August 13th
Julia Child, Paul Greengrass, Nanci Griffith, Alfred Hitchcock, Ibram X. Kendi, Sebastian Stan, H.G. Wells
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BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): Jeff Altman, Danny Bonaduce, Fidel Castro, Davy Chou, Quinn Cummings, Adam Davidson, Joycelyn Elders, Sam Endicott, Juan Pablo Gonzalez, Paul Greengrass, Steve Higgins, Alfred Hitchcock, Karine Jean-Pierre, Ibram X. Kendi, Felipe Lacerda, Joshua Marston, Debi Mazar, James Morrison, Tom Perrotta, Philippe Petit, Valerie Plame, Feargal Sharkey, John Slattery, Sebastian Stan, Sam Taylor, Slick Woods, Janet Yellen
DEAD (R.I.P.): Kenny Baker, Francine Barker, Compton Bennett, Joseph Bologna, Tina Brooks, Helen Gurley Brown, Julia Child, Jane Darwell, Giancarlo Ferrando, Tompall Glaser, Nanci Griffith, Alison Hargreaves, Tony Jay, David Kammerer, King Curtis, Magoo, Mickey Mantle, J.W. Marriott, Edwin Newman, Florence Nightingale, Jack Ryan, Joe Tex, Chales Walters, H.G. Wells
DEEP THOUGHTS: We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.
EAT ME: Filet Mignon, Prosecco - Julia Child
HOLIDAY: Left Handers Day
HOROSCOPE: You might be nervous and intimidated and even a little scared, but take heart: Those women are just as frightened of you as you are of them.
HOW-TO: Become Left Handed when you are Right Handed
JOKE: The French Chef
PLAYLIST: Bright Eyes: Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (8/13/2002), Chicago: Chicago 13 (8/13/1979), Cypress Hill: Cypress Hill (8/13/1991), Eels: Beautiful Freak (8/13/1996), Lynyrd Skynyrd: (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) (8/13/1973), Pixies: Bossanova (8/13/1990), The Supremes: Baby Love (8/13/1964), Big Mama Thornton “Hound Dog” (8/13/1952), Gene Vincent: Bluejean Bop! (8/13/1956) - The Bravery: The Bravery (2005), Tina Brooks: True Blue (1960), Feargal Sharkey: Feargal Sharkey (1985), The Undertones: Hypnotized (1980)
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Join Apple Music - The Bravery, Nanci Griffith
Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
READ: H.G. Wells: The Time Machine (1895) - JoJoFromJerz: Oxygen Masks and Saltwater, Paul Krugman: The Political Economy of Incompetence, Mother Jones
RELIGULOUS: The Sin of Denying Someone's Joy - This crazy bitch who calls herself a religious crusader against gay marriage has been married four times to three men. Divorced 3 times and has 6 kids by two different Baby Daddies, yet preaches about traditional values. Go fuck yourself.
SHITASS: Lyin’ Sarah Huckabee-Sanders
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: $3.4 Billion is how much is Trump pocketing off the Presidency? The New Yorker, David D. Kirkpatrick takes a crack at adding things up.
STREAM: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (8/13/1982), South Park (8/13/1997) - Butterfly (Prime), Fair Game (Hoopla/Kanopy/Prime), Fixed (Netflix), Goldie (Kanopy), Green Zone (Netflix), Julia (HBO Max), The Lunch Date, The 39 Steps (Criterion/HBO Max), To Catch a Thief (MGM) - Pivot
Alfred Hitchcock Film Festival - Psycho, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Dial M for Murder (Kanopy), Rebecca, Rope, Strangers on a Train, Notorious, Shadow of a Doubt, The Lady Vanishes (Criterion/HBO Max), The Birds (Netflix), The 39 Steps (Criterion/HBO Max), Lifeboat, Spellbound, Frenzy (Netflix), To Catch a Thief (MGM), The Man Who Knew Too Much (Netflix), The Wrong Man, Foreign Correspondent (Criterion/HBO Max), Suspicion, The Lodger (Criterion/HBO Max), I Confess, Marnie, Saboteur, The Trouble with Harry, Sabotage (Criterion/HBO Max), Stagefright, Blackmail (Kanopy), Family Plot, Young and Innocent, Torn Curtain, The Paradine Case, Secret Agent, Jamaica Inn, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Murder!, Topaz, Under Capricorn, Downhill - The Girl, Hitchcock, Hitchcock/Truffaut, My Name is Alfred Hitchcock (Kanopy), 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene
WORD: Smart-Handed
WTF?!: Andy Biggs daughter is running for Senate, she says women don't belong in the Senate
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2021 - Trump supporters who had pushed a bizarre conspiracy theory predicting the former president would be reinstated today were thoroughly mocked on social media as the day came and went with Joe Biden still in the White House. MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell had hawked the bogus claim, telling a right-wing podcast, “The morning of August 13, it’ll be the talk of the world.” But as the day wound down, however, the prediction failed to materialize. What a bunch of fucking losers. 1995 - Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle died of liver cancer at age 63. 1990 - Curtis Mayfield was paralyzed after a light rack fell on him before a concert in Brooklyn. 1971 - Musician King Curtis was stabbed during an argument with a pair of drug dealers he discovered on the steps outside his Manhattan apartment. Curtis was attempting to carry an air conditioner into his apartment when they refused to move from the entrance. A fight ensued and one of them stabbed Curtis and was killed. 1971 - John Lennon flew from Heathrow Airport to New York City. He never set foot on British soil again. 1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York City. That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon. 1961 - Berlin was divided as East Germany sealed off the border between the city's eastern and western sectors in order to halt the flight of refugees. 1944 - Lucien Carr killed David Kammerer with a Boy Scout knife in Riverside Park, New York City in what he claimed later was self-defense. He waited, then dumped the body in the Hudson River, later seeking advice from William Burroughs, who suggested he turn himself in. He then went to Jack Kerouac, who helped him dispose of the weapon. Carr turned himself in the following morning and later pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Kerouac was charged as an accessory, and Burroughs as a material witness, but neither were prosecuted. 1831 – Nat Turner witnesses a solar eclipse which caused the sky to appear a blue-green color, which he envisioned as a black man's hand reaching over the sun. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill between 55-65 whites in Southampton County, Virginia.
"The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook." Julia Child
“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.” Alfred Hitchcock
"If I knew I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself." Mickey Mantle
"You don’t know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it’s good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink because it’s what men do." Roger Sterling
“If we don't end war, war will end us.” H.G. Wells
