July 2nd
Larry David, Amelia Earhart, Ernest Hemingway, Lindsay Lohan, Margot Robbie, Vince Stales, James Stewart
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BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): Doug Benson, Michelle Branch, Jose Canseco, Jonathan Capehart, Benjamin Caron, Larry David, Jack Garfein, Jerry Hall, Alma Har’el, Hermann Hesse, Ahmad Jamal, Hagai Levi, Lindsay Lohan, Monie Love, Kazu Makino, Oliver Marmol, Thurgood Marshall, Amelia Meath, Alicia Menendez, Elizabeth Reaser, Jean-François Richet, Margot Robbie, Saweetie, Vince Staples, Ashley Tisdale
DEAD (R.I.P.): Peter Brook, Ray Brown, Henry Butler, Michael Cimino, Amelia Earhart, Betty Grable, Fred Gwynne, Bengt Hallberg, Ernest Hemingway, John C. Higgins, Lee Iacocca, Elliot Lawrence, Ernest Lehman, Anna Massey, Vladimir Nabokov, Mikio Naruse, Nostradamus, Jean Painlevé, Mario Puzo, Lee Remick, Franklin J. Schaffner, Larisa Shepitko, Beverly Sills, James Stewart, Elie Wiesel, Louis Zamperini - Jimmy Swaggart (7/1/2025) - Good Riddance you piece of shit.
DEEP THOUGHTS: My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty and mainstream country music.
FOODIE: Why honey outlasts other foods
HOLIDAY: Civil Rights Day, UFO Day - Halfway to the New Year
Note: Day 183/184 of the year - The halfway mark of the year. This day is the midpoint of a common year because there are 182 days before and 182 days after it in common years, and 183 before and 182 after in leap years. The exact time of the middle of the year is at noon. It falls on the same day of the week as New Year's Day in common years.
HOROSCOPE: The stars would love to give you some relationship advice, but they're still quite tired from having all that raucous sex with your wife.
HOW-TO: Accomplish (Last) New Year's Resolutions, Find UFO’s, Promote Human Rights
JOKE: You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
THE ONION: Peter Thiel Shows Trump How To Sort Spreadsheet Of Americans By Ethnicity
PLAYLIST (ALBUMS OF THE DAY): Mountain Man: Look at Me Don’t Look at Me (2020), Sylvan Esso: Free Love (2020)
Elvis Costello and the Attractions: Imperial Bedroom (7/2/1982), Dio: The Last in Line (7/2/1984), Foreigner: 4 (7/2/1981), Lyle Lovett: Lyle Lovett (7/2/1986), Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Into the Great Wide Open (7/2/1991), Elvis Presley “Hound Dog” (7/2/1956), The Time: Ice Cream Castle (7/2/1984), Chris Whitley: Living with the Law (7/2/1991)
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Vince Staples
Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
PODCAST: Doug Loves Movies
READ: Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita (1955) - JoJoFromJerz: This Isn’t a Budget. It’s a Betrayal., Paul Krugman: We’re All Rats Now, Mother Jones
RELIGULOUS: Fascism in the USA Enters the Fifth and Final Phase
SCIENCE!: First Quarter Moon
SHITASS: Jose Canseco, Jerry Hall, Peter Kurten, Imelda Marcos, William Regnery II, Elsie Stefanik, Andrea Yates
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: The Dollar Has Its Worst Start to a Year Since 1973
STREAM (3 FILMS A DAY): Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO Max), Dear Ms.: A Revolution in Print (HBO Max), When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Criterion)
Men in Black (7/2/1997)
TRAVEL: Howland Island, Mauritania, Roswell, New Mexico
TRUMPED: Yesterday in one sentence: Senate Republicans passed Trump’s $3.3 trillion tax and spending bill by a 51-50 vote after JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote; Elon Musk threatened to support primary challengers against Republicans who support Trump’s tax and spending bill, calling it “DEBT SLAVERY”; Trump said he would “take a look” at deporting Elon Musk and threatened to investigate his companies; Senate voted 99-1 to remove a provision from Trump’s budget bill that would have blocked states from passing AI laws; Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell confirmed that the Fed would have already cut interest rates this year if Trump hadn’t imposed tariffs; and Trump’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development could lead to more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030.
WELLNESS: U.S. drops in global happiness rankings
WORD: UFO - a mysterious object seen in the sky for which, it is claimed, no orthodox scientific explanation can be found.
WTF?!: Kristi Noem Says Cannibal Ate Himself on Deportation Flight
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2024 – A stampede during a religious event in Uttar Pradesh, India, leaves at least 121 people dead and 150 others injured. Thanks God!. 2020 - British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, was arrested by the FBI on suspicion of grooming victims of Epstein. She was also charged with assisting Epstein's abuse of minors by helping to recruit and groom victims known to be underage. 2007 - Bush commuted the sentence of former aide Scooter Libby, sparing him from a two-and-half-year prison term in the CIA leak case. 2003 - Doug Bruce disappeared. 1982 - Larry Walters used 45 helium filled weather balloons tied to an aluminum lawn chair to ascend to 16,000 feet above Long Beach. Several very perplexed commercial airline pilots reported seeing Larry sitting in his lawn chair in the sky, to the Long Beach airport. The FAA fined him $4,000, but later settled for $1,500. 1977 - Guitarist John McKay joined Siouxsie and the Banshees. His playing style is credited as the beginning of post-punk. 1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places. 1962 - Wal-Mart opened in Arkansas. 1961 - Author Ernest Hemingway shot himself to death at his home in Idaho. He was 61 years old. 1947 - An object that the Army Air Force later said was a weather balloon crashed near Roswell, New Mexico. Eyewitness accounts gave rise to speculation it might have been an alien spacecraft. 1937 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan were last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight. 1843 - An alligator fell out of the sky in South Carolina during a thunderstorm. It is believed that the strange incident happened when a waterspout carried an alligator from a body of water and dropped in on the city. 1839 – Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 African slaves led by Joseph Cinqué take over the slave ship Amistad. 1816 – The French frigate Méduse ran aground off the coast of today's Mauritania, with the survivors escaping on a makeshift raft, which was depicted in Théodore Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa. 1566 - Michel de Nostredame died at the age of 62. Did he not see it coming?
"When you’re not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom." Larry David
“Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.” Amelia Earhart
“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.” Ernest Hemingway
"When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich." Jean-Jacques Rousseau
