Hot town, Summer in the city.
Monday, July 20, 2026. It's the Moon's day . . . a near 100º day is forecasted for Green Country. Moderate Southerlies, bright sun, and for TulseyTown a heat index of 109º mid afternoon into the evening.
It was 57 years ago today that the first people landed on the Moon and walked the lunar surface.
It's also the date in 1976 when the first space craft made a successful landing on Mars.
It was on this day in 1875 that the largest recorded swarm of locusts in American history descended upon the Great Plains.
Today is the birthdate – debated but best guess – of Alexander the Great in 356 B.C. Pella, Macedonia [northwest of Thessaloníki] Greece.
It’s the birthday of the Italian humanist, scholar, and poet Petrarch, born in 1304 Arezzo, Italy.
It's also the birthday of New Zealand mountain climber and Antarctic explorer Edmund Hillary in 1919, Auckland, New Zealand. He and the Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, were the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Carlos Santana is 79 years old today. A multi-Grammy Award winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee was born in 1947 Autlán de Navarro, Mexico
Sandra Oh is 55 today. The multi awarded actor was born in 1971 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Uniquely recognizable, she was the co-lead in the series “Killing Eve,” among many other roles. My fave is the sleeper support role in the small independent film “Sideways.”
The multi Academy nominated actor Natalie Wood was born in 1938 San Francisco.
And, Pulitzer prize novelist Cormac McCarthy was born today in 1933 Providence, Rhode Island.
Hot as it is, sometimes at the same time it can be cool and smooth.
In the midst: a feel-good moment . . .
Sunday, July 19, 2026. It's Sol's day . . . a hot Summer Sunday is in the forecasts for Green Country. Moderate Southerlies, bright sun, mid 90's with an afternoon index of 105º in TulseyTown.
Today is the 178th anniversary of the first women’s rights conference in history, organized in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848.
Benedict Cumberbatch is 50 years old today. The multi-laureate awarded British actor was born in 1976 London, England.
It's also the birthday of Edgar Degas. The French painter, sculptor, and printmaker was a prominent Impressionist, born in 1834, Paris, France.
The heated debate in Europe over air-conditioning, and other climate adaptations for us all. – Nathan Gardels, Noema, 7.17.26
Godlike Technology Is Breaking Your Brain: How to manage the information-overload-on-steroids-world. – Steven Kotler – co-founder of the Flow Research Collective – in conversation with Jeff Krasno at Commune.
Integrity. – Robert Reich, Sunday Thought, 7.19.26
In the midst of it all, Joyce had a feel good moment. – Civil Discourse 7.18.26
The Sun
...
everything
that made me
has been
a sun to my growing
…
– David Whyte, from “The Sun” posted on substack today, 7.19.26
Desperado target practice . . .
Saturday, July 18, 2026. It's the Satyr's day . . . slight summer rain chances were in the Green Country forecasts for the morning, giving way to a partly cloudy warm afternoon. The usual summer Southerlies and low 90's are predicted for TulseyTown, along with a heat index of 100º.
Aiming for vindication, he shot himself ten times in both feet. – Miles Taylor, Defiance, 7.17.26
The mailbox this morning was packed with creatives' birthday reminders.
The first Black president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela was born in 1918, Mvezo, South Africa; astronaut, and U. S. Senator John Glenn was born in 1921, Cambridge, Ohio; the Canadian scholar, university president, and U.S. senator from California, S.I. Hayakawa was born in 1906, Vancouver, B.C.; Canadian author Margaret Laurence born in1926, Neepawa, Manitoba, Canada; playwright, screenwriter, and actor Clifford Odets was born in 1906, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
And, author Elizabeth Gilbert is 57 today.
It's also the birthdate of the creator of “gonzo” journalism,” Hunter S. Thompson, born in 1937 Louisville, Kentucky.
“What Leary took down with him was the central illusion … the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody... or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, Vintage/Random House. 1971. Original serial publication: Rolling Stone magazine, November 1971.