July 12th
Rachel Brosnahan, Bill Cosby, Alexander Hamilton, Malala, Mac McCaughan, Harvey Pekar, Minnie Riperton
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BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): Billy Alessi, Bobby Alessi, Milton Berle, Monte Brice, Rachel Brosnahan, Tod Browning, Bill Cosby, Delia Ephron, Tak Fujimoto, Edward Gallano, Tim Gane, Topher Grace, Brian Grazer, Monte Hellman, Jerusa Hess, Adam Johnson, David Kellman, Cheryl Ladd, Phil Lord, Mac McCaughan, Christine McVie, Dan Murphy, Jan Němec, Big John Patton, Michelle Rodriquez, Robert Shaffran, Richard Simmons, Henry David Thoreau, Brian Unger, Robin Wilson, Bambi Woods, Malala Yousafzai
DEAD (R.I.P.): Gertrude Bell, Benny Carter, Lon Chaney Jr., Richard Cromwell, Jimmy Driftwood, Alexander Hamilton, Oscar Hammerstein II, James Wong Howe, Tuli Kupferberg, Joshua Logan, Dolley Madison, Jonathan Melvoin, Jim Mitchell, Earl Nelson, Harvey Pekar, Kelly Preston, Antonio Pietrangeli, Minnie Riperton, Charles Rolls, Sherwood Schwartz, Ruth Westheimer, Chris Wood
DEEP THOUGHTS: Women don’t want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.
EAT ME: Cava, Jello, Micheladas, Pecan Pie
FOODIE: Jell-O With Natural Dyes? It’s Not Easy Becoming Green.
HOLIDAY: Disco Demolition Day, Simplicity Day
HOROSCOPE: Remember to take things one day at a time this week, even if you have the ability to exist outside of time.
HOW-TO: Be a Simple Person, Disco Dance
JOKE: Bill Cosby was a great comedian - even his drinks tasted funny.
THE ONION: Texas Politicians Used Burner Email To Request FEMA Funds
PLAYLIST (ALBUMS OF THE DAY): Fleetwood Mac: Fleetwood Mac (1975), Golden Smog: Down by the Old Mainstream (1995), Big John Patton: Let ‘Em Roll (1965), Soul Asylum: Let Your Dim Light Shine (1995), Stereolab: Instant Holograms on Metal Film (2025), Superchunk: Here's Where the Strings Come In (1995) - Wavves: Spun
Bananarama: True Confessions (7/12/1986), Bleached: Do You Think You’ve Had Enough? (7/12/2019), Funkadelic: Maggot Brain (7/12/1971), Johnny Blue Skies: Passage du Desi (7/12/2024), Khruangbin: Hasta El Cielo (7/12/2019), Kenny Loggins: Nightwatch (7/12/1978), The Soup Dragons (7/12/1990)
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Disco, Gin Blossoms, Golden Smog, Minnie Riperton, Stereolab, Superchunk
Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
READ: McSweeney’s: Trade Your Way to Wellness: A Patriotic Guide to Farm-Fresh Health Care
RELIGULOUS: Weekly Recap: Pentecostal ChatGPT, Star Wars Easter in July, and More!
SCIENCE!: James Webb Space Telescope marks 3rd anniversary: What to know about observatory
SHITASS: Bill Cosby, Kyrsten Sinema, Tony Snow
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: Republicans have helped kill 129 people in Texas. 170 are still missing due to recent flash floods, according to ABC News and CNN. The floods, which began on July 4th, have caused widespread devastation, particularly in the Texas Hill Country. Search and rescue efforts are ongoing, with a focus on recovering bodies and locating the missing, though hopes of finding survivors are dwindling. Would they rather talk about this or Jeffrey Epstein?
STREAM: Bisbee ‘17 (Hoopla), Hamilton (Disney/Hulu), I Knew Her Well (Criterion), Ride in the Whirlwind (Criterion/Hoopla)
TRAVEL: Bisbee, Arizona
WELLNESS: We're Never Going to Feel Normal Again - So just be weird.
WORD: Simplicity - is the state or quality of being simple. Something easy to understand or explain seems simple, in contrast to something complicated. Alternatively, as Herbert A. Simon suggests, something is simple or complex depending on the way we choose to describe it. In some uses, the label "simplicity" can imply beauty, purity, or clarity. In other cases, the term may suggest a lack of nuance or complexity relative to what is required. The concept of simplicity is related to the field of epistemology and philosophy of science (e.g., in Occam's razor). Religions also reflect on simplicity with concepts such as divine simplicity. In human lifestyles, simplicity can denote freedom from excessive possessions or distractions, such as having a simple living style.
WTF?!: Arizona Man Dies of Bubonic Plague Within a Day of Showing Symptoms
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 1962 – The Rolling Stones performed their first show, at London's Marquee Club. 1962 - A garbage dump begins to burn underground, and the fire spreads to nearby coal mining tunnels. It was still burning in 1984. It may still be burning. 1954 - Elvis Presley signed his first recording contract and quit his job as a truck driver. The contract was with Sun Records. 1917 - The Bisbee Deportation: It was the illegal kidnapping and deportation of about 1,300 striking mine workers, their supporters, and citizen bystanders by 2,000 members of a deputized posse, who arrested these people beginning on this day. The action was orchestrated by Phelps Dodge, the major mining company in the area, which provided lists of workers and others who were to be arrested in Bisbee, Arizona to the Cochise County sheriff, Harry C. Wheeler. These workers were arrested and held at a local baseball park before being loaded into cattle cars and deported 200 miles to Tres Hermanas in New Mexico. The 16-hour journey was through desert without food or water. Once unloaded, the deportees, most without money or transportation, were warned against returning to Bisbee. Shameful. 1910 - Charles Rolls died at the age of 32. He and Henry Royce founded the car company Rolls-Royce. It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce and 13 hours to build a Toyota. 1880 - Lewis (first name unknown) was briefly a professional baseball player; he played one game for the Buffalo Bisons of the Major League Baseball (MLB) Players' League (PL) on this day. Having approached the team for a tryout, Lewis was the starting pitcher for the visiting Bisons against the Brooklyn Ward's Wonders. During the three innings he pitched, Lewis allowed 20 runs, all earned, before being moved to left field, where he played the remainder of the game. The Bisons lost 28–16, with Lewis the losing pitcher; the total of 44 runs set an MLB record that stood until 1922. In the third inning Lewis gave up two home runs to Lou Bierbauer, only the second time a major league batter had hit two home runs in a single inning. The press described Lewis as a "failure", "unfortunate", and a "much disgusted ball tosser". Lewis's earned run average (ERA) of 60.00 and walks plus hits per inning pitched (WHIP) rate of 6.667 were the worst of any pitcher in the one-season history of the PL.
“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.” Alexander Hamilton
"Everybody’s like everybody else, and everybody’s different from everybody else." Harvey Pekar
“God against man. Man against God. Man against nature. Nature against man. Nature against God. God against nature. Very funny religion!” D.T. Suzuki
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.” Henry David Thoreau
“With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.” Malala Yousafzai
Truth.