December 12th
Danny Aiello, Peter Boyle, Jennifer Connelly, Pat DiNizio, Lucas Hedges, John le Carré, Yasujirō Ozu, Sinatra
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BORN (ENTER): Maren Ade, Madchen Amick, Belouis Some, Dickey Betts, Mayim Bialik, E. Jean Carroll, Jennifer Connelly, Danny Boy, Shelia Escovedo, Mike Golic, Regina Hall, Wings Hauser, Lucas Hedges, Dagur Kari, Rory Kennedy, Sophie Kinsella, Yam Laranas, Lo Wei, Julia Loktev, Edvard Munch, Bill Nighy, Patrick O’Brian, Cathay Rigby, Frank Sinatra, Rob Tyner, Dionne Warwick, Grover Washington Jr., Hank Williams III, Joe Williams
DEAD (EXIT): Danny Aiello, Chabua Amirejibi, Mildred Bailey, Tallulah Bankhead, Peter Boyle, Norman Bridwell, Dee Brown, Robert Browning, Eddie “Guitar” Burns, Paul Cadmus, Clifton Chenier, Marco Denevi, Pat DiNinzio, Ewald Andre Dupont, Douglas Fairbanks, Renee Jeanne Falconetti, Vicente Fernández, Connie Francis, Shirley Hazzard, Van Johnson, Enrique Jorrin, Terry Kay, Keiko, Tom Laughlin, John le Carré, Ranald MacDougall, Stuart Margolin, Yasujirō Ozu, Charley Pride, Remy, Ian Stewart, Ike Turner, Blue Gene Tyranny
DEEP THOUGHTS: America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
EAT ME: Ambrosia, Gingerbread House Day, Phở’
FOODIE: Girl Scouts roll out a new flavor as annual sales of its tasty treats begin
HOLIDAY: Neutrality Day, Poinsettia Day, Universal Health Coverage Day
HOROSCOPE: Strong eye contact and a firm handshake will help you to make significant strides in the world of being a humongous prick this week.
JOKE: What country is is the worst-performing nation for health care among a group of 11 high-income countries? The United States.
PLAYLIST: ABBA: ABBA: The Album (12/12/1977), Burning Spear: Marcus Garvey (12/12/1975), The Clash: Sandinista! (12/12/1980), The Fall: Perverted by Language (12/12/1983) -
New Music Releases: Jad Fair and Yo La Tengo: Strange but True, Fred Again: USB, Hercules and Love Affair: Someone Else Is Calling, Nas and DJ Premier: Light-Years, Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here 50, This Is Lorelei: Holo Boy
Check out The Big Beat Playlist: December Edition, Check out the Holiday Mixer - Frank Sinatra, The Smithereens, Dionne Warwick
READ: E. Jean Carroll: Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President (2025) - Steve Schmidt: The “A+++ economy”, Jeff Tiedrich: Republican women are revolting, Vice, Wired, Wonkette: Trump More Hated, Mocked, Loathed And Loathsome Than Ever. Does It Matter?, Abby Zimet: Garbage: Racist Shits ‘R Us
RELIGULOUS: “There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in his name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I’ll show you a hundred retrogressions…I’m for decency—period. I’m for anything and everything that bodes love and consideration for my fellow man. But when lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday—count me out.” Frank Sinatra
SCIENCE!: Today’s Moon Phase
SHAMELESS PLUG: The Paper Clip Mutiny
SHITASS: Billy Milligan, Ike Turner, Jacob Wohl
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: The Senate rejected competing Democratic and Republican health care bills, all but ensuring that enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies used by more than 20 Million Americans will expire at the end of the year.
STREAM: All About Eve, Boystown, 537 Votes (HBO Max), Free Willy, Love Actually, The Passion of Joan of Arc (Criterion), What’s Love Got to Do with It - American Masters: Dick Van Dyke (PBS), Influencers (Shudder), The Mastermind (Mubi), My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow, One Battle After Another (PPV), Sarah Squirm: Live + In the Flesh (HBO Max), Sorry, Baby (HBO Max), Taylor Swift: The End of an Era (Disney), Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (Netflix)
New Film Releases: Dust Bunny, Ella McCay, Not Without Hope, The Shining (IMAX)
Yasujirō Ozu Film Festival - Late Spring, Tokyo Story, Early Summer, Tokyo Twilight, An Autumn Afternoon, Floating Weeds, Late Autumn, Good Morning, I Was Born, But…, Equinox Flower, Early Spring, The Only Son, The End of Summer, Record of a Tenement Gentleman, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice, A Story of Floating Weeds, There Was a Father, The Munekata Sisters, An Inn in Tokyo, A Hen in the Wind, The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family, Passing Fancy, Tokyo Chorus, What Did the Lady Forget?, Woman of Tokyo, Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?, Dragnet Girl, That Night’s Wife, Walk Cheerfully, A Mother Should Be Loved, The Lady and the Beard, I Flunked, But…, I Graduated, But…, A Straightforward Boy - In Search of Ozu (Criterion), Tokyo-Ga (Criterion)
TRAVEL: Boystown, Busch Stadium
UNFUCK THE WORLD: Day 1787: “Wasting your time.”
WE’RE HISTORY: Yesterday Once More
WELLNESS: More than 250 people in South Carolina have been quarantined due to a measles outbreak - MAHAHAHHAHAHA!
WORD: Kisunla - Did a Medical Pro Crack the Trump Health Crisis Secret/Alzheimer’s Code?
WTF?!: Man Dies of Rabies After Receiving Kidney From Someone Scratched by a Skunk
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HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2015 – The Paris Agreement relating to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was adopted. 2003 - Keiko, the killer whale made famous by the “Free Willy” movies, died in a Norwegian fjord. 2002 - Free Winona!: Actress Winona Ryder was arrested for shoplifting. 2000 – The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore. 537 votes. It was bullshit. 1980 - My favorite Milwaukee Brewer, Sixto Lezcano was traded to the St. Louis Cardinal. I, at 13-years old was devastated. I immediately became a Cardinal fan and never looked back. 1970 - The Doors play their last live show with Jim Morrison in New Orleans. 1969 - Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas founded the production company American Zoetrope in San Francisco. 1957 - Jerry Lee Lewis (22 years old) married Myra Williams (13-year old), his cousin. They were married for 13 years. 1946 – A fire at an ice plant in Hudson Heights, Manhattan spreads to an adjacent tenement, killing 37 people. Wait - Ice? What? 1941 – Adolf Hitler declares the imminent extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery. 1925 - The first motel, the Motel Inn, opened, in San Luis Obispo, California 1917 – In Nebraska, Father Edward J. Flanagan founded Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys. 1098 - Siege of Ma’arrat al-Numan: Crusaders breach the town’s walls and massacre about 20,000 inhabitants. After finding themselves with insufficient food, they reportedly resorted to cannibalism.
“Home’s where you go when you run out of homes.” John le Carré
“I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.” Frank Sinatra
