Saturday, June 20, 2026

frippery \ FRIP-uh-ree \ , noun; 

1. finery in dress, especially when showy, gaudy, or the like. 
2. empty display; ostentation. 
3. gewgaws; trifles. 

Origin: Frippery is derived from the French frepe meaning "rag." It entered English in the late 1500s.

Daddy Soda

• Beer or an alcoholic beverage. Mostly used by little kids.

Little Kid 1: Charles was drinking daddy soda 
Little Kid 2: I tried a sip and it is icky

History

• Black Hole of Calcutta: 146 British soldiers were imprisoned in one cell in a jail in India; by morning many of the men had suffocated (1756)

  
• Flight to Varennes: faced with anti-royalty hostility during the French Revolution, King Louis XVI tried unsuccessfully to flee the country (1791)
• Queen Victoria: longest-reigning British monarch succeeded to the throne (1837)
• Toast of the Town: debuted on CBS; in 1955 it was renamed The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
• Hot line: Moscow-Washington line of direct communication was established following the Bay of Pigs standoff (1963)
• Jaws: Steven Spielberg's thriller was released, chilling viewers and shattering box office records (1975)

  

Birthdays

• Adam Ferguson 1723 - Philosopher, historian, known as Ferguson of Raith
• Charles Chesnutt (Charles Waddell Chesnutt) 1858 - Author, essayist, political activist
• Jean Moulinn 1899 - High profile member of the French Resistance during World War II
• Errol Flynn 1909 - Actor
• Pancho Segura (Francisco Olegario Segura) 1921 - Tennis player 

  
• Chet Atkins (Chester Burton Atkins) 1924 - Guitarist
• Audie Murphy 1924 - Actor, most decorated American soldier of World War II
• James Tolkan 1931 - Actor
• Martin Landau 1931 - Actor
• Olympia Dukakis 1931 - Actress
• Danny Aiello (Daniel Louis "Danny" Aiello, Jr.) 1933 - Actor
• Brett Halsey 1933 - Actor
• Rossanna Podestà 1934 - Actress
• Len Dawson (Leonard Ray "Len" Dawson) 1935 - Football player
• Billy Guy 1936 - Singer (The Coasters)
• Jerry Keller (Jerry Paul Keller) 1937 - Singer, songwriter
• John Mahoney 1940 - Actor ("Frasier")
• Stephen Frears 1941 - Film director
• Brian Wilson 1942 - Musician (Beach Boys)
• Anne Murray (Morna Anne Murray) 1945 - Singer
• John McCook 1945 - Actor

  
• Bob Vila (Robert J. "Bob" Vila) 1946 - Television host ("This Old House")
• Andre Watts 1946 - Classical pianist
• Candy Clark (Candace June "Candy" Clark) 1947 - Actress
• Tina Sinatra 1948 - Producer, actress, second daughter of Frank Sinatra
• Lionel Richie 1949 - Singer, musician
• John Goodman 1952 - Actor
• Cindy Lauper 1953 - Singer
• Alan Longmuir 1953 - Musician (Bay City Rollers)
• Michael Anthony 1954 - Musician (Van Halen)
• John Taylor 1960 - Musician (Duran Duran, Neurotic Outsiders)
• Mark De Gli Antoni 1962 - Musician (Soul Coughing)
• Michael Landon, Jr. 1964 - Actor, writer, producer
• Nicole Kidman 1967 - Actress
  Chino Moreno 1973 - Singer (Deftones)
  Dreama Walker 1986 - Actress (Compliance)
  
• Christopher Mintz-Plass 1989 - Actor (McLovin from Superbad, The Mother Fucker from Kick-Ass II)

  

  

 

Rock out with some CHOP SUEY!

System of a Down

Chop Suey!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPMpMroOkwc

Wake up

Grab a brush and put a little (makeup)

Grab a brush and put a little

Hide the scars to fade away the (shakeup)

Hide the scars to fade away the

Why'd you leave the keys upon the table?

Here you go create another fable

You wanted to

Grab a brush and put a little makeup

You wanted to

Hide the scars to fade away the shakeup

You wanted to

Why'd you leave the keys upon the table?

You wanted to

I don't think you trust

In, my, self righteous suicide

I, cry, when angels deserve to die, DIE

Wake up

Grab a brush and put a little (makeup)

Grab a brush and put a little

Hide the scars to fade away the (shakeup)

Hide the scars to fade away the

Why'd you leave the keys upon the table?

Here you go create another fable

You wanted to

Grab a brush and put a little makeup

You wanted to

Hide the scars to fade away the shakeup

You wanted to

Why'd you leave the keys upon the table?

You wanted to

I don't think you trust

In, my, self righteous suicide

I, cry, when angels deserve to die

In, my, self righteous suicide

I, cry, when angels deserve to die

Father, father, father, father

Father into your hands, I commend my spirit

Father into your hands

why have you forsaken me

In your eyes forsaken me

In your thoughts forsaken me

In your heart forsaken, me oh

Trust in my self righteous suicide

I, cry, when angels deserve to die

In my self righteous suicide

I, cry, when angels deserve to die

WTF Friday: HANG TON!

Summer starts this weekend!

Friday, June 19, 2026

matrifocal \ ma-truh-FOH-kuhl, mey- \ , adjective;

1. focused or centered on the mother. 
2. of, pertaining to, or designating a family unit or structure headed by the mother and lacking a father permanently or for extended periods. 

Origin: Matrifocal is a blend of the combining form of māter , Latin for "mother," and focal , "of or pertaining to a focus." It entered English in the mid-1900s in the context of cultural anthropology.

Bat Shit Signal

• Like the Bat Signal, but used to summon someone crazy.

"Hey look, there's Gary Busey. Someone must have turned on the Bat Shit Signal."

Holiday

• Juneteenth (southern United States) - June 19 - Celebrated in Texas to commemorate the day in 1865 when Union General Granger proclaimed the slaves of Texas free. Also proclaimed as Emancipation Day by the Florida legislature. Juneteenth has become an occasion for commemoration by African Americans in many parts of the US.

History

• Belmont Stakes: had its first running (1867)
• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: were executed in New York's Sing Sing prison for conspiracy to commit espionage for the USSR (1953)
• Civil Rights Act of 1964: was approved after outlasting an 83-day US Senate filibuster
• The Rocky Horror Show: romped for the first time, on stage in London (1973)
• John Neumann: Philadelphia bishop became the first US male saint when he was canonized by Pope John Paul II (1977)
• Garfield: Jim Davis's comic strip about a lazy, overeating cat debuted (1978)

Birthdays

• Blaise Pascal 1623
• Moe Howard 1897
• Charles Cunningham Boycott 1897
• Elbert Hubbard 1856
• Guy Lombardo 1902
• Lou Gehrig 1903
• Earl Bascom 1906
• Mildred Natwick 1908
• Abe Fortas 1910
• Martin Gabel 1912
• Lester Flatt 1914 - Musician (Flatt and Scruggs)
• Pat Buttram 1917
• Pauline Kael 1919
• Louis Jourdan 1920
• Shelley Mayfield 1924
• Nancy Marchand 1928
• Pier Angeli 1932
• Marisa Pavan 1932
• Gena Rowlands 1930 - Actress
• Tommy DeVito 1936 - Singer (The Four Seasons)
• Robert Aspromonte 1938
• Al Wilson 1939
• Spanky McFarlane 1942 - Musician (Spanky and Our Gang)
• Aung San Suu Kyi 1945 - Politician
• Salman Rushdie 1947 - Author

  
• Walt McKechnie 1947
• Phylicia Rashad 1948 - Actress
• Ann Wilson 1951 - Musician (Heart)
• Larry Dunn 1953 - Musician (Earth, Wind & Fire)
• Kathleen Turner 1954 - Actress
• Doug Stone 1956
• Mark DeBarge 1959 - Musician (DeBarge)
• Paula Abdul (Paula Julie Abdul) 1962 - Singer, dancer, judge on "American Idol"
• Brian Vander Ark 1964
• Andy Lauer 1965
• Robin Tunney 1972 - Actress
• Bumper Robinson 1974
• Poppy Montgomery 1975 - Actress ("Without a Trace")

  Garfield 1978 - comic strip cat invented by Jim davis
• Zoe Saldana 1978 - Actress ("Avatar" "Star Trek")
• Lauren Lee Smith 1980 - Actress ("CSI")

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Turtle Thursday: It came from the water [2009]

This is Roxy giving the photographer the evil eye. 

Pic taken with an Olympus FE-180 digital camera by Mrs. Bax0jayz

Thursday, June 18, 2026

zephyr \ ZEF-er \ , noun;

1. a gentle, mild breeze. 
2. ( initial capital letter ) Literary . the west wind. 
3. any of various things of fine, light quality, as fabric, yarn, etc. 

Origin: Zephyr can be traced to the Greek zéphyros meaning "the west wind."

htf

• How the fuck.

HTF do you expect to pull that off?

History

• War of 1812: US President James Madison declared war on Great Britain (1812)
• Battle of Waterloo: Napoleon was defeated by the Duke of Wellington (1815)
• Susan B. Anthony: was fined $100 for her attempt to vote in the 1872 US presidential election; she did not, however, pay it (1873)
• Amelia Earhart: became the first woman to fly trans-Atlantically; she went from Newfoundland to Wales (1928)
• "This was their finest hour": address delivered by PM Winston Churchill to the House of Commons to inspire his embattled nation during WWII (1940)
• International Declaration of Human Rights: was adopted by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (1948)
• Columbia Records: unveiled its new long-playing 33 1/3 rpm phonograph record (1948)
• Egypt: republic was declared; monarchy abolished (1953)
• Sally Ride: became the first American woman in space, aboard the space shuttle Challenger (1983)

Birthdays

• Sir Thomas Overbury 1581 - Poet, essayist
• Viscount Castlereagh (Robert Stewart) 1769 - British statesman known as Lord Castlereagh
• Edouard Daladier 1884 - French politician
• George Mallory 1886 - Mountaineer
• M.C. Escher (Maurits Cornelis Escher) 1898 - Graphic artist
• Jeanette MacDonald 1901 - Singer, actress
• Keye Luke 1904 - Actor
• Kay Kyser (James Kern "Kay" Kyser) 1906 - Bandleader
• Bud Collyer 1908 - Radio announcer/actor
• E.G. Marshall 1910 - Actor ("The Defenders")
• Ray McKinley 1910 - Drummer, singer, bandleader
• Samuel Cahn (Samuel Cohen) 1913 - Lyricist, songwriter, musician
• Sylvia Porter 1913 - Economist, journalist
• Richard Boone (Richard Allen Boone) 1917 - Actor
• Ian Carmichael 1920 - Actor
• Robert Arthur (Robert Arthaud) 1925 - Actor
• Tom Wicker (Thomas Grey "Tom" Wicker) 1926 - Journalist
  

  
• Maggie McNamara (Marguerite "Maggie" McNamara) 1928 - Actress
• Eva Bartok 1929 - Actress
• Lou Brock (Louis Clark "Lou" Brock) 1939 - Baseball player
• Paul McCartney 1942 - Musician (Beatles, Wings)
• Roger Ebert 1942 - Film critic, screenwriter
• Linda Thorson (Linda Robinson) 1947 - Actress
• Carol Kane (Carolyn Laurie "Carol" Kane) 1952 - Actress
• Isabella Rossellini (Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini) 1952 - Actress
• Jerome Smith (KC & The Sunshine Band) 1953 - Musician
• Tom Bailey (The Thompson Twins) 1957 - Musician
• Alison Moyet (Geneviève Alison Jane Moyet) 1961 - Singer (Yazoo or Yaz in the US)
• Nathan Morris 1971 - Singer (Boyz II Men)
• Alana de la Garza 1976- actress