July 8th
Kevin Bacon, Beck, Ernest Borgnine, David Corenswet, Billy Crudup, Maya Hawke, Anjelica Huston, Vivien Leigh
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BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): Kevin Bacon, A. Whitney Brown, Sophia Bush, David Corenswet, Petra Costa, Billy Crudup, Michael Cuesta, Kim Darby, Steve Eisman, Marty Feldman, Sky Ferreira, Ruby Froom, Beck Hansen, Maya Hawke, Anjelica Huston, Jaimoe, Ben Jelen, Tony Kaye, Stan Lathan, Barbara Loden, Sebastian Maniscalco, Jacques Martineau, Edgar Morin, Joan Osborne, Wally Pfister, Wolfgang Puck, Raffi, Joe Russo, Jaden Smith, Jeffrey Tambor, Milo Ventimiglia, Marianne Williamson
DEAD (R.I.P.): Shinzo Abe, June Allyson, Roberts Blossom, Ernest Borgnine, Christian-Jaque, Pete Conrad, Betty Ford, Tab Hunter, Ward Kimball, Vivien Leigh, Dick Sargent, Tony Sirico
DEEP THOUGHTS: Your limitations are limitless.
EAT ME: Blueberries, Chocolate with Almonds, Raspberries - Ice Cream Sundaes (7/8/1881), Wolfgang Puck
FOODIE: Mamdani eats rice. MAGA melts down - They are some racist motherfuckers.
GAMER: Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
HOLIDAY: Fuck Prime Day (2025)
HOROSCOPE: They say there's nothing quite like the bond between a mother and her child, but then they have yet to see your experimental new adhesive compound.
HOW-TO: Two Turntables and a Microphone - How to Cancel Your Amazon Prime Membership
JOKE: Why can’t the Go-Go’s have babies? Their lips are sealed.
THE ONION: Insecure Woman Doesn’t Like Eating In Front Of Surveillance State
PLAYLIST (ALBUMS OF THE DAY): Beck: Guero (2005), Maya Hawke: Blush (2020), Joan Osborne: Relish (1995)
Beck: Modern Guilt (7/8/2008), Canned Heat: Hallelujah (7/8/1969), The Go-Go’s: Beauty and the Beat (7/8/1981), Albert Hammond Jr.: ¿Cómo Te Llama? (7/8/2008)
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it - Beck
Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
READ: Common Dreams, Thom Hartmann: Trump’s Next Power Grab Doesn’t Need a Mob, Chris Hedges: Profiting From Genocide
New Book Releases: Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf: 2024, Sophie Elmhirst: A Marriage at Sea
RELIGULOUS: If We Talked About Pastors The Way We Talk About Trans Women
SCIENCE!: ISS astronaut captures a rare phenomenon from orbit — a giant 'sprite' above a thunderstorm
SHAMELESS PLUG: 10 Alternatives to Amazon Prime for Free Shipping and More
SHITASS: Kim Il-Sung, Joseph Mercola, Tim Morales, Soupy Smith
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: $50M Bezos wedding in Venice - How about today you don’t participate in Prime Day and you just cancel it. Please.
SPORT: Trump Admits He Misses Sports Team's Old Racist Name
STREAM: Marty (Hoopla/Kanopy/Prime), The Shrouds (Criterion), Wanda (Criterion/HBO Max) - The Daily Show, The Rachel Maddow Show
New Blu-Ray Releases: Barry Lyndon (Criterion Collection), The Rule of Jenny Pen (AMC/Shudder), Sinners (HBO Max)
TRAVEL: Hey, by the way - No more taking your shoes off at the airport.
TRUMPED: Yesterday in one sentence: Trump threatened tariffs of 25% to 40% on imports from 14 countries unless they reach trade deals with the U.S. by August 1, reviving his “reciprocal” tariff plan and extending a previous July 9 deadline; at least 104 people, including 27 children and camp staff, died in last week’s Texas floods after emergency warnings failed to reach communities in time; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will introduce a bill making weather modification a felony, citing conspiracy theories with no scientific basis; the Trump administration ended deportation protections for about 76,000 migrants from Honduras and Nicaragua who have lived and worked legally in the U.S. for over 25; six national medical groups sued Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to stop recommending COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women; measles cases in the U.S. hit a 33-year high as vaccination rates fell and public health funding declined; and the Justice Department contradicted Attorney General Pam Bondi and said it found no “incriminating client list” tied to Jeffrey Epstein.
WELLNESS: I Can’t Sleep. Now What?
WTF?!: The Epstein Files - What a fucking joke.
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2021 - Zaila Avant-garde, a 14-year-old from Louisiana, became the first Black American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. 1907 - Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first "Follies," on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City. 1881 - The Ice Cream Sundae was invented. Edward Berner of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, invented the Ice Cream Sundae, when he served a customer ice cream topped with chocolate syrup.
