November 29th
Don Cheadle, Joel Coen, Cary Grant, George Harrison, Diane Ladd, Garry Shandling, Natalie Wood
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BORN (ENTER): Simon Amstell, Brian Baumgartner, Busby Berkeley, Andy Breshear, Lucas Black, Chadwick Boseman, Felix Cavaliere, Chatrichalerm Yukol, Don Cheadle, Ellen Cleghorne, Joel Coen, Michael Dempsey, Chester Erskine, Jeff Fahey, Anna Faris, The Game, Jackie Hoffman, Diane Ladd, Jerry Lawler, Howie Mandel, Chuck Mangione, John Mayal, Andrew McCarthy, Ehren McGhehey, John Milhiser, Sue Miller, Cathay Moriarty, Mary Schmich, Garry Shandling, Clare Torry, Russell Wilson, Taichi Yamada
DEAD (EXIT): Ralph Bellamy, John Berry, Budd Boetticher, James J. Braddock, Irving Burgie, Jordan Cronenweth, Dorothy Day, Dick Dodd, Elliott Erwitt, Dan Flavin, Cary Grant, George Harrison, Scott Kempner, John Knowles, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Mario Monicelli, Patrice O’Neal, Giacomo Puccini, Gene Rayburn, Carl W. Stalling, Sticky Vicky, Natalie Wood, Frank Yerby
DEEP THOUGHTS: First you forget names, then you forget facts, then you forget to pull your zipper up and then you forget to pull your zipper down.
FOODIE: Lemon Creme Pie, Rice Cakes
HOLIDAY: American Indian Heritage Day (2024), Black Friday (2024), Buy Nothing Day (2024)
Fuck-It-All Fridays - Here’s the deal: We pick one day of the week and just … take it back. Make it ours. Reclaim it. Repurpose it. Rededicate it to the service of the wild human spirit and a sane, sustainable future. Weekdays we work. Saturdays we party. Sundays we rest. And now, Fridays we turn into a new kind of 21st century holiday.
HOROSCOPE: Considering how easy it is to get them these days, you’re starting to regret choosing “hugs” over any number of things that rhyme with them.
JOKE: What kind of wood doesn’t float? Natalie Wood.
THE ONION: Most Americans Have Enough Saved For Absolutely Incredible Single Day Of Retirement
PLAYLIST: The Beatles “Beatles for Sale” (1964), The Beatles “A Hard Day’s Night” (1964), Mary J. Blige “My Life” (11/29/1994), The Cure “Three Imaginary Boys” (1979), The Del-Lords “Frontier Days” (1984), George Harrison “Dark Horse” (1974)
The Beatles “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (11/29/1963), The Budos Band “The Budos Band” (11/29/2005), ZZ Top “Tejas” (11/29/1976)
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READ: John Knowles “A Separate Peace” (1959)
SHITASS: Robert Jeffress, Henry Kissinger, Roger B. Smith
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: Australia passes social media minimum age law, cracking down on app use by kids under 16
STREAM: The Agency (Paramount/Showtime), Beatles ‘64 (Disney), Blood Simple (Criterion/Max), Brainstorm (Hoopla), Brats (Hulu), Directed by the Coen Brothers (Criterion), A Hard Day’s Night (Criterion/Max), Hotel Rwanda (Hoopla), Nutcrackers (Hulu), Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary (Max) - Jackass (Paramount), Saturday Night Live: 1991-1995, 2013-2014 (Peacock)
New Film Releases: Beatles ‘64 (Disney), Moana 2, Nutcrackers (Hulu), Queer, Reinas, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, September 5, Sweethearts (Max)
John Berry - Claudine
Budd Boetticher Film Festival - Buchanan Rides Alone, Comanche Station, Decision at Sundown, Ride Lonesome, The Tall T - Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Joel Coen Film Festival - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski, Blood Simple, Burn After Reading, Fargo, Hail Caesar!, The Hudsucker Proxy, Inside Llewyn Davis, Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers, The Man Who Wasn’t There, Millers Crossing, No Country for Old Men, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Paris Je T’aime: Tuilieres, Raising Arizona, A Serious Man, The Tragedy of Macbeth, True Grit
Chester Erskine - Androcles and the Lion
Cary Grant Film Festival - An Affair to Remember, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Awful Truth, The Bishop’s Wife, Bringing Up Baby, Charade, Father Goose, The Grass is Greener, His Girl Friday, Holiday, Houseboat, I’m No Angel, Indiscreet, Monkey Business, None But the Lonely Heart, North by Northwest, Notorious, Only Angels Have Wings, Penny Serenade, The Philadelphia Story, She Done Him Wrong, Suspicion, That Touch of Mink, This is the Night, To Catch a Thief - Archie
Mario Monicelli Double Feature - Big Deal on Madonna Street, The Organizer
Natalie Wood Film Festival - Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, Brainstorm, Love with the Proper Stranger, Miracle on 34th Street, Rebel Without a Cause, Splendor in the Grass, West Side Story - Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind
TRAVEL: Santa Catalina Island
VOX: Why the far right is surging all over the world
WORD: Black Friday - Here's the ugly truth . . . We, the richest one billion people of the world, consume too much. Christmas, Boxing Day, Thanksgiving . . . Halloween, Easter, Valentine's Day . . . all of our once-sacred rituals have become a profane worship of our ravenous appetites. And every Amazon delivery, every shopping mall frenzy and fast-fashion spree, every shiny new gadget and unnecessary upgrade pushes our planet closer and closer to catastrophe. Glaciers melt… Forests burn… Cities drown… And yet, we keep lining up for our next hit of craven consumer indulgence. But rites can be rewritten. So this Buy Nothing Day, let's go out and join the Black Friday revelers . . . and shatter their trance. Then in the years to come, we’ll ramp up our mischief and wipe Black Friday out of existence. By decade’s end, we’ll replace this perverse ritual with a day of reverence for our planet. . . a day of atonement for our buck-broken souls . . . Buy Nothing Day 2.0. Get out on Friday the 29th and play some jazz.
WTF!?: Rock singer says he's a man again 11 years after coming out as trans woman
WWW: ACLU, Adbusters, Apple Music, ASPCA, Banned Book Club, The Brigid Alliance, Clown Crack, Cost Plus Drugs, Democracy Now!, Everytown, How to Do Everything, Just Watch, Kanopy, John Lurie, The New York Times, No Mercy/No Malice, Positive Legacy, Reasons to be Cheerful, Right to Music, Starship Casual, The Straight Dope, Strummerville, TeachRock, Trader Joes, Wilco, World Central Kitchen, Zinn Education Project - Blue Sky
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2022 - A jury in federal court convicted Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the far-right militia, and one of his subordinates for a plot to keep Donald Trump in power. 2020 - The Utah monolith disappeared. 2001 - George Harrison died at age 58 following a battle with cancer. 1981 - Actress Natalie Wood died under mysterious circumstances at the age of 43 during the making of Brainstorm. She had been on a weekend boat trip to Santa Catalina Island on board her husband Robert Wagner's 58-foot motor yacht, Splendour. Other than the fact that she drowned, many of the circumstances are unknown; for example, it has never been determined how she entered the water. Wood was with Wagner, Brainstorm co-star Christopher Walken, and Splendour's captain Dennis Davern on the evening of November 28. Authorities recovered her body at 8 a.m. on November 29, one mile away from the boat, with a small Valiant-brand inflatable dinghy beached nearby. Wagner said that she was not with him when he went to bed. The autopsy report revealed that she had bruises on her body and arms, as well as an abrasion on her left cheek, but no indication as to how or when the injuries occurred. 1972 – Atari announced the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game. 1963 - President Johnson named a commission headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. 1947 - The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution calling for Palestine to be partitioned between Arabs and Jews. 1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time. 1781 – The crew of the British slave ship Zong murdered 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.
“The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up” Dorothy Day
