Weirdness: November 2015

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/11/23/yahoo-escalates-the-war-on-ad-blockers-by-keeping-people-out-of-their-own-e-mail/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_tech

yahoo is by far the most annoying site I deal with on a regular basis. Their ads are the most annoying and intrusive, sometimes even messing up my browser. I barely use it, now, as a result. This will encourage others to abandon it, as well.

We're #1! We're #1! We're #1!

http://wtop.com/sprawl-crawl/2015/11/study-three-nations-worst-bottlenecks-northern-virginia/

Happy Sabbath of the Undead!

A date promoted in one of the old Hammer horror movies...

http://hammerhouseofhorror.wikia.com/wiki/Sabbath_of_the_Undead

Happy Birthday William Moultrie!

A Patriot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Moultrie

Happy Birthday Boris Karloff!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000472/

Happy Birthday Harpo!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpo_Marx

Anniversary of the Alice's Restaurant Massacree of 1965

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57gzA2JCcM

An interesting article about precognitive dreams

http://thenightshirt.com/?p=3483

RIP Rex Reason

http://www.examiner.com/article/actor-rex-reason-has-died

How to become Jesus in 5 easy steps

http://disinfo.com/2015/08/convince-people-youre-jesus-5-easy-steps/

Buchwald's Thanksgiving Column

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/23/AR2005112302056.html

Buchwald was a nationally syndicated humor columnist who lived in DC. In the 50's, he was stationed in Paris, and wrote this column to explain our Thanksgiving holiday to the French. It became a tradition to run it every year, and was sort of an annual ritual in DC to have him deliver it to the Post for publication, etc. With his death, the Post stopped publishing it, but I'll continue: One more little bit of DC ritual, preserved.

Happy Birthday Robert Vaughn!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001816/

Happy Birthday to the Phil Spector Christmas Album!

Released on this date in 1963.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Gift_for_You_from_Phil_Spector

Happy Birthday Staughton Lynd!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staughton_Lynd

Happy Birthday Little Steven!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Van_Zandt

http://undergroundgarage.com/

Happy Birthday Terry Gilliam!

http://terrygilliamweb.com/

Happy Birthday to the White Album!

Released on this date in 1968.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles_(album)

Happy National Cashew Day!

Yum!

Happy National Gingerbread Cookie Day!

http://foodimentary.com/2014/11/21/november-21-is-national-gingerbread-cookie-day/

Happy World Hello Day!

http://www.worldhelloday.org/

Happy Birthday to The Thin Man Goes Home!

Premiered on this date in 1944.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037365/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Happy Birthday to Shadow of the Thin Man!

Premiered on this date in 1941

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034172/

Beginning of month of Frimaire in French revolutionary calendar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frimaire

Happy Birthday Frankenstein! (the film)

Premiered on this date in 1931.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021884/?ref_=nv_sr_6

Happy Birthday Josiah Bartlett!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Bartlett

A Patriot.

Happy Birthday Ingrid Pitt!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0685839/

Happy Birthday Joseph Plumb Martin!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Plumb_Martin

Happy Birthday Voltaire!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire

The stockings were hung on the chimney with care...

http://www.stupid.com/Holiday-Hangover.html

Dante's Hell - In LEGOS

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/9267162/The-nine-circles-of-hell-from-Dantes-Inferno-recreated-in-Lego-by-Mihai-Mihu.html?frame=2219919

Dancing to Uptown Funk

http://www.littlethings.com/uptown-funk-dance-oldies-classic-vintage-nostalgia-vcom/?utm_content=buffercb5e2&utm_medium=FB11154&utm_source=ild&utm_campaign=ildfb11154

This is so cool!

The disturbing paintings of Thomas Kinkade

http://liartownusa.tumblr.com/post/133349316510/the-paintings-of-thomas-kinkade-everetts

(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

The type of English used in the films of the 30's and 40's

http://magazine.good.is/articles/origins-of-old-timey-voice-revealed

A neat little video about transatlantic English

A revamping of Universal Studio's Monsters

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/universal-monster-movies-mummy-dracula-frakenstein-1201642140/

Still dead

It was on this date in 1975 that Francisco Franco did the only noble thing in his entire life - he died.

Happy Birthday Norman Thomas!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Thomas

Happy Birthday Dick Smothers!

http://www.smothersbrothers.com/

Happy National Beaujolais Day!

http://www.discoverbeaujolais.com/

Yum!

Happy Carers Rights Day!

https://www.carersuk.org/news-and-campaigns/campaigns/carers-rights-day

Happy Universal Children's Day!

http://www.un.org/en/events/childrenday/

Happy Absurdity Day!

http://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-absurdity-day-november-20/

Dthulhu!!!

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dthulhu-bath-sculpture#/

(Thanks for the link, Dennis!)

The Cutting Edge of DUI

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/12002313/Police-in-Australia-search-for-drink-driving-men-who-rode-on-motorised-picnic-tables.html

A Little Something For The Chosen People

http://forward.com/the-assimilator/324659/make-your-high-last-for-8-days-with-this-bong-menorah/

Ouija Board coffee table and rug

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/ouija_board_coffee_table_and_rug

Happy Birthday Rocky & Bullwinkle!

Premiered on this date in 1959.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rocky_and_Bullwinkle_Show

Happy Birthday Terry Farrell!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000395/

Happy Birthday George Rogers Clark!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Rogers_Clark

Happy World Philosophy Day!

http://en.unesco.org/events/world-philosophy-day-2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur5fGSBsfq8

A new way of hearing Bohemian Rhapsody

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTnGI6Knw5Q&feature=youtu.be

Fun stuff! I love mechanical music.

(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

Griffin Sighting!

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/11/in-search-of-the-british-griffin-pt-1/

RIP Carl LLewellyn Weschcke

http://wildhunt.org/2015/11/carl-llewellyn-weschcke-1930-2015.html

New chambers in the Great Pyramid?

http://www.dailygrail.com/Hidden-History/2015/11/Pyramid-Scan-Identifies-Impressive-Anomaly-Behind-the-Blocks-the-Great-Pyrami

Happy Birthday Christmas Story!

Premiered on this date in 1983.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085334/

Happy Birthday Graham Parker!

http://www.grahamparker.net/Home.html

Happy Birthday Imogene Coca!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0168042/

Happy Birthday Sojourner Truth!

http://www.biography.com/people/sojourner-truth-9511284

Happy Occult Day!

https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/occult-day/

Happy National Apple Cider Day!

Yum!

A Very Murray Christmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJP3db3R014&ncid=newsltushpmg00000003

This looks pretty cute!

Happy Birthday to The Star Wars Holiday Special!

Premiered on this date in 1978. Generally considered the worst TV special of all time.

http://www.starwarsholidayspecial.com/

Happy Birthday to Another Thin Man!

Premiered on this date in 1939.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031047/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Happy Birthday Duck Soup!

Premiered on this date in 1933

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023969/

Happy Homemade Bread Day!

http://www.kingarthurflour.com/

Happy Birthday Gordon Lightfoot!

http://www.gordonlightfoot.com/

Happy Birthday Peter Cook!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0177228/

Happy Take A Hike Day!

For Babylon 5 Fans:

http://www.cafepress.com/b5books

This looks pretty neat, (and pretty pricey...)

RIP P.F. Sloan

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/p-f-sloan-eve-of-destruction-songwriter-dead-at-70-20151116

Happy Birthday Robert Beltran!

http://www.robertbeltran.com/

Happy Hecate Night!

http://www.crystalwind.ca/find-your-way/neopagan-path/wheel-of-the-year/november-16-is-the-night-of-hecate

Happy Dutch American Heritage Day!

http://www.naadv.org/heritage.html

Happy International Day of Tolerance!

http://www.un.org/en/events/toleranceday/

Cthulhu's Typewriter!

http://patrickat.tumblr.com/post/133024392688/itscolossal-self-organization-by-courtney

Clearly, I have to own this.

(Thanks for the link, Infidel753!)

Back to the Future!

http://twistedsifter.com/2015/11/artists-from-1900-depict-the-year-2000/

Wonderful illustrations, (and you can see where the surreal illustrator Glen Baxter gets his inspiration).

The return of paganism to Scotland?

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14032559.How_Paganism_is_casting_its_spell_on_Scots__according_organisers_of_world_s_largest_witchcraft_festival/?ref=rss

Happy Birthday to A Night At The Opera!

Premiered on this date in 1935.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026778/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Happy Birthday Jack Burns!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122698/

Happy Birthday Frida Lyngstad!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anni-Frid_Lyngstad

Happy Birthday Petula Clark!

http://www.petulaclark.net/

One of my faves.

Happy Birthday William Hope Hodgson!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hope_Hodgson

Happy Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day!

https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/clean-your-refrigerator-day/

Happy America Recycles Day!

http://americarecyclesday.org/

Anniversary of the Articles of Confederation

Approved by Congress on this date in 1777.

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=3

A win for Pastafarians!

http://americanhumanist.org/news/details/2015-11-massachusetts-pastafarian-wins-right-to-wear-a-colan

Happy Birthday Veronica Lake!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000043/

Happy National Pickle Day!

Yum!

Happy Birthday Ayaan Hirsi Ali!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali

Happy Birthday Whoopi Goldberg!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000155/

Happy Birthday Robert Louis Stevenson!

http://robert-louis-stevenson.org/

Happy Sadie Hawkins Day!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie_Hawkins_Day

Happy World Kindness Day!

https://www.randomactsofkindness.org/world-kindness-day

Happy Birthday Max Grodenchik!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0342858/

Happy Birthday Molly Pitcher (Margaret Corbin)!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Corbin

A Patriot.

Happy Birthday Booker T Jones!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Jones

Happy Birthday Neil Young!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Young

Happy National Pizza With Everything Day!

http://crozetpizza.com/

The Book Tank!

http://www.boredpanda.com/free-book-tank-library-weapon-of-mass-instruction-raul-lemesoff/

Happy Sadie Hawkins Day!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie_Hawkins_Day

Oopsky!

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34797252

(Thanks for the link and title, Mathew!)

A million dollars already pledged!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mst3k/bringbackmst3k

I think we're really going to see the return of MST3000!

The coolest cowboy steampunk video that you'll see today.

http://fashionablygeek.com/costumes/violinist-lindsey-stirling-goes-cowboy-steampunk-video/

Seattle gets clean!

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/11/10/455513058/crews-melt-gum-off-famous-seattle-wall

At last - a nation with priorities!

http://lordsofthedrinks.com/2015/11/10/french-cancel-state-dinner-with-iranians-since-meal-without-booze-is-no-option/

Great moments in submarine warfare

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/featured/u-1206-sub-sunk-dump-on-toilet.html?src=fba&type=wca&page=who

A nice article about Chico Marx

http://www.neatorama.com/2015/11/04/Chico-Marx-The-Italian-Marx-Brother/

The Return of MST3000!!!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mst3k/bringbackmst3k

I'm so looking forward to this!

RIP Allen Toussaint

http://www.wwltv.com/story/news/2015/11/10/allen-toussaint/75500982/

(Thanks for letting me know about this, Margrete!)

Postcards From Space!

http://io9.com/these-fictional-space-postcards-may-make-you-go-back-to-1741559118?trending_test_d&utm_expid=66866090-62.H_y_0o51QhmMY_tue7bevQ.4&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fio9.com%2Fsearch%3Ftrending_test_d%26q%3Dspace

Some of these are really cute!

(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

Happy Birthday Laporta's!

A wonderful restaurant in Old Town, Alexandria. Opened on this date in 1986.

http://www.laportas.net/

Happy Birthday George Fenneman!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0271929/

Happy Birthday Lord Sutch!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screaming_Lord_Sutch

Happy Birthday Carl Stalling!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Stalling

Happy Birthday Ennio Morricone!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennio_Morricone

Happy Birthday Claude Rains!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001647/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Happy Birthday Russell Johnson!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0426157/

Happy World Science Day for Peace and Development!

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/prizes-and-celebrations/celebrations/international-days/world-science-day-for-peace-and-development/

Happy Young Readers Day!

http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/November/youngreadersday.htm

Cheers!

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/9/1447570/-Florida-deputy-showed-up-staggeringly-drunk-to-get-an-award-from-Mothers-Against-Drunk-Driving?detail=facebook

The Hans Solo Refrigerator

http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/1caf/?cpg=nngnsorn&nan_pid=1844078994

A nice article about Dickie Goodman - King of the Break-In Record

http://www.rebeatmag.com/dickie-goodman-and-the-art-of-the-break-in-record/

Anniversary of the death of Paul McCartneyin 1966

http://www.beatlesbible.com/features/paul-is-dead/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead

Happy Birthday 5 Million Years To Earth!

A great sci-fi horror movie. Premiered on this date in 1966.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062168/

Louie Louie!

On this date in 1963, the Kingsmen release the definitive version of Louie Louie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V1p1dM3snQ

Anniversary of The Khitomer Massacre

On this date in the year 2346, the Romulans slaughter over 4,000 Klingons on an agricultural colony; Worf & Kahlest are the only two survivors.

Happy Birthday Benjamin Banneker!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Banneker

Happy Birthday Hedy Lamarr!

http://www.hedylamarr.com/

A wonderful actress and great Patriot!

Happy Birthday Robert Duncan McNeill!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000536/

The first of a series of articles about Country Dick Montana

http://www.tahoeonstage.com/country-dick-montana-1/

One of the great rock'n'rollers.

Happy Birthday Rickie Lee Jones!

http://www.rickieleejones.com/

Happy Birthday Bram Stoker!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker

Happy Cook Something Bold Day!

http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/November/cooksomethingboldday.htm

Virginia - Protecting Us From The Ravages Of Sangria

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/23/AR2008012303400.html

It's amusing to see the laws that this is based upon are from 1934. That's downright science fiction in the Ol' Dominion. Most of the laws and attitudes are based on pre-Appomattox times...