August 31st
Princess Diana, John Ford, Richard Gere, Van Morrison, Joe Swanberg, Glenn Tilbrook, Chris Tucker, Marc Webb
Good Morning - Hello! It is Sunday, August 31st (Day 243). Welcome to ExitEnter, your daily newsletter of the day ahead of you. There is lots of shit happening and ExitEnter wants to help you plan for it. But first, you should probably catch up on all the news this morning and check out your sports scores. Also, see what the weather is going to be like wherever you are. Thanks for reading and/or subscribing.
BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): Julie Brown, Jalen Brunson, Joseph Cedar, Eldridge Cleaver, James Coburn, Roger Dean, Ramona Diaz, Hilary Farr, Larry Fitzgerald, Lowell Ganz, Richard Gere, Debbie Gibson, Buddy Hackett, Larry Hankin, Chad Hartigan, Stephen McKinley Henderson, George Kuchar, Mike Kuchar, Van Morrison, Simon Neil, Craig Nicholls, Itzahk Perlman, Quinton A. Reynolds, Rick Roberts, Martin Rosen, William Saroyan, Rudolf Schenker, Gina Schock, Joe Swanberg, Glenn Tilbrook, Chris Tucker, Johnny Wactor, Zack Ward, Marc Webb, Bob Welch, Chris Whitley
DEAD (R.I.P.): Richard Anderson, Charles Baudelaire, Michael Constantine, Crash Davis, Princess Diana, John Ford, David Frost, Lionel Hampton, Jimi Jamison, Rocky Marciano, Mary Ann Nichols, H.C. Potter, John Thompson, Carl Wayne, Rosel Zech
DEEP THOUGHTS: I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman’s back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good bourbon, that the novels of Ayn Rand are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
EAT ME: Eat Outside Day, Trail Mix - Goats Head Soup
HOLIDAY: Overdose Awareness Day
HOROSCOPE: Use the watering can of good intentions to nurture the fig tree of expectations. There, enjoy figuring that one out, you jerks.
HOW-TO: Help Someone That Has Overdosed, Hike
JOKE: What did the heroin addict get on his IQ test? Drool - Why is Princess Diana like a mobile phone? They both die in tunnels.
PLAYLIST: The Beach Boys: Sunflower (8/31/1970), The Breeders: Last Splash (8/31/1993), Dr. John: The Sun, Moon and Herbs (8/31/1971), The Gun Club: Fire of Love (8/31/1981), Michael Jackson: Bad (8/31/1987), R.E.M.: Document (8/31/1987), The Rolling Stones: Goats Head Soup (8/31/1973) - Van Morrison: Moondance (1970), Scorpions: In Trance (1975), Squeeze: Argybargy (1980) - The Tragically Hip: Fully Completely
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Van Morrison, Scorpions, Squeeze
Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
Check out the Sunday Morning Jazz Playlist, Check out the Sunday Brunch with the Beatles Playlist
PODCAST: The Joe Budden Podcast, Pod Save America
READ: Adbusters, Mr. Fish - Cartoonists on the Week in Politics
RELIGULOUS: My Husband Is An Evil Atheist Who Hates Me - Because only God is capable of love apparently
SCIENCE!: First Quarter Moon (Again)
SHAMELESS PLUG: Naloxone
SHITASS: Mohammad Bin Salman, Jerome Corsi
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: ExitEnter has surpassed 100 followers. That’s pretty awesome, thanks friends.
STREAM: Apocalypse in the Tropics (Netflix), Digging for Fire (Kanopy), The Dissident (Hoopla/Kanopy), The Grapes of Wrath (Hoopla), Oh Canada (Kanopy)
STREAM (CRITERION): Directed by Maurice Pialat - Stagecoach, Watership Down
John Ford Film Festival - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Grapes of Wrath, The Searchers, Stagecoach, The Quiet Man, My Darling Clementine, How Green Was My Valley, Mister Roberts, Young Mr. Lincoln, Bad Men, How the West Was Won: The Civil War - Directed by John Ford
TRAVEL: Pont de l'Alma
TRUMPED: Where is Trump?
WELLNESS: Why Eating Outside Is Good For Your Mental Health
WORD: Gerbaling - also known as gerbil stuffing or gerbil shooting, is an urban legend description of a fictitious sexual practice of inserting small live animals (usually gerbils but also mice, hamsters, rats and various other rodents) into one's rectum to obtain stimulation.
WTF?!: This Week in Stupid
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2020 - Apple lost $180 billion today. This is the most money that any company in history has lost in one day, which is a gobsmacking fact on its own. Now, consider this: even after losing the most money in one day ever, Apple still had a valuation well above $2 trillion, a truly unfathomable amount of money. And despite that massive loss, the company's stock was still up 65 percent at market close from January 2020 and up 127 percent from that time last year. 2016 – Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff is impeached and removed from office. 2010 - President Barack Obama ended the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, declaring no victory after seven years of needless bloodshed. 2009 - Walt Disney announced it was acquiring comic book giant Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion. 2001 - Lawrence “Crash” Davis” died at the age of 82. He was the inspiration and main character in the film Bull Durham. 1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales and her companion Dodi Fayed died in a car crash in Paris at age 36 after being chased by Paparazzi. 1992 - White separatist Randy Weaver surrendered to authorities in Idaho, ending an 11-day siege by federal agents that claimed the lives of Weaver's wife and son and a deputy U.S. marshal. 1985 - California's "Night Stalker" killer Richard Ramirez was captured by residents of an East Los Angeles neighborhood. 1939 – Nazi Germany mounts a false flag attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day, thus starting World War II in Europe. 1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector. 1888 - Mary Ann Nichols, a prostitute, was found murdered in London's East End. She is generally regarded as the first victim of Jack the Ripper.
“This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.” Crash Davis
“Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee.” David Frost
