Turtle Thursday: TMNT!

I bet that's Mikey...

NOT NINJA TURTLES!!!

Truth be told, all animals carry bacteria on them. So do we. The salmonella scare is just a deterrent for people who are easily swayed and gullible. But the real story to consider is that a pet turtle is a lifetime commitment. A red-ear slider can easily live 20-25 years. My big girl just turned 32! If you treat them well they can live INDEFINITELY. Before buying a child a "ninja turtle" you should first consider having this pet in your life for a long time. If you can't handle that, then buy the toys.

Thursday, October 15, 2026

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Hasselhoff Wednesday: Happy Birthday David!!!

Diamond David Lee Roth, turned 72 last weekend!

Wedesday, October 14, 2026

pericope \ puh-RIK-uh-pee \ , noun;

1. a selection or extract from a book.
2. a portion of sacred writing read in a divine service; lesson; lection.

Origin: Pericope came to Enlgish in the mid-1600s, and is ultimately derived from the Greek perikopḗ meaning "a cutting."

requestion

• requesting something indirectly by way of a question note: this is distinguished from a regular question because the answer is usually obvious

"are those peanut m&m's?" (requestion)

"yes, would you like some?"

"yeah"

 

History

• Battle of Hastings: the last Anglo-Saxon king of England fell to William the Conqueror during the Norman conquest (1066)

  
• sound barrier: was broken for the first time by a person, United States Air Force test pilot Chuck Yeager, who flew a secret experimental Bell X-1 jet at supersonic speed (1947)
• Peace Corps: the idea to send American volunteers abroad was first mentioned by JFK when he was a presidential candidate (1960)

Birthdays

• William Penn 1644 - Penn was the colonist that founded the Pennsylvania colony for Quakers.
• Dwight David Eisenhower (U.S.) 1890
• Lillian Gish 1893
• E.E. Cummings 1894
• Eugene Fodor 1905
• Allan Jones 1908
• John Wooden 1910
• C. Everett Koop 1916
• Bill Justis 1926

• Roger Moore 1927
• Robert Webber 1928
• Melba Montgomery 1938
• Ralph Lauren 1939
• Cliff Richard 1940
• Tommy Harper (MLB) 1940
• J.C. Snead 1941
• Billy Harrison (Them) 1942
• Udo Kier 1944
• Al Oliver (MLB) 1946
• Justin Hayward (The Moody Blues) 1946
• Charlie Joiner (NFL) 1947
• Marcia Barrett (Boney M) 1948
• Sheila Young 1950
• Harry Anderson 1952
• Greg Evigan 1953
• Beth Daniel 1956
• Arleen Sorkin 1956
• Thomas Dolby 1958
• Keith Byars (NFL) 1963
• Karyn White 1965
• John Seda 1970
• Jimmy Jackson 1970
• Doug Virden (Sons of the Desert) 1970
• Natalie Maines (Dixie Chicks) 1974
• Shaznay Lewis (All Saints) 1975
• Usher 1978

 

 

  

 

  

Review Tuesday: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

  

 

Beetlejuice

Beetlejuice

2024 

Lydia's daughter gets suckered into the afterlife. 

My sister loved Beetlejuice. She used to watch it all the time. She watched the animated show. She just loved it and it was on so often in some form or another that it was unavoidable around the house. So when the sequel showed up, I felt like I wanted to see it yet wasn't in any hurry. So when it was an inflight movie, the opportunity presented itself. 

 

So this movie has layers of plot. I might even call this one of Tim Burton's more involved works. Decades after the events of the first film, Lydia Deetz gets called home after her father dies on a trip. While visiting the family home Lydia's daughter Astrid meets what seems like a nice boy, but is really a ghost who is trying to trick her into taking his spot in the afterlife so he can come back to the world of the living. Lydia is forced to ask Beetlejuice for assistance to remedy the situation. Mayhen ensues.

 

When the original Beetlejuice came out during the late 1980s, it was something of a vehicle for Winona Ryder, everyone's fav spooky Goth girl. So it seems appropriate that Beetlejuice got dusted off when the world is in love with a new spooky Goth girl - Jenna Ortega. Being totally honest, I felt this revival was simply a cash grab. cash in on the nostalgia market and the Jenna Ortega love with one movie. Smart planning, to be honest. But when I actually watched it, it was a fun movie, similar in the way of the original but was something entirely new. Yep. It was fun to watch. I can see my sister as a child wanting to add this tot eh Beetlejuice rotation.   

  

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

moniker \ MON-i-ker \ , noun;

• Slang . a person's name, especially a nickname or alias. 

Origin: Moniker is derived from the Shelta word mŭnnik meaning "name." It entered English in the mid-1800s. Shelta is an argot used in parts of the British Isles based in part on Irish.  

immaturation 

• the process of becoming immature

by revisiting old posts we were able to witness the immaturation of the internet from a place of cordial dissent to whiny bickering.

 
 

History

• White House: the cornerstone was laid for the building then known as the Executive Mansion (1792)

  
• universal time: the meridian of longitude of Greenwich, England, was established as the basis of calculating the world's time (1884)
• World Series: Boston defeated Pittsburgh in the first baseball championship games (1903)
• Miracle of the Sun: according to reports, tens of thousands of people saw the sun cast colored lights and spin toward the earth near Fátima, Portugal (1917)
• Italy: switched sides in WWII and declared war on Nazi Germany (1943)
• Hosni Mubarak: the Egyptian vice president was elected president, one week after Anwar Sadat's assassination (1981); he was Egypt's longest-serving president

Birthdays

• Mary Ludwig 1754
• Rudolf Virchow 1821
• Wilbur Shaw 1902
• Herblock (Herbert Block) 1909
• Cornel Wilde 1915
• Burr Tillstrom 1917
• Laraine Day 1920
• Yves Montand 1921
• Lou Saban (NFL) 1921
• Nipsey Russell 1924
• Lenny Bruce 1925
• Frank D. Gilroy 1925
• Margaret Thatcher (Britain) 1925
• Eddie Yost (MLB) 1926
• Shirley Caesar 1928
• Eddie Mathews (MLB) 1931
• Cliff Gorman 1936
• Melinda Dillon 1939
• Paul Simon 1941
• Pamela Tiffin 1942
• Jerry Jones 1943
• Robert Lamm (The Big Thing, Chicago) 1944
• Karen Akers 1945
• Demond Wilson 1946
• Lacy J. Dalton 1946
• Sammy Hagar 1947
• John Lone 1952
• Beverly Johnson 1952
• Marie Osmond 1959
• John Wiggins 1962
• Jerry Rice (NFL) 1962
• Kelly Preston 1962
• T'Keyah "Crystal" Keymah 1962
• Kate Walsh 1967
• Rhett Akins 1969
• Nancy Kerrigan 1969
• Tisha Campbell 1970
• Sacha Baron Cohen 1971
• Jan Van Sichem Jr. (K's Choice) 1972
• Katia Winter 1983
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 1989
  
• Tiffany Trump 1993

  

 

 

  

Columbus Day 2026

Usually for Columbus Day I go on my usual rant asking the question, why is this considered a day of Italian heritage? The Italians wouldn't back the expedition that Columbus proposed. He had to turn to Spain to get his trip going. So shouldn't we be celebrating the Spanish for their cleverness in backing this man and his notion of traveling West to get to the East? The Italians did NOTHING for him.

It's also brought up that we shouldn't celebrate anything for Columbus because he didn't discover anything. The Vikings had visited "The New World" centuries earlier. Yeah, they did, and there were no permanent settlements and the knowledge was lost to Europeans for years. Once Columbus discovered land and the possibilities it possessed and then there was a new race to stake claims in the New World. He provided us with a reason to move on from Europe. 

For the last bunch of years I have been reading some very unsettling messages. We shouldn't celebrate Christopher Columbus Day because he is the single biggest perpetrator of crimes against humanity the world has ever known. To me, this claim is off base. We are in the process of rewriting history now. Somehow we expect people hundreds of years ago to be on the same wavelength that, really, only a few of us are on today. To this day, there is still slavery, genocide and mass murder around the world, yet no one will say or do anything about it. We can't tell the Middle East what to do, but Columbus should've known better? And, yes, I am well aware of the notes and letters Columbus had written about how easily enslaved the natives would be and the terrible things inflicted upon them directly as a result of his occupation. Similar atrocities were commonplace all over the world in those days. Slavery wasn't new at that time and was never pretty.

The truth is humanity is always evolving. Many cultures have grown and progressed since the dark times that found slavery a perfectly fine industrial model and inequality among the races and sexes perfectly acceptable. What I find unacceptable is blaming important historical figures for things that we now see as unjust. 

Now can we celebrate a holiday for a man who, effectively, doubled the size of this planet for mankind?

Monday, October 12, 2026

tintinnabular \ tin-ti-NAB-yuh-ler \ , adjective;

• of or pertaining to bells or bell ringing. 

Origin: Tintinnabular comes from the Latin tintinnābulum meaning "bell."

bangover

• Sore neck as a result of headbanging at a metal concert.

"How was the Meshuggah show last night dude?"

"Ah man it was sick! I got the worst fucking bangover d00d."

Trivia
How old was Christopher Columbus when he went to sea for the first time?

• 14.

Where in the U.S. was the first monument to Christopher Columbus erected?

• In Baltimore, Maryland, in 1792, on the 300th anniversary of his historic voyage. Originally on the private estate of the French consul, the 44½-foot-tall white obelisk now stands in Herring Run Park in northeast Baltimore.

Holiday

• Columbus Day [USA]

History

• New World: Christopher Columbus first set foot in the Bahamas (1492)
• Oktoberfest: tradition of beery celebration began with the wedding reception of King Ludwig I of Bavaria and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1810)

  
• The Pledge of Allegiance: was first recited in US public schools (1892)
• Nikita Krushchev: the Soviet premier made an impact when he pounded his shoe on his desk at a UN General Assembly meeting (1960)
• the day of six billion: the official UN-designated approximate day that the world population hit 6 billion; it was 12 years after the population reached 5 billion (1999)
• USS Cole: suicide bombers on an explosives-laden boat rammed into the American destroyer in Yemen; 17 US sailors died (2000)
• Bali: 202 people died when a terrorist's bomb destroyed a nightclub on the Indonesian island (2002)

Birthdays

• Elmer Sperry 1860
• Perle Mesta 1891
• Joe Cronin (MLB) 1906
  
• Guitar Gabriel 1925
• Antonia Rey 1927
• Nappy Brown 1929
• Ned Jarrett 1932
• Jean Nidetch 1932
• Dick Gregory 1932
• Luciano Pavarotti 1935
• Samuel Moore (Sam & Dave) 1935
  
• Lawrence Jeffrey 1940
• Melvin Franklin (Temptations) 1942
• Chris Wallace 1947
• Rick Parfitt (Status Quo) 1948
• Susan Anton 1950
• Ronald E. McNair 1950
• Pat DiNizzio (Smithereens) 1955
• Dave Vanian (The Damned) 1956
• Claude McKnight (Take 6) 1962
• Adam Rich 1968
• Hugh Jackman 1968
• Garfield Bright (Shai) 1969
• Martie Seidel (Dixie Chicks) 1969
• Kirk Cameron 1970