July 25th
Ana Lily Amirpour, Anne Applebaum, Vincente Minnelli, Rita Marley, Thurston Moore, John Schlesinger, Paul Sorvino
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BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): Ana Lily Amirpour, Anne Applebaum, Illeana Douglas, Jay R. Ferguson, Iman, Matt LeBlanc, Nanouk Leopold, Rita Marley, Thurston Moore, Oneohtrix Point Never, Zack Parker, Darren Star, Peter Suschitzky, Shantel VanSanten, Michael C. Williams
DEAD (R.I.P.): Judith Barsi, Carl Brashear, Michael Cacoyannis, Phoolan Devi, Bo Goldman, Peter Green, Johnny Griffin, Ben Hogan, Michael Johnson, Bel Kaufman, W.P. Lipscomb, Vincente Minnelli, Frank O’Hara, Charlie Rich, Steve Rubell, Thomas Savage, John Saxon, John Schlesinger, Paul Sorvino, Big Mama Thornton, Howard Vernon, Fay Jean Yant - Chuck Mangione (7/22/2025)
DEEP THOUGHTS: Old age is not for sissies.
EAT ME: Hot Fudge Sundae, Wine and Cheese Day
FOODIE: Trump’s war on Parmigiano Reggiano
HOLIDAY: Merry-Go-Round Day - Electric Folk Day, German Fest Milwaukee (2025), Newport Folk Festival (2025)
HOROSCOPE: Sometimes it's not so much what you say, but how you say it. Also, whether you're naked, high on methamphetamines, and standing in an abandoned parking lot at the time.
HOW-TO: Pair Wine and Cheese
JOKE: You are on a horse, galloping at a constant speed. On your right side is a sharp drop off, and on your left side is an elephant traveling at the same speed as you. Directly in front of you is another galloping horse but your horse is unable to overtake it. Behind you is a lion running at the same speed as you and the horse in front of you. What must you do to safely get out of this highly dangerous situation? Get your drunk ass off the merry-go-round!
THE ONION: Hulk Hogan Donates Hair To Lucky Locks Of Love Recipient
PLAYLIST: AC/DC: Back in Black (7/25/1980), Beastie Boys: Paul’s Boutique (7/25/1989), The Beta Band: Champion Verses (7/25/1997), Teddy Pendergrass: TP (7/25/1980), Tom Petty: Highway Companion (7/25/2006), Say Hi: Impeccable Blahs (7/25/2006), Cat Stevens: Foreigner (7/25/1973), Yes: Yes (7/25/1969) - Bob Dylan: Bringing it All Back Home - Side One (1965), Bob Marley and the Wailers: Uprising (1980), Thurston Moore: Psychic Hearts (1995), Sonic Youth: Bad Moon Rising (1985)
New Music Releases: Alice Cooper: The Revenge Of Alice Cooper, Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band: New Threats From the Soul, Indigo De Souza: Precipice, Fever Ray: The Year of the Radical Romantics, Folk Bitch Trio: Now Would Be a Good Time, Patty Griffin: Crown Of Roses, Luke Haines and Peter Buck: Going Down To The River… To Blow My Mind, Heatmiser: Mic City Sons (30th Anniversary), Madonna: Veronica Electronica, Tyler the Creator: Don’t Tap the Glass, Kurt Vile and Luke Roberts: Classic Love, Paul Weller: Find El Dorado, Irvine Welsh And The Sci-Fi Soul Orchestra: Men In Love
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth, Big Mama Thornton
Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
READ: Anne Applebaum: Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (2020) - The Sentinel-Intellegance: The Grid is an Amazing Thing, and We're All Going to Miss It, Jeff Tiedrich: He’s So Fucking Guilty and Everyone Knows It, Abby Zimet: Own Goal - Throwing Spaghetti At the Desperate Wall
RELIGULOUS: Christian flag causes chaos in Connecticut town—because Satan wants in, too
SHITASS: Tim LaHaye, Thurston Moore, Jack Thompson
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: Paramount Merger Approved After $16 Million Trump Pay-Off
SPORT: A Florida man who sued Gawker into bankruptcy over a sex tape and got dropped by WWE after racist comments is dead at 71. Hulk Hogan (real name Terry Bollea), who called himself a “Real American,” died of cardiac arrest in Florida. His lawsuit against Gawker – secretly bankrolled by billionaire Peter Thiel, who had been outed as gay by the site in 2007 — ended with a $140 million verdict and forced the gossip site to shut down. The jury found Gawker had invaded Hogan’s privacy by publishing a one-minute clip of him having sex with his friend’s wife. Hogan said the sex tape was recorded without his knowledge or consent and wasn’t newsworthy. Gawker, however, claimed First Amendment protection, arguing he was a public figure who often spoke about his sex life, making the footage public interest. The case drew warnings from the ACLU and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, who said it showed how wealthy individuals could weaponize privacy claims to punish the media. WWE cut ties in 2015 after leaked audio caught him making racist comments about his daughter’s boyfriend — then quietly reinstated him three years later. Whatcha gonna do now, brother?
STREAM: The Falcon and the Snowman (Prime), Mysteries of Lisbon (Mubi), Terrestrial Verses (Criterion/Hoopla)
New Film Releases: AJ Goes to the Dog Park, Diciannove, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Folktales, Happy Gilmore 2 (Netflix), The Home, House on Eden, Il Dono, Oh Hi!, The Short Game, Shoshana, Sunday Best (Netflix)
Vincente Minnelli Film Festival - The Bad and the Beautiful, Meet Me in St. Louis, The Band Wagon, Home from the Hill, Lust for Life, Tea and Sympathy, The Clock, Some Came Running, An American in Paris, Father of the Bride, Cabin in the Sky, Bells Are Ringing, The Courtship of Eddie’s Father, Gigi, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
John Schlesinger Film Festival - Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man, A Kind of Loving, Far from the Madding Crowd, Billy Liar, Darling, The Day of the Locust, Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Falcon and the Snowman, Visions of Eight: The Longest, Madame Sousatzka - Desperate Souls Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
TRAVEL: Puerto Rico
TRUMPED: Yesterday in one sentence: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Ghislaine Maxwell at a federal courthouse in Tallahassee for a six-hour interview; Trump staged a visit to the Federal Reserve to publicly call for Chair Jerome Powell to “do the right thing” and lower interest rates while accusing him of mismanaging a $2.5 renovation billion project; Trump signed an executive order directing cities and states to remove homeless people from public spaces and force them into treatment or institutional settings to "restore public order"; the Trump administration sued New York City, claiming the city’s sanctuary laws obstruct federal immigration enforcement and violate the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause; Trump signed an executive order banning “third-party, pay-for-play” payments to college athletes; the FCC approved the $8 billion merger between Paramount and Skydance after Skydance promised to drop all DEI programs and add a news ombudsman at CBS; and a Florida man who sued Gawker into bankruptcy over a sex tape and got dropped by WWE after racist comments is dead at 71.
WELLNESS: What Happens When You Stop Doomscrolling - A note on mental health.
WTF?!: Chuck E. Cheese arrested for credit card fraud in Florida
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2023 - A Woman Was Attacked by a Snake That Fell From the Sky. Then a Hawk Dove In. 2019 - Trump called Ukraine. 2010 – WikiLeaks published classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history. 2001 - Indian bandit and politician Phoolan Devi was shot dead by three masked gunmen outside of her Delhi bungalow. She was hit five times: three shots to her head and two to her body. 2000 - Dick Cheney selected Dick Cheney to be George W. Bush’s running mate on the Republican presidential ticket. 1999 - The Woodstock Festival ended with riots resulting in 120 people being arrested. Three people died during the 3-day festival in separate incidents and many were hospitalised after drinking polluted water. 1995 - Nina Simone fired a gun at a pair of noisy teenagers playing next door to her home in southern France. She was put on 18 months probation and ordered to seek psychological counseling. 1990 - Roseanne Barr sang the National Anthem in San Diego before a Padres baseball game. 1988 - Ten-year old actress Judith Barsi’s father József shot her in the head while she was sleeping, and then murdered her mother Maria. He spent the next two days wandering around the house. He then poured gasoline on the bodies and set them on fire. After incinerating the bodies, he went to the garage and shot himself in the head. 1978 – Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilization, or IVF. 1976 - The famous Face on Mars photo is taken. Viking 1, the first space probe to successfully land on Mars took the famous photo of the Cydonia region on the Red Planet. 1969 - Led Zeppelin checked into the Edgewater Inn in Seattle and went fishing for red snapper, and then partook in some unseemly behavior with a 17-year old redhead named Jackie in room 242. 1969 - Neil Young appeared with Crosby, Stills and Nash for the first time when played at The Fillmore East in New York. Young was initially asked to help out with live material only, but ended up joining the group on and off since then. 1965 – Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugged in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music. 1956 – Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51. 1952 - Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the U.S. 1943 - King Victor Emmanuel announced to Italy that he had accepted the “resignations” of Premier Benito Mussolini and his entire cabinet, leading to the end of Italy’s alliance with Nazi Germany in World War II. 1898 – The United States seized Puerto Rico from Spain. 1871 - William Schneider of Davenport, Iowa, received the patent for the Merry-Go-Round, thus designating him as the official inventor. That's despite the fact the amusement rides had been evolving for centuries. In fact, Schneider wasn't even the first in the United States to have a carousel. Franz Wiesenoffer holds that honor with the one he created nearly 30 years earlier in Hessville, Ohio.
“I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. It's more important to confirm the least sincere. The clouds get enough attention as it is.” Frank O’Hara
