July 11th
Andrew Bird, Shelley Duvall, George Gershwin, Peter Murphy, Laurence Olivier, Jafar Panahi, Tommy Ramone
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BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): Aaron, Giorgio Armani, Michal Aviad, David Baerwald, Andrew Bird, Yul Brynner, Kathleen Edwards, Greg Grunberg, John Henson, Tom Holland, Blu Hunt, Tobias Jesso Jr., Stephen Lang, Myra Lewis-Williams, Lil’ Kim, Bruce McGill, Greg Mottola, Peter Murphy, Jafar Panahi, Lisa Rinna, Michael Rose, Richie Sambora, Mindy Sterling, Joe Talbot, Suzanne Vega, Sela Ward, E.B. White
DEAD (R.I.P.): King Baggot, Herman Brood, Grace Brown, John W. Campbell, Ray Collins, Shelley Duvall, Richard Franklin, George Gershwin, Charlie Haden, Shannon Heil, Lady Bird Johnson, Milan Kundera, Laurence Olivier, Tommy Ramone
DEEP THOUGHTS: If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
EAT ME: Blueberry Muffins, Mojitos, Rainier Cherries - French Fries (2025), Kebabs (2025), 7/11 Slurpees
FOODIE: The Tiny Chef Show
HOLIDAY: World Population Day
HOROSCOPE: Lately it seems all your imaginary friends just want to sit around all day and watch television.
HOW-TO: Calculate Population Density, Stop Population - Scan a QR Code
JOKE: My town's population never changes. Every time a girl gets pregnant, a guy leaves town - The spread of COVID-19 is based on two factors 1. How dense the population is 2. How dense the population is - Did you know the first French fries weren’t actually cooked in France? They were cooked in Greece.
THE ONION: Study: 97% Of Average American’s Day Spent Retrieving 6-Digit Codes
PLAYLIST: David Baerwald: Bedtime Stories (1990), Bauhaus: In the Flat Field (1980), Andrew Bird: Andrew Bird and the Mysterious Production of Eggs (2005), Black Uhuru: Sinsemilla (1980), Kathleen Edwards: Back to Me (2005), Tobias Jesso Jr.: Goon (2015), Suzanne Vega: Suzanne Vega (1985)
David Bowie: “Space Oddity” (7/11/1969), Fleetwood Mac: Fleetwood Mac (7/11/1975), The Format: Dog Problems (7/11/2006), The Horrors: Skying (7/11/2011), Joy Division: Substance (7/11/1988), The Rolling Stones: Voodoo Lounge (7/11/1994), Ultravox: Vienna (7/11/1980)
New Music Releases: Gina Birch: Trouble, Clipse: Let God Sort Em Out, The Swell Season: Forward, Wet Leg: Moisturizer
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - David Baerwald, Andrew Bird, George Gershwin, Ramones
Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
READ: Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird (7/11/1960) - The Sentinel-Intelligence: The Real Truth Behind The Epstein Files, Jeff Tiedrich: let’s not politicize this tragedy, whine the shitwads who politicize everything, Wonkette: You'll Never Guess Why MAGA Is Shitting Its Pants Over 'Superman' (Yes You Will), Abby Zimet: All You Fascists Bound To Lose
RELIGULOUS: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and wife announce divorce on ‘biblical grounds’ - Vile, disgusting people.
SHITASS: Gerhard Kittel, Nadya Suleman
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: The world population is projected to be 8,231,613,070 on July 1, 2025. This is an increase of roughly 70 million people from the beginning of 2025. The world's population is expected to continue growing, though at a slower rate
STREAM: Dexter: Resurrection (Paramount), Foundation: Season 3 (Apple), Opus (HBO Max), Pavements (Mubi), 7 Films by Suzan Pitt (Criterion)
New Film Releases: Abraham’s Boys, Apocalypse in the Tropics, Before We Forget, Brick (Netflix), Daniela Forever, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Kill the Jockey, Little Big and Far, Madea’s Destination Wedding (Netflix), Skillhouse, Sovereign, Superman, Wild Diamond
Jafar Panahi Film Festival - It Was Just an Accident, The White Balloon, The Mirror, Crimson Gold, This Is Not a Film, The Circle, Taxi, Offside, No Bears, 3 Faces, Closed Curtin
TRAVEL: Big Ben
TRUMPED: Yesterday in one sentence: A federal judge blocked Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship, approving a class-action lawsuit to sidestep a recent Supreme Court ruling that limited nationwide injunctions; a former Justice Department attorney accused Trump officials of ignoring federal court orders and pressuring lawyers to lie to judges during deportation cases; the FBI used polygraph tests to ask senior officials whether they’ve said anything negative about Director Kash Patel; a federal appeals court upheld a $5 million civil verdict against Trump for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll; and FEMA couldn’t deploy rescue teams to the Texas floods without Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s sign-off.
WELLNESS: The Death of Partying in the U.S.A.—and Why It Matters
WORD: LOLQTM - Laugh out Loud Quietly to Myself
WTF?!: Texas County Flagged Need for Flood Alarm Months Before Tragedy - This is what you get with republican leadership. This is only the beginning of what’s coming. Good job America.
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2021 – Richard Branson becomes the first civilian to be launched into space via his Virgin Galactic spacecraft. 2014 - Tommy Ramone - the last remaining original member of the Ramones died of cancer. Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, Tommy. They were all my friends and they died. 1995 - UN translator and former schoolteacher Aida Selmanagić tried to save her family after the Army of Republika Srpska takes over the city of Srebrenica prior to the Srebrenica massacre. 1979 - The abandoned U.S. space station Skylab returned to Earth, burning up in the atmosphere and showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia. 1973 – Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris, France on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on board. The fire that brought down the plane was perhaps a discarded lit cigarette. In response, the FAA bans smoking in airplane lavatories. 1906 – Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. 1859 - Big Ben, the great bell inside the famous London clock tower, chimed for the first time. 1804 – A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.” Lady Bird Johnson
“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book." E.B. White
