May 6th
George Clooney, Marlene Dietrich, Luigi Mangione, Max Ophüls, Bob Seger, Henry David Thoreau, Orson Welles
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BORN (ENTER): Kamilia Andini, Tom Bergeron, George Clooney, Jeffrey Deaver, Jonathan Donahue, John Flansburgh, Sigmund Freud, Stephen Gaghan, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Judith Hill, Mary MacGregor, Luigi Mangione, Meek Mill, Lars Mikkelsen, Martha Nussbaum, Max Ophüls, David Osit, Anne Parillaud, Angel Reese, Lætitia Sadier, Tony Scalzo, Bob Seger, Chris Shiflett, Gabourey Sidibe, James Turrell, Orson Welles, Sasheer Zamata
DIED (EXIT): L. Frank Baum, Carey Bell, Otis Blackwell, Errol Brown, William Colby, Jerome Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Sam Gross, Frank Kozik, Maria Lessnig, Grant McLennan, Kentaro Miura, Farley Mowat, Bernard Pivot, Leslie Thomas, Henry David Thoreau, Paul Van Doren, Karl Wirsum
DEEP THOUGHTS: A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
Crêpes Suzette was created out of a mistake made by a 14 year old assistant waiter Henry Carpentier in 1895 at the Maitre at Monte Carlo's Café Paris. He was preparing a dessert for the prince of Wales, the future king Edward 7th, (1841-1910) of England. He was actually making crepe Suzette.
HOLIDAY: Accordion Day, International No Diet Day, Nurses Week (5/6-12) - Asthma Day (2025), Foster Care Day (2025)
HOROSCOPE: You must admit that you're sleeping better than ever, but it's kind of unpleasant to wake up every morning with a blowgun dart in the back of your neck.
HOW-TO: Play the Accordion
JOKE: A nurse finds a rectal thermometer in her pocket and says "some asshole's got my pen!" - How many doctors does it take to change a lightbulb? None. They'll make a nurse do it - What do you call a nurse with a bad back? Unemployed.
PLAYLIST (ALBUMS OF THE DAY): Hooters: Nervous Night (5/6/1985), Bob Seger: Beautiful Loser (1975), Stereolab: Not Music (2010), They Might Be Giants: Flood (1990) - Blondshell: If You Asked for a Picture
Arcade Fire: We (5/6/2022), Ash: 1977 (5/6/1996), The Cure: Standing on a Beach/Staring at the Sea (5/6/1986), Everything But the Girl: Walking Wounded (5/6/1996), Hanson: Middle of Nowhere (5/6/1997), Hooters: Nervous Night (5/6/1985), Jack Johnson: On and On (5/6/2003), Sharon Van Etten: We;ve Been Going About This All Wrong (5/6/2022), Warpaint: Radiate Like This (5/6/2022)
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Jimme Dale Gilmore, Bob Seger, Stereolab, They Might Be Giants
Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX station on Apple Music
QUESTION: What is your favorite word? What is your least favorite word? What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally? What turns you off? What is your favorite curse word? What sound or noise do you love? What sound or noise do you hate? What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? What profession would you not like to do? If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
READ: L. Frank Baum: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) - Thom Hartmann: The Great MAGA Job Scam: How Trump is Plotting the New American Sweatshops, Chris Hedges: Trumpland
New Book Releases: Daniel Kehlmann: The Director
RELIGULOUS: I'm A Devout Christian And A Dominatrix. A Funny Thing Happened When I Began Letting God Guide My Sessions.
SHAMELESS PLUG: Apple Music - Play over 100 million songs, always ad‑free. Hear next-level sound quality with Spatial Audio1 and lossless audio.2 Take center stage with Apple Music Sing. Access exclusive interviews and live concerts. And listen across all your devices, online or off. The music app for music lovers is here. - Exit/Enter has over 365 playlists on Apple Music and you could have access to them all.
SHITASS: Gordon Gekko, Jonathan Turley, The Wicked Witch of the West
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: 60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador
SPORT: Chicago Cub Kerry Wood struck out 20 batters. In the Bill James Game Score method, it was the best game ever pitched (5/6/1998) - Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in under 4 minutes The British athlete took 3 minutes and 59.4 seconds to cover 1609 meters (5/6/1954)
STREAM (STREAMS OF THE DAY): The Daily Show, David Spade: Dandelion (Prime), Lola Montès (Criterion/Max), Mayor (Hoopla/Kanopy), Mr. Arkadin (Criterion/Max), Traffic (Prime)
Petite Maman (5/6/2022), Saturday Night Live: 2014-2017 (Peacock), The Wizard of Oz (Max)
New Blu-Ray Releases: In the Heat of the Night (Criterion Collection/Hoopla/Kanopy), The Seed of the Sacred Fig, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Criterion Collection), Viet and Nam
Max Ophüls Film Festival - Letter From an Unknown Woman, The Earrings of Madame De…, La Ronde, Playing at Love, Le Plaisir, There’s No Tomorrow, Everybody’s Woman, Lola Montès, The Reckless Moment, Caught - Max by Marcel
Orson Welles Film Festival - Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, F for Fake, The Trial, The Magnificent Ambersons, Chimes at Midnight, The Lady from Shanghai, Othello, Macbeth, The Stranger, Confidential Report - Cradle Will Rock, The Eyes of Orson Welles, Me and Orson Welles, The Other Side of the Wind, They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead, The Third Man
TRUMPLAND: Yesterday in one sentence: Trump said he doesn’t know if he’s required to uphold the Constitution as president, saying, “I don’t know. I’m not a lawyer”; Trump refused to fully rule military action against Canada to make it the 51st state, saying it was “highly unlikely” but “could happen”; Mike Waltz, Trump’s recently fired national security adviser, was photographed using TeleMessage – an encrypted messaging app that stores chat logs – during a Cabinet meeting last week; Trump dismissed signs of an economic slowdown, saying the U.S. is in a “transition period” and would “do fantastically”; the Trump administration will pay $1,000 and provide free airfare to undocumented immigrants who agree to self-deport using a government-run app; Trump ordered federal agencies to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz; Israel approved a plan to seize Gaza, displace most of its population, and take over aid distribution, with no timeline for withdrawal; HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered the CDC to search for measles treatments using drugs and vitamins as the U.S. faces its worst outbreak in decades; and the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to let Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency access millions of Americans’ Social Security data.
WTF?!: Trump Says ‘I Don’t Know’ When Asked Whether He Must Uphold the Constitution - This motherfucker has got to go, like yesterday.
WWW: ACLU, Adbusters, Apple Music, ASPCA, Banned Book Club, The Brigid Alliance, Clown Crack, Democracy Now!, Everytown, EXO Film Festival, How to Do Everything, Just Watch, Kanopy, John Lurie, McSweeney’s, The New York Times, No Mercy/No Malice, NPR, The Onion, PETA, Positive Legacy, Reasons to be Cheerful, Right to Music, Southern Poverty Law Center, Starship Casual, The Straight Dope, Strummerville, Substack, TeachRock, Trader Joes, What The Fuck Just Happened Today?, Wilco, World Central Kitchen, Zinn Education Project - Exit/Enter on Blue Sky
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2013 – Three women missing for more than a decade are found alive in Cleveland, Ohio. Between 2002 and 2013, Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Georgina "Gina" DeJesus were kidnapped by Ariel Castro and held captive in his home. They were subsequently imprisoned in his house until one of them escaped with her six-year-old daughter and contacted the police. The other two were rescued by responding officers and Castro was arrested within hours. 1996 – The body of former CIA director William Colby was found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared. 1968 - The Playboy Club opened in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. It closed 13 years later in 1981. 1965 - Mick Jagger and Keith Richards worked out the opening guitar riff of “(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction” in their Clearwater, Florida hotel room following Richard's purchase of a Gibson fuzz-box earlier that day. 1938 - The Wicked Witch of the West was killed when Dorothy Gale throws a bucket of water on her, causing her to melt. This is because the witch's body had dried up due to her wickedness and practice of dark magic, making her vulnerable to water. The death certificate of the Wicked Witch of the West is dated May 6, 1938. The Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum also died on May 6, 19 years earlier. 1937 – Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people were killed. 1882 - The Phoenix Park Murders were the fatal stabbings of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke in Phoenix Park in Dublin. Cavendish was the newly appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, and Burke was the Permanent Under Secretary, the most senior Irish civil servant. The assassination was carried out by members of the rebel group Irish National Invincibles, a more radical breakaway from the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
"You give your children enough money to do something, but not enough to do nothing." George Clooney
“Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.” Maria Montessori
