Rock out with some DK! 2026

To mark the assassination of JFK, this weekend, I thought I'd post some Dead Kennedys!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgpa7wEAz7I

"Kill The Poor"

Efficiency and progress is ours once more 
Now that we have the Neutron bomb 
It's nice and quick and clean and gets things done 
Away with excess enemy 
But no less value to property 
No sense in war but perfect sense at home: 

The sun beams down on a brand new day 
No more welfare tax to pay 
Unsightly slums gone up in flashing light 
Jobless millions whisked away 
At last we have more room to play 
All systems go to kill the poor tonight 

Gonna 
Kill kill kill kill Kill the poor:Tonight 

Behold the sparkle of champagne 
The crime rate's gone 
Feel free again 
O' life's a dream with you, Miss Lily White 
Jane Fonda on the screen today 
Convinced the liberals it's okay 
So let's get dressed and dance away the night 

While they: 
Kill kill kill kill Kill the poor:Tonight

WTF Friday - An Unbelievably AWFUL Adventure

Summed up pefectly with

The adventures of

THE MAN WITH NO PENIS

Friday, November 13, 2026 - Friday the Thirteenth!

FRIDAY THE 13TH!

triskaidekaphobia \ tris-kahy-dek-uh-FOH-bee-uh, tris-kuh- \ , noun;

• fear or a phobia concerning the number 13. 

Origin: Triskaidekaphobia derives from the Greek word for thirteen, triskaídeka and the Greek word for fear, phobos . It entered English in the early 1900s.

boobook \ BOO-book, -book \ , noun; 

• a small, reddish-brown spotted owl, Ninox boobook , native to Australia and New Zealand. 

Origin: Boobook comes from Dharuk, a now-extinct Australian aboriginal language. The word is said to be imitative of the sound the bird makes.

brown out

• Less intense than the experience of "blacking out" when drunk and not remembering portions (or all) of your night, "browning out" occurs when you don't remember something until someone brings it up. It's not a complete blackout, but partial, because you remember once someone refreshes you.

I didn't even remember making out with Bryanne until J-Lo told me (it must not have been that good)! I definitely had a brown out last night.

Holiday

• Friday the 13th: No one really knows the origin of the superstition about Friday the 13th, although in Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code, he suggested that it started with the arrest of the Knights Templar on Friday, October 13, 1307.

  

History

• Saint Brice's Day Massacre: King Ethelred of England ordered the murder of all Danes in his country (1002)
  
• death & taxes: Benjamin Franklin listed life's two certainties in a letter (1789)
• Holland Tunnel: the world's first long, mechanically-ventilated, underwater tunnel opened between New York and New Jersey (1927)
• Fantasia: animated musical Disney film premiered (1940)
• Bhola cyclone: the 20th century's greatest natural disaster killed hundreds of thousands in Bangladesh (1970 )
• Vietnam Veterans Memorial: "the Wall," designed by Maya Lin, was dedicated in Washington, DC (1982)

Birthdays 

• Edwin Booth 1833
• Robert Louis Stevenson 1850
• Louis Brandeis 1856
• Alexander Scourby 1913
• Nathaniel Benchley 1915
• Jack Elam 1916
• Oskar Werner 1922
• Clyde McPhatter (Drifters) 1933
• Joonas Kokkonen 1921
• Madeleine Sherwood 1922
• Linda Christian 1924
• Richard Mulligan 1932
• Garry Marshall 1934
• Jean Seberg 1938
• Dack (Norman) Rambo 1941
• Ray Wylie Hubbard 1946
• Joe Mantegna 1947
• Whoopi Goldberg 1949
• Chris Noth 1957
• Tracy Scoggins 1959
• Caroline Goodall 1959
• Vinny Testaverde 1963
• Walter Kibby (Fishbone) 1964
• Jimmy Kimmel 1967
• Steve Zahn 1968
• Gerard Butler 1969 (The 300 Guy)

  

   

  

 

Turtle Thursday: Rhyme

 

TMNT!!!

Thursday, November 12, 2026

* 11 * 12 *

hempy \ HEM-pee \ , adjective; 

• Scot . mischievous; often in trouble for mischief. 

Origin: Hempy comes from the late Middle English word hempi , which meant "made of hemp." This is thought to be a dark joke about one being fit for hanging by a hemp rope, and, by attenuation, mischievous.

Alex from Target

• Alex from Target is a hardcore pimp who recently gained fame as an Instagram sensation for reasons beyond the comprehension of any sane person.

Alex from Target bagged my bags when no one else would.

 

History

• Kenesaw Mountain Landis: judge was elected the first commissioner of baseball after the Black Sox scandal (1920)
• Leon Trotsky: was expelled from the Communist Party and Joseph Stalin became the Soviet ruler (1927)
• Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge: eight-mile-long structure opened for traffic (1936)
• Ellis Island: the New York Harbor facility, which served more than 12 million immigrants, was closed (1954)

Birthdays

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815
• Auguste Rodin 1840
• Jo Stafford 1918
• Richard Quine 1920
• Kim Hunter 1922
• Sunset Carson (Michael Harrison) 1922
• Grace Kelly 1929
• Jack Oakie 1930
• Charles Manson 1934
• Ruby Nash Curtis (Ruby & the Romantics) 1939
• Brian Hyland 1943
• Wallace Shawn 1943
• Valerie Leon 1943 (Bond Girl)
  
• Jimmy Hayes (Persuasions) 1943
  
• Al Michaels 1944
• Booker T. Jones (Booker T. & the MGs) 1944
• Neil Young 1945
• Barbara Fairchild 1950
• Megan Mullally 1958
• Nadia Comaneci 1961
• David Ellefson (Megadeth) 1964
• Tony Montana (Great White) 1965
• Tonya Harding 1970
• Angela Watson 1974
• Tevin Campbell 1976
• Anne Hathaway 1982

 

 

  

 

  

 

  

  

 

  

Hasselhoff Wednesday: Piss-Hoff!!!

Pic courtesy of Heff

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

*11*11*

cryptesthesia \ krip-tuhs-THEE-zhuh, -zhee-uh, -zee-uh \ , noun; 

• Psychology . allegedly paranormal perception, as clairvoyance or clairaudience.

Origin: Coined in the 1920s, cryptesthesia is a combination of crypt(o)- , meaning "hidden," and esthesia referring to "capacity for sensation or feeling." 

bumper sticker activism

• To tell the world what they should be doing and what you think by plastering your car with bumper stickers to that effect.

Jim: That "Keep Tahoe Blue" sticker is really making me wonder how to keep Tahoe blue.

Mike: Yeah, Berkeley is full of bumper sticker activism. Too bad the sticker's on a Ford Expedition, since keeping Tahoe blue involves reducing emissions.

 

Trivia

Why is Veterans Day always celebrated on November 11th?

• The holiday, established in 1938 to honor World War I veterans, was originally called Armistice Day to mark the November 11, 1918, signing of the armistice with Germany that ended the war. In 1954 the name of the holiday was changed to Veterans Day to honor U.S. veterans of all wars.

Holiday

• Veteran's Day

 

Holiday

Veterans Day: an official United States public holiday, observed annually on November 11, that honors military veterans, that is, persons who served in the United States Armed Forces. It coincides with other holidays, including Armistice Day and Remembrance Day, celebrated in other countries that mark the anniversary of the end of World War I; major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into effect. The United States previously observed Armistice Day. The U.S. holiday was renamed Veterans Day in 1954.

Veterans Day is not to be confused with Memorial Day; Veterans Day celebrates the service of all U.S. military veterans, while Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who gave their lives and those who perished while in service.

History

• Mayflower Compact: was signed by the 41 free male Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, setting up the basis of the Plymouth colony government (1620)
• The Great Blue Norther of 11/11/11: freak temperature highs and lows were recorded across the US, many in the same cities (1911)
• Armistice Day: WWI fighting came to an end when the Allies and Germany signed a peace treaty (1918)
• Tomb of the Unknowns: the first unknown soldier in this tomb was interred in a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery (1921); a nameless soldier who died on the Somme during WWI was entombed in the New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior — his tomb now reads ""An Unknown New Zealand Warrior/ He Toa Matangaro No Aotearoa" (2004)
• U.S. Route 66: "the Main Street of America," stretching from Chicago to California, was established (1926)

Birthdays

• Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821
• Thomas Aldrich 1870
  
• Ernest Ansermet 1883
• George Patton 1885
• Pat O'Brien 1899
• Alger Hiss 1904
• Robert Ryan 1909
• Stubby Kaye 1918
• Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 1922
• Jonathan Winters 1925
• Mose Allison 1927
• Lavern Baker 1929
• Bibi (Birgitta) Andersson 1935
• Narvel Felts 1938
• Denise Alexander 1945
• Chris Dreja (Yardbirds) 1945
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  Vince Martell (Vanilla Fudge) 1945
• Jesse Colin Young (The Youngbloods) 1944
• Pat Daugherty (Black Oak Arkansas) 1947
• Jim Peterik (Survivor) 1950
• Fuzzy Zoeller 1951
• Paul Cowsill (The Cowsills) 1952
• Marshall Crenshaw 1953
• Andy Partridge (XTC) 1953
• Dave Alvin 1955
• Ian Marsh (Human League) 1956
• Stanley Tucci 1960
• Demi Moore 1962
• Mic Michaeli (Europe) 1962
• Philip McKeon 1964
• Calista Flockhart 1964
• Scott Mercado (Candlebox) 1964
• Wyatt Pauley (Linear) 1968
• Ronnie Devoe (New Edition; Bell Biv Devoe) 1968
• Peta Wilson 1970
• Leonardo DiCaprio 1974
• Rachel Sterling (aka Angel Veil) 1979
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