Famous First Words: I've been to the zoo. Edward Albee Zoo Story
Kerouac would have turned 99 today. -- Money means nothing to him. On the other hand, he doesn't mean anything to money either. / We're all bozos on the bus, so might as well sit back. --Wavy Gravy
..........I'm handy with love and I'm no fool..........James Taylor …..Handy Man
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement. --Andrew Young
It is a gray Friday morning. The sky is kind of no color and shows no texture or variation in the cloud cover. Wind comes in gusts so that one moment the willow branches are hanging still and are camouflaged among the other tree trunks and then without warning they are dancing wildly with the evergreen beside them. Birds dart in and out of trees and yards and piles of leaves building nests and enjoying the 48°F temperature. But the grass is not yet green and there are no flowers blooming in my line of sight. So the grayness of the morning is not oppressive but joyful like a spring morning should be. The chattering of a chattering of starlings can be heard but not seen adding a slightly spooky element to the day. It does smell like a rain that has not yet arrived. A single squirrel makes its way across the utility wires onto the bare limbs of the tree of unknown species to the evergreen hanging on while it dips and bends with the weight. And I sip my steamy coffee and watch the drama from my window as I type. laissez le bon temps rouler !
Hope your weekend makes the scene, daddy-0.
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: What do you get when you mix alcohol and literature? Tequila mockingbird --Submitted by msh of bc
I don't care how much you denounce conformity – something beautiful went out of our life when you quit working steady. I think it's called cash. / I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph. --Ken Kesey
..........I want to stop and thank you, baby..........James Taylor …..How Sweet It Is
Trivia Questions: Happy Birthday, Girl Scouts !
^ Who was the founder of the Girl Scouts?
^^ Any idea where they first assembled?
^^^ More or less, how many girls scouts are there today?
^^^^ What do you think they mean by worldwide?
^^^^^ Know about when they start selling cookies?
Big Hello: Canam – Chuvash (Russia) https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I am forever disappointed that chef Bobby Flay didn't name his daughter Sue. --Submitted by INRITH
Max Picture of the Week: Dr Max and a patient patient
Fake Library Statistic of the Week: 49% of library science is saying, “I don't know, but I can find out.” https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Gee, it's such a nice day out, Oswald, why don't you sit right down and write something despondent. / All of life is a foreign country. --Jack Kerouac
..........Well, I'm a demolition derby, yeah..........James Taylor …..Steamroller
Moonbeam: I left Earth three times and found no other place to go... Wally Schirra
Meditation Seed of the Week: What does it mean to live a good life?
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Pregnancy Q&A Should I have a baby after 35? No, 35 children is enough. --Submitted by FNOG
Week of the Week: Celebrate Your Name Week (7-13) –Consider the characters in Catch-22: Major Major Major – who held the rank of Major / Lieutenant Colonel Korn / Milo Minderbinder / and Lieutenant Scheisskopf (German for shit head). If you have to go real world...Dweezil and Moon Unit Zappa
The beatnik burnt his tongue drinking espresso before it was cool. / Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end. --Jack Kerouac
..........On the roof, it's peaceful as can be..........James Taylor …..You've Got A Friend
^ Juliette Gordon Low was 51 years old and nearly deaf when she sparked a worldwide movement inspiring girls.
Almanac: It is Friday, March 12, 2021. The moon will be new tomorrow and is in Pisces. It is Girl Scout Birthday Day. Because it is the Friday of First Full Week in March it is also Middle Name Pride Day.**
**Christine is my middle name. My first name is Mary. When I was about 2 years old I found out that I had a middle name and that it was Christine and, according to legend, I thought it was the most beautiful name in the world. So I changed my name to Christine (my aunt Bobby called me Mary till the day she died). It worked quite well until I went to first grade and there was another Christine so I went back to Mary until 7th grade when another Mary joined our class. (It was a rural school; we went to 8 elementary grades and 4 high school years.) So I went back to Christine and have stayed there ever since. I have only one friend that I allow to call me Chrissy.
Among those born on this day were Thomas Arne (1710), Pierre J Davdi (David d'Angers, 1788), Clement Studebaker (1831), Jane Delano (1862), Vaslav Nijinsky (1890), Gordon MacRae (1921), Jack Kerouac (1922), Walter Schirra. Jr (1923), Edward Albee (1928), Andrew Young (1932), Elizabeth Vaughan (1937), Millie Perkins (1938), Liza Minnelli (`1946), James Taylor (1948), Darryl Strawberry (1962), John Andretti (1963), and Rex Walters (1970).
On March twelfth the University of Vienna was founded (1365), Tasman reached New Zealand (1642), the American colonies enacted the first naturalization laws (1664), New Jersey became a British colony (1664), the US Post Office was established (1789), the Second French Republic was established (1799), Verdi's Simon Boccanegra premiered (1857), the last French troops left Mexico (1967), the first US state college was established (Mississippi, 1884), Denmark began unilateral disarmament (1926), and the Dow-Jones closed above 500 for the first time (1956).
Night Sky, 3/12: Spot Arcturus, the Spring Star, very low in the east-northeast after night fall and higher in the east later in the evening. By modern measurements Arcturus is of visual magnitude –0.05, making it the fourth-brightest nighttime star. It's bested only by Sirius, Canopus, and Alpha Centauri (counting the combined light of Alpha Cen A and B; they appear as one to the unaided eye). For northerners who can never see Canopus or Alpha Cen, Arcturus is bested by Sirius alone. However, Vega and Capella are very close on its heels. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Image of the Week: Artist Florian Mehnert designed “social distance stacks” for the Stuttgart Ballet.
This Week: Saturday, March 13 – Genealogy Day & L Ron Hubbard Day & Smart and Sexy Day
Sunday, March 14 – Potato Chip Day & Pi Day & Save A Spider Day & Write Your Story Day
Daylight Savings Time begins at 2 am – Spring ahead one hour
Night Sky, 3/14 : The Big Dipper glitters softly high in the northeast these evenings, standing on its handle. You probably know that the two stars forming the front of the Dipper's bowl (currently on top) are the Pointers; they point to Polaris, currently to their left or lower left. And, you may know that if you follow the curve of the Dipper's handle out and around by a little more than a Dipper length, you'll arc to Arcturus, now rising in the east
Monday, March 15 – Beware the Ides of March
Tuesday, March 16 – Campfire Girls Day & Black Press Day & Goddard Day & Panda Day
Wednesday, March 17 – Small Business Development Day & St Patrick's Day
Night Sky, 3/17: Mars (magnitude +1.0, in Taurus) passes the Pleiades early this week. Left of Mars shines Aldebaran, essentially the twin of Mars in brightness now and very nearly so in color. Their separation shrinks from 11° to 9° this week. They'll be passing 7° apart at the turn of spring on March 20th..
Thursday, March 18 – Awkward Moments Day & National Biodiesel Day
If a tree falls in the wood and nobody's around to hear it, a beatnik would buy the soundtrack. / Madness is a confusion of levels of fact. --William Burroughs
..........Your way and my way seem to be one and the same..........James Taylor …..Country Road
^^ Juliette, affectionately known as Daisy, gathered 18 girls in her hometown of Savannah, Georgia, to share what she had learned abroad about a new outdoor and educational program for youth, and with this, the Girl Scout Movement was born.
Lost Count of the Funniest Things I Read of the Week: Waiting for the day Walmart puts a bar in their stores. That'll take people watching to a whole new level. --Submitted by INRITH
Moonbeam: Nursing is not alone caring for the sick, the prevention of infection often constitutes as important a duty as the actual care of the patient. --Jane Delano
Late Night Snacks of the Week: The president’s dogs have been sent back to the family home in Delaware after one of them bit a member of staff in the White House. Under the last administration, that kind of behaviour would have made you press secretary. --Seth Meyers / Piers Morgan is such a baby someone at Buckingham Palace just asked what colour he’s going to be. --Stephen Colbert / No Republicans voted for the bill in either the House or the Senate, even though more than 70% of Americans support it. The only other bill 70% of Americans support is Murray. --Jimmy Kimmel / Economists generally agree that unemployment insurance is one of the most effective policies to aid recovery. Which does make sense because when you give the unemployed money, they tend not to hoard it offshore in the Caymans; they spend it on shit they need. --John Oliver
Ollie's Very Own Picture of the Week: The patient patient says, No, No, in my mouth
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: Vaccine production is up. More Americans are getting the shot every day. Nothing can stop America's path to recovery. Wait. Texas, what are you doing? No. No. Governor Greg Abbott of Texas announced on Tuesday that he was lifting all mask requirements. He's going to allow all businesses to open. And just for good measure, he's requiring all residents to greet each other with something called the Fort Worth face lick. --Peter Sagal Wait Wait Don't Tell Me 3/6/21
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. --Andrew Young
A beatnik decided to take up Zen. He asked the master how long it might take to reach enlightenment and was told ten year. “What if I work real hard”, he asked. “Twenty years” / Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls. --Walt Whitman
..........It doesn't much matter why.........James Taylor …..Sunny Skies
^^^ The small gathering of girls Low hosted over a century ago has grown into a global movement that today includes 2.6 million Girl Scouts
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Instead of calling them “anti-vaxxers” we should call them plague enthusiasts. --submitted by sk of ks
Weird Word of the Week: Hebetude – dullness or lethargy. World Wide Words: Hebetude
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Protect your dog or cat's paw pads. Rub in a little Alberto VO5 Conditioning Hairdressing before sending our pets outdoors. Alberto VO5®: Wacky Uses
Puzzle of the Week: This challenge came from listener Andrew Chaikin of San Francisco. Think of a famous philosopher — first and last names. Change one letter in the first name to get a popular dish. Drop two letters from the last name and rearrange the result to get the kind of cuisine of this dish. What is it? Public Radio Sunday Puzzle 3/7/21
His real ambition is to become the first man in history to write a folk song under water with a ballpoint pen. / constipation of the brain and diarrhea of the mouth. --Jack Kerouac
...........It does you no good to pretend, child..........James Taylor …..Rainy Day Man
^^^^ There are girl scout organizations in 92 countries.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: What do you mean you forgot where you parked? You're shopping online.
Science Fiction Joke of the Week: We've successfully visited a parallel universe but had to return prematurely because we couldn't find a place to park.
Actual Science Joke of the Week: NASA tweet: I'm safe on Mars. Perseverance will get you anywhere. / Sure it's all fun and games now, but you won't be so happy when Mars returns the favor.
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: Friedrich Nietzsche – Fried rice, Chinese
A real gone chick wanted to break up with her jazz playing boyfriend but he sax was too good. / I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk. --Jack Kerouac
..........Maybe the friend of a friend of a friend..........James Taylor …..Her Town Too
^^^^^ The sale of cookies as a way to finance troop activities began as early as 1917, five years after Juliette Gordon Low started Girl Scouts in the United States, when the Mistletoe Troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma, baked cookies and sold them in its high school cafeteria as a service project.
Something Good About 2020 of the Week: There was positive news when it came to HIV and Aids New diagnoses of HIV among gay and bisexual men in England have dropped to their lowest level in 20 years, according to a Public Health England update in November. A PHE report revealed that overall, across all genders and sexualities, the number of people with a new HIV diagnosis dropped by 10 per cent, from 4,580 cases in 2018 to 4,139 in 2019.
Recreating Art With Anything You Can Find of the Week:
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I was walking in the jungle and saw a lizard on his hind legs telling jokes. I turned to a local and said, “That lizard's really funny”. The man replied, “That's not a lizard, he's a stand up chameleon.--Submitted by FNOG
Today's Peace of History, March 12, 1912: Workers led by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) won the Lawrence, Massachusetts, "Bread & Roses" textile strike after 32,000 workers (mostly young female immigrants who spoke 25 different languages, half between the ages of 14 and 18) stayed out for nine weeks.
A beatnik goes into a diner and asks for a slice of apple pie. The waitress says, “Sorry, the apple pie is gone”. The beatnik says, “I dig it, give me two slices.” / Exterminate all rational thought. --William Burroughs
..........I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end..........James Taylor …..Fire And Rain
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle March 12, 2021, the gone epistle. Exclusive editor: Christine Smith Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ . 2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam: The only source of my power are the pages you hold and the words written thereon. As you read them, I hope the magic starts to work between my words and your imagination. ― Elizabeth Vaughan
Cost of War:
As of 3/11/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,111,845,228,391.
As of 3/4/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,109,860,942,569.
As of 3/11/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,024,157,029,601.
As of 3/4/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,022,808,469,241.
As of 3/11/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $837,158,950,932.
As of 3/4/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $835,473,590,062.
As of 3/11/21 Veterans Care since 2001: $345,902,054,114.
As of 3/4/21 Veterans Care since 2001: $345,516,753,416.
As of 3/11/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,319,074,147,132.
As of 3/4/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,313,660,985,261.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together. --Andrew Young
Famous Last Words: I think of Dean Moriarty. --Jack Kerouac On the Road
..........Goodnight you moonlight ladies.........James Taylor …..Sweet Baby James
The hitchhiker was concerned that the beatnik's car was old and might not make it through North Dakota. But the driver said not to worry, he had Triple Eh. / If you're too open-minded your brains will fall out. --Lawrence Ferlinghetti
May Peace play your melody
And Joy keep the tempo
prairie mama
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