August 11th
Viola Davis, Ben Gibbard, Joe Jackson, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Jackson Pollock, Charlie Sexton, Robin Williams
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BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): Andy Bell, Charles M. Blow, David Brooks, Embeth Davitz, Viola Davis, Mike Douglas, Andre Dubus, Ben Gibbard, Anna Gunn, Patricio Guzman, Alex Haley, Chris Hemsworth, Joe Jackson, Ashley Jensen, Ian McDiarmid, Chris Messina, Shinji Mikami, Robert Motherbaugh, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Sophie Okonedo, Richie Ramone, Stuart Rosenberg, Charlie Sexton, Merritt Wever, Jah Wobble, Steve Wozniak, Karen Yant
DEAD (R.I.P.): Herb Brooks, Andrew Carnegie, Peter Cushing, Mike Douglas, Belle du Berry, Anne Heche, Viola Herms-Drath, Eunice Kennedy-Shriver, Jani Lane, Trini Lopez, Clara Peller, Jackson Pollock, Anne Ramsey, Sumner Redstone, Ángel Salazar, Jean-Jacques Sempé, Hamnet Shakespeare, Mel Taylor, Edith Wharton, Tim Whelan, Robin Williams, Satsuo Yamamoto - Bobby Whitlock (8/10/2025)
DEEP THOUGHTS: You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
EAT ME: Paninis, Raspberry Tart
FOODIE: Mars Candy has relented and will now add an “Alpha Male” M&M. They’re all white, extra bitter, they meltdown when mixed with multi-colored M&M’s and have no nuts.
HOLIDAY: Hip-Hop Day (8/11/1973)
HOROSCOPE: The stars predict the beginning of a lifelong romance this week, which just goes to show you how wrong the stars can sometimes be.
JOKE: Why are organic farmers the best hip hop artists? Because they make the best beets.
PLAYLIST: Leonard Cohen: New Skin for the Old Ceremony (8/11/1974), The Go-Go’s: Vacation (8/11/1982), Vanity 6: Vanity 6 (8/11/1982), Neil Young: Chrome Dreams (8/11/2023) - Death Cab for Cutie: Plans (2005), Devo: Freedom of Choice (1980), Joe Jackson: Beat Crazy (1980), Ramones: Too Tough to Die (1985), Ride: Nowhere (1990), Charlie Sexton: Pictures for Pleasures (1985), A Tribe Called Quest: People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (1990) - No Joy: Bugland
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Death Cab for Cutie, Hip-Hop, Joe Jackson, Ride, A Tribe Called Quest
Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
READ: William Shakespeare: Hamlet (1602), Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence (1920) - The Atlantic, Ruth Ben-Ghiat: How Authoritarians “Cook the Books”, Civil Discourse: The Week Ahead
RELIGULOUS: Please Stand By
SHITASS: Michelle Carter, Chad Daybell, Hulk Hogan, Tomi Lahren, Joe Rogan, Dan Rostenkowski
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: 450 Federal Officers deployed to patrol DC streets ahead of Trump announcement this morning - Trump will declare martial law there because someone named “Big Balls” got beat up. This has been planned since Day One.
STREAM: American Graffiti (8/11/1973), Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (8/11/2023) - The Age of Innocence (Netflix), G20 (Prime), Hip-Hop and the White House (Hulu), Nostalgia for the Light (Hoopla/Kanopy), The Pearl Button (Kanopy), Popeye (Hoopla/Kanopy), Re-Animator (Hoopla) - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
TRAVEL: The Bronx, Lambeau Field
TRUMPED: The Lincoln Project: Sheep
WORD: Hip-Hop - is a social-political movement created in the late 70's. Hip Hop is a culture to give people who grew up in the ghetto a voice, songs in hip hop are spoken from personal experience. Songs are usually mixed with other genres of music like rock and classical (piano), or with record players and scratchers. Break Dancing and Graffiti is also apart of hip hop as a way to express the people apart of the cultures selves, Freestyling is also a major part of hip hop along with rap battles.
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2022 - The NBA is making Bill Russell’s No. 6 jersey the first to be retired across the league in recognition of his “transcendent” career. 2020 - Joe Biden chose Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, making her the presumptive 2020 Democratic vice presidential nominee. She is the first black woman and first Asian-American vice presidential nominee for a major party. 2017 - The Whiny Little Bitch Rally (Unite the Right rally) was a militant gathering of white supremacist (alt-right, neo-Nazi, white nationalist, and far-right) groups in Charlottesville, Virginia. The participants protested the removal of Confederate monuments and memorials from public spaces, specifically the Robert Edward Lee Sculpture in Emancipation Park. 2015 – For the first time in Major League Baseball history, all 15 home teams won their game. Prior to this happening, the record was 12 which was reached over a century ago in 1914. 2014 - Robin Williams died at the age of 63. 1980 - Tony Montana began his rise to power when he assassinated one of Fidel Castro's top associates, Emilio Rebenga. 1973 - An 18-year-old, Jamaican-American DJ who went by the name of Kool Herc threw a back-to-school jam at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, New York. During his set, he decided to do something different. Instead of playing the songs in full, he played only their instrumental sections, or “breaks” - sections where he noticed the crowd went wild. During these “breaks” his friend Coke La Rock hyped up the crowd with a microphone. And with that, Hip Hop was born. 1965 – Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California. 1952 - Hank Williams was fired from the Grand Ole Opry and told not to return until he was sober. He never returned. 1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil received a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi. 1919 - The Green Bay Packers were founded by former high-school football rivals Earl "Curly" Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun. Lambeau solicited funds for uniforms from his employer, the Indian Packing Company. He was given $500 for uniforms and equipment, on the condition that the team be named for its sponsor. The Green Bay Packers have played in their original city longer than any other team in the NFL. 1596 - Hamnet Shakespeare died. He was the only son of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, and the fraternal twin of Judith Shakespeare. He died at the age of 11. Some Shakespearean scholars speculate on the relationship between Hamnet and his father's later play Hamlet, as well as on possible connections between Hamnet's death and the writing of King John, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and Twelfth Night.
“It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.” David Brooks
“Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.” Alex Haley
“The things we fear the most have already happened to us.” Robin Williams
