2008

Aug

A word cloud of the active page of this tumblr, via...
Aug 10th
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“When Day Breaks,” a film by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis, via the National Film Board...
Aug 7th
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“The Cat Came Back,” a film by Cordell Barker for The National Film Board of Canada.
Aug 7th

Change of Format

I always said that, if I missed a day, I’d hang it up. I managed three posts every day from...
Aug 7th
“Even Bach comes down to the basic suck, blow, suck, suck,...”
— Larry Adler, harmonica player...
Aug 6th
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Larry Adler
Aug 6th

Happy Holidays:

It’s Fresh Breath Day. Want a mint?
Aug 6th
“I think, therefore I’m single.”
— Lizz Winstead, comedian,...
Aug 5th
Lizz Winstead
Aug 5th
“Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand...”
— Marilyn Monroe, actor, model,...
Aug 5th
Marilyn Monroe
Aug 5th

Happy Holidays:

It’s National Night Out. It’s about reducing crime, not lap dances and drinking...
Aug 5th
“All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse...”
— Louis Armstrong, jazz...
Aug 4th
Louis Armstrong
Aug 4th
“‘But the Emperor has nothing on at all!’”
— Hans Christian Andersen, poet...
Aug 4th
Hans Christian Andersen
Aug 4th

Happy Holidays:

Today we celebrate the forgot branch of the Armed Forces: It’s Coast Guard Day.
Aug 4th
“God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into...”
— P.D. James, crime novelist and...
Aug 3rd
P.D. James
Aug 3rd
“Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in...”
— Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette,...
Aug 3rd
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette via wikimedia commons
Aug 3rd

Happy Holidays:

It’s International Friendship Day. It’s a good day to celebrate your friends, or make...
Aug 3rd
“I can’t understand people calling themselves religious...”
— Mojo Nixon,...
Aug 2nd
Mojo Nixon
Aug 2nd
“Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react...”
— William S. Burroughs, avante...
Aug 2nd
William S. Burroughs
Aug 2nd

Happy Holidays:

It’s National Mutard Day! Don’t forget to get the t-shirt.
Aug 2nd
“A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard...”
— Herman Melville, author and...
Aug 1st
Herman Melville, via wikimedia commons
Aug 1st
“The presentation of hard core pornography, brutality and...”
— Pola Negri, actor, femme...
Aug 1st
Pola Negri
Aug 1st

Happy Holidays:

It’s Girlfriend’s Day. You don’t have to be a Red Hat Lady to celebrate, but us...
Aug 1st

Jul

“If young American males have no better role models than...”
— Lynn Reid Banks, author, was...
Jul 31st
Lynn Reid Banks
Jul 31st
“Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with...”
— Denis Diderot, philosopher and...
Jul 31st
Denis Diderot, via wikimedia commons
Jul 31st

Happy Holidays:

It’s Bikini Month. Today is the last day. I’d have told you sooner, but I didn’t...
Jul 31st
“You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you...”
— Lisa Kudrow, actor, producer,...
Jul 30th
Lisa Kudrow
Jul 30th
“I know what’s best for me, after all I have been in...”
— Claudette Colbert,...
Jul 30th
Claudette Colbert
Jul 30th

Happy Holidays:

It’s Cheesecake Day! W00t!
Jul 30th
“How about I slip out of this dress…”
— Adele Stephens, model and...
Jul 29th
Adele Stephens
Jul 29th
“Thank God I’m an atheist.”
— Luis Bunuel, film maker and...
Jul 29th
Luis Bunuel
Jul 29th

Happy Holidays:

It’s Single Working Woman’s Week. Since y’all are working, I’m taking the...
Jul 29th
“Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata...”
— Philip Proctor, comedian,...
Jul 29th
Philip Proctor
Jul 29th
“Bring me A bowl of coffee before I turn into a goat.”
— Johann Sebastian Bach,...
Jul 29th
Johann Sebastian Bach
Jul 29th

Happy Holidays:

It’s National Milk Chocolate Day.
Jul 29th
“I like strangers to be strange…”
— Maya Rudolph, comedian and...
Jul 27th
Maya Rudolph
Jul 27th
“Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.”
— Bob Hope, actor, comedian,...
Jul 27th
Bob Hope
Jul 27th

Happy Holidays:

It’s Parents’ Day. Make your kids get you presents!
Jul 27th
“No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn’t think...”
— Kate Beckensdale, actor with...
Jul 26th
Kate Beckensale
Jul 26th
“I am only a simple woman who lives to serve Perón and my...”
— Eva Perón, who was a woman but...
Jul 26th
Eva Perón
Jul 26th

Happy Holidays:

It’s Cowboy Day, ladies! It’s Cowboy Day for you “brokeback” gentlemen,...
Jul 26th
“The band has a liberal philosophy - that’s sort of a...”
— Thurston Moore,...
Jul 25th
Thurston Moore
Jul 25th
“A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge,...
Jul 25th
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Jul 25th

Happy Holidays:

It’s the Day Out Of Time, which celebrates the signing of the Roerich Peace Pact, which allows...
Jul 25th
Peace Banner
Jul 25th
“Mr. Fitzgerald — I believe that is how he spells his name —...”
— Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald,...
Jul 24th
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, via Wellesley College
Jul 24th
“A broad with a big future behind her.”
— Joan Bennet, actor with an eye...
Jul 24th
Joan Bennet
Jul 24th

Happy Holidays:

It’s National Tell And Old Joke Day. I’d tell one, if I had one.
Jul 24th
“From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10...”
— Raymond Chandler, author who...
Jul 23rd
Raymond Chandler, via WikiCommons
Jul 23rd
“I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious...”
— Ulysses S. Grant, US Civil War...
Jul 23rd
Ulysses S. Grant
Jul 23rd

Happy Holidays:

It’s Hot Enough for Ya Day. Oddly, today is cooler than it’s been for weeks.
Jul 23rd
“The weight of rages will press hard upon the employer.”
— William Archibald Spooner,...
Jul 22nd
William Archibald Spooner
Jul 22nd
“A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.”
— Carl Sandburg, poet,...
Jul 22nd
Carl Sandburg
Jul 22nd

Happy Holidays:

It’s Health and Happiness with Hypnosis Day. You are getting sleepy, very sleepy…
Jul 22nd
“You, the actor, must be aware of when you’re being...”
— John Lovitz, actor, comedian,...
Jul 21st
Jon Lovitz
Jul 21st
“It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress...”
— D.W. Griffith, failed...
Jul 21st
D.W. Griffith
Jul 21st

Happy Holidays:

It might be Cow Appreciation Day today. Then again, it might be on the 28th. Chase’s says...
Jul 21st
“They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult,...”
— Dame Diana Rigg, actor and...
Jul 21st
Diana Rigg
Jul 21st
“Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a...”
— Bruce Lee, the most...
Jul 21st
Bruce Lee
Jul 21st

Happy Holidays:

It’s National Ice Cream Month, this month. And today, the third Sunday of the month, is...
Jul 21st
“Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to...”
— Edgar Degas, impressionist...
Jul 19th
Edgar Degas via Buzzle.com
Jul 19th
“I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the...”
— Alan Lomax, folklorist,...
Jul 19th
Alan Lomax
Jul 19th

Happy Holidays:

It’s Woodie Wagon Day.
Jul 19th
“I couldn’t sing that well … She says,...”
— Screaming Jay Hawkins, the...
Jul 18th
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Screaming Jay Hawkins - “I Put a Spell On You”
Jul 18th
“The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be...”
— Carl van Doren, author,...
Jul 18th
Carl van Doren
Jul 18th

Happy Holidays:

It’s Cell Phone Courtesty Month. I’m sorry, but a month won’t do it.
Jul 18th
“A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.”
— Phyllis Diller, comedian and...
Jul 17th
Phyllis Diller
Jul 17th
“My work may be garbage but it’s good garbage.”
— Mickey Spillane, best selling...
Jul 17th
Mickey Spillane
Jul 17th

Happy Holidays:

It’s Rabbit Week. Some people celebrate in January, but we won’t quibble.
Jul 17th
“Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.”
— Barbara Stanwyck, eleventh...
Jul 16th
Barbara Stanwyck
Jul 16th
“I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I...”
— Harry Chapin,...
Jul 16th
Harry Chapin
Jul 16th

Happy Holidays:

It’s Personal Chef’s Day, and I want one!
Jul 16th
“Don’t ever be afraid to step out and do something...”
— Kim Alexis, model, actor, and...
Jul 15th
Kim Alexis
Jul 15th
“Any idiot can face a crisis, it is this day-to-day living...”
— Anton Chekhov, writer,...
Jul 15th
Anton Chekhov, via NNDB
Jul 15th

Happy Holidays:

It’s Gummi Worm Day! Mmmmmmm! Gummi worms!
Jul 15th
“It must be my new shampoo.”
— Nancy Olson (as Betty...
Jul 14th
Nancy Olson
Jul 14th
“It is so painful to see him in the morning, he does not have...”
— Julie Manet, writing about...
Jul 14th
Julie Manet, via wikimedia commons
Jul 14th

Happy Holidays:

It’s National Bikini Month. Yea! Here’s some trivia, if you’re interested.
Jul 14th
“There was no way my dog was going to Missouri.”
— Danni Boatwright, model,...
Jul 13th
Danni Boatwright
Jul 13th
“Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?”
— Frida Kahlo, artist, died on...
Jul 13th
Frida Kahlo
Jul 13th

Happy Holidays:

It’s Embrace Your Geekness Day. If you’re reading this, you qualify. And you deserve a...
Jul 13th
“We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn’t for him,...”
— Milton Berle, Mr Television...
Jul 12th
Milton Berle
Jul 12th
“Olivia Newton-John - Australia’s gift to insomniacs....”
— Minnie Riperton,...
Jul 12th
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Minnie Riperton whistle register retrospective
Jul 12th

Happy Holidays:

It’s Hot Dog Day!
Jul 12th
“I think my lips are very sensual and I’d like to keep...”
— Carla Campbell, lippy model,...
Jul 11th
Carla Campbell
Jul 11th
“Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean...”
— Ross MacDonald, hard-boiled...
Jul 11th
Ross MacDonald
Jul 11th

Happy Holidays:

Well, it’s more a historical note than a holiday (though I am sure some are celebrating): On...
Jul 11th
“At school my boobs were bigger than all my friends’...”
— Jessica Simpson, pop singer...
Jul 10th
Jessica Simpson
Jul 10th
“Oh, goody! My Illudium Pu-36 Explosive Space Modulator!”
— Mel Blanc (as Marvin Martian),...
Jul 10th
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Mel Blanc as the voice for Private SNAFU in “Booby Traps.” Private SNAFU appeared in 26...
Jul 10th

Happy Holidays:

On the day celebrating Clerihew there are many things you can do all require rhyming but none...
Jul 10th