June 16th
John G. Avildsen, Abby Elliott, Daniel Ellsberg, James Honeyman-Scott, Ben Kweller, Laurie Metcalf, Tupac Shakur, Snail Mail
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BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): AraabMuzik, Jack Albertson, Scott Alexander, Eileen Atkins, Banks, Giovanni Boccaccio, Daniel Brühl, John Cho, Clinton Collins Jr., Charlie Cooper, Matt Costa, Billy “Crash” Craddock, Jim Dine, Roberto Duran, Abby Elliott, Femi Kuti, Ben Kweller, Stan Laurel, Ron LeFlore, Bones Malone, Laurie Metcalf, Camila Morrone, Joyce Carol Oates, Tupac Shakur, Adam Schmidt, Snail Mail, Gino Vannelli, Vilmos Zsigmond
DEAD (R.I.P.): Consuewella Africa, Mel Allen, John G. Avildsen, Daniel Ellsberg, Wild Man Fischer, Stephen Furst, Tony Gwynn, Dubose Heyward, Marta Hillers, James Honeyman-Scott, Mollie Kyle, Felicia Montealegre-Bernstein, Ronald Neame, Kristen Pfaff, Brian Piccolo, Miguel Piñero, Nicholas Ray, George Reeves, Bernard Sahlins, Garry Shider, Screaming Lord Sutch, Chick Webb
DEEP THOUGHTS: Mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks.
EAT ME: Cannolis, Fudge - Cracker Jack, Irish, Sea Turtles
FOODIE: There’s no evidence that prayer in school improves grades, but one study found kids who ate breakfast at school had 17.5% higher scores on math tests. Food for thought.
HOLIDAY: African Child Day, Bloomsday, Sea Turtle Day
HOROSCOPE: Please stop referring to your bouts of gastrointestinal flatulence as "turning on the ol' wind farm." That's not helping anyone.
HOW-TO: First Date
JOKE: An Irish lad moves to the States in search for work, and ends up finding a pub he likes to frequent. Every Friday he comes in and orders the same thing: three glasses of Jameson. After a few weeks the barman asks him why he always orders the same thing in three separate glasses. "Well my two brothers are back in Ireland, so I'm having a drink on behalf of them", he says. One week he comes in and orders just two glasses of Jameson. The barman picks up on this and realises it's bad news. "Sorry for your loss", says the barman. "Oh my brother isn't dead", the lad says. "I've just quit drinking"
PLAYLIST (ALBUMS OF THE DAY): Gene Ammons: Boss Tenor (6/16/1960), Banks: Off with Her Head (2025), Femi Kuti: Femi Kuti (1995), Ben Kweller: Cover the Mirrors (2025), Pretenders: Pretenders (1980), 2Pac: Me Against the World (1995)
B Boys: Dada (6/16/2017), Big Audio Dynamite: The Globe (6/16/1991), Bonny Doon: Let There Be Music (6/16/2023), Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band: Trout Mask Replica (6/16/1969), The Carters: Everything is Love (6/16/2018), Chon: Homey (6/16/2017), Fleet Foxes: Crack-Up (6/16/2017), Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit: The Nashville Sound (6/16/2017), Killer Mike: Michael (6/16/2023), Kevin Morby: City Music (6/16/2017), Queens of the Stone Age: In Times New Roman (6/16/2023), Ride: Weather Diaries (6/16/2017), Roxy Music: Roxy Music (6/16/1972), The Smiths: The Queen is Dead (6/16/1986), Mavis Staples: Mavis Staples (6/16/1969)
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Ben Kweller, Pretenders, Tupac Shakur, Snail Mail
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READ: James Joyce: Ulysses (1922) - The Atlantic, Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Trump Wants You to Get Used to This
RELIGULOUS: Minnesota Suspect Filmed Dancing Over ‘Excitement About God’
SHITASS: Gertrude Baniszewski, Phil Mickleson, Richard Rogers
SPORT: Sports Used to Be for Everyone. Now It's for Those Who Can Afford It.
STREAM (STREAMS OF THE DAY): Grease (6/16/1978), Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (6/16/1954) - Agents of Chaos (HBO Max), The Bear (FX/Hulu), Derailroaded (Night Flight), French Exit (Starz), Hands of Stone (Netflix), Hopscotch (Criterion), Joe (MGM/Prime), Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Sally (Nat Geo/Disney/Hulu), Tunes of Glory (Criterion), Walking with Dinosaurs (PBS)
Ronald Neame Film Festival - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Tunes of Glory, The Man Who Never Was, The Chalk Garden, The Poseidon Adventure, Hopscotch, The Odessa File, Gambit, The Promoter, The Horse’s Mouth - This Happy Breed, In Which We Serve, Blithe Spirit
Nicholas Ray Film Festival - In a Lonely Place, Rebel Without a Cause, Johnny Guitar, They Live by Night, Bigger Than Life, On Dangerous Ground, Flying Leathernecks
TRAVEL: Dublin, Hôtel de la Plage at Saint-Marc-sur-Mer (Saint-Nazaire), France
WELLNESS: Trump’s Health Speculation - it involves Catheter and Diapers. Republicans wouldn’t hide the truth from Americans over a sick president would they??
WORD: Bloomsday - is a commemoration and celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce, observed annually in Dublin and elsewhere on 16 June, the day his 1922 novel Ulysses takes place in 1904, the date of his first outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, and named after its protagonist Leopold Bloom.
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2020 - Sebastian Junger had a near-death experience when his pancreatic artery ruptured while he was at home in rural Massachusetts. 2015 - Trump announced his candidacy for president. I started drinking. 1994 - Jesse meets Celine on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both knew that this would probably be their only night together. 1976 - South African police killed hundreds of protesting school children An estimated 20,000 youth were protesting against the introduction of Afrikaans as the languages of instruction in their schools when police officers started firing into the crowd. 1967 - The three-day Monterey International Pop Music Festival - which catapulted Jimi Hendrix, the Who and Janis Joplin to stardom - opened in northern California. 1959 - Superman committed suicide - or was it murder? 1944 - George Junius Stinney Jr., was a 14 year old African-American convicted of murder as a result of a racially-biased and discriminatory trial in 1944 in his home town of Alcolu, South Carolina. He is the youngest person in the United States in the 20th-century to be sentenced to death and to be executed. Stinney was convicted in less than 10 minutes, during a one-day trial, by an all-white jury of the first-degree murder of two white girls: 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker and 8-year-old Mary Emma Thames. After being arrested, Stinney was said to have confessed to the crime. There was no written record of his confession apart from notes provided by an investigating deputy, and no transcript was recorded of the brief trial. He was denied appeal and executed by electric chair. Since Stinney's conviction and execution the question of his guilt, the validity of his reported confession, and the judicial process leading to his execution have been extensively criticized. 1937 - Mollie Kyle died at the age of 50. 1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday". 1893 - R.W. Rueckheim invents Cracker Jack, a popcorn, peanuts and molasses confection. It was introduced at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. R.W.’s brother Louis perfected the secret formula in 1896, which prevents the molasses coated popcorn from sticking together. The prize in each box was introduced in 1912. 1884 - The First Roller Coaster: A nickel got you on the Coney Island's Switchback Railway, a ride carrying passengers on an undulating railroad track at up to 6 mph, running a length of 600 feet and an overall drop of 43 feet. 1858 – Abraham Lincoln delivered his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
“I resent violence or intolerance in any shape or form. It never reaches anything or stops anything. A revolution must come on the due installments plans. It's a patent absurdity on the face of it to hate people because they live round the corner and speak a different vernacular, so to speak.” James Joyce
