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.
One ginormous lie . . .
Friday, July 17, 2026. It's Freya's day . . . Moderate Southerlies, increasing clouds, slight rain chances are in the forecasts for Green Country and Tulsey Town today and tonight. An index in the upper 90's is forecast for the afternoon.
Trump's message last night: One ginormous and dangerous lie. – Robert Reich, substack today.
Trump would like to wiretap the phones of even his toadies. – Miles Taylor, Defiance, 7.16.26
Disneyland opened today in 1955.
Today is the birthdate of author Erle Stanley Gardner. The creator of criminal lawyer Perry Mason was born in 1889 Malden, Massachusetts.
Is Consciousness Fundamental? – Alex O'connor in conversation with Robert Lawrence Kuhn, on Closer to Truth.
Dancing with Holden . . .
Thursday, July 16, 2026. It's Thor's day . . . Green Country forecasts show a slight rain chance for TulseyTown today. Moderate Southerlies return this afternoon as clouds mix with the sun. Heat index in the mid 90's.
Today in 622, The Prophet Muhammad’s migrated from Mecca to Medina. Now known as the Hijrah it marked the beginning of the Islamic calendar and one of the defining moments in Islamic history.
Today is also the birthdate of St. Clare of Assisi, born in 1194, Assisi, duchy of Spoleto [Italy]. She was the first follower of St. Francis.
The Trinity test, a detonation of the first atomic bomb, occurred at 5:29:45 am on this day in 1945 south of Albuquerque, New Mexico .
J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye was published on this date in 1951 by Little, Brown and Company.
And, the dancer/actress Ginger Rogers was born in 1911, Independence, Missouri. She was noted primarily as the dance partner of Fred Astaire in a series of motion-picture musicals. About whom it has been said : “She took every step he took, only dancing backward and in high heels.” If she didn't actually say that, she should have.