November 30th
Woody Allen, Billy Idol, Lubitsch, Shane MacGowan, Malick, Mamet, Christine McVie, Ridley Scott, Ben Stiller
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BORN (ENTER): Lenny Abrahamson, Marina Abramović, Clay Aiken, Woody Allen, Nimrod Antal, Steve Aoki, John Ashton, Richard Barbieri, Gael García Bernal, Michael Beschloss, Shirley Chisholm, Kaley Cuoco, Cherrie Currie, William Dear, Des’ree, Diao Yinan, Jean Eustache, Marc Forester, Roger Glover, Abbie Hoffman, Michael Hoffman, Billy Idol, Bo Jackson, Kim Bora, Terrence Malick, David Mamet, Colin Mochrie, Daniel Myrick, David Nicholls, Shuggie Otis, Gordon Parks, Mandy Patinkin, Gianfranco Rosi, Ridley Scott, Henry Selick, Dean Allen Spunt, Stacy Q, Ben Stiller, Mike Stone, Jonathan Swift, Chrissy Teigen, Mark Twain, Brian Unger, Chris Weitz, Barry Winter, David Yates
DEAD (EXIT): Kathy Acker, Marie-Claire Blais, H. Jackson Brown Jr., George H.W. Bush, Alice Drummond, Garry Gross, Kent Haruf, Perry Henzell, Etty Hillesum, David Houston, Mother Jones, Patrick Kavanagh, Evel Knievel, Ernst Lubitsch, Shane MacGowan, Compton Mackenzie, Zeppo Marx, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Christine McVie, Jim Nabors, Peng Chang-kuei, Francis Picabia, Tiny Tim, Margaret Walker, Paul Walker, Oscar Wilde- Will Cullen Hart (11/29/2024) - Check out Elephant 6
DEEP THOUGHTS: To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love, to be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness.
FOODIE: Mousse - General Tso Chicken, Jason’s Deli (11/30/1976)
HOLIDAY: Cities for Life Day - Small Business Saturday (2024)
Note: Cities for Life Day is a worldwide festivity that supports the abolition of the death penalty. It is celebrated on November 30 of each year—the day in 1786 that the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under the reign of Pietro Leopoldo (later Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II), became the first civil state in the world to do away with torture and capital punishment.
HOROSCOPE: Every marriage is like a little nation unto itself, and the failure of yours is a textbook example of how investment in education, the arts, and maybe a puppy are desirable goals for civilization.
JOKE: A guy walks into a psychiatrist's office and says, “Hey doc, my brother's crazy! He thinks he's a chicken.” The doctor says, “Why don't you turn him in?” The guy says, “I would but I need the eggs.”
THE ONION: Jewish Anti-Deprecation League Protests New Woody Allen Movie
PLAYLIST: Deep Purple “Perfect Strangers” (1984), Generation X “Valley of the Dolls” (1979), Japan “Quiet Life” (1979), Shuggie Otis “Inspiration Information” (1974), Pink Floyd “The Wall” (11/30/1979), The Pogues “Red Roses for Me” (1984), The Psychedelic Furs “Mirror Moves” (1984)
ABBA “The Visitors” (11/30/1981), Michael Jackson “Thriller” (11/30/1982), Pink Floyd “The Wall” (11/30/1979), Jeff Tweedy “Warm” (11/30/2008)
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PODCAST: How Would Lubitsch Do It?
READ: Kathy Acker “Blood and Guts in High School” (1984), Mark Twain “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1884)
SHITASS: George H.W. Bush, Kristi Noem, Lawrence Summers
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: ‘Harry Potter’ Star Ordered to Pay $2.3M in Back Taxes
SPACED: As November comes to a close, the eastward orbital motion of Mars will be carrying the red planet towards the large open star cluster in Cancer known as the Beehive, Praesepe, and Messier 44. The cluster spans an area more than twice the size of the full moon. Mars and its scattered stars will easily share the field of view in binoculars (orange circle). In early December, Mars will slow to a stop and commence a westward retrograde loop (red path) that will keep the planet near the Beehive cluster until the last week of December, giving imagers plenty of time to photograph the duo.
STREAM: Broadway Danny Rose (Hoopla), Bullets Over Broadway (Peacock/Prime), Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan (Hoopla/Kanopy), Finding Neverland (Paramount), Frank (Hoopla/Kanopy), Gladiator II (in theaters), Nutcrackers (Disney/Hulu), Oleanna (MGM/Prime), Reality Bites (Criterion), Shirley (Netflix), Spartan (Hoopla), The Wild Goose Lake (Hoopla/Kanopy)
Woody Allen Film Festival - Alice, Annie Hall, Another Woman, Bananas, Blue Jasmine, Broadway Danny Rose, Bullets Over Broadway, Cafe Society, Cassandra’s Dream, Celebrity, Coup de chance, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Crisis in Six Scenes, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Deconstructing Harry, Everyone Says I Love You, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask), Hannah and Her Sisters, Husbands and Wives, Interiors, Love and Death, Manhattan, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Match Point, Midnight in Paris, A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, Mighty Aphrodite, New York Stories: Oedipus Wrecks, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Radio Days, A Rainy Day in New York, September, Shadows and Fog, Sleeper, Small Time Crooks, Stardust Memories, Sweet and Lowdown, Take the Money and Run, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, What’s Up Tiger Lily?, Wonder Wheel, Zelig
Jean Eustache - The Mother and the Whore
Perry Henzell - The Harder They Come
Ernst Lubitsch Film Festival - Cluny Brown, Design for Living, Heaven Can Wait, The Love Parade, The Merry Widow, Monte Carlo, Ninotchka, One Hour with You, The Shop Around the Corner, The Smiling Lieutenant, That Uncertain Feeling, To Be or Not to Be, Trouble in Paradise
Terrence Malick Film Festival - Badlands, Days of Heaven, A Hidden Life, Knight of Cups, The New World, Song to Song, The Thin Red Line, To the Wonder, The Tree of Life
David Mamet Film Festival - American Buffalo, Glengarry Glen Ross, Heist, Homicide, House of Games, Oleanna, Redbelt, The Spanish Prisoner, Spartan, Things Change, The Winslow Boy
Gordon Parks Double Feature - The Learning Tree, Shaft
Ridley Scott Film Festival - Alien, American Gangster, Black Hawk Down, Body of Lies, Gladiator, Matchstick Men, Napoleon, Thelma and Louise
TRAVEL: Barbados, Seattle, Tuscany
VOX: The stunning success of vaccines in America, in one chart
WORD: Project 2025 - Remember when they all disavowed it during the election and called the left liars? The lies and deceits heading your way from now on will be staggering. Good job America.
WTF?: Crypto entrepreneur eats banana artwork bought for $6.2 million - Fuck this little bitch.
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: 2023 - Shane MacGowan died. 2021 – Barbados became a republic. It became the world’s newest republic by removing Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state—and one of the new regime’s first acts was to officially declare Rihanna the island’s “national hero.” 2016 - Chef Peng Chang-kuei died. He was credited with creating General Tso chicken dish. 2010 - Pentagon leaders called for scrapping the 17-year-old "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" ban after releasing a survey about the prospect of openly gay troops. 2004 - Ken Jennings' streak of 74 wins on the TV game show "Jeopardy!" came to an end. 1999 - The opening of a 135-nation trade gathering in Seattle was disrupted by at least 40,000 demonstrators, some of whom clashed with police. 1998 – Exxon and Mobil sign a $73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company. 1993 - President Bill Clinton signed into law the Brady Bill, which requires a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases and background checks of prospective buyers. 1982 – Michael Jackson's sixth solo studio album, Thriller, is released worldwide, ultimately to become the best-selling record album in history. 1966 - The former British colony of Barbados became independent. 1954 – In Alabama, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hit a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space. 1804 - Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase went on trial, accused of political bias. Wait. What? 1786 – The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day).
“When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.” Shirley Chisholm
"Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted." Winston Churchill
“The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.” Abbie Hoffman
"I’m not a humanitarian, I’m a hell-raiser." Mother Jones
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” Mark Twain
“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.” Oscar Wilde