I had a blog and I wrote in my blog faithfully. There wasn’t a two day span that I did not think of something either clever or annoying to write in it, until recently. Actually that isn’t true. I have three would be posts on my computer, that are currently waiting to be posted, but as of now can’t, because my comp. isn’t hooked up to el interenta. So in the mean time I’m writing on someones el computa. I’m in Texas now, that big state over mexico, yeah the one with the slogans “Don’t mess with Texas”, and “Everything is bigger in Texas”. Well I think that have that last one right. It seems like everyone here has a truck. A big dirty truck.
Hope you all didn’t miss me to much, cuz that would make me feel very….happy. That would give me such joy to know that you all missed me. You want to know something funny, I haven’t posted in a week, but my blog visits went up by 10. I had 46 visits, and I can honestly say only 2 of them were mine. So somebody must have missed me. Come on, confess!
51 years ago you were born. Here’s some interesting things that happened on the 21st.
235 St Anterus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
496 St Gelasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1654 Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia
1783 Pilstre de Rozier & Marquis d’Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight
1787 Andrew Jackson admitted to the bar
1789 North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state
1794 Honolulu Harbor discovered
1818 Russia’s Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine
1824 1st Jewish Reform congregation established, Charleston, SC
1837 Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times
1847 Steamer “Phoenix” is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200
1848 Cincinatti Turngemeinde founded
1871 Moses Gale patents a cigar lighter
1877 Tom Edison announces his “talking machine” invention
1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes “Adventure of Bruce Partington Plans” (BG)
1902 1st night football game, Philadelphia Athletics beats Kanaweola AC, 39-0
1914 Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
1925 Red Grange plays final Univ of Illinois game, signs with Chicago Bears
1933 1st US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service
1934 Yanks buy Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco Seals
1935 1st commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper)
1945 General Motors workers go on strike
1946 Harry Truman becomes 1st US President to travel in a submerged sub
1952 1st US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced
1953 “Pitdown Man,” discovered in 1912 proved to be a hoax
1959 Jack Benny (violin) & Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet
1964 World’s longest suspension bridge “Verrazano Narrows” opens (NYC)
1967 Phillip & Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet
1968 Supremes & Temptations release “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me”
1968 Yoko Ono suffers a miscarriage
1970 NY Knicks 1st game against Cleveland Cavalier, Knicks win 102-94 at MSG
1971 NY Rangers scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
1975 Linda McCartney drug charges in US are dropped
1977 1st flight of the Concorde (London to New York)
1980 Dallas’ “Who Shot JR?” episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating
1980 Fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84
1980 Gene Michaels replaces Dick Howser as Yankee’s 25th manager
1980 John & Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum
1981 Olivia Newton-John’s “Physical,” single goes #1 & stays for 10 weeks
1990 Michael Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations
1990 Signing of Declaration of “End of Cold war” in Paris
Also you share the same birthday as:
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire)
author, philosopher; died May 30, 1778
Giacomo della Chiesa
Pope Benedict XV: 258th pope of the Roman Catholic Church [1914-1922]; died Jan 22, 1922
‘Handy’ Andy (Andrew Aird) High
baseball: Brooklyn Robins, Boston Braves, SL Cardinals [World Series: 1928, 1930, 1931], Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies; died Feb 22, 1981
Coleman Hawkins
musician: tenor saxophone: solo w/Fletcher Henderson band: The Stampede, St. Louis Shuffle, Queer Notions, Hocus Pocus; jazz bandleader: Body and Soul; jazz sax solo: Picasso; died May 19, 1969
Jim Bishop
newspaper columnist, author: The Day Christ Died, The Days of Martin Luther King, Jr., The Day Kennedy Was Shot; died July 26, 1987
Paul (Rapier) Richards
baseball: catcher: Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants, Philadelphia Athletics, Detroit Tigers [World Series: 1945]; Manager: Chicago White 1951-61, 1976 Orioles; died May 4, 1986
Sid Luckman
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Chicago Bears quarterback: 4 NFL Championships, MVP [1943]; shares NFL individual record for touchdowns thrown in a game [7, Nov. 14, 1943]; died July 5, 1998
Stan ‘The Man’ (Stanley Frank) Musial
Baseball Hall of Famer: SL Cardinals outfielder, first baseman [World Series: 1942, 1943, 1944, 1946/all-star: 1943, 1944, 1946-1963/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1946, 1948]; topped .300 mark 18 times, won seven N.L. batting titles with his famed corkscrew stance and ringing line drives; 3-time MVP played in 24 All-Star games; nicknamed ‘The Man’ by Dodger fans for the havoc he wrought at Ebbets Field
Vivian Blaine (Stapleton)
actress: State Fair, Guys and Dolls, Those Two; died Dec 9, 1995
Jim Ringo
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Green Bay Packers: All-Pro center [1957, 1959-1963], Philadelphia Eagles: center
Joseph Campanella
actor: Ben, Meteor, Original Intent, The President’s Plane is Missing, The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, Sky Hei$t, The Colbys, The Lawyers, The Nurses, Mannix; narrator: The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau; host: Emergency Call
Jean Shepard
country singer: Satisfied Mind, Beautiful Lies, Slippin’ Away, Satin Sheets, w/Ferlin Husky: A Dear John Letter
Laurence Luckinbill
Emmy Award-winning executive producer: Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie [1992-1993]; actor: Lyndon, Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier, Messenger of Death, Cocktail, The Boys in the Band, The Delphi Bureau
James DePreist
orchestra leader: Oregon Symphony
Marlo (Margaret) Thomas
Emmy Award-winning producer: Marlo Thomas and Friends in Free to Be … You and Me [1973-74], Free to Be … A Family [1988-89], actress: Nobody’s Child [1985-86]; That Girl, Tribute to Women in Comedy, The Joey Bishop Show, Held Hostage, In the Spirit, Jenny; wife of Phil Donahue; daughter of Danny Thomas
Dr. John (‘Mac’ Malcolm John Rebennack)
musician: organ, guitar, singer: Right Place Wrong Time; songwriter: Lights Out, What’s Goin’ On, Lady Luck, Losing Battle
Natalia Makarova
ballerina: Kirov Ballet [now Saint Petersburg Ballet]: 1959-1970]
Juliet Mills
Emmy Award-winning actress: QB VII, Parts 1 & 2, ABC Movie Special [1974-75]; Nanny and the Professor, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Cracker Factory; daughter of actor John Mills and sister of actress Hayley Mills
Earl ‘The Pearl’ Monroe
Basketball Hall of Famer: Baltimore Bullets: Rookie of the Year [1967]; New York Knicks: championship team [1972-73]
Harold Ramis
writer: Ghostbusters series, Armed and Dangerous, National Lampoon’s Animal House, Stripes, Meatballs; writer, director: Multiplicity, Groundhog Day, Club Paradise, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Caddyshack, actor: Ghostbusters series, Second City TV, Love Affair, Stealing Home, Baby Boom
Goldie Hawn (Btudlendgehawn)
Academy Award-winning actress: Cactus Flower [1969]; First Wives Club, Bird on a Wire, Butterflies are Free, Housesitter, Death Becomes Her, Private Benjamin, Shampoo, The Sugarland Express, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Good Morning, World
Lonnie (LeRoy) Jordan
musician: keyboard, singer: group: War: LPs: All Day Music, The World is a Ghetto, Why Can’t We Be Friends, Galaxy, The Music Band
Barbara Jo Rubin
horse-racing jockey: 1st U.S. woman to win a flat race against male jockeys [1969]; 1st woman to ride in NY & NJ
Livingston Taylor
singer: I Will Be in Love with You; songwriter; brother of singer James Taylor
Lorna Luft
singer, actress: Trapper John, M.D., Where the Boys Are ’84, Grease 2; daughter of singer-actress Judy Garland and producer Sid Luft; sister of singer-actress Lisa Minelli
Cynthia Rhodes
actress, dancer: Dirty Dancing, Flashdance
Nicollette Sheridan
actress: Desperate Housewives, Paper Dolls, Knots Landing, Spy Hard, Silver Strand, Noises Off, Deceptions, The Sure Thing
Björk (Guðmundsdóttir)
singer, songwriter: group: The Sugarcubes: Life’s Too Good; solo: Human Behaviour, Post, Telegram Homogenic, Selmasongs, Dancer in the Dark
Troy Aikman
football: Dallas Cowboys quarterback: Super Bowl XXVII, XXVIII; holds record for longest pass completion w/receiver Alvin Harper in a playoff game [94 yards, 1/8/95]
Ken (George Kenneth) Griffey Jr.
baseball: Seattle Mariners left-handed outfielder [all-star: 1990-1996/Gold Glove Award: 1990-1993]; shares individual record for consecutive games hitting home runs [8, July 20-28, 1993]; first son and father [Ken Griffey, Sr.] to play in major leagues at same time [1989] and on same team at same time [1990]
And a small fact that wasn’t placed here, the Orioles made there Baltimore debut in 1954.
Happy Birthday!
I’ve been waiting 16 years and 7 months for the last two weeks. Two weeks ago I got a camera, today I was given a 30gig ipod and a laptop, all for good-bye presents. This is wow. This is definatly a wow year. I’ve done everything I wanted and I’ve gotten everything I ever could have wanted. Sixteen ROCKS!
Part of me is so amazed, stunned and overly exstatic, but then the other half is sort of sad. I don’t really deserve or need any of this stuff. It’s just stuff. I didn’t do anything for it. It was just given to me, but I don’t need it. I mean I want it, but it’s not really necessary for life. With the ipod, I’m only using a little under half a gig…and it’s a 30 gig.
Well all I can say is thank you. Thank you everyone who helped to get it, and thank you everyone who gave me stuff. I don’t think it’s possible to repay, but God has a way.
Here’s a continuation of some of the things I’ll miss about DC.
-Mr. and Mrs. T.( my landlords) They are awesome people. They are 80 but you can hardly tell. They are constantly working. They don’t believe in waiting for death to meet them, they want to meet death. When I’m over visiting them we crack jokes, tell stories, and have cool conversations. One thing that I really appreciate about them is that they don’t label you as a “young”person, they hear you out and let you talk. I’ve learned alot from them and I’m really going to miss them. I’ll always think of them as my third set of grandparents, which they are.
- Katrina (my room-mate aka Kevin’s mom) I’m just going to miss her. I would say I’ll miss her cooking, which I will, but that’s just so ordinary, everyone says that about her (she’s a really good cook) so I’m going to try something a little bit more….personal. She’s a great friend. She’s helped me alot over the years (four years). She has a motherly touch about everything, which is one area that I missed when growing up. She’s sorta filled that role for me. (I can’t think of the word for it….is it a fill-in mom?) She’s seen my rough times and my easy times, but she never shunned me. (not that people did, but you get that feeling sometimes) I’m going to miss making her laugh. I can do anything and she’ll laugh, well almost anything. It’s people like her that will make my comedian act thrive. I wish all people could laugh at me like her, then I could be famous.
-Everyone else in my home- it’ll be to long to post something on each one here. But you are all cool….but the hip could be worked on.
I think college basketball is getting more entertaining, from seeing how the season has started. The scores are higher. There hasn’t been a 48-56 game yet, they’ve all been in the high 80’s-100’s. The Twerps scored 111 last night. Duke scored 99 the night before. This is getting good. It’s almost like the pros…almost. Hopefully it will stick and hopefully I didn’t just jinks the rest of the season.
The day of my departure from DC is approaching fast. It’s three days until I leave the greater DC/Baltimore area for a while. Here’s some of the things I’m going to miss the most.
-Tony Kornheiser ( I’m going to miss the occasional hearings of his radio show.)
- The Cherry blossoms in spring down at the mall
-Rush hour traffic on the 295 and 495
- Beltway traffic jams caused by the pro games on sundays
- The road construction that never stops
- The outpouring of tourists during the summer holidays
- The basketball courts
- All the state parks on the Potomac
- Lacrosse in all its forms
- The silly people cheering for the Redskins….cough…choke…and the Ravens
- The buggers who cheer for the Twerps. (…oh by the way DUKE Rocks!)
- Towson and Delaware
- Canning near the above mentioned places
- Georgetown
- The Inner Harbor
- The ESPN zone and the HardRock Cafe at the Inner Harbor
- The Orioles
- The silly people who cheer for the Nationals
- The silly people who cheer for the Hokies
- The malls that I hardly ever go to. It’s just the thought that there are nice malls around. It brings security, even though it costs an arm and a leg to buy anything from them. It’s the thought.
- twenty-one…..which I shall make into a two in one, the Wizards and the Capitals, who I don’t like but I respect, because they are starting to become better. They are trying. Heck the Caps are doing better than the Penguins….bah ram you.
The bright side is…..that Dallas holds to be promising, the Mavs are there. 
The big news around here is that the pervy teenager and his poor deluded girlfriend were found. I don’t quite understand this guy. Why would you date a fourteen year-old when you are 18 in the first place? I mean yeah, sure that is a young girls fantasy to get an older teen to be her boyfriend, but what’s up with the dude? Didn’t he see the perviness in it? Guess not, because on top of it he killed her parents.
This whole story disgusts me. Actually it baffles me to. Why would you go northwest when you are running away? You would think they would have gone south of the border, like every smart bandit does. But then again they weren’t smart. Also why didn’t they ditch the car somewhere, use different identities, and alter their apperance? And… and…and… they just so happen to have been homeschoolers and “christians”. Now because of these two stupid, stupid, teenagers, the rest of us are going to be looked at in a bad light. When the most of us are on the totally other side of the scale.
Did you know that Arkansas is “The Natural State”. I laughed so hard when I saw that on a liscense plate today. Imagine, Bill Clinton came from the natural state, heh, so did that lady who had 16 kids.
Saw this article today one yahoo. I think that is awesome, and just a tad bit freaky. Can you imagine having an 18 year-old mayor? I wonder how he won? Did the parents really vote for him or was it 18-25 year-olds that did? See these are things that we will never know, because of secretcy ballot. (I am all for the secretcy ballot, but I just want to know who voted for the dude.)
Is it better to have loved and lost or never to have loved at all?
I’m stumped. My friend, who happens to have the same birthday as me, “Heterodox” has me baffled. I’ve never loved, well only the stupid teeny and childish kind of unrecipocated love but that’s not the point, so I don’t know how it feels to have those “highs”. I only know what friends, books, and movies tell and show, which probably isn’t a true representation, but nevertheless, it’s something.
Going on what friends have told me, since they have a greater chance of being more in touch with reality, “love” is a good thing, in most cases. Actually from what I’ve seen most have ended not so great. So how could it have been good? I’m clueless. If you choose not to “love” you don’t have to have the constricting time then the horrible ending. Or as Heterodox says,”you don’t have to worry about your poor little heart being broken”.
What is beter to love or not to? Is it good to put your self out on a limb praying to God that you don’t fall or is it better to play it safe and to stay on the ground where there is no chance of harm, except for that stray bullet flying past?