Peggy Smiles At a Cactus, Reflections of Home and Other Miscellany
On this day in 2015- the final episode of Mad Men, Person To Person. For years whenever I thought about my eventual death, I just hoped I'd make it to the end of Mad Men.
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Live-commenting Mad Men spoilers here!
-Peggy's painting came to life and devoured half of McCann Erickson.
-All along Roger was just a zinger-writing Robot designed by the great-great- grandson of the person who invented Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
-Stan's a sasquatch.
-I'm buying a jean jacket tomorrow.
-Duck's abandoned dog Chauncey was adopted by Peggy's son's parents.
-Roger's mustache scored it's own children's cartoon.
-Rachael Katz' ghost married...you guessed it, Lane Price!
-Who could have expected Mathis's brother-in-law Stevie, who went on the date with Peggy, was actually Peggy's son's adopted father!!! (His wife perished in a plane crash while bringing supplies to Nicaragua earthquake victims, like Roberto Clemente.)
-Peggy smiles at a cactus.
-Uncle William...forget about that guy.
-Does Don return to NY? He returns everywhere, before and after he's ever been there. What's the sound of no hands clapping for not winning the Clio for a Coke commercial?
May 17, 2015
Postscript- I drank so many old-fashioneds that night. Eight? Drunkest I ever was, by two. I had to take the next day off work. It took my full concentration to not pass out while Pepper was outside.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy quoted Chaplin's Great Dictator at the opening of the Cannes Film Festival: “The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people.”
May 17, 2022
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Gretel just said, "Do you know what I don't like about ghosts? It's because they are dead, but it is still like they are alive."
Oh boy, she's right on the cusp of inheriting my lifelong fear of ghosts! It started right about her age.
May 17, 2020
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I went to the zoo the other day. It was empty, except for a single dog. It was a shih tzu.
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Mike Birbiglia- "Today the former president inspired the class of 2020 & the current president tweeted a pirated video of Independence Day with his head poorly photoshopped onto Bill Pullman's head. That happened. That's a fact. That's THE SETUP. That's why there are currently no good punchlines."
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Good thing for the president, he's so ignorant of history he can't fathom his place in it. Take it from Frederick Douglass, he said the president makes Andrew Jackson real mad.
May 17, 2017
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"Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?"
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, was first published on this day in 1900.
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Somehow Gretel tricked me into putting a night-time diaper on Pepper instead of her. She knows she got a good one on me.
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A magician was driving down the street and turned into a driveway.
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Plato became Plato's Perfect Form of the Dead Philosopher.
May 17, 2011
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Rule of thumb- bee beard no way, ant beard OK.
May 17, 2011
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Harmon Killebrew left us on this day in 2013.
"My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'"
That does sound like something a mother and father would say in the mid-40s in Idaho!
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The United States Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education on this day in 1954, outlawing racial segregation in public schools. Not to suggest things are not improving, but these days you can barely get a Supreme Court nominee to answer whether it was rightly decided.
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I was a two month old baby on this day in 1974 when the L.A. police raided the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members.
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The General Assembly of the World Health Organization eliminated homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases on this day in 1990. (As if we aren't progressing.)
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How many South Americans does it take to change a light bulb? A Brazilian.
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Cool Papa Bell was born on this day in 1903. Here's a stat, if you can even call it a stat:
"I remember one game I got five hits and stole five bases, but none of it was written down because they didn't bring the scorebook to the game that day."
Josh Gibson- "Cool Papa Bell was so fast he could get out of bed, turn out the lights across the room and be back in bed under the covers before the lights went out."
Satchel Paige- "One time he (Cool Papa Bell) hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit his ass sliding into second."
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Dennis Hopper was born on this day in 1936.
Frank Booth:
I'll send you a love letter! Straight from my heart, fucker! You know what a love letter is? It's a bullet from a fucking gun, fucker! You recieve a love letter from me, you're fucked forever! You understand, fuck? I'll send you straight to hell, fucker!
He was on the march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 with Martin Luther King Jr, photographing the events.
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Fucking dog face, Bob Saget, was born on this day in 1956.
"I have the brain of a German Shepard and the body of 16-year-old boy. They’re both in my car and I want you to see them."
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Trent Reznor was born on this day in 1965 when Herman's Hermits' Mrs Brown You Have a Lovely Daughter was at the top of the charts. One of my favorite things he did is the music for Natural Born Killers. Seems strange, but I think I love Patsy Cline in part because of Trent Reznor.
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Italian painter, Sandro Botticelli, left us on this day in 1510. He gets a mention in Before Sunrise:
Jesse and Céline sitting at a table, with platters from coffee on the table in front of them, finished. They pretend they are each on the phone talking to their best friends.
Céline: So are you okay, now?
Jesse: Yeah. Yeah, no, no, yeah, I'm great, I'm great! That's the thing, I'm...I'm rapturous. And I'll tell you why. I met somebody. On my last night in Europe, can you believe that?
Céline: Ah, that's incredible.
Jesse: I know, I know. And you know how they say we're all each others' demons and angels? Well, she was literally a Botticelli angel. Just telling me that everything was gonna be okay.
Oh my, Celine's look when he says "Botticelli angel," she melts right through the screen. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it.
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First Chief Justice of the United States, John Jay, left us on this day in 1829. From Federalist Paper, 1787.
"It is much to be wished that slavery may be abolished."
Took about 80 years.
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Other notable deathdays- John C. Breckinridge (1875), John Deere (1886)
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Did you hear about the constipated mathematician? He worked out the problem with a pencil. It was a #2 pencil.
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Tim Urban, Wait But Why
Can you suggest [legal] ways to experience Whoa moments? – Tóth B.
Psychedelic methods aside, I’d say this:
The best way not to experience a whoa moment is to live your days exactly how you normally do. You know how when you brush your teeth, you can think about something totally different and it doesn’t affect your ability to brush? Because it’s all being done by your subconscious? Well living your normal routine day is kind of like that—your brain is mostly on autopilot, and you’re living largely in an unconscious and comfortable groove.
To bring heightened clarity and new epiphanies into your life, try getting out of that unconscious groove by forcing conscious thought about things our consciousness doesn’t usually bother with because they’re not important for our daily tasks. I did this recently when I found myself with 15 minutes to kill on a street corner before meeting someone there. Instead of doing what I’d normally do—burying myself in my phone to pass the time—I decided to get into “conscious mode.” I looked up and around me at the architecture, I looked at little details on the sidewalk and the steps of a nearby building, I looked down at my feet and realized it was funny that I was supporting myself vertically on two sticks. And suddenly, everything was weird, and I was having a great time. It was hilarious watching all these people bustling around, all of them on their own two sticks, all of them stuck to the side of a floating rock in space, and none of them thinking about that. Full whoa moment.
But the people I was watching weren’t thinking about being stuck to the side of a rock floating in a huge void—they were completely lost in the unconscious groove we all spend most of our time in.
A whoa moment happens when your conscious mind takes a step back and glimpses reality for a second, which we all have the power to do—we just have to remember to think about it.
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Damn, he has my number! This is the type of thing I think about all day.
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New York Times- Who Stole Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers? A Minnesota Man Is Charged
I heard that it was Dorothy that stole them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/us/wizard-of-oz-ruby-slippers-terry-martin.html
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Bob Dylan- When the Ship Comes In
https://youtu.be/ltTuMG6muHo
I love the story Joan Baez told of how Dylan came up with the lyrics. Someone was giving them a hard time about renting a hotel room. That's it, that was the catalyst.
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Buzzfeed- Haunting Photos Of Abandoned Cities Around The World
These pictures make my knees weak!
http://www.buzzfeed.com/chernobyldiaries/haunting-photos-of-abandoned-cities-around-the-wor-5ydt
May 17, 2012
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http://onion.com/1lwmRfu
Updated May 17, 2014, 7:00 PM
May 17, 2014, 7:00 PM
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New Yorker- Is the Comey memo the beginning of the end for Trump?
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/is-the-comey-memo-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-trump
Man, if one of these 20 things are true, this descent into the maelstrom could have been predicted. (But that couldn't be, could it?)
May 17, 2017
Postscript- It wasn't.
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Einstein- "Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
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Vice- Kubrick 'Could Mind-Fuck You Quite Easily' Says One of His Oldest Friends
Filmworker... destined to be one of my favorites. Films about Kubrick and his films are as entertaining as his films are deep... if you know what I mean.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xeay5/kubrick-could-mind-fuck-you-quite-easily-says-one-of-his-oldest-friends
May 17, 2018
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The Hill- Death row inmate forgoes last meal, asks for food to be delivered to homeless person
http://hill.cm/7wu4Frc
Seems like something everybody should be aware of...
May 17, 2019
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Casu Marzu is a sheep milk cheese from Sardinia, writhing with life maggots. When you eat it, you need to make sure you chew up all the maggots really good, or they can pass through your intestinal wall causing vomiting, abdominal pains, and you guessed it, bloody diarrhea. It's left open for weeks, so that flies lay their eggs in it, and then the maggots eat the cheese, and crap it out, and that's what gives the cheese it's distinct flavor and texture. Bon appetit.
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Hume- "When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision. Always I reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates, then and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson- "Nothing external to you has any power over you."
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Henry David Thoreau- "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms..."
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James Agee- "The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes."
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On this day in 1979:
The Phillies scored 7 in the top of the first.
The Cubs scored 6 in the bottom.
In the third the Phillies went up 15 to 6.
They went up 17 to 7 in the 4th, but the Cubs then the Cubs scored 3.
In the 5th, the Phillies scored 4 more but the Cubs scored 7, then 3 more in the 6th, Phillies were still up, but their lead was cut to 2. It was 21-19!
-The Phillies scored 1 in the 7th, and the Cubs scored 3 in the 8th. No score in the 9th, and they headed to the 10th, 22-22!
-Mike Schmidt hit a homer off Bruce Sutter, the best closer in baseball, to put them up 23-22!!!
-Rawley Eastwick closed it out.
WOW!
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