August 28th
Ai Weiwei, Jack Black, Chadwick Boseman, David Fincher, John Huston, Emmett Till, Shania Twain, Florence Welch
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BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): Ai Weiwei, Barbara Bach, Jack Black, Billy Boyd, Hugh Cornwell, Dan Deacon, David Fincher, Janet Frame, Michel Franco, Ben Gazzara, Robert Greenwald, Luis Guzmán, Armie Hammer, Moss Ingram, Jen Kirkman, Mary McCartney, Bruno Nuytten, Donald O’Connor, Phranc, Jason Priestley, Cindy Rahberger, LeAnn Rimes, Joann Sfar, Daniel Stern, Alana Thompson, Shania Twain, Quvenzhané Wallis, Florence Welch
DEAD (R.I.P.): Chadwick Boseman, Charles Darrow, DJ AM, Murray Gershenz, Ruth Gordon, George Green, John Huston, Anissa Jones, Hilly Kristal, Edmond H. North, Ronnie Self, Robert Shaw, Vince Taylor, Emmett Till, Lamarr Trotti, Brian Wells
DEEP THOUGHTS: The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
EAT ME: Cherry Turnovers, Red Wine Day - Cabernet Sauvignon Day (2025), Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers (8/28/1996), Subway (8/28/1965)
FOODIE:
HOLIDAY: Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day
Note: Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day, observed annually on August 28th, is a day set aside to honor and remember our cherished pets who have passed away. This day is a beautiful reminder of the deep bond we share with our animal companions and the promise of a hopeful reunion.
HOROSCOPE: The stars indicate that you've been looking really great lately. Also, the stars indicate that they could really use your help moving next weekend.
HOW-TO: Dispose a Dead Pet, Drink Wine, Make Cane’s Sauce
JOKE: A guy brought his dog into the vet. He didn't want to admit and accept the fact his dog died. The vet told the owner the dog is dead. The guy demanded a 2nd opinion. The vet gets a cat. The cat sniffs the dead dog and said "meow". The vet said the cat agrees the dog is dead. The owner demands a 3rd opinion. So the vet gets another dog who is alive. That sniffs the dead dog and barks. That is the 3rd opinion which is the dog is dead. The owner cannot argue 3 opinions. He finally agrees to pay his bill and leave. The owner is told some ungodly high amount and of course is mad. He demands to know why his bill is so high. The vet said "Well you did ask for a cat scan and lab report"
PLAYLIST: Beach House: Depression Cherry (8/28/2015), Devo: Q. Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (8/28/1978), Marvin Gaye: Let’s Get it On (8/28/1973), Merle Haggard: Branded Man (8/28/1967), Morrissey: Southpaw Grammar (8/28/1995) - Dan Deacon: Glass Riffer (2015), Florence and the Machine: How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (2015), Phranc: Folksinger (1985), The Stranglers: 10 (1990) - Earl Sweatshirt: Live Laugh Love
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - CBGB, Florence and the Machine, The Stranglers, Tenacious D
Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
PODCAST: No Fun with Jen Kirkman - The Ezra Klein Show
QUESTION: What books shaped you in high school? Here's what you said
READ: Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo (8/28/1844-1846) - The Nation: A Guide to the Everyday Acts That Can Gum Up the Fascist Machine, John Pavlovitz: Hey Republicans, It's the Damn Guns. And, It's You, Robert Reich: How to respond to Trump's lies about a "crime wave"
RELIGULOUS: God Admits Heaven Was Way Cooler In The ’70s
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SHITASS: Armie Hammer
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: 339 U.S. mass shootings in 2025 - Today is the 240th day of the year
STREAM: High Fidelity (Hulu), Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story (AMC), The Man Who Would Be King (Hoopla/TCM), A Minecraft Movie (HBO Max), Orion and the Dark (Netflix), Prizzi’s Honor (Prime), Se7en (Peacock), The Thursday Murder Club (Netflix)
STREAM (CRITERION): Let There Be Light, Under the Volcano, Wise Blood
David Fincher Film Festival - Fight Club, Se7en, Gone Girl, The Social Network, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Zodiac, The Game, Panic Room, Mank (Netflix), The Killer (Netflix), Alien 3 - The Adventures of Cliff Booth (Coming Soon)
John Huston Film Festival - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Maltese Falcon, The Asphalt Jungle, The African Queen, The Man Who Would Be King, Key Largo, The Night of the Iguana, Moby Dick, Heaven Knows Mr. Allison, The Misfits, Fat City, The Dead, Wise Blood, Across the Pacific, Under the Volcano, Prizzi’s Honor, Reflections in a Golden Eye, Beat the Devil
TRUMPED: Yesterday in one sentence: The FDA revoked emergency use authorizations for COVID-19 vaccines and restricted access to new shots; Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed the CDC director less than a month after her confirmation for “not supporting President Trump’s agenda”; at least 30 FEMA employees were placed on administrative leave after signing an open letter warning that Trump’s leadership left the agency unable to respond to major disasters; Jeanine Pirro, the former Fox News host now serving as U.S. attorney in Washington, failed to secure a felony indictment against a man who threw a Subway sandwich at a federal officer; more than 2,200 National Guard troops deployed under Trump’s “crime emergency” in Washington have been assigned trash collection, mulching, and graffiti removal alongside policing duties; the Trump administration said it will take over control of Washington’s Union Station from Amtrak; 53% of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of crime; 38% of Americans support Trump’s use of National Guard troops to police Washington, D.C.; 56% of voters oppose Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C.; and Democrats flipped a Republican-held Iowa Senate seat in a district Trump won by 11 points last year.
WELLNESS: MAHA is going to kill us all.
WORD: Freedom - Free at Last!
WTF?!: ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2020 - Actor Chadwick Boseman died at the age of 43. 2014 - President Obama wore a tan suit to work and the world lost its goddamn mind. 2007 - Hilly Kristal died. He was an American club owner and musician who owned the iconic New York City club, CBGB, which opened in 1973 and closed in 2006. He was 75 years old. 2003 – In "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI", Brian Wells dies after becoming involved in a complex plot involving a bank robbery, a scavenger hunt, and a homemade explosive device. 1968 – Rioting took place in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention, triggering a brutal police crackdown. 1964 - In a room in the Delmonico hotel at Park Avenue and 59th in New York City – at a rendezvous brokered with a keen eye to a story by journalist, mutual friend and assiduous self-publicist Al Aronowitz – the Beatles encountered Bob Dylan for the first time. Bob introduced marijuana to them - Ringo went first - everybody must of got stoned. 1964 – The Philadelphia race riot begins. 1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his I Have a Dream speech. 1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator. He was a racist piece of shit. 1955 - Emmett Till, an African-American teenager from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle's home in Mississippi and killed by two white men after he was accused of whistling at a white woman - or whistling while being black. He was 14 years old. 632 – Fatimah, daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad died, with her cause of death being a controversial topic among the Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims.
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Martin Luther King
