GR, TH, W. (from Grim Reaper, Today in History, Wikipedia)
October 1
GR: 1. Trade unions, communion, cum union (sex), and onions, funyuns, paul bunyan, canyon, Banyan, bunions, canon, cannon, Steve Bannon, annenberg foundation, danone yogurt, mennonites, mennen deodorant (smells like teen spirit!), enya, ny, yeah, TH: 2. was Damasus from Damascus? damn, ask us!, 3. having a beer with Pope Liberius, 4. Edgar becomes king of all England, (not just the Mercians and the Northumbrians; having mercy on the CIA and taking umbrage at the global North), 5. Pope kidnapped!, 6. grim pilgrims, 7. jumping off a ledge in Liege, 8. an essay on Stratford-upon-Avon, 9. a Chilean lay, 10. barnacles and bare knuckles, 11. quit watching Ted talks (ack), acquitted, 12. Lowman in Menlo Park, 13. manufacturing facts, factual factoids, truthiness, 14. Yosemite Sam the semite, 15. run over by the czar's car; the tsar's stars, 16. urged to visit Burgos, 17. guess top O, 18. serving Gerber at Nuremberg, 19. Joan of Arc and Henry Ford's model T: an affordable, reliable car, ("Tin Lizzie"), 20. Vladimir Horowitz or Van Halen?, 21. William Rehnquist's quest, 22. Rod Carew's crew, 23. Maria Mitchell and Mark McGwire , W: 24. Edgar the Peaceful (king of England, 959), 25. Ahmed says amen to meds, ahh, 26. Tampere, Tamara the peer, emperor, amped!, 27. kith and Kinburn, 28. jump-roping in Belgium, 29. drive your van to Yerevan, 30. what Sayid said, 31. The motto 'In God We Trust' first appears on U.S. paper currency (1959), 32. FSM, Flying Spaghetti Monster, free speech movement, 33. the true value of a trip to Tuvalu, 34. PLO Tunisia (a plot!), 35. lonely cats in Catalonia, 36. Stephen Paddock kills 58, injures 869 others (2017).
October 2
GR: 1. wife in a freezer; that's cold, TH: 2. Tetsuo, wise man, and total eclipse of the sun; the tets test, 3. HL, Hans Lippershey, dutch inventor of the world's first telescope, offered it for sale to the military, 4. papa's papist pap, 5. citizens, sitting zen, 6. Nethe river is in Germany (not Netherlands), 7. Ned the nederlander, 8. salt assault (Battle of Saltville, attempt to seize the Confederacy's main supply of salt, used as a preservative for army rations), 9. Nathan's debt, blowing up (detonate), 10. atolls, battle, cattle, rattle, tattle, 11. Marsha from Mars, 12. good Thurgood, 13. fuck Ferdinand Foch, and his fake folk, 14. Gandhi and gone D (-evil), 15. Graham Greene, grgr - to grumble and growl, 16. bellicose/belligerent, truculent, atrabilious, iracund, and pugnacious, 17. Irene is irenic, W: 18. BE, the Byzantine Emperor, 19. Frankish, Franconian, and French; Francisco Franco wasn't a Franciscan, 20. William of lefts, Bill of rights, 21. the O.D. in God stands for Opus Dei, not overdose; the G for Gatorade, of course, 22. Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, God, with a disorder, out of order!, and, of course, holy orders, like dog almighty, top dog, or gospel (god's spell), 23. witches from Wichita, 24. what's a "one-man election"? (Nguyen Van Thieu), 25. Michael Myers (corrupt politician) wasn't Michael Myers (halloween slasher), 26. Taipei, Taiwan isn't in Thailand (and the Taiping rebellion had nothing to do with typing, although maybe Tori Spelling was involved, for a spell), 27. I studied orthawgraphy for a spell, when I was Jung.
October 3
GR: 1. St. Francis of Assisi, age 44 (1226 a.d.), died of stigmata (he said, "welcome, Sister Death!"), after having asked to be buried in a criminal's cemetery (cc!); he preached that dirtiness was saintly and didn't bathe (like St. Jerome, who discouraged his followers from bathing; St. Catherine of Siena gave it up; and St Agnes is said to never have bathed at all), TH: 2. Sade's crusade, 3. Brazil is worth a zillion!, 4. gurgling burgler, 5. impressive Prussians, awesome Austrians, and blind Venetians, 6. billiards in Iraq, 7. Humphrey Bogart in a go-cart, 8. Sam Spade, not a nazi, 9. wolfing down Thomas Wolfe, 10. gay vampires and Gore Vidal in Grass Valley, 11. Chubby Checker and Chevy Chase at church, W: 12. Gojoseon, and Jose can't go on (Jose can you see?), 13. Mohammed and Alesia, 14. Caesar's salad, Caesarean section, and seizing her See's candies, 15. paying cash to Cassius, for a cassowary, 16. brutal Brutus wears brut, 17. Ostrogoths, Visigoths, and the goth subculture, drawing from gothic horror, 18. chicken boks, pitcher balks, in the Balkans, 19. cannons, howitzers, and mortars, champ, 20. WERD, first black-owned radio station in the U.S., opens in Atlanta (1949), (to your mother), 21. calm communists in the commonwealth, 22. German Unity Day, gud god.
October 4
GR: 1. cracking jokes with Graham Chapman, TH: 2. unpleasant peasants kill wang mang, 3. a beer with Tiberius, too, 4. silly sisters from Sicily, 5. pub publishing, 6. jewish wishes, 7. Exeter exegesis, 8. wild style, 9. Wittstock and Woodstock, 10. Y and dot (wyandotte) constitution, 11. I killed a man on Kilimanjaro, just to watch him dye, 12. G-D and George Dixon, General Dynamics, 13. macho with machetes, 14. Solly Smith, shell shock, supposed superior SP space program, soviet sputnik, hissing nazis, 15. SP, St. Peter, 16. Janis Joplin, not a heroin heroine, 17. Dick Tracy gets the DT's, 18. Buster Keaton at Burger King, 19. My memory of 1877-81 is a haze, W: 20. hellion rebellion of unpleasant peasants, 21. there were 13 popes who chose the name Innocent (and one antipope), which to me signals they were probably hiding a lot of guilt, lol, 22. in no sense am I innocent, 23. gay sex comes to an end, 24. Gregory, Gregor Samsa, and Gregorian calendar / chant, (grr, gore), 25. gals drink gallons on galleys and galleons, 26. The Who and William Howe, 27. aware of where there is air, 28. What is on Dubya's hat?, 29. When will my wen go away?, 30. Why is eating at the Y a joke?, oh I get it!, 31. parlous parliament, lamented, amen, 32. Tongo Tongo, Niger (bangin' on them bongos like a chimpanzee), 33. Bubba Wallace and DFW.
October 5
GR: 1. Shawnee indian chief, Tecumseh, killed in hand to hand combat with a future Vice President (Johnson, under Van Buren); T was credited for having limited the Indian custom of torturing prisoners - before him, it was SP (standard practice) to torment and then burn captives in elaborate, hideous rituals (which returned after his death); (!), (putting the 'vice' in Vice President), TH: 2. DRM, declaration of the rights of man, disability rights movement, 3. Edwin Hubble, eh?, 4. Audrey Hepburn, ah, 5. Stalin orders the Red Army to hold Stalingrad, lol; (Jessville is a mansion in Hong Kong, and Jessieville is in Arkansas); Tushara is a place in India, according to the Mahabharata, 6. Dalai Lama and doll eye llama!, or Dolly Ama, 7. crocodile in Ray Kroc's crockpot (says the crackpot), 8. Mario Lemieux is a cool cat, 9. Steve Miller into S and M?, or, Slobodan Milosevic?, (senior management, standard model, as well), W: 10. Heraclius isn't Heraclitus, (or her clit), 11. folks focusing on Phocas, 12. pay the patriarch, 13. how do you say, you can choke if you chew poorly, gal, in Portuguese?, 14. Jews choose Joos (japanese occupation of Singapore), 15. PS, Paolo Sarpi, 16. Verse I and Versailles (sigh), 17. fun in your undies on the Bay of Fundy, 18. self-determination and elf-determination!, 19. sleeping on Wake island, 20. oh! oh! the Oval Office, 21. Enrico Fermi, rico suave, fair me, 22. Mordechai Vanunu and John Henry Sununu, (old, old), 23. singing Disturbia in Serbia.
October 6
GR: 1. the beady eyes of Bette Davis, vs. JC (Joan Crawford), TH: 2. A God named Godfrey, 3. the alternative Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 4. Lindt chocolates (Swiss) and Jenny Lind (Swedish), 5. Teshara, Arausio: Tesharausio!, 6. Hsin dynasty, and hoisin sauce, 7. Pope on trial: not a pope, after all, 8. overalls and underwear and inner peas and outer space, 9. Mennonites and women in a daze, 10. Cornwallis and mourning solace, 11. Schweppe and shush your weeping, 12. treasonous trees, son; tea and riesens, 13. win one on Yom Kippur, 14. Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian with the name of a germanic pagan god (higher, doll!), 15. cheer up, Assad, W: 16. how do you like them apalachee?, 17. Orpheus and Euridice, can't be rid of Morpheus, 18. almond rocha and baroque music, 19. taking toiletries to the Tuileries, 20. were Tories conservative? (conservatory), 21. Venizelos wasn't Venezuelan, 22. Battle of Kock (1939), German victory, 23. duck waddle in Guadalcanal, and Dukla pass, 24. projectile vomiting, and launching lunch.
October 7
GR: 1. EAP (Edgar Allen Poe) was funny, too (at West Point, he got kicked out for obeying parade dress instructions, "white belts and gloves, under arms" (and nothing else!), TH: 2. day one of anno mundi: 10/7 3761 b.c. (God created the world on this date, according to jewish tradition: 37(10), 61(7), 3. yowza, year of the world, 4. Hamas in the Bahamas, 5. Christopher Columbus, and St. Francis of CC, 6. Ypres and Cyprus, 7. Is Yo-Yo Ma his real name? Yup!, life has its ups and downs, said the elevator repairman, 8. heir apparent, Harry's hair apparates, 9. a band of bandits, 10. Friar Tuck in Kentucky, 11. Richmond, VA and Pur, Iran, 12. Charasia is in Asia, 13. charisma of Charlemagne playing charades, 14. the Balkan falcon, the baltic tick, 15. KLM (dutch airline) and Killian's red (beer) and Erik Killmonger (from Marvel's Black Panther), 16. kilim, Kilkenny, Kildare, Kilauea, Killarney, kilig, kilderkin, Kilimanjaro, killing time, 17. VP, Vladimir Putin, veep, vicious president, 18. the boss of Bosnia, 19. Hertz rental cars in Herzegovina, the T hurts, says Jesus, 20. Saul, Solomon, Han Solo, and Sal, 21. United Nations and United States (could be synonymous!), 22. terrorists, the martial artist knows how to terrorize wrists!, 23. FROG and DROG, (west and east germany) reunited (in 1990), 24. Niels Bohr stopped going to church, 25. two and two make four, Mr. Tutu makes Desmond, Tutu is also an Egyptian and Mesopotamian god, in addition to the ballet dress; V is the 22nd letter, 26. what's goin' ON, Oliver North? what's hapnin', Hapsburgs?, What's up, Uppsala University?, 26. happy Hopi hippies playing hoops, to hip-hop, W: 27. Modon, udon, Modoc, and demon, doom, mood, Odom, 28. you may shun making a proclamation, 29. mines of Moria ain't mom ain't the Morea expedition, 30. cornholing at Cornell with cornholio, not coolio, 31. St. Francis of a concentration camp (not!), 32. wearing Birkenstocks at Birkenau, 33. goin' back to Khalistan, I don't think so, 34. eating grub in Zagreb, 35. Matthew Shepard, and fisher of men, 36. covert perversion, 37. assault, and salty ass, 38. assembly of an asshole, 39. Kali, Hindu Mother Goddess, of war, anger, time, change, creation, destruction, and (ultimate) power; divine protector, and bestower of liberation, 40. Kali visits California, Cali Colombia, and Khalistan.
October 8
GR: 1. Franklin Pierce (President #14), such a depressing story: he and his wife Jane had 3 children; the first died in infancy, the second died at age 4, and the third, in a horrible train accident in front of his parents (Jane persuaded him that the grisly death was God's price for becoming president), 2. fire tornado from hell, TH: 3. "Che", for example, e.g., Ernesto Guevara, or Equatorial Guinea, 4. Pauline was an O.G. in Oaxaca and Guerrero, 5. Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik, playing chess with the kkk, 6. Mounting a machine gun on my MG (morris garages), 7. Nothing is permanent, even Buddha's hair, after Charles Nestle's "perm" (permanent wave hair treatment), 8. Listening to Billy Graham on my gramophone, 9. The Great Chicago fire (1871) wasn't!, (250xx, and 90,000 homes), brought under control with the help of a rainstorm, 10. taking ayahuasca on the Huascar, 11. shaman, amen, 12. sexy Texas, fucks in Kentucky, id in Florida, and, of course, californication, 13. take one's bearings is not related to the Bering strait or Vitus Bering, 14. Jesse Jackson, Jim Jones, and JJ (from good times); Jesse Jesus? I don't think so!, I prefer Chuy to heyzeus or eesah-e (Isai), 15. Betty Boothroyd and BB King playing with bb guns and Betty Boop, 16. horny Sigourney, messy Jesse, clean Dean, Buddha eats food-uh like gouda, cheeses riced!, a bawdy body, dude made of food, Al's galpal, Sally, howling at fouls, fowls and owls, bowels, and simon cowell, 17. A reading of Howl at Powell's books, 18. Isai isn't Esau, Jacob isn't a Jacobin, W: 19. licentious and sinful, Licinius, defeated by the vampire, Constant-teen, 20. monkeys on all the trees, in Montreal, 21. Balkan kin, 22. a dark day for the Weather Underground, 23. Solidarity with Isis and Osiris, 24. oohs and ahhs at the Office of Homeland Security, 25. XR, extinction rebellion, "uses nonviolent civil disobedience to compel government action to avoid tipping points in the climate system, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse," (XR is also an iPhone, extended release (medication), and chi-ro, a symbol for Christ).
October 9
GR: 1. San Quentin, Quentin Coldwater, Tarantino, qt, cutie, TH: 2. Christian Jacobsen Drakenberg died this date, 1772, reportedly at the age of 145 years, 325 days (the longest recorded lifespan, if true), 3. Aix-la-Chapelle and Dave Chapelle, and chaps at chapel, 4. Cheech and Chong at church, 5. can't spell assassin without sin, 6. theaters of war (god in the audience, how odd), 7. performance, acting, and prr form/cat (!), 8. Gabbing with Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Watson was 2 miles away (first phone call using outdoor wires), 9. Transvaal means beyond the Vaal river (in South Africa), 10. You gone? duh. M.o. (modus operandi); Milton Obote, first president of Uganda, had a way of operating, 11. Olivia from Bolivia, 12. avian Dave, the bird nerd, 13. in 1992, a 30 pound meteorite hit a parked red Chevy Malibu in Peekskill, NY, (boo! kill! god chucked a rock at us, but nobody hurt), 14. Alfred Dreyfus, and all the fuss about being wet, 15. simple Semple at temple, 16. school for scoundrels, has a ring to it, hell's bells, school of ghoti, 17. Jacques Tati and Erik Satie; Hulot wears a Hublot, 18. Vidal Sassoon and Camille Saint-Saens, 19. John Lennon (born 1940), his son, Sean Ono Lennon (1975), were born on the same day, (like Greg and Declan!), 20. Peter Tosh, Peggy Teshara, PT Barnum, patrol torpedo (boat), and physical trainer, etc., 21. Charles X and Malcolm X, W: 22. Oscar Mayer and Ballpark, kings of the Franks (vs. Carloman and Charlemagne), 23. dentures, candy, and the Danture campaign, Kingdom of Kandy, 24. chartered in Chartres, 25. Med it to rain, Ian! (instructions to a shaman named Ian), 26. a ho on Bart, with mania, on her way to Hobart, Tasmania, 27. I killed a guy in Guayaquil, (Ecuador), 28. Better defeated than de-feet'ed!, 29. Swiss fireman says "Bern, baby, bern", 30. Boulder/ Hoover dam, boldly sucking, 31. Koreans fighting in Vietnam (huh?), 32. Rangoon is Yangon (stop ringing up goons from Burma; the cold mom is now called Myanmar), 33. There's an (Arakan Rohingya) Salvation Army (an actual military force).
October 10
GR: 1. aha, and apparent heart attack, 2. Of Orson Welles, "there but for the grace of God, goes God," TH: 3. Ashura, Teshara, avalokitesvara, etc. , 4. Texeira, tesseract, John Tesh, 5. as earth, as heart, as hater, shat ear, 6. Charles Martel and a mexican cartel, 7. USNA, Annapolis, MD opens with 50 midshipmen and 7 professors (1845), 8. Triton is a Neptunian moon, and a greek god of the sea / merman, and a Ford engine, 9. Frodo in a Ford, Bilbo in Bilbao, Gandolf makes a hand off (football), and Sauron is just a moron, 10. Saruman v. Hanuman, 11. e.g., Fiji, and a squeegee, 12. Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer, ate custard, buster, 13. meth and beer, with Ethel Beers, 14. Mohammed Nader Khan, Ralph Nader, and nadir (vs. zenith), 15. grgr, George Gershwin, 16. HH Helen Hayes, 17. Thelonious Monk, and felonious monkeys, 18. JC, James Clavell, 19. Hewlett-Packard, Harry Potter, and Harold Pinter, 20. Charles Manson, Fridtjof Nansen, dancin' to Hanson, 21. Laird, Baird, and Verdi, 22. Spiro T. Agnew and an old sparrow, W: 23. tour guides in Tours, France, 24. holla about Karbala, 25. oh my! the Umayyad army, 26. a mutiny of cool cats, 27. Henry I and his Guise guys, 28. Surinamese surnames, 29. Corinth ain't Carinthia, 30. orthographic koo day taw, 31. eating munchies in Munich, 32. Sue indebted to Sudetenland, 33. muskrats in Muscat, 34. satellites and battle fights, 35. Eurajoki (Finland), you're a joke!, 36. a kinky relationship between diplomats (shall we normalize relations?), 37. millions of Antilleans are reptilians!
October 11
GR: 1. Chico Marx was "always on: the phone, a horse, or a broad", 2. Redd Foxx, of Sanford and Son, actually died of a heart attack (a gag on the show was him clutching his chest), TH: 3. Vasco de Gama, and She's a Bad Mama Jama, 4. the crystal palace, and pistol malice, 5. stench of trench, warfare and boars and bears, 6. Tom Cruise and the crew of a cruiser, 7. JFK, just fucking kill me, already, 8. Nolan Ryan on the Golan heights, 9. Ron and Mike vs. nukes, (Raygun and Gorby), 10. abc's of atomic, biological, and chemical weapons, 11. unclear about how to spell nuclear, (not nukular!), 12. business moguls and ski moguls and Mongolian beef and Mughal empire, 13. a delicate delegate, 14. Corey the choreographer, (or Khoury) 15. Michelle Trachtenberg, empty, drained, sucked dry!, (btvs actress), W: 16. Buca di Beppo in Aleppo, 17. drunken karaoke and the Jin-Song wars, 18. the orchard in Burchardi was flooded, 19. champions on lake Champlain, 20. Maronites in Marin, 21. my darling is in the Daughters of the American Revolution, 22. Transvaal ain't Transylvania, 23. my cousin from Kozani, 24. Tuvan throat singers, accompanied by tubas, 25. what's the point of a posthumous promotion, people?
October 12
GR: 1. Robert E. Lee's wife was the great-granddaughter of George Washington, (the E is for Edward); his coffin was a child's, and he was buried without boots, to fit, TH: 2. Daniel the cocker spaniel, 3. Demosthenes submits a demo, 4. satan of old, sold, soldiers, 5. DaN, Denmark and Norway, 6. Kowloon peninsula and mad cow disease, 7. the library at Lexington, Virginia, 8. woo woo! wizard of oz, 9. conscientious objector becomes a medical corpsman (myself - I object to that, too; like repairing a gun that just goes back into battle to kill again), 10. Song Dynasty, Kim Il Sung, blessings, Sanka, and stung by Tsung, 11. Voskhod, means 'ascent' or 'dawn', (first spaceflight with multiple (3) cosmonauts), 12. SP, St. Plunket, last Catholic martyr to die in England (hanged, disembowelled, quartered - geezus cryst), and Paul Simon, 13. USS Cole, not cool, 14. the role of coal is getting old, 15. Isaac Newton Lewis (american army officer) invented the machine gun, 16. prime minister eats prime rib on prime day, 17. listening to a Luciano Pavarotti LP, W: 18. Alan, the Iranian nomad, 19. a fair judge with fair appearance, making an appearance at the faire, 20. the dutch aren't deutsch and the danish aren't pastries, 21. Netherlands in the netherworld, 22. Miley Cyrus, Cypress hill, smiley iris, and Cyrus the great (balls of fire!), 23. making landfall (and sea rise!), 24. Audrey senses hadrons in the squadron, 25. the care and treatment of cats, 26. phlegmatic Flemish, 27. Nick on Muni, and Munich, 28. universal suffrage, for everyone in the universe!!, 29. AFP, active fire protection, Alcatraz federal penitentiary, 30. anal sex comes to an end, 31. public defender quits getting acquittals, believes everybody guilty of original sin, 32. Ellen and Magellan, 33. what causes crows caws in Abkhazia?, 34. why would anyone ever withdraw from UNESCO? (like U.S. and Israel, in 2017), 35. Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya becomes the first person to run a marathon in less than 2 hours (1:59:40, in Vienna, in 2019).
October 13
GR: 1. Webb on the web, and Annette on the net, TH: 2. Tiberius Claudius eats a bear claw, 3. Norman and Andy from Normandy, 4. Katie, of the Knights Templar, 5. Samuel Pepys drinks Pepsi, 6. true faith, false faith, and no faith at all, faith no more, 7. The U.S. had plans to conquer Canada (war of 1812), 8. B'nai B'rith, and the birth of a bunny!, 9. the prime meridian and the rhyming indian, 10. Fatima, Portugal and a fat ma on the porch, 11. Ankara, Asmara, carbonara, marinara, sayonara, samsara, tiara, teshara..., 12. Mercedes SL (and sign language), 13. platonic on Pluto, platitudes about the platypus, and a plate of plutoni-yum, 14. HH Horace Hayden, 15. Rudolf Virchow (founder of cellular pathology) drives an RV, 16. Yves Montand and Eve and Eva, 17. black ops in the White House, W: 18. Georgia Institute of Technology, git 'r done!, 19. I cannot visit Connaught, 20. cars in Kars (city in Turkey), and King Otto, 21. media circus and cirque du Soleil and Sirk, Slovakia, 22. stampede heroes commemorative stamp.
October 14
GR: 1. Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (why is the search engine named that? Crosby got his nickname because as a boy he liked a comic strip called the Bingville Bugle), Heather Lende ("Find the Good"), heavenly love, holy land, TH: 2. Pope beaten to death, in Rome, 3. Dios and Dioscorus, 4. crushing the Prussians, 5. Victor Hugo and Joe Loss, 6. Henry Blair, and the Blair Witch Project, 7. Alfred Nobel, no bell, no belle, 8. urban Serbia, rural Ruritania, 9. League of Nations, little league, 20k leagues under the sea, 10. ffff, fighting Francisco Franco's fascists, 11. neutral newts, partisan artisans, warren at war, peaceful pacifists in Pacifica, and hellions going helter-skelter in hell, 12. Orcs from the Orkney islands, hobbits in habits, and Ents high on entheogens, 13. denied cyanide, 14. Haiti, hey T, hate tea, and -like Jesus- hating T (cross), 15. heaven as a haven (plus ecstasy), 16. Lillian Gish and Lev Grossman, 17. Roger Moore and (my aunt) Rose Marie, 18. a Balrog isn't a pal-dog, 19. Jesse, Tennessee, Gennessee, and Hennessy, W: 20. Hastings and haste, stings, 21. Robert the Bruce and Bruce the Jen, 22. Frederick the grate, lol, 23. importing ragu from Ragusa, 24. capitol city, civic center, criminal conspiracy, continental congress, confederate command, chicago cubs, cuban crisis, central committee, cape canaveral, constitutional crisis, 25. 1888, first motion picture (Roundhay Garden Scene, filmed by Louis Le Prince), 26. a high court for lizards, (lys ardh), 27. U-47 (German submarine) and Telefunken U-47 (Frank Zappa's 'crew slut'), 28. Prisoners at Sobibor extermination camp covertly assassinate most of the on-duty SS officers and then stage a mass breakout (why didn't this happen everywhere?), 29. Chuck Yeager drinks Jaegermeister, 30. Neo the buddhist (and Neo-buddhism), 31. Balenciaga and Valencia, 32. Jim Hines is the first man to ever beat 10 seconds in the 100m sprint, (9.95s, in 1968), 33. drinking a lager, to support lesbian and gay rights, 34. a war on drugs, lol (as opposed to say, the manufacturers, distributors, consumers), like, say, a punching bag full of cocaine, 35. AOL, angel of the lord, AOG, army of god, and Hezbollah (party of god), 36. tropo/ strato/ meso/ thermo/ exo (spheres); Felix Baumgartner successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere (2012), not Madison Bumgarner (madbum!).
October 15
GR: 1. Goering, surprised at being sentenced to death, commits suicide, hours before he was due to hang; he had a pink full-dress uniform, and affected effeminate mannerisms, and thought every home in Germany would have a statue of him, TH: 2. Boso was a bozo (not a boson), king of Provence, keystone kop, 3. Polish queen crowned king, 4. Pope resigns, 5. the first combat submarine (CSS Hunley), sinks, twice, 6. G-D, The Great Dictator (of Tomania), 7. Virgil the virgin virgo, 8. an E.T. named Evangelista Torricelli, 9. Neat Nietzsche, messy Jesse, 10. a smooth operator with crunchy peanut butter, 11. Mario Puzo, minister of parliament, 12. Penny Marshall, a penny for your thoughts, 13. SF: Sarah Ferguson in San Francisco, 14. Mata Hari wasn't a Hari Krishna, 15. guarding La Guardia airport, W: 16. Edgar the Aetheling, an earthling, 17. (near-universal) adoption of the Gregorian calendar begins (1582), 18. Horace Lawson Hunley, inventor of eponymous submarine (CSS HL Hunley), which succeeded, but sank (3x), killing 21 confederate crewmen, 19. Glasgow, MO (1,090 people) ain't Glasgow, Scotland (largest city there, 630k people), 20. can you loan me a cat, Catalonia?, 21. armistice and an icy mist, 22. FORTRAN and the trans community, and of course, Tron, 23. West Gate bridge, over river Yarra, in Victoria, Australia, 24. buttfucking a boyfriend in Burkina Faso, (means, "upright" "father's house"/fatherland); also, best friend, breastfeeding, bigfoot, 25. there's an "Oh-My-God particle" (cosmic ray, observed in Utah), that was measured (in 1991) as having 40 million times the energy of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator, 26. Io, Jupiter's moon (eye owe), 27. neo-nazis vs. african-americans (alliteration vs. assonance).
October 16
GR: 1. Marie Antoinette, on the scaffold, about to be guillotined, accidentally stepped on her executioner's toe (her last words were, "Monsieur, I beg your pardon" (!), (of "let them eat cake" fame/infamy), TH: 2. see, Harry? heresy!, H and Erin Hennessy, and clerisy (distinct class of learned or literary people, who read for pleasure - not clerics, necessarily), 3. AK in Acadia, 4. Bengal tiger and Ben's gal, 5. Denouncing slavery, which is, in fact, a noun, 6. Valparaiso is a paradise for Val!, 7. Marconi on Coney Island, 8. Henry Kissinger was not a singer for the band Kiss, (and Eric Singer was in fact the drummer, lol), 9. burying Angela Lansbury, 10. Bob Weird, bobbing up and down, like jews rocking, back and forth, and third, second, first, (jews rock because the light of their soul ignites when they pray the torah, so they sway like the flame of a candle, says the Zohar), 11. Tony Robbins and Tim Robbins, W: 12. Ricimer plays the dulcimer, dies of ricin, 13. all is calm in Ulm, 14. cast of a play ("break a leg" before audition origin?), and caste-system, and fishers of men, 15. verbal sparring, and pun-jab, 16. Brezhnev and the Leonids, 17. Nobel nobility and no bells at Taco Bell, 18. tremors in Timor, 19. Bilbo in Balibo, 20. Desi and Desmond, 21. a killing in Killeen, TX, (Luby's cafetearia), 22. The Million Man March (attended by about 837,000), 23. Lande, Seae, and Skye, 24. orange crush, a crush on you, and a soccer crush, 25. Pinochet drinks pinot noir.
October 17
GR: 1. 9 people died in London in 1814 in a flood of beer, 2. Chopin, panamanian chimpanzee, shoe man didn't like show pan's work, "nobody can call that music," TH: 3. Pope and antipope, Christ and antichrist, God and antigod, Me and antime, You and antiyou, President and antipresident, 4. Antigone, anime, and antiparticles, 5. Spanish Inquisition, St. Ignatius, Sports Illustrated, and systeme internationale (metric system), 6. JS Bach married his first cousin, Maria Barbara Bach, 7. Christoph Willibald Gluck (Don Juan, ballet) and Louise Gluck, 8. Venn diagram, Vendee region, 9. friendly fire (and enemy water), and firewater, 10. kingpin Capone, 11. chinchilla in Chin-Chou, 12. Opec flexes its pecs (pectorals), 13. a pope named Albino, W: 14. dynasty and nasty dining, 15. King David II (the second) vs. 11 (eleven), 16. Ottoman carnations, 17. Gary and Ian, the Hungarians, 18. The Real presence of Christ in the eucharist (his bones ground to a powder and put in the wafers?), 19. magical, magic Albert, 20. the crowning of a king (a second time, after birth, no?), 21. hanged, drawn, and quartered (vs. hanging a drawing in my quarters! much, much different), 22. Star Trek and Dunkirk, 23. Triceratops in Saratoga, 24. Siege of Yorktown, see's and York peppermint patty!, (and soy), 25. Marcos and Marconi, 26. Leeds takes the lead!, 27. Titan AE and Albert Einstein, 28. U-boat and Me-boat, 29. Bored at Sobibor, 30. Juan paid yuan, 31. Ahmad and Anthony Hopkins madness, 32. a fire at the faire, 33. Yom Kippur, om, kippers, 34. a tasty dish from Mogadishu, 35. Mother Theresa feeling empty, 36. John and Jane Doe, and the department of education, 37. rude in Rudrapur, 38. Kholodov, loco.
October 18
GR: 1. rush week (greek russians), rueing roulette, TH: 2. get a grip, Agrippina!, 3. eating placenta in Placentia, 4. King Canute, and Knute, and Newt, 5. Rescind, and re-sinned, 6. chapel, Dave Chapelle, and Aix-la-chapelle, 7. Secretary of State, s.o.s., 8. all men aren't created equal (some sex is better!), 9. Hungary hung Gary, 10. Ngo Dinh Diem, per diem, 11. Canaletto eats a cannelloni, 12. Thomas Love Peacock (love is my middle name), 13. Fannie Hurst at Hearst castle, 14. eating Chuck Berry, 15. Wynton Marsalis on Mars, W: 16. Drusus, Drusilla, and Dr. Drew, 17. Pappus of Alexandria, and lapis lazuli, 18. exuding exclusion, 19. Dagobert (king of the Franks) and dogbert, 20. Franklin, frankly, is Frankish, but Norman isn't a Norman, 21. ogre of the sepulchre, 22. basal ganglia, basil, and Basel Switzerland, 23. maybe it's Mabila, 24. draw is ward, backwards (thai tie?), 25. Jue isn't jewish, 26. neatly writing like Phillis Wheatley, 27. Siege of Savannah, s.o.s., 28. Whales wail, 29. public relations and Puerto Rico, 30. Bulow, bellowing below, 31. Disturbia in Serbia, 32. Mary, the Mother of God (but Jesus said do not call me good, only God is good); so maybe Annette and Peggy, lol, 33. transmitters of trance music at MIT, 34. broadcasting, fishing for broads, 35. women are purse-uns, 36. vacuum repair in Czechoslovakia: can you check out my slow vacuum?, 37. Erwin Rommel listens to a homily, 38. camel takes amyl nitrate, 39. fucking Fuchs, 40. transistors and transexual sisters, 41. what's a home satellite earth station? (1979), 42. Azerbaijan and Azer-hi John!, 43. Benazir Bhutto, Bibi Netanyahu, Brigitte Bardot, Bosphorus Bridge, and the Big Bad wolf, 44. how's the weather in Chile? chilly! eat some chili.
October 19
GR: 1. let's not tie the knot in Nottinghamshire, 2. Jonathan Swift wrote, "when men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings", TH: 3. Gaiseric and Kaiser Permanente, and a geyser, 4. eating a York peppermint patty at Yorktown, 5. Edict of Toleration for space-alien religions, 6. Philip Sheridan, p.s., 7. virgins in Virginia City, NV, 8. Henry O. Tanner, and Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and a hot pet, 9. Roald Amundsen and Roald Dahl, 10. James Stewart, s.j., 11. karmic reprisal, justice, vengeance, tit-for-tat, 12. the world has 14 peaks higher than 8000 meters, 13. Leigh Hunt, I'm on the hunt I'm after you, 14. Charles Merrill and the Merrill-Lynch mob, 15. Evander Holyfield, eh?, W: 16. Scipio a scorpio?, 17. Punic war puny?, 18. cars in Carthage, 19. Vandals and the Vandellas, 20. a castle in Castillon, and Castile, 21. Nick toots after two tonics, 22. Dotcom, doctor of theology, capitols of Maine, Maryland, Massachussetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, 23. eating a burger in Edinburgh, 24. Felipe head screwdriver, 25. Orange County and Oliver Cromwell, 26. John Jay, and John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, 27. Cedar Creek, St. Francis of Assissi, see the Holy See, 28. my niece in Nice is nice, 29. Max Planck and black bodies, black holes, black eyes, and black lack, 30. take the leap to Ypres, 31. Streptomycin and strep throat, 32. pine trees on the Philippines, 33. Guatemala and Guate-buena, 34. betting on the Tibetans, 35. four point oh and the Point Four Program, 36. I declare this joint to be primo, 37. Wells Fargo and the embargo, 38. Watergate tapeworms, 39. Niue testament, 40. Nude Zealand, 41. internal intelligence (Data performs an internal diagnostic), 42. does Mozambique pique your interest?, 43. a pair of paramilitary groups, 44. Does Santa go to Christmas Island?, 45. Beatifying the beautiful beat poets, 46. the meat industry and crimes against humanity, humane-ity, 47. Hurricane Wilma, and the rubble after hurricane Betty.
October 20
GR: 1. sad trees in Trieste (Austria-Hungary), triste and Tetris, 2. pornographic anthropology, 3. "despite Roosevelt's many programs, only WWII would kill the Depression," TH: 4. elections, church lectors, Lech Walesa, and Hannibal Lecter, 5. Ellen and Magellan, 6. I wish I knew about the schooner sooner, 7. A Porpoise with purpose, 8. Rubik's cube in Cuba, 9. Wagner and my dog, 10. Mao Zedong's Long March ends (1935, 4k communists marched 6k miles in 368 days), 11. back in Aachen, then Hackensack, 12. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle Onassis, 13. HUAC and ENIAC and AC/DC, 14. Huey, Louis, and John Dewey, 15. marine corps, Mickey Mantle, and Krusty the clown, W: 16. Jessica Alba, Duke of Alba, albino, albumin, 17. let's go to Goes, 18. patent on Patrick's tent, 19. 10/20 initials, US-Canada, 49th parallel, 1260 miles (also my name, score, and citizenship), 20. War of the Pacific (oxymoron), 21. MDMA and Douglas MacArthur, 22. don't be Leyte, 23. Mao, Mau Mau uprising, mowing the lawn, ow! ow!, 24. Syd Barrett, Sid Vicious, and the Sydney Opera House, 25. LSD and Lynyrd Skynyrd, 26. Harlem ain't Haarlem, 27. rock on, Raqqa, 28. Muammar Gaddafi drove an MG.
October 21
GR: 1. (Dan) White kills (Harvey) Milk, high on (twinkies, with white cream, made with white sugar); White suicides this date by carbon monoxide poisoning (car exhaust, via hose to interior), (what color was his car?), 2. George Moscone in a Moscow mosque, TH: 3. Cicero's sister and Cataline's cat, 4. Safavid reader, 5. tolerating the tall, 6. frigate about it, 7. Sophie and Phil's shared philosophy, 8. future sniper, in a diaper, 9. Milton, and the Medicine Lodge Treaty, 10. trawlers make dollars, hank makes bank, my honey makes money, and holden is golden, 11. does the Bible have a ram page?, (jawbone of an ox), 12. mauled by a lion in Somalia, 13. does physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace ring a bell?, 14. Solti plays solitaire, 15. Dizzy Gillespie reaching dizzying heights of fame, 16. Whitey (Edward) Ford, in a white Ford (any color you like, so long as its black), W: 17. People's Crusade, so p.c., (and Portland cement, too), 18. entomologists (myrmecologists, specifically) studying ants in Antioch, 19. St. Pierre and Miquelon's original name was "islands of the 11,000 virgins", 20. a true shogun does not show his gun, 21. Star Wars tontons and Taunton, MA, 22. Criminals sent to fight the Crimean war, 23. The World's Columbian Exposition wasn't in Columbia, 24. explosion at the exposition, 25. Noble Niobe sails to Nairobi, 26. Warren G. Harding and Microsoft, 27. Yongju and young jews, 28. Fred Dryer and and Paul Washer, 29. Moshe Dayan, M.D., 30. Andreas Papandreou passed his A.P. test, 31. Al Jaffee in Jaffna, 32. Sol (sun), sole (fish, foot), and Seoul (South Korea), 33. soul music is good for your soul (spirit), 34. alcohol is in good spirits, 35. Souls, like ghosts, don't exist.
October 22
GR: 1. Chester Arthur "pretty boy" Floyd got his nickname when he entered a KC whorehouse, and the madam said, "I want you for myself, pretty boy", TH: 2. symbols, cymbals, and Abu Simbel, 3. Phelim the felon, 4. Jennifer Garner, Garnier, and Andre-Jacques Garnerin, 5. Second cumming of Chris T, 6. Charles Gounod is god, 7. Tom Horn, and Damien Thorn, 8. You think you're so smart? Jean-Paul Sartre farts on your art!, 9. George Beadle listens to the Beatles in his vw beetle, 10. Doris Lessing is a blessing, 11. teary-eyed Timothy Leary, 12. Fun with Annette Funicello, W: 13. Tokyo is close to Kyoto, 14. Ahmad, the mad nomad, 15. Ming dynasty, singles mingling in Wyoming, 16. silly skills on the Isles of Scilly, (pronounced silly), 17. Lake Ladoga and Ala God, 18. do all colleges have charters?, (no. states issue, to public colleges and universities, charters, OR licenses), 19. shart in Chartres, 20. Princeton and God gold, (symbol for Prince! plus, Sn), 21. harming Josiah Harmar, 22. G-D and the Great Disappointment, 23. Morocco, and Lesser Antilles, 24. hassles in Kassel, 25. Superman in a Supermax (prison), 26. crying in the crypt, tonight, 27. lanky Sri Lankans, 28. Lance Armstrong, what a dope, 29. the MESS act (marriage equality/same sex).
October 23
GR: 1. drowning the doctor's own, TH: 2. oppression of Oppenheimer, 3. Bohemia and Boshemia, 4. Oliver Cromwell, lived well, 5. who shot J.R.? Jackie Robinson, 6. Al Jolson drinks apple juice with OJ Simpson, 7. hungry in Hungary, full in Philadelphia, 8. Nicolas Appert invented food canning, aperitif!, 9. Adlai and false advertising, 10. Johnny Carson and Jesus Christ, and James Cook, John Cleese, Juan Carlos, John Candy, 11. Pele, pelear, and prostitution, 12. Chi-Chi Rodriguez and cho-cho, 13. Doug Flutie and vile Lynn, 14. Beirut, rooting for the Giants, W: 15. Creation date! (4004 BC, according to James Ussher), 16. MAO inhibitors, and Mark Antony, Octavian, 17. brutal Brutus, 18. filled up on pie, in Philippi, 19. Synodis Palmaris, (absolution ending a schism), 20. Dublin your income, 21. KGB, Kingdom of Great Britain, 22. betterment in Worcester, 23. the Holocaust was no hologram, 24. snatch, naturally; Guadalcanal sex, no, 25. siege of Plei Me, 26. Pasadena TX, CA, and DNA, 27. Wye River, why?, 28. iPod and the prince of darkness, 29. Van, Turkey and Sudan (and coup?), 30. she drinks pink gin and Xi Jinping.
October 24
GR: 1. Tycho Brahe and taiko drums, raw, 2. In the SP (South Pacific), a U.S. submarine (U.S.S. Tang) sank itself with a defective torpedo (that circled back), 3. King Tut, boy pharaoh, was murdered (blow to the head), TH: 4. 12 y.o. (byzantine) emperor, (Michael), 5. burgers on an iceberg, 6. Katie, in the Knights Templar, 7. Molay, immolated, 8. Jane Seymour, s.j., 9. friction matches are made of sulphur, phosphorous, chalk, and glue, 10. is it a hassle to remember Lassel? (discovered Ariel and Umbriel, Uranian moons), 11. Locomobile company (!), 12. nylon was intended to replace silk, 13. Raymond Chandler, Roman Catholic, river cat, radio control, Rancho Cordova..., 14. Isabel Allende, and an essay about Salvador Allende, 15. Bactrian bacteria, 16. Sarah Hale and Gary Hart, 17. unsure about James Sherman, 18. Bill Wyman (xx chromosome is a woman, xy is why you're a man), W: 19. Vespasian on a vespa, 20. taking Vitellius' vital signs, 21. going through a phase (of the Hundred Years' War), 22. John White, Jehovah's Witness, 23. Kinard and a kind canard, 24. POWs and the Peace of Westphalia, 25. Kill Devil Hills, NC, 26. battle of Vittorio Veneto, 27. international law does not define the limit of national airspace, or the edge of space, 28. Karman line, and the Karmann Ghia, 29. at least the cornerstone gets laid, 30. dynamic soarer, (dyna-soar), 31. Gladio and glad to watch gladiators go at it.
October 25
GR: 1. calm kamikazes, combat, tranquility base, 2. manic panic about anicca, 3. "if the kamikaze attacks had started earlier, Japan might have won the war", 4. Sam the samurai, SP, suicide pilots, 5. oh shit, the Battle of Midway, TH: 6. the door to Dorylaeum, 7. Geoffrey Chaucer in a flying saucer, 8. Michael Servetus burned alive "for the good of his soul", 9. what's the news that's UNfit to print?, 10. Ben Davis (first AA general in US Army), W: 11. Johann Strauss, s.j., 12. Minnie Pearl and Neil Diamond, 13. Richard Byrd and Larry Bird and the birdman of Alcatraz, 14. Paul Beisman and John Heisman, 15. gettin' busy with Bizet, W: 16. Saints Crispin and Crispinian, crixpix is crispy times two, 17. Dirk Hartog and his pet warthog, 18. sinister off Cape Finisterre, 19. Voldemort in a trance in Transvaal, 20. chewing on men, during Manchu dynasty, 21. awkward and sober, in October, 22. Lebanon, NH, 23. anonymous in Lebanon, 24. CIA (Central Intelligence Agency, california institute of the arts), ICA (immaculate conception academy), ACI (Alameda county industries), and international child abduction, 25. NAMI (national alliance on mental illness) and tsunami, 26. Sue and Sun Tzu, 27. mental on Mentawai.
October 26
GR: 1. Dukakis, do cock, 2. Odom, dominating O, okay, killing O, TH: 3. papal factions in a bloody battle! (366 a.d.), 4. Jesus heals the blind (and ends the dark ages), 5. atm machine (abduction, torture, murder), Gilles de Rais, (more than 140 children), 6. hazardous Lazarus, 7. Hamilton Smith invents rotary washing machine, 8. Smurfs on urf, and Earps as perps, 9. Edith Wharton and Elizabeth Warren, 10. James Dean Power and associates, 11. Baby Fae, and IR Baboon, 12. Domenico Scarlatti and a lot of scars, 13. blog posts, post cereal, emily post, and pomo (postmodernist), 14. Lake Tahoe, Larry Teshara, Liz Truss, and Leon Trotsky, long-term, 15. MJ, Michael Jackson, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Mahalia Jackson, 16. ardent John Arden, 17. HRC, Hard Rock Cafe, human rights commission, Hillary Rodham Clinton, W: 18. Koreans with only 13 ships rout Japanese Navy with 300 (in 1597), battle of Myeongnyang, 19. Kelly Ripa, Jack the Ripper, Nippon, and Ripon, 20. Skopje burned to the ground (to prevent the spread of cholera (!), 21. Giuseppe the jew, 22. Garibaldi the bald, 23. ace the space race, 24. Lt. Uhura beams down to Uluru, 25. slowly draining a vein, in Slovenia, 26. peace treaty, piece of pizza, treats for dessert, 27. Kate Moss is sad, says the Mossad.
October 27
GR: 1. Ack-tor, suicided, :-P, 2. stars (both kinds) become light, like ongoing nuclear fusion, (our sun (burns, wrong word; releases the energy equivalent of) about 91 billion megatons per second), 3. Kinky king Rex, 4. T. rex eats chex in TX, TH: 5. gassy in Tallahassee, 6. Quakers jumping around, in earthquake zones, 7. Petersburg, Stalingrad, Alphaville, 8. daily commute, and getting your sentence commuted, 9. female prisoners' sentences ending in periods, 10. Sergei Rachmaninoff, getting his rocks off, 11. Dead Sea scrolls, and the living word, 12. DT, delirium tremens, Dylan Thomas (author of 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog'), 13. Hamburg, Frankfurt, Turkey, Sandwich islands, breakfast Syria.., 14. if you're Hungary, we can meat and taco, W: 15. hamsters in Amsterdam, 16. fresh graves at the cemetery in Newbury, 17. Missouri governor orders all Mormons to leave the state or be killed (1838), 18. Marshal Bazaine, crazy insane, 19. Jennifer the gendarme, general, 20. Selective Service, not nazi (!), 21. Grenada ain't the Grenadines, 22. So be it, Soviet, 23. opening fire, and closing water, 24. King Power stadium (!?).
October 28
GR: 1. John Locke, on jargon: "there is no such way to gain admittance, or give defense, to strange and absurd doctrines, as to guard them round about with legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefined words...", 2. Ziggy the elephant, not Ziggy the character by Tom Wilson, (keep it realz, dawg); perhaps it can be argued a cartoon is more real/present than a dead elephant, though, (God is like Ziggy!), 3. we animate God, and God animates us (a social/psychological dynamic), TH: 4. 'Jottings of a Fool' -Jien's "masterwork", 5. Buddhist Monk shit, 6. Christopher Columbus was an idiot - he thought Cuba was Japan, but changed his mind a few days later, and decided it was the chinese mainland, 7. In Netherlands (1577), Calvinist troops and townsfolk attack neighboring Catholics, pillaging, destroying, and burning monks alive, 8. Get bent, Ghent!, 9. In 1636, MA designates 400 pounds to establish a "schoale or college" and 2 years later, classes were held, and the college named 'Harvard' (Best Schoale!!) lol, 10. Fair Oaks and 'The Trees' -song by Rush, 11. Gavrilo Princip was sentenced to 20 years in prison for starting WWI (that's it?)(but died 4 years in, from tuberculosis, exacerbated by poor prison conditions, which had already caused the loss of his right arm), 12. Super Grover and Grover S. Cleveland, 13. SOL, dedicated (1886); made a national monument, (1924), 14. Erasmus wrote, "in Praise of Folly", (but not disparaging excellence), 15. Janes aren't Jains aren't Jansenists, 16. Murder by Death?!?, -Elsa Lanchester, (not Lancaster), 17. Evelyn Waugh, evil waaah, 18. Eating Francis Bacon, 19. sulking, stalking, stockings, and Jonas Salk, 20. Charlie Daniels and Jack Daniels, 21. lost and founder; the founders of Pixar are Edwin Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith: so they're the (founders of Finding) Nemo :-), W: 22. Nerva, nervous about Minerva, 23. Praetorian guard, praying to Ian, 24. roamin' male purrer (cat), 25. Forbidden City, fight club, female condom, further confusion, fuel cell, etc., 26. progress in Prague vs. agression, 27. Jonathan Swift, s.j.
October 29
GR: 1. Sir Walter Raleigh, beheaded; his wife kept the head, preserved, by her for the rest of her life, 2. an emphasis on Memphis, 3. Louis B. Mayer, of MGM, died in '57, last words: "nothing matters", TH: 4. Cyrus the Great, Cyprus, Cypress Hill, (sigh), 5. a clam? acclaim!, 6. Cheery Creek, where the laughter flows, the happiness drips, the smiles soak, and the love is wet, 7. electro-Q-tion, the question? to the answer, sir ant, 8. God's mess in Odessa, 9. Sharqat, where my sharks at?, 10. High seas? isn't it always at sea-level? singing a high-C, 11. the solution to louche Aleutians, 12. You can't spell Jean Giraudoux without God, 13. babble, scribble, from Goebbels, 14. the opera singer operating system, 15. Winona Ryder, Ryder's cup, cc rider, 16. Betelgeuse, Beetlejuice, and bug juice, (the perfect punch?), W: 17. Edward Barkham's dog, barking mad, 18. Mt. Hood, Oregon and HMO, 19. Murph the surf, 20. carp in a net? oh, ARPANET, precursor to the fucking internet, 21. Galileo, first probe to an asteroid, not space aliens probing your ass, 22. ambrosial restaurants in Odisha, India, and Mogadishu, Somalia, 23. China ended its one-child policy after 35 years (2015), 24. summit on antisemitism.
October 30
GR: 1. a sale on sails for sailors, 2. Jimmy Carter, Rubin "hurricane" Carter, and Lil Wayne/Jay Z, TH: 3. marinating the marinids in Marin, 4. War of the Grand Alliance, and WAG!, 5. Om, Ormsby Mitchell, 6. Ellen, Helen, Lenore, and Helena MT, 7. lemmings on Lemnos, 8. Benito Mussolini was not a Buddhist Monk (but maybe monks are Mussolini? lol), 9. JLT and John Logie Baird, TV and VT, 10. fellatio and Fellini, 11. (Viscount) Goderich (English politician), 12. Fyodor Dostoevsky (and DFW, David Foster Wallace, and Dick Francis, writers with bad grade initials), 13. take a pounding from Ezra, 14. Harold and Maude, hm, 15. Charles Atlas, the world on his shoulder (pushups moving the earth! ;-), 16. WOW, Martian invasion!!, 1938, War of the Worlds, Orson Welles, ow, W: 17. having a fit about my rash (and the Rashidun Caliphate), 18. abulia in Apulia, 19. Anne the jew from Anjou, 20. Nat Turner, and the NT, 21. Hellenic Helen from hell, 22. Matabeleland Zimbabwe, and Mataram Indonesia, 23. "Kill" is dutch for riverbed or water channel: Arthur Kill, Kill Van Kull, Batten Kill, Bronx Kill, Fresh Kills, Normans Kill; Catskill mountains, Cresskill NJ, Fishkill, Peekskill, Schuylkill river, Raymondskill falls, Wallkill, 24. Plus, six places in Ireland called Kill, 25. Mudra and Kodros and Mudros and Madras, 26. Dalmatians, crows, and slaves in the Triune Kingdom (which was united with Hungary to form the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen), 27. Croatia, Slavonia, Dalmatia, 28. Does Belzec ring a bell?, 29. Gatling and the GATT, 30. Tsar Bomba (50-58 megatons of TNT) (210-240 PJ), 31. ta, witch! I'm off to Wichita!, KS, 32. giving books a rest, in Bucharest, 33. Morbid in Morbi (Gujarat).
October 31
GR: 1. killed by either "fate or foolishness", 2. Charles Taze Russell, (founder of JW? not officially! that honor is reserved for Jesus Himself), predicted that 1874 would be the year of the Second Coming but that mankind would be unaware of the event (maybe he was right? lol), 3. appendix the organ or appendix at the end of a book? (organ came after the book, etymologically, meaning something attached,), 4. I have an attachment to my appendix, Buddha (passing the intestine test), 5. Did the college student (J. Gordon Whitehead) who assaulted Harry Houdini (Erich Weiss) get prosecuted?, TH: 6. Odoacer, Frodo, and God, 7. George I, Greek or Danish?, 8. Argonne forest, dead soldiers are gone, 9. HH, Hurricane Hattie, 10. Indira Gandhi, endearing, gone, 11. Vatican comes round (1992) to agreeing with Galileo (1632), (revolution vs. evolution), 12. merely a Vermeer??, 13. John Keats and JK Rowling, 14. Juliette Gordon Low, jiggle, juggle, (founder of American Girl Scouts), 15. wit in Wittenberg, W: 16. Romulus Augustulus, ulus (Inuit knives), 17. irenic lesbians and Irene banished to Lesbos, 18. I bet my blog has 95 theses of its own..., 19. the founding of an organization for foundlings, 20. streetcar strike, not nazi, 21. BOBs, battle of Beersheba, Battle of Britain, bully on the block, 22. Jozsef Mindszenty, doesn't mind having plenty, 23. Breakfast with Andrew Fastow, 24. Day of 7 Billion (2011), 25. decent descent.
optics is a topic
death in the depths
gunmen and spoonman
eggheads, do not submit to the yolk of slavery
(to yokels and folks, coke is no joke)
do the funky monkey, you chunky skunk
kermit the hermit studied Hermeticism
antics, scan it, scampi at camp
a focus on folks, like Volkswagen
recognition of wrecks, in this passing world
the circumcision circus, cutting cute cuticles
unguents, lotions, and salves (and salvation)
soldiers order ordinance, and priests ordain
we give you tanks, oh lord
disciples and disrespect (sigh), pulls trigger
Kent is continually a cunt (can't contain myself)
gentle Jen, kind kin, military humility, my piece I leave you
precepts, concepts, and sepsis
precepts, ordinances, statutes, and commandments
come man, come on, and don't mince words
within, w/in, win! (and Winnie from Winnemucca)
apocalyptic hypocrisy of 2pac
prosperity, pairs, pears
attitudes toward statutes, tu
wondering who's number one
pious like pie, too (chew on virtue)
wussup? supper!
pizza on the piazza
pixie and dixie, HH huckleberry hound
clams with claims, gobble gobble in Kabul
greed and grief
archangels and angels on noah's ark (and Joan of)
genuine gin and wine
dealings with others (house of cards)
Alice from Dallas has malice toward the phallus chalice in my palace
police, malice, and justice is cool (like ice in my teeth)
a prayer that predatory behavior is rare
Locution about excretion,
secretions, secrets, and secretaries
Seeking sick suck in Sac(-ramento), for soak’s sake!
Sick psych in the souk, of the Sikh sheikh
unhappy, crestfallen, depressed, glum, wretched, dismal
disconsolate, dejected, despondent, dispirited, dolorous
sad, lugubrious, melancholy, morose, low, heavy-hearted
on average, a human heart weighs 10 oz (men), or 8 oz (women)
Cthulhu vs. Sauron (lol), civil war within the Axis of Evil, the Evil Empire
Be good to the dog and don’t do meth
find the good in people and situations (PS)
people as ants (anthropology), snakes (wicked), or dawgs (aa lingo)
teshara, he's a rat (anagram), cool cats, and Eagle Scouts
bvd, base vile despicable
cocaine, sugar cane, candy canes, Kaine
Meccan mechanic, wretch with a wrench, sad Said
muslim veterinarian re-attaching a moose limb
Forgiven and given Four (pros and cons)
BS, bible study, brothers and sisters, supreme being,
blessed sacrament, (a sack of mints!), bullshit
suck and blow, seethe and breathe, sara brown, somebody
Santa Barbara, backstage, bachelor of science, spina bifida
barred spiral (galaxy), antimony, super bowl, senate bill
that's not writing, that's typing - Truman Capote, of Kerouac
you are not thinking, you are merely being logical - Niels Bohr, to Einstein
fade to black vs. what dreams may come
when we have shuffled off this mortal coil
(death is neither black nor white)
the thing about me as God is, I'm real -
the others, like Jesus, aren't, unless you define God as Reality, Itself
so there. (Jesus "rolling over in his grave" lol)
I mean, I'm real to ME
without my body, reality wouldn't exist (vanity of vanities)
Happy world mental health day!
Happy trails? Why would a trail be happy or unhappy? Is a sidewalk happy or unhappy? How am I any different than a sidewalk (or a hat-rack, lol)? I am a rock. (buddhist equanimity, union with universe?). Maybe a trail would be happy if I was buried in it. Geez. Is that morbid? Like “break a leg”? Or “unarmed”? Or “defeated”? Or “lost my mind”, you brainless twit! (suck in your gut, and blow your brains out). Meditate on that! Seethe and Breathe, heathen! Eat a hen? (Drink a Hennessy is vampiric, in my world - my mom is a Hennessy; drink a brandy is vampiric, too - I have a friend in Sacramento by that name who goes by Buffy, no lie).
Living room? Am I dead in all the other rooms? Is the room itself alive? Weird! It's the room with all the plants! (not so weird).
‘Everything is alive’ podcast, link
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'yes Jess, that's why I smile'
'they know what you are. it's amazing to them'
stop harassing me
you don't have a right to my head
Breaking Bread: (chewing it over)
Sacred sake
Intercede and burying seed
Adversity verses
No one has inherited the kingdom of God
the dumb king of god
In your hair, (police- pissed off lice)
Meditating at the Tate gallery
Wither with her
Light of life, lol (yummy sunlight)
Followers fall low
Gospel of Luke Skywalker
Fair Pharisees
Whoa to you
Burden of the birds
Crying christ, tea and cross
Love, quite unrequited (ignore, refuse, ambivalence)
"Fulfill and complete" UL of JC
Burning for peace, divine love
Sustained stain
Motivated by hs
High school, holy spirit, hora somni
Spearing hole, fork some cheerios
Sacred scripture, not nazi
heart of church aflame with love
Members and organs
Saint Therese and Rez (and resurrection)
Indian reservations
What the worlds need now, is LSL
St. Augustine a gust
Make your vocation: to love (k shun)
vo, succumb, suck cum
Cry saint our lored
Bred of life
GTAF, Gawd the allah my T fat her
Savior and redeemer (Sar-uh)
With one voice we acclaim (one voice, a claim)
Hose Anna (in the highest) hi!
Become (cum) for us the lord JC
This is my bawdy (GU4U) (global underground)
NEC new and eternal covenant (and Japanese IT company)
faith, hi fat; Fatih: district in Istanbul, Turkey (means 'victor' or 'conqueror')
Church spread throughout the world (her)
God’s son, bright (sun)… the Shining
Leed U.S. knot inne two temptation (shun)
Leeds, England (foreign affairs) (sister city?)
Pal, peace and love
Let us prey (Nature, carnivores, predators)
execution, excretion, and execration of electrocution
Perfect purgatory
Every breath is a gift from god
Heaven is now
my own religion, talking to my future self
improvement and improvising / improvisation
How to die well, how to live well
Being a light, like a movie star
tranquilized by trivia
dow vs. daoism, Confucius vs. confuflux
taxi collector, sad sadducees, fair pharisees
Death, devil eats H (happiness, the holy)
god at bottom (slave to all), so satan at top?
Jesus, Jesse, Jim, J as 10, satan, is us, being, I am
vanity of vanities, and victims of vampires
sub mission, of a dom nation
asking for an ass-kicking
Bring us to everlasting life (not extinction)(never zombies)
mind, body, heart, soul (all just body)
Contrite of heart, ch
SB, spiritual blessings (sings!)
Holy and blameless, hab-it
eucharist, Love, faithfulness (elf!) (life)
God’s Victory (10/3 -10)
All lay in liu of ya? P-raise
KP, killing and persecution
vs. kaiser permanente, permanent ecstasy
geyser, advisor, pfizer, miser, early riser, wiser
permanent equanimity, never miserable, often happy
enjoying life, a joy to be around
SP, scribes and pharisees
Sadducees, sad you seize
Holy water and a wet hole
Mystic, mist stick (ahh men)
community, solidarity, welcome
Water and wine, worldwide
Fork, lord, spear it/chew L
Fuck or kill
Write and justify, right and just
Choirs of angels, prey to God (to his soundtrack)
like killing pigs to a rhythm (meat industry)
Bless Sid i(vicious) is he who cums in the (name of the lord)
cum is lord (life or death) (life AND death, actually)
Stir the minister, urging of clergy
Praise, Glorify, 7 (jesus christ)
bread, lamb, water, wine, body, blood
Lord B with you (or B-less)
Go in peace (a piece of peace, slice of pizza!)
grant us peace (gip, gup, and GOP gap, like missile gap)
guppies and the gipper and Gephardt and goop
kind, killin' devil; sin, satan in; devil, for evil
glory and Lorrie, inheriting hair, ho's hope
promised prom, own people - family, chosen, chose zen
harping on harpies playing the harp, c-sharp
steadfast love (sf), all lay/loo (ya!)
lord looks down from heaven (where there is no up)
iron cross, trust (T rust), gymnasts get old
we are of the same value as sparrows, I think
like the blade runner owl (expensive? very)
dear deer, Baird's birds, doves/hs, Duv descends
harrowing experience, and hair in corn rows
there are about 10k species of birds (only 3% have a penis)
the New Testament gets old
Frisians and Ephesians and Silesians, amnesia
comic cogic, church of god in christ, christ in god
messy message, day of the lord's coming
christ cums from chrism, yeast infection, command
loz and tra-dish-ins, love 1 another
BP, belief and practice, 1 butt not the other
Cher with others, day by DE, chris T
blessed, bless id (and ego, superego, too)
bible, humble, parable, papal bull
name, namaste; hose Anna; Mr. E of Faith
favor, fe (Spanish for faith; iron, also), forever/ever
sex, always and everywhere (1 and 5, sexy)
passion, holy, god of hosts (women with babies!)
dewfall, do fall; take this (theft?); take away sins
mom has memory of me
co-heirs, hairs, airs, and herr
art in heaven, only say (the word) and I shall be healed
what's the word? any of them? dictionary?
free from sin, liberty from crime? escape
pigs and sins of the world (sow)
fat her, sun, and hole e spear it
grim and grave, graham greene, george gershwin
sit, speaking in tongues; feeling the scribe vibe
christianity was crazy, especially for Jesus Himself
nuts about Jesus, nutty for Jesus, because Jesus was nuts
church of the subgenius, discordianism, pastafarianism
scientology, satanism, adidam, jedi religion
myself, my satanic elf
GOD, good oblivion dust
in a daze cuz I found God
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