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BORN (ENTER): Jean-Jacques Beineix, Nick Cannon, Chevy Chase, Matt Damon, Jeremy Davies, Joséphine de La Baume, Jim Fairchild, Gavin Friday, William Greaves, Peter Greene, Darrell Hammond, Ian Hart, Reed Hastings, Frank Herbert, Paul Hogan, Jesse Jackson, Knut Erik Jensen, Dennis Kucinich, Bruno Mars, Ardal O’Hanlon, Travis Pastrana, Shira Piven, Soon-Yi Previn, Michael Prywes, Sarah Purcell, C.J. Ramone, Teddy Riley, Burr Steers, R.L. Stine, Sigourney Weaver, CeCe Winans, David Yates, Edward Zwick
DEAD (EXIT): Billy Al Bengston, Spencer Gordon Bennet, Philip Chevron, Thomas B. Constain, Jacques Derrida, George du Maurier, Jim Dwyer, Dennis Eichhorn, Henry Fielding, Whitey Ford, Jean Giono, Bertrand Goldberg, John Hancock, Franklin Pierce, Remedios Varo, Roger Williams, Burt Young
DEEP THOUGHTS: There’s a force in the universe that makes things happen. And all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking, let things happen, and be the ball.
EAT ME: Fluffernutter, Pierogis - Octopus, Salmon
HOLIDAY: Dyslexia Day, International Lesbian Day, Octopus Day, Podiatry Day, Salmon Day
HOROSCOPE: The doctors will soon treat you for an acute case of Hammer toe, but don’t be alarmed: They’re mostly just bored.
HOW-TO: Be a Lesbian, Care for Your Feet and Toenails, Diagnose and Treat Dyslexia
JOKE: What do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic? You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there’s a dog.
PLAYLIST: Charlatans UK: Some Friendly (10/8/1990), Culture Club: Kissing to Be Clever (10/8/1982), The Hollies: Distant Light (10/8/1971), John Mellencamp: Whenever We Wanted (10/8/1991), Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: The Last DJ (10/8/2002), Prince: Dirty Mind (10/8/1980), Protomartyr: No Passion All Technique (10/8/2012), Soundgarden: Badmotorfinger (10/8/1991), Talking Heads: Remain in Light (10/8/1980) - Grandaddy: The Sophtware Slump (2000), Bruno Mars: Doo-Wops and Holligans (2010), Modest Mouse: Strangers to Ourselves (2015), The Pogues: Rum, Sodomy and the Lash (1985)
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Bruno Mars, Silk Sonic
Check out the October Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
PODCAST: Pivot
READ: JoJoFromJerz: A Hollow Man and His Army of Mirrors, Paul Krugman: State Terror, American Style, Mother Jones: It’s Time for Soft Secession
RELIGULOUS: My Favorite Thing About Christian Nationalism Is That It’s Doomed to Fail
SCIENCE!: Today’s Moon Phase
SHAMELESS PLUG: Halloween Mini-Tote Bags are today - OhMyGod!OhMyGod!!OhMyGod!!!
SHITASS: Rona Barrett, Robert Berdella, Prescott Bush, Nick Cannon, Chevy Chase, Melanie McGuire, Vincenzo Peruggia
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: Your government has been shut down for 7 days. The 2026 midterms are in 392 days… maybe.
SPORT: LeBron and Hennessy - there are just too many goddamn people that think the world revolves around them. This country is burning to the ground and we’re supposed to care about grand endorsements.
STEPHEN MILLER IS A FASCIST PIG: Count Clorox and the Beige Crusade - Stephen Miller is a walking joke with the power (and intention) to ruin lives.
STREAM: Saturday Night Live: 1975-1976, 1995-2021 (Peacock) - Love and Other Drugs (HBO Max), The Martian (Netflix), Winner (Hulu/Kanopy)
TRAVEL: Air Canada is now serving free beer, wine and snacks to economy passengers on every flight
TRUMP AGAINST AMERICA: Yesterday in one sentence: Trump floated invoking the Insurrection Act to “get around” court orders blocking his National Guard deployments to Democratic cities; Attorney General Pam Bondi repeatedly refused to answer questions from Senate Democrats about the Justice Department’s indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, the review of Jeffrey Epstein’s files, or the closure of a bribery probe into border czar Tom Homan; the FBI used a grand jury subpoena in 2023 to obtain phone toll records for nine Republican lawmakers as part of its “Arctic Frost” investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election; the Trump administration plans to withhold back pay from furloughed federal employees after the government shutdown ends; flight delays continued nationwide as the government shutdown left air traffic controllers working without pay and short-staffed at major airports; ICE furloughed its entire Office of Detention Oversight during the government shutdown – the only team that inspects detention centers for safe and humane conditions; Trump blamed Democrats for the government shutdown, calling them “insurrectionists” and comparing their opposition to a funding bill that doesn’t include enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies to a “kamikaze attack”; Marjorie Taylor Greene broke with Republican leaders over expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits, accusing them of having “no plan” to stop insurance premiums from “DOUBLING” at the end of the year; the Supreme Court’s conservative majority signaled it may strike down Colorado’s 2019 ban on conversion therapy for minors, saying the law likely violates free speech protections; and the White House will host a UFC fight for Trump’s 80th birthday.
WELLNESS: Become Disgustingly Obsessed with Your Life
WORD: Insurrection Act - it’s coming.
WTF?!: Pam Bondi - What a Fucking Cunt! Holy Shit.
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HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2023 - Kelvin Kiptum sets a new marathon world record at the Chicago Marathon, becoming the first runner to break 2 hours and 1 minute. 2004 - Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart reported to prison to begin serving a sentence for lying about a stock sale. 1988 - Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of The Moon finally left Billboard’s Hot 200 Album Chart after a record breaking 741 weeks. 1974 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States. 1969 – The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago. 1967 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia. 1956 - Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series as the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-0 in Game 5. 1918 - In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York killed 28 German soldiers and captured 132, for which he is awarded the Medal of Honor. 1871 - The Great Chicago Fire erupted. The blaze destroyed four square miles of the city, killing about 250 people and leaving some 90,000 homeless.
“We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.” Dennis Kucinich
