August 12th
Casey Affleck, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ian Fleming, Henry Fonda, Mark Knopfler, Ron Mael, Lakeith Stanfield
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BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): Casey Affleck, Jim Beaver, Michael Ian Black, John Cazale, Chen Kaige, August Darnell, Isaach de Bankolé, Del the Funkee Homosapien, Cara Delevingne, Cecil B. DeMille, Samuel Fuller, Tyson Fury, William Goldman, Bruce Greenwood, George Hamilton, Sam J. Jones, Mark Knopfler, Peter Krause, Lawrence, Ron Mael, Greg Marcks, Pat Metheny, Khris Middleton, Brandi Powell, Pete Sampras, Sir Mix-a-Lot, George Soros, Lakeith Stanfield, Dominique Swain, Anthony Swofford, Jennifer Warren, Wednesday 13
DEAD (R.I.P.): Rashied Ali, Luther Allison, Lauren Bacall, Jean-Michel Basquiat, William Blake, John Cage, Cleopatra, Marvin Creamer, Ian Fleming, Henry Fonda, Merv Griffin, Heather Heyer, Thomas Mann, Les Paul, Wolfgang Petersen, Loretta Young - Anas Al-Sharif (8/11/2025)
DEEP THOUGHTS: In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
EAT ME: Julienne Fries - Popeye’s Chicken Sandwich (8/12/2019)
FOODIE: 62% of Kentuckians Voted Trump - Now Their $9 Billion Industry is Collapsing
HOLIDAY: Elephant Day, Middle Child Day, Vinyl Record Day, Youth Day
HOROSCOPE: The stars would love nothing more than to reveal your future this week, but unfortunately, they're just large luminous balls of plasma held together by gravity in space.
HOW-TO: Clean Vinyl Records, Survive a Charging Elephant
JOKE: The Elephant said to the Donkey, “The grass is blue.” The Donkey replied, “No, the grass is green.” The discussion heated up and the two decided to go before the Lion, the King of the jungle. The Elephant began to shout, “Your highness, is it true that the grass is blue?” The Lion replied, “If you believe that it’s true, then the grass is blue.” The Elephant continued, “The Donkey disagrees with me, contradicts and annoys me. Please punish him.” The King declared, “The Donkey will be punished with five years of silence.” The Elephant jumped cheerfully and went on his way. The Donkey accepted his punishment, but before he left he asked the Lion, “Why have you punished me? After all, the grass is green.” The Lion replied, “In fact, the grass is green.” The Donkey asked, “So, why are you punishing me?” The Lion replied, “That has nothing to do with the question of whether or not the grass is blue or green. The punishment is because it is not logical for an intelligent creature like you to waste time arguing with a Elephant.”
PLAYLIST: Big Brother and the Holding Company: Cheap Thrills (8/12/1968), Metallica: Metallica (8/12/1991), Middle Brother: Middle Brother (2011), Ramones: Live at the Roxy (8/12/1976), Luther Vandross: Never Too Much (8/12/1981), Neil Young: Old Ways (8/12/1985) - Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms (1985), Les Paul and Mary Ford: Les and Mary (1955), Sparks: Mad! (2025)
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Join Apple Music - John Cage, Del the Funkee Homosapien, Dire Straits, Pat Metheny, Sparks
Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
READ: Ian Fleming: The Man with the Golden Gun (1965), Salman Rushdie: Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder (2024) - Common Dreams, Thom Hartmann: Fascism’s Grip Tightens: Will America Fight Back Before It’s Too Late?
RELIGULOUS: Nobody Cares That White Supremacists Are Calling the Shots Now
SCIENCE!: Perseids Meteor Shower Peak
SHAMELESS PLUG: ExitEnter endorses the recognition of a Palestinian state
SHITASS: Willie Horton, Gregory Ulas Powell, Richard Reid
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: Over 242 Journalists killed in Gaza since Israel started the occupation - over 63,000 civilians.
STREAM: A Great Day in Harlem (1994), The Last Temptation of Christ (8/12/1988) - Alien: Earth (FX/Hulu), The Brutalist (HBO Max), Dead Man (Criterion/HBO Max), Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (Criterion/Hoopla/Kanopy/Night Flight), Jim Jefferies: Two Limb Policy (Netflix)
New Blu-Ray Releases: Cairo Station (Criterion Collection), How to Train Your Dragon, Simple Minds: Everything is Possible
TRAVEL: These tourist hotspots are too crowded to enjoy this summer
TRUMPED: TACO Backs Out of China Tariffs Hours Before Deadline - again.
WORD: Boom for Real - Jean-Michel Basquiat had this saying, “boom for real” meaning he would take all the things in his world that inspire him, big or small, interpret them through his own vision and make them explode onto the canvas equally for us to look at and interpret.
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2022 - Salman Rushdie was critically injured after a stabbing at a speech in California. 2020 - Marvin Creamer died. Some people thought he was crazy. Sail round the world without anything to guide you but the sun and the moon and the stars? But that’s what he did, becoming the first recorded person to circumnavigate the world without navigational instruments. He died on this day at 104 years old. 2019 - Popeyes, a beloved Louisiana fried chicken chain, debuted its new fried chicken sandwich. 1990 – Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton found to date, is discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota. 1981 – The IBM Personal Computer is released. 1977 - Henri Padovani guitarist with The Police quit the group after nine months leaving them a trio. 1966 - John Lennon apologized at a news conference in Chicago for saying "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus." 1963 - Stan Musial announced his retirement. Stan the Man spent his entire career with the St. Louis Cardinals, and the argument can be made that he was the best left fielder the game has ever seen. 1958 – Art Kane photographed 57 notable jazz musicians in the black and white group portrait "A Great Day in Harlem" in front of a Brownstone in New York City. 1883 - The last quagga dies in captivity at the Natura Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam. A native of South Africa, quaggas were a kind of zebra that had stripes only in the front part of their bodies. They were driven into extinction through human activity and excessive hunting for their skin and meat. Humans suck. 1877 - The phonograph was developed as a result of Thomas Edison's work on two other inventions, the telegraph and the telephone.
"Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.” Jean-Michel Basquiat
