Sunday, March 22, 2026

wayfarer \WEY-fair-er\, noun:

• a traveler, especially on foot.

Wayfarer is the modern form of the Middle English weyfarere. It's been used in English since the 1400s.

Myth-information

1. To intentionally misinform using myths and other popular misconceptions.
2. Widely held and promoted but false information that has taken on a mythic quality. Misinformation.

Obamacare is being forced on us with myth-information.

Creationism is myth-information rather than science.
9-11 conspiracy theories are based on myth-information.

History

• Stamp Act: tax was imposed by Britain on the American colonies; it raised intense opposition (1765)
• hockey: the first Stanley Cup championship game was played; Montreal's Amateur Athletic Association beat the Ottawa Capitals, 3-1 (1894)
• motion pictures: August and Louis Lumière demonstrated the first movies using celluloid film in Paris (1895)
• Equal Rights Amendment: was approved by US Congress; it was never ratified by requisite majority of states (1972)
• Flying Wallendas: patriarch Karl Wallenda fell to his death from a tightrope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico (1978)
• Hale-Bopp: comet passed the closest to Earth till the year 4397 at a distance of 1.315 AU (1997)

Birthdays

• Sir Anthony Van Dyke 1599
• Johnny Evers 1883 - Baseball player
• Chico Marx 1887
• Louis L'Amour 1908 - Author
• Wilfrid Brambell 1912
• Karl Malden 1913 - Actor
• Virginia Grey 1917
• Ross Martin 1920
• Werner Klemperer 1920
• Marcel Marceau 1923 - Pantomimist
• Bill Wendell 1924
• Allen H. Neuharth 1924 - Founder of USA Today
• Easy Ed Macauley 1928
• Pat Robertson 1930
• Stephen Sondheim 1930 - Composer, lyricist
• William Shatner 1931 - Actor
• May Britt 1933
• J.P. McCarthy 1933
• M. Emmett Walsh 1935 - Actor
• Glen Campbell 1936
• Tom Flores 1937 - Football player
• Johnny Ferguson 1937
• Dave Keon 1940 - Hockey player
• Bruno Ganz 1941
• Barbara Parkins 1942
• George Benson 1943 - Singer, musician
• Keith Relf 1943 - Musician (Yardbirds)
• Jeremy Clyde 1944 - Actor, singer (Chad & Jeremy)
• Harry Vanda 1947 - Musician (The Easybeats)
• James Patterson 1947 - Author
• Wolf Blitzer 1948 - liberal mouthpiece
• Andrew Lloyd Webber 1948 - Composer
• Randy Hobbs 1948 - Musician (The McCoys)
• Fanny Ardent 1949 - Actress
• Bob Costas 1952 - Sportscaster
• James House 1955 - Country singer
• Lena Olin 1955 - Actress ("Alias")
• Stephani Mills 1957 - Actress, singer
• Matthew Modine 1959 - Actor
• Marcus Camby 1974 - Basketball player
• Cole Hauser 1975 - Actor
• Kellie Williams 1976 - Actress
• Reese Witherspoon 1976 - Actress ("American Psycho")
• John Otto 1977 - Musician (Limp Bizkit)

  

  

  

 

 

 

 

  

Quote of Today: 03/01/2026

“Every time I read one of his e-mails I get the impression that he uses his middle finger to hit the send button…” 

~Redrage

Saturday, March 21, 2026

cockalorum \kok-uh-LAWR-uhm, -LOHR-\, noun:

• a self-important little man.

This mock Latin term is a derivative of cock, meaning "a male chicken." It came to English in the early 1700s. 

Restless Dick Syndrome

• When you try and and wake up your bed-mate in the middle of the night by poking her in the back with your burgeoning hard on.

Cathy: "I didn't get a wink of sleep last night. Fuckin' 3 a.m. and Ronnie gets a bad case of the Restless Dick Syndrome! There oughta be a pill!"

 

History

• Archbishop of Canterbury: Thomas Cranmer, who helped move England towards Protestantism, was burned at the stake (1556)
• Code Napoléon: the first modern legal code of France took effect; it was divided into laws of personal status, laws of property, and laws of acquiring property (1804)
• Henry Stanley: journalist began his trek in Africa to locate missing Scottish missionary/explorer David Livingstone; his quest ended with the famous and possibly fictitious words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" (1871)
• "Who shot JR?": J.R. Ewing, the character played by Larry Hagman on Dallas, was shot by an unidentified attacker; a summer of intense curiosity ensued and an advertising catchphrase was born (1980)
• Rick Hansen: set off on his Man in Motion tour to circumnavigate the world in his wheelchair (1985); he returned to Vancouver 2 years and 2 months later, having raised millions for spinal cord research

Birthdays

• Johann Sebastian Bach 1685
• Benito Juarez 1806
• James Jesse Strang 1813
• Modest Mussorgsky 1839
• Florenz Ziegfeld 1869
• Bascom Lunsford 1882
• Phyllis McGinley 1905
• Julio Gallo 1910
• Fonty Flock (Truman Fontello) 1921
• Mort Lindsey 1923
• James Coco 1929
• Joseph Silverstein 1932 - Violinist, conductor
• Al Freeman, Jr. 1934 - Actor
• Kathleen Widdoes 1939 - Actress ("As the World Turns")
• Timothy Dalton 1944 - Actor
• Marie-Christine Barrault 1944 - Actress
• Rose Stone 1945 - Musician (Sly & the Family Stone)
• Bill Plummer 1947
• Eddie Money 1949 - Singer
• Roger Hodgson 1950 - Musician (Supertramp)
• Conrad Lozano 1951 - Musician (Los Lobos)
• Russell Thompkins, Jr. 1951 - Singer (The Stylistics)
• Gary Oldman 1958 - Actor
• Sabrina LeBeauf 1958 - Actress ("The Cosby Show")
• Robert Sweet 1960 - Musician (Stryper)
• Rosie O'Donnell 1962 - hack-comedian
  

  
• Matthew Broderick 1962 - Actor ("Ferris Bueller's Day Off")
• Cynthia Geary 1966
• Maxim 1967 - MC (Prodigy)
• Jonas "Joker" Berggren 1967 - Musican (Ace of Base)
• Andrew Copeland 1968 - Musician (Sister Hazel)
• Albert Khan 1969
• DJ Premier 1969 - DJ (Gang Starr)
• Ronaldinho 1980 - Soccer player
  Sonequa Martin-Green 1985 Actress (The Walking Dead)
• Adrian Peterson 1985 - Football player

  

 

  

Nicholas Brendon dead at 54

 

Nicholas Brendon, best known for his role as Xander Harris from the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer passed away at the age of 54. It's reported that he died from natural causes.  

Rock out on a LOVELY DAY!

SPRING has SPRUNG!!!

 

Front 242

Lovely Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hw_ZsbXVi4

It will never be like before

Lovely day

He never expected such a lovely day

Be sure he'll find you back someday

It was a lovely day

The day you walked away

Revenge came out to play

When you refused to stay

He walks through empty lanes

Cold anger, bursting veins

Now that I've lost your track

How could I bring you back

Be sure he won't forget

'coz the last words you said

Disrupt his head with morning quivers

Dissect his heart like golden scissors

Make him regret each

moment spent with you

Make him regret what he intended to do

Too late to stop this agony

Please Don't Ask Me For More

Lovely day

He never expected such a gift

It was a lovely day

The day you walked away

There's too much on my mind

To leave it all behind

Just hoping that I find

There's too much on my mind

Wait now for the night

The prey, the kill, the flight

Return then of the light

Won't reveal any displeasure

Don't ask me for more

It will never be like before

See the clouds gather low

He's walking in the lanes

His new life is so cruel

When there's sun it still rains

Chuck Norris dead at 86

 

Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris died after a medical emergency in Hawaii. He was 86. Norris was best known for his acting career that spanned decades and including many action and martial arts roles.  

Spring has SPRUNG 2026!

Spring 2026

Friday, 20th March 2026

Friday, March 20, 2026

hoodwink \HOOD-wingk\, verb:

1. to deceive or trick.
2. Archaic. to blindfold.
3. Obsolete. to cover or hide.

This portmanteau of hood and wink came to English in the mid-1500s.

 

pillow lust

• That feeling that overworked individuals (eg: college students, tax accountants, etc.) experience where they feel so exhausted that the idea of their face hitting their pillow sounds so utterly fantastic, it's almost sexual.

Oh dude, it's been such a long week. I've got pillow lust, and I've got it bad.

History

• Dutch East Indies Company: megacorporation was formed; it grew to control most of the European trade with Asia before expiring, bankrupt, after 200 years (1602)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin: antislavery novel was published by Harriet Beecher Stowe, whom Lincoln called "the little woman who started this big war" (1852)
• "I shall return": was spoken by Gen. Douglas MacArthur as he left the Philippines during WWII; he did return, two years later (1942)
• John Lennon: wed Yoko Ono in Gibraltar (1969)
• Tokyo subway gas attack: Aum Shinrikyo group released sarin, killing 12 and injuring thousands (1995)

Birthdays

• George Bingham 1811
• Henrik Ibsen 1828
• Frederick Winslow Taylor 1856
• Lauritz Melchior 1890
• B.F. Skinner 1904
• Ozzie Nelson 1906
• Sir Michael Redgrave 1908
• Wendell Cory 1914
• Dame Vera Lynn 1917
• Marian McPartland 1920
• Carl Reiner 1922 - Director, producer
• Ray Goulding 1922
• Larry Elgart 1922
• Jack Kruschen 1922
• Fred "Mr." Rogers 1928
• Sonny (Santo) Russo 1929
• Hal Linden 1931 - Actor ("Barney Miller")
• George Altman 1933
• Ted Bessell 1935 - Actor
• Jerry Reed 1937 - Singer, actor ("Smokey and the Bandit")
• Don Edwards 1939 - Country singer
• Brian Mulroney 1939 - Canadian prime minister
  

  
• Paul Junger Witt 1943 - TV producer
• Pat Riley 1945
• Ranger Doug 1946 - Country musician (Riders in the Sky)
• Bobby Orr 1948 - Hockey player
• Marcia Ball 1954 - Blues singer, musician
• William Hurt 1950 - Actor
• Jimmy Vaughn 1951 - Musician (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
• Carl Palmer 1950 - Musician (Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Asia)
• Jimmy Seales 1954 - Country musician (Shenandoah)
• Spike Lee 1957 - Movie director
• Theresa Russell 1957 - Actress
• Vanessa Bell Calloway 1957 - Actress
• Holly Hunter 1958 - Actress
• John Clark Gable 1961 - Actor, auto racer
• Slim Jim Phantom 1961 - Musician (The Stray Cats)
• Kathy Ireland 1963 - Model
• Tracy Chapman 1964 - Musician
• Adrian Oxxal 1965 - Musician (James)
• Liza Snyder 1968 - Actress ("Yes, Dear")
• Michael Rapaport 1970 - Actor ("Boston Public")
• Alexander Chaplin 1971 - Actor
• Chester Bennington 1976 - Singer (Linkin Park)
• Michael Genadry 1978 - Actor ("Ed")
• Bianca Lawson 1979 - Actress