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Did you ever have a preference between GM and Ford?

What’s the weirdest thing you ever photocopied?

What was the most amazing meal you ever ate in a restaurant?

Do you visit your local library? Any other libraries? Do you avail yourself to library services beyond borrowing books?

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On This Day

In 1908, General Motors was founded.

In 1919, the veteran’s organization called the American Legion was incorporated.

In 1920, a timed bomb in a horse drawn wagon outside of the J.P. Morgan building on Wall Street exploded. 38 people were killed, and another 143 were injured. The J.P. Morgan building received extensive damage, but none of it was structural. Nobody ever claimed responsibility, though Italian anarchists were suspected. Wall Street was in such a hurry to get back to business that they cleaned up immediately and destroyed much of the evidence before it could be examined.

In 1941, the U.K. and the Soviets invaded Iran, suspecting that the Shah would be throwing his support behind Hitler. They forced the Shah to abdicate in favor of his son.

In 1959, Xerox introduced the first successful photocopier.

In 1991, Manuel Noriega’s trial on charges of drug trafficking, racketeering, and money laundering began in the U.S.

In 2007, Blackwater mercenaries in Baghdad opened fire on Iraqi civilians, killing 17. 14 of these were determined to be innocent bystanders. 5 of the mercenaries were charged with manslaughter, but charges were dismissed by a U.S. district judge over a technicality.

Born on This Day

1386 – Henry V of England, (d. 1422)

1585 – Ottavio Vannini, Italian painter (d. 1644)

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1678 – Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English philosopher and politician (d. 1751)

1777 – Nathan Mayer Rothschild, English banker and financier (d. 1836)

1782 – Daoguang Emperor of China (d. 1850)

1846 – Anna Kingsford, English doctor (d. 1888)

1861 – Franz von Matsch, Austrian painter (d. 1942)

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1872 – Laura Burt, American stage actress (d. 1952)

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1875 – James Cash Penney, American businessman, founded J. C. Penney (d. 1971)

1886 – Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor and painter (d. 1966)

1891 – Isabel Jeans, British actress (d. 1985)

1893 – Alexander Korda, Hungarian director (d. 1956)

1903 – Joe Venuti, Italian-American violinist (The Dorsey Brothers) (d. 1978)

1914 – Allen Funt, American director, scriptwriter, and producer (d. 1999)

1921 – Jon Hendricks, American singer-songwriter

1922 – Janis Paige, American actress and singer  

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1924 – Lauren Bacall, American actress

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1925 – Charlie Byrd, American guitarist (d. 1999)

1925 – B.B. King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1926 – Takao Tanabe, Canadian painter

1927 – Peter Falk, American actor (d. 2011)

1930 – Anne Francis, American actress (d. 2011)

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1934 – Ronnie Drew, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Dubliners) (d. 2008)

1934 – Dick Heckstall-Smith, English saxophonist (Blues Incorporated, The Graham Bond Organisation, and Colosseum) (d. 2004)

1941 – Joe Butler, American vocalist and drummer (The Lovin’ Spoonful)

1942 – Bernie Calvert, English musician (The Hollies)

1944 – Winston Grennan, Jamaican drummer (Kid Creole and the Coconuts and Toots and the Maytals) (d. 2000)

1948 – Ron Blair, American bass player (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)

1948 – Rosemary Casals, American tennis player

1948 – Kenney Jones, English drummer (The Small Faces, Faces, The Who, The Law, and The Jones Gang)

1949 – Ed Begley, Jr., American actor

1950 – Henry Louis Gates, American educator, scholar, and author

1952 – Mickey Rourke, American boxer, actor, and screenwriter

1954 – Earl Klugh, American guitarist

1954 – Colin Newman, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (Wire, Githead, and Immersion)

1954 – Frank Reed, American singer-songwriter (The Chi-Lites)

1956 – Peter Zaremba, singer for The Fleshtones, one-time host of MTV’s 120 Minutes

1956 – Dave Schulthise, American bass player (Dead Milkmen) (d. 2004)

1964 – Molly Shannon, American actress

1971 – Amy Poehler, American actress and producer

1974 – Joaquín Castro, American lawyer and politician

1974 – Julian Castro, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of San Antonio

1992 – Nick Jonas, American teen idol (Jonas Brothers)

Died on This Day

655 – Pope Martin I

1087 – Pope Victor III (b. 1026)

1394 – Antipope Clement VII (b. 1342)

1530 – Quentin Matsys, Flemish painter (b. ca. 1466)

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1701 – James II of England (b. 1633)

1736 – Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist (b. 1686)

1775 – Louis-Fabricius Dubourg, Dutch painter and engraver (b. 1693)

1782 – Farinelli, Italian castrato singer (b. 1705)

1897 – Aloïs Schönn, Austrian painter  (b. 1826)

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1911 – Edward Whymper, English mountaineer (b. 1840)

1950 – Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (b. 1881)

1957 – Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (b. 1864)

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1977 – Marc Bolan, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and poet (T. Rex and John’s Children) (b. 1947)

1977 – Maria Callas, Greek-American soprano (b. 1923)

1992 – Millicent Fenwick, American politician and writer (b. 1910)

2006 – Xavier Valls, Spanish painter (b. 1923)

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2007 – Robert Jordan, American author (b. 1948)

2009 – Mary Travers, American singer-songwriter (Peter, Paul, and Mary) (b. 1936)

Today is

International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer

Independence Day, celebrating Mexico’s indepence from Spain

National Guacamole Day

National Cinnamon-Raisin Bread Day

Stay Away From Seattle Day

Collect Rocks Day

Stepfamily Day

National Play-Doh Day

Working Parents Day


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23 comments

  1. Floja Roja

    The weather widget says it’s 66, but the window fan in the bathroom says it’s 69. The widget says it’s supposed to reach 90 today. I believe that. I believe that sucks, I mean.

    Answers:

    When my little friend Becky got her ’50 Chevy pickup, I became a Chevy loyalist. Before that I had no idea that people cared about that. Not that I really did, but YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO TAKE SIDES! Right? Then I worked for a division of GM a long time ago, and while the pay was great, I had never encountered such a blatant sexist operation before, AND when I was helping to open the mail one day I found a memo from Roger Smith to all managers ordering them to talk to their employees about how they needed to support Reagan’s economic plan. I threw it away. The loyalty, too.

    The weirdest thing you ever photocopied was my hand, I think. I stuck it in a letter to my boyfriend and said something along the lines of, “I’m sure you will be able to detect my hand in there.”

    I’m not sure there was one single most amazing restaurant meal, but I can think of a few dishes that stood out, like this incredible pasta with cheese at the short-lived Bono in West Hollywood (it was a special of the day), the most amazing Stroganoff I ever ate at Taylor’s Steakhouse, and this incredible angel hair pasta with garlic, shallots, and some kind of cream sauce from the restaurant (I forgot the name) at the Salish Lodge in Snoqualmie, WA. That last dish I got the recipe for when I wrote to Bon Appetit. It’s too fattening to make now.

    I used to be a regular customer at my local library. I’ve been shamefully neglecting it lately thanks to that Kindle. I have been using the interlibrary loans since I discovered they had such a thing as a teen. I have to use it here, since our branch is a dinky one.

  2. plf515

    Did you ever have a preference between GM and Ford?

    Nope. I don’t drive so I don’t care.

    What’s the weirdest thing you ever photocopied?

    Nothing very weird. I guess the weirdest was my hand

    What was the most amazing meal you ever ate in a restaurant?

    Long ago at a restaurant in Martha’s Vineyard. Clams. Lobster. Corn. All fresh from sea or field and into pot.

    Do you visit your local library? Any other libraries? Do you avail yourself to library services beyond borrowing books?

    Local library – not really.  Other libraries – indeed! University libraries and the NY Public Library (main reference branch and science branch). I have used interlibrary loan quite a bit, and search facilities for journal articles.  

  3. JanF

       BREAKING: UNFOLDING EVENT UNEXPECTEDLY FAILS TO FOLLOW JOURNALISTS’ EXPECTATIONS, JOURNALISTS REPORT

       – Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) September 15, 2013

    If “journalists” would actually do some reporting, instead of sitting around reading each others twitter streams maybe just maybe they wouldn’t be “surprised” at what actually happens.

    The Summers reporting and reaction got on my last nerve and led me to shut down my twitter stream. From the left-of-the-left taking victory laps for “forcing Obama to back down” to those who saw those victory laps and assumed that anyone against Summers for Fed was a left-of-the-left, it was a Twitter-crapfest.

    There are a lot of valid reasons for a roxxer like me to dislike Larry Summers and want him out of consideration. To assume that I am dissing the president is complete bullsh*t. I don’t want Larry Summers rewarded for his misogynistic viewpoints or for his contribution towards creating the very policies that led to the Great Recession.

    Back later to hover!!!

  4. anotherdemocrat

    Did you ever have a preference between GM and Ford?

    No. I have a Honda, used to have a Chevvy Malibu.

    What’s the weirdest thing you ever photocopied?

    sorry, I got nothin for this one

    What was the most amazing meal you ever ate in a restaurant?

    A couple of years ago, my aunt & cousin visited Houston and took my mom, brother & me out to eat at a club. One of those members-only places. Waiters hovering at your elbow, the whole 9 yards. It was pretty impressive.

    Do you visit your local library? Any other libraries? Do you avail yourself to library services beyond borrowing books?

    Well, yeah. All the time. Mostly my neighborhood one, but if the book I want is downtown & it’s Sunday, I’ll go get it on the way home from church. Or if it’s at the library just north of mine, I’ll go get it there. But mostly, I look up a book, click on it to request it, them a few days later, it’s at my branch. it totally rocks. (And I’m always telling people with visual or physical impairments that they should be using their state’s Talking Book library)

    Other services? Well, I have the number for the reference desk memorized. That doesn’t mean I call them way, way too much, does it?

  5. Jk2003

    Did you ever have a preference between GM and Ford?

    What’s the weirdest thing you ever photocopied?

    What was the most amazing meal you ever ate in a restaurant?

    Do you visit your local library? Any other libraries? Do you avail yourself to library services beyond borrowing books?

    GM and Ford:  oh, this was a big deal to the cowboys I went to vet school with.  I like toyotas.  Sorry.

    Photocopied:  a line drawing self portrait the Kurt Vonnegut did of himself while giving a talk a friend of mine attended.  I still have it folded up in on of his books.

    Meal:  a real lobster roll.  Yum.  So simple.

    Library:  yes, and others around us.  Ours are a library system and we can borrow from any of them.  Pretty cool.  There are major differences between libraries and some are much more child friendly.  My local library has almost no fantasy or scifi stuff but the others around me more than compensate.  I have a nook and could check out books that way but I have found I really like holding a book.  I use my nook for,knitting patterns now.

  6. Gee

    It’s a bit Seattleish here in DC this morning.  Possibility of rain, but the weekend was beautiful.  The chilly fall weather and blue skies have arrived!

    Did you ever have a preference between GM and Ford?

    What’s the weirdest thing you ever photocopied?

    What was the most amazing meal you ever ate in a restaurant?

    Do you visit your local library? Any other libraries? Do you avail yourself to library services beyond borrowing books?

    As a kid, I liked GM cars better, just based on their looks.  The original little T-Bird was an exception, though.  Lovely thing.

    I can’t say I’ve ever photocopied anything weird.

    I don’t know if I can choose a single meal.  I’ve had some mighty good French dinners.  And Vietnamese.  And Greek.  And Thai.  And Cajun.

    I haven’t been to a library in a long time.  I’ve developed the very bad habit of buying books.  I used to go all the time, though, and I’ve borrowed LPs, and, I think, the occasional movie.

  8. Gee

    1934 – Dick Heckstall-Smith, English saxophonist (Blues Incorporated, The Graham Bond Organisation, and Colosseum) (d. 2004)

    That clip is from an old Shindig show, I think.  I remember them having a show that was totally taped at a British concert instead of in the usual studio.  The Who were also on that show.

    Nobody knew at that moment how famous Graham Bond’s rhythm section would become.

  9. Gee

    1944 – Winston Grennan, Jamaican drummer (Kid Creole and the Coconuts and Toots and the Maytals) (d. 2000)

    I saw a triple bill with the “Stop Making Sense” lineup of Talking Heads, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, and FR’s buddies, the Fleshtones.  Quite a show.

  11. JanF

    That reminds me that I need to get an avocado. I tried to make guacamole for the first time a few weeks ago and had a huge FAIL. I was supposed to put in a tablespoon of lime juice and 1/4 cup of onions. I put in a 1/4 cup of lime juice and then when I looked back at the notes, I realized I had made a ghastly mistake. I dabbed up the lime juice but there was still too much and I cut it by dumping salsa into it.

    I am keen on trying to make it again to put that kitchen mishap behind me.

    Also on this day, in 2008:

    … the Federal Reserve authorized a bailout loan of up to $85 million to the insurance company AIG.  

    They thanked the American people by suing us, f%$&ers.

    Hovering …

    – Water you know! There is a hover sub-theme!!

    – And baaaaad ewe cannot resist kidding around.

    Have a great day, Floja Roja!

  13. bubbanomics

    Did you ever have a preference between GM and Ford?

    at one time, many years ago, i preferred GM.  Now, it doesn’t matter… gonna take a lot to talk me out of buying used Hondas.

    What’s the weirdest thing you ever photocopied? 10 blank sheets of paper.  I was in a hurry to get some blank paper and couldn’t get the copier drawer open.

    What was the most amazing meal you ever ate in a restaurant?

    hard to say.  i’ve been fortunate to be able to enjoy some good ones. Locally, Sa’am at the Bazaar in the SLS Hotel offers an amazing dinner.

    Do you visit your local library? Any other libraries? Do you avail yourself to library services beyond borrowing books?

    yeah. yeah.  yeah… DVDs and the occasional research help.

    currently up on the bubbapod…

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