natural world. Any increase in the provision of food and resources must be accompanied by a drastic reduction in the rate of increase in the human population.

Address on Receiving Honorary Degree from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, July 1, 1983.

The industrial revolution sparked the scientific revolution and brought in its wake better public hygiene, better medical care and yet more efficient agriculture. The consequence was a population explosion which still continues today.

The sad fact is that, instead of the same number of people being very much better off, more than twice as many people are just as badly off as they were before. Unfortunately all this well-intentioned development has resulted in an ecological disaster of immense proportions.

The Chancellor’s Lecture, Salford University, June 4, 1982.

The object of the WWF is to “conserve” the system as a whole; not to prevent the killing of individual animals. Those who are concerned about their conservation of nature accept that all species are prey to some other species. They accept that most species produce a surplus that is capable of being culled without in any way threatening the survival of the species as a whole.

A Question of Balance by HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Michael Russel (Publishing) Ltd., 1982.

It is curious how many philosophers from Plato to Keynes’ time have believed in and advocated the control of society by “philosopher kings.” According to Plato, “its kings must be those who have shown the greatest ability in philosophy,” but–realistically–he added, “and the greatest aptitude for war.” Such people may exist in the imagination and occasionally someone with the necessary qualities may briefly dominate the stage of history, but it is a naive appreciation of human nature to imagine that such processed paragons can be invested with the necessary powers and not be tempted to take advantage of their situation.

Attention Waldwick Voters! Vote NO for the School Budget.

2011-04-26T21:24:00.000-04:00

Attention voters in Waldwick, New Jersey. Tomorrow, you'll have the chance to vote yes or no for the proposed school budget.

Every year, you've voted yes because the Board of Education keeps telling you the kids will suffer if you don't.

Every year, your taxes increase because of it.

This year, they failed to tell you that the budget increase will be used to pay for mandatory drug testing in Waldwick High School.

This year vote NO!

Our taxes are too high. You don't have money to waste on frivolous things. Your kids won't suffer. In fact, they'll suffer less because they won't have their rights violated with this mandatory drug testing.

Other towns don't pass the budget every year and are able to provide a great education with less money.

Save your town.

Vote NO!

Tommy Chong has a Big Announcement

2011-04-23T23:27:00.000-04:00

Tommy Chong claims he has some "terrific news," but he's not allowed to say right now. He may announce it tomorrow.

What could it be?

Some Really Old Video of Tommy Chong Flirting with the Host of a News Show

2011-04-21T20:55:00.000-04:00

Tommy Chong Interview KNWS 51 Houston Texas Donna Rusch 9-6-1996
He pokes fun at Cheech working with Don Johnson on Nash Bridges. Tommy mentions he's working on the film Best Buds. This film was never released because it was really really bad. Last, but not least, Tommy flirts with, necks with and dances with the host.

Video: What's in Cheech Marin's Bag?

2011-04-20T21:34:00.002-04:00

Cheech was shopping at Amoeba Hollywood yesterday. What did he buy?
In this interesting interview, Cheech discusses musicians he likes and has met.

Video: Look at the Limited Edition Nike SB Cheech and Chong Sneakers

2011-04-20T21:33:00.002-04:00

Customer Looks at his New Sneakers

Animated News Report

Nike Cheech and Chong Sneakers have a 'Spare Change' Pocket

2011-04-20T20:50:00.001-04:00

The Nike SB Cheech and Chong sneakers which went on sale today have a little surprise in them...a hidden pocket to hide your stash. Although legally, Nike calls it a 'spare change' pocket.

Happy 4/20, Party People!

2011-04-20T00:00:00.000-04:00

Toke, toke it out.
My license? It's on the bumper, man.
You wanna get high? Has Howdy Doody got wooden balls?

Nike SB Cheech and Chong Sneakers are NOT Canceled

2011-04-17T22:46:00.001-04:00

We previously reported that the Nike SB Cheech and Chong sneakers were canceled. This is not the case. They were postponed til May due to a manufacturing delay.

Cheech and Chong at the Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS Evil Premiere

2011-04-17T00:34:00.000-04:00

Cheech and Chong were at the "Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS Evil" Premiere tonight.

Hood vs. Evil will find a teen such as Red Riding Hood who will be training in a distant land with a mysterious, covert group called the Sister Hoods. When Red and the Wolf get called upon by Nick Flippers the head of the Happily Ever After Agency over to investigate the disappearance of Hansel and Gretel.

Cheech Marin is Mad Hog and Tommy Chong is Stone of The Three Little Hench Pigs.

Cheech and Natasha Marin with Tommy and Shelby Chong

Tommy and Shelby Chong

Cheech and Natasha Marin

Nike SB Cheech and Chong Sneakers are Canceled

2011-04-15T21:25:00.000-04:00

The Nike SB Cheech and Chong sneakers which we announced were to be released on April 20th (420!) have been canceled. Why? Nike never got legal permission. In fact, Tommy Chong didn't even know about them until recently.