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The Daily F Bomb, Friday 6/28/13

Interrogatories

It’s Henry VIII’s birthday. Which of his wives is your favorite? What movie/TV/book version led to that choice?

Do you love or hate tapioca?

Gay or straight, when did your activism/standing up for gay rights begin?

What’s the better human invention: words or music?

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On This Day

In 1846, Adolphe Sax received a patent for his saxophone. (Thanks, ‘dolphe!)

In 1894, Labor Day became a Federal Holiday (though not out of any good feelings for labor unions).

In 1896, 58 miners were killed after an explosion in Pennsylvania’s Twin Shaft Mine.

In 1914, World War I was precipitated by the assassination of Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife.

In 1969, the Stonewall riots began in NYC, seen today as the birth of the Gay Rights movement.

In 2001, Slobodan Milosevic was handed over to the Hague to face a war crimes tribunal.

Born on This Day

1491 – Henry VIII of England (d. 1547)

1529 – Bartolomeo Passarotti, Italian painter (d. 1592)

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1577 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (d. 1640)

1609 – Pieter van Lint, Dutch painter (d. 1690)

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1616 – Lucas Franchoys II, Flemish painter (d. 1681)

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1674 – Pier Leone Ghezzi, Italian painter, engraver, and caricaturist (d. 1755)

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1703 – John Wesley, English theologian, founder of Methodism (d. 1791)

1846 – Otto Piltz, German painter (d. 1910)

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1852 – Charles Cruft, English showman, founded Crufts Dog Show (d. 1938)

1866 – Otto Pilny, Swiss orientalist painter (d. 1936)

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1884 – William Victor Higgins, American painter (d. 1949)

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1894 – Lois Wilson, American actress (d. 1988)

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1902 – Richard Rodgers, American composer (d. 1979)

1909 – Eric Ambler, English writer (d. 1998)

1923 – Pete Candoli, American trumpeter (d. 2008)

1926 – Mel Brooks, American actor, director, producer, and writer

1932 – Pat Morita, American actor (d. 2005)

1934 – Carl Levin, American politician

1938 – Leon Panetta, American politician, 23rd United States Secretary of Defense

1945 – David Knights, English bassist and producer (Procol Harum)

1946 – Gilda Radner, American comedian and actress (d. 1989)

1958 – Donna F. Edwards, American politician

1959 – Clint Boon, English singer and keyboardist (Inspiral Carpets and The Clint Boon Experience)

1966 – John Cusack, American actor

1966 – Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress

1977 – Mark Stoermer, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (The Killers)

Died on This Day

767 – Pope Paul I (b. 700)

1385 – Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1348)

1670 – Hendrick Maertensz Sorgh, Dutch painter (b. 1611)

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1721 – Isaac Sailmaker, Dutch marine painter active in England  (b. 1633)

1801 – Martin Johann Kremser-Schmidt, Austrian painter (b. 1718)

1801 – Francis Wheatley, British painter (b. 1747)

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1836 – James Madison, American politician and theorist, 4th President of the United States (b. 1751)

1848 – Jean-Baptiste Debret, French painter who worked primarily in Brazil (b. 1768)

1900 – Paul Trouillebert, French painter (b. 1829)

1965 – Red Nichols, American cornet player, bandleader, and composer (The California Ramblers) (b. 1905)

1975 – Rod Serling, American scriptwriter, producer, and author (b. 1924)

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1980 – José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra) (b. 1895)

1980 – Helen Gahagan Douglas, actress and politician (b. 1900)

1993 – GG Allin, American singer-songwriter and musician (The Murder Junkies and The Jabbers) (b. 1956)

1993 – Olga Costa, German-born Mexican painter (b. 1913)

2009 – Billy Mays, American advertising pitchman (b. 1958)

2010 – Robert Byrd, American politician (b. 1917)

Today is

National Tapioca Day

Paul Bunyan Day

Insurance Awareness Day (how about Lack of Insurance Awareness Day?)


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25 comments

  3. JanF

    The Last Temptation of Hedwig

    Do you think that will lure him out? 🙂

    From Lois Wilson’s crystal ball – yes yes YES!! Although I think there will be another stop along the way to handing the gavel to Speaker Pelosi: House Conservatives Threaten To Depose Boehner If He Breaks Hastert Rule On Immigration

    “The American people elected a Republican majority to the House of Representatives,” [California Republican Tom] McClintock said. “Were a leader of that majority to use his authority to circumvent that majority, that would be cause for removal in my judgment.”

    They are talking about this being a “hot potato” for Boehner but it may also be their Waterloo. John McCain says that if the Republicans fail to pass immigration reform they are doomed. But interestingly, he is not talking about “we will lose Latino votes” … he is saying it is because 70-80% of Americans are in favor of immigration reform. His anti-immigration peeps are missing that point. It is not about the votes, it is about being in the minority because you have a minority opinion.

    p.s. The American people did not elect a Republican majority. They actually elected a Democratic majority but gerrymandering gave the Republicans the House.

  4. Jim in IA

    • I don’t know my Henry wives well enough to have an opinion.

    • I like tapioca. Love?

    • Supportive of my youngest brother for decades. Activism and public stances in the recent years.

    • Words.

  5. plf515

    It’s Henry VIII’s birthday. Which of his wives is your favorite? What movie/TV/book version led to that choice?

    Bah! Off with their heads!

    But my favorite bios of the Tudors are the ones by Carolly Erickson

    Do you love or hate tapioca?

    I wouldn’t say I hate it, but it’s not something I look for



    Gay or straight, when did your activism/standing up for gay rights begin?

    I don’t know about “activism”, but I’ve never understood why I should care about who you want to sleep with unless I want it to be me.

    What’s the better human invention: words or music?

    Both. Neither. I am not even sure these qualify as inventions, exactly. Every society of humans has had both.

    However, I think words are more essential. Life without music would be bad; life without words is unimaginable.  

  6. raina

    Anne Bolyen- Anne of a Thousand Days. Only one I ever knew about until I saw the Henry movie last year, though I was aware of his multiple marriages. Surprised to learn his first wife Catherine was the daughter of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Christopher Columbus fame.

    Love tapioca. I assume you’re talking about the pudding. It also makes a great thickener. I’ve used it in stews before.

    I stood for equal rights for gays in college. As a disabled person, I always believed in equal rights for all.  

  7. Floja Roja

    It’s going to be hot and nasty today.

    It’s Henry VIII’s birthday. Which of his wives is your favorite? What movie/TV/book version led to that choice?

    I actually discovered Henry quite by accident in the 7th grade, flipping through the pages of an encyclopedia to find some subject to do a report on. I thought it was so much more interesting than any U.S. History (bear in mind the schools taught a very boring sanitized version of that), and I became obsessed for a time. After all this time I would say Anne of Cleves is my fave because she certainly was the smartest, and the sequence in the Charles Laughton film (The Private Live of Henry VIII) with Elsa Lanchester was fabulous.

    Never watched The Tudors. I was offended that they got this ectomorph to play a man famed for his tonnage, and was unable to get beyond that. And the black haired/black eyed Anne Boleyn played by a blue eyed blonde.

    Do you love or hate tapioca?

    Taste is fine, texture is funky. I will not be celebrating it today. In Austin I tried a tapioca creme brulee.  That is not something you should inflict on my favorite dessert!

    Gay or straight, when did your activism/standing up for gay rights begin?

    In the mid-70s, when I got to know real live gay people.

    What’s the better human invention: words or music?

    That is like picking a favorite child, isn’t it?  If there were no words, would we communicate in wordless songs? I don’t think it’s possible not to have words. I’m guessing almost all civilizations have music, as well.

  8. JG in MD

    It’s Henry VIII’s birthday. Which of his wives is your favorite?

    Always been Anne Boleyn, mother of the brilliant little lioness Queen Elizabeth. Just now reading a novel by Fiona Buckley about a lady in waiting who spied for Elizabeth.

    Do you love or hate tapioca? Love it.

    Gay or straight, when did your activism/standing up for gay rights begin? Maybe not activism, but we’ve had gay family friends since I was very young. We were close to one couple who had a legal partnership and both had good jobs and pensions. I blush it took me so long to wonder how people of lesser means managed without marriage.

    What’s the better human invention: words or music?

    Not inventions, but the natural functions of the human brain. The miracle was applying them to each other and marrying words to their sound and ineffable sound to linear words.

  9. Gee

    I feel so ignorant today.  See below.

    It’s Henry VIII’s birthday. Which of his wives is your favorite? What movie/TV/book version led to that choice?

    Do you love or hate tapioca?

    Gay or straight, when did your activism/standing up for gay rights begin?

    What’s the better human invention: words or music?

    I know that Henry VIII had wives VI, but I probably could not even name them all.  I am abysmally ignorant about ‘Enery the Eighth, I am.  Don’t think I’ve read or seen any of those sources you speak of.

    I don’t know.  I don’t think I’ve tried it in years.  I think it may be one of those things I refused to try as a child.

    Hmmm, long time ago, not sure when.  I was already well broken in when my younger son came out.

    Wow, as a music and literature lover, I can’t choose.  Those are two out of the three things that make life beautiful.

  10. Jk2003

    It’s Henry VIII’s birthday. Which of his wives is your favorite? What movie/TV/book version led to that choice?

    Do you love or hate tapioca?

    Gay or straight, when did your activism/standing up for gay rights begin?

    What’s the better human invention: words or music?

    Henry’s wife:  the only one I know anything about is Anne Boleyn. I read the other Boleyn girl and enjoyed it immensely.

    Tapioca:  not my thing

    Gay rights:  in college I hung with the first out gay people I had ever known.  They were incredibly brave as we were in Oklahoma and they had to put up with some stuff.  We used to go dancing at a bar in OKC called Angles and just had a ball.  Both are doctors now.  

    Words or music:  words

  12. Gee

    In 1846, Adolphe Sax received a patent for his saxophone. (Thanks, ‘dolphe!)

    It was very interesting the other day when you posted the guy playing saxophone using classical technique.  It was kind of like hearing a bassoon.  Just the difference in technique made it sound like a different instrument.

  13. michelewln

    It’s Henry VIII’s birthday. Which of his wives is your favorite? What movie/TV/book version led to that choice? Anne Boleyn. I loved the movie Anne of a Thousand Days.

    Do you love or hate tapioca? Love!

    Gay or straight, when did your activism/standing up for gay rights begin? straight and in college

    What’s the better human invention: words or music? Music as it can communicate where words can not.

  14. JanF

    To all the “Democrats” donating to Chris Christie, here is a well-deserved poke in the eye: Chris Christie Turns On Obama:

    “I know when you look at Washington right now, you shake your head at a president who can’t figure out how to lead, at a Congress that only 11 percent of the people in the last poll I saw approve of the job they’re doing,” Christie said at a town hall meeting. “That’s what happens when you have someone in the executive office who is more concerned about being right than he is concerned about getting things done.”

    That is after already coming out against the DOMA ruling. Chris Christie is a REPUBLICAN. R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-A-N. He is not Democrat-lite or “a reasonable fella”. He is a Republican.

    Now, knock it off and support Barbara Buono.

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