Tag: history
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The Motherload
Scope & Horror and Your Bitcoin BMI merging
Hello! As you can probably see, this page is kind of a mess right now as I attempt to mash these blogs together (decided to throw my cartoons in there too for good measure). The scope & horror will now also encompass self-help!
Thanks for your patience whilst I reorganize
For Now,
tell em large marge sent ya
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Somebody’s been eating my porridge, and it’s all gone
Summing Up:
October 10 has a strange list of holidays including the following feast days of Catholic Saints, Arbor Day in Poland, World National Mental Health Day, and World Porridge Day. The Old Farmer’s Almanac says that today is a good day to go camping or straighten hair. Today’s moon is waxing crescent, and the sun and mercury are in Libra. Oh shit, mercury is retrograde and I completely forgot to warn you. Instead of being articulate and understood, you will spend eight more days like the curse of Cassandra, doomed to a world where though given divine foresight, she could not warn others of what she saw coming, as they could neither understand nor believe her. But if it helps, mercury retrograde is only an optical illusion, it doesn’t matter I promise.
Sorry I have disappeared for a while. I have two 10-year-olds who recently started fourth grade, so I have also started fourth grade by default. It is just as tedious as I remember, except now there is also a new form of math that I don’t understand. I will try to keep up. Know that if I miss a day or two, it’s not because I stopped caring about your day, it’s because I am relearning the names of clouds, or solving problems with decimal points.
For tonight: Bela Lugosi’s Dead
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Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti. Photo by Henri Cartier-BressonSculptor Alberto Giacometti was born on October 10, 1901. Thursday.
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Louise Mack
World War I journalist and the first woman war correspondent in Belgium, writer Louise Mack was born on October 10, 1870. Monday. Her book A Woman’s Experience in the Great War is available at that link on Project Gutenberg.
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Catalina Micaela of Spain
Catalina Micaela of Spain was born on October 10, 1567, second daughter of King of Spain Philip II. Friday.
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Mary of Waltham
Mary of Waltham, Duchess of Brittany, daughter of King Edward III, was born on October 10, 1344. Sunday. It was a leap year.
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Isaac Levitan
Isaac Levitan. Portrait by Valentin Serov (1893)Artist Isaac Levitan was born on August 30, 1860 in Russia.
