December 28th
Jessie Buckley, John Legend, Seth Meyers, Sam Peckinpah, Debbie Reynolds, Frank Turner, Denzil Washington
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BORN (ENTER): Kasia Adamik, Jessie Buckley, Alex Chilton, Richard Clayderman, Lili Elbe, James Foley, William Gates, Jared Gilman, Gordi, Zach Hill, Katie Hobbs, Mikhail Kalatozov, Gayle King, Stan Lee, John Legend, Joe Manganiello, Andy McNab, Seth Meyers, Sienna Miller, F.W. Murnau, Ana Navarro, Charlie Pierce, Catherine Popper, Charles Portis, Noomi Rapace, Lawrence Schiller, Maggie Smith, Frank Turner, Denzil Washington, Edgar Winter, Rhonda Yant
DEAD (EXIT): John Bowman, John Bradbury, Clarence Day, Michel Déon, Theodore Dreiser, Ted Gardner, Sue Grafton, William X. Kienzle, Freddie King, Koreyoshi Kurahara, Lemmy, A.J. Liebling, John D. MacDonald, John Madden, Clayton Moore, Jerry Orbach, Amos Oz, Sam Peckinpah, Frankie Randall, Maurice Ravel, Harry Reid, Debbie Reynolds, Rose Marie, Lowell Sherman, Susan Sontag, Recy Taylor, Mary Weiss, Dennis Wilson - Greg Gumbel (12/27/2024)
DEEP THOUGHTS: Not everyone grows up to be an astronaut. Not everyone was born to be a king. Not everyone can be Freddie Mercury. Everyone can raise a glass and sing. Well I haven’t always been a perfect person and I haven’t done what mom and dad had dream. But on the day I die I’ll say, at least I fucking tried. That’s the only eulogy I need.
FOODIE: Chocolate Candy - Four Calling Birds (On the fourth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, Four Calling Birds)
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HOLIDAY: Card Playing Day, Short Film Day
HOROSCOPE: You will get a haircut this week. However, when people ask if you got a haircut, you will enigmatically say, "Yes, I got them all cut."
JOKE: A woman once said, "A man is like a deck of playing cards. You need: A Heart to love him, a Diamond to marry him, a Club to smash his fucking head in, and a Spade to bury the prick.
PLAYLIST: Big Star: Radio City (1974), Alex Chilton: Loose Shoes and Tight Pussy (1999), John Legend: Get Lifted (12/28/2004), John Legend: My Favorite Dream (2024), Motörhead: Bomber/On Parole/Overkill (1979), Puss n Boots: No Fools, No Fun (2014), The Specials: The Specials (1979), Frank Turner: Undefeated (2024), Edgar Winter: Shock Treatment (1974)
Suicide: Suicide (12/28/1977)
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READ: Susan Sontag: In America (1999) - McSweeney’s: Baby, It's Me, Polio, and I've Missed You, The Onion: Marriage Counselor Sides With Hotter Spouse
SHITASS: Lemmy (49% Motherfucker - 51% Son of a Bitch), Donald Wildmon
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: Ticket sold in California has won the estimated $1.22 billion Mega Millions jackpot
SPACED: If the weather forecast calls for clear skies to the southeast on Saturday morning, Dec. 28, it will be worth venturing outside around breakfast time to see the pretty spectacle of the old, waning moon’s slender crescent shining close to Scorpius’ bright star Antares and brighter Mercury. All three objects will clear the treetops by about 6:15 a.m. local time. Reddish Antares will sparkle just to the moon’s lower left. They’ll be extra close together for observers in westerly time zones. Mercury’s bright dot will be positioned nearly a fist’s diameter to the left (or 9 degrees to the celestial northeast) of Antares. The old moon should also display Earthshine, also known as the Ashen Glow and “the old moon in the new moon’s arms”. The phenomenon, sunlight reflected off Earth and back onto the moon, slightly brightening the dark portion of the moon’s Earth-facing hemisphere, appears for several days before and after each new moon.
STREAM: Black Sun (Criterion), Constellation (Apple), Fancy Dance (Apple), Fingernails (Apple), Gladiator II (in theaters), Hoop Dreams (Criterion/Max), I Am Cuba (Criterion/Hoopla/Kanopy), Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza (Paramount), Regarding Susan Sontag (Kanopy) - Saturday Night Live: 1988-1994, 2001-2014 (Peacock)
Mikhail Kalatozov Double Feature - The Cranes are Flying, I Am Cuba, Letter Never Sent
Koreyoshi Kurahara Film Festival - Black Sun, I Am Waiting, I Hate But Love, Intimidation, Thirst for Love, The Warped Ones
Sam Peckinpah Film Festival - Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Convoy, Cross of Iron, The Deadly Companions, The Getaway, The Killer Elite, One-Eyed Jacks, Par Garrett and Billy the Kid, Ride the High Country, Riot in Cell Block 11, Straw Dogs, The Wild Bunch
TRAVEL: Boulevard des Capucines, Iowa
VOX: 2024, in 4 Minutes
WTF!?: Elon Musk Agrees With Post That Calls Americans ‘Retarded’
WWW: ACLU, Adbusters, Apple Music, ASPCA, Banned Book Club, The Brigid Alliance, Clown Crack, Cost Plus Drugs, Democracy Now!, Everytown, EXO Film Festival, How to Do Everything, Just Watch, Kanopy, John Lurie, The New York Times, No Mercy/No Malice, Positive Legacy, Reasons to be Cheerful, Right to Music, Starship Casual, The Straight Dope, Strummerville, TeachRock, Trader Joes, Wilco, World Central Kitchen, Zinn Education Project - Blue Sky
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2008 - The Detroit Lions completed an 0-16 season, the NFL's worst ever, with a 31-21 loss to the Green Bay Packers. 1983 - Having made two successful dives below a friend’s yacht to find items he’d drunkenly thrown off his own boat three years before, The Beach Boys Dennis Wilson took one last dive into the Pacific and never returned from the boat moored in Marina Del Rey, California. With the help of President Reagan he was given a burial at sea, normally reserved for Naval personnel. Dennis was the only genuine surfer in The Beach Boys. 1973 – The United States Endangered Species Act was signed into law by President Richard Nixon. 1972 – The last scheduled day for induction into the military by the Selective Service System. Due to the fact that President Richard Nixon declared this day a national day of mourning due to former President Harry S Truman's death, approximately 300 men were not able to report due to most Federal offices being closed. Since the draft was not resumed in 1973, they were never drafted. 1895 – The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines, marking the debut of the cinema. 1846 - Iowa became the 29th state. 169 BC – The menorah is lit to rededicate the Holy Temple of Jerusalem after two centuries of foreign rule and religious oppression and a seven-year revolt. The menorah burns for eight days without the sufficient fuel needed to do so, birthing the holiday Hanukkah.
"Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics." Susan Sontag