Monday, August, 31, 2015

diktat \dik-TAHT\, noun:

1. A harsh settlement unilaterally imposed on a defeated party.
2. An authoritative decree or order.

Diktat comes from German, from Latin dictatum, neuter past participle of dictare, "to dictate." It is related to dictator.

Burning Envy 

• The experience often felt by persons not going to Burning Man because they have real life obligations such as jobs, school, kids, etc.

Mike: Coming to Burning Man this year?

Nate: No, I have school and other shit I need to do.

Mike: So what! You can always start school a week late!

Nate: No, no I can't just fuck off all my obligations to party in the desert with a bunch of freaky druggies and rich douche bags who try to be freaky druggies once a year. Reality is more important right now.

Mike: You should still come.

Nate: You just don't get it do you?

Mike: You have Burning Envy, HA HA! 
Nate: ...

History

• Malaya: became independent of the United Kingdom (1957); a few years later this federation of states became Malaysia
• Trinidad and Tobago: island nation of the southern Caribbean, birthplace of limbo, became independent of the United Kingdom (1962)
• Jack the Ripper: first victim was found with her throat cut in London's East End (1888)
• Princess Diana: was killed in a car crash along with her companion, Dodi Fayed, and her driver as they attempted to evade paparazzi (1997)
• Baghdad bridge stampede: 1,000 pilgrims were killed when panic over a supposed suicide bomber caused a crush of people on the Al-Aaimmah bridge over the Tigris River (2005)

Birthdays

• Caligula (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) 0012
• Maria Montessori 1870
• Wilhelmina (Netherlands) 1880
• Frederic March 1897
• Arthur Godfrey 1903
• William Saroyan 1908
• Sir Benrard Lovell 1914
• Daniel Schorr 1916
• Alan Jay Lerner 1918
• Richard Basehart 1919
• G.D. Spradlin 1920
• Buddy Hackett 1924
• James Coburn 1928
• Frank Robinson 1935
• Eldridge Cleaver 1935
• Warren Berlinger 1937
• Jerry Allison (Buddy Holly and the Crickets) 1939
• Jack Thompson 1940
• Roger Dean 1944 - Artist
• Itzhak Perlman 1945
• Van Morrison (Them) 1945
• Richard Gere 1949
• Rudolph Schenker (Scorpions) 1952
• Anthony Thistlewaite (The Waterboys) 1955
• Gina Shock (The Go-Go's) 1957
• Glenn Tillbrook (Squeeze) 1957
• Edwin Moses 1958
• Chris Whitley 1960
• Tony DeFranco (The DeFranco Family) 1960
• Larry Waddell (Mint Condition) 1963
• Jeff Russo (Tonic) 1969
• Debbie Gibson 1970
• Tamara (Trina & Tamara) 1977