August History

Commentary

(my riffing on events and words from daily history)

Grim Reaper’s book of days (by Ed Morrow, 1992), 

Today in History (history channel book, 2003), and Wikipedia (website)

GR, TH, W

August 1

GR: 1. Francis Gary Powers, who was shot down in Russia as a U2 spy plane pilot in 1960, crashed as a traffic reporter/helicopter pilot in Encino, CA, in ’77 (luck? Or an idiot, lol), TH: 2. chewy louie, Chuy Louis, Huey Lewis, and chewing on history (crusade a sadistic crew?), 3. yo, Hapsburgs - what's the haps?, wuz happen'?, wussup? what' goin' on?, 4. Christopher Columbus lands on Venezuela (his first setting foot on the american mainland), but -thinking it an island- called it Isla Santa (isa is Jesus in arabic, no man is an island), 5. Isla, Isa, Isai, 6. Doggett, dawg, doggerel, doge, Snoop Dogg, and dogma, 7. Augusta and Augustus, August, OG, augury, 8. google, go ogle, 9. Joseph Priestly, was in fact a minister, 10. spend your savings on hamburgers (Hamburg was the site of the first savings bank), homburg cap (named after Bad Homburg, Hesse), 11. Enya in Brittania, 12. metric system, and the magician's trick-me system, 13. The isle is nigh, but we're far from the Nile, denial, 14. why is the New London bridge now in Arizona (!?), 15. GB outlaws slavery in BE in 1834 (freeing approximately 770,280 people), 16. BE the British Empire, be one with the bee, Bea, 17. Halide, holiday, Hallide (designed SF cable car system), 18. China and Japan fight over Korea, chin pan core, 19. In The Mood, at MIT, 20. eating peeps in my Jeep, 21. PT Boat, PT Barnum, Peggy Teshara, physical trainer, 22. Oak Ridge and O-Cridge (a surname), 23. the pro's and con's of concentration camps, 24. Nazis, Sizan, citizen Suzan, 25. Shane, considered "best western" ever made, 26. the urinal at Paramount Pictures, 27. sock, soccer, sulk, Sauk, Salk polio vaccine, 28. supermarket checkers know all about scandal (dull scanning), 29. WWI killed some 20m, (soldiers and citizens, both), 30. applause for Claudius, 31. Star-spangled, not nazi, 32. hm, Herman Melville, 33. Listening to Oliver (musical by Lionel Bart) on BART (Bay Area rapid transit), 34. Geoffrey Holder (dancer and actor) and Eric H. Holder jr. (lawyer) and holden Caulfield, hold on, W: 35. Octavian, Batavian, avian, and Ian, 36. Gaius Julius Civilis, and a gay jew with syphilis, 37. sole ruler, and soul ruler, 38. Sui dynasty: Sui-cide could be something else (!), 39. Aghlabid army, and agh! a rabid labrador!, 40. a taste of fame at Famagusta, 41. shaven elves from Delfshaven, bearded ones from Beardstown, Illinois, 42. car talk and the Ottoman, 43. Bishop Cummings and Saint Gotthard, 44. pitching overhand in Hanover, 45. Lyndon and Mindy in Minden, Mindanao, 46. audiobooks and Aboukir bay, 47. Slimane of Morocco, slimy man Rocco, 48. Barbara the barbarian, 49. Wilber joins the force, 50. Monte Rosa is the 2nd highest summit in the Alps, (named after a glacier, not the color pink), 51. finish your Finnish lessons, 52. shredded wheat makes me (Henry) Perky, 53. Josip Broz Tito, bro sips tit, 54. War in Warsaw, 55. my homie Ben from Benin, 56. Dune and Doonesbury, 57. Whitman the hitman, 58. CR, camp royaneh, cultural revolution, consumer reports, critical reading, consciousness raising, colorado rockies, cincinnati reds, cosmic rays, costa rica, chris rock, ricci, ronaldo, reeve, 59. Sultan of Brunei, Simon Bolivar, Smokey Bear, and the Supreme Being.

August 2

GR: 1. Is progress short for progression?, no, they’re different, 2. Double-jeopardy for Jack McCall, deejay, 3. Dead man’s hand (ace clubs, ace spades, 8 clubs, 8 spades, jack diamonds) isn’t a dead man’s hand (ew… 27 bones: 14 phalanges, 5 metacarpal, 8 carpal bones), 4. I’ve met a Butler (bellhop) and Mr. Hickox (taught me how to swim), but haven’t been alive long enough to know “Wild Bill” Hickok (unless I’ve had past lives); died in deadwood, Dakota territory; coat from Dakota, jersey from NJ, laundry in WA, 5. Mount Moriah (and mounting Mariah, lol), TH: 6. Toucan, two can, oh you can't, can too!, 7. veni, vidi, vici (vein, video, vicki!), 8. vidi, venereal disease, and darth vader, 9. vici, vichy, vishy, v chi, 10. go to the forest, for rest, 11. HH Henry Hudson, 12. Happy Birthday, Hudson Bay, 13. JC, Julius Caesar, and Juan Crespi (a priest), 14. a company ran the government of India, then a crown (!), 15. Lewis Carroll, singing a carol, as his car rolls, 16. tubes, the boring company, and "cut and cover", 17. atomic bomb, pompoms for the tombom, yay nukes!  hurrah! huzzah! boom boom -John lee hoooker, 18. Einstein and fine wine and nine signs, 19. mining the Rhine, 20. can it wait?  I'm in Kuwait!, 21. John Tyndall, physicist who studied the scattering of light, explaining why the sky is blue, 22. Statue of Liberty, created by sculptor Frederic Bartholdi, silence of lambs, Facebook, 23. Isabel Allende, and AI, 24. Rose Tremain and Johnny Tremain, 25. Snoo? that's my name, too!, 26. Lance Ito and Lance Armstrong, dancing with chance, 27. Hitler becomes Fuhrer ("leader"), full of fury, at the punitive peace settlement, and thought Germany lost WWI because of internal enemies, foes within, chiefly communists and jews, 28. madness, angry and insane, and a band, 29. I doubt Pathet in Pathet Lao is etymologically related to pathetic! (phonetic respelling of "Lao Nation" in Laotian), a 'nation' divided: pa thet, 30. life is not having and getting, but being and becoming - Myrna Loy, W: 31. making massive dough in Macedonia, 32. Carthaginian gin, 33. god's meat puppets, 34. soldiers marching in March, 35. central heating, central casting, and Heaton Castle, 36. Lake Ohrid is horrid, 37. Treblinka makes you stop and think.  

August 3

GR: 1. Lenny and Ellen, 2. Haddock in a paddock, 3. A paddock isn’t a padlock, 4. Drinks on the house (on the bar, actually), 5. A mil from my mother-in-law, TH: 6. HH the human heart, 7. Cali (Colombia), Calais (France), and California (USA), and Calvin, 8. silly Sally, don't sully LaSalle, 9. Allah visits La Scala (opera house in Milan, Italy), 10. House of Representatives hits a home run!, says Human Resources, 11. Speke speaks, isle on the Nile denial, victory on lake Victoria, 12. bored with war, 13. (Sir Roger) Casement in the basement, 14. MM, Mickey Mouse, Master Mason, 15. cowardly cows, 16. Alger Hiss, the snake, 17. Samuel Beckett, Stanley Baldwin, supreme beings, 18. the North Pole isn't necessarily the "top of the world" (South Pole could also be) (catch a wave!), 19. Islamic Sokoto empire and rococo architecture, and rocoto peppers, 20. Plato's cave, Beatle's cavern, 21. Lotus position in an Otis elevator, 22. temporary temperance, 23. lord make me chaste, but not yet, - St. Augustine, essay, ese, 24. Tony Bennett has TB (tuberculosis), torpedo boat in Tampa bay, 25. Martin Sheen and Microsoft and MS (multiple sclerosis), 26. John Landis in jail (JL), 27. St. Francis of a CC (my roommate says Christopher Columbus wasn't Italian, but actually Portuguese), constitutional convention, W: 28. have a beer with Tiberius, 29. Mona in a monastery, 30. go hiking with vikings, 31. it's a Thuringia thing, 32. Simon the pie man, commits simony for money, 33. viagra at Niagara Falls, 34. Auckland isn't named after aucks (whatever that is), just some guy's name, 35. Mamadou Dia will do your mama, some day, 36. germs in germany, taint in mauritania, sick Sikhs in Sac (-ramento), and ill in Illinois, 37. whoopee! I've got rupees!, 38. listening to jar of flies in Sinjar, 39. dizzy and diseased, 40. Kate Moss in Moscow.

August 4

GR: 1. Hans Christian Anderson died (of liver cancer) a virgin, age 70, (he went to brothels just to talk), 2. The end of Andrew and Abbie Borden wasn’t boring (“horribly murdered with a hatchet”). The crime was never solved.  Lizzie, the daughter, was acquitted, as the jury couldn’t believe such a respectable woman could be so violent.  Also, her clothes weren’t bloody.   It is surmised this is because she did it nude. She could easily have washed, after.  Her will gave $30k to an animal violence-prevention society, TH: 3. monk invents Champagne!, party on Wayne, christlike to choose booze, G-D, getting drunk, 4. Jack in the box, Jibby, and an altar on Gibraltar, 5. Zenger's zingers, and Ratzinger, 6. few feud about feudalism, 7. UPS drivers take a package tour, 8. exercise your core, congress of racial equality, corps, 9. Conte invented the modern pencil, 10. One, Holy Catholic Apostolic Church, and Edward Irving, 11. Four marks of existence (buddhist), and four marks of the church (catholic), 12. four Marks: Mark Antony, Mark Twain, Mark Zuckerberg, and Mark Cuban; 16 chapters of the gospel of Mark, 13. Mark Wahlberg and Marky Mark and The Wall (Pink Floyd), 14. Wahlberg and (Raoul) Wallenberg, 15. strong-arming Louis Armstrong in LA, 15. HL, Harry Lauder, 16. SOL, Sir Osbert Lancaster, W: 17. Emperor Wendi of Sui, Wendy what went wrong?, 18. playing fort with Simon de Montfort, 19. where's Weardale?, 20. First Nations, furs, native americans shun, 21. Sir George Rooke, chess rook, and rookies, 22. Mt. Asama, as Ama (ask me anything), 23. Lonato and NATO, 24. Tongue river, lap it up, 25. AI, American Indians, artificial intelligence (and the art of fishing), Amnesty International, Allen Iverson, artificial insemination, and a norse god, 26. sticky gore in Gorlice-Tarnow, 27. New Zealand, and newz land, ("old" Zealand is in the Netherlands, called Zeeland), ZZ Top, zzz (sleep), and zealous zealots, 28. Jimmy Carter, Jay Cutler, John Cabot, James Cook, Jacques Cousteau, James Cameron, Juan Carlos, John Cheever, Julius Caesar, Jackie Chan, Jose Cuervo, John Carpenter, Cleese, Candy, Cena, Coltrane, James Cash (Penney), Johnny Cash, Joseph Conrad, Jaycee Dugard, junior college, just chilling, the jewish chronicle, Jesus Christ!, 29. 2700 goddamn tons of ammonium nitrate explode, in 2020, in Beirut.

August 5

GR: 1. Marlilyn Monroe died at the age of 36, drug o.d., found naked, in bed.  Her drugs (barbiturates) induce forgetfulness, and maybe she therefore accidentally took too many.  Bar-what? -turates? O-what? -tuary?  Bitchin’ camaro!, female dogs, doggie-style, dawg, TH: 2. Sir John Menteith's teeth, man, take a bite out of crime, al dente, to the tooth, 3. Cambrai isn't Cambridge, 4. b.s. from Fray Batista Segura, 5. sure as shit, 6. SHG, self-help group, standard high German, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, 7. 40k Ausrians defeat 150k turks, in 1716 (battle of Peterwardein), 8. wave the flag, the U.S. army abolishes flogging, 9. DF, David Farragut, union admiral: "damn the torpedoes! full speed ahead!" (Mobile, Alabama), 10.  a cartoon won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921, 11. Florence Chadwick and Chadwick Boseman, 12. Ambrosia with Ambroise Thomas, 13. lynching Thomas Lynch, 14. Guy de Maupassant, some guy, 15. JC Merrick and Merrick Garland, 16. Wayne, wane, (Louis) Wain, 17. aches and pains of Troy Aikman and Conrad Aiken, and Clay Aiken, and Thomas Paine, Payne, (pagan is a variant), 18. Huston from Houston, 19. Billy the Kid, at BK (Burger King), 20. Louis Armstrong, Lance Armstrong, Loni Anderson, la-la land, 21. PE with Patrick Ewing, W: 22. Beto O' Rourke and Betar, 23. Masers, Maseratis, and Maserfield, 24. buried at Bari, 25. klutz from Kletsk, 26. battle of Dogger Bank, dog-o!, 27. Amos n' Andy, Samos n' Sandy, 28. my lay, and minelayers, 29. woe law in Wola, 30. Burkina Faso means "land of the honest men", or 'upright father's house', 31. Nelson Mandela was incarcerated 1962-1990, 32. stalemate, as if your mate was bread, 33. Red guards and blackguards, 34. Pacific Islands Forum and Piff the magic dragon, 35. DACA and Dhaka, Bangladesh, 36. listening to NIN (nine inch nails) in Knin (Croatia), 37. JK Rowling is in Jammu and Kashmir (j/k!), just kidding, justice for baby goats, 38. greetings, urflings, "urf" in arabic is knowledge/custom of a society (that needs to be in agreement with sharia), 39. Yah Yah, Ayodhya, 40. blah blah blah (blaa is a bread bun particular to Kilkenny).

August 6

GR: 1. First american execution by electrocution, 1890 (William Kemmler), in “old sparky” (what prisoners called the electric chair); it was prompted by a previous capital punishment, in which an overweight criminal had his head pulled off in a botched hanging, to the horror of onlookers, including legislators; Edison invented it, and killed dogs, calves, and horses, during testing, (the chair used 1000-1500 volts, for 17 seconds), 2. 78k Japanese died, in Hiroshima,1945; Nagasaki was nuked 3 days later (killing a further 30k Japanese); some american POW’s died, too; interesting aside: it is not widely known, but Japan was working on a nuclear bomb, themselves. TH: 3. HH Harry Houdini, 4. JC, John Cabot, 5. Holland sells Brazil to Portugal ($20 million dollars, today - 8 million guilders, then), 6. watch TV (treaty of Vienna), 7. movers and Shakers (USBCSC), united society of believers in christ's second coming, shake and cum, 8. battle of Junin, in August, in Peru, (and Junie the dog), 9. savvy saviors stay at the Savoy!, 10. Alfred, Lord Tennyson is always an alternative, 11. that's a sick pen! penicillin?, 12. a farthing for Scott Nearing, 13. I love Lucy makes me ill, 14. Andy Warhol, pop artist (A and W root beer?), Allen and Wright, W: 15. Jennifer from Genoa, 16. vague about plague in The Hague, 17. Jeannine from Junin, Peru, 18. Bolivian Olivia, 19. have a lager in Lagos, 20. Kiowa from Iowa, Oklahoma is home, okay, 21. Legoland and Heligoland, 22. urban Serbia, rural Ruritania, 23. driving your SUV into Suvla bay, 24. Wilhelmina of Armenia, lean mean fighting machine, 25.  why are documents called Acts? and is all action acting?, all the world's a stage, playing the role of a roll, so bite me, 26. old Ould, 27. Special Forces in San Francisco. 

August 7

GR: 1. Oliver Hardy, 65, died of a paralytic stroke.  Laurel and Hardy made over 100 films (my dad had most of them), OH my god, TH: 2. the novelty of the New World got old, 3. witches were purported to weigh less than they appeared, due to not having a soul, thus allowing them to ride broomsticks;  you could prove you weren't a witch (and get a certificate) from a Heksenwaag (witch's scale); some waags were rigged (!); people from all over Europe went to (Oudewater) Netherlands to get weighed fairly (no witches were ever discovered),  4. Department of Defense used to be called the War Department, 5. apartment compartment department, 6. ramparts and ram parts (totally different!), 7. purple rain, purple heart, purple drank, one-eyed one-horned flying purple people-eater, 8. strange, strangled, and estranged, 9. weird, unique, queer, strange, unusual, different, 10. BM and PP (bull moose, progressive party), 11. give Daria a rest, Dario Resta, 12. Guadalcanal is one of the Solomon Islands (four A's at SI, my high school, St. Ignatius), SI is also sports illustrated (women swimming, lol), Smithsonian institution (for the increase and diffusion of knowledge), 13. HU gets into Harvard University?, 14. BP, British Petroleum, Baden-Powell, Buckingham Palace, Brexit party, blood pressure, boiling point, basis point, 15. Ritter chocolate and Carl Ritter (a co-founder of Geography), 16. Dornford Yates (novelist) and Dorian Yates (bodybuilder), 17. Billie Burke, Berke Breathed, Berkeley, Berklee, Berkley, 18. burking urkel, irksome, 19. my aunt the anthropologist says ants are people, too, 20. I like Ralph a Bunche, 21. randy for James Randi, 22. comedienne and poetess, 23. Helen Caldicott and the Caldecott award, W: 24. Ricimer died of ricin, 25. Slavic slaves, 26. have a corona at the coronation, 27. Gangut, a gang with guts, or gangue, 28. wabi sabi at cabo wabo, 29. simile isn't Simele (massacre of Assyrians), 30. queers in the Turkish Straits, 31. Thor Heyerdahl says, "higher, doll", 32. HH Harold Haley, 33. memento mori, and Mamoru Mohri, 34. a phenomenally ominous Menominee, 35. big bad Barry Bonds (762 career home runs), surpassed Hank Aaron, ha (755 career home runs). 

August 8

GR: 1. Heehee, heeho: death by asphyxiation, suffocation (deprived of oxygen), resulted for 4 young adults who snuck into the office of a dentist (a father of one of them), where they passed out in a closet from laughing gas (nitrous oxide); LG, also appliance (formerly Lucky-Goldstar), author (Lev Grossman), lesbian/gay, TH: 2. Trajan and Hadrian, trojan says yo Adrian, 3. emperor of Rome, roaming lion (prr, roar), 4. Italian stallion wins a medallion, 5. amnesty for the nasty, 6. Tycho Brahe, taiko drums, brassieres, 7. a priest with hot-air! (Fr. Bartolomeu de Gusmao), 8. A.T. Marshall patents the refrigerator (1899), (not the atm), 9. (rolls-royce) Silver Ghost, suicide girls, Secretary General, seaborgium, smoking gun, 10. Guatemala comes from Nahuatl "place of many trees" (the mala doesn't mean 'bad'), 11. Benny Carter and Jimmy Carter, 12. go easy, Emiliano Zapata, 13. teasing Sara Teasdale, 14. Alexander Hamilton and Charles Hamilton, 15. Jim Henson and Matthew Henson, 16. bulls, finches, and (Charles) Bulfinch, 17. Mel Tillis, feeling empty, 18. Dustin Hoffman, designated hitter, 19. "I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me" - Sara Teasdale, 20. "Poor people have a big tv.  Rich people have a big library". -Jim Rohn, 21. "Paradise will be a kind of library" -Jorge Luis Borges, 22. "I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card" -Laura Bush, W: 23. Holyrood Abbey, holy rude, season your words with salt, 24. heavenly island of Hven, 25. No man is an island (except the Isle of Man); Jesus Island, Quebec, 26. sane in Brisbane and fun in  Lisbon, 27. Jews know Juneau, 28. Shawn the shawnee, 29. the quorum forum for, um, rum?, 30. Domnitor? ruler of romania, Dominator, a comic, 31. Amiens, can I get amens?, 32. Duran Duran and the Durand line (Afghanistan), 33. self-rule, swaraj, (vs. godslave?), 34. git'r done and the Great Train Robbery, 35. South Korea had a Democratic Republican Party (ha), 36. me and the sea, Myanmar, 37. Dave Matthews Band, dumb, 38. quiet and wet, in Quetta.

August 9

GR: 1. In 1969, Manson’s “family” killed Sharon Tate and 4 of her friends at a Beverly Hills House (where Charlie thought someone else, who he had a grudge against, lived).  The owner of the property reportedly got 35 offers to buy the place, just after, (and billed the victim’s parents to clean up the mess (!), TH: 2. what's the temperature in Thermopylae?, 3. The Sistine Chapel was named after Pope Sixtus IV (not a teenage sister), 4. KFC and JFC (James Fenimore Cooper), 5. Where's Walden?  Where's Waldo?  Where's the wall?, 6. U.S., unconditional surrender, too, 7. Singapore seceded (expelled!) from Malaysia in '65 ($72,794 is the 2021 gdp per capita, so sing of riches!), 8. JG, Jerry Garcia (died, age 53), jess greg, job guarantee, 9. Rockwell made the US space station (off the 3rd rock from the sun), 10. "God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart" -Izaak Walton, 11. BM, Benedetto Marcello, beautiful music, bowel movement (defecation), Bertram Mills, 12. JD, John Dryden, doctor of jurisprudence, Juris Doctor, juvenile delinquent, JD Power, job description, jack Daniels, 13. cars: TT, Thomas Telford, (Audi TT, from Tourist Trophy), and MG, Melanie Griffith, (now defunct, Morris Garages), mentally gifted, Marcus Garvey, Mikhail Gorbachev, 14. Tom Teshara, my uncle, W: 14. farce at Pharsalus, 15. Visigoths v. Valens, 16. ragu from Ragusa, 17. meth in Methoni, 18. Stonewall Jackson, s.j., 19. winning the lottery in Lucknow, India, 20. a savory snack on Savo island, 21. Kai from Kasai, 22. NY Nixon, 23. Gerald Fjord, 24. Sergei Stepashin, not a nazi. 

August 10

GR: 1. Robert H. Goddard, rocket scientist, who received more than 200 patents, said, “there can be no thought of finishing, for aiming at the stars, both literally and figuratively, is the work of generations, but no matter how much progress one makes there is always the thrill of just beginning”, TH: 2. HH Herbert Hoover, 3. His Highness, on drugs; His/Her Holiness (irony: he who would be first must make himself a slave to all, says the Most High -or something-), 4. Maggie the Magyar, Gary the Hungarian, 5. John Cabot was rewarded for discovering Canada by King Henry VII of England with about $16 in current usd (!), (10 pounds), geezus criced, eh?, 6. unequal battles is a recurring theme: Battle of San Quentin, 1557, French lost 14,000+, Spaniards lost just 50 (men), 7. Quentin Tarantino and San Quentin prison, and Quentin Coldwater, quenching thirst, 8. cuties with QT rhythms, 9. A Swedish warship (the Vasa) that sunk in 1628 was raised intact in 1961, so well preserved that it could float (!), 10. in a trance in Transylvania (a maniac in central Romania), 11. e pluribus unum, oomo:  out of many, one (a. unity of a vast and diverse country (like a corporation), b. an individual, from all his or her many ancestors, c. God (is One), from a community of believers, d. 2 plane crashes I've read about, with only 1 survivor, e. sports! champions emerge from the pack, teams from the array, etc., (the motto for the Great Seal of the United States), Go Seals!, 12. toiletries in the Tuileries, Paris, 13. In the u.s. civil war, there were army regiments called US Colored Troops (mainly black, but also with other minorities), comprising 10% of the union army (179,000 black men), while there were "more than 3k but less than 10k" blacks who shouldered arms for the confederacy (with 20,000 to 50,000 black laborers for the cause); blacks got inferior equipment, were paid less, and received poorer medical care from segregated hospitals (40k black soldiers died over the course of the war), Frederick Douglas pushed for "full equality", but got separate/unequal, 14. Henry Woods and Tiger Woods, 15. (Rudolph) Diesel, German engineer, 16. boys, boys (battle of the Yellow Sea), 17. there was an 8,000 mile race from Beijing to Paris, which lasted 62 days,  won by an Italian prince, who "drove like a madman", 18. Coolio has polio?, 19. Binyon in the canyon, 20. Jack Haley, Alex Haley, and halley's comet, 21. Fishing with Eddie Fisher, 22. JT and Johnny Tremain, Jethro Tull, the symbol for pi, and me, Jesse Teshara; also, John Tyler, John Travolta, Justin Timberlake, James Taylor, JT Money, JT Snow, JT Racing, 23. Antonio Banderas' abs, A or B?, 24. 6/19/1865, Juneteenth, jt , W: 25. ellen, excellent, chile relleno, 26.  Sara, triceratops, cerebellum, ceremony, seraglio, saran wrap, serape, serenade, 27.  Jesse, JC, Jose, Jay-Z, Geezy, Josie, Jussie, Joss, jess, jessant, jessamine, jesuit, jest, just, gist, (and tennis and TN, too, of course), 28.  Tennessee and Hennessy, on Gennessee st. (SF),-enacy?, menace and lunacy, 29. lechery in Lechfeld, 30. I'm all done with Maldon, 31. some pizazz in Azaz, 32. Amlak takes Amtrak, 33. Athenry ain't Athens, 34. cynical about sending a gal to Senegal, 35. Saint Mathieu, aftermath, 36. filled up with beans, in the Philippines, 37. Nonsuch, such a nun, 38. Martha and Marthanda, 39. 1793, opening of the Musee du Louvre, lover, 40. Bessel's vessel, 41. DOD in deep doodoo, they can do a ton of shit, 42. Enya at mass in Massena, NY, 43. David Berkowitz was a postal employee; SOS, son of sam, 44. Mark from Mars, Ellen from Venus, and Magellan space probe, 45. witless protection program, 46. messy Jesse, chessy Jesse.

August 11

GR: 1. General Anthony C. McAuliffe, sometimes I feel like a nut, sometimes I don’t, TH: 2. Ollie the collie, Dolly and Sir Walter Raleigh, folly by golly, jolly Holly, speaking Pali in Mali, volleyball with Wally, 3. Melanie's millinery, 4. Aargau, argh! ow! (of course), Swiss canton, can too!, 5. Papa blows his top (Papandayan in Java, Indonesia erupts, 1772, killing 3k), 6. King Talal ate halal, 7. aikido and Jerry Falwell, 8. Burma, Thailand, and Cambodia are Myanmar, Siam, and Kampuchea, too (btc, msk), MTK, 9. Allah, AH, Asaph Hall, Alex Haley, Anthony Hopkins, Alfred Hitchcock, Anne Heche, Arsenio Hall, 10. all ahh, all law, all uh, 11. libraries and truth-braries, like Br'er rabbit and Br'er bear!, 12. drinking at the roller-skating rink, drunk as a skunk, hunky punks, monks in bunks, who'd a-thunk, W: 13. aaa, african american author, pp pulitzer prize, 14. dang, Da Nang, tyranny in Tourane, 15. annoyed, Hanoi, 16. -sigh- gone, Saigon, (now Ho Chi Minh city), hoochie mamas, 17. The Rock, Alcatraz and Dwayne Johnson, 18. hostility, aggression, fighting, war, combat, ire in Ireland, melee in Malaysia, ruckus in Caracas, murder in Mordor, death in Death Valley, pain in Spain, misery in Missouri, disasters from a distance, local yokels, folks that smoke, the answer to cancer, dancer! 19. Sunny von Bulow and Shiite shit, 20. Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, founder of gymnastics ("turnverein" movement), 21. Watts riot ('65) by the numbers: 34 dead, over a thousand injured, nearly 4k arrested, and $40m worth of property destroyed, 22. numb to numbers (2 people die every second, ww), worldwide, W: 23. Da CIA in Dacia, 24. Silvanus, anus, and Sylvania light bulbs, (taking the trance out of Transylvania), 25. Addison, Adda river, and additional summer - a plus, 26. Boz in Basra, 27. Borgia and Borja, 28. Bahrain and Bahrayn, 29. Captain Francis Light, and EB White, Whitey Burger, Lewis Black, and David Dark, 30. M purr Ruhr, rivercats, 31. was Mayaguez (Puerto Rico) mayan?, 32. Y-mar, meat market (Weimar), 33. an ad for Chad, 34. rants about france, 35. Dadra and dad, the sun god, 36. comedians in microgravity, 37. in a pickle in Dili, daily, 38. eating paella with Al-Qaeda, 39. air rage, air raid, air rate/rave, err, heir, 40. Nate O., 41. cock, bang! (Bankok), UB40 and TB4U, out of order! holy orders. 

August 12

GR: 1. Hot buttered rum, toast (and a hot butt), TH: 2. louse, mouse, grouse, 3. spouse and house, 4. Ascalon, Avalon, mescaline, mezcal, ask Elon!, 5. "all right" (except for what's wrong); there's an exception to every rule, they say; every rose has it's thorn, 6. every cloud has a silver lining, (no they don't, lol), when life gives you lemons, make lemon-water, 7. Dupplin, Dublin, doublin', goblins, hobbits, habits, robots, rabbits, hiphop rabble, roubles, rubble, trouble, gobble-gobble, babble, kibble, bible, libel, label, Abel, cable, Betty Grable, 8. itch medication, and the Medicis, 9. North America, native americans, new amsterdam, sha-na-na, 10. Wampanoag wampum for a damp swamp, 11. Mohacz and Mohawks, 12. General Landon and London, 13. disinfectant was first used during surgery in 1865, by English surgeon Joseph Lister, 14. Hitler's mother's birthday, (Klara), 15. devil in the details, what comprises a compromise, 16. Cape Canaveral (reedbed, in spanish), 17. the parents of those lost in the Barents, 18. Tsar Bomba ('king of bombs', in russian) detonated in '53, in Kazakhstan (400 kilotons - 30x bigger than Hiroshima), 19. cbd, cannabidiol, and Cecil B. Demille, 20. Alexander Hamilton and Edith Hamilton, 21. Debbie Gibson and Guy Gibson, 22. (Zia-ul-) Haq, hawk, hack, aw heck, 23. Ross and Norris McWhirter (compilers of GBR), and Squirt (beverage), 24. Guinness Book of World Records, and Great Barrier Reef, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, 25. (Porter) Wagoner's agony, W: 26. PB and the proud boys, what's eating you?, "eat you alive", gay pride, the few the proud the marines, pride is a sin, tell that to the lion, 27. fat Fatimids listen to skinny puppy, pope bony face, 28. come to no harm in Harim, 29. bird relative, and aunty auk (Antioch), 30. cruel company rule, 31. Isaac Newton, Isaac Singer, and eye-sickness, 32. VH plays Halen Belgium, 33. Waffen on the Oder, 34. Barbara knows about the barbaric Babara massacre, 35. Bo knows how to blow his nose, 36. Tel al-Zaatar tell-all, 37. armada from Sarmada? are mad!

August 13

GR: 1. Florence Nightingale spent 53 years in bed, age 37-90, TH: 2. Croatoan isn't Croatian, 3. how rich was Richelieu?, 4. Cuauhtemoc, Aztec emperor, and Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent deity, and Hernan Cortes, whose men leveled the city of Tenochtitlan, 5. Ruler, measuring your time, lord, life or death, 6.  one estimate is 55 million people, or 95% of the population of the Americas, was decimated by the European invasion, from the unknown diseases, for which they lacked immunity, of smallpox, measles, influenza, salmonella, (and deliberate killings, wars), 7. Bayreuth and Babe Ruth, 8. "taxi" comes from taximeter (measures distance or time), "cab" from cabriolet (one horse carriage), 9. In 1915, a sniper fires a bullet at a soldier aiming at him, which entered the barrel of his rifle (!), damaging the gun, but leaving everyone unharmed, 10. Radio City Music Hall (NYC) (I've been there), 11. Sylvester Stallone, and Lucy Stone, 12. Super Grover and Sir George Grove, 13. Fidelity to Fidel Castro (Ruz), W: 14. armistice with pope hormisdas, 15. a beer with Liberius, 16. this just in! - Justin isn't Justinian!, 17. global warming and Maurice, 18. sister from Susteren, 19. heretic, there a tick, 20. (colonel George) Monck the monkey-monk, 21. aryan Bavarians, 22. urbane Serbians, 23. autumnal ottomans, 24. Swedish sweets (e.g. fish), 25. stainless steel, not nazi, 26. DSM and the "development of substitute materials" (Manhattan) project, 27. grizzly bears, fo' shizzle, 28. Beirut and rooted in the Bay Area, 29. Gatumban tombs, 30. Al Gore, and a gory Gori (Georgia) bloodbath.

August 14

GR: 1. William Randolph Hearst spent $500,000,000 in his life, (Orson Wells’ Citizen Kane was a virtual parody of his life), TH: 2. King Duncan of Scotland, and the NBA dunk contest champion, 3. eating thai food during a typhoon, 4. Mons, Belgium, Olympus mons, and mons pubis, (and monsoon), 5. The Cologne Cathedral was finished in 1880 (construction started in 1248), badly damaged in WWII (14 hits), 6. Felix the Cat, Tom and Jerry, Garfield, Sylvester, The Cheshire Cat, Hello Kitty, Simba, etc., 7. debut of de butt, 8. Mt. Rushmore, listen to more Rush, 9. Gutzon Borglum and GB and Borg, 10.  a homonym can be a homograph (spelled same) or a homophone (sound same), 11. Mont Blanc, white mountain (road tunnel underneath); Matterhorn, different (over 500 alpinists have died on it...black mountain? mount doom!), 12. ask God about Gdansk, 13. distraught on the streets, 14. Londonderry isn't London, 15. Danzig ain't Dan, or danish, 16. Gary Larson, The Far Side, and the near side of the moon, (because of synchronous rotation), 17. Steve Martin into S and M (wild and crazy guy!), 18. David Crosby and Bill Cosby, 19. Nobel prize, ring a bell?, 20. Ernest Thayer, Abbott Thayer, (and Zach), 21. ants protesting (catholicity), anti-testing, testes, tease, ease, T's and E's, 22. hell's bells, kill bill, ellen the felon, all fall, an old goal, cow in the hull are you?,W:  23. Saseno? if you say so, 24. battle of Mauron, and Moroni, moron, 25. still Castilian?, 26. Fuckland islands, 27. Robert Redford and the battle of the yellow ford, 28. Pawnee pawns, Otoe theory of everything, 29. Basil the Great, Gregory the theologian, John Chrysostom (the 3 hierarchs), and the 3 sacred treasures of imperial Japan (sword, mirror, jewel), 30. row row row your boat; gals in the alley, and galley, 31. gps, Global Positioning System, government pension system (social security), 32. american federation of labor, american football league, 33. IRS, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, Internal Revenue Service, 34. Carlos the Jackal, Guy "the fly" Williams, Lennox "the lion" Lewis, etc.

August 15

GR: 1. Gary, Indiana was named after the founder of US Steel (and the US was stolen from Indians; 27 states are named from native american/indigenous languages), TH: 2. Kings, Popes, Emperors, and hobbits, big up yourself, 3. Silesian legions, with lesions, 4. Liberia founded, 1824, by freed american slaves, 5. holy guacamole!  eating raviolis at Tivoli, 6. gab with Alexander Graham Bell, 7. severing diplomatic relations? ouch!, 8. diplomats with diplomas, doctors with documents, a pope with papers, leaders with letters, and a book about Bach, 9. watching The Omen at Grauman's, 10. Lady of the Lake, lol, 11. CEO, confessions of an English opium-eater, 12. Usain Bolt and Robert Bolt, 13. playwright, mommy, he's not playing right!, 14. 163 years of british rule ends, 1947, with the creation of India and Pakistan, 15. hm, Hindu-Muslim, with the same god?, Brahman is Allah?, does he care what you call him?, Jah mon, W: 16. Austrasia ain't Australasia, Australia, Austria, or Asia, 17.  I sense Saracens, Sara, with my spider sense, 18. Ibatzes went batty, 19. King Stephen I of Hungary, and Stephen King, of Maine, 20. Queen Tamar will see you tomorrow, 21. The Moorish lessee, 22. foolish little girl -shirelles, sophomore (wise fool), fools for christ, and the 3 wise men, 23. Malacca and Malik and Malakis, 24. loyal to SI of Loyola, be true to your school now, 25. dragoon named after dragon (handgun version of blunderbuss, carried by dragoons from the french army), 26. largest earthquake on land (8.6), on Assam-Tibet-Myanmar border (1950), 27. Assam movement: demanded the detection, disenfranchisement, and deportation of illegal aliens in India, 28. omg, Omagh, 29. eye mack cum pewter, 30. soon we'll all be Sunni. 

August 16

GR: 1. EAP, education abroad program, Elvis Aron Presley (died age 42), pbs, pale blue shirt, 2. Margaret Mitchell, mm, and Tuesday's Gone with the wind, - Lynyrd Skynyrd, 3. Bela Lugosi was buried in his Count Dracula cape, TH: 4. B.S. about the battle of the spurs, 5. Jack Broughton, bring it!, 6. satanic orgies, as opposed to the holy orgies, in heaven, 7. Horatio Gates, loser, and Bill Gates, winner, 8. St. Peter's Field (Manchester) and St. Peter's Square (Rome), 9.  First Bishop of Rome, first bishop of Antioch, (and the bike shop), 2 bishops (chess), 10.  Archie Bunker, and Chang and Eng, 11. RC, Roman Catholic, roller-coaster, rivercats, rancho Cordova, Rubik's cube, remote/radio control, Roberto Clemente, etc., 12. military service made obligatory in the USSR in 1928, (fucking evil, if you ask me), 13. Godoy, and the grand old duke of York, 14. Jules Laforgue and Giordi Laforge, 15. Carolina Oliphant's singing elephant, 16. Menachem Begin and Eli Finish (Israeli comedian), 17. Shimon Peres and Perez Hilton, 18. Madonna Ciccone (6 children), and Madonna (just Jesus?), god's kid brother - dead milkmen, mad donna, dna mona, anna dom, moan, damn, 19. Robert Ringling, Ronald Reagan, railroad, roman republic, roadrunner, Rolls-Royce, Range Rover, randy rhoades, rob reiner, robert redford, 20. reproductive rights (a license to kill?), W: 20. Wang Mang and the fang gang, 21. Abbasids on acid, 22. praying mantis, in Mantua, 23. spy from Speyer, 24. try 3 tribunals, 25. elephants in Tuscany, 26. insanity: 3500 Paraguayans (mostly boys between ages 9-15) face/are massacred by 20,000 veteran soldiers, (1869), 27. battle of Mars-la-Tour (not a tour of planet Mars), 28. Paradise and Valparaiso, 29. Lake Baikal and bike all!, 30. more insanity: the Dole air race, Oakland to Honolulu, 6 out of 8 participating planes crash or disappear (!), 31. rabbits in Rabat, 32. Gurindji guru, 33. 154 out of 155 die in plane crash, (Detroit, 1987), 34. doom in Douma. 

August 17

GR: 1.  Don't stress, says Jess, regarding the Rudolf Hess mess (god bless), TH: 2. who you calling' an ant, twerp?, (Antwerp, Belgium), 3. Peace of Abo, and cabo wabo, and Gabo (GGM), 4. wenches with wrenches, 5. William Bonney (billy the kid),  "my bonny lies over the ocean...", 6. Joseph Pulitzer and JP Morgan, 7. sister mess, Messina Sicily, 8. Indonesia was occupied by the Dutch for 350 years, 9. democratically elected government, by degrees, 10. Ruth Perry and Luke Perry, 11. Washington, d.c. - davy crockett, 12. Mae West wasn't a mother; she had an abortion that nearly killed her, and left her infertile, 13. Robert De Niro and registered dietitian nutritionist, registered dental nurse, 14. dietiCIAn, if you prefer, culinary institute of america, W: 15. Ottokar and auto car, (and Sukarno, and Kharijites, and Caracas, and Madagascar, and Central African Republic, and Khartoum), 16. Be nice, Venice, 17. battle of Alavus (all of us?), 18. parlous parliament, 19. worriers about warriors, 20. Fort Sumter is really sumtin', 21. dutch duchy, 22. goddamn! the Gotterdammerung!, Wagner the dog, 23. galvanizing Galveston (Go, Beto!), 24. entente and detente and ontology of ontogeny, 25. Dim mak on Makin, 26. Hydra (myth, metaphor, animal, or constellation?), 27. Orwell goes to Orsic castle (Croatia), 28. Quake Lake (formed in '59, Montana), 29. Fechter, fuct, 30. misery in Miserey (France), 31. MP, Michael Phelps, minister of parliament, military police, missing person, Madhya Pradesh, machine pistol, 32. heroin in Erawan.

August 18

GR: 1. (Alexander VI) Pope drinks poison intended for one of his guests, and dies; he staged orgies, and sired dozens of illegitimate children, and had a portrait of his favorite mistress in the guise of Virgin Mary hung over his bed, sold indulgences, mobs looted his palace, 2. Balzac died of gangrene because of (a hundred!) leeches to reduce dropsical swelling from drinking too much coffee, TH: 3. three orders of St. Francis: thou shalt, thou shalt not, ya whatever, 4. Council of Trent, counting pencils, Trent Reznor, 5. Giovanni Domenico Cassini, have you seen G-D?, 6. defeated and defecated, 7. Tim and Molly, Timbuktu Mali, 8. the helium power of the sun, hot sex with a warm friend, 9. the word "television" is coined in 1900, by Constantin Perskyi,  (but it wasn't invented until 1927), 10. 19th amendment, ratified by TN (gitmo: giving it the two-thirds majority of) state ratification (rats?) to become lol (law of land), 11. Genghis Khan means 'universal ruler', ruler of the universe!, like Mr. Universe, to infinity and beyond!, 12. Casper Weinberger, and the Cold War, 13. protestantichrist antagonizing antarctica, 14. antimony and propane, pro-money and anti-pain, 5. Meriwether Lewis, having fun in the sun, or only happy when it rains, 16. Virginia Dare, gave Darth Vader v.d., W: 17. lady gaga in Malaga, 18. Madness: Lancashire witch trials (1612): of 11 that went to trial (9 women, 2 men), 10 found guilty (executed by hanging) and 1 not guilty, geezus effing criced!,  (in 400 years, will they look back on us as similarly insane?), 19. sssss - city of Shamakhi in Safavid Shirvan is sacked, 20. Timbuktu and bucks for MIT, too, 21. the sound of puking at Puget sound, but not in the Kuril Islands, 22. a lot of graves in Gravelotte, 23. afraid of martians? you could be Phobos-phobic, 24. Martin is unique, but the samsara is the same, in Martinique, 25. suffrage? suffering succotash!, 26. jesuit smokejumpers, 27. Lola -Kinks, Lolita -Nabokov, 28. poplar trees are popular, fig trees aren't a figment of your imagination, rool grenache rule, and succulents suck, 29. a funeral for a glacier. huh.

August 19

GR: 1. pneumonia and old Mona, TH: 2. Seljuks, selling junk, 3. Armenians are kind, too, 4. Manzikert and womanzskirt, 5. Aragon, era gone, 6. Hebrews and she-bruise, 7. in hair tints, inheritance, 8. Mary of Burgundy, Maximilian I, in the mob, 9. assume the throne, set your ass on it, thrown a fit, 10. keystone kops, and the king of poland, 11. witchcraft and getting crafty, shopping at Michael's, arts and crafts, farts and craps, 12. daggers and war (guerra), and daguerrotypes, 13. Joseph Conrad, JTKK, actually,14. Amanollah, o man allah, 15. the last (15 millionth) ford model T rolls off the assembly line, (1927), 16. Adolf hitler, pac-man (president and chancellor), 17. MM, mohammed mosaddeq, mossad, sad, 18. Green Party, GOP, red party, blue party, (any other colors?), 19. John Dryden, j.d., laureate, Lori it, 20. Coco Chanel, kookoo for Cocoa Puffs, little black dress, iconic, like carl Icahn, 21. William Wordsworth and Philo Farnsworth, what's it worth?, 22. Gr, Gene Roddenberry, Grand Rapids, general relativity, golden retriever, 23. B.C., bill clinton, british columbia, before christ, baja california, boston college, 24. fidelity and guaranty life, Federico Garcia Lorca, killed age 38, W: 25. Samnite war, and samsonite luggage, 26. Battle of Kars, and Car Wars (game), 27. Novy god means 'new year' in russian, 28. Goodyear (tires) and God year (every year is a godly revolution!), 29. tired of tears, resisting rest, sleeping on a slope, a nippy nap, 30. sputtering sputnik, 31. 4-oh gpa and Foros, Ukraine, 32. Hosni in Grozny, 33. dharma in Dhamara.

August 20

GR: 1. HH "high-handed", 2. SD, slam-dancing, sex drugs, satan devil, san diego, south dakota, TH: 3. muckety-mucks in the battle of Yarmuk, wearing yarmulkes, 4. losing at dice, and paradise lost, 5. John Milton and Jim Marquis, (roommate in a past life), 6. Vitus J. Bering gets his bearings, 7. Barry the bear, 8. James Tyler was the first president not to seek reelection, 9. Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky in the pit, 10. Klob, King Leopold of Belgium, Amy klobuchar, 11. Fickle (Jacob) Fickel, 12. muscles from Brussels, 13. Olympic Games, O.G., Augie, original gangster, e.g. Bonano, and Og, time bandit, 14. Leon Trotsky (killed by a hired assassin) and LT, larry teshara, loony tunes, lieutenant, local time, long-term, lake tahoe, Linus torvalds, etc., 15. Pluto is made of plutonium, 16. Sirte, certificate, certifiable, 17. Wehrmacht, mocked, 18. where oh where are my wares?, 19. Patrick Henry Sherril goes postal, kills 14 usps co-workers, injures 6 others, then kills self, in OK, in 1986;  (Terry Pratchett's book Going Postal came out in September 2004), 20. Estonia, everybody must get stoned, 21. a message sent around the world (28,000 miles) by telegram in 1911 took 16 minutes to transmit - is considered important to the history of the internet, by demonstrating the power of electronic technology, 22. G-D, great distances, 23. Jacopo Peri, regarded as first opera composer, 24. Oliver Hazard Perry, OH my god, a pair of pears, 25. Ohio my god, 26. HP Lovecraft (Howard Phillips) and Harry Potter, Hewlett-Packard, Himachal Pradesh, horsepower, high-powered, 27. Raymond Poincare and the conjecture (Henri's, Raymond's cousin), 28. Salvatore Quasimodo (Italian Nobel winning poet) and the hunchback of Notre Dame (with kyphosis), 29. Victor Hugo and Van Halen, 30. Don King and his donkey, 31. Rajiv Ghandi (unrelated to the mahatma), 32. great soul, hot ma, and milfs, 33. Robert Plant, botanist, (Bonzo's drumsticks were called 'trees'), (Bonham), W: 34.  a post about Postumus (related to posthumous?), 35. Acheloos, and sneezing: achoo!, 36. an emetic for St. Emeric, 37. Olmecs in Olmedo, 38. Coca-Cola calligraphy, in Pensacola, 39. Teutonic Order in Tucson, 40. closing the book on Buchenwald, 41. PS, Prague Spring, 42. how do you say "mayday" in Meitei?, 43. Knights Templar, Kenya/Tanzania (embassy bombings), K-T boundary (cretaceous-tertiary), and Katie, 44. Mercedes Sri Lanka (SL).

August 21

GR: 1. Elizabeth Bathory and her bloodbath (literally), TH: 2. Iberian beer, 3. a private investigator, and a pueblo indian, 4. Venetian blinds were invented in Louisiana, 5. Satan devil vs. Antichrist Lucifer (Abraham Lincoln v. Stephen Douglas), L-D debate, to lethal dose or not to lethal dose, that is the question, whether 'tis nobler... 6. quantifying the kills of William Quantrill, (150 men),  7. Jesse James, JJ, jesu juva (jesus, help), 8. Benny Goodman and the BeeGees, Barlow girl, Baby Gangsta, 9. naughty sailors on the Nautilus, 10. Jomo Kenyatta was, of course, Kenyan, and had a rival named Oginga Odinga, and had 8 children, 11. Vincenzo Peruggia for Veep (Vice President), 12. can't spell pagoda without god, (pa as god?), 13. benigno pronounce buh-ning-gow (but miss-pronunciation is benign); being shot in the head, however, is not, 14. the earth belches gas from a volcanic lake, Lake Nyos, killing 1700+ people in 1986 in Cameroon, 15. Wikipedia came up with 14 Augustuses, and Augusto Pinochet, too, 16. fashion police, and norms re: beard, and Aubrey Beardsley (ley is law in spanish), 17. Viet Cong and Victoria Cross and venture capital, vassar college, videoconferencing, 18. Wilt Chamberlain ("nobody roots for Goliath") and WC Fields and working class, World Cup, writing commons, 19. Milton Bradley, Matthew Broderick, Muslim Brotherhood, Mercedes Benz, bachelor of medicine, W: 20. Saladin, in my salad, 21. I marinate my Marinids, 22. Cooking James Cook, 23. Eucharist in Bucharest, 24. a despot in the pot, 25. virgo virgin from Virginia, extra-virgin olive oil, 26. Viennese sausage, 27. Knock knock, who's there? Mary!, 28. County Mayo, Mayo Clinic, mayonnaise, 29. Tenaru, are you ten?, 30. Demon core kills physicist, 31. chowing on Ceausescu, 32. Marco and Marcos, 33. Leonard Nimoy, Sri Chinmoy, and Ninoy Aquino, 34. ghouls in Ghouta.

August 22

GR: 1. Violent Violet, 2. dunking and ducking; violent mobs kill the innocent, (vs. "the wisdom of crowds" -2004 book by James Surowiecki), TH: 3. Duke of Alba, and Jessica Alba, and alma de Allah, 4. product brands and branding irons, 5. Handel's water music, for a rainy day, or to piss to, 6. Jerusalem, Virginia (and 7 other places in US), and 11 places in the world (besides Israel), 7. C and H, caught and hanged, sugar, 8. Joseph Strauss, s.j., 9. Mormon Tabernacle Choir, gimme more, man!, 10. my Claude Debussy cd, 11. Dorothy Parker and Peter Parker and Sarah Jessica Parker, parkour at the park, 12. John Lee Hooker, and pimps in jail (JL), 13. pimps, pumps, and pampers, 14. Ray Bradbury at Arby's, 15. Stormin' Norman, Schwarzkopf and Schwarzenegger, what's in a name?, 16. Tears for Fears, near-beer, cheer up dear, Richard Gere is here,  queers merely spear rears, veer away from deer, 17. IRC doesn't irk me, 18. deep into Dorothy Parker (laments for the living, after such pleasure, and the Grateful Dead), 19. Rocky Marciano and Peter Stone, listening to rock n roll, watching Flintstones, W: 20. I'm aghast at Arbogast!, 21. Eugenius, you genius! eugenics in Eugene OR?, 22. Jengland ain't England ain't gangland, 23. Plantagenet and plant a genet ("a colony of plants, fungi, or bacteria that come from a singular genetic source"), 24. archbishop arrested for heresy?!, (by whom? oh, that fucking Spanish Inquisition), 25. Going mad in Madras, (now Chennai), 26. a Nayak kayak, 27. gardening in Sardinia, 28. masturbating in Kilcummin, 29. Jennifer and Eve, in Geneva, 30. Kashgar earthquake and the cash cab, 31. cricket the sport has nothing to do with cricket the insect, (separate derivation), 32. counties of Ireland: 32!, 33. penal colony on Devil's Island, or hell? the right to choose, French Guiana, or ..the place of the dead, 34. John Mitchell and Joni Mitchell, 35. TX Rangers defeat Baltimore Orioles 30-3 (most runs by a team in MLB history). 

August 23

GR: 1. pumice, hummus, and a fungus among us, 2. when Rudolph Valentino died, women killed themselves in grief (one by poison, one shot herself, and 2 japanese women threw themselves into a volcano), and 2 riots occurred (one at the funeral home, one as the funeral train went through Chicago), TH: 3. shit I'm shot, hurt in the dirt, down on the ground, pain in spain, what's the war even for?, stupid cupid, insane in the membrane, bug thugs, old soldiers, cruel fools, stick the wicked, mean machines, dumb bums, fight night, stun gun, Jed's dead, the late-great, rhyme crime, 4. son of a pitch, the snatch catch, 5. DFW (David foster Wallace), and William Wallace (hung, drawn, quartered), vs. getting paid a quarter for hanging a drawing, 6.  Dallas/Ft. Worth, too, 7. long dong in Hong Kong, 8. my dad's brother was named Tom, uncle tom's cabin, by H b.s., 9. ship to shore, and the shit-show, 10. chitty chitty bang bang was an actual car, 11. Aleksandr GODunov defects to the US in 1979, the first dancer to defect from the Bolshoi ballet, 12. Annie Lennox and Ernst Krenek, 13. Sonny Jurgenson, s.j., 14. Gene Kelly's genetics, 15. Tex Williams was from Illinois, 16. Keith Moon's birthday ('46) and the US Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of the earth from the moon ('66), W: 17. carry on, Caesarion, 18. avian Octavian, for the birds, 19. the Golden Horde and paying a whore in gold, 20. Mosquito Coast, aka Mosquitia (!), 21. mosquitoes serve an ecological function: food, helping plants, maybe even have medical value, 22. Sacco and Vanzetti, in Sacramento and Venezia, 23. 1991, the World Wide Web is opened to the public, 24. Manama Bahrain and going bananas about Panama rain.   

August 24

GR: 1. Romantic antics, TH: 2. GB, Great Britain, Gutenberg Bible, Guinea-Bissau, Green Bay, Guillain-Barre syndrome, 3. Ook!  an "orgy of killing" (massacre of Huguenots across France), also, Terry Pratchett orangutan librarian reference, 4. Reading a sutta in Calcutta, 5. Vlad was bad, 6. Potato chips invented, 1853, in Saratoga Springs, by George Crum, 7. a racehorse (Lou Dillon) beat the 2 minute mile, in 1903, 8. twichild, and the Turkish War for Independence, 9. Cindy and Kate, in a syndicate, 10. Mau Mau fighters, and Mao, and maus, 11. a swimmer (Don Schollander) beat the 2 minute (200m freestyle), 12. in 79 a.d., the volcano vesuvius erupted, burying Herculaneum and Pompeii (Vulcan victorious over pompous Hercules!), 13. Yessir, Yasir!, 14. Churchill hated his portrait (by Graham Sutherland) so much, his wife had it burned, 15. Jorge Luis Borges, "sabelotodo" (in praise of darkness, the book of imaginary beings), 16. JLB and JLT, 17. God may be imaginary, but I'm not (well, not yet), 18. William Wilberforce, instrumental politician and humanitarian to bringing about the end of slavery in the British Empire, 19. Geoffrey Plantagenet drives a jeep, 20. Sir Alexander Phlegming, Fleming From Flanders, beast: lemming, lemon, Salem, ahem, W: 21. Gratian, you ingrate!, 22. Magna Carta and mind control, (just thinking aloud, like subvocalizing what you read, speak "your" mind), 23. bubba, don't mess with the bubonic chronic, 24. Surat and Montserrat, 25. Valdivia and the Maldives, 26. Hats vs. Caps (political parties), and the Russo-Swedish war, and the mad hatter, 27. drive my de soto to Decoto.

August 25

GR: 1. Friedrich Nietzsche died, aged 55, he had spent 11 years in a lunatic asylum, TH: 2. Nicaea (in modern-day Turkey) established the doctrine of the Holy Trinity (in 325 a.d.), 3. Beau Geste, silent film, jess t, and jet engines, Jettas, and j'taime, 4. John Birch, purchase the merch, urchin, 5. (blind) Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, soar, sore, (sentenced to life plus 15, died in 2017), 6. the czar's car, 7. thyroid ain't in your thigh, 8. Elvis Costello and Elvis Presley, 9. Hitler's command to burn Paris to the ground, and blow up its landmarks, was defied by his commander (General Dietrich von choltitz), W: 10. German Germanicus, strategic Strategios, 11. Ommen, omen, amen, 12. Utrecht me!, 13. you slurping the throne, 14. Galileo Galilei and Vladimir Vladimirovich,  Snoop doggy Dogg,  Marky Mark, 15. The NY Sun publishes an article announcing the discovery of life and civilization on the moon ("Great moon hoax", 1835), 16. lion from Heraklion, 17. no peeking! Peking?, 18. Leuven, not lovin' library loss, deliberately destroyed.   

August 26

GR: 1. Charles Augustus Lindberg, and CAL, TH: 2. pity, piety, and the pieta (Italian for 'dutifulness'), 3. elation and depression, great or otherwise, 4. icbm in the toilet, 5. my fly swatter is instituting a "no-fly zone", 6. Libyans tried under Scottish law, in the Netherlands (!?), 7. abolition, temperance, and transformative justice (AT and T), 8. temperance is different from prohibition, 9. Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, it's all chemistry, everything is made of chemicals, even Allah? all! aha, (material girl -madonna; physical -dua lipa, (also, olivia newton john), W: 10. Sahabas in the Sahara, 11. army of armagnacs, 12. insurrection and outsurrection, 13. Togo and for here, 14. the ghetto, le cateau, the chateau, and Los Gatos, 15. terrorist peacekeepers. okay.  16. Yarmouth, MA leaves a taste, 17. making money in Moneta VA.

August 27

GR: 1. Brian Epstein, Jacob Epstein, and Jeffrey Epstein, TH: 2. brutish and british, brats made into bratwurst, 3. Peloponnesian ain't phillipines, 4. hamster from Amsterdam, 5. redoubt readout, indubitably, 6. Krakatoa in 1883, 120 foot tidal waves, killed 36k (are you on crack?), 7. Zanzibar fights a 38 minute war, (in 1896), 8. AH, Audrey Hepburn, Anne Heche, Hathaway, Anthony Hopkins, Adolf Hitler, Alfred Hitchcock, Austria-Hungary, 9. Christ, Christine, and Christa, 10. HH Horatio Hornblower, 11. Mother Teresa, Yugo girl, 12. Confucius knows kungfu, 13. Cynthia Potter and Harry the otter, W: 14. there's a hawk in my Sauk, 15. a priest attempted an assassination of a bishop (in Minnesota), 16. 'potassium' comes from potash, which isn't marijuana ashes, but potassium salts, used in fertilizer, mostly, 17. miners shouldn't be minors, 18. minotaur drinks taurine on Atauro island, 19. Jennie-O sausages and genocide.

August 28

GR: 1. strangers and stranglers, 2. Were Leopold and Loeb both Leo's?, (neither: Leopold was a scorpio (11/19/04), Loeb was a gemini (6/11/05), law enforcement officer!), TH: 3. a mosaic depicting Moses, 4. Thomas the train (and the Tom Thumb), 5. the worst Worcestershire sauce, 6. listening to Lohengrin high, 7. Anne's neck, and islands annexed, 8. the Zulu zoo, 9. Glider in space? astro-glide, 10. ripped and tornado, 11. getting burned by the British Royal Navy, 12. food fight! tomato-throwing (bunol had banned bullfighting), 13. how do you pronounce gestapo?, guess-ta-poe, (not jess top O), 14. hurry! the hurricane is coming, 15. batten the hatches! tie everything down! here comes the typhoon, (from a butterfly in Thailand?), 16. what is the point of sentencing someone to 365 years in prison? seriously??, 17. all men are created equal, (stupid little specks), 18. hierarchy of power, or liberte/egalite/fraternite, =ity, itty bitty, 19. zooming out, we're still specks, (even the SF Giants), on a rock in infinite! space, 20. How does Goethe become gr-tuh?, (or maybe goo-tuh), 21. Whipple and chains, 22. Boyer and girls, 23. Benjamin and Betjeman, 24. Donald O' Connor, doc, W: 25. David Letterman and Art Linkletter, 26. let it be, letter B, 27. bloodletting and the medical use of leeches, 28. suck and blow, inhale and exhale, inspire and expire, eat and excrete (air!), 29. drink in doctoral ink (theses?), 30. theses on feces, some shit, 31. sacramental excrement: if someone calls you an asshole, say thank you (without one, you'd explode), 32. the testes of Orestes, 33. ravaging Ravenna, 34. fat and timid Fatimids, skinny and bold Skold (Swedish surname), 35. lose and yawn, Lusignon, 36. an essay in Scientific American, 37. Silliman University, for silly men, 38. Goudi coup, god you and eye, 39. the Peace Palace, 40. Tool plays Toulon, 41. Emmett Till wasn't an extraterrestrial. 

August 29

GR: 1. Brigham Young died, leaving 26 widows (and 56 children), TH: 2. hanky-panky in Nanking, 3. Incan ink, 4. attaboy, Atahuallpa, 5. germany, austria, saxony, prussia (gasp!), 6. first indian reservation, established 1758, by NJ legislature: 1600 acres, 7. opportunity in Oporto, 8. (Michael faraday) transformers, more than meats the eye, 9. John Batman (not a typo) buys 600k acres of land in 1835 from AA (Australian aborigines), 10. Gottlieb Daimler invents first motorcycle (patented 1885), 11. reading John Locke in jail, 12. William Friedkin (what a surname), 13. Maurice Maeterlinck and eminem, 14. Oliver Wendell Holmes, ow homes, 15. I be Ingrid Bergman, u2?, 16. Charlie Parker, communist party, central powers, capital punishment, child pornography, cerebral palsy, candlepower, W: 17. Mainz ain't Maine, 18. Buda ain't Buddha (no?), 19. O shit, Oshima, 20. sexy Saxony, 21. Lenape, and Ellen the ape, 22. hats in Hatteras, 23. Joe 1 and Joe won, 24. dharma in Darmstadt, 25. Quito and quitting.

August 30

GR: 1. Cleopatra killed herself, using an asp, (poisonous snake), TH: 2. force= Mark Antony, 3. chief Oratamin takes his vitamins, 4. Hackensack Indians play hacky-sack, 5. Clement Adler of Germany invents stereo system, (1881, not nazi),  6. first match with boxing gloves (1884), 7. a comet collides (1979) with the sun, releasing the energy equivalent of a million hydrogen bombs (!), 8. Guion S. Bluford and Robert Redford, 9. can ya get me a ticket to Kenya, Ken? Ya!, 10. Ted Williams, Tiger Woods, and the Third World, 11. Kitty Wells and Sick Puppy, 12. Raymond Massey at mass, 13. Ernest Rutherford in the emergency room, W: 14. calm at Kulm, 15. Burgess Shale and Bosnian Serb bullshit, 16. Elephant Island has no elephants on it, but there's a proboscis, 17.  Dolan mountain, and on the dole.   

August 31

GR: 1. Jack the Ripper, R.I.P., (Dr. Thomas Cream?), TH: 2. don't disrespect dysentary, 3. eating Cadbury in Cadiz, 4. Sultan Murad V deposed after suffering "mental collapse", 5. Caligula, and the gal from Cal, the ghoul from school, and Dragula, 6. (Theophile - friend of god) Gautier and Gotye (one hit wonder, somebody I used to know), 7. HH Herman von Helmholtz, 8. Maria Montessori, eminem, 9. Porgy and Bess, and Porky's, 10. Arthur Godfrey, what's in a name? free god art :-), 11. Learning about (Alan Jay) Lerner, 12. Princess of Wales, pow!, 13. a general election isn't for electing army generals, 14. A national election shouldn't make you gnash your teeth, W: 15. Macedonian mastodon, 16. I bid on you, Ayyubid, 17. go slow, in Oslo, 18. Dr. Livingstone (David, missionary and explorer) I presume, and William Livingston (governor of NJ), 19. Mary Ann Nichols, man, 20. the door to Andorra, 21. I just adore Dora, 22. Lovettsville VA, gotta luvit, 23. TNT, Trinidad n' Tobago, 24. crane and turkey, 2 birds, separated by a black c, 25. Phuket, Thailand, doesn't rhyme with bucket, 26. Kirin from Kyrgyzstan, 27. lithium in Lithuania, 28. Dilma Rousseff and Yusuf. 

To be a rock and not to role - led zeppelin

jar jar of flies, lord of fleas, Alison Chaynes, 

  ZZ Top in the bathroom (eliminator)

mosquitoes in the mosque, flee fly!

rapper with a fly flow, let the hate flow through you

god is some next level shit

Voice says I’m a dhampir (let it rain! damper, get it?)

you ARE a doctor

brain fog, anxiety, and fatigue - (long covid)

   brain fog is not water on the brain (hydrocephalus)!

thinginess: blind, deaf, anosmia, ageusia, hypoesthesia

Yes indeed (in deed?) …legal deeds, too

Hi-heels, getting high heals? 

Foreign, domestic: for in, do me stick

Ear oh coy (tribe)

Ottorino Miss-Piggy!

bees, bats, butterflies

"bad libraries build collections. 

    good libraries build services.  

       great libraries build community."

under the spell of a book, a song, a movie, a moving public speaker: e.g. that witches exist (!)

(Jeremy) Linsanity; my old man is an old Giza from Egypt; the stench of the Oder river; Peggy Sue-a-side; RR reproductive rights; JT Jim Thorpe; a labrador on Lipitor; underwriting a triceratops! Saracens in Saratoga.  Army: my arm (appendage), my arm (weapon), my army (branch of armed services); STs: staff, stave, and stick;  wordplay, spells, memes;  dualities, associations, multiplicities; hip hop happenings: shoot from the hip and keep a stiff upper lip -ac/dc; bishop buy shop, biship.  GOD, Good, old-time, down-to-earth, hillbilly at harvard!

communist party, capital punishment, clifford pickover;  machine elves and me;  Proud Boys and jelly; is the earth losing water?  is that why the moon is getting farther?; rotation vs. revolution, speed vs. velocity, acceleration and deceleration, inertia and momentum, e=mc2 and f=ma so af=ec2 (ellen is Marco campagna too; sex is mother; Africa is European community too); suck and blow (breathing), black holes and gravity, solar wind and cocaine... space is expanding faster than the speed of light (because the edges are moving at speed of light in different directions?  space expanding faster in some places than others?  if we assume the universe is a sphere, can we calculate how far we are from the center? or, you are the center of the universe!! I'm the center of mine);  how can the universe be anything but infinite? is it possible to be outside spacetime?  what the hell are those physicists talking about?roommate says people think the Michelson-morley experiment (light as both particle and wave),  is a glitch in the "system";  system momentum, em um; getting older, slowing down.  evil is to live as god is to dog as dystopian is to naipotsyd!  homonyms can be homographs, homophones, or both (say, buffalo x8), psychonaut teleportation (vs. actual presence).  presentS.  "I believe there is some explanation for this universe - which you might call God" -Elon Musk.  God's god.  It's turtles all the way down.  The buck stops here.

Blockchain: new kids on the block, blockheads, Robert Bloch, off the chain, b.c., whips and chains, (block!) dodge, parry, thrust!, been around the block, playing with blocks, Tetris... blah blah blah (black blech! blick, block bluck - bucks) uses power, money is power..

two-way telepathy: we make each other sick; technically, we're both schizophrenic; we enhance each other / I think you're sicker than ever;

SAD: seasonal affective disorder, social anxiety disorder, schizo-affective disorder, sick and diseased, sad and depressed (reproductive lefts)

'they're swallowing because you're God, Jesse'

G-D as Greatest Demon (!) - General, on defense, Grateful Dead, glad of death (vs. torture), good old days, gold oil diamonds, genius on-demand, game of death, greatest of deities, guide of decisions, good orderly direction... glory daze.   plus, of course: Government-owned documents (!) (and "L etat c'est moi" -Louis XIV)