Today is the anniversary of the Tunguska event

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

Happy Birthday to Light's Out (the TV show)

Premiered on this date in 1946.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041037/

Happy Birthday Flo Ballard!

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

Happy Birthday NOW!

http://now.org/

Happy National Meteor Watch Day!

http://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/national-meteor-watch-day-june-30/

Happy Go For A Stroll Downtown Day!

http://www.visitalexandriava.com/old-town-alexandria/

Happy National Ice Cream Soda Day!

Yum!


http://justinesicecreamparlor.com/

Some monsters in Pennsylvania

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/06/exploring-american-monsters-pennsylvania/

RIP Scotty Moore

http://www.udiscovermusic.com/scotty-moore-r-i-p

Happy Birthday Oriana Fallaci!

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

Happy Birthday Ray Harryhausen!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0366063/

Happy National Hug Day!

RIP Bud Spencer

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20160627/arts-entertainment/actor-bud-spencer-dies.617022

10 Writers' Retreats For Dark Authors

http://www.darklinks.com/2016/05/10-best-writers-retreats-for-dark.html


Neat-O!

Bob Dylan on Pacifica Radio in 1962 now available

http://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/

Roman 'terror weapon'

http://www.livescience.com/55050-whistling-sling-bullets-from-roman-battle-found.html

Forget about bulls in Spain - DC has got the Running of the Interns!

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-running-of-the-interns-2016/

http://www.bustle.com/articles/169339-videos-of-interns-running-outside-the-supreme-court-following-the-scotus-hb2-decision-are-too-good

Jennifer Saunders writes about the new Ab Fab film

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/jennifer-saunders-ab-fab-diary-boozing-with-kate-moss-being-snub/

Happy Birthday to Where The Action Is!

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

One of my faves.  premiered on this date in 1965.

Happy Birthday Gilda Radner!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0705717/

Happy Birthday Mel Brooks!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000316/

Happy Paul Bunyan Day!

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

Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots

http://www.civilrights.org/archives/2009/06/449-stonewall.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/

The cutest lil' Cthulhu you're going to see today

http://www.squishable.com/pc/mini_squish_cthulhu_7//Mini+Squishable+Cthulhu

Nice article about Tombstone's Pteradactyle/Thunderbird

http://www.truewestmagazine.com/tombstones-flying-monster/

This search/story has been buzzing around Fortean circles for at least twenty years, now.

The decline of fireflies

http://www.treehugger.com/animals/whats-happening-fireflies.html

Sad...

LSD experiments behind the iron curtain

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-early-state-sanctioned-lsd-experiments-in-communist-bulgaria?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20160527&bt_email=worj@comcast.net&bt_ts=1464357751015

Interesting stuff.  

(Thanks for the link, Bill!)

Happy Birthday to The Fruita Vampire!

First appeared on this date in 2010.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/woman-says-vampire-in-road-caused-crash

Happy Birthday Dark Shadows!

Premiered on this date in 1966!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059978/

Happy Smokey The Bear Day!

https://smokeybear.com/en/smokeys-history?decade=1940

Happy Birthday Helen Keller!

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

Happy Birthday Bob Keeshan!

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

Happy Flash Fiction Day!

Management Scrum notes for 6/27/2016

So we can watch videos of everyone's cats even faster!

http://futurism.com/ibm-will-have-a-200-petaflop-supercomputer-ready-by-2018/

Think of how many Nigerian emails I'll be able to receive!  Thank you, technology!

Happy Birthday Colin Wilson!

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

Happy Birthday Peter Lorre!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000048/

Today is International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

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

Anniversary of the Beatles' satellite broadcast on 1967

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfj1bu_the-beatles-all-you-need-is-love-live-on-stage-agy_music

Happy Birthday to The Omen!

Premiered on this date in 1976.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075005/

Happy Birthday Tony Bourdain!

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

Happy Birthday Carly Simon!

http://www.carlysimon.com/

Anniversary of Virginia Ratifying the Constitution

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

Anniversary of Virginia's Ratification of the Constitution in 1788

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

Anniversary of Virginia's Ratification of the Constitution in 1788

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

Anniversary of Kenneth Arnold's sighting of flying saucers

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

Happy Birthday Arthur Brown!

http://www.arthur-brown.com/

Happy Birthday Robert Reich!

http://robertreich.org/

Happy Birthday Ambrose Bierce!

http://donswaim.com/

A VERY detailed analysis of the Bladerunner film

https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/06/19/bladerunner/


(Thanks for the link, Bill!)

Happy Birthday Stuart Sutcliffe!

http://www.stuartsutcliffeart.com/

Happy Birthday Joss Whedon!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923736/

Happy National Women In Engineering Day!

http://www.wes.org.uk/nwed

DC is the 2nd most walkable city

http://patch.com/district-columbia/washingtondc/dc-named-2nd-most-walkable-city-america


Well, there are portions of DC I'd advise you to run through, Pilgrim....

Happy Golowan!

http://www.golowanfestival.org/

An animated map showing the growth of urbanization through history

http://metrocosm.com/history-of-cities/


Pretty neat!

Anniversary fo the first show by The Bowman Body!

In 1970, as a Summer replacement.

http://www.thebowmanbody.com/

Happy National Onion Rings Day!

Yum!

Happy Birthday Bruce Campbell!

http://www.bruce-campbell.com/

Happy Birthday Todd Rundgren!

http://trconnection.com/

Happy Birthday Howard Kaylan !

http://www.howardkaylan.com/

Happy Birthday Peter Asher!

http://peterashermusic.com/

Happy Birthday Tim Russ!

http://www.timrusswebpage.com/site/Welcome.html

A short tribute to Marx Toys

http://metv.com/lists/marx-toys-made-many-of-your-favorite-toys-yet-is-largely-forgotten-today


Great Garloo remains one of my all-time faves.

An interesting avenue of alzheimers research

http://thebuck.org/buck-news/reversal-memory-loss-ad

Happy Birthday Enoch Poor!

A Patriot.

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

Happy Birthday Ray Davies!

http://www.raydavies.info/www/main.php?content=news

Happy Birthday Nils Lofgren!

http://www.nilslofgren.com/

Happy Birthday Berke Breathed!

http://www.berkeleybreathed.com/

Anniversary of the murder of Chaney, Goodman, & Schwerner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_civil_rights_workers%27_murders

Happy World Humanist Day!

http://iheu.org/humanism/world-humanist-day/

Happy National Flash Fiction Day!

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

An upcoming documentary about UFO sightings in Wytheville, VA

http://www.horsearcherproductions.com/wythevilleufo.html

The Pencil Sharpener Museum

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/paul-a-johnson-pencil-sharpener-museum

Today is the anniversary for the Born To Run photos being taken

In 1975 by Eric Meola.

https://www.snapgalleries.com/photographers/eric-meola/

Today is the anniversary of the Norfolk Rising

http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/robert_ket_and_the_norfolk_risin.htm

Happy Birthday Black Adder!

Premiered on this date in 1983.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084988/

Happy Birthday Wolfe Tone!

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

Happy Birthday William Richardson Davie!

A Patriot.

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

Happy Birthday Audie Murphy!

http://www.audiemurphy.com/

Happy Birthday Errol Flynn!

http://www.inlikeflynn.com/

Happy Birthday Martin Landau!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001445/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Happy Birthday Patricia Quinn!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0703946/

Happy Birthday Brian Wilson!

http://www.brianwilson.com/

Happy National Vanilla Milkshake Day!

Yum!

Happy American Eagle Day!

http://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/national-american-eagle-day-june-20/

Happy Solstice!

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

The latest political advertisement - the obituary

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/disdain-for-trump-and-clinton-is-so-strong-even-the-dead-are-campaigning/2016/06/19/39854ad2-2d91-11e6-9de3-6e6e7a14000c_story.html

Of course the Post shows its ignorance by titling this as dead folks campaigning, and making it a new thing.  In Chicago that's been going on for decades....


(Thanks for the link, Edmund!)

Happy Birthday Black Adder!

Premiered on this date in 1982.

Full Strawberry Moon Tonight

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/06/03/strawberry-moon-june/28429899/

Happy Birthday Ann Wilson!

http://www.heart-music.com/

Happy Birthday Spanky McFarlane!

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

Happy Birthday Alan Cranston!

The only person to be sued by hitler.

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

Happy Mass Market Paperback Book Day!

http://www.overthemoonbookstore.com/

http://www.bookplate.biz/Home.html

Today is the beginning of month of Messidor in French revolutionary calendar

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

Happy Juneteenth!

http://www.juneteenth.com/history.htm

How French Women Lose Weight

https://www.youtube.com/embed/yEH4Yum4nN4

Cute!

(Thanks for the link, Margrete!)

The best indy bookstores in the world

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/jun/17/the-best-independent-bookshops-worldwide-according-to-readers-part-ii

I've had the pleasure of visiting a couple of these.  Wonderful places!


(Thanks for the link, Erik!)

Happy Birthday Linda Thorson!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0861771/

Happy Birthday Paul!

https://www.paulmccartney.com/intro/

Happy International Sushi Day!

Yum!

Happy International Picnic Day!

Beware of Bunnies!

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/05/violent-rabbit-illustrations-found-in-the-margins-of-medieval-manuscripts/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=webfeeds


Monty Python wasn't the first to come up with this idea!


(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

Happy Watergate Day!

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

Happy National Eat Your Vegetables Day!

Yum!

http://www.fallschurchva.gov/farmersmarket

https://www.charlottesvillecitymarket.com/

https://www.alexandriava.gov/FarmersMarket

http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/farmersmarkets/wakefieldmkt.htm

http://mosaicdistrict.com/events/event/mosaic-central-farm-market/

Happy Bunker Hill Day!

http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/bunker-hill-day

Happy Birthday to Them!

Premiered on this date in 1954.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047573/

Happy Birthday to the Monterey Pop Festival!

http://montereyinternationalpopfestival.com/festival/

Happy Birthday Stan Laurel!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0491048/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Happy Birthday to The Legend of Hell House!

Premiered on this date in 1973.  One of my all-time fave horror movies.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070294/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Happy Birthday Jim Varney!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001815/

Happy Birthday Harry Nilsson!

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

Today is the anniversary of the Pig War

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

Never Forget....

Today is the anniversary of when Washington was assigned head of Continental Army by 2nd Continental Congress in 1775

http://www.mountvernon.org/digital-encyclopedia/article/continental-army/

Today is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day

http://www.acl.gov/newsroom/observances/WEAAD/index.aspx

Happy National Lobster Day!

Yum!

Happy Magna Carta Day!

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

isis Looks FABULOUS!

http://www.techly.com.au/2016/06/16/anonymous-hacks-isis-twitter-makes-it-as-fabulously-gay-as-humanly-possible/

Bravo!

Sculptures of Frank Frazetta's Death Dealer figure for sale

http://deartonyblair.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/frank-frazetta-death-dealer-official.html


Beautiful!


(Thanks for the link, Nick!)

RIP Ann Morgan Guilbert

http://www.examiner.com/article/tv-s-millie-helper-actress-ann-morgan-guilbert-has-died

Anniversary of the Port Huron Statement in 1962

https://www.lsa.umich.edu/phs/about/thestatement

The Loch Ness Monster Ladle

http://gizmodo.com/loch-ness-kitchen-sightings-are-about-to-skyrocket-than-1680723173

Cute!

The latest on the Antikythera Mechanism

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/antikythera-mechanism-1.3628648

Fascinating.  

The man in the attic

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-married-woman-who-kept-her-lover-in-the-attic?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20160610&bt_email=celticwales@hotmail.co.uk&bt_ts=1465570279493

A strange little tale of murder and lust.

My favorite bibles

http://www.journalofthebizarre.com/2016/06/fun-with-blasphemy-exciting-world-of.html

Music Versus Barbarians

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htmoral/20160614.aspx

(Thanks for the link, Dennis).

Speculating about a Japanese attack on America in 1938

http://alternate-timelines.proboards.com/thread/629/japan-attacks-rest-1938?page=1&scrollTo=7792

The Bosch Parade

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kz3FmXckac

Incredible.  Fun stuff!

Alien Pez Dispenser

Awesome....

http://www.toycutter.com/2010/08/alien-pez-dispenser.html

RIP Margaret Heldt

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/us/margaret-heldt-hairdresser-who-built-the-beehive-dies-at-98.html?_r=0

Inventer of the beehive hairdo.


(Thanks for the link, Edmund!)

Living Hard Drives

http://futurism.com/harvard-scientists-create-hard-drives-that-are-alive-by-uploading-data-to-living-cells/


The article is a little vague as to how one then extracts the information, though.

Bigfoot in Laurel, Maryland?

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/city-desk/blog/20782292/sasquatch-sighting-in-laurel

We're gonna need a bigger grill

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/247402


The return of dinosaurs?

So true...

http://www.theonion.com/article/wealthy-teen-nearly-experiences-consequence-2551

What time is it?

http://3tags.org/article/why-the-deep-space-atomic-clock-is-key-for-future-space-exploration

I guess I will become a conspiracy nut

http://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantreport/opening-ceremony-worlds-largest-tunnel-bizarre-occult-ritual/

I see little to disagree with in this analysis of the sybolism, (although I am, as usual, disappointed to see that the swiss past and continuing support of nazism is absent...)

Off for ten days

Gentle Reader,

      I'll be taking a break of about ten days from normal contributions to Weirdness.  Be back soon!

Happy Hot Air Balloon Day!

https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/hot-air-balloon-day/?utm_source=eshot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WeeklyUpdate

Happy Birthday Ellen Foley!

http://ellenfoley.com/

Happy Birthday James Connolly!

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

Anniversary of the Solemn League & Covenant Document

http://www.britannica.com/event/Solemn-League-and-Covenant-England-Scotland-1643

It was agreed to and signed a few months later.

Happy Dead Duck Day!

https://www.buzzfeed.com/hayleycampbell/quack-quack?utm_term=.tuK3bkK4O#.vkepXN5bD

Happy Festival of Popular Delusions!

http://www.baldheretic.com/2012/06/04/happy-festival-of-popular-delusions-day

Happy Fish & Chips Day!

Yum!

http://www.gofishrehoboth.com/

Happy World Environment Day!

http://wed2016.com/

Happy National Gingerbread Day!

http://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/national-gingerbread-day-june-5/

Yum!

Happy National Trails Day!

http://nationaltrailsday.americanhiking.org/

Happy Birthday Bruce Dern!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001136/

Happy Birthday Gordon Waller!

http://www.peterandgordon.net/

Happy Birthday John Eager Howard!

A Patriot.

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

Happy National Cognac Day!

http://www.cognac.com/

Yum!

Happy National Cheese Day!

http://cheesetique.com/

Today is the anniversary of Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/tiananmen-square-massacre-takes-place

Today is the anniversary of the Battle of Midway

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

150 Days Until Halloween!

Trying to stop the Matrix

http://futurism.com/judgment-day-google-is-making-a-kill-switch-for-ai/

Happy Doughnut Day!

http://voodoodoughnut.com/

Ode To Billy Joe

This is the date the song takes place.

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

Happy National Egg Day!

Yum!

Happy Birthday Leo Gorcey!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0329832/bio

Happy Birthday Josephine Baker!

http://www.cmgww.com/stars/baker/about/biography.html

Happy Birthday Ian Hunter!

http://ianhunter.com/main/

Happy Birthday Suzi Quatro!

http://www.suziquatro.com/

Happy Birthday Curtis Mayfield!

http://www.curtismayfield.com/

Happy Jack Jouett Day!

http://www.americanrevolution.org/jouett.php

British Archives opens up its Sounds Library

http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/the-british-librarys-sounds-archive-presents-80000-free-audio-recordings.html

Amazing!

A needed service

https://www.youtube.com/embed/v6Wpc9s35ZY

So funny, so sad, so true...



(Thanks for the link, Rob!)

Happy Birthday Alessandro di Cagliostro!

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

Happy Birthday Universal Studios!

On this day in 1912, Carl Laemmle merges his movie studio, the Independent Motion Picture Company (IMP), with several others, creating Hollywood's first major studio, Universal.


http://www.universalstudios.com/

Happy Birthday Wayne Brady!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0103750/

Happy Birthday Jewel Staite!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0821612/

Happy Birthday Martha Washington!

http://marthawashington.us/

Happy Birthday Morena Baccarin!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1072555/

Just another day with the spoiled and entitled brats of DC

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-warning-left-on-a-nannys-car-license-plates-stolen-and-a-top-pentagon-official-in-big-trouble/2016/06/01/50699a3a-2816-11e6-a3c4-0724e8e24f3f_story.html?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_evening

People who've never been told "No".

Happy National Olive Day!

http://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/2016/05/31/new-day-proclamation-national-olive-day-june-1/

Happy Birthday Sgt. Pepper!

Released on this date in 1967.

http://www.thebeatles.com/album/sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band

Happy Global Day of Parents!

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

Happy Birthday Rene Auberjonois!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0041281/

Happy Birthday to Le Petomane!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_P%C3%A9tomane