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The Daily F Bomb, Friday 7/19/13

interrogatories

Were you glued to the TV set when the moon landing happened?

Are you a supporter of the space program?

It’s National Daiquiri Day. Daiquiris, like margaritas, can come over ice, blended, or blended with fruit. How do you like your Daiquiri?

It’s the 110th anniversary of the first victory of Tour de France. Are you a regular viewer? If you watch it, is it for the skill involved, cute boys in spandex (h/t anotherdemocrat), or the scenery?

We had some discussion yesterday about great paintings we’ve seen in person. A few mentioned some great sculptures. So, same question about sculptures (any scale), what is the most awesome sculpture you have ever seen in person?

The Twitter Emitter

A few views on the Rolling Stone Cover kerfuffle:

On This Day

In 64, the Great Fire of Rome began, where Nero allegedly played the fiddle (untrue).

In 1553, Lady Jane Grey was deposed as English Queen after just 9 days, and Mary I was declared Queen.

In 1848, a two day Women’s Rights Convention was held in Seneca Falls, NY.  The revolution was not live-blogged.

In 1903, the first Tour de France was won by Martin Garin.

In 1969, Apollo 11 went into orbit around the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the Lunar Module the next day.

In 1979, the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza regime in Nicaragua.

Born on This Day

1748 – Pierre-Alexandre Wille, French painter (d. 1821)

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1789 – John Martin, English painter (d. 1854)

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1814 – Samuel Colt, American inventor and industrialist, founded the Colt’s Manufacturing Company (d. 1862)

1834 – Edgar Degas, French painter (d. 1917)

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1860 – Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer (d. 1927)

1865 – Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon, founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)

1879 – Alfred Justitz, Czech German painter (d. 1934)

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1895 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (d. 1953)

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1907 – Isabel Jewell, American actress (d. 1972)

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1919 – Patricia Medina, English actress (d. 2012)

1922 – George McGovern, American politician, historian, and author (d. 2012)

1940 – Dennis Cole, American actor (d. 2009)

1946 – Alan Gorrie, Scottish singer and musician (Average White Band and Forever More)

1946 – Ilie Năstase, Romanian tennis player

1947 – Bernie Leadon, American musician and songwriter (The Eagles and The Flying Burrito Brothers)

1947 – Brian May, English singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and author (Queen and Smile)

1948 – Keith Godchaux, American keyboard player (Grateful Dead and Heart of Gold Band) (d. 1980)

1950 – Freddy Moore, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (the very dreadful NuKats), better known as Demi Moore’s first spouse.

1960 – Atom Egoyan, Canadian director

1960 – Kevin Haskins, English drummer, songwriter, and composer (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, and Tones on Tail)

1961 – Lisa Lampanelli, American comedian, actress, and author

1963 – Garth Nix, Australian author

1976 – Benedict Cumberbatch, English actor

Died on This Day

1543 – Mary Boleyn, English sister of Anne Boleyn (b. c. 1499)

1664 – Egbert van der Poel, Dutch painter (b. 1621)

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1810 – Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1776)

1817 – Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust, French painter (b. 1753)

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1907 – Theodor Pixis, German painter (b. 1831)

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1821 – William Pether, British mezzotint engraver (b. 1738)

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1929 – Fausto Zonaro, Italian painter (b. 1854)

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1975 – Lefty Frizzell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1928)

1982 – John Harvey, English actor (b. 1911)

2002 – Dave Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer) (b. 1952) Beautiful song:

2002 – Alan Lomax, American historian, activist, writer, and scholar (b. 1915)

2006 – Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920)

2009 – Frank McCourt, Irish-American writer (b. 1930

Today is

Sandinista Day

National Daiquiri Day

Flitch Day

National Raspberry Cake Day


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40 comments

  1. jlms qkw

    maybe – i was 3yo.  

    YES

    blended. but i’d rather have a margarita. on the rocks, salted.

    no.  i used to call it tour de lance :-(((

    i saw a very nice painting in Koln of a sculptured coffin that is in the Louvre (saw that too) – that was pretty weird for me.  

  2. plf515

    Were you glued to the TV set when the moon landing happened?

    Yes.

    Are you a supporter of the space program?

    Yes

    It’s National Daiquiri Day. Daiquiris, like margaritas, can come over ice, blended, or blended with fruit. How do you like your Daiquiri?

    I am not a fan of the daiquiri

    It’s the 110th anniversary of the first victory of Tour de France. Are you a regular viewer? If you watch it, is it for the skill involved, cute boys in spandex (h/t anotherdemocrat), or the scenery?

    No. But if there were cute women in spandex…. hmmmm.

    We had some discussion yesterday about great paintings we’ve seen in person. A few mentioned some great sculptures. So, same question about sculptures (any scale), what is the most awesome sculpture you have ever seen in person?

    I would say it’s the sculpture outside Yad Vashem, the memorial to the Holocaust in Israel. here you go Not something I’d want to look at every day, but it’s pretty amazing.

  3. zenor

    In a tall lime rickey glass, crushed ice and tastes like limey lemonade:that’s my daiquiri (drink it like lemonade in an ice cold bar and then go out into scorching hot nite where it hits like a tornado. ) was glued to armstrong. Loved mountain stages,scenes. Now no tv. I own a couple little sculptures now stashed in my old drummer’s house. I wouldn’t know what to choose on that topic. Dennis Leon I knew since I was teenager. He worked and taught here before moving to CA, College of the Arts. He lived, had a studio in Oakland. Never stopped loving, missing him.

  4. Jim in IA

    I was glued to it. I still marvel at the successes with that technology.

    I support the space program 110%. We have returned more per $$ of investment there than in any other facet of government. See what you get when you have scientists and engineers doing sciency things. Congress and society should pay attention.

  5. slksfca

    …is in downtown San Francisco. It’s called the Mechanics Monument. Here it is:

    And here’s how it looked in April of 1906:

  6. Gee

    This is the craziest party that could ever be…

    Were you glued to the TV set when the moon landing happened?

    Are you a supporter of the space program?

    It’s National Daiquiri Day. Daiquiris, like margaritas, can come over ice, blended, or blended with fruit. How do you like your Daiquiri?

    It’s the 110th anniversary of the first victory of Tour de France. Are you a regular viewer? If you watch it, is it for the skill involved, cute boys in spandex (h/t anotherdemocrat), or the scenery?

    We had some discussion yesterday about great paintings we’ve seen in person. A few mentioned some great sculptures. So, same question about sculptures (any scale), what is the most awesome sculpture you have ever seen in person?

    I wasn’t glued to the TV set that night.  Not sure what was up with me that day.

    Not only do I support the space program, the space program supports me!

    I’ll have a hickory Daiquiri, doc!  I don’t know much about Daiquiris, but I’ve heard the adjective “frozen” applied to them.  That sounds good on a day like today.

    I have never watched the Tour de France.  Scenery must be great, though.

    Boy, we’ve got loads of sculptures in and around the Hirshhorn Museum in DC.  Big stuff outside, and little tiny Picassos inside.  But the sculpture that comes to mind is the giant Calder mobile in the National Gallery East Wing.

  7. anotherdemocrat

    Were you glued to the TV set when the moon landing happened?

    I’ve always wondered why my memory of the moon landing seems…. one step removed is the best way I’d put it. I mean I was 5, but that’s old enough to have a memory of something like that, and after all, I’m me, I’d remember this. Well, it turns out we were on vacation in Mexico when it happened. So we didn’t see it. And that’s why that memory is second hand, because it is.

    Are you a supporter of the space program?

    On my bulletin board at work: a picture of the crew of the last shuttle… make that 2, a sticker from the McDonald observatory, a postcard about the Space Station, a mission patch from the flight John Glenn was on, An astronaut’s autograph from a “Space Day” event here in Austin & a picture of the Sombrero Galaxy.

    So, I’m goiing with “yes”.

    It’s National Daiquiri Day. Daiquiris, like margaritas, can come over ice, blended, or blended with fruit. How do you like your Daiquiri?

    never had one

    It’s the 110th anniversary of the first victory of Tour de France. Are you a regular viewer? If you watch it, is it for the skill involved, cute boys in spandex (h/t anotherdemocrat), or the scenery?

    cute.boys.in.spandex. Why don’t more women watch this? (the gay men I know all know about it)

  8. Gee

    Americans have some pretty powerful assumptions about what terrorists look like – #RollingStone challenged that

    Rolling Stone is being criticized, basically, because the cover photo was not properly doctored with dramatic evilness.

  9. Gee

    1947 – Bernie Leadon, American musician and songwriter (The Eagles and The Flying Burrito Brothers)

    Really good guitarist, imo.

  10. emeraldmaiden

    Were you glued to the TV set when the moon landing happened?

    I don’t remember; I was five.

    Are you a supporter of the space program? Yes

    It’s National Daiquiri Day. Daiquiris, like margaritas, can come over ice, blended, or blended with fruit. How do you like your Daiquiri?

    Blended with fruit. A daiquiri sounds like a good idea today.

    It’s the 110th anniversary of the first victory of Tour de France. Are you a regular viewer? Nope.

    We had some discussion yesterday about great paintings we’ve seen in person. A few mentioned some great sculptures. So, same question about sculptures (any scale), what is the most awesome sculpture you have ever seen in person?

    Gotta think on that one. It’s been a while.  

  11. michelewln

    Were you glued to the TV set when the moon landing happened? Definitely

    Are you a supporter of the space program? One of the biggest

    It’s National Daiquiri Day. Daiquiris, like margaritas, can come over ice, blended, or blended with fruit. How do you like your Daiquiri? any way they want to make them

    It’s the 110th anniversary of the first victory of Tour de France. Are you a regular viewer? If you watch it, is it for the skill involved, cute boys in spandex (h/t anotherdemocrat), or the scenery? not interested in them

    We had some discussion yesterday about great paintings we’ve seen in person. A few mentioned some great sculptures. So, same question about sculptures (any scale), what is the most awesome sculpture you have ever seen in person? not sure if it would come under sculpture but I would say one of the awesome thing I have ever seen is the mask of King Tut.

  12. Jk2003

    Were you glued to the TV set when the moon landing happened?

    Are you a supporter of the space program?

    It’s National Daiquiri Day. Daiquiris, like margaritas, can come over ice, blended, or blended with fruit. How do you like your Daiquiri?

    It’s the 110th anniversary of the first victory of Tour de France. Are you a regular viewer? If you watch it, is it for the skill involved, cute boys in spandex (h/t anotherdemocrat), or the scenery?

    We had some discussion yesterday about great paintings we’ve seen in person. A few mentioned some great sculptures. So, same question about sculptures (any scale), what is the most awesome sculpture you have ever seen in person?

    Moon landing:  I wasn’t alive yet

    Space program:  hell yes!

    Daiquiri:  not a fan of daiquiris

    Le Tour:  yes, I watch, my dad got me into it when I was a kid.  Dirtiest sport in the world some say.  I watch for all the reasons listed plus nostalgia.

    Sculptures:  I live in Chicago, we have some great public sculpture here.  From Picasso woman in daly plaza to oldenburgs bat to the newest addition the bean.  I used to live in DC most there is historical sculpture.  Very reverential to the subject.  While the artistry and talent of the DC sculptures is impressive, I like the whimsy of the Chicago stuff better.  

  13. princesspat

    Good morning….I love the Transatlantic series. Watching the musicians make the music is a complete pleasure.

    Thanks for another fun week Floja

  14. raina

    Sculptures- I’m partial to this one that sits at the entrance to Gallaudet University:

    The man who went to France to study deaf education and brought it to America- Thomas Gallaudet showing his deaf neighbor the letter A. The university is named for his son, not him.

    The statue was done by the same person who did Abraham Lincoln’s, Daniel Chester French.

    An enduring legend re A.L.’s statue is that his hands are in the handshape letters A & L, though in a very subtle relaxed way. Many people dispute this, however.

    On to other questions- don’t know that I was glued the whole time, but I do remember watching the moon landing. In middle school, every time there was an Apollo event, we all gathered into a small assembly room to watch it on TV. Supporter. yes.

  15. Avilyn

    Were you glued to the TV set when the moon landing happened?  Nope.  Wasn’t born yet 😉   First space-related thing I can remember being glued to the TV for was Challenger 🙁

    Are you a supporter of the space program?  Yes.

    It’s National Daiquiri Day. Daiquiris, like margaritas, can come over ice, blended, or blended with fruit. How do you like your Daiquiri?  Frequent?  🙂  All of those sound good; I’ll take frozen or blended with fruit.

    It’s the 110th anniversary of the first victory of Tour de France. Are you a regular viewer? If you watch it, is it for the skill involved, cute boys in spandex (h/t anotherdemocrat), or the scenery?  I’ve never watched it.

    We had some discussion yesterday about great paintings we’ve seen in person. A few mentioned some great sculptures. So, same question about sculptures (any scale), what is the most awesome sculpture you have ever seen in person?  I’m an uncultured heathen.  I can’t think of any.

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