Even Graceland is mourning today . . .

Wednesday, August 26, 2026. It's Odin's day . . . At 8:30a.m. moderate Northerlies are in the Green Country forecasts, bringing 90's for the next several days. The 100's return this weekend. The breezes bring mid 90's to TulseyTown's afternoon, with an index in the 100's starting around noon.

Dolly Parton died yesterday in Nashville. The entertainment icon was 80 years young.

Goodbye, Dolly. – Robert Reich, “the very best in America.”

Today is the birthdate of the British/American author Christopher Isherwood, born in 1904 High Lane, Cheshire, England.

The novelist Barbara Ehrenreich was born today in 1941 Butte, Montana.

Today in 1944 French General Leclerc's 2nd Armored Division and Charles de Gaulle paraded down the Champs-Élysées in Paris after the liberation of the city from Nazi occupation .

Among the most violent volcanic events in recorded history, the eruption of Krakatoa began on this day in 1883.

The recent SCOTUS mail ballot ruling does not remove anyone from the voter rolls, and Americans are still able to vote by mail according to the laws of their respective states. – Miles Taylor, in Defiance. 8.26.26

Tuesday was the 40th anniversary of the release of “Graceland,” the 1986 cross-cultural tour de force by Paul Simon that is still generating new fans, and heated discussion.

Everybody knows when you're blown apart. Everybody feels the wind blow.