August 15th
Ben Affleck, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Matt Johnson, Jennifer Lawrence, Macbeth, Nicolas Roeg, Will Rogers
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BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): Ben Affleck, Anthony Anderson, Princess Anne, Nabiyah Be, Yuriy Bykov, Julia Child, Tom Colicchio, Linda Ellerbee, Alice Englert, John Fetterman, Melinda French-Gates, Tess Harper, Natasha Henstridge, Wendy Hiller, Jon Hopkins, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Zeljko Ivanek, Matt Johnson, Joe Jonas, Lady Miss Kier, Erik Killian, Stieg Larsson, Jennifer Lawrence, Boban Marjanovic, Debra Messing, Amir Naderi, Eddie Phillips, Nicolas Roeg, Andres Serrano, Rob Thomas, Maxine Waters, Charlotte Zwerin
DEAD (R.I.P.): Jay Adams, Julian Bond, Ernie Bushmiller, Joey Coyle, Jim Dickinson, Harry Harrison, Michael A. Hess, Hiro, Bobby Hutcherson, Macbeth, Rene Magritte, Peter Marshall, Will Rogers, Lyman Ward, Jerry Wexler, Robert Wilson
DEEP THOUGHTS: Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.
EAT ME: Lemon Meringue Pie - Date Night at the Movies Night (2025), Hawaiian Day (2025), Indian Food
FOODIE: Dishwashers Can Cook the Perfect Rare Steak, Meat Lover Claims
HOLIDAY: Relaxation Day
HOROSCOPE: All the praying in the world can't save you now. Quick, turn to demon worship and the black arts before it's too late.
HOW-TO: Relax
JOKE: An old man was relaxing at a nude beach with his hat over his crotch. A young lady passing by whistled at him and said, “If you were a gentleman, you’d lift that hat!” Old man: “If you were pretty, it would lift itself!”
PLAYLIST: The Cars: Panorama (8/15/1980), Cheap Trick: Next Position Please (8/15/1983), Garbage: Garbage (8/15/1995), The Jesus and Mary Chain: Stoned and Dethroned (8/15/1994), The Kinks: Give the People What They Want (8/15/1981), Led Zeppelin: In Through the Out Door (8/15/1979), The Pretenders: Pretenders II (8/15/1981), Michelle Shocked: Short Sharp Shocked (8/15/1988), Southern Culture on the Skids: Dirt Track Date (8/15/1995), Rod Stewart: Atlantic Crossing (8/15/1975) - Deee-Lite: World Clique (1990), Bobby Hutcherson: Components/Dialogue (1965), The The: Hanky Panky (1995)
New Music Releases: Chance the Rapper: Star Line, Alison Goldfrapp: Flux, Conan Gray: Wishbone, Steve Gunn: Music for Writers, Maroon 5: Love is Like, Cass McCombs: Interior Live Oak, Bret McKenzie: Freak Out City, Marissa Nadler: New Radiations, Pile: Sunshine and Balance Beams, Mae Powell: Making Room for the Light, Racing Mount Pleasant: Racing Mount Pleasant, Radiohead: Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009), Rise Against: Ricochet
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PODCAST: Citizen Chef with Tom Colicchio
READ: Thom Hartmann: We Watched Others Fall: Now the Edge Is Beneath Our Feet, Paul Krugman: MAGA’s Feelings Don’t Care About Your Facts
RELIGULOUS: How Republicans plan to end gay marriage - Conservative justices are aching to declare that Christians are oppressed by other people's marriages
SHITASS: Ben Affleck, John Fetterman, Sean Feucht, William King Hale, Erik Killian, Clay Shaw
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: Woodstock 1969 - 50,000 people were expected - 500,000 showed up. 32 musical acts performed. 2 people died at the festival, 2 births were recorded. Who knows how many babies were conceived during the 3-day event.
SPORT: 2025-26 NBA Schedule Released for Official Regular-Season Slate
STREAM: Woodstock (8/15/1969) - Insignificance (Criterion), Macbeth (Apple/Hoopla/Kanopy), Skywalkers: A Love Story (Netflix)
New Film Releases: Americana, Checkpoint Zoo, East of Wall, Fixed (Netflix), Highest 2 Lowest, The Knife, My Undesirable Friends: Last Air in Moscow, Night Always Comes (Netflix), Nobody 2, Pardon Me: The Bevelyn B. Williams Story, Songs From the Hole (Netflix), Suspended Time, Went Up the Hill, Witchboard
Alejandro González Iñárritu Film Festival - The Revenant, Amores Perros, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), 21 Grams, Babel (Hoopla/Kanopy), Biutiful (Kanopy/Prime), Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (Netflix)
Nicolas Roeg Film Festival - Walkabout, Don’t Look Now, Bad Timing, The Witches, Performance, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Insignificance, Two Deaths, Eureka, Castaway, Track 29, Cold Heaven
TRAVEL: Bethel, New York
WELLNESS: Percentage of Americans who say they drink alcohol hits record low
WORD: Relaxation - the absence of worry.
WTF?!: Man Hit With Felony for Throwing Sandwich at Border Officer
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2025 - Trump and Putin meet today in Anchorage. Here's what to know. 2021 - The fall of Afghanistan. 2017 - Trump’s response to the violent protests in Charlottesville were "you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides." He is a fucking piece of shit. 2007 - The Saffron Revolution was a series of economic and political protests and demonstrations that began on this day and took place during August, September, and October in Myanmar. 2001 - Astronomers announced the discovery of the first solar system outside our own - two planets orbiting a star in the Big Dipper. 1998 – Apple introduced the iMac computer. 1998 - A car bomb in Omagh, Northern Ireland, killed 29 people and injured 370. 1973 - US involvement in Vietnam ends. The Case–Church Amendment passed by the US Congress set this day as the deadline for the end of the US military involvement in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Because of this, the US ended all military offensives in Vietnam on this day. 1969 - A group of Protestant loyalists attack the homes and businesses of Catholics on Buddy's street. 1969 - Woodstock Festival was held on Max Yasgur's 600 acre farm in Bethel outside New York. Attended by over 400,000 people, the event featured, Jimi Hendrix, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Santana, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Canned Heat, Joan Baez, Melanie, Ten Years After, Sly and the Family Stone, Johnny Winter, Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shankar, Country Joe and the Fish, Blood Sweat and Tears, Arlo Guthrie, and Joe Cocker. 1965 – The Beatles played to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock. 1955 - Elvis Presley attended a meeting in Memphis with his manager Bob Neal, Colonel Tom Parker and Vernon Presley, at which a new contract was signed that named Colonel Parker as "special advisor" with control of virtually every aspect of Elvis' career. Parker was not really a Colonel at all, but a Dutch immigrant named Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk, whose honorary title was given to him in 1948 by Governor Jimmie Davis of Louisiana. He was a flamboyant promoter whose pre-Elvis experience included shows called The Great Parker Pony Circus and Tom Parker And His Dancing Turkeys and was a veteran of carnivals, medicine shows and various other entertainment enterprises. 1953 - The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état was the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favour of strengthening the monarchical rule of the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on 19 August 1953. It was orchestrated by the United States and the United Kingdom. The clergy also played a considerable role. 1947 – India gained Independence from British rule after near 190 years of Crown rule and joins the Commonwealth of Nations. 1935 - Humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post were killed when their airplane crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska. 1914 – A servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright murdered seven people and set fire to the living quarters of Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin. 1057 - Macbeth, King of Scots, was killed in battle by Malcolm, the eldest son of King Duncan, whom Macbeth had slain.
"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes." Macbeth
