March 17th
Alex Chilton, René Clément, Billy Corgan, Rob Lowe, Kurt Russell, Rhian Teasdale, Luchino Visconti, Gene Ween
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BORN (ENTER): Alexandre Arcady, Melissa Auf der Maur, Michael Been, Pattie Boyd, John Boyega, Mike Braam, Torquil Campbell, Nat King Cole, Billy Corgan, Marisa Coughlan, Stormy Daniels, Patrick Duffy, Myrlie Evers-Williams, John Wayne Gacy, William Gibson, Grimes, Clare Grogan, Arye Gross, Justin Hawkins, Hozier, Michael Ivins, Mark Boone Junior, Miles Kane, Richard Kwietnowski, Katie Ledecky, Rob Lowe, Rudy Ray Moore, Mark Pellington, Cassie Ramone, Kurt Russell, Bayard Rustin, John Sebastian, Gary Sinise, Rob Stich, Rhian Teasdale, Gene Ween, Andrew Weissman
DEAD (EXIT): Eddie Aikau, Fred Allen, Jack Arnold, Marcus Aurelius, Rick Aviles, Capucine, Robert Chambers, Alex Chilton, René Clément, Robert Day, Larry Drake, Freddie Francis, Michael Gough, Rick Grech, Steve Harley, Helen Hayes, Ferlin Husky, J.J. Jackson, St. Patrick, Freddie Redd, Lance Reddick, Malvina Reynolds, Terry Stafford, Jermaine Stewart, Luchino Visconti, Lyle Waggoner, Chaleo Yoovidhya, Mai Zetterling
DEEP THOUGHTS: Here’s to a long life and a merry one. A quick death and an easy one. A pretty girl and an honest one. A cold pint and another one!
FOODIE: Making Corned Beef at Home Is Easier Than You Think
HOLIDAY: St. Patrick’s Day - March Madness (2026), Social Work Day (2026)
HOROSCOPE: You’ll soon discover three new planets, a dwarf star, and two orbiting satellites - an incredible achievement for someone just trying to peer in on his naked neighbor.
HOW TO: Be Irish, Move to Ireland - Fill Out a March Madness Bracket - Start a Revolution - 15. Group Lobbying
JOKE: What’s the difference between an Irish wedding and a funeral? At a funeral, there’s one less drunk. - Bono and the Edge walk into a bar in Dublin. The barman exclaims, “Not U2 again!!!” - Why did God invent whiskey? So the Irish would never rule the world.
PLAYLIST: Bad Company: Desolation Angels (3/17/1979), Elvis Costello: This Year’s Model (3/17/1978), Depeche Mode: Black Celebration (3/17/1986), Depeche Mode: Spirit (3/17/2017), Generation X: Generation X (3/17/1978), Grateful Dead: Grateful Dead (3/17/1967), Herbie Hancock: Maidan Voyage (3/17/1965), K.D. Lang: Ingenune (3/17/1992), No Doubt: No Doubt (3/17/1992), Spoon: Hot Thoughts (3/17/2017), U2: Songs of Surrender (3/17/2023), Unknown Mortal Orchestra: V (3/17/2023) - The Babies: The Babies (2011), The Call: Reconciled (1986), Alex Chilton: Cubist Blues (1996), The Flaming Lips: At War with the Mystics (2006), Sewingset Police: Kadickadee Kadickadoo (1996), The Smashing Pumpkins: Gish (1991), Wet Leg: Moisturizer (2025)
Check out The Big Beat Playlist: March Edition - Big Star, Alex Chilton, The Flaming Lips, The Pogues, The Smashing Pumpkins, Ween, Wet Leg - St. Patrick’s Day!
Check out the New Music Playlist: Twenty26
QUESTION (EXPLAINED): How to get rid of all of your extra stuff
READ: Scott Galloway: The Resistance Comes for OpenAI, Thom Hartmann: The $5 Billion Secret Behind Trump’s Iran War, Chris Hedges: The World According to Gaza, The Independent Ink: And Then the World Blew Up
New Book Releases: Melissa Auf der Maur: Even the Good Girls Will Cry, Ian Buruma: Stay Alive, Mieko Kawakami: Sisters in Yellow, Ibram X. Kendi: Chain of Ideas, Caroline Tracey: Salt Lakes
RELIGULOUS: Conservative Christians are Deporting Jesus, Killing the Church, and Making Atheists
SCIENCE!: Today’s Moon Phase
SHAMELESS PLUG: Kat Abughazaleh For Congress
SHITASS: John Demjanjuk, John Wayne Gacy, Ronnie Kray, Martin Shkreli
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: Vinyl sales hit $1B in revenue last year for the first time since 1983, Recording Industry Association of America reveals; sales were fueled by Taylor Swift’s album “The Life of a Showgirl”
SPORT: NBA Power Rankings: Week 22 - USA faces Venezuela in tonight’s World Baseball Classic championship game
STREAM: Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, The Devil Next Door, The Fearless Freaks - Big Trouble in Little China (Prime), Death in Venice (TCM), Directed by Moustapha Alassane (Criterion), Mark Normand: None Too Pleased (Netflix), Night Games (Criterion), Three Films by Mai Zetterling (Criterion) - The Daily Show, The Rachel Maddow Show, Weekend Update
New Blu-Ray Releases: All That’s Left of You, By Design, Classe Tous Risques (Criterion Collection), Good Boy (AMC/Shudder), The Housemaid, Is This Thing On?, Magellan, Testament (Criterion Collection/Hoopla/Kanopy), We Bury the Dead, Zodiac Killer Project
TOP 10: Drinking Holidays - 1. Mardi Gras, 2. New Year’s Eve, 3. St. Patrick’s Day, 4. 4th of July, 5. Halloween, 6. Cinco de Mayo, 7. Memorial Day, 8. Labor Day, 9. Christmas, 10. Thanksgiving
TRAVEL: Ireland
UNFUCK THE WORLD: What The Fuck Just Happened?: Day 1882: We don’t need anybody - Heather Cox Richardson: March 16, 2026
WELLNESS: Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.
WIRECUTTER: How to Get Rid of Every Gross Smell in Your Home
WORD: Sláinte - is the basic form in Irish Gaelic. Variations of this toast include sláinte mhaith “good health” in Irish Gaelic (mhaith being the lenited form of maith “good”). In Irish Gaelic, the response to sláinte is sláinte agad-sa, which translates “to your health as well”.
WTF?!: A Michigan man named Steve Flaig spent four years searching for his birth mother after requesting information from his adoption agency at 18. In 2007, he discovered her last name’s correct spelling and an address near his work. Shockingly, his boss identified her as Chris Tallady, a head cashier at the same Lowe’s store where Flaig worked, near Grand Rapids. Flaig knew her only as a co-worker. The adoption agency contacted her, revealing the son she had placed for adoption worked alongside her.
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2026 - Sláinte! 2012 - Chaleo Yoovidhya died at the age of 88. He was a Thai businessman and investor. He was the originator of Krating Daeng and co-creator of the Red Bull brand of energy drinks. 2003 - Edging to the brink of war, Tough guy George W. Bush gave Saddam Hussein 48 hours to leave his country. Iraq rejected the ultimatum. 2000 – Five hundred thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead. 1985 – Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the “Night Stalker”, commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree. 1976 – The Troubles: Four civilians are killed when the Ulster Volunteer Force detonates a car bomb outside a pub crowded with people celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day in Dungannon, Northern Ireland. 1973 – The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War. 1959 - The Dalai Lama fled Tibet for India in the wake of a failed uprising by Tibetans against Chinese rule. 1957 - Elvis Presley bought the Graceland mansion from Mrs Ruth Brown-Moore for $102,500. The 23 room, 10,000 square foot home, on 13.8 acres of land, would be expanded to 17,552 square feet of living space before Elvis moved in a few weeks later. The original building had at one time been a place of worship, used by the Graceland Christian Church and was named after the builder’s daughter, Grace Toof. 1886 – Carrollton Massacre: 20 African Americans are killed in Mississippi. 461 - Bishop Patrick died in Saul. Ireland celebrates this day in his honor.
“There are only two classes of people - the Irish and those who wish they were Irish.” Therese Duffy
