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Really weird dream I had last night:
So, in the dream I was an adult, and naturally AS an adult, I got to pick what I used my money for. And I decided that the first thing I was gonna splurge my new-found freedom on was to become a legendary patron for Extra history(Actually not the worst choice I could have made), and request an episode on Emperor Norton. And for some reason they wanted me to guest-write the episode. (I should note that this being a dream, the entire crew were still very much in stick-figure form. Not relevant, but still funny.) But then, as were were recording the episode, a bunch of guys in banana suits broke into the studio, took Rob hostage, and said that what we were sharing was forbidden knowledge. Then it was revealed that long has the humble crew of Extra Credits been at war with these banana-men, and Rob is not the first casualty of war. In fact, the Extra Credits crew aren't the only ones on their side, and Damien from Emkay had been imprisoned for over a year in their horrible dungeons.
We had to hire a troop of monkeys trained by Jack Shepard himself to break Rob out of the banana-dungeon. And we went back to recording the episode, because we must never be stopped. The banana-men want the world to be ignorant of history, so that it may repeat itself. Though in the specific case of Emperor Norton that probably wouldn't have been super awful.
Then I woke up in a cold sweat wondering what the fuck had just happened.
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Holidays 2.4
Holidays
Across the Universe Day
Box Tree Day (French Republic)
Carl Rogers Day
Colour Supplement Day (UK)
Create-A-Vacuum Day
Day for Change (UN)
Day of the Armed Struggle (Angola)
Facebook Friends Day
Farmer’s Day (Taiwan)
First Sitting of the People’s Majils (Maldives)
Friends Day
General Thaddeus Kosciuszko Day (Poland)
International Day of Human Fraternity (UN)
International Unicorn Day
King Frost Day (London, before WWI)
Kosciusko Day (Poland)
Liberace Day
Lifeguard Day (Argentina)
Montgomery Convention Day
National Day of Courage
National Hemp Day
National Israel Day
National Quacker Day
National Wicker Day
Obscurity Day
Philippine-AmericanWar Memorial Day (Philippines)
Port Arthur Day
Rissun (Japan)
Rosa Parks Day (California, Missouri) [also 12.1]
Semen Den (Seeds Day; Bulgaria)
Special Working Day (China)
Spoiled Cats’ Day
Thank A Mailperson Day
Torture Abolition Day
Transit Equity Day
USO Day
Willie Mays Day
World Cancer Day
Zombie Pride Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Homemade Soup Day
Medjool Date Day
National Stuffed Mushroom Day
Pork Rind Appreciation Day
1st Sunday in February
Areté Day (Southwestern Cross-Quarter; Aretéanism) [1st Sunday]
British Yorkshire Pudding Day [1st Sunday]
Dump Your Significant Jerk Day [1st Sunday]
Freelance Writers Appreciation Week begins [1st Sunday]
Homstrom (Burning of the Straw Man; Switzerland) [1st Sunday]
India MS Day (India) [1st Sunday]
National Day of Prayer for the African American & African Family [1st Sunday]
National Girls and Women in Sports Day [1st Sunday]
New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Orthodox Church (Sunday nearest 2.7]
Scout Sunday [or Sunday before 2.8]
St. Ives’ Feast (Cornwall, UK) [Sunday nearest February 3]
World Cepelinai Day [1st Sunday]
Independence & Related Days
Celebration of the Beginning of the Struggle for Liberation (Angola)
Liberation Day (Angola)
Sri Lanka (from UK, 1948)
Festivals Beginning February 4, 2024
Grammy Awards (Los Angeles, California)
Lowcountry Oyster Festival (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina)
The New York Best Wings Festival (Smithtown, New York)
Sapporo Snow Festival (Sapporo, Japan) [thru 2.11]
Wine Classic (Los Angeles, California)
Feast Days
Aeschylus (Positivist; Saint)
Amaterasu’s Day (Pagan)
Andrew Corsini (Christian; Saint)
Annoy the Neighbors Day (Pastafarian)
Beith Day (a..k.a. Birch Day; Celtic Book of Days)
Biezputras Diena (Porridge Day; Ancient Latvia) [or Sun before Feb 23]
Cornelius the Centurion (Anglican Church; Saint)
Day of the Fart of Abu Hassan (Church of the SubGenius)
Emperor Norton (Humanism)
Fernand Léger (Artology)
Gilbert of Sempringham (Christian; Saint)
Isidore of Pelusium (Christian; Saint)
Jane (or Joan, Queen of France; Christian; Saint)
John de Britto (Christian; Saint)
Joseph of Leonissa (Christian; Saint)
Gilbert (Christian; Saint)
Goldrofe of Arganil (Christian; Saint)
Gumby (Animism; Saint)
Home Cleansing Ritual Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Louis Eilshemius (Artology)
Medan (Christian; Saint)
Nicholas Studites (Christian; Saint)
Phileas and Philoromus (Christian; Martyrs)
Rabanus Maurus (Christian; Saint)
Rembertof Torhout (Christian; Saint)
Rimbert (Archbishop of Bremen; Christian; Saint)
Robert Coover (Writerism)
The State of Indiana (Muppetism)
Theophilus the Penitent (Christian; Saint)
Veronica (Christian; Saint)
Zeus Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 3 of 24)
Egyptian Day (Dies Mala Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [3 of 24]
Fatal Day (Pagan) [4 of 24]
Lucky Day (Philippines) [8 of 71]
Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]
Premieres
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (Film; 1994)
Across the Universe, recorded by The Beatles (Song; 1968)
The Atrocity Exhibition, by J.G. Ballard (Novel; 1970)
Bennie and the Jets, by Elton John (Song; 1974)
Candle in the Wind, by Elton John (Song; 1974)
The Cloverfield Paradox (Film; 2018)
The Devil’s Tower (Animated TV Show;Jonny Quest #21; 1965)
Dick Tracy (Radio Series; 1934)
Dizzy Dishes (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1955)
End of the Century, by The Ramones (Album; 1980)
Facebook (Social Media App; 2004)
Fresh Off the Boat (TV Series; 2015)
Hen Fruit (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1929)
Hep Cat Symphony (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1949)
His Day Off (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1938)
The Human Comedy, buy William Saroyan (Novel; 1943)
Justice League: War (WB Animated Film; 2014)
The Last Juror, by John Grisham (Novel; 2004)
The Last of the Mohicans (Novel; 1826)
Magic Strength (Phantasies Cartoon; 1944)
Moonfall (Film; 2022)
Naked (Film; 1994)
19th Nervous Breakdown, by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1966)
One Step Ahead of My Shadow (WB MM Cartoon; 1933)
On the Avenue (Film; 1937)
Our Town, by Thornton Wilder (Play; 1938)
Patton (Film; 1970)
Piano Concerto in E Major, by Reynaldo Hahn (Piano Concerto; 1931)
Reacher (TV Series; 2022)
Rumours, by Fleetwood Mac (Album; 1977)
Señor Saint, by Leslie Charteris (Short Stories 1958) [Saint #34]
A Study in Brown, by Glen Gray and His Casa Loma Orchestra (Song; 1937)
Two Days to Doom or The Last Weekend (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 253; 1964)
Two Moose is Loose or Which One Has the Phoney? (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 254; 1964)
The Ugly Dachshund (Film; 1966)
Videodrome (Film; 1983)
The Wedding Date (Film; 2005)
White Christmas, recorded by The Drifters (Song; 1954)
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (Disney Cartoon; 1966)
Zeno's Conscience, by Italo Svevo (Novel; 1923)
Today’s Name Days
Andreas, Rabanus, Veronika (Austria)
Andrija, Ivan, Izidor, Veronika (Croatia)
Jarmila (Czech Republic)
Veronica (Denmark)
Arma, Armi, Armiida, Meida, Miida (Estonia)
Armi, Ronja (Finland)
Véronique (France)
Andreas, Jenny, Veronika (Germany)
Asimakis, Asimina, Malamati, Simeon, Stamatia, Stamatis (Greece)
Csenge, Ráhel (Hungary)
Biago, Gilberto (Italy)
Daila, Veronika (Latvia)
Andrius, Arvilė, Gustas, Joana, Vydmantas (Lithuania)
Vera, Veronika (Norway)
Andrzej, Gilbert, Jan, Joanna, Józef, Mariusz, Weronika, Witosława (Poland)
Isidor (Romania)
Anastasia (Russia)
Veronika (Slovakia)
Gilberto, Juan, Juana (Spain)
Anselm, Ansgar (Sweden)
Byron, Gilbert, Gilberta, Gilberto, Gilmer (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 35 of 2024; 331 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 7 of week 5 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 15 of 28]
Chinese: Month 12 (Yi-Chou), Day 25 (Wu-Xu)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 25 Shevat 5784
Islamic: 24 Rajab 1445
J Cal: 5 Grey; Fryday [5 of 30]
Julian: 22 January 2024
Moon: 33%: Waning Crescent
Positivist: 7 Homer (2nd Month) [Aeschylus)
Runic Half Month: Elhaz (Elk) [Day 11 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 46 of 89)
Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 14 of 28)
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Holidays 2.4
Holidays
Across the Universe Day
Box Tree Day (French Republic)
Carl Rogers Day
Colour Supplement Day (UK)
Create-A-Vacuum Day
Day for Change (UN)
Day of the Armed Struggle (Angola)
Facebook Friends Day
Farmer’s Day (Taiwan)
First Sitting of the People’s Majils (Maldives)
Friends Day
General Thaddeus Kosciuszko Day (Poland)
International Day of Human Fraternity (UN)
International Unicorn Day
King Frost Day (London, before WWI)
Kosciusko Day (Poland)
Liberace Day
Lifeguard Day (Argentina)
Montgomery Convention Day
National Day of Courage
National Hemp Day
National Israel Day
National Quacker Day
National Wicker Day
Obscurity Day
Philippine-AmericanWar Memorial Day (Philippines)
Port Arthur Day
Rissun (Japan)
Rosa Parks Day (California, Missouri) [also 12.1]
Semen Den (Seeds Day; Bulgaria)
Special Working Day (China)
Spoiled Cats’ Day
Thank A Mailperson Day
Torture Abolition Day
Transit Equity Day
USO Day
Willie Mays Day
World Cancer Day
Zombie Pride Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Homemade Soup Day
Medjool Date Day
National Stuffed Mushroom Day
Pork Rind Appreciation Day
1st Sunday in February
Areté Day (Southwestern Cross-Quarter; Aretéanism) [1st Sunday]
British Yorkshire Pudding Day [1st Sunday]
Dump Your Significant Jerk Day [1st Sunday]
Freelance Writers Appreciation Week begins [1st Sunday]
Homstrom (Burning of the Straw Man; Switzerland) [1st Sunday]
India MS Day (India) [1st Sunday]
National Day of Prayer for the African American & African Family [1st Sunday]
National Girls and Women in Sports Day [1st Sunday]
New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Orthodox Church (Sunday nearest 2.7]
Scout Sunday [or Sunday before 2.8]
St. Ives’ Feast (Cornwall, UK) [Sunday nearest February 3]
World Cepelinai Day [1st Sunday]
Independence & Related Days
Celebration of the Beginning of the Struggle for Liberation (Angola)
Liberation Day (Angola)
Sri Lanka (from UK, 1948)
Festivals Beginning February 4, 2024
Grammy Awards (Los Angeles, California)
Lowcountry Oyster Festival (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina)
The New York Best Wings Festival (Smithtown, New York)
Sapporo Snow Festival (Sapporo, Japan) [thru 2.11]
Wine Classic (Los Angeles, California)
Feast Days
Aeschylus (Positivist; Saint)
Amaterasu’s Day (Pagan)
Andrew Corsini (Christian; Saint)
Annoy the Neighbors Day (Pastafarian)
Beith Day (a..k.a. Birch Day; Celtic Book of Days)
Biezputras Diena (Porridge Day; Ancient Latvia) [or Sun before Feb 23]
Cornelius the Centurion (Anglican Church; Saint)
Day of the Fart of Abu Hassan (Church of the SubGenius)
Emperor Norton (Humanism)
Fernand Léger (Artology)
Gilbert of Sempringham (Christian; Saint)
Isidore of Pelusium (Christian; Saint)
Jane (or Joan, Queen of France; Christian; Saint)
John de Britto (Christian; Saint)
Joseph of Leonissa (Christian; Saint)
Gilbert (Christian; Saint)
Goldrofe of Arganil (Christian; Saint)
Gumby (Animism; Saint)
Home Cleansing Ritual Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Louis Eilshemius (Artology)
Medan (Christian; Saint)
Nicholas Studites (Christian; Saint)
Phileas and Philoromus (Christian; Martyrs)
Rabanus Maurus (Christian; Saint)
Rembertof Torhout (Christian; Saint)
Rimbert (Archbishop of Bremen; Christian; Saint)
Robert Coover (Writerism)
The State of Indiana (Muppetism)
Theophilus the Penitent (Christian; Saint)
Veronica (Christian; Saint)
Zeus Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 3 of 24)
Egyptian Day (Dies Mala Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [3 of 24]
Fatal Day (Pagan) [4 of 24]
Lucky Day (Philippines) [8 of 71]
Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]
Premieres
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (Film; 1994)
Across the Universe, recorded by The Beatles (Song; 1968)
The Atrocity Exhibition, by J.G. Ballard (Novel; 1970)
Bennie and the Jets, by Elton John (Song; 1974)
Candle in the Wind, by Elton John (Song; 1974)
The Cloverfield Paradox (Film; 2018)
The Devil’s Tower (Animated TV Show;Jonny Quest #21; 1965)
Dick Tracy (Radio Series; 1934)
Dizzy Dishes (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1955)
End of the Century, by The Ramones (Album; 1980)
Facebook (Social Media App; 2004)
Fresh Off the Boat (TV Series; 2015)
Hen Fruit (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1929)
Hep Cat Symphony (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1949)
His Day Off (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1938)
The Human Comedy, buy William Saroyan (Novel; 1943)
Justice League: War (WB Animated Film; 2014)
The Last Juror, by John Grisham (Novel; 2004)
The Last of the Mohicans (Novel; 1826)
Magic Strength (Phantasies Cartoon; 1944)
Moonfall (Film; 2022)
Naked (Film; 1994)
19th Nervous Breakdown, by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1966)
One Step Ahead of My Shadow (WB MM Cartoon; 1933)
On the Avenue (Film; 1937)
Our Town, by Thornton Wilder (Play; 1938)
Patton (Film; 1970)
Piano Concerto in E Major, by Reynaldo Hahn (Piano Concerto; 1931)
Reacher (TV Series; 2022)
Rumours, by Fleetwood Mac (Album; 1977)
Señor Saint, by Leslie Charteris (Short Stories 1958) [Saint #34]
A Study in Brown, by Glen Gray and His Casa Loma Orchestra (Song; 1937)
Two Days to Doom or The Last Weekend (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 253; 1964)
Two Moose is Loose or Which One Has the Phoney? (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 254; 1964)
The Ugly Dachshund (Film; 1966)
Videodrome (Film; 1983)
The Wedding Date (Film; 2005)
White Christmas, recorded by The Drifters (Song; 1954)
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (Disney Cartoon; 1966)
Zeno's Conscience, by Italo Svevo (Novel; 1923)
Today’s Name Days
Andreas, Rabanus, Veronika (Austria)
Andrija, Ivan, Izidor, Veronika (Croatia)
Jarmila (Czech Republic)
Veronica (Denmark)
Arma, Armi, Armiida, Meida, Miida (Estonia)
Armi, Ronja (Finland)
Véronique (France)
Andreas, Jenny, Veronika (Germany)
Asimakis, Asimina, Malamati, Simeon, Stamatia, Stamatis (Greece)
Csenge, Ráhel (Hungary)
Biago, Gilberto (Italy)
Daila, Veronika (Latvia)
Andrius, Arvilė, Gustas, Joana, Vydmantas (Lithuania)
Vera, Veronika (Norway)
Andrzej, Gilbert, Jan, Joanna, Józef, Mariusz, Weronika, Witosława (Poland)
Isidor (Romania)
Anastasia (Russia)
Veronika (Slovakia)
Gilberto, Juan, Juana (Spain)
Anselm, Ansgar (Sweden)
Byron, Gilbert, Gilberta, Gilberto, Gilmer (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 35 of 2024; 331 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 7 of week 5 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 15 of 28]
Chinese: Month 12 (Yi-Chou), Day 25 (Wu-Xu)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 25 Shevat 5784
Islamic: 24 Rajab 1445
J Cal: 5 Grey; Fryday [5 of 30]
Julian: 22 January 2024
Moon: 33%: Waning Crescent
Positivist: 7 Homer (2nd Month) [Aeschylus)
Runic Half Month: Elhaz (Elk) [Day 11 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 46 of 89)
Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 14 of 28)
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Here's the thing: most of Women' Literature alludes me, I can't seem to connect with the 90% of the content associated with the uterus, The words that women use have additional valance of some sort that I don't share.
For example, I saw the movie Gone With The Wind when I was 8 years or so and the two things I most remember, aside from the fact that George "Superman" Reeves is one of Scarlett's suitors in the opening scene of the move, was the horse dropping dead having pulled Scarlett all the way from Atlanta to Tara, and the Bummer intent on rape Scarlett shots in the face, I saw it again sometime after I got back from Vietnam, probably during it's 40th Anniversary, It was a bit more satisfying, but I decided to read the novel and see what else there was.
I was totally underwhelmed The prose struck me as totally pedestrian and the plot and resolutions contrived. All in all, I put it in the category of a Harlequin bodice ripper and I consder that to be a failure of discernment on my part, By and large, I tend to avoid Women's Literature,
And it isn't universal, I read a lot of Andre Norton, growing up, and I didn't know she was a woman until I got a lap top in 2013 and retired and had time to snoop around a bit more, And Harper Lee's To Kill a Mocking Bird is completely engaging, probably because the narrative is channeled through the androgyny of Scout.
Wheb I got back from Vietnam, I began to stop by Christian Science retail store fronts to read the selected commentary from the Scriptures with a selection from Christian Science explicating the text, In the broadest sense, I understood that God is mind and the selected scriptures represented the source of that insight, but I never came close to finding the key to the connection.
Several years ago, I accessed a YouTube reading of the Gospel fo Mary Magdalene and was instantly aware that what ever is going on in the Gospel is conveyed to Mary Baker Eddy, I don't know what it is, but I do know that women are wasting their time trying to determine how the Gospel of Mary is some how derivative of Song of Solomon in the same way Robyn Walsh is wasting her time trying to establish the Gospel of Mark is derivative of Virgil, Home and Pauline Theology. . I think the Gospel of Mary is absolutely authentic and what ever is going on is a totally unexplored field of Christian scholarship.
For example, What jesus meant when he told ary she should become male was that she should become Golda Meir and Gal Bagot and go through the Army Ranger School. This Gospel has far more to do with the 19th Amendment and the Dobbs Decision than trying to untangle the anal retentive Judaism of Paul, and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Let me put this a different way: The Holy SPirit causes the connection between Jesus and the woman with the hemorrhage in Mark 5: 25 - 34 to introduce Jesus to the uterus i a way no man in history has experience. Jesus died a virgin and had not carnal knowledge of women, generally, until that moment. And a consequence is that Jesus didn't drive 7 demons out of Mary Magdalene, but validated the 7 elements of her ontology she shared with Jesus and Cornelius,
And that's the key between the Gospel of Mary Baker Eddy.
Just for the record, the template for the Gospel of Mark is Caesar's Commentary and the letter from Claudius Lysias to Governor Felix in Caesarea in Acts 23:25 - 30, Cornelius wrote The Gospel of Mark in Judea after his encounter with Peter in Acts 10 and it was in Rome before Claudius became Emperor.
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Felix Da Housecat - Everyone Is Someone In L.A. (Devin Dazzle & The Neon Fever, 2004)
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Evil by Ladytron from Light & Magic (2002)
When a menthol hit, hooks a spatial girl in her summer clothes,
Like a transmission, on an empty channel, all lines are closed.
Taking photographs, speaking slowly through the permanent waves
The taste in her mouth that she read about earlier today
This is happening for your pleasure, at your leisure
Use your evil, when you want
When the night becomes, automatic sequence joining the day,
Singing something new, someone else is sliding into your way.
When a menthol hit, hooks a spatial girl in her summer clothes,
Like a transmission, on an empty channel, all lines are closed.
Got to get you off my conscience by Friday,
On Saturday I'll be wide awake, On Sunday I'm your new best friend,
On Monday learn it all again
For your pleasure, at your leisure
Use your evil, when you want.
#evil#ladytron#light and magic#light & magic#electropop#technopop#synthpop#new wave#emperor norton#emperor norton records#telstar#telstar records
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2021, a year in records - Dec 15th
#vinyl#records#lp#records of the day#33rpm#12 inch#lost in translation#emperor norton#june brides#social music records
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Today’s compilation:
Naan Commercial Hits
2002
Breakbeat / Trip Hop / Big Beat / Downtempo / Pop / Funk / Disco
Looks like this was included as a freebie with an issue of the now-defunct UK publication, Revolution Magazine. Here we have, basically, what amounts to a sampler from Emperor Norton Records, a label whose Space Baby Blast Off I posted about not too long ago and came out not at all impressed.
But upon further review, Emperor Norton's actually a great label. Space Baby Blast Off was a big miss, but this little comp more than makes up for it. Naan Commercial Hits, from its album art and description that promises to "help align your chakras," might look like it's on some psychedelic, Eastern-type of vibe, but it's not; at least not nearly entirely. There's one song that has breakbeat funk and bass overlaid with heady sitar work called "Citroens 'n' Sitars" by The Inner Thumb, but that's really the extent of the Eastern infusion. And that song's great, by the way.
What this comp really presents is a lot of different strands of 60s, 70s, and 80s sounds, all cast in a new light for what was, at the time, the new millennium*. 60s breakbeat funk, 70s disco percussion, and 80s new wave synthesizers all abound on here for a great variety of tunes, from the straight-up 70s proggy jazz fusion jam session revivalism of Brian Reitzell & Roger Joseph Manning Jr. to the trailblazing electropop sounds of Ladytron, whose whole sonic aesthetic would become the sound du jour of the indietronica-obsessed early-to-mid-2010s.
*One song is actually from the 70s: "Dancin'" by Walter Murphy, a nice, little organ and sax disco-funk bop from the guy who is well-known for both using Beethoven in a disco tune and supplying the music for Family Guy.
Highlights:
Pepe Deluxé - "Woman In Blue"
The Inner Thumb - "Citroens 'n' Sitars"
Brian Reitzell & Roger Joseph Manning Jr. - "Metropia"
Ladytron - "Playgirl"
Takako Minekawa - "Plash"
Walter Murphy - "Dancin'"
#breakbeat#trip hop#big beat#downtempo#pop#funk#disco#dance#dance music#electronic#electronic music#music#90s#90s music#90's#90's music#90s breakbeat#90's breakbeat#90s trip hop#90's trip hop#90s big beat#90's big beat#90s downtempo#90's downtempo#90s pop#90's pop#90s funk#90's funk#90s disco#90's disco
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Dragon Dancer IV: The Wife of Chu Zihang
The moon shined bright, surrounding each of the pink blossoms of Chizuru in a bright halo. I leaned against the bark, sitting against one of the hundred year old trees, gazing upwards, letting my mind relax, while little Ru’Yi satisfied her hunger, pulling greedily at my breast, curling her fingers against my skin, gulping milk like a little pig.
I should be grateful. If she didn’t wake up to eat, it got painful to move around. She was too much of a good thing however. Even though I was reluctant to pull her off early, she had no self control. If I didn’t stop her, she would eat too much, burp and spit up everywhere. Right now, I had nowhere to bathe.
So I pulled her away, wiped myself with my shirt and flipped my bra up.
At least the night wasn’t as cold.
The Cherry Blossom park was already getting ready to open the Hanami Matsuri later this month, the same one Chu Zihang and I had visited. It was a moment that existed only in our memory. According to official record, I had been in Paris on assignment with the principal. They didn’t know about my teleporting.
I climbed to my feet, rocking and patting Ru’Yi. I’d appeared just at this spot. This was the picture Johann had sent me as a reference point. A wide cobblestone path lined on both sides with the oldest trees in the park. I’d appeared there and he saw me.
I closed my eyes picturing the bright spring scene. I remembered how wide his eyes were behind his glasses. He didn’t believe what he was seeing. He ran to me, hugged me tight.
I squeezed Ru’Yi to myself in recollection. His hand slipped under my chin. He kissed me. My body grew hot like a furnace. I gasped for breath.
I opened my eyes and the tears slipped down my face. “Johann... I miss you.”
The tears continued to fall as I made my way through the memory. We didn’t hold hands. He stayed close at my side, and only our pinky fingers hooked together. We listened to the traditional music and listened to people recite haikus. Girls took selfies in their yukatas with their friends.
At the end of the path was the large mirror pond that reflected the glory of the flowers, doubling their brilliance against the sky. Johann said that the water reflected on my face, that I had cherry petals in my hair. I reached up and pulled down a flower. I crushed it in my palm and sprinkled it on my head. Then I looked up at someone who wasn’t there.
I froze. Adrenaline coursed like lightning through me. Someone was there.
I lowered one hand to Spider Fang and settled Ru’Yi into the soft grass. I gripped the hilt, unlocking it from its sheath. I’d broken out into a cold sweat, trembling. I shuddered, just like when Chisei had released his Soul Skill earlier that day. There was a powerful enemy very nearby.
Even though there was no one around, my body reacted like there was a knife to my throat.
The tall ancient cherry trees cast shifting shadows and my eyes darted to every movement. I knew there were Soul Skills that used shadows and made someone invisible, but those were relatively rare.
Johann occasionally had me train with him blindfolded to help me hone my other senses. It wasn’t about necessarily having super hearing or being able to smell your opponent’s breath. But more about process of elimination and spotting the anomaly in the surroundings.
My eyes slowly shifted to the pond. It reflected light from the moon in the water and the water was still like a mirror. It reflected the shadow of a person crouched low, his face turned not to me... but to Ru’Yi.
I rotated out from behind the tree, drawing the sword in an upward arc while my fist swung close behind it. Another blade met mine. We exchanged blows four times in quick succession before I consciously realized who this person was.
I recognized him first by the blade he carried, the hunter’s blade, Dictator. My murderous intent receded like a tide and we broke away from each other.
“What were you thinking, trying to snatch Ru’Yi?” I was breathing hard, more out of an angry fear than exhaustion.
“Because I knew if I had her you would have no choice but to come peacefully.” He was smiling at me, but without malice or arrogance. He was dressed in a fine button down shirt, black vest and slacks, like he was going to a dinner party. “Unfortunately, your instincts were a little too good.”
“You were careless.” I shot back.
His smile faded. “I came all the way here for you... for a reason. Things are going to get very bad for Lu Mingfei and I’d rather not have the Academy targeting you.”
“Tell the Academy that my only aim is to find the one who disappeared Chu Zihang! I don’t have the skeleton, I don’t know where Mingfei is, and I don’t know who harmed the principal. Leave me alone!”
“We can’t leave a mentally unstable hybrid just wandering around, Carli.”
I immediately brought my guard up. Caesar came running, extremely fast. While my technique matched his, I couldn’t equal his raw physical strength. He smashed Spider fang to the ground and stepped on it with this foot. I staggered back, stumbling over a tree root.
It was a chance Caesar couldn’t resist. His shadow descended on me.
Tongzi’s edge tore through the fabric of his shirt, knicking his skin in a long curving line. Dictator came up in a belated attempt to block a strike I’d already made.
For a moment, his side was left open. If I wanted, I could have drilled Tongzi straight into his heart with an Alchemy blade that negated a Hybrid’s healing factor and scrambled Dragon blood. Instead, I cut him again and fled, hurrying to retrieve Spider Fang.
But there was no need to hurry.
Caesar stood, raising one hand to his chest, his fingers coming away red.
Caesar had graduated from Cassell College shortly after my marriage to Johann. He was sent to man the helm at the Executive Department in Italy. He’d married Nono and settled down easily into the job. Everyone respected him as a dragonslayer, the killer of Dragon King Norton. Since the Student Union members were so numerous, he had influence over commissioners who were members and stationed in areas all over the world. One could honestly say that he was an Emperor out of Cassell.
And yet, this emperor had been cut twice in quick succession by a junior student 6 years younger.
I swallowed hard, wondering if he was going easy on me the way Mingfei did when we were playing Street Thug together. So I didn’t gloat over this accomplishment. Caesar was Chu Zihang’s greatest rival for a reason.
His expression had grown quite a bit more serious. The amusement in his eyes became mixed with irritation. “I wouldn’t be doing this, if Lu Mingfei hadn’t gotten Nono involved.”
“By running with an accused traitor, she risks her own future. I would rather get this over with as soon as possible.”
I took a deep breath. “Then you understand why I have to stay free. Chu Zihang is to me like Nono is to you. Every day he’s missing is painful!”
“Chu Zihang is not real.” He said this slowly, firmly.
“If he’s not real, then how come I can cut you?” Caesar was Chu Zihang’s greatest rival, but what was Caesar without Chu Zihang? While Caesar was in a coma, Johann lamented to me how his skills had gone down without Caesar to push him to greater heights. This Caesar with out Chu Zihang was slower, because the one advantages he had over Caesar was speed!
I shot out like an arrow, bringing the sword down and up, dancing around him, one maneuver seamlessly followed by another.
It was how Johann and I always practiced, a long series of strikes that were like a dance to us. It helped us maintain a sense of an attack range while at the same time, maintaining a sense of staying just out of range of the opponent, looking for a single opening that would land a hit.
A sword master might go seven strikes or ten strikes in a row with much practice. But before I was too pregnant to move, Johann and I had gotten up to twenty five without a break or a breather.
The Caesar I knew was the only one who could stand up to such an aggressive, unrelenting series of attacks. But this wasn’t the Caesar I knew. This was a weak Caesar, a fake Caesar! That’s why Spider Fang stung his knuckles, cut along his wrist, bit his shoulder. He grew increasingly confounded while I settled into the rhythm. My eyes grew colder, more contemptuous.
I’d backed him against the edge of the mirror pond, panting from the effort. “You’re nothing without Chu Zihang to challenge you. No one can challenge you like he did.”
“Except for you. Because you’re his wife?” Caesar smiled, tilting his head. He used Dictator to cut a length from the vest that probably cost a thousand dollars but had been ruined in the fight. He tied it, putting pressure on where I’d cut his wrist.
Did I go too far? I didn’t want to seriously hurt him. “Do you believe me now?” I asked.
“You make a good point. But that doesn’t change your current predicament. The Academy grows increasingly impatient with Mingfei. They’re going to go all out on him. I’d hate for you and your daughter to get caught in the crossfire. If you want to continue your investigation, you can do so from the Gattuso residence.”
“No thank you.”
“You’re out of strength, Carli. Your heart is beating to its maximum capacity. Don’t try and attack me again.”
I suddenly realized that the Soul Skill was sensing was Wind Devil. He knew where I was because he could hear my heartbeat and my breathing. “How long were you watching me?”
“While you wandered the park like a mad woman you mean? Talking to an invisible person?” The mocking light had left his eyes.
My face grew hot. He wasn’t supposed to see that. When I acted that way, I knew I looked crazy. “It’s the only way I can keep his memory alive in a world that has forgotten him. Okay? This place has special meaning to us.”
“If everyone forgot about Nono, would you willingly date someone else? Or be married to someone else, even if no one else believed you? Or would you try to find her no matter what anyone else said?” I asked.
The words seemed to have an effect, but not the one I intended. It was only because I was already keyed up that I saw his hand to his holster, where Desert Eagle rested and I dove to one side rolling behind a tree to escape. But he’d already followed me, kicking out my legs from under me and following me down to the ground. I landed hard on my back, winded.
He pinned me under his weight and pressed his forearm against my throat so hard I thought my windpipe would collapse. His blond hair rested against my forehead and his blue eyes gazed sadly into mine as my lungs heaved but failed to draw in any air.
I had to escape, but without oxygen my muscles and mind grew heavy. I reached for the last resort.
Caesar would have seen my eyes blaze and shine with a yellow light. My pupils would constrict into sharp vertical sickles. My skin itched as scales feathered down my arms.
My hands went from scratching, to clawing with nails sharp as knives.
Power surged through my muscles and I tossed him off me. He went sailing through the air and landing hard, scrambling to his feet. I rushed toward him, howling like a storm wind. His form came at me in my vision. I collided with him, with both hands and feet like an animal bringing him down again.
I heard him scream. My claws had hooked around his ribs.
Blood rage increased dragon blood purity, which also intensified the desire to kill the object of that fury. Shocked, and wondering if I had pierced his heart, I pulled my fingers from his body.
His hands wrapped my neck and he slammed his head into mine so hard my vision exploded into stars. He grabbed my neck again and punched me hard, pummeling me in an effort to bring me down.
I lifted my hand and caught his fist, my claws digging in. I smashed my other hand into the wound I’d created in his chest, funneling all my strength into it. HIs ribs collapsed under the blow and he fell, unable to rise again.
I blinked, dizzy with one too many blows to the head. But I heard him ask, grunting with the pain. “Blood Rage.... where did you learn it? That’s a forbidden technique!”
I leaned against the trunk of a tree, staggering to make my way back to Ru’Yi.
“Chu Zihang taught me.”
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YOU CANT SAY YOU PUT OTHAR IN YOUR GAME AND NOT TELL US ABOUT IT!!! SHARE SHARE SHARE!!!
ooh so I can date this one to…October/November of 2017? Jesus. For the record, I’m not answering these firmly in order.
An incomplete list of my favorite references to fiction or real life in my D&D game (set in post-apocalyptic North America, now with magic) in the past 2+ years:
as mentioned above, just straight-up included Othar Tryggvassen as a paladin NPC. He took them to explore the legendary Pyramid of Lu’Xoro’Tel, in the lost city of Las-Vegás. He ended up becoming the new god of the local kobolds (after the party slayed the aboleth that had previously held the position)
Empress Emmarie Norton of San Francisco, descended in a direct lineage from Emperor Norton of San Francisco
briefly abducted by aliens, whose starship was named Vingilot (but was, I’ll concede, a standard alien spaceship)
New York City is literally a ghost city. the buildings are mostly ghosts. the exception is Times Square itself, which was protected by the ghost-in-the-machine of Warren Buffet, who has occupied the billboards there for the last 400+ years and incidentally gone fucking bonkers
straight-up put the ghost of my aunt and the ghosts of her cats in the ghost of her apartment, too
a powerful and intricate abjuration spell cast across the whole city of Avonlea, Newfoundland, based on a twisted hunk of metal scavenged from a neighboring city (since abandoned to the waves) that naturally emits powerful energy of welcome and peace
my Feywild is basically a giant forest in which you might meet absolutely any fictional character whose ever plausibly been in a forest or a fairy tale, and several who haven’t. I made a montage
I essentially paused the plot for several months recently to have the group travel by horse and foot from LA to Seattle while they’re all throwing off wild magic 24/7, and classic zany episodes included:
beach episode (while unexpectedly transported to the Water Plane)
bodyswap episode
canon but to be played later for chaotic fun session where all the PCs are all turned to stone or something and it’s up to the familiars and other sentient magical companions, animal, plant, and other, to save the day
they’re working their way through the dungeon of Bill Gates’ wizarding tower now, and traps thus far have included a Minesweeper floor, a room that dropped Tetris blocks on them, a room where the pipes screensaver was playing in 3D throughout and did bludgeoning damage, and now they’re wandering through some sort of endless simulation of the classic grassy hills background
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the signs as proclamations of norton i, emperor of the united states
Via Wikipedia:
Joshua Abraham Norton, known as Emperor Norton, was a citizen of San Francisco, California, who proclaimed himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States" in 1859. He later assumed the secondary title of "Protector of Mexico". Norton had no formal political power; nevertheless, he was treated deferentially in San Francisco, and currency issued in his name was honored in the establishments that he frequented. Some considered him insane or eccentric, but citizens of San Francisco celebrated his imperial presence and his proclamations, such as his order that the United States Congress be dissolved by force and his numerous decrees calling for the construction of a bridge and tunnel crossing San Francisco Bay to connect San Francisco with Oakland.
All decrees sourced from here and here. For soon-to-be-obvious reasons, there are a lot of forgeries in the historical record, so I left out the ones that were obviously made up
ARIES: 1870: Abolishes the Sunday Law, which required bars to close on the Sabbath
TAURUS: 1869: Orders that the muddy streets of Sacramento be cleaned and gaslights be installed
GEMINI: 1864: Appoints Mark Twain as “official spinner of tales and teller of stories”
CANCER: 1875: Commands the Grand Hotel to construct a royal suite for the empress he hasn’t met yet
LEO: July 26, 1860: Declares himself absolute monarch and dissolves the United States
VIRGO: Decrees the San Francisco nickname “Frisco” to be a high misdemeanor, punishable by a $25 fine (about $500 in today’s dollars)
LIBRA: 1862: Orders the shears of the city tailors destroyed until they make him fancy clothes
SCORPIO: 1872: Orders water and gas to the Grand Hotel to be shut off because they wouldn’t give him rooms
SAGITTARIUS: 1866: Decrees that the Sacramento River be blockaded because a steamboat company refused him passage
CAPRICORN: 1869: Confiscates the First National Bank for bouncing one of his checks.
AQUARIUS: 1869: Demands that San Franciscans give money to Frederick Marriott for his airship experiments
PISCES: 1860: Calls for a National Convention at Platt’s Music Hall (which would burn down a year later) to ameliorate the nation’s evil
#emperor norton#san francisco#the signs#the signs as#signs#zodiac#astrology#aries#taurus#gemini#cancer#leo#virgo#libra#scorpio#sagittarius#capricorn#aquarius#pisces#history
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Holidays 9.17
Holidays
Arbaeen of Hosseini (Iran) [40th Day after Ashura]
Australian Citizenship Day (Australia)
Battle Flag Day
Citizenship Day (f.k.a. "I Am An American" Day)
Constitution Day
Crown Prince Tupouto'a 'Ulukalala (Tonga)
Eleven Days of Global Unity, Day 7: Women
Empire Day (Emperor Norton)
Feast of the Pilgrims (Villers-Perwin, Belgium)
Fiestas Pátrias (Chile)
Fundación de Melilla (Melilla, Spain)
Guess Who Day (Winnipeg, Canada)
International Country Music Day
Linux Day
Love and Friendship Day (Colombia)
LP Record Unveiling Day
Marathwada Liberation Day (Maharashtra)
Naked Bicycle Race Day
National Female Civility Day
National Fox Day
National Heroes’ Day (Angola)
National Pet Carbon Dioxide Safety Day
National Professional House Cleaners Day
National Table Shuffleboard Day
New Dog Tricks Day
Operation Market Garden Day (Netherlands)
Pledge Across America Day [Sep 17 or nearest Monday]
Pompéia (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Sybirak’s Day (Poland)
Teachers’ Day (Honduras)
Time’s Up Day
VFW Ladies Auxiliary Day
Vishwakarma Puja (Jharkhand & Uttarakhand, India)
Von Steuben Day
World Patient Safety Day (UN)
Food & Drink Celebrations
Apple Dumpling Day
International Lambic Day
National Bakery Day
National Monte Cristo Day
3rd Sunday in September
Federal Day of Thanksgiving, Repentance and Prayer (Switzerland) [3rd Sunday]
International Day of Prayer & Action for Human Habitat [3rd Sunday]
Kaua’i Mokihana Festival begins (Hawaii) [3rd Sunday]
National Back to Church Sunday [3rd Sunday]
National Neighborhood Day [3rd Sunday]
National Women's Friendship Day [3rd Sunday]
Pig Face Sunday (Avening, UK) [3rd Sunday]
Swiss Federal Fast (Switzerland) [3rd Sunday]
Tolkein Week begins [Sunday in Week that includes 9.22]
Wife Appreciation Day [3rd Sunday]
World Peace Day [3rd Sunday]
Independence Days
Heist-op-den-Berg (Declared; 2010) [unrecognized]
Scientopia (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Albert of Vercelli (Christian; Saint)
Ariadne of Phrygia (Christian; Saint)
Cecilia Eusepi (Christian; Blessed)
Columba (Christian; Saint)
Festival of Min Kyawzwa (Burmese God of Drinking)
François Marius Granet (Artology)
Ganesha Chaturthi (Festival to god of prosperity, Prudence & success; Hindu)
Hildegard of Bingen (Christian; Saint) [hop-growers] *
Lambert (Christian; Saint)
Media Aestas XI (Pagan)
Niketeria (Ancient Greece)
Robert Bellarmine (Christian; Saint)
Rouin (a.k.a. Rodingus or Chrodingus; Christian; Saint)
Samuel Prout (Artology)
Satyrus of Milan (Christian; Saint)
Shiku (Muppetism)
Socrates and Stephen (Christian; Martyrs)
Stanislaus Papczyński (Christian; Saint)
Stigmata of Francis (Christian; Saint)
Tirso (Positivist; Saint)
Wear Purple Day (Pastafarian)
William Shatner Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
Fortunate Day (Pagan) [37 of 53]
Premieres
The Age of Innocence (Film; 1993)
Almost Perfect (TV Series; 1995)
Alpha and Omega (Animated Film; 2010)
Ænima, by Tool (Album; 1996)
Anna (Go to Him), by Arthur Alexander (Song; 1962)
Archer (Animated TV Series; 2009)
Battlestar Gallactica (TV Series; 1978)
The Berlin Stories, by Christopher Isherwood (Novel; 1945)
Bewitched (TV Series; 1964)
Blackadder the Third (UK TV Series; 1987)
Boris Godunov, by Alexander Pushkin (Play; 1870)
Community (TV Series; 2009)
Divine Madness (Concert Film; 1980)
Easy A (Film; 2010)
For Love of the Game (Film; 1999)
Ghost in the Sheep 2: Innocence (Anime Film; 2004)
Goldfinger premiered in London (1964) [James Bond #3]
Happy Days, by Samuel Beckett (Play; 1961)
Home Improvement (TV Series; 1991)
The Keeper of the Bees, by Gene Stratton-Porter (Novel; 1925)
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding (Novel; 1954)
M*A*S*H (TV Series; 1972)
Mike’s New Car (Pixar Cartoon; 2002)
Nona (Pixar Cartoon; 2021)
The Ocean Waves or Hi, Divers (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 213; 1963)
Pirates of Venus, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Novel; 1932) [Venus #1]
Ride Him, Bosko! (WB LT Cartoon; 1932)
Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury (Novel; 1962)
Speedy Gonzales (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)
Spin City (TV Series; 1996)
Squid Game (TV Series; 2021)
Swing Ding Amigo (WB LT Cartoon; 1966)
The Thin Red Line, by James Jones (Novel; 1962)
Topsy Turvy, Part 6 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 214; 1963)
Use Your Illusion, by Guns N’ Roses (Albums; 1991)
The Wall (Animated Film; 1982)
The Whoopee Party (Disney Cartoon; 1932)
Wimbledon (Film; 2004)
The Wisdom of Insecurity, by Alan W. Watts (Spiritual Book; 1951)
Wise Up Ghost, by Elvis Costello (Album; 2013)
Today’s Name Days
Lambert, Robert (Austria)
Lyuba, Lyuben, Lyubomir, Lyubov, Nadezhda, Nadya, Sevda, Sofiya, Vera, Vyara (Bulgaria)
Hildegarda, Kerubina, Robert (Croatia)
Naděžda (Czech Republic)
Lambertu (Denmark)
Hilda, Hildegard, Hille, Hilli, Ille, Illi (Estonia)
Aila, Aili (Finland)
Hildegarde, Lambert, Renaud (France)
Ariane, Hildegard, Robert (Germany)
Agape, Agapi, Elpida, Sofia, Sophia (Greece)
Zsófia (Hungary)
Benedetto, Ildegarda, Roberto (Italy)
Solvita, Vaira, Vairis, Vera (Latvia)
Pranas, Pranciškus, Sintautas, Sintautė (Lithuania)
Hildebj, Hildegunn (Norway)
Ariadna, Dezyderiusz, Drogosław, Franciszek, Hildegarda, Justyn, Justyna, Lambert, Lamberta, Narcyz, Teodora (Poland)
Olympia (Slovakia)
Ariadna, Ariana, Belarmino, Roberto (Spain)
Hildegard, Magnhild (Sweden)
Luba, Lubov, Nadia, Sonia, Soophia (Ukraine)
Ariadne, Ariana, Arianna, Hildegard, Hildegarde, Lambert, Lambertine (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 260 of 2024; 105 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 7 of week 37 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 13 of 28]
Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 3 (Wu-Yin)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 2 Tishri 5784
Islamic: 2 Rabi I 1445
J Cal: 20 Aki; Sixday [20 of 30]
Julian: 4 September 2023
Moon: 6%: Waxing Crescent
Positivist: 8 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Tirso]
Runic Half Month: Ken (Illumination) [Day 6 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 88 of 94)
Zodiac: Virgo (Day 27 of 32)
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Holidays 9.17
Holidays
Arbaeen of Hosseini (Iran) [40th Day after Ashura]
Australian Citizenship Day (Australia)
Battle Flag Day
Citizenship Day (f.k.a. "I Am An American" Day)
Constitution Day
Crown Prince Tupouto'a 'Ulukalala (Tonga)
Eleven Days of Global Unity, Day 7: Women
Empire Day (Emperor Norton)
Feast of the Pilgrims (Villers-Perwin, Belgium)
Fiestas Pátrias (Chile)
Fundación de Melilla (Melilla, Spain)
Guess Who Day (Winnipeg, Canada)
International Country Music Day
Linux Day
Love and Friendship Day (Colombia)
LP Record Unveiling Day
Marathwada Liberation Day (Maharashtra)
Naked Bicycle Race Day
National Female Civility Day
National Fox Day
National Heroes’ Day (Angola)
National Pet Carbon Dioxide Safety Day
National Professional House Cleaners Day
National Table Shuffleboard Day
New Dog Tricks Day
Operation Market Garden Day (Netherlands)
Pledge Across America Day [Sep 17 or nearest Monday]
Pompéia (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Sybirak’s Day (Poland)
Teachers’ Day (Honduras)
Time’s Up Day
VFW Ladies Auxiliary Day
Vishwakarma Puja (Jharkhand & Uttarakhand, India)
Von Steuben Day
World Patient Safety Day (UN)
Food & Drink Celebrations
Apple Dumpling Day
International Lambic Day
National Bakery Day
National Monte Cristo Day
3rd Sunday in September
Federal Day of Thanksgiving, Repentance and Prayer (Switzerland) [3rd Sunday]
International Day of Prayer & Action for Human Habitat [3rd Sunday]
Kaua’i Mokihana Festival begins (Hawaii) [3rd Sunday]
National Back to Church Sunday [3rd Sunday]
National Neighborhood Day [3rd Sunday]
National Women's Friendship Day [3rd Sunday]
Pig Face Sunday (Avening, UK) [3rd Sunday]
Swiss Federal Fast (Switzerland) [3rd Sunday]
Tolkein Week begins [Sunday in Week that includes 9.22]
Wife Appreciation Day [3rd Sunday]
World Peace Day [3rd Sunday]
Independence Days
Heist-op-den-Berg (Declared; 2010) [unrecognized]
Scientopia (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Albert of Vercelli (Christian; Saint)
Ariadne of Phrygia (Christian; Saint)
Cecilia Eusepi (Christian; Blessed)
Columba (Christian; Saint)
Festival of Min Kyawzwa (Burmese God of Drinking)
François Marius Granet (Artology)
Ganesha Chaturthi (Festival to god of prosperity, Prudence & success; Hindu)
Hildegard of Bingen (Christian; Saint) [hop-growers] *
Lambert (Christian; Saint)
Media Aestas XI (Pagan)
Niketeria (Ancient Greece)
Robert Bellarmine (Christian; Saint)
Rouin (a.k.a. Rodingus or Chrodingus; Christian; Saint)
Samuel Prout (Artology)
Satyrus of Milan (Christian; Saint)
Shiku (Muppetism)
Socrates and Stephen (Christian; Martyrs)
Stanislaus Papczyński (Christian; Saint)
Stigmata of Francis (Christian; Saint)
Tirso (Positivist; Saint)
Wear Purple Day (Pastafarian)
William Shatner Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
Fortunate Day (Pagan) [37 of 53]
Premieres
The Age of Innocence (Film; 1993)
Almost Perfect (TV Series; 1995)
Alpha and Omega (Animated Film; 2010)
Ænima, by Tool (Album; 1996)
Anna (Go to Him), by Arthur Alexander (Song; 1962)
Archer (Animated TV Series; 2009)
Battlestar Gallactica (TV Series; 1978)
The Berlin Stories, by Christopher Isherwood (Novel; 1945)
Bewitched (TV Series; 1964)
Blackadder the Third (UK TV Series; 1987)
Boris Godunov, by Alexander Pushkin (Play; 1870)
Community (TV Series; 2009)
Divine Madness (Concert Film; 1980)
Easy A (Film; 2010)
For Love of the Game (Film; 1999)
Ghost in the Sheep 2: Innocence (Anime Film; 2004)
Goldfinger premiered in London (1964) [James Bond #3]
Happy Days, by Samuel Beckett (Play; 1961)
Home Improvement (TV Series; 1991)
The Keeper of the Bees, by Gene Stratton-Porter (Novel; 1925)
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding (Novel; 1954)
M*A*S*H (TV Series; 1972)
Mike’s New Car (Pixar Cartoon; 2002)
Nona (Pixar Cartoon; 2021)
The Ocean Waves or Hi, Divers (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 213; 1963)
Pirates of Venus, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Novel; 1932) [Venus #1]
Ride Him, Bosko! (WB LT Cartoon; 1932)
Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury (Novel; 1962)
Speedy Gonzales (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)
Spin City (TV Series; 1996)
Squid Game (TV Series; 2021)
Swing Ding Amigo (WB LT Cartoon; 1966)
The Thin Red Line, by James Jones (Novel; 1962)
Topsy Turvy, Part 6 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 214; 1963)
Use Your Illusion, by Guns N’ Roses (Albums; 1991)
The Wall (Animated Film; 1982)
The Whoopee Party (Disney Cartoon; 1932)
Wimbledon (Film; 2004)
The Wisdom of Insecurity, by Alan W. Watts (Spiritual Book; 1951)
Wise Up Ghost, by Elvis Costello (Album; 2013)
Today’s Name Days
Lambert, Robert (Austria)
Lyuba, Lyuben, Lyubomir, Lyubov, Nadezhda, Nadya, Sevda, Sofiya, Vera, Vyara (Bulgaria)
Hildegarda, Kerubina, Robert (Croatia)
Naděžda (Czech Republic)
Lambertu (Denmark)
Hilda, Hildegard, Hille, Hilli, Ille, Illi (Estonia)
Aila, Aili (Finland)
Hildegarde, Lambert, Renaud (France)
Ariane, Hildegard, Robert (Germany)
Agape, Agapi, Elpida, Sofia, Sophia (Greece)
Zsófia (Hungary)
Benedetto, Ildegarda, Roberto (Italy)
Solvita, Vaira, Vairis, Vera (Latvia)
Pranas, Pranciškus, Sintautas, Sintautė (Lithuania)
Hildebj, Hildegunn (Norway)
Ariadna, Dezyderiusz, Drogosław, Franciszek, Hildegarda, Justyn, Justyna, Lambert, Lamberta, Narcyz, Teodora (Poland)
Olympia (Slovakia)
Ariadna, Ariana, Belarmino, Roberto (Spain)
Hildegard, Magnhild (Sweden)
Luba, Lubov, Nadia, Sonia, Soophia (Ukraine)
Ariadne, Ariana, Arianna, Hildegard, Hildegarde, Lambert, Lambertine (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 260 of 2024; 105 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 7 of week 37 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 13 of 28]
Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 3 (Wu-Yin)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 2 Tishri 5784
Islamic: 2 Rabi I 1445
J Cal: 20 Aki; Sixday [20 of 30]
Julian: 4 September 2023
Moon: 6%: Waxing Crescent
Positivist: 8 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Tirso]
Runic Half Month: Ken (Illumination) [Day 6 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 88 of 94)
Zodiac: Virgo (Day 27 of 32)
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Track: Blow My Mind
Artist: Marshmallow Coast
Album: Coasting
Label: Kindercore Records – KC053
Release: 2000
#blow my mind#marshmallow coast#coasting#kindercore records#2000#indie pop#pop rock#indie pop rock#indie rock#psych pop#rock#emperor norton records#andy gonzales#album#indie rock album#music#indie music#música#np#now playing#track#canción
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Pip Proud, 'One of These Days' CD (Emperor Norton/Trance Syndicate)
Tuesday, November 16, 2021, 3:51pm (full listen)
When I got those two reissues of PP'S 60s albums from Superior Viaduct a few years back, I was somehow (mistakenly) under the impression that those were his only albums, but I bumped into this and another on the same label the other day at the used record store. The music is hilariously (but enjoyably) loose and shambolic, the chord progressions largely guided by the vaguely poetic, (r)ambling lyrics, the fidelity is wonderfully rough, and despite it being recorded between the late 60s and the 90s with various people (including Nic Dalton of Lemonheads, Love Positions, and Goldstar) it somehow sounds remarkably of a piece sonically and aesthetically. I remember when I first heard those two reissues on Superior Viaduct that, partly because of the label preamble, that it really sounded like an Australian version of Syd Barrett, but this album makes me think of an Australian Daniel Johnston instead.
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Playgirl by Ladytron from 604 (2001)
Playgirl, why are you sleeping in tomorrow's world?
Hey, playgirl
Playgirl, why are you dancing when you could be alone?
Hey, playgirl
Playgirl, why are you sleeping in tomorrow's world?
Hey, playgirl
Playgirl, choking on cigarettes won't get you along
Hey, playgirl
Hey playgirl, hey playgirl
Northern lights catch you coming down
Sleep your way out of your hometown
Playgirl, why are you sleeping in tomorrow's world?
Hey, playgirl
Playgirl, why are you dancing when you could be alone?
Hey, playgirl
Playgirl, why are you sleeping in tomorrow's world?
Hey, playgirl
Playgirl, choking on cigarettes won't get you along
Hey, playgirl
Hey playgirl, hey playgirl
Northern lights catch you coming down
Sleep your way out of your hometown
Hey playgirl, hey playgirl
Northern lights catch you coming down
Sleep your way out of your hometown
Hey playgirl, hey playgirl
Foreign coin on a telephone box
A question mark on a calendar
An empty seat on the alpha line
A sorting code, an account number
Hey playgirl, hey playgirl
Northern lights catch you coming down
Sleep your way out of your hometown
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