July 16th
Jane Birkin, Biz Markie, Harry Chapin, Stewart Copeland, Will Ferrell, George A. Romero, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): Mark Anderson, Kate Berlant, Rubén Blades, Phoebe Cates, Stewart Copeland, Desmond Dekker, Scott Derrickson, Jeremy Enigk, Corey Feldman, Will Ferrell, Rupert Jee, Ed Kowalczyk, Tony Kushner, Barbara Lee, Chris Pontius, Graham Robertson, Ginger Rogers, Tim Ryan, Barry Sanders, Larry Sanger, Assata Shakur, Milly Shapiro, Barbara Stanwyck, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
DEAD (R.I.P.): William Asher, Bob Babbitt, Jane Birkin, Biz Markie, Heinrich Böll, Ned Buntline, Harry Chapin, Johnny Clegg, Alan Crosland, Celia Cruz, Patrick Dewaere, John F. Kennedy Jr., Jon Lord, John Panozzo, George A. Romero, Jo Stafford, John Paul Stevens, Alan Vega, Kitty Wells, Johnny Winter
Jane Birkin, Biz Markie, Harry Chapin, Stewart Copeland, Will Ferrell, George A. Romero, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
DEEP THOUGHTS: The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
EAT ME: Cherries, Corn Fritters - Hot Dogs (2025), Snake
FOODIE: Here’s how much Costco’s hot dog combo would cost today — if accounted for inflation
HOLIDAY: Snake Day
HOROSCOPE: Your fear and distrust of banks will result in you keeping all of your money, blood, and sperm beneath your mattress.
HOW-TO: Keep Snakes Away, Knot a Cherry Stem With Your Tongue
JOKE: What’s worse than a box full of snakes? A box that was supposed to be full of snakes - What do you call a snake that works for the government? A republican.
THE ONION: Congress Passes Law Banning Women From Leaving House Without Makeup
PLAYLIST (ALBUMS OF THE DAY): Rubén Blades: Escenas (1985), Stewart Copeland: The Rhythmarist (1985), The Police: Zenyatta Mondatta (1980), Sunny Day Real Estate: Sunny Day Real Estate (1995)
Acid Dad: Take it From the Dead (7/16/2021), Creedence Clearwater Revival: Cosmo’s Factory (7/16/1970), Billy Idol: Billy Idol (7/16/1982), Sade: Diamond Life (7/16/1984), Wilco: Star Wars (7/16/2015), Warren Zevon: The Envoy (7/16/1982)
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Biz Markie, Rubén Blades, Harry Chapin, Johnny Clegg, Celia Cruz, The Police, Suicide
Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
PODCAST: In the Dark: Season 2
QUESTION: Superfriends, Wassup?
READ: J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye (7/16/1951) - JoJoFromJerz: Teabagging the Liberty Bell, Paul Krugman: For MAGA, Ignorance is Strength, Mother Jones
RELIGULOUS: Watch Apocalypse in the Tropics on Netflix - it’s crazy christians Brazilian-style. Notice the tactics used in Brazil for power and what Trump is doing now for power.
SHITASS: Jimmy Johnson, Albert Kesselring, Mary Todd Lincoln, Billy Mitchell, Gordon Sondland
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food - The original payment for this food we paid $800,00 and it’ll cost an additional $130,000 to destroy it.
SPORT: Professional baseball has become a joke. It’s embarrassing.
STREAM: Cemetery of Splendor (Kanopy/Metrograph/Strand), Day of the Dead (Kanopy/Night Flight/Peacock), Will and Harper (Netflix) - The Daily Show
George A. Romero Film Festival - Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, Day of the Dead, Martin, Creepshow, Knightriders, The Amusement Park, Monkey Shines, Land of the Dead, Two Evil Eyes, The Crazies, The Dark Half, Season of the Witch, Diary of the Dead, Bruiser, The Affair, Survival of the Dead - Dead On: The Life and Cinema of George A. Romero
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Film Festival - Syndromes and a Century, Tropical Malady, Blissfully Yours, Cemetery of Splendour, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Mysterious Objects at Noon, Memoria, Mekong Hotel, The Adventures of Iron Pussy
TRUMPED: Yesterday in one sentence: Inflation rose to 2.7% in June – up from 2.4% in May – as prices for tariff-sensitive goods like clothing, appliances, and toys increased; Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is Ukraine could "hit Moscow" and St. Petersburg if the U.S. provided the long-range weapons; Trump reversed his criticism of NATO, calling the alliance "the opposite" of "obsolete" after members agreed to pay for U.S. weapons going to Ukraine; more than 75 former federal and state judges urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject Emil Bove’s nomination to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; the Trump administration won’t publish the legally mandated National Climate Assessments on NASA’s website; Trump called for Texas Republicans to redraw the state’s congressional map to give Republicans five more House seats; and House Republicans blocked two Democratic efforts to force the release of Jeffrey Epstein-related records.
WELLNESS: Heart Attack or Heartburn?
WORD: Zombie - is a mythological undead corporeal revenant created through the reanimation of a corpse. Zombies are most commonly found in horror and fantasy genre works. The term comes from Haitian folklore, in which a zombie is a dead body reanimated through various methods, most commonly magical practices in religions like Voodoo. Modern media depictions of the reanimation of the dead often do not involve magic but rather science fictional methods such as carriers, fungi, radiation, mental diseases, vectors, pathogens, parasites, scientific accidents, etc. A new version of the zombie, distinct from that described in Haitian folklore, emerged in popular culture during the latter half of the 20th century. This interpretation of the zombie, as an undead person that attacks and eats the flesh of living people, is drawn largely from George A. Romero's film Night of the Living Dead (1968), which was partly inspired by Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend. The word zombie is not used in Night of the Living Dead, but was applied later by fans. Following the release of such zombie films as Dawn of the Dead (1978) and The Return of the Living Dead (1985)—the latter of which introduced the concept of zombies that eat brains - as well as Michael Jackson's music video Thriller (1983).
WTF?!: J.D. Vance Running - Trump Dancing
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2024 - Senator Bob Menendez was found guilty on all counts, including acting as a foreign agent, in a federal corruption trial. 2021 - Rapper Biz Markie died at the age of 57. 2018 - Trump met with his daddy Putin in Helsinki and acted like Putin’s little bitch in front of the whole world. 2004 - Martha Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison and five months of home confinement by a federal judge for lying about a stock sale. 1999 – John F. Kennedy Jr., piloting a Piper Saratoga aircraft, died when his plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. His wife and sister-in-law are also killed. 1996 - A retired employee of Tardy Furniture in Mississippi entered the store and found four bodies: owner Bertha Tardy, and three employees, Robert Golden, Carmen Rigby, and Derrick Stewart, who was 16 at the time of his murder. All had been fatally shot. 1981 - While fans waited at the Eisenhower Parks Lakeside Theater for singer/songwriter Harry Chapin to perform they were told that Chapin was killed in a car accident en route to the show. He was a notoriously bad driver and crashed his car on the Long Island Expressway when he veered his Volkswagen Rabbit into the path of a semi. 1976 - Loggins and Messina broke up. 1969 - During recordings for their Abbey Road album, The Beatles worked on two new George Harrison songs, 'Here Comes The Sun' and 'Something.' Harrison was inspired to write 'Here Comes The Sun' when taking a day off from Apple business and spending the day walking around the garden at Eric Clapton's house. 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, was launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida. 1945 – Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Killer BOB is born. 1941 – Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a MLB record. 1935 – The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City.
“A family without a black sheep is not a typical family.” Heinrich Böll
"I hate America, Louis. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word ‘free’ to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on Earth sounds less like freedom to me." Tony Kushner
