Famous First Words: Charles the Second, by the grace of God... Charter of the Royal Society of London
Happy Birthday to Thomas Bulfinch – the original myth buster. Greek Mythology in 5 words: Unfortunately, Zeus was feeling horny. / I wish Medusa would stop objectifying people.
..........I'll beg his forgiveness on bended knee..........Linda Ronstadt …..You're No Good
Gratitude is the memory of the heart. --St Mary MacKillop
It is a very welcome rainy Friday. The sky is an artwork of clouds – thick and billowy here, thick, smooth slate gray there, and now and again thin enough to let the sun light them from behind. Birds are mostly silent and the raindrops are soft and make no sound as they find the ground. So car motors compose the soundtrack. Jeff and I ran some errands early while Puck sulked under the bed. He still has not come out to greet me. I take a deep breath as I close the garage door; it smells of damp soil and happy foliage and summer. Inside, the house smells of brewing coffee and unhappy animals. Onyx runs out the door as soon as it is open, then runs right back in. I doctor a cup of the very decaf that makes the house smell welcoming and bring it close to my face so that I can absorb the aroma with the steam. I sit down and my computer, let a small, warm gulp roll down my throat and smile, because now I get to think about you.
Hope your weekend is legendary, ePistliers
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Dammit, I wish one of my personalities liked to clean.
My lack of knowledge of Greek Mythology was a real Achilles' elbow in Classics 101. / Oh, to be an oracle who spends all day making cryptic prophecies for people to woefully misinterpret.
..........I've been cheated, been mistreated..........Linda Ronstadt …..When Will I Be Loved
Trivia Questions: Happy Birthday to San Francisco's Merchant's Exchange!
- ^ Exactly what is the Merchant's Exchange?
- ^^ What unique service did the watchmen on the roof provide?
- ^^^ Before moving to their current location at 465 California St, where was the exchange located?
- ^^^^ What famous or infamous club was on the 15th floor of the new skyscraper?
- ^^^^^ And who was Julia Morgan?
Big Hello: Bula – Fijian https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Existence is a scam made up by philosophers to sell more philosophy. --Submitted by Philosophy Matters
Max Picture of the Week: Max and a rare shot of Spiderman's mom
Fake Library Statistics of the Week: The hardest part of the morning for a librarian is deciding which library or literary-themed article of clothing to wear to work https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
The gods at 4:20: Zeus (hits joint) “Okay so like, it's gonna have a duck bill. But an otter body, okay, and then a beaver tail. It's a mammal, but it lays eggs! Hades (passes joint back) “Wait, give it poison. Make it poisonous. / Athena (lights a new one) You mean venomous. Poseidon (Bogarting the joint) It should be aquatic.
..........And I dare not drown my sorrow in the warm glow of your wine..........Linda Ronstadt …..Silver Pins and Golden Needles
Moonbeam: We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. --Iris Murdoch
Meditation of the Week: Which way does a Cyclops wing its eyeliner?
Puzzle of the Week: Name a well-known fictional character in two words. Remove two letters from the first word in the name. The result is the plural form of the second word. What character is this? --NPR Sunday Puzzle 7/10/22
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Don't touch that. It's my emotional support stack of unused notebooks. --Submitted by Writer's Relief
Week of the Week: Hemp History Week (13-19) –The Senate will never smoke weed during session because it would mean passing something. / "Sarah Palin has revealed she has tried marijuana, but she did not like it. You know, it's amazing: 200 million Americans have smoked marijuana. The only ones who don't like it seem to be elected officials. Ever notice that?" –Jay Leno
The chief of gods, Seus, wrote Cyclops in the Hat and Hera Hears A Who. / Poseidon's GPA never rose above Sea-Level
..........You can't see the forest for the trees..........Linda Ronstadt …..Different Drum
^ The Merchants Exchange was an association of city traders and businessmen.
Almanac: It is Friday, July 15, 2022. The moon was full (Wolf) last Wednesday (7/13) and is in Aquarius. It is United Nations: World Youth Skills Day (A/RES/69/145), Be A Dork Day, Gummy Worm Day, and National Pet Fire Safety Day. In Brunei they celebrate the Sultan's Birthday. In Japan it is the Bon Festival aka Feast of Lanterns and Black Ship Day (1853). Pakistan commemorates Mohammed's Ascension.
Among those born on this day were Inigo Jones (1573), Rembrandt (1606), Clement Clarke Moore (1779), Thomas Bulfinch (1796), Mother Cabrini (1850), Iris Murdoch (1919), Harrison Birtwistle (1934), Alex Karras (1935), Linda Ronstadt (1946), and Kathy Kreiner (1956).
On July fifteenth the Royal Society was chartered (1662), the San Francisco Merchant's Exchange opened (1867), Commodore Perry arrived in Japan (1893), the first Buddhist temple in the US was established (LA, 1904), the first airport hotel opened (CA, 1929), the first transatlantic helicopter flight took off (1952), Paul McCartney got a speeding ticket (1963), Goldwater was nominated for president (Republican, 1964), the first close ups of Mars were displayed (1965), One Life to Live premiered (1968), and US troops left northern Iraq (1991).
Night Sky, 7/15: The waning gibbous Moon rises around 10 pm DST, with Saturn above it. They rise higher through the night and shine highest in the south before dawn on the 16th, with Saturn now to the Moon's right. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Image of the Week: Berkeley solar car in and around Lawrence. A comment says someone saw 3 such cars on K10 recently.
This Week: Saturday, July 16 – Strawberry Rhubarb Wine Day & Woodie Wagon Day & World Snake Day
Sunday, July 17 – National Hot Dog Day & National Ice Cream Day & World Day for International Criminal Justice
Night Sky, 7/17: With the advance of summer, the Sagittarius Teapot sits in the south-southeast after dark now. It's about the apparent size of your fist at arm's length. The Teapot is just starting to tilt to the right as if to pour. The Teapot will tilt more and more for the rest of the summer — or for much of the night if you stay out late.
Monday, July 18 – Nelson Mandela International Day & Record Store Day
Tuesday, July 19 – Flitch Day & Words With Friends Day
Wednesday, July 20 – Moon Day & Space Exploration Day & World Chess Day
Night Sky, 7/20: As dawn brightens, look for Venus low in the east-northeast. If the sky isn't too bright yet, try for Aldebaran to Venus's upper right by a fist at arm's length or a little more. And maybe even the Pleiades above Aldebaran. Brighter Capella shines farther to Venus's upper left.
Thursday, July 21 – National Be Someone Day & World Body Painting Day
Prometheus would make a good letter carrier because it's a job with a lot of de-livering. / Why couldn't Hades park his chariot at Olympus. He failed to put money in D'meter.
..........Put me through some changes, lord, sort of like a Waring blender..........Linda Ronstadt …..Poor Poor Pitiful Me
^^ Watchmen on the roof would relay messages of arriving ships to the merchants in the meeting room below, so they could then rush to the docks to meet them.
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. --Submitted by nh of ks
Moonbeam: The impressions of childhood are never obliterated. --Mother Cabrini
Video of the Week: Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney and everybody else... Here's To The Nights .Facebook
The video features cameos from Patton Oswalt, Taika Waititi, Vanessa Bayer, Mark Hamill, Sam Richardson, Atsuko Okatsuka, Rosanna Arquette, Brandon Wardell, Anders Holm, Moshe Kasher, Natasha Legerro, Reggie Watts, Tim Heidecker, Paul Scheer, Darren Criss, and "Weird Al" Yankovic.
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: It is built in what is quite a beautiful decommissioned public restroom, there in Bristol, England, and it's for everybody who's ever walked into one of these and goes what's brewing in here? --Peter Sagal --Wait Wait Don't Tell Me 7/9/22
Nothing great is ever achieved without enduring much. --St Catherine of Siena
Oedipus is the original mother f*cker. / Achilles ran a house cleaning business. The secret of his success was Ajax.
..........So many questions left unanswered..........Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville …..Don't Know Much
^^^ The original Battery Street building was a three-story brick structure built in 1851. It had a library and a meeting room with bulletins on arriving ship Beaux-Arts style. Since it was situated more inland than its predecessor, it had a tower for the purpose of observing ships. This was succeeded by a fifteen-story skyscraper in 1904, which still stands today.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: The problem is I can't tell the difference between a deeply wise, intuitive nudge from the Universe and one of my own bone headed ideas. --© Vevey
Weird Word of the Week: Wanion – an altered form of “waniand” used in certain formulas of asseveration and imprecation. World Wide Words: Wanion
Ollie's Very Own Picture of the Week: Ollie holding down the tunnel at the park ...maybe he's holding it up
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Prolong the life of a Christmas tree. Cut an extra inch off the bottom of the tree, stand the tree in a bucket of cold water to which one cup of Aunt Jemima Original Syrup has been added, and let the tree soak for two or three days before decorating. Aunt Jemima® Original Syrup: Wacky Uses
Do you wonder if the Greeks made up Dionysus as an excuse to get absolutely wasted? / Medusa caught the eye of a street musician; now he's a rockstar.
...........Send that angel down to me..........Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville …..All My Life
^^^^ The Merchants Exchange's fifteenth floor was home to the Commercial Club, a chamber for the city's politicians and socialites to powwow and address issues. After the 1906 earthquake, Mayor James Rolph carried out meetings here to plan for the 1915 Pan-Pacific Exposition as well as fundraisers to finance it. Following renovations in 1995, the Club was renamed the Julia Morgan Ballroom
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Word of the Day: Etm. (abbr.) Latin abbreviation for the literal translation of “and shit”, specifically, “et merda”. Just like “etc.” (and so forth), i.e. (that is), and “e.g.” (for example), “etm.” can be used to abbreviate “and shit”. --Philosophy Matters
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: MetroCon 2022 (15-17, Tampa, FL) Florida's largest Anime Convention … Once-in-a-Lifetime Experiences METROCON – Florida's Largest Anime Convention – 3 Days of Anime, Video Games, Comics, Cosplay, and more in Tampa, FL! (metroconventions.com)
Actual Science Conference of the Week: Esri User Conference (11-15, San Diego, CA) Learn, reconnect, and discover the latest advances in geographic information system (GIS) technology... Esri User Conference: July 11–15, 2022
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: Mickey Mouse --> mice, mouse
Persephone was the original Hannah Montana; she had the best of both worlds. / The Queen of the Gods ran a spa as a side hustle. It was called a Hera Salon.
..........Let me make it up to you..........Linda Ronstadt …..Hurts So Bad
^^^^^ Architect Julia Morgan designed the new skylit, marble lobby, which led to the great hall. Morgan designed the hall's iconic marble columns, coffered ceiling, and vaulted skylights. She also commissioned noted maritime artist William Coulter to paint the hall's five murals.
My Own Writing of the Week: Did you know that in addition to the Independence Day shooting in Highland Park, IL there were 9 other public shootings. All together 8 were left dead and 70 were injured. The murders ranged from Sacramento CA to Boston MA and Richmond VA to Kenosha, WI. 70 people were maimed in one day so the arms industry could make a few more bucks. 8 people were killed in one day by poorly regulated militia. By the way, this does not include individual deaths and injuries either accidental (child finds gun and shoot himself, her friend, their sibling) or outright murder (angry husband, scared police officer). What's wrong with us? Why can't we cure ourselves of this need to hurt others...this need to watch suffering in the news and outside our windows...this need to frighten ourselves and people around us, even children. Are we trying to convince ourselves that we are alive by comparison to the dead? --10 Shootings by Christine Smith
Quote of the Week: When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. --Sinclair Lewis
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: We used to have a lost and found department but no one has seen it in years. --Dan Piraro
Today's Peace of History, July 15, 1978: The Longest Walk, a peaceful transcontinental trek for Native American justice, which had begun with a few hundred departing Alcatraz Island, California, ended this day when they arrived in Washington, D.C. accompanied by 30,000 marchers.
Perseus invented Gorgon-zola salad dressing. / Hercules used to love playing Hydra Go Seek at his birthday party.
..........Here I go breaking all the rules..........Linda Ronstadt …..It's So Easy
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle July 15, 2022, Legendary ePistle. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. Lawrence, KS
Moonbeam: The reader will, we apprehend, by this time have had enough of absurdities. --Thomas Bulfinch
Cost of War:
- As of 7/14/22 State Department War Costs since 2001: $182,758,771,043.
- As of 7/07/22 State Department War Costs since 2001: $182,218,274,899.
- As of 7/14/22 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,069,567,707,119.
- As of 7/07/22 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,068,057,670,418.
- As of 7/14/22 Homeland Security since 2001: $1,110,220,810,080.
- As of 7/07/22 Homeland Security since 2001: $1,109,633,483,712.
- As of 7/14/22 Veterans Care since 2001: 2,532,860,725,142.
- As of 7/07/22 Veterans Care since 2001: 2,521,409,127,264.
- As of 7/14/22 Military Costs since 2001: $2,971,754,259,362.
- As of 7/07/22 Military Costs since 2001: $2,970,617,957,452.
- As of 7/14/22 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $7,867,175,351,792.
- As of 7/07/22 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $7,851,943,709,216.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
Love endures everything, love is stronger than death, love fears nothing. --St Faustina
Famous Last Words: I'm about to get so tan, you guys. --Icarus
..........Looking forward to happier times..........Linda Ronstadt …..Blue Bayou
The Argo had to pull over because it heard the sirens. / When Oedipus lost the battle with Egypt he said, “Well, this Sphinx!
May Peace heal your weariness
And Joy bless your health
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