November 7th
Leonard Cohen, Lorde, Steve McQueen, Joni Mitchell, Chris Murphy, Lawrence O’Donnell, Dean Stockwell, Toro y Moi
Good Morning - Hello! It is Friday, November 7th (Day 311). Welcome to ExitEnter, your daily newsletter of the day ahead of you. There is lots of shit happening and ExitEnter wants to help you plan for it. But first, you should probably catch up on all the news this morning and check out your sports scores. Also, see what the weather is going to be like wherever you are. Thanks for reading and/or subscribing.
BORN (ENTER): Courtney Marie Andrews, Alice Bag, Jellybean Benitez, Albert Camus, Oliver Chris, Edward F. Cline, Matt Corby, Adam Devine, Lindsey Duncan, Richard Edwards, Henrik Ruben Genz, David Guetta, Andy Hull, Gil Junger, Christopher Knight, Jason London, Jeremy London, Lorde, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Joni Mitchell, Chris Murphy, Phyllis Nagy, Lawrence O’Donnell, Liam Ó Maonlaí, Garrett Price, Johnny Rivers, Shorty Rogers, Edward Sedgewick, Morgan Spurlock, Judy Tenuta, Nadya Tolokonnikova, Toro y Moi, Andrea True, Fred Wolf
DEAD (EXIT): Cándido Camero, Butch Cassidy, Debra Chasnoff, Leonard Cohen, Norm Crosby, Ellen Douglas, Will Durant, Janet Flanner, Joe Frazier, Dwight Frye, Howard Keel, Steve McQueen, Janet Reno, Eleanor Roosevelt, Vito Russo, Dean Stockwell, The Sundance Kid, Krista Sides Taylor, Gene Tunney, Slappy White, Richard Yates - Pauline Collins (11/6/2025)
DEEP THOUGHTS: If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
EAT ME: Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds, Merlot
FOODIE: If You Literally Never Cook, Start Here
HOLIDAY: Inuit Day
HOROSCOPE: Although your roommate thought it was crazy of you to buy all that plastic sheeting, you’ll come home to find it applied to the walls and floors soon enough.
HOW TO DO EVERYTHING: Be Steve McQueen - Style, Workout
JOKE: An Inuit and American tourist walks near far-north village. Suddenly a polar bear starts chasing them. The American starts crying, Inuit starts to warm up and takes running position. American: “What are you doing? Don’t you know, that polar bear runs faster than any human? We can not outrun polar bear!” Inuit: “I don’t need to outrun the polar bear, I need to outrun you!”
PLAYLIST: Alice in Chains: Alice in Chains (11/7/1995), Grace Jones: Living My Life (11/7/1982), Ozzy Osbourne: Diary of a Madman (11/7/1981), R.E.M.: Green (11/7/1988), The Rolling Stones: Undercover (11/7/1983), David Sylvian: Secrets of the Beehive (11/7/1987), Yes: 90125 (11/7/1983) - Courtney Marie Andrews: Cold Flowers (2020), Lorde: Virgin (2025), Joni Mitchell: The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975), Toro y Moi: What For? (2015)
New Music Releases: Danny Brown: Stardust, Stella Donnelly: Love And Fortune, Steve Gunn: Daylight Daylight, Hüsker Dü: 1985: The Miracle Yea, Midlake: A Bridge To Far, The Mountain Goats: Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan, Portugal. The Man: SHISH, Rosalía: Lux, Mavis Staples: Sad and Beautiful World, Whitney: Small Talk
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Leonard Cohen, Lorde, Joni Mitchell, Toro y Moi
Check out the November Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
PODCAST: It Was Simple: The Betty Broderick Murders
READ: Jeff Tiedrich: Welcome to the Republican Nervous Breakdown, Vice, Wired, Abby Zimet: To the Long Hopeful Query, Is He Dead Yet? Yes.
RELIGULOUS: An Apology to Zohran Mamdani and Muslims in America, From A Disgusted Christian
SCIENCE!: Today’s Moon Phase
SHAMELESS PLUG: K.I.N.D. Fund
SHITASS: Andy Biggs, Betty Broderick
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: Over 800 flight cancellations hit airports as Trump cuts services over government shutdown - Did you have plans to go somewhere today?
STREAM: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Elf (11/7/2003) - The Cincinnati Kid (Kanopy), Frankenstein (Netflix), The Materialists (HBO Max), Pluribus (Apple)
STREAM CRITERION: Edward F. Cline, Edward Sedgewick
New Film Releases: Die My Love, Little Amélie or the Character of Rain, Nuremberg, Predator: Badlands, Sarah’s Oil
TRAVEL: Puerto Rico
T.Y.R.A.N.N.Y. IN THE U.S.A. (DAY 1752): A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to fully fund November SNAP benefits by Friday for about 42 million people; U.S. employers laid off 153,074 people in October, the highest for any October since 2003; Trump called Democrats’ “affordability” message “DEAD,” claiming prices had fallen under his presidency even as inflation has stayed at 3%; the Congressional Budget Office was hacked by a suspected foreign actor; the Senate will vote Friday on a plan to end the 37-day government shutdown; hundreds of U.S. flights were canceled after the FAA ordered airlines to begin cutting traffic at 40 major airports because of the government shutdown; a D.C. jury acquitted the “sandwich guy” who threw a Subway sandwich at a federal agent during Trump’s declared “crime emergency” in Washington; Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to serve as House speaker, said she will not seek re-election and retire when her term ends in early 2027; and the Supreme Court allowed Trump to enforce a policy requiring that sex markers on U.S. passports match birth certificates while litigation continues.
WELLNESS: The Post-Wellness Era
WORD: Dummymandering - is a play on the term “gerrymander,” and it refers to a redrawing of a district map that actually ends up benefiting the opposite party that was designed to help. When a political party in power reshapes the map of a district to gain advantage in an election, this is called “gerrymandering.” “Dummymandering” occurs when that map, over time, actually ends up benefiting the opposite party (hence the use of the term “dummy).” Simply put, it’s a gerrymander that backfires.
WTF?!: A D.C. jury acquitted the “sandwich guy” who threw a Subway sandwich at a federal agent
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HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2020 – Joe Biden was elected the 46th president of the United States. 2020 - Rudy Giuliani had a press conference in front of the Four Seasons (Total Landscaping Company). 2009 - The Democratic controlled House narrowly passed, 220-215, landmark healthcare legislation to expand coverage to tens of millions who lacked it and placed tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. 2000 - Bush v. Gore. 1993 - Puerto Rican honeymoon. 1991 - Magic Johnson shocked the NBA world by announcing that he had the HIV virus and would retire from the Lakers immediately. 1967 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. 1962 - Richard M. Nixon, who failed in a bid to become governor of California, held what he called his last press conference, telling reporters, “You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore.” 1962 - Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt died at age 78. 1929 – In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opened to the public. 1917 – The Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace. 1911 - Marie Curie became the first multiple Nobel Prize winner when she was given the award for chemistry eight years after garnering the physics prize with her late husband, Pierre. (She remains the only woman with multiple Nobles and the only person to receive the award in two science categories.)
“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?” Leonard Cohen
“What did liberals do that was so offensive to the Republican party? I’ll tell you what they did. Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote. Liberals created Social Security and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty. Liberals ended segregation. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act. What did conservatives do? They opposed them on every one of those things everyone. So when you try to hurl that label at my feet, ‘Liberal,’ as if it were something to be ashamed of, something dirty, something to run away from, it won’t work, Senator. Because I will pick up that label and I will wear it as a badge of honor.” Lawrence O’Donnell
I searched 'Leonard Cohen' and ended up here... The greatest exploration of my birthday I've encountered, and a great concept. You had me won over at the photos of Mitchell, Cohen, and McQueen, but the rest of the post is a treasure trove.