Thursday, June 11, 2026

withershins \ WITH-er-shinz \ , adverb; 

• Chiefly Scot . in a direction contrary to the natural one, especially contrary to the apparent course of the sun or counterclockwise: considered as unlucky or causing disaster. Also, widdershins . 

Origin: Withershins comes from the Middle High German wider meaning "against; opposite" and sin "way; course." It entered English in the early 1500s.

rocket surgery (n.)

• a play on words which mixes two common metaphors: "rocket science" and "brain surgery"

[A line in a hilarious Chris Rock comedy act states that one shouldn't eat green meat. No kidding.] It doesn't take a degree in rocket surgery to figure out something like that! ;oD

 

History

• Great Barrier Reef: Capt. James Cook discovered the world's largest coral reef (1770)
• Triple Crown: horse racing's top honor was won by Sir Barton (1919) and Seattle Slew (1977)
• sugar: US rationing ended after five bitter years (1947)
• Stand in the Schoolhouse Door: in a bid to resist racial integration, Alabama Governor George Wallace tried to block African-Americans Vivian Malone and James Hood from attending the University of Alabama; later that day he gave in (1963)
• immolation: Buddhist monk Quang Duc set himself afire on a Saigon street to protest the South Vietnamese government led by president Ngo Dinh Diem (1963)
• E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: heartwarming sci-fi blockbuster film opened (1982)
• American Idol: the British spinoff debuted with judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson (2002)

Birthdays

• Ben Johnson 1572 - English Renaissance Dramatist
• John Constable 1776 - English Romantic painter
• Jeannette Rankin 1880 - First woman to be elected to the United States House of Representatives
• Bartolomeo Vanzetti 1888 - Known for his conviction of robbery and executed along with Nicola Sacco after a controversial trial in Massachusetts.
• Lawrence Spivak 1900 - Publisher, journalist
• Jacques Cousteau (Jacques-Yves Cousteau) 1910 - Naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker
• Risë Stevens 1913 - Opera singer
• Vince Lombardi 1913 - Football coach
• Richard Todd 1919 - Actor, soldier
• Shelly Manne (Sheldon Manne) 1920 - Drummer
• William Styron 1925 - Novelist and essayist
• Gene Wilder 1935 - Actor
• Chad Everett 1936 - Actor
• Johnny Brown 1937 - Actor
• Wilma Burgess 1939 - Country music singer
• Jackie Stewart (Sir John Young Stewart OBE) 1939 - Racing driver, team owner, nicknamed The Flying Scot
• Luciana Paluzzi 1939 - Actress
• Joey Dee (Joseph DiNicola) 1940 - Musician (Joey Dee and The Starliters)
• Adrienne Barbeau (Adrienne Jo Barbeau) 1945 - Actress, author
• John Lawton 1946 - Singer (Uriah Heep, Les Humphries Singers)
• Henry Cisneros (Henry Gabriel Cisneros) 1947 - Politician, businessman
• George Willig 1949 - Known as "the human fly" or "the spiderman," known for climbing the South Tower of the World Trade Center
• Ingrid Newkirk 1949 - Founder of PETA
• Frank Beard 1949 - Musician (ZZ Top)
• Pancho Carter 1950 - Race car driver
• Bonnie Pointer 1951 - Musician (Pointer Sisters)
• Connie Van Zandt 1952 - Musician (.38 Special)
• Peter Bergman 1953 - Actor ("All My Children," "Young and the Restless")
• Joe Montana 1956 - Football player
• Hugh Laurie 1959 - Actor ("House M.D.")
• Dan Lavery 1969 - Musician (Tonic)
• Smilin' Jay McDowell 1969 - Musician (BR5-49)
  Joshua Jackson 1978 - Actor
  Katelyn Nacon 1999 - actress (TWD)
  

   

   
  
  
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Hasselhoff Wednesday: Michael Knight

Or was he way ahead of his time? 

A brilliant thinker?

Wednesday, June 10, 2026

scintillate \ SIN-tl-eyt \ , verb;

1. to twinkle, as the stars.
2. to sparkle; flash: a mind that scintillates with brilliance .
3. to emit sparks.
4. Electronics . (of a spot of light or image on a radar display) to shift rapidly around a mean position.
5. Physics . a. (of the amplitude, phase, or polarization of an electromagnetic wave) to fluctuate in a random manner. b. (of an energetic photon or particle) to produce a flash of light in a phosphor by striking it.

Origin: Scintillate is related to the Latin scintillāre meaning "to send out sparks, flash." It entered English in the early 1600s.

turn down for what

• rhetorical question used by teenagers. "turn up" is the act of getting drunk and high and being reckless so "turn down" would mean sobering up. turn down for what is really saying i am fucked up and will continue to be all night no matter what. the only appropriate answer to this question would be "nothing"

Johnny: turn down for what ?! 

Ben: The cops and my dad. 

Johnny: You're a pussy! TURN DOWN FOR NOTHING

History

• US Mint: John Hull broke English colonial law to establish America's first mint (1652)

  
• University Boat Race: Oxford bested Cambridge in the first of what is now an annual rowing race (1829)
• Alcoholics Anonymous: was founded by Dr. Bob Smith and Bill W., on the date of Smith's first full "dry" day (1935)
• Rape of Lidice: Nazis murdered all the men of Lidice and deported the women and children (1942)
• ballpoint pen: Lásló Bíró got a patent for a pen he had been developing for nearly a decade (1943)
• Affirmed: the thoroughbred became the eleventh and most recent winner of the Triple Crown (1978)

Birthdays

• Andre-Marie Ampere 1836 - Developed technology for measuring electricity
• Hattie McDaniel 1889
• Frederick Loewe 1901
• Clyde Beatty 1903
• Howlin' Wolf 1910
• Terence Rattigan 1911
• Saul Bellow 1915
• Barry Morse 1919
• Prince Philip 1921 - Husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II
• Judy Garland 1922
• Earl Hamner, Jr. 1923 - Television writer and producer
• Nat Hentoff 1925 - Columnist
• June Haver 1926
• Lionel Jeffries 1926 - Actor, director
• Maurice Sendak 1928
• Gardener McKay 1932
• F. Lee Bailey 1933 - Attorney
• Alexandra Stewart 1939
• Jurgen Prochnow 1941
• Shirley Alston 1941 - Singer (The Shirelles)
• Jeff Greenfield 1943 - Television commentator
• Rick Price 1944 - Musician (The Move, Wizzard)
• Kevin Corcoran 1945
• Dan Fouts 1951 - Football player
• Andrew Stevens 1955
• Eliot Spitzer 1959 - disgraced Governor of New York
• Kim Deal (Kimberly Ann Deal) 1961 - Musician (Pixies, The Breeders)
• Kelley Deal 1961 - Musician (The Breeders)
• Maxi Priest 1961 - Reggae singer
• Brent Sutter 1962
• Gina Gershon 1962 - Actress, singer
• Elisabeth Shue 1963
• Jeanne Tripplehorn 1963 - Actress
• Jimmy Chamberlain 1964 - Drummer (Smashing Pumpkins)
• Kate Flannery 1964 - Actress ("The Office")
• Elizabeth Hurley 1965 - Model, actress
• Linda Evangelista 1965
• Doug McKeon 1966 - Actor
• Emma Anderson 1967 - Musician (Lush)
• Darren Robinson, aka Buffy the Human Beatbox 1967 - Rapper (Fat Boys)
• M. Doughty 1970 - (Soul Coughing)
• Jo-Jo 1971 - Singer (Jodeci)
• Faith Evans 1973 - Singer
• Hugh Dancy 1975 - Actor
• Shane West 1978 - Actor
• Lemisha Grinstead 1978 - Singer (702)
• DJ Qualls 1978 - Actor
• Hoku 1981 - Singer
• Tara Lipinsky 1982 - Figure skater
• Madeleine Thérèse Amélie Joséphine 1982 - Princess Madeleine of Sweden
• Leelee Sobieski 1983 - Actress
• Katherine "Kate" Upton 1992 - model
  
  

          

 

 

 

 

  

 

  

Review Tuesday: M3GAN 2.0 (2025)

  

 

M3GAN 2.0

2025 

When a new artificial person goes on a killing spree, M3GAN needs to be recreated to combat her. 

Honestly, I didn't care for M3GAN all that much so when M3GAN 2.0 came out, the ad campaign looked pretty dumb and convinced me not to bother with it. However my BFF wanted to see it, so there went my plan. 

 

After the events of M3GAN Gemma (Allison Williams) is an advocate against AI and personal electronics. While she's making her stand the government is experimenting with an assassin-bot that predictably goes out of control and starts a killing binge. She travels around killing everyone involved in her creation. Previously M3GAN had uploaded her consciousness into the ether and she has various capabilities even without a body. However, with the threat of this new bot AMELIA (deliciously played by Ivanna Sakhno) M3GAN IS going to need a body to combat her and protect Cady (Violet McGraw). 

 

The first movie leaned more towards horror. This movie is more of an action / comedy. And it's really predictable. I knew it would be, but WOW they could've put a little more effort into the story. That aside, it's perfectly watchable and kinda fun, but you will know every step in the movie.      

  

 

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

sally \ SAL-ee \ , noun;

1. an excursion or trip, usually off the main course.
2. a sortie of troops from a besieged place upon an enemy.
3. a sudden rushing forth or activity.
4. an outburst or flight of passion, fancy, etc.: a sally of anger .
5. a clever, witty, or fanciful remark.
6. Carpentry . a projection, as of the end of a rafter beyond the notch by which the rafter is fitted over the wall plate. 

verb:

1. to make a sally, as a body of troops from a besieged place.
2. to set out on a side trip or excursion.
3. to set out briskly or energetically.
4. (of things) to issue forth.

Origin: Sally comes from the Latin salīre meaning "to leap" by way of the Middle French saillie , which means "attack." It entered English in the mid-1500s.

Caller VD

• When your caller ID identifies someone with whom you definitely don't want to talk, and you avoid answering them like the plague

(Phone rings)

Hey are you going to get the phone or what?
(Looks at phone) 

Negative. That's the number for child support services, they've been trying to get a hold of me for months. I'll let the machine get it, because I don't need a case of Caller VD!

History

• President and Fellows of Harvard College: aka, the Harvard Corporation, was established; it is the oldest corporation in the continent of America (1650)
• Hong Kong: was signed over to the British for 99 years (1898)
• automat: the first automated vending-machine restaurant opened in Philadelphia (1902)
• Alice Huyler Ramsey: 22-year-old housewife set out, mapless, on a road trip that made her the first woman to drive across the US — from Manhattan to San Francisco; the trip took 59 days (1909)
• Donald Duck: debuted in The Wise Little Hen; for more than 50 years, his voice was provided by Clarence "Ducky" Nash (1934)
• Bhumibol Adulyadej: became king of Thailand; in a largely ceremonial role, he is currently the world's longest-reigning head of state (1946)
• Secretariat: the stallion won the Belmont Stakes and became the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years (1973)
• Millennium Bridge: pedestrian suspension bridge over the River Thames opened; found to be wobbly, it closed for repairs almost immediately (2000)

Birthdays

• Leopold I (Leopold Ignaz Joseph Balthasar Felician) 1640 - Holy Roman emperor
• Peter the Great 1672 - Peter I of Russia
• George Stephenson 1781 - Civil engineer and mechanical engineer, built the first public railway
• John Howard Payne 1791 - Actor, poet, playwright
• Carl Nielsen 1865 - Composer, conductor, violinist
• Meta Vaux Warrick 1877 - Artist
• Cole Porter (Cole Albert Porter) 1891 - Composer, songwriter
• Fred Waring 1900 - Musician (The Pennsylvanians), bandleader, radio-television personality
• Louis Kutner 1908 - Human rights activist, lawyer, helped to found Amnesty International
• Robert "Bob" Cummings (Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings) 1910 - Actor
• Les Paul (Lester William Polsfuss) 1915 - Musician, songwriter, inventor (solid-body electric guitar)
• Charles Loloma 1921 - Artist
• George Axelrod 1922 - Screenwriter
• Mona Freeman (Monica Elizabeth Freeman) 1926 - Actress
• Marvin L. Kalb 1930 - Journalist
• Joe Santos 1931 - Actor
• Jimmy Spruill 1934 - Musician
• Jackie Wilson (Jack Leroy "Jackie" Wilson, Jr.) 1934 - Singer, performer
• Diana Van Der Vlis 1935 - Actress
• Letty Cottin Pogrebin 1939 - Writer, journalist
• Dick Vitale (Richard J. "Dick" Vitale) 1940 - Basketball sportscaster
• Billy Hatton 1941 - Musician (The Fourmost)
• Jon Lord 1941 - Musician (Whitesnake, Deep Purple)
• Trevor Bolder 1950 - Musician (Spiders from Mars, Uriah Heep)
• Dave Parker (David Gene "The Cobra" Parker) 1951 - Baseball player
• Billy Knight (William R. "Billy" Knight) 1952 - Basketball player
• Patricia Cornwell 1956 - Mystery author
• Michael J. Fox 1961 - Actor ("Family Ties")
• Aaron Sorkin 1961 - Writer, producer ("The West Wing")
• Johnny Depp (John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II) 1963 - Actor, musician
• Wayman Tisdale 1964 - Basketball player
• Gloria Reuben 1965 - Singer, actress ("ER")
• Dean Felber 1967 - Musician (Hootie & the Blowfish)
• Dean Dinning 1967 - Musician (Toad the Wet Sprocket)
• Tedy Bruschi 1973 - Football player
• Matthew Bellamy 1978 - musician (MUSE)
• Natalie Portman 1981 - Actress ("Star Wars" movie series)
• Mae Whitman 1988 - Actress ("Arrested Development")

   

   

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