August 14th
Halle Berry, Magic Johnson, Mila Kunis, Gary Larson, Steve Martin, Gena Rowlands, Wim Wenders, Lina Wertmüller
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BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): Emmanuelle Béart, Margot Benacerraf, Halle Berry, Romane Bohringer, Brannon Braga, Sarah Brightman, Dash Crofts, Tom DiCillo, Slim Dunlap, Antonio Fargas, James Fargo, Larry Graham, Ed Harcourt, Marcia Gay Harden, Brianna Hildebrand, John Hillcoat, Magic Johnson, Mila Kunis, Preston Lacy, Gary Larson, Steve Martin, Lamorne Morris, Terry Richardson, Susan Saint James, Danielle Steel, Bruce Thomas, Andrew Kevin Walker, Alex Van Warmerdam, Wim Wenders, Lina Wertmüller, Jim Wynorski
DEAD (R.I.P.): Bertolt Brecht, Big Bill Broonzy, Roy Buchanan, Johnny Burnette, Alice Childress, Enzo Ferrari, Fyvush Finkel, William Randolph Hearst, Peter R. Hunt, Bob Johnston, Bruno Kirby, Oscar Levant, Abbey Lincoln, Clifford Odets, Ron Palillo, Gladys Presley, J.B. Priestley, Gena Rowlands, Dorothy Stratten, Mack V. Wright
DEEP THOUGHTS: Lord loves a working man. Don't trust whitey. See a doctor and get rid of it.
EAT ME: Creamsicles
FOODIE: Stephen Miller Clowned After Wife’s Admission on His Diet - It is very white.
HOLIDAY: Lizard Day, Social Security Day - Milwaukee Irish Fest (2025)
HOROSCOPE: Your hard work and dedication will finally pay off this week when you're accepted into Harbard. Unfortunately for you, though, that's not a typo.
HOW-TO: Catch a Lizard
JOKE: How do Republicans plan to fix social security? By taking the word Security out of it.
PLAYLIST: The Rolling Stones “Start Me Up” (8/14/1981), The Who: Who’s Next (8/14/1971), The xx: xx (8/14/2009) - Elvis Costello and the Attractions: Get Happy!! (1980), Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Deja Vu (1970), The Replacements: All Shook Down (1990), Max Roach: We Insist! (1960)
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Abbey Lincoln, Steve Martin
Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
READ: Gary Larson: The Far Side (1980-1995) - The Nation, John Pavlovitz: Reaching People Who Have Discarded the Truth, Robert Reich: The Trial Run
RELIGULOUS: This 'Chilling' Right-Wing Movement Is Taking Over Classrooms — And It's Only The Beginning
SHITASS: Lynne Cheney, William Randolph Hearst, Spencer Pratt, Terry Richardson, Paul Snider
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: Melania Trump threatens to sue Hunter Biden for $1B over Epstein claim
SPORT: Jerry Jones + Karma = Cancer
STREAM: Directed by Wim Wenders (Criterion) - Living in Oblivion (Kanopy), The Proposition (Kanopy/Prime), Schneider vs. Bax (Hoopla/Kanopy), Seven Beauties (Hoopla/Kanopy/Kino), Tokyo-Ga (Criterion), Wrong Move (Criterion)
Wim Wenders Film Festival - Wings of Desire (Criterion/HBO Max), Paris Texas (Criterion/HBO Max), Perfect Days, The Salt of the Earth, Alice in the Cities (Criterion), Pina (Kanopy/Mubi), Buena Vista Social Club (Criterion/HBO Max), Kings of the Road (Criterion), The American Friend (Criterion), The Soul of a Man, Tokyo-Ga (Criterion), Anselm (Criterion/Kanopy), Faraway So Close!, Lisbon Story, Wrong Move (Criterion), The State of Things, Until the End of the World (Criterion), A Trick of Light, Lightning Over Water, Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (Netflix), Don’t Come Knocking, The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (Criterion), Land of Plenty, Beyond the Clouds, Hammett, Palermo Shooting (Criterion), The Million Dollar Hotel (Hoopla/Kanopy/Prime), The End of Violence - Room 666/999 (Criterion)
TRAVEL: I traveled Portugal with strangers. Here’s why you should too.
TRUMPED: Back to School 2025
WELLNESS: Do You Want a Divorce or Is It Menopause?
WORD: Social Security
WTF?!: The Bailey’s and Chuck Schumer - Seriously, WTF?!
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2023 – Trump is charged in Georgia along with 18 others in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election in that state, his fourth indictment of 2023. 2021 - A magnitude 7.2 quake severely damaged several cities in Haiti, burying people in the rubble of collapsed buildings. It was more powerful than the 2010 quake, which killed more than 220,000 people. 2015 – The US Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opened after 54 years of being closed when Cuba–United States relations were broken off. 2012 - Hired at Trader Jones, Ahwatukee. 2003 – A wide scale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada. 1994 – Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", was captured. 1985 - Michael Jackson outbid Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono for the ATV music-publishing catalog. Jackson paid $47.5 million for the rights to more than 250 songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Shameful. 1980 - 20-year old Playboy playmate Dorothy Stratten was shot and killed in West Los Angeles by her estranged Husband Paul Snider in the house they had shared. Snider raped and murdered her, sexually abused the corpse, then killed himself with the same shotgun. Dorothy's body was found connected to an odd, homemade sexual contraption and both bodies were covered with ants. 1971 - Stanford prison experiments began. The controversial Stanford prison experiments to study the effects of authority in a prison setting began. The experiment had to be shut down by the 6th day because of the adverse effect on the subjects. 1967 – UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal. 1945 - President Truman announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II. A-Duh! 1935 – Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired. Thanks Liberals!
“I know we've only known each other four weeks and three days, but to me it seems like nine weeks and five days. The first day seemed like a week and the second day seemed like five days. And the third day seemed like a week again and the fourth day seemed like eight days. And the fifth day you went to see your mother and that seemed just like a day, and then you came back and later on the sixth day, in the evening, when we saw each other, that started seeming like two days, so in the evening it seemed like two days spilling over into the next day and that started seeming like four days, so at the end of the sixth day on into the seventh day, it seemed like a total of five days. And the sixth day seemed like a week and a half. I have it written down, but I can show it to you tomorrow if you want to see it.” Nathan R. Johnson
