List of Cult Holidays

List of Cult Holidays

  

March 1 - March 22 - Festive Season Begins

March 15 - H.P Lovecrafts Death 

Night of March 22 

Morning of March 23 - Nglui-N'Ghft Nglui-N'Gha 

March 23 - April 2 - Lw'Nafhyar 

August 8 - Sacred Eight 

August 20 - H.P. Lovecrafts Birth 

November 1 - Nog Chtenff

Saturday, August 8, 2026

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droke \ drohk \ , noun;

1. Canadian (chiefly Atlantic Provinces and Northwest Territories). 
2. a valley with steeply sloping sides. 

Origin: Droke is a Canadian dialectic term that has been used since the late 1700s.

 

chairdrobe

• The art of piling clothes on a chair to be used in place of a closet or dresser. If a chair is not available one can always defer to a floordrobe.

I searched through my chairdrobe to find my outfit for work.

History

• Mont Blanc: the tallest Alp was summited for the first time, by Frenchmen Jacques Balmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard (1786)
• mimeograph: was patented by Thomas A. Edison (1876)
• Great Train Robbery: 15 thieves stole more than £2m. from a London-bound traveling post office after stopping the train with a false red signal in Buckinghamshire (1963)
• Richard Nixon: announced his resignation from the presidency in the wake of Watergate, six years to the day after he was nominated by the Republican Party (1974)

Birthdays

• Matthew Henson 1866 - Explorer, along with Robert Peary and their Eskimo guide, were the first people to reach the North Pole

  
• Fredric March 1897
• Russel Markert 1899
• Benny Carter 1907
• Sylvia Sidney 1910
• Rosetta LeNoire 1911
• Dino DeLaurentis 1919
• Rory Calhoun 1922
• Esther Williams 1923
• Jimmy Witherspoon 1923
• Webb Pierce 1926
• Urbie Green 1926
• Richard Anderson 1926
• Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer 1927
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  Nita Talbot 1930
• Jerry Tarkanian 1930
• Mel Tillis 1932
• Joe Tex 1933
• Frank Howard (MLB) 1936
• Dustin Hoffman 1937
• Connie Stevens 1938
• Phil Balsley (The Statler Brothers) 1939
• John David (Dr. Hook) 1942
• Peter Weir 1944
• Larry Wilcox 1944
• Keith Carradine 1949
• Airrion Love (The Stylistics) 1949
• Jamie O'Hara 1950
• Fairweather-Low (Amen Corner) 1950
• Randy Shilts 1951
• Robin Quivers 1952

  
• Donny Most 1953
• Ali Score (A Flock of Seagulls) 1956
• Dennis Drew (10,000 Maniacs) 1957
• Harry Crosby 1958
• Deborah Norville 1958
• Chris Foreman (Madness) 1958
• Rikki Rockett (Poison) 1961
• "The Edge" David Evans (U2) 1961
• Kool Moe Dee 1962
• Brett Hull (NHL) 1964
• Mark Wills 1973
• Scott Alan Stapp 1973 - Singer (Creed)
• Tom Linton (Jimmy Eat World) 1975
• JC Chasez ('N Sync) 1976
• Drew Lachey (98 Degrees) 1976
• Marsha Ambrosius (Floetry) 1977
• Countess Vaughn 1978
• Odie (from Garfield comic) 1978
• Meagan Good 1981
• Peyton List 1986 - actress (Picard)
  
  Beatrice Elizabeth Mary 1988

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  

  

 

  

 

   

Rock out BERSERKER!!!

Time to rock out with your cock out! Here's some BERSERKER action for you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRbhNQUZYh0 

My love for you is like a truck, Berserker

Would you like some making fuck, Berserker

My love for you is like a rock, Berserker 
Would you like suck my cock, Berserker

The Berserker is just so obscene

Likes evil people you know what I mean

He takes your soul and then just rips you apart

He'll steal your heart

Would you like to smoke some pot, Berserker

My love for you is ticking clock, Berserker

Would you like to suck my cock, Berserker

Would you like some making fuck, Berserker

Friday, August 7, 2026

epithalamion \ ep-uh-thuh-LEY-mee-on, -uhn \ , noun; 

• a song or poem in honor of a bride and bridegroom. 

Origin: Epithalamion comes from the Greek epi- + thalamos meaning "at, upon" + "bridal chamber." It entered English in the late 1500s. 

flatuglance

• The look that someone gives another person when they pass gas in public.

Dude, Rachael totally farted today during class, so I flatuglanced her.  

 

Holiday

• International BEER Day! (first Friday of August, annually)

History

• Purple Heart: the military decoration was instituted by George Washington (1782)
• Ulysses: a US appeals court ruled that the James Joyce novel was not obscene and therefore should not be banned (1934)
• Kon-Tiki: the balsa wood raft made it across the Pacific, crashing at the end on a reef in the Tuomotu Islands; this demonstrated that pre-Columbian South Americans could have reached and settled Polynesia (1947)
• Gulf of Tonkin resolution: US Congress authorized President Lyndon B. Johnson to use military force in Vietnam (1964)
• Lynne Cox: swims the frigid Bering Strait, becoming the first person to swim from the US to the to the Soviet Union (1987)
• Twin Towers: Philippe Petit walked a tightrope between the towers of New York's World Trade Center (1974)
• US embassy bombings: simultaneous al-Qaeda attacks in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killed over 200 people and wounded thousands (1998)

Birthdays

• Nathaniel Greene 1742
• Mata Hari 1876
• Billie Burke 1884
• Rudolf Bunche 1904
• Warren Covington 1921
• Felice Bryant 1925
• Stan Freberg 1926
• "The Amazing" James Randi 1928
• Magic Slim 1937
• Ron Holden 1939
• Verna Bloom 1939
• B.J. Thomas 1942
• Garrison Keillor 1942
• Lana Cantrell 1943
• John Glover 1944
• David Rasche 1944
• Rodney Crowell 1950
• Andy Fraser (Free) 1952
• Caroline Aaron 1952
• Wayne Knight 1955
• Alberto Salazar 1958
• Bruce Dickinson 1958 (Iron Maiden)
• David Duchovny 1960 (X-Files)
• DeLane Matthews 1961
• Marcus Roberts 1963
• Harold Perrineau 1963 - Actor ("Lost") 
• Raul Malo (The Mavericks) 1965
• Charlotte Lewis 1967
• Sydney Penny 1971
• Charlize Theron 1975 (Aeon Flux)
• Sydney Crosby 1987

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

 

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Turtle Thursday: Dante [2008]

Dante LOVED the camera. 

Here my concentric phased diamiondback terrapin strikes a pose for our Olympus Fe-180. 

Lovely shot!

  

 

  

Thursday, August 6, 2026

thingamajig \ THING-uh-muh-jig \ , noun;

• Informal. a gadget or other thing for which the speaker does not know or has forgotten the name. 

Origin: The origins of thingamajig are unknown, though it first appeared in English in the 1870s. It is an extended form of the word thing that likely came from an earlier form, thingum.

NIMBY

• Not In My Back Yard; someone who opposes something built right by where they live.

NYC closed Riker's Island  and wants to open a mini-jail down the block from me? NIMBY!

History

• Holy Roman Empire: came to an end with the abdication of Francis II (1806)
• Bolivia: declared independence from Spain (1825)
• electric chair: was first used as method of execution, on murderer William Kemmler at New York's Auburn Prison (1890)
• Gertrude Ederle: became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1926)
• Enola Gay: US bomber dropped an atomic weapon on Hiroshima, killing over 60,000 instantly; it was the first-ever use of nuclear warfare (1945)
• Voting Rights Act: was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson; it prohibited states from imposing racial discrimination at the polls based on literacy or financial ability (1965)
• Gerry Adams: the Sinn Féin president and British PM Tony Blair meet; it's the first time in 76 years that a British leader met with an IRA ally (1997)

 

Birthdays

• Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809
  
• Leo Carrillo 1881
• Louella Parsons 1881
• Sir Alexander Fleming 1881
• Scott Nearing 1883
• Hoot Gibson 1892
• Harry E. Cooper 1904 - Golfer
• Helen Hull Jacobs 1908
• Charles Crichton 1910
• Lucille Ball 1911
• Robert Mitchum 1917
  
• Buddy Collette 1921
• Sir Freddie Laker 1922
• Andy Warhol 1928
• Abbey Lincoln 1930
• Paul Bartel 1938
• Peter Bonerz 1938
• Ray Buktenica 1942
• Michael Anderson Jr. 1943
• Andy Messersmith 1945
• Dorian Harewood 1950
• 
  Catherine Hicks 1951
• Pat McDonald (Timbuk 3) 1953
• Stepfanie Kramer 1956
• Randy DeBarge 1958
• Peggy Lynn (The Lynns) 1964
• Patsy Lynn (The Lynns) 1964
• Lisa Stewart 1968
• Geri Estelle Halliwell (Spice Girls) 1972
• Soleil Moon Frye 1976
• Marisa Miller 1978
• Adrianne Curry 1982
• Nessa Barrett 2002