July 5th
Jean Cocteau, Edie Falco, Huey Lewis, Leo McCarey, Róisín Murphy, Shohei Ohtani, Robbie Robertson, The RZA
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BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): Gerard Barrett, Mike Cahill, Terry Chimes, Jean Cocteau, Marc Cohn, Shirley Collins, Brian Crano, Edie Falco, Ryan Hansen, Charles Herman-Wurmfield, Jenji Kohan, Huey Lewis, Tobias Lindholm, Mac Dre, Róisín Murphy, Nick O’Malley, Warren Oates, Shohei Ohtani, Robbie Robertson, Charles Rogers, Royce Da 5’9”, RZA, Smutty Smiff, Michael Stuhlbarg, Pruitt Taylor-Vince, Joe Thomas, Bill Watterson
DEAD (R.I.P.): Noel Black, Stingray Davis, Richard Donner, Mildred Dunnock, Cleveland Eaton, Joel Filartiga, Shirley Goodman, Walter Gropius, Harry James, Jia Hongsheng, Katy Jurado, Ernie K-Doe, Jon Landau, Claude Lanzmann, Leo McCarey, George Melly, Vladimir Menshov, N!xau, Ed Schultz, James Stockdale, John Sweet, Lenny Von Dohlen, Ted Williams
DEEP THOUGHTS: Linear logic measures only the four dimensions: length, width, depth, and time. But in the fifth dimension, energy surpasses time. Light surpasses time. Time is just a controller of certain planes. It’s not the master. The true master is consciousness, and I mean true consciousness—not simply being awake—I’m talking about the consciousness that never sleeps. The part of you that is aware of your consciousness. There’s a part of you that’s always there, always consistent, that represents your true self—the part connected to God. Remember, God is Us. That’s who you gotta get in touch with.
EAT ME: Apple Turnovers, Graham Crackers - Spam (7/5/1937)
HOLIDAY: Bikini Day - Tour de France (5-27/2025)
HOROSCOPE: Forty thousand years after you were cryogenically frozen, scientists will at last bring you back to life when they discover a cure for goddamn stupidity.
HOW-TO: Shave For a Bikini - Race a Bike
JOKE: Why was two piece swimsuit invented? To separate the hairy from the dairy - Statistics are like bikinis, what they reveal is interesting; what they hide is critical.
PLAYLIST (ALBUMS OF THE DAY): The Band: Stage Fright (1970), Moloko: Do You Like My Tight Sweater? (1995), Róisín Murphy: Róisín Machine (2020)
The Beach Boys: Summer Days (and Summer Nights) (7/5/1965), Bjork: Debut (7/5/1993), Ray Charles: At Newport (7/5/1958), Devo: Freedom of Choice (7/5/1980), Bryan Ferry: Another Time, Another Place (7/5/1974), Elvis Presley “That’s All Right” (7/5/1954), Billy Squier: Signs of Life (7/5/1984), Suicidal Tendencies: Suicidal Tendencies (7/5/1983), U2: Zooropa (7/5/1993), Frank Zappa: Waka/Jawaka (7/5/1972)
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READ: McSweeney’s: Don’t Be Ridiculous, “Alligator Alcatraz” Is Not Another Example of History Repeating Itself
RELIGULOUS: Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
SHAMELESS PLUG: Spam
SHITASS: Kenneth Lay
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: 70 Hot Dogs, 10 Minutes
SPORT: Houston Astros 18, Los Angeles Dodgers 1 in Dodger Stadium - that’s embarrassing.
STREAM: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Hoopla/Kanopy/Prime), Jean Cocteau’s Orphic Trilogy (Criterion), A War (Hoopla/Kanopy/Prime)
Seinfeld (7/5/1989-1998) (Netflix)
TRAVEL: Seinfeld’s New York City - Métropole européenne de Lille
TRUMPED: Golden Circle
WORD: Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini
WTF?!: Space Capsule Carrying Ashes of 166 People Crashes Into Sea - Ha!
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2025 - 2006 - Enron founder Kenneth Lay, facing decades in prison, died? of heart disease at age 64. 2002 - Baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams died at age 83. After his death his head was removed from his body and frozen in case he ever wanted to come back to life. His head is in a freezer in Scottsdale, Arizona. 1996 – Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. 1994 - Amazon was founded in Bellevue, Washington by Jeff Bezos. 1976 - Ping-pong champion and war hero Forrest Gump started running across America. 1946 - The bikini made its debut during an outdoor fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris. 1937 – Spam, the mystery meat, is introduced by the Hormel Foods Corporation. 1935 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act, which allowed labor to organize for the purpose of collective bargaining. 1934 – "Bloody Thursday": Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco. 1852 - Frederick Douglass gave one of his most famous speeches, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” 1841 - Thomas Cook hired a special excursion train between Leicester and Loughborough in England for a temperance meeting. The beginning of Thomas Cook and Son, the worldwide travel agency.
"By the time you know what to do, you’re too old to do it." Ted Williams
