July 21st
Tony Bennett, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Norman Jewison, Cat Stevens, Béla Tarr, Juno Temple, Robin Williams
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BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): Justin Bartha, Basil, Eric Bazilian, Greg Behrendt, Steve Byrne, Lee Camp, Sonny Clark, Jim Clyburn, Michael Connelly, Rory Culkin, Mel Damski, David Dastmalchian, Michael Fitzpatrick, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Betty Gilpin, Emerson Hart, Josh Hartnett, Jalmari Helander, Ernest Hemingway, Edward Herrmann, Yusuf Islam, Norman Jewison, Richard Ladkani, Jon Lovitz, Lucy Malsch, Damian Marley, Ross McElwee, Karel Reisz, Taco, Béla Tarr, Juno Temple, Garry Trudeau, Valentyn Vasyanovych, George Wallace, Robin Williams
DEAD (R.I.P.): Don Arden, Tony Bennett, Burt Britton, Robert Burns, E.L. Doctorow, Gus Dudgeon, Dave Garroway, Gidget, Jonathan Gold, Jerry Goldsmith, John Heard, Rex Ingram, Herbie Kalin, Paul Krassner, Neal Langford, Little Miss Nobody, Mako, Basil Rathbone, Marc Reisner, Annie Ross, Alan Shepard, Davis Tutt, Claus Von Stauffenberg, Robert Young
DEEP THOUGHTS: The worst thing in life is not to end up all alone. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
EAT ME: Junk Food, Lamington Cake
FOODIE: Watch “City of Gold” (AMC/Mubi)
HOLIDAY: Racial Harmony Day
HOROSCOPE: Twins are often able to sense when the other is in danger, but you'll continue punching yours in the face long after he's dead.
HOW-TO: Moonwalk
JOKE: Just after Neil Armstrong walks on the moon, and said the famous quote "one small step... Before he re-entered the lander to come back to Earth, he made an remark that no one really understood at the time --- "Good luck Mr. Gorsky." Many people though perhaps Gorsky might have been an old friend or mentor from either the Russian or American space programs, but no records of that name were found and Neil never revealed who he was. Years later after Neil found out that Mr. Gorsky had died, he felt he could finally answer the question. When he was a kid, Neil was playing baseball with a friend in the backyard. His friend hit a ball which landed in front of his neighbor's bedroom window. His neighbors were Mr. and Mrs. Gorksy. As he leaned down to pick it up, young Armstrong heard Mrs. Gorsky shouting at Mr. Gorsky. "Oral sex! You want oral sex?! You'll get oral sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!"
THE ONION: Holy Shit! Man Walks On Fucking Moon
PLAYLIST: Black Sabbath: Master of Reality (7/21/1971), Blur: The Ballad Of Darren (7/21/2023), Cut Worms: Cut Worms (7/21/2023), Guns N’ Roses: Appetite for Destruction (7/21/1987), House of Pain: House of Pain (7/21/1992), Shonen Knife: Burning Farm (7/21/1983), Elliott Smith: Elliot Smith (7/21/1995), Sonic Youth: Dirty (7/21/1992), Rod Stewart: Never a Dull Moment (7/21/1972), T. Rex: The Slider (7/21/1972), Neil Young: Landing on Water (7/21/1986) - Tony Bennett and Bill Evans: The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album (1975), The Hooters: Nervous Night (1985), Damian Marley: Welcome to Jamrock (2005), Cat Stevens: Tea for the Tillerman (1970)
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Tony Bennett, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Annie Ross, Cat Stevens
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QUESTION: Why would Pam Bondi pressure the FBI to instruct approximately 1,000 personnel to scour through approximately 100,000 Epstein-related records in order to “flag" any records in which Donald Trump was mentioned? Why on earth would she do that? Anyone?
READ: J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (7/21/2007) - The Atlantic, Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Predatory Strongmen: Epstein’s Kindred Spirits - Predatory Strongmen II: Berlusconi and Trump, Civil Discourse: The Week Ahead
RELIGULOUS: “Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.” Robert G. Ingersoll
SCIENCE!: Holy Shit! Man Walks On Fucking Moon
SHAMELESS PLUG: Marijuana Moon Rocks
SHITASS: John Barrasso, Sam Bass, Mick Mulvaney
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the popular Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling, was released on this day 18 years ago and sold 15 million copies in its first 24 hours, making it the fastest-selling book in history.
SPORT: John Oliver’s Erie Moon Mammoths debut in front of a record crowd
STREAM: Barbie (7/21/2023), Do the Right Thing (7/21/1989), Oppenheimer (7/21/2023), When Harry Met Sally (7/21/1989) - The Cincinnati Kid (Kanopy), City of Gold (AMC/Mubi), Eephus (Mubi), Étoile (Prime), Werckmeister Harmonies (Criterion)
Norman Jewison Film Festival - Fiddler on the Roof, In the Heat of the Night, The Hurricane, And Justice for All, Jesus Christ Superstar, Moonstruck, The Cincinnati Kid, A Soldier’s Story, The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming, The Thomas Crown Affair, Send Me No Flowers, The Thrill of It All, Agnes of God, Only You, Rollerball, F.I.S.T., 40 Pounds of Trouble, Other People’s Money, The Statement, The Art of Love, In Country, Best Friends, Bogus, Gaily Gaily
Karel Reisz Film Festival - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Gambler, Sweet Dreams, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Isadora, Who’ll Stop the Rain, Morgan!, Night Must Fall, Everybody Wins
Béla Tarr Film Festival - Sátántangó, Werckmeister Harmonies, The Turin Horse, Damnation, Family Nest, The Prefab People, Missing People, Almanac of Fall, The Man from London, The Outsider
TRAVEL: The Moon
WELLNESS: Want More Self-Control? The Secret Isn’t Willpower.
WORD: A Man - "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." Armstrong intended to say "That's one small step for a man", but the word "a" is not audible in the transmission, and thus was not initially reported by most observers of the live broadcast. When later asked about his quote, Armstrong said he believed he said "for a man", and subsequent printed versions of the quote included the "a" in square brackets. One explanation for the absence may be that his accent caused him to slur the words "for a" together; another is the intermittent nature of the audio and video links to Earth, partly because of storms near Parkes Observatory. A more recent digital analysis of the tape claims to reveal the "a" may have been spoken but obscured by static. Other analysis points to the claims of static and slurring as "face-saving fabrication", and that Armstrong himself later admitted to misspeaking the line.
WTF?!: Man Charged for Decapitating Seagull Over French Fry
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2024 - Holy Shit! President Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential election. 2023 - Singer Tony Bennett died at the age of 96. 1989 - Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing was released in theaters. The nearest place to see it for me was in Milwaukee at the Grand Theater downtown, about an hour from where I lived. It was a gigantic theater with at least a thousand or more seats in it. I sat on the aisle in the middle of the theater. By the time Radio Raheem was killed at the end (sorry for spoiler), the audience was growing restless and started yelling at the screen. I remember looking around and realizing that I may be the only white person in the theater. Credits rolled, I bolted. 1969 - Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon and then blasted off from the moon aboard the lunar module. In the years following this day, Neil Armstong would tell bad jokes about walking on the moon. When he would get no laughs with these jokes he would say, “Well, I guess you had to be there.” That’s funny. 1959 – Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate. 1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100. 1865 – In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
“I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.” Garry Trudeau
