September 2nd
Hal Ashby, Salma Hayek, Billy Preston, Keanu Reeves, Kenny Shopsin, J.R.R. Tolkien
Good Morning - Hello! It is Tuesday, September 2nd (Day 245). 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): Austin Abrams, Lütfi Ö. Akad, Tony Alva, Hal Ashby, Rosalind Ashford, Tarriona "Tank" Ball, Terry Bradshaw, Jimmy Connors, George Conway, Vance DeGeneres, Eugenio Derbez, Allen Drury, Eleanor Friedberger, Rachel “Raygun” Gunn, Mark Harmon, Salma Hayek, Syleena Johnson, K-Ci, Guy Laliberte, MC Chris, Christian Otjen, Prachya Pinkaew, Billy Preston, Linda Purl, Keanu Reeves, Michael Rother, Horace Silver, Keir Starmer, Mel Stuart, Katt Williams, John Zorn
DEAD (EXIT): James Darren, Bob Denver, Troy Donahue, Allen Drury, Viktor Frankl, David Graeber, Jerry Heller, Ho Chi Minh, Murray Lerner, Bill Menendez, Willi Ninja, Conway Savage, Kenny Shopsin, Curt Siodmak, J.R.R. Tolkien, F.X Toole, Alvin C. York - Graham Greene (9/1/2025)
DEEP THOUGHTS: When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
EAT ME: Blueberry Popsicles, Coconut, Frittata, Grits (for Breakfast) - Kenny Shopsin
FOODIE: That linked Frittata recipe is delicious.
HOLIDAY: Tuesday
HOROSCOPE: Don't let anybody tell you what you can or cannot do. That's for you, three to five of your ribs, and most of the hearing in your left ear, to decide.
HOW-TO: Not Breakdance, Open a Coconut
JOKE: Whats wet on the inside and hairy on the outside. It starts with 'C', ends with 'T', and has a 'U' and an 'N' in the middle? A Coconut.
PLAYLIST: Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (9/2/1980), Angel Olsen: My Woman (9/2/2016), Thin Lizzy: Bad Reputation (9/2/1977), Tin Machine: Tin Machine II (9/2/1991) - Dogstar: Happy Ending (2000), The Fiery Furnaces: Stuck in My Head (2024) - Zach Top: Ain’t in It for My Health
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Tank and the Bangas
Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
READ: Anne Applebaum, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Thom Hartmann: The Day Will Come When Parents Show Their Dead Children to America — and Nothing Will Ever Be the Same, Chris Hedges: The Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists, JoJoFromJerz, Paul Krugman, John Pavlovitz, Robert Reich, Steve Schmidt, Jeff Tiedrich, Jessica Wildfire, Abby Zimet - The Atlantic, Common Dreams, Mother Jones, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vice, Wired, Wonkette
RELIGULOUS: An Open Letter to The Evangelical Community
SHAMELESS PLUG: Shopsins
SHITASS: Harvey Levin, Jonathan F. Mitchell, Robert Shapiro
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: 1.2 million immigrants are gone from the US labor force under Trump, preliminary data shows
STREAM: Adult Swim (9/2/2001), I Like Killing Flies (Kanopy), Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (9/2/1983), Sergeant York - The Count of Monte Cristo (Hoopla/Kanopy), Dances with Wolves (HBO Max), Harold and Maude (Kanopy), Weapons (in theaters)
STREAM (CRITERION): Festival, Law of the Border, People on Sunday
New Blu-Ray Releases: Folktales
Hal Ashby Film Festival - Being There, Harold and Maude, The Last Detail, Coming Home, Bound for Glory, The Landlord, Let’s Spend the Night Together, Shampoo, 8 Million Ways to Die, Lookin’ to Get Out, Second-Hand Hearts, The Slugger’s Wife - Hal
TRAVEL: Middle Earth
TRUMPED: Did Trump Golf Today?
WORD: Soft Secession
WTF?!: Jan 6 rioters now want compensation after being pardoned by Trump
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2025 - Congress returns to continue destroying America. 2015 – Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian boy of Kurdish ethnic background drowned in the Mediterranean Sea. He and his family were Syrian refugees trying to reach Europe amid the European refugee crisis. His dead body washed ashore - Nobody cared. 2005 - President George W. Bush told Michael Brown, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job" during a tour of Hurricane Katrina damage in Alabama. Brownie was not doing a heck of a job and neither was Bush. 1963 – CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes. 1945 – World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. 1945 – Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. 1901 - Vice President Theodore Roosevelt offered the advice, "Speak softly and carry a big stick," in a speech at the Minnesota State Fair. 1885 – Rock Springs massacre: In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
