Hasselhoff Wednesday: May Day Today

 

 

Another working man

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

ort \awrt\, noun:

• A scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

Ort is related to the Old English word eten meaning "to eat."

 

Microsoft Minute

• A unit of time ranging in value from one realtime minute to several hours.

"Time to complete installation of Windows 10 37 minutes."

(24 minutes later)

"Time to complete installation of Windows 10 36 minutes. Did you know that Windows 10 will speed up all your everyday computing tasks!"

Holiday

• May Day aka International Worker's Day (Socialists)

History

• Act of Union: England and Scotland joined to form Great Britain (1707)
• Marriage of Figaro: Mozart's opera premiered in Vienna (1786)
• Empire State Building: world's tallest building (at the time) opened after 410 days of construction (1931)
  
• Citizen Kane: Orson Welles' film masterpiece loosely depicting — and criticizing — newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst debuted in New York City (1931)
• Cheerios: General Mills introduced the first oat-based ready-to-eat breakfast cereal (1941)
• North Korea: was established with Kim Il Sung as premier; he maintained power for the next 46 years (1948)
• Iraq War: George W. Bush declared the successful end of major combat operations in Iraq (2003)

Birthdays

• Benjamin Henry Latrobe 1764 - Architect known for his design of the United States Capitol and the Baltimore Basilica
• George Inness 1825 - American landscape painter
• James Graham 1878 - Scottish nobleman, politician
• Leo Sowerby 1895 - Composer, musician, won Pulitzer Prize for music in 1946
• Kate Smith 1909 - Singer
• Archie Williams 1915 - Olympic athlete
• Glen Ford 1916 - Actor ("Gilda", "The Courtship of Eddie's Father")
• John Beradino (Giovanni Berardino) 1917 - Baseball player, actor
• Jack Paar 1918 - Radio and television comedian, talk show host ("The Tonight Show")
• Harry Caray 1919 - Baseball broadcaster
• Dan O'Herlihy 1919 - Actor ("Macbeth (1948)", "Robinson Crusoe")
• Julian Goodman 1922 - CEO for NBC, was on Richard Nixon's master list of political opponents
• Joseph Heller 1923 - Novelist, short story writer, playwright
• Terry Southern 1924 - Author, essayist, screenwriter
• Scott Carpenter 1925 - One of NASA's original seven astronauts
• Chuck Bednarik 1925 - Football player
• Sonny James (James Loden) 1929 - Country music singer and songwriter
• Ollie Matson (Ollie Genoa Matson II) 1930 - Football player
• Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) 1930 - Musician
• Judy Collins (Judith Marjorie "Judy" Collins) 1939 - Singer and songwriter
• Bobbie Ann Mason 1940 - Novelist, short story writer, essayist, literary critic
• Stephen Macht 1942 - Actor
• Mimi Farina (Mimi Baez Fariña) 1945 - Singer, songwriter
• Rita Coolidge 1945 - Singer

  
• Nick Fortune 1946 - Musician (The Buckinghams)
• Jerry Heard 1947 - Golfer
• Douglas Barr 1949 - Actor, writer, director
• Dann Florek 1951 - Actor ("Law and Order: SVU")
• Ray Parker Jr. 1954 - Singer (Raydio)
• Nick Feldman 1955 - Musician (Wang Chung)
• Steve Farris 1957 - Musician (Mr. Mister)
• Phil Smith 1959 - Musician (Haircut 100)
• Wayne Hancock 1965 - Country musician
• Charlie Schlatter 1966 - Actor ("Diagnosis: Murder")
• Johnny Colt 1966 - Musician (The Black Crowes)
• Tim McGraw 1967 - Country musician
• D'Arcy Wreztky 1968 - Musician (Smashing Pumpkins)
• Wes Anderson 1969 - Director
• Julie Benz 1972 - Actress ("Dexter," "Angel")
• Curtis Martin 1973 - Football player
• Darius McCrary 1976 - Actor ("Family Matters"), singer
  Caitlin Stasey 1990 - Actress
  

   

  
  

  
  

   

  

   

  

 

 

 

 

Review Tuesday: HAZBIN HOTEL - Season One

 

 

HAZBIN HOTEL

Season One

Charlie, the daughter of Lucifer, tries to save souls condemned to Hell. 

Okay, continuing with the things my friend got me to watch during tax season we come to HAZBIN HOTEL. This animated show is an AMAZON ORIGINAL series. 

 

What appears to be a cute animation turns out to be a VERY adult oriented series. This takes place in HELL, and the daughter of Lucifer, Charlie Morningstar, is trying to figure out a way to save could that had been condemned. Why? At some point there had been an uprising in Hell and the angels had to come down from Heaven to put an end to it. To keep the residents of Hell in check, Heaven sent down an extermination force of EXORCISTS led by ADAM, the original man, to kill the demons of Hell. It wasn't meant to be a complete extermination, just a population control and to keep the Hellions on line. 

 

To help control the population Charlie comes up with the HAZBIN HOTEL. A rehabilitation center for wayward souls to get a second chance and get accepted into Heaven. This will help the population issues in Hell, so they won't need an annual culling from the Exorcists. 

 

That is the basic premise. The show is fun musical that's playful and charming and VERY adult in nature. I don't mean there's sexual penetration, but discussions about sex and drugs are more graphic than you'd expect. And there is a LOT of violence and cussing. This takes place in Hell. What would you expect? That's where this show leaves a niggling feeling in the BAX of my mind. The way this show is created, the souls condemned to Hell are the bad guys, and those in Heaven are stupid and stuck in their ill-informed ways. I have a feeling this wasn't an accident. You know, people who were sinners for a lifetime are entitled to a second chance at getting into Heaven, right?

 

Theological issues aside I found this show to be amusing and highly entertaining. It's not even remotely Biblically accurate but what would you expect from a cartoon that was split off from a web comic? I am not sure if I would call it a mistake or not, but I went and googled certain things about the series, especially Alastor Atruist the radio demon, part of the cast and my favorite character. At that time I found the PILOT episode which gives some background and shows the earliest incarnations of the various characters. For instance, you see the first interactions between Cheri Bomb and Sir Pentious. In the end, I would recommend this series, and it's already been greenlit for at least a second season.  

AMAZON

Official Website

 

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

aphotic \ey-FOH-tik\, adjective:

• Lightless; dark.

Coined in the early 1900s, aphotic comes from the Greek word photic meaning "light," as in the word photo, and the prefix a- meaning "not."
 
Splenda Daddy

• A man who strives to be a Sugar Daddy but just doesn't have the funds to pull it off.

She was all excited that she had finally landed a Sugar Daddy until he rolled up in his Accord. It was then she realized she had landed a Splenda Daddy, instead.

 
Trivia

What lies at the feet of the Statue of Liberty?

• A broken chain, symbolizing Lady Liberty’s freedom from oppression and bondage. It is protruding from the bottom of the statue’s robe and visible only from her torch or the sky above.

 

History

• George Washington: took the oath of office to become the first POTUS (1789)
• Louisiana Purchase: France agreed to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States for $15 million, thereby doubling the size of the US (1803); eight years later on the same date, Louisiana became the 18th state
• A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens' novel was first published as a serial in a literary magazine (1859)
• Suicide: Nazi leader ADOLF HITLER killed himself before Allied and Russian forces could capture him (1945)
• Vietnam War: officially ended when Saigon (now called Ho Chi Minh City) fell and South Vietnam surrendered (1975)

Birthdays 

• Cornelius Vanderbilt 1898
• Ellis Wilson 1899
• George R. Stibitz 1904
• Queen Juliana (Netherlands) 1909
• Al Lewis 1910
• Eve Arden 1912
• Robert Shaw 1916
• Percy Heath 1923
• John (Johnny) Horton 1925
• Cloris Leachman 1926 - Actress ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Phyllis")
• Willie Nelson 1933 - Musican
• Gary Collins 1938 - Talk show host
• Burt Young 1940 - Actor
• Johnny Farina 1941 - Musician (Santo & Johnny)
• Bobby Vee (Velline) 1943 - Singer
• Jill Clayburgh 1944 - Actress
• Richard Schoff (The Sandpipers) 1944
• Don Schollander 1946
• Perry King 1948
• Wayne Kramer 1948 - Musician (MC5)
• Merril Osmond 1953 - Singer (The Osmonds)
• Jane Campion 1954 - Director
• Paul Gross 1959
• Isiah Thomas 1961 - Basketball player
• Robert Reynolds (The Mavericks) 1962
• Barrington Levy 1964 - Dancer
• Adrian Pasdar 1965 - Actor ("Heroes")
• Turbo B 1967 - Rapper (Snap)
• Clark Vogeler 1969 - Musician (Toadies)
• Chris "Choc" Dalyrimple 1971 - Musician (Soul for Real)
• J.R. Richards 1972 - Musician (Dishwalla)
• Jeff Timmons 1973 - Musician (98 Degrees)
• Akron 1973 - Singer
• Johnny Galecki 1975 - Actor ("The Big Bang Theory")
• Kirsten Dunst 1982 - Actress ("Spider-Man")
• Gal Gadot 1985 - Actress ("Wonder Woman")
• Ashley Dupré 1985 former high-class hooker who took down the NYS Gov Eliot Spitzer, NY Post Columnist
• Dianna Agron 1986 - Actress ("Glee")
• Skyla Raynes Gray / ChibiNeko Cosplay - cosplayer / e-girl
  

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

Look forward to LOVE!

 

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Maxim - April 2012

 

 

  

Hotty of the day!

 

 

 

cred to ou

Monday, April 29, 2024

ensconce \en-SKONS\, verb:

1. To settle securely or snugly.
2. To cover or shelter; hide securely.

Ensconce is related to the word for a type of fort that defended a bridge or pass. It came to mean "to settle securely" in the late 1500s.
 
ily2

• I Love You Too; used in response to ILY

Person 1 - ILY! 
Person 2 - ILY2!

 

cucuy

• "El cucuy" is about the equivelant to the boogie man, but is much scarier. Contrary to what people believe its not just the MEXICAN boogieman, many different Spanish speaking countries tell stories about the Cucuy. Some say that the Cucuy lives in the closet.

"Te va a comer el Cucuy"

"The Cucuy is gonna eat you"

Trivia

Under federal law what percent of a product labeled peanut butter has to be peanuts?

• At least 90 percent.

History

• Joan of Arc: led her army into Orléans in victory over the English (1429)
• Dachau: concentration camp was liberated by US soldiers (1945)
• Naomi Uemura: became the first person to reach the North Pole alone; he traveled by sled dog (1978)
• Los Angeles race riots: began after the acquittal of police officers accused of beating Rodney King (1992)
• space walk: astronaut Jerry Linenger and cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliyev stepped out together on first joint US-Russian walk in space (1997)
• Rent: Rock musical opened on Broadway; the Manhattan-set retelling of La bohème went on to win several Tonys, a Pulitzer and many other awards (1996)

Birthdays

• Alexander II (Alexander the Liberator) 1745 - Czar of the Russian Empire from 1855 to 1881
• William Randolph Hearst 1863 - American newspaper magnate, newspaper publisher,
• Sir Thomas Beecham 1879 - British conductor
• Duke Ellington (Edward Kennedy) 1899 - Composer, pianist, big band leader
• Hirohito (Emperor Showa) 1901 - 124th Japanese emperor, emperor from 1926 to 1989
• Tom Ewell 1909 - Actor ("The Girl Can't Help It," "The Tom Ewell Show," "Baretta")
• Richard Carlson 1912 - Actor, director, screenwriter
• Donald Mills 1915 - Musician (The Mills Brothers)
• Celeste Holm 1919 - Actress
• Danny Davis 1925 - Musician (The Nashville Brass)
• Carl Gardner 1928 - Musician (The Coasters)
• Lonnie Donegan 1931 - Musician
• Rod McKuen 1933 - Poet
• Keith Baxter 1933 - Actor
• Otis Rush 1934 - Musician
• Luis Aparicio 1934 - Baseball player
• Lane Smith 1936 - Actor ("Red Dawn," "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman")
• April Stevens 1936 - Singer
• Zubin Mehta 1936 - Conductor
• Duane Allen 1943 - Singer (The Oak Ridge Boys)
• Richard Kline 1944 - Actor ("Three's Company")
• Tammi Terrell 1945 - Singer
• Tommy James 1947 - Musician (The Shondells)
• Francis Rossi 1949 - Musician (Status Quo)
• Dale Earnhardt 1951 - Father of race car driver Dale Earnhardt Jr.
• Kate Mulgrew 1955 - Actress ("Star Trek: Voyager")
• Jerry Seinfeld 1955 - Comedian, actor ("Seinfeld")
• Daniel Day-Lewis 1957 - Actor
• Michelle Pfeiffer 1957 - Actress

  
• Eve Plumb 1958 - Actress ("The Brady Bunch")
• Mark Kendall 1958 - Musician (Great White)
• Stephanie Bentley 1963 - Country musician
• Carnie Wilson 1968 - Singer (Wilson Phillips)
• Michael Timmins 1969 - Musician (Cowboy Junkies)
• Master P (Percy Miller) 1970 - Rapper
• Uma Thurman 1970 - Actress ("Pulp Fiction")
• Andre Agassi 1970 - Tennis player
• James Bonamy 1972 - Country Musician
• Mike Hogan 1973 - Musician (Cranberries)
• Tommie Harris 1983 - Football player
• Zane Carney 1985 - Actor 
  Katherine Langford 1996 - actress