Thursday, February 03, 2022

Thursday, February 3, 2022

aubade \oh-BAHD\, noun:
  • A song or poem greeting the dawn; also, a composition suggestive of morning.
Aubade comes from the French, from aube, dawn + the noun suffix -ade: aube ultimately derives from Latin albus, white, pale, as in "alba lux," the "pale light" of dawn.
 
Vaguebooking
  • An intentionally vague Facebook status update, that prompts friends to ask what's going on, or is possibly a cry for help.
Mary is: "wondering if it is all worth it"
Mark is: "thinking that was a bad idea"
Example: "Have you talked to Mark? He's vaguebooking again. I wonder if he's back with Mary..."
Opposite: Tammy is: "in line at the grocery store"

History
  • 15th Amendment: was ratified, granting black men the right to vote (1870)
  • 16th amendment: was ratified, authorizing income tax on a federal level in the US (1913)
  • the day the music died: a plane crash killed rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and "the Big Bopper" (1959)
  • Luna 9: Soviet spacecraft became the first to soft-land on the moon (1966)
Birthdays
  • Horace Greeley 1811
  • Sidney Lanier 1842
  • Gertrude Stein 1874
  • Norman Rockwell 1894
  • Alvar Aalto 1898
  • James A. Michener 1907
  • Simon Weil 1909
  • Joey Bishop 1918
  • Bibi Osterwald 1920
  • John Fiedler 1925
  • Art Arfons 1926
  • Shelley Berman 1926
  • Frankie Vaughn 1928
  • Peggy Ann Garner 1932
  • Jeremy Kemp (Edmund Walker) 1935
  • Victor Buono 1938
  • Emile Griffith 1938
  • Fran Tarkenton 1940
  • Angelo D'Aleo (Dion and The Belmonts) 1940
  • Blythe Danner 1943
  • Dennis Edwards 1943
  • Eric Haydock (The Hollies) 1943
  • Bridget Handley 1944
  • Melanie (Safka) 1947
  • Dave Davies (The Kinks) 1947
  • Morgan Fairchild 1950
  • Nathan Lane 1956
  • Lee Renaldo (Sonic Youth) 1956
  • Thomas Calabro 1959
  • Lol Tolhurst (Cure, Presence) 1959
  • Keith Gordon 1961
  • Michele Greene 1962
  • Matraca Berg 1964
  • Maura Tierney 1965
  • Nick Hawkins (Big Audio) 1965
    Isla Lang Fisher 1976
  • Grant Barry (Reel Big Fish) 1977


Isla strips to sexy corset
 
 
  

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