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Happy Thurthday, Bomberth! What a week it’s been, between work (memorable events) and Washington Warmongers (Holy Hubris, Batman!)… and then there’s Hamm’s salami, but let’s not go there…

Interrogatories

What famous person have people told you (at any point in your life) that you resemble? Do you agree? Did you learn any life lessons the hard way? How many hours would the day have to have for you to be able to do all you need to do? What would be worth going to war over? What is your version of the American Dream? What is the longest lasting earworm (song stuck in your head) that you ever had?

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On This day

In 1790, Thomas Jefferson became America’s first secretary of state.

In 1871, the journalist Henry Morton Stanley started off on his journey to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.

In 1925, the Butler Act, prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee, went into effect.

In 1928, aviator Charles Lindbergh received the Medal of Honor for his first solo trans-Atlantic flight.

In 1935, the Persian Shah formally requested that the international community refer to Persia by its original name, Iran (meaning Land of the Aryans).

In 1952, DJ Alan Freed held the first rock and roll concert, the Moondog Coronation Ball, in Cleveland, OH.

In 1963, Alcatraz was shut down as a prison for good.

In 1965, Martin Luther King led 3,200 people on the third civil rights march from Selma, Alabama to Washington DC.

In 1980, President Jimmy Carter announced that the US would boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled the government lacked authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug.

Born on This Day

1685 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (d. 1750)

1768 – Joseph Fourier, French mathematician (d. 1830)

1806 – Benito Juárez, Mexican statesman and first indigenous president in the Americas (d. 1872)

1819 – Petrus Gerardus Vertin, Dutch painter (d. 1893)

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1857 – Alice Henry, Australian suffragist, journalist and trade unionist (d. 1943)

1867 – Florenz Ziegfeld, American theater producer (d. 1932)

1880 – Gilbert M. “Broncho Billy” Anderson, American actor (d. 1971)

1880 – Hans Hofmann, German abstract expressionist painter (d. 1966)

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1882 – Bascom Lamar Lunsford, American lawyer, folklorist, and folk musician (d. 1973)

1885 – Pierre Renoir, French actor and director (d. 1952)

1885 – Roberto Melli, Italian painter (d. 1958)

1891 – Jonathan Hale, Canadian film and television actor (d. 1966)

1901 – Carmelita Geraghty, American actress (d. 1966)

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1902 – Son House, American musician (d. 1988)

1910 – Muhammad Siddiq Khan, Bangladeshi intellectual (d. 1978)

1922 – Russ Meyer, American film director and producer (d. 2004)

1931 – Al Williamson, American comics artist (d. 2010)

1934 – Al Freeman, Jr., African-American actor

1940 – Solomon Burke, American singer (d. 2010)

1942 – Françoise Dorléac, French actress (d. 1967)

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1943 – Vivian Stanshall, English musician (Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band) (d. 1995)

1944 – Marie-Christine Barrault, French actress

1945 – Rose Stone, American musician (Sly & the Family Stone)

1946 – Timothy Dalton, British actor

1946 – Ray Dorset, English musician (Mungo Jerry)

1949 – Eddie Money, American singer-songwriter

1950 – Roger Hodgson, English musician (Supertramp)

1951 – Conrad Lozano, American musician (Los Lobos)

1951 – Russell Thompkins Jr., American singer (The Stylistics)

1958 – Gary Oldman, English actor

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1959 – Sarah Jane Morris, English singer (Communards)

1961 – Slim Jim Phantom (James McDonnell), American musician (Stray Cats)

1962 – Matthew Broderick, American actor

1962 – Rosie O’Donnell, American comedian and actress

1966 – DJ Premier (Christopher Edward Martin), American record producer and DJ (Gang Starr)

1967 – Maxim Reality (Keith Andrew Palmer), English singer-songwriter (The Prodigy)

1968 – Andrew Copeland, American singer and guitar (Sister Hazel)

1968 – Jaye Davidson, American actor

1969 – Jonah Goldberg, aka “Doughy Pantload,” American Cheeto-dust inhaling right wing author

1970 – Cenk Uygur, American radio talk show host

1978 – Nick Baines, English keyboardist (Kaiser Chiefs)

Died on This Day

1556 – Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (burned at the stake) (b. 1489)

1762 – Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (b. 1713)

1772 – Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, French cartographer (b. 1703)

1843 – Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico (b. 1786)

1863 – Edwin Vose Sumner, American Civil War general (b. 1797)

1863 – Carl Adolf Senff, German painter (b. 3/17/1785)

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1889 – August von Pettenkofen, Austrian painter (b. 1822)

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1910 – Nadar, French photographer (b. 1820)

1920 – Evelina Haverfield British suffragette (b. 1867)

1934 – Lilyan Tashman, American actress (b. 1896)

I'm gonna make you paint that little frown upside down.

1974 – Candy Darling, American transgender model and actress(b. 1944)

1987 – Robert Preston, American actor (b. 1918)

1991 – Leo Fender, American guitar manufacturer (b. 1909)

1992 – John Ireland, Canadian actor and director (b. 1914)

1994 – Lili Damita, French actress (b. 1904)

Their marriage was already on the rocks.

1994 – Dack Rambo, American actor (b. 1941)

2004 – Ludmilla Tchérina, French ballet dancer and actress (b. 1924)

What do you mean, this is not how you play The Wife of Bath?

2011 – Loleatta Holloway, American singer (The Caravans) (b. 1946)

2011 – Pinetop Perkins, American pianist (b. 1913)

Today is

World Puppetry Day

World Down Syndrome Day

World Poetry Day

California Strawberry Day

National French Bread Day

Fragrance Day

National Common Courtesy Day

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination


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36 comments

  1. plf515

    What famous person have people told you (at any point in your life) that you resemble? Do you agree?

    I don’t remember anyone ever saying I resembled anyone.

    Did you learn any life lessons the hard way?

    Not sure.



    How many hours would the day have to have for you to be able to do all you need to do?

    I think “need to do” is a quite limited list. “Want to do” or “ought to do”…. well, that’s a lot.  

    I did see a sign on a door “God put me on Earth to do a certain number of things and I am so far behind that I can never die”

    What would be worth going to war over?

    Well… Stopping Hitler was good. Ending slavery also good.

    What is your version of the American Dream?

    I haven’t got a complete list, but: No one is hungry or homeless is a start.



    What is the longest lasting earworm (song stuck in your head) that you ever had?

    Danger Will Robinson!  DO NOT ANSWER THIS QUESTION!  

  2. slksfca

    …I was once asked to play Prince Charles on stage because of my ears. Also, once at a party when I was still young, a rumor went around that I was Boz Skaggs’ younger brother. I don’t see any resemblance myself.

    I am always learning life’s lessons the hard way. I’ve gotten used to it by now.

    My American Dream would include a citizenry that is engaged, but not obsessed, and with TRUE liberty and justice for all. Prosperity, too.

    I always have earworms, many of which return over and over again.

  3. anotherdemocrat

    What famous person have people told you (at any point in your life) that you resemble? Do you agree? never been told that

    Did you learn any life lessons the hard way? is there any other way?

    How many hours would the day have to have for you to be able to do all you need to do? 36 hours, but I’l have to be able to stay awake for 28 of them

    What would be worth going to war over? I agree with plf that stopping Hitler & slavery were good things.

    What is your version of the American Dream? I don’t know

    What is the longest lasting earworm (song stuck in your head) that you ever had? There is just about always music playing in my head, it is mostly U2.

  4. Gee

    What famous person have people told you (at any point in your life) that you resemble? Do you agree? Did you learn any life lessons the hard way? How many hours would the day have to have for you to be able to do all you need to do? What would be worth going to war over? What is your version of the American Dream? What is the longest lasting earworm (song stuck in your head) that you ever had?

    Joe Cocker, and it was more or less true when I was in college.  Many strangers told me this when the Woodstock movie came out, and I usually obliged them with Cocker’s spastic air guitar move.

    I grew up so naive, everything was hard!  😉

    Don’t know.

    Being attacked by an actual country with actual armed forces.

    American dream… wow, that’s a great question, and one that I haven’t formulated an answer for.  (I’m reminded of a great record by Ian Dury, called You’ll See Glimpses, which you owe it to yourself to hear.  It’s the narrator’s description of an ideal world.  “Trees will be rooted firmly in town and country!”  “Everyone will feel useful in lovely ways.”

    The most troublesome earworm I ever had came to me when I was trying to sleep back in my insomniac days.  I don’t remember the title, unfortunately, just the guitar riff.  It was by a band my kids were listening to, maybe Smashmouth or Matchbox 20.  Another of the earwormiest songs ever was Steely Dan’s Reelin’ In the Years.  Or maybe it got so much airplay I just thought it was an earworm.

  5. Gee

    In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled the government lacked authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug.

    “Lacked authority?”  Does the government also lack authority in the case of all the other addictive drugs, then?

  6. slksfca

    Day in, day out, the hovers delight. I gasp in admiration at the consistency of your gift, dear Floja!

  7. kirbybruno

    Gary Oldham looks quite handsome. I’ve always liked him as an actor, but I didn’t realize he was a cutie!

  8. Gee

    1967 – Maxim Reality (Keith Andrew Palmer), English singer-songwriter (The Prodigy)

    I saw Prodigy once.  HORRIBLE!

  9. Its the Supreme Court Stupid

    What famous person have people told you (at any point in your life) that you resemble? Do you agree?  Two.  In college, I was repeatedly told that I looked like John Lennon (when he had the full beard and shoulder-length hair).  I even won second place at a costume contest on Halloween just going as myself.  Also, in the late 70s, after Close Encounters and The Goodbye Girl, I was repeatedly confused on the streets of New York with Richard Dreyfuss (also during his beard period).

    Did you learn any life lessons the hard way? Yes.  Don’t talk about what you learned the hard way.

    How many hours would the day have to have for you to be able to do all you need to do? The hours don’t matter.  I just need 8 days a week.

    What would be worth going to war over? Wine

    What is your version of the American Dream?



    What is the longest lasting earworm (song stuck in your head) that you ever had? In college, a friend was taping the album by Traffic John Barleycorn Must Die.  In the song Empty Pages, the album hit a skip at the record.  My friend was out of the room during the recording, so, for five minutes, the tape played “Staring at empty pages… pages… pages…pages…pages…pages”.  We first listened to the tape (discovering the skip) while driving to Buffalo in another friend’s car.  We were in a … state — so it took us a while to realize what was going on.  That earworm STILL crawls through my brain  — almost 40 years later.

  11. princesspat

    Good morning…still seems like sleepy time. Even though the light should be changing I can barely see my old maple trees outside the window this morning.

  12. slksfca

    …every March 21 to celebrate old Johann Sebastian’s birthday. Most of my friends didn’t give a rat’s ass as to the reason for the party, it was just another chance to get together/hang out. But for ME Bach’s birthday has always been synonymous with the beginning of spring. 🙂

    Here’s one of my rare YouTube UPloads (though I am NOT the performer!) of one of Bach’s ‘Goldberg Variations,’ but done on guitar rather than harpsichord. I think it’s a lovely littel morsel.

  13. princesspat

    famous person….nada

    life lessons… on going and to be continued

    hours….want to do=never enough, need to do=to many!

    war….an honest threat to humanity

    American Dream……my family safe, healthy, and happy

    earworm…..if I remember will it come back…please no!

    I love the pretty plant pic of the day. Thanks Floja!

  14. Avilyn

    Thank heavens tomorrow is Friday, it’s been a long week and yesterday/today have sucked so far.  Took my pootie back to the vet for her follow-up (had to get up early for that; I do not do mornings well), she’s lost more weight since the first visit 3 weeks ago.  🙁 Should get results from the additional bloodwork on Saturday.  And I got a flat tire on my way home last night; can’t be patched & needs a new tire.  Maybe I should have margaritas for dinner tonight.

    There were questions, weren’t there?

    Let’s see… in college I was told I looked like Daryl Hannah.  I didn’t really agree with that one but wasn’t going to turn down the compliment either.

    I have learned some lessons the hard way, some the easy way.  Of course the easy way meant that it was other family members or friends learning things the hard way.

    War?  I hate it.  Yes, stopping Hitler, but couldn’t we have just sent a Seal team to take him out instead of a whole war?  And I don’t think nukes are ever justified.

    American Dream?  Free Education & Healthcare for all; no one hungry or homeless; no stigma on LGBTQ folks; Equal Rights for all; a living wage for all.

    Earworms?  Yeah, I get’em.  Longest?  Can’t really remember.  usually a new earworm will kick the old one out eventually.

  15. DeniseVelez

    What famous person have people told you (at any point in your life) that you resemble? Do you agree?

     When I was in Europe, I was often mistaken for Bianca De Macias, former wife of Mick Jagger. I could see why – similar coloring and size but don’t think we look alike at all.

    I won a Twiggy look alike contest held at the Cheetah Disco – we looked nothing alike but were the same size. (99 lbs soaking wet)

    The police picked me up when they were busting all women with big afros while hunting Angela Davis.  We look nothing alike – but both had big hair.

    Did you learn any life lessons the hard way? Is there another way to learn them?

    How many hours would the day have to have for you to be able to do all you need to do? 36



    What would be worth going to war over?     slavery

    What is your version of the American Dream? having my own house, with lots of room for a garden – cats dogs (and the damned roosters)Which of course reminds me of music

    What is the longest lasting earworm (song stuck in your head) that you ever had? This is hard to answer – I usually have some tune running through my head, but they are displaced quickly

  16. zenor

    and sometimes, curiously, old songs – their melodies – but, if I stop to realize what the lyrics are, they’re often pertinent to what’s going on – either nearby, in the observed, physical world, or in my thoughts about that, or even something I’m putting off but supposed to remember or focus on.. if that makes sense..

  17. Floja Roja

    lasting at least 3 weeks.

    Come on Eileen

    Sh-boom

    Delta Dawn (Helen Reddy version)

    Sheer torture, every one of them!

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