Sunday Open Thread: May 6 is International No Diet Day
Today's date is also Sweetmorn, Discord 53, 3184 YOLD
(for you Discordians out there)
World History this day
1659 -- Some of the British Army removed Cromwell as Lord Protector and reinstalled the Rump Parliament.
1682 -- Louis XIV of France moved his court to the Palace of Versailles.
1954 -- Roger Bannister broke the four minute mile
1996 -- The body of former CIA director William Colby washed up on a riverbank *
1997 -- The Bank of England was freed from political control
* Because of the CIA's role in US imperialism, assassinations, covert and overt wars, subversion and the like, anything relating to the CIA is deemed to be world history and not merely US
US History this day
1861 -- Arkansas seceded from the US
1877 -- Crazy Horse surrendered to United States troops
1882 -- Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act.
1935 -- Executive Order 7034 created the WPA
Science & Technology this day
1889 -- The Eiffel Tower officially opened to the public
1937 -- The zeppelin Hindenburg cought fire and was destroyed while attempting to dock
1941 -- The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.
1949 -- EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, performed its first operation.
The Arts this day
1940 -- John Steinbeck won a Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath.
“A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Misc. this day
1536 -- King Henry VIII ordered English-language Bibles be placed in every church
Birthdays of Note this day
1758 -- Maximilien Robespierre, lawyer and politician
1856 -- Sigmund Freud, quack, profoundly ignorant of Occam's razor
1856 -- Robert Peary, explorer, US admiral
1872 -- Willem de Sitter, mathematician, physicist, and astronomer
1896 -- Rolf Maximilian Sievert, medical physicist
1913 -- Carmen Cavallaro, pianist
1916 -- Robert H. Dicke, physicist and astronomer
1939 -- Eddie C. Campbell, singer and guitarist
1943 -- Andreas Baader, terrorist, co-founder of the Red Army Faction
1945 -- Bob Seger, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1968 -- Laetitia Sadier, singer and keyboard player
1971 -- Chris Shiflett, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
Deaths of Note this day
1862 -- Henry David Thoreau, essayist, poet, and philosopher
1902 -- Bret Harte, author and poet
1919 -- L. Frank Baum, novelist
1949 -- Maurice Maeterlinck, poet and playwright
1952 -- Maria Montessori, physician and educator
1963 -- Theodore von Karman, aerodynamicist, mathematician, physicist, and engineer
1963 -- Ted Weems, violinist, trombonist, and bandleader
1983 -- Kai Winding, trombonist and composer
1992 -- Marlene Dietrich, actress and singer
2002 -- Otis Blackwell, singer, songwriter, and pianist
2004 -- Barney Kessel, guitarist and composer
2014 -- Farley Mowat, environmentalist and author
So now some music
Eddie C. Campbell
Bob Seger
Chris Shiflett
Ted Weems
Kai Winding
Marlene Dietrich
Elvis Otis Blackwell
Barney Kessel
Photo: public domain
It's an open thread, so do your thing
EDITED to include Steinbeck quote -Thanks phillybluesfan for the quote and suggestion
Comments
Photo of a puppy asleep at the beach
'cause I miss riverlover, wah. She went on May Day, I read in the comments on the dkos diary by janis b. International Workers Day, right on. Thanks.
Ssh don't wake the puppy, don't move. Nice warm blue sky. Be still and listen. Okay, now go on. Smile.
peace
you made me go over to dailykos to read janis b tribute
@enhydra lutris
to riverlover's life passed away. I never went there to lurk after the time I left there.
It was quite emotional an experience to see and remember many names I had forgotten over the last years coming back to me in the comments.
It is such a shame that both communities only get together when some of their friends and comrades or favorite writers and authors dies and you remember them all. I would have recommended many comments and janis b tribute over there, if I still could log in. But helas, they couldn't get rid of me fast enough back then and I am stuck. Not logged in and not logged out. kinda weird.
PS @enhydra lutris
I liked your description of Sigmund Freud, "quack, profoundly ignorant of Occam's Razor". Made me laugh. Thank you for your Open Thread. I should read it more carefully in the future and take more time to listen to your musical offerings. I had no idea Marlene Dietrich lived that long. Sigh. I don't find my way around in Berlin anymore. The places look so different from what I remember from the seventies. I almost don't want to go there for real to walk my old neighborhoods from back then. I imagine I will find it a waste. Everything is gone.
Peace.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Like a bird without a song
thanks, it was double melancholy for me but not bad.
"Not logged in and not logged out. kinda weird."
I hope you can hear this video and it's not blocked or some dumb thing. catchy tune
Jimmy Cliff - Sitting In Limbo
Happy Sunday
Good morning, mimi, happy to have provided a small chuckle.
We all need all the laughter, giggles and chuckles we can get these days.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
And peace to you too, eyo. Thanks for posting that.
"At the beach" - a funny phrase for me. I grew up literally blocks from the beach in SoCal and it wasn't until I moved up to Berkeley for college that I slowly began to learn tht rivers too have beaches thanks to ads for and trips to a jazz festival on the beach of the Russian River and sosme beach parties on the Big River. I still initially react to that word with images of the pacific shore.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good morning...
No diet day sounds good to me!
Good morning, O'Linda - good to see you. Whoever invented
"no diet day" deserves a medal. I am, sadly, about to have to change certain aspects of my diet and find it terribly incongruous for me. I used to always contend that dieting was a safety risk because folks on lunch break got so wrapped up in their points, calories and carbs that they lost track of reality and were likely to step in front of a bus. Diets really have become something of a fetish in this country, and everybody needs a day off now and then.
Thanks for reading.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good morning el and all
No diet day....does that mean it is a fasting day? From the look of your pizza, I guess the answer is no ... it is over eating day.
America the super sized...
https://www.apa.org/monitor/dec01/fastfood.aspx
We've been eating lots of salads because the lettuce is coming on quickly, and there is no easy way to put up the excess. Mid summer (when it is too hot) and mid Winter (when it is too cold) are the only time we don't have fresh lettuce.
Here's hoping you all eat well and have good foods to eat!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning, Lookout. Yeah, we eat too much and too well
but are nonetheless obsessed with diets and dieting. Eliminate those two words from print media and save myriads of trees. Lettuce is not my fave, though it is nice on tacos, but I've never been a big salad guy unless it also has beans, cheese, eggs, bacon and all that.
But, a chacon son gout, or some such. Have a great one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Atkins
On the Atkins diet (and others of that ilk such as Drinking Man's and South Beach), your salad would be perfectly acceptable as a meal. In fact, the veggies are almost mandatory as an all protein and fat diet is too constipating otherwise.
And our Essayist is right: everybody needs a day off from the diet here and there.
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Good day, el. Up, then back to bed, but the mirror
shows no benefit for doing so. Eyo's puppy photo makes me want to rush out and get one.
Some oregano and pepper sprouts showing.
Thanks for the OT and have a good one.
Good morning, Smiley7. How's the wing? My two perpetual
spinach chard plants have finally sprouted.Got to get started with something else now.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Hey el, long time no see.
Thank you for all of the great OTS.
I saw the pizza in your post and this huge sigh came out of me. Pizza is one of my favorite foods, and I haven't had any for almost a year. About 18 months ago, I started waking a couple of miles every day on my treadmill and began to count and budget calories to myself as if they were gold. I've lost 30 pounds, and did I tell you I haven't had a pizza in almost a year? My favorite pizzeria is going to open another location in my neck of the woods. I'm waiting. As soon as they open, I figure I'm due a treat.
Good to see you, and thank you again for all you share.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Heya, dk. Long time indeed. I can sympathize with the pizza
sigh. No pizza for a year would be pretty much unthinkable here - I used to make it about every other week and we would still go our for pizza now and then. Good for you on the treadmill and weight loss. I've got my average daily mileage, actual walking, up to 3.96 miles per day with no noticeable improvement in my health or weight, but ah well.
Thanks for dropping by and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
It's the calories....
You have to eat less than you burn. With the 250 calories I burn from my walk, I get 1150 calories a day to lose about a pound every one or two weeks. My husband walks and does count his calories even though he watches what he eats. He doesn't lose weight. My 20 something grandsons laugh because they eat a 1,000 calories a meal.
Take care...
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Yeah, my intent was never to lose weight, though it now appears
that doing so will also be on the table so to speak. The original goal ws simplyactivity/"exercise".
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --