Hasselhoff Wednesday: A team made in the 80s

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

pluvial \PLOO-vee-uhl\, adjective: 

1. of or pertaining to rain; rainy.
2. Geology. occurring through the action of rain. 

noun:

1. Geology. a rainy period formerly regarded as coeval with a glacial age, but now recognized as episodic and, in the tropics, as characteristic of interglacial ages.

Pluvial is from the Latin pluvia meaning "rain, water." It shares the Proto-Indo-European root pleu meaning "to flow, to swim" with Pluto, the name of God of the underworld in classical mythology.

tired high

• a state of altered perception brought on by a lack of sleep

when he started to hallucinate he wasn't sure if it was the weed or if he was just tired high  

 

Trivia 

What color, symbolically linked to Lent, are the drapes and altar cloths used in many churches during that somber 40-day observance?

• Purple, which is associated both with mourning and with royalty. During Lent, as the color of mourning, purple represents repentance and the pain and suffering of the crucifixion; as the color of royalty, it celebrates Christ’s resurrection and sovereignty.

Holiday

• Ash Wedesday: in the calendar of Western Christianity, is the first day of Lent and occurs 46 days before Easter. It is a moveable fast, falling on a different date each year because it is dependent on the date of Easter. It can occur as early as February 4 or as late as March 10.

 

History 

• Jefferson Davis: became head of the Confederate States of America (1861)
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  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Mark Twain's most popular novel — controversial for its colorful language and its depiction of blacks — was published (1885)
• Academy Awards: first winners were announced (Wings was Best Picture); the awards banquet was held in May (1929)
• Elm Farm Ollie: became the first cow to fly in an airplane; the trip took place in Missouri and she was milked mid-flight (1930)
• Pluto: the icy rock demoted from planet to dwarf planet was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh (1930)
• Robert Philip Hanssen: FBI agent was arrested on charges of spying for the Soviet Union and, later, Russia; he was sentenced to life without parole (2001)
• Shani Davis: became the first black athlete to win an individual gold medal in Winter Olympic history; he won the men's 1,000-meter speed skating race in Turin (2006)

 

Birthdays

• Mary Tudor 1516 - The Queen of England known as "Bloody Mary"
• Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta 1745
• Louis Comfort Tiffany 1848 - Glass maker and interior designer
• Sholem Aleichem 1859
• Andres Segovia 1894
• Enzo Ferrari 1898
• Billy deWolfe 1907
• Pee Wee King 1914

  
• Bill Cullen 1920
• Jack Palance 1919
• Helen Gurley Brown 1922 - Author, editor
• George Kennedy 1925 - Actor
• Jim McElreath 1928
• Gahan Wilson 1930
• Toni Morrison 1931 - Author
• Milos Forman 1932 - Director
• Yoko Ono 1933 - Artist, singer (Plastic Ono Band), wife of John Lennon (Beatles)
• Mary Ure 1933
• Irma Thomas 1941
• Herman Santiago 1941 - Musician (Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers)

  
• Dennis DeYoung 1947 - Musician (Styx)
• Sinead Cusack 1948 - Actress
• John Hughes 1950
• Cybil Sheppard 1950 - Actress
• Randy (Veronica) Crawford 1952
• Juice Newton (Judy Cohen) 1952 - Singer
• Robbie Bachman 1953 - Musician (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
• Marty Howe 1954
• John Travolta 1954 - Actor ("Pulp Fiction")
• Vanna White 1957 - Game show host ("Wheel of Fortune")
• Greta Scacchi 1960 - Actress
• Matt Dillon 1964
• Dr. Dre (Andre Romelle Young) 1965 - Rapper, music producer, actor
• Molly Ringwald 1968 - Actress ("Sixteen Candles)
• Tommy Scott (Space) 1968
• Yevgeny Kafelnikov 1974 - Tennis player
• Dorzell Burton 1979

     

 

 

  

 

  

 

  

Review Tuesday: The Empty Man 2020

  

 

The Empty Man

2020

A private investigator looks into a series of missing people. 

My BFF made a big deal about this movie. It's a supernatural horror film and she really wanted to see it with me. Okay, sure, why not? 

 

The movie starts off two pairs of hikers somewhere in Asia. Suddenly one man hears something... something that no one else int he group could hear. He walks off and falls down a crevasse. When his friend finds him, he appears to be seated in some position of prayer before the skeleton of some eldritch horror. He whispers to his friend, don't touch me or you will die. Seriously, who would go along with that? So his friend pulled him out of there in a catatonic state. They carried him some distance before finding an abandoned home where they decide to check that guy out and evaluate their situation. Well, his friends all end up dead. 

 

And that's the first five minutes of this 2.25 hour movie. Woo! This is going to be something amazing, right? 

 

The next scene is after a time jump in some small town, USA. Some kids disappeared. One is known by a local Private Investigator named James Lasombra (James Badge Dale). He starts on a mission of twists and turns that's oddly involved with the urban myth of THE EMPTY MAN which seems to be written at all of the scenes where people are mysteriously vanishing and / or committing suicide.    

 

Lasombra ends up traveling all over trying to track down some wacked out cult that worships this Empty Man and it all ties into the dude from the beginning, and is Lasombra really for real? 

 

Okay, this felt like it was way too long and the ending was way too contrived. It wasn't very satisfying at all. Not a very high rating from me. Sorry.  

Today is FAT TUESDAY!!!

 

Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, so that makes today Fat Tuesday aka Mardi Gras!

Mardi Gras is the elaborate series of outdoor pageants and indoor tableau balls held annually during the winter social season in the United States, especially in New Orleans and Mobile. The carnival culminates on Fat or Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. Rooted in European pre-Lenten revelries, the carnival tradition in the United States began in the colonial period and developed in tandem with racial policies and practices and survives as an extravagant spectacle of excess, decadence, and burlesque. The pageants, each sponsored by one of the many exclusive carnival organizations, are based upon themes drawn from mythology, history, or fiction and are often satiric of contemporary social issues.

 

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

posy \POH-zee\, noun: 

1. a flower, nosegay, or bouquet.
2. Archaic. a brief motto or the like, as one inscribed within a ring.

Posy is a variant of the word poesy, meaning "poem, poetry." Sometimes called nosegays or tussie-mussies, posies were popular accessories among fashionable women in Victorian England, and, harkening the word's literary origin, became vehicles for the floral "language of love."

that's crazy

• It's the perfect response when you haven't been listening at all. It works whether the other person has been saying something funny, or sad, or infuriating, or boring....

Them: 'my girlfriend dumped me last night'
You (thirsty, not paying attention): 'oh man, that's crazy'

Them: 'I won 500 bucks at craps last weekend'
You (hungry, daydreaming about a tasty sandwich, not listening): 'wow, that's crazy'

 

Holiday

• Lunar New Year - aka Chinese New Year —the second new moon after the winter solstice: Year of the Fire Horse

 

 

Holiday

• Shrove Tuesday: aka Fat Tuesday. Mardi Gras, Mardi Gras season, and Carnival season, in English, refer to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after Epiphany and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday. Mardi gras is French for Fat Tuesday, referring to the practice of the last night of eating richer, fatty foodsbefore the ritual fasting of the Lenten season, which begins on Ash Wednesday.

History

• Madama Butterfly: Giacomo Puccini's opera premiered at La Scala in Milan (1904)
• Newsweek: news-magazine was published for the first time (1933)
• Voice of America: government network began broadcasting to the Soviet Union (1947)
• Vanguard 2: the first weather satellite was launched; its time in orbit is intended to last 300 years (1959)
• Deep Blue: world chess champion Garry Kasparov beat the IBM supercomputer, winning a six-game match in Philadelphia (1996)
• London congestion charge: fee for motorists driving into Central London went into effect; the price is £8 per day, Monday — Friday (2003)

Birthdays

• Thomas Malthus 1766
  

  
• Raphael Peale 1774
• Rene Laennec 1781
• Montgomery Ward 1843
• H.L. Hunt 1889
• Marian Anderson 1902
• Red Barber 1908
• Marjorie Lawrence 1909
• Arthur Kennedy 1914
• Wayne (DeWayne) Morris 1914
• Raf (Raffaele) Vallone 1918
• Kathleen Freeman 1919
• Buddy (Boniface) DeFranco 1923
• Hal Holbrook 1925 - Actor
• Chaim Potok 1929
• Bobby Lewis 1933
• Alan Bates 1934
• Dame Edna 1934 - Comedian
• Johnny Bush 1935 - Country singer
• Jim Brown 1936 - Football player
• Mary Ann Mobley 1939 - Actress
• Gene Pitney 1941
• Brenda Fricker 1945
• Dodie Stevens 1947
• Zina Bethune 1950
• Rene Russo 1954 - Actress
• Richard Karn 1956
• Lou Diamond Phillips 1962 - Actor
• Larry the Cable Guy 1963 - Actor, comedian ("Blue Collar TV")
• Michael Jordan 1963 - Basketball player
• Michael Bay 1964 - Director
• Timothy J. Mahoney 1970 - Musician (311)
• Denise Richards 1971 - Actress
• Taylor Hawkins 1972 - Musician (Foo Fighters)
• Billie Joe Armstrong 1972 - Musician (Green Day)
• Bryan White 1974
• Jerry O'Connel 1974 - Actor
• Kelly Carlson 1976 - Actress
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt 1981 - Actor ("3rd Rock From the Sun")
• Paris Hilton 1981

     

  

 

 

 

  

 

 

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Look forward to Kyla!

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Monday, February 16, 2026

slake \sleyk\, verb: 

1. to allay (thirst, desire, wrath, etc.) by satisfying.
2. to make less active, vigorous, intense, etc.: His calm manner slaked their enthusiasm.
3. to cause disintegration of (lime) by treatment with water.

Slake comes from Middle English slaken, "to become or render slack," hence "to abate," from Old English slacian, from slæc, "slack."

get off my planet

• a nicer way of telling someone "get lost and leave me alone"

mom: David, go do your homeowrk.

David: get off my planet, i am going to Adam's house.

mom: I refuse to help you to save your sinking Titanic  

 

Holiday

• President's Day

Holiday

• Washington's Birthday (2/16/18)

History

• Tutankhamen's tomb: Egyptian king's burial chamber was opened, mesmerizing the world with the wealth inside; among the treasures found were a gold throne, a gold sarcophagus and the king's mummified body (1923)
• nylon: the high-strength synthetic polymer was patented by industrial chemist Wallace Hume Carothers (1937)
• Fidel Castro: became leader of Cuba after ousting Fulgencio Batista; he stepped down in 2008 due to ill health, and his brother Raúl took office (1959)
• 911: Alabama's speaker of the house placed the first call on the US emergency telephone system, in Haleyville (1968)

Birthdays

• Henry Adams 1838
• Robert Flaherty 1884
• Van Wyck Brooks 1886
• Katharine Cornell 1898
• Chester Morris 1901
• Wayne King (The Waltz King) 1901
• Edgar Bergen 1903
• Hugh Beaumont 1909
• Jimmy Wakely 1914
• Bill Doggett 1916
• Patty Marie Andrews 1918 - Singer (The Andrews Sisters)
• Jean Behra 1921
• Vera-Ellen Westmeyer Rohe 1921
• Otis Blackwell 1932
• Gretchen Wyler 1932
• Sonny Bono 1935 - Singer (Sonny and Cher)
• Barry Primus 1938
• Herbie & Harold Kalin (The Kalin Twins) 1939
• Jeremy Bulloch 1946 - Actor (Boba Fett)
• Pete Postlethwaite 1946 - Actor
• William Katt 1951 - Actor
• Margaux Hemingway 1955
• James Ingram 1956 - Singer
• LeVar Burton 1957 - Actor
• Ice-T 1958 - Rapper
• Lisa Loring 1958 - Actress
• John McEnroe 1959 - Tennis player
• Andy Taylor 1961 - Musician (Duran Duran)
• Jerome Bettis 1972 - Football player
• Ahman Green 1977 - Football player
• Sam Salter 1978 - Singer