November History

(daily commentary)

GR, TH, W

from Grim Reaper’s book of days, Today in History, and Wikipedia

(Ed Morrow, History channel book, and internet/online, respectively)

November 1

GR: 1. Theater of the Absurd says "ta" to Alfred Jarry, 2. Johnny Cash, Johnny Paycheck, and Ernest Pecek, TH: 3. Chronicles of Corum, and Karakorum, 4. Mongolian mongoloids, 5. cccc, Christopher Columbus thought Cuba was China, 6. Amerigo Vespucci on a merry-go-round? that is disputed!, 7. Charles the Mad and Jesse the Sane, 8. Lisbon, Portugal; Liz' hair in a bun, and the earthquake/tsunami (in 1755) that killed between 60-90,000 people (!), 9. capturing Delhi, and rapture on the telly, and smelly crap, 10. Sza and the tsar, 11. speed of speech, and admiral von Spee, 12. Ottoman Empire, autonomy, czars, Madagascar, Central African republic, Carol, Sudan, and Khartoum, and drug trafficking, 13. Ewoks on Eniwetok atoll (vaporized?), 14. Cellini and Fellini, 15. The red badge of courage, blue ribbon, and Purple Heart, (we all live in a yellow submarine); Pabst blue ribbon, red red wine, purple drank, mellow yellow, 16. Alfred Wegener enjoys an A and W root beer (you catch my drift?), (Allen and Wright), 17. playa hata's and Gary Player, ("the harder you work, the luckier you get"), W: 18. Gaul, Charles de Gaulle, gallic phallic, gall, gallbladder, gollum, 19. Austrian ostrich!, 20. Berbers, barbarians, and Gerber baby food, 21. Stephen of Blois, feeling blah, 22. Sinope isn't chinese (Sino-nope), Turkish!, 23. Pope Julius drinks an orange julius with some jews, 24. circumnavigating circus, 25. Rio de Janeiro (river of January), because Guanabara Bay was discovered January 1, 1502 (by a Portuguese expedition), 26. nude orcs in NY!, 27. GR! Glorious Revolution, inglorious basterds, 28. Orkas, Bjork, York pp's, and Yorkshire pudding, 29.  BRB, I need to peppermint patty!, 30. pregnant pause, pause for effect, pa's paws, 31. The Stamp Act and Tampax, 32. the White House has both indoor and outdoor swimming pools!, 33. cabinets and bureaus and the round table and chairperson..., 34. Alexander the third, and AT&T, 35. Elsie and the Library of Congress, (173 million items, largest in the world), 36. Juventus football club and juvie (juvenile hall) (not jewish vampire), 37. Lahti Finland, la-di-da, and Adidam, (and Adidas), 38. Corona (beer), coronavirus (covid), colonel (pronounced kernel), and Coronel (Chile), 39. doom at the Duma, and milfs, 40. Pula Croatia in a pool of blood, 41. Mehmed thinks medications are underwhelming (like Scientology?), 42. alphabet, alpha beta, betting on the alpha, (Tibet?), 43. Azerbaijan, bye John, 44. Seabiscuit, sea cucumbers, and seahorses, when I see food, I eat it!, 45. Ansel Adams wasn't african-american, or in alcoholics anonymous, and also, american airlines, augustinians of the assumption,  anti-aircraft, anne arbor, amino acid, 46. ghost of Bougainville goes boo!, 47. residences for american pres/veep include: White House, Blair house, camp David, one observatory circle, presidential townhouse, and Trowbridge house, 48. "Ivy Mike" (10 megatons of TNT, equivalent), Ewoks eat ghee (wok), 49. MPAA film ratings were originally G, M, R, and X, 50. Walter Guevara (no relation to Che), 51. Griselda, Griswold, grizzly bears, and eminence gris, 52. IG Farben, Inspector General, and Indira Gandhi (gone, bye), 53. MT, empty, Maastricht treaty, strict ma, ma is tricked, and the EU (pee you! something stinks, not nazi), 54. India has 28 states, and 8 union territories, 55. S and M, Serbia and Montenegro, 56. Drag racing, Dragula, dragons, and Mario Draghi, 57. dragons, flagons, Oregon, and guns, 58. Riyadh, re-even in the evening.

November 2

GR: 1. Of George Bernard Shaw, Israel Zangwill said, "the way BS believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all,", 2. a 72 y.o. man shot to death for his burger and fries, (in MO), 3. Lethal argument over the rules of Monopoly, TH: 4. Thomas Becket and Samuel Beckett, 5. John Harvard and Jerome C. Davis, 6. Peter the Great and Ivan the Terrible, 7. Bands break up, and the Continental Army was disbanded, 8. Charles LeClerc and the courtesy clerk, (bagger says, kill a tree or erode the ozone?), 9. emancipation of e-men, 10. Balfour Declaration, 3-2-1, contact, liftoff,  11. Haile Selassi, highly see Lassie (tv show about a dog), and "Might of the Trinity" (descended from King Solomon and Queen of Sheba), 12. the juice is loose on the spruce goose, 13. tears of the frontiersman, 14. Annette Riddle and Marie Antoinette, 15. a peek at James Polk, 16. Warren G. Harding and soft drinks, 17. prose and Aga Khans, 18. Burt Lancaster and Ernie Pyle, 19. Rose Bird, on another plane (state, level, or region of reality), and a super man!, 20. KD Lang and going to Hades for such language, young man, W: 21. the sound defects, 22. living room is alive! ling (cod) in the ceiling, carp in the carpet (fishy), 23. seize the cross (carpe T), take up your cross, (sounds like) take it up the ass, 24. air, hair, chairs, 25. I am, I are, I.R., infrared,  international relations, plural identity, corporate body, I.R. weasel, schizophrenia, skits, and skittles, I am the walrus, kookookachoo, god bless you, b-less, we need more bees, colony collapse disorder, B for breasts, butt, balls, and Ten Commandments, cum man mints, ee cummings, enjoyment, excitement, cumin, come in, inne, insane, in seine, an inne on the Seine river, I'm out, sick flow, sigmund freud, san francisco, suck/fuck, sinn fein, sci-fi, street fighter, special forces, six flags, small forward, sacrifice fly, wouldn't hurt a fly, would hurt a cockroach, 26. Kagan's khaganate, 27. abc war, Armagnac-Burgundian civil war, 28. Plymouth Colony, politically correct, 29. listening to the Supremes at the food court, 30. what time zone is the twilight zone in?, 31. Oulu Finland and Zulu south africa, 32. badlands and Goodlands, Mauritius, 33. Mark's business in Bismarck, 34. Wells Fargo and the Fargo ND hospitals, 35. South Dakota soda, and the Lakota/Dakota Sioux (9 reservations in the state), 36. Governors give state of the state addresses, 37. add dress to your wardrobe, 38. the ward robe, 39. Boers, boars, bores, and bow and arrow, 40. a bull named Gary, in Bulgaria, sings an aria, Naz in your area, not nazi, 41. Christopher Darden and Ellen in the dardanelles, 42. how do you prejudice a right?, is the verb pre-judge?, 43. BBC, british broadcasting corporation, and body and blood of christ, god is on the air, in the air, wit, with him, in him, through him, (like food), everyone's a comedian, mean, median, mode, 44. his holiness Howard Hughes and his H-4 Hercules, 45. United States of Indonesia, United States of Mexico, and United States of America, in the United Nations, 46. Bill Gates abrogates, 47. Canada and the Kannada, 48. Korea and the marine corps, Rhea Perlman, 49. Hungarians hang aryans, 50. Sister Sue and the Suez crisis, 51. bras, tits, and Josip Broz Tito, 52. obscene penguins chat with Lady Chatterly, 53. coup coup achoo, 54. the dirt on Saudi leaders, (sod), 55. just say nay to napalm, 56. Rubik's Cuban, 57. VW and the Vietnam War (does it bug you), 58. Ronald McDonald and Enron and Ronald Ray-gun, 59. milk for junior on Martin Luther King, jr. day, 60. capitol, capital, caps, captivity, and the mad hatter, 61. ISS, international space station, injury severity score (correlates with  morbidity, mortality, and hospitalization time).    

November 3

GR: 1. Henri Matisse's 'Le Bateu' (the boat) was exhibited for 47 years before it was noticed to be upside-down, hm, 2. Annie Oakley goes out in a blaze, blazing, TH: 3. constant craving of Constantius, 4. Hong Kong-quest, 5. Dominica, Caribbean island, discovered on the lord's day (Sunday), ('dies dominica', in latin), day dies and night life?, 6. William Makepeace Thackeray and irenic Irene and Metta World Peace and PG&E, 7. Black Bart and AA's on BART (Bay Area rapid transit), 8.  Armistice and Miss Tisdale, 9. Miel (honey, in spanish) and Diet (formal assembly) and foo-fighters (WWII ufo's), 10. yellow snow and frozen peas, 11. U Thant on a U-boat, a smiling you at university, 12. Nixon at the Dixon may faire, 13. Oliver Cromwell in Orange County, 14. Cook Islands, Sandwich islands, and chow-chow (dog breed from china), 15. Nitrogen and dayrogen, 16. don't stress about (Paraguayan dictator) Stroesser, 17. Charles Bronson and Bunsen burners, 18. Michael Dukakis, M.D., W: 19. Giovanni Villani chronicles villainy, 20. care of being, in the Caribbean, 21. Act of Supremacy by King Henry VIII (I also think of the iconic photo of Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston) (not exactly my blog, but I'm still declaring myself God!, for the sake of fun, truth, virtue), 22. teens in gi's guillotined, yo, 23. Vyazma miasma, 24. monkeys in all the trees, in Montreal, 25. church ministers and ministers of parliament eat minestrone, mister, 26. John Willis Menard, first AA elected to US congress, 27. Mapuche on the map (Chile), 28. fascists in fashion in Fashoda (Sudan), 29. Panamanian muppets sing manamana, 30. eating taffy is daft, if you're as fat as Taft, 31. Kiel over, (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany), keel over, roger Roger, 32. POTUS, let us smoke pot, 33. devastate, de-V a state?, 34. the diet of the fedayeen, 35. You and me could name our daughter Yumi, 36. lingam and yoni, Yanni, yuni and muni, you need me, and ithyphallic, 37. Yuny or luny, ancient Egyptian official, 38. Khan Yunis killings, 39. Kadar on my radar, 40. Kon Tum province (Vietnam) and quantum, 41. tetchy about Tet, 42. Green Party of Greensboro, 43. martial marshal Marsha on the Marshall Islands, 44. Sri Lanka means "resplendent island", in Sinhalese, 45. cat fight, prr row, and Ross Perot, 46. de-Claire the winner.

November 4

GR: 1. Buying off Willie Bioff, TH: 2. Guadalajara, Guatemala, Guadalcanal, and Guadeloupe, (and guacho!), 3. guapo y macho, guacamole y nachos, gaucho and from mexico city, 4. treason to eat the treats, riesens, 5. a trippy trip to Tripoli, 6. Abraham Lincoln, vampire hunter, married Mary Todd (empty?), 7. Dayton Ohio and Niton, Isle of Wight, 8. the urge to purge, the urge to merge, 9. ab/dic-ate (gross), 10. Erwin Rommel's mom (vs. Hitler's order to fight to the death), 11. fission, fusion, and Frisian Ephesians, 12. Kamchatka 9.0 earthquake, 1952 (Russian Far East), 13. I and I, and Dwight Eisenhower, 14. Rinderpest and Budapest, 15. (Lee Anne Roberts) Breedlove and hating chastity, 16. Yitzhak Rabin, and eating a rabid yak, lol, 17. Will Rogers, or won't?, 18. Superman and Walter Cronkite, kryptonite, tales from the crypt, 19. Ralph Macchio eats macho nachos, 20. tootin' is common, says Tutankhamen, W: 21. tutoring the Tudors about 2 doors, ingress and egress, entrance and exit, ex in a trance, 22. twerking in Antwerp, 23. William, prince of orange (poo!); Teshara (anagram, 'are shat'), 24. inaugurating Augie, 25. Nipples from Naples, 26. little italy, 27. Peruvian cat, Ian, 28. head-bashers bash your head in during the Battle of Wabash river, 29. Corfu says FU, 30. sentence of HDQ (hung, drawn, and quartered) commuted to "transportation" (sounds harmless, no?), compare and contrast, 31. pay a quarter for quarters, but pay anything not to be quartered, 32. material girl and military materiel, 33. Austria-Hungary and Adolf Hitler, 34. Hara Takashi and Teshara, 35. anarchy-syndicalist CNT, and a word you CANT say (in some countries), 36. Pelagonia ain't Patagonia, 37. Capitola California and Bitola Macedonia, 38. as pleasant as pheasant, 39. Agency, and the aging See, 40. Jane Goodall and Badal (2000 Hindi-language movie), 41. Operation Fishbowl and Pink Floyd's wish you were here, 42. Arno river and Bernard Arnault, 43. Blackdown, West Sussex and White up (s up remacy), 44. cyclists and roller-skaters, no cars, a first, on a Sunday in 1973 Netherlands, 45. Will China allow democracy if its people are better-educated?, 46. Sancti Spiritus, not nazi (cuban), 47. South Sudan, not nazi, 48. Michael Jubien (prof I had at davis) visits Juba, 49. whores in Los Angeles, not in Lahore Pakistan, 50. there have never been any wild tigers in Africa (surprise), and Tigray doesn't mean tiger, it's where Tigrayans speak Tigrinya, grin :-), 51. singing is not a sin, even singing poorly in Singapore. 

November 5

GR: 1. Lindsey Lohan and Michael Strahan and George Cohan in Wuhan, here and now, (Han: the largest ethnic group, in China - and the world), 2. GB, Green Berets, Great Britain, Girls Brigade, Green Bay, Guinea-Bissau, TH: 3. discontented malcontents, 4. bantu manatees in Mantua?, 5. Gill-T, found guilty of using guile, 6. World's first constitution to grant women full voting rights, 1889 Wyoming, 7. Willa Cather (not catheter!), 8. Viking settlement in Newfoundland, discovered by archaeologists, predated Columbus in New World by 500 years, 9. El Sayyid Nosair has no nose hair, 10. Whigs wear wigs, 11. Will Durant and Kevin Durant, 12. Roy Rogers and Royaneh, 13. Vivien Leigh eats veal, 14. Spike and Mike, Tina and Ike, 15. in a funk with Art Garfunkel, 16. Peter Noone and Charlie Midnight, 17. 36 barrels of gunpowder in the cellar, 99 bottles of beer on the wall, W: 18. battling bots for a bit, 19. you can't beat a boat where the fish are biting bait, 20. kicking ass, boot to butt, 21. Aletheon and Catholicon, 22. Frederick the Great and Abraham the Poor, 23. Little Turtle and Larry Teshara at Big Bear Lake, 24. I'm in a fog why the French and Ottomans were in Greece, 25. reprieved, released, forgive and forget, 26. (Joe) Biden and (George B.) Selden (granted the first US patent for an automobile, 1895), 27. short-lived Republic of Negros, on the island of Negros (Philippines), 1898-1901, 28. Caribbean, Vanuatu, and Truckee, 29. Tikhon rides the teacups (Disneyland), 30. super-spy, not nazi, 31. a packet in my pocket, 32. vacant Vatican, 33. back Pakchon, 34. Fido likes Beethoven, the opera Fidelio, 35. on the tarmac in Ormoc, Philippines, 36. JC, Geezus Christ, Jean Chretien, join a jaycee or go to junior college or something, 37. Massacres, mass occurs, shit happens, 38. Nidal Hasan and Abu Nidal, 39. the skinny on Fatah, 40. Gordo Gordon eats at flaco tacos, 41. Rona Ambrose eats at Ambrosia bakery, 42. Sutherland Springs, not nazi, 43. shooting Baptists, Buddhists, babies!, 44. Praying to St. Francis of Assisi to prevent crowd crushes.

November 6

GR: 1. Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky, in the pit, 2. tears for Gene Tierney, TH: 3. Julian, made caesar at age 23, publicly converted to paganism, as an "enemy of christianity" (antichrist?), 4. life in the Tamerlane, 5. Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (head of a cow!.. the origin of the name is unknown), 6. Battle of Sekigahara (the -hara in Teshara makes people think I'm japanese) was behind the Tokugawa shogunate, (lasting from 1600-1868), 7. Jefferson Davis, j.d., 8. Super Bolshevik, 9. apartheid finally abolished in 1993 (declared a crime against humanity by the UN in 1973), 10. Adolphe Sax on the phone, honey, 11. Charles H. Dow and Edward Jones, 12. James Jones (author, from here to eternity) isn't Jim Jones (preacher, activist, mass murderer), 13. Penny Hardaway, Mike Nichols, Albert Dimes, William Quarter, and of course, 50 Cent, W: 14. Stephen A. Douglas, sad, 15. Does John Bell ring one?, 16. JC Breckinridge, 17. Meet your meat, learn how they earn, fueled by cruelty, 18. Annikan the mannequin blown up by Cannikin, 19. You eat naan? they do in Yunnan!, 20. those Fokker fucks, 21. listening to rock and roll in Raqqa, 22. Tammy Baldwin and Harry's hair loss, 23. UN, Ufton Nervet! (Berkshire, England), 24. Palestine, Nepal, and President Abraham Lincoln.

November 7

GR: 1. no merriment on the Mary Celeste (sailing for Italy), 2. I guessed it was the gestapo, 3. Actor Victor McLaglen, playing a drunkard, was made to stay drunk by the director - and he won an academy award for best actor (he nearly quit because of hangovers), 4. pundits punish the sayers of puns, TH: 5. vascular gametes? Vasco de Gama!, 6. you need a pair of knees to climb the Pyrenees, 7. Shawn the shawnee, 8.  neutral newts, 9. The Rankin file, 10. Rath's wrath, 11. "Galloping Gertie" (the tacoma narrows bridge) destroyed (1940) by harmonic vibrations (from a 42mph wind), 12. David Dinkins played with dinky toys, 13. Rudy Giuliani ain't  a jew, 14. you wish I was jewish?, 15. God as a genie who grants jewish wishes, 16. a prayer for something rare, 17. like a mere miracle, 18. Douglas Wilder and Gene Wilder, Jerome Silberman, s.j., 19. emcee, Marie Curie, 20. Leon Trotsky, lion and horse and bird, 21. Albert Camus, ac/dc, air conditioning, bear/cow (moo), 22. Billy Graham, Bill Gates, and the beegees, 23. Al Hirt on a couch in Spain, 24. Dame Joan Sutherland, s.j., 25. Socrates Nelson, Dana Plato, and Aristotle Onassis, W: 26. that dame is damned dim, says the daimyo, 27. Athanasius in Athens, 28. Church fathers and Mother Earth, 29. eating bonbons in Bonn and on the autobahn, 30. annoying the Han in Hanoi, annoying the ill in Illinois, 31. Bo knows Bohemia, 32. gazelles gazing at the Gaza gazette, 33.  Battle Ground, Indiana is big, 34. Lovejoy, shot dead, there is no joy in Mudville, 35. Halloween again: retreat!, 36. suffrage for those who suffer!!, 37. snoring in Sonora, 38. asleep in Sleaford, 39. dreaming in Drees, 40. babbling brook and dreaming creek, 41. Julia uses the Julian calendar, (Julia: songs by Sza, Jungle), 42. dynasty and live clean, 43. Anne are kissed, 44. Fiona drives a Fiero to Fiorello H. La Guardia airport, 45. Germans were mean to the (hospital ship) Armenia, 46. Be nice to Nice France, and V nice to Venice, Italy, 47. don't be brutal in Bruton, England, 48. UNGA and Felix Unger, 49. stoked for Carl B. Stokes, (first aa mayor of a major american city), CBS, 50. bang! shootings in Bangladesh, 51. who needs ya, Tunisia? you need 2 knees, 52. Mr. T on Mass Rapid Transit, 53. Cherie and Mary Robinson, 54. Magic Johnson, basketball superstar, a magical wizard of witchcraft and sorcery!, 55. Ted Nugent in Fallujah, 56. You're moving to Jokela (Finland)? you must be joking!   

November 8

GR: 1. Dunce day, named after John Duns Scotus (Supreme Court of the United States!), whose followers resisted the Renaissance; he devised the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, was buried (alive, it turned out) and woke in his coffin, but couldn't escape the vault, 2. John Milton, and Paris Hilton, 3. Milton was blind most of his adult life, but wrote a sonnet describing a dream (in which, wherein) he could see his wife, 4. "Doc" Holliday (a dentist) was told by his doctor he would die within a year of tuberculosis, so he moved west; he had been a mild and timid man, but changed, and killed 30 men; "perhaps killing and liquor were good for him" (he lived for 14 more years, age 35), 5. Norman Rockwell, rock on!, TH: 6. Roman Oman, 7. oh man, have you seen The Omen?, 8. Yah, man;  you been to Yemen? amen, brother, 9. Megan and Kagan are pagans, 10. Theofilatto (Pope, 3x) sold the papacy once, was deposed the second time, and driven from Rome, the third (!), 11. Montezuma (in Tenochtitlan, the aztec capital city) thought Hernan Cortes was the god Quetzalcoatl, (idiot!), 12. Robert Catesby, Roman Catholic, 13. Where is lake Mweru?, Zambia, 14. Jess' mess (this bliss) ain't a bit like Hitler and Hess, 15. Shaw ain't a shah, 16. Operation Magic Carpet, 1949, was an Israeli program to bring 40,000 Yemeni jews to Israel (Steppenwolf!), 17. Teddy Roosevelt was younger than JFK (for youngest president honors), 18. Edmund Halley, eh?, 19. Big Ben is named after Sir Benjamin Hall (bhs!), 20. Dracula, b.s. by Bram Stoker, 21. Herman Rorschach hits a home run, 22. Margaret Mitchell, mm, 23. Roles played by Esther Rolle, 24. Barnard in the barnyard, 25. I'm going to the bathroom to Patti Page, 26. Pentagon and Safeway, Morley Safer, and safety pins, locked in my safe, (peace begins in the home, they say), 27. Mary Hart and Gary Hart, W: 28. Phokas' folks focus on their foes!, 29. Stockholm Sweden, not nazi, 30. General Assembly, specifically, when generals meet, 31. General Jennifer, 32. a body of work at the Bodleian library, 33. BMW, and the battle of white mountain (1620), 34. Q and A for the Qing dynasty emperor, press briefing, press conference, 35. Mount Holyoke, holy yoke, yolk, Oklahoma, okay, (women's college in MA), 36. there are at least 2991 named mountains in Montana (buttes, hills, peaks, etc.), 37. X-Ray and Raymond's ex, 38. Vox populi - demotic, vp veep Vice President (and demonic vice), 39. Putsch agains Putin?, 40. His Holiness Herbert Hoover and Howard Hughes and Helen Hunt, and Heinrich Himmler, Hulk Hogan, happy hour, hitchhiker, happy hall, high heaven, 41. Francisco Franco's (nationalists) begin a 3 year siege of Madrid (republicans), 42. Venlo (dutch city), Menlo (CA and NJ), and Venmo, 43. first jet-jet dogfight in history (1950), during Korean War, a Shooting Star (not nazi) downed 2 MiG-15s, 44.  Christmas on Kiritimati (Gilbertese), 45. Aland and bland and Sealand Denmark (Zealand); DeLand (Florida and Illinois), 46. abracadabra on Aldabra, 47. virgins from Vergina, 48. Provo UT and the provisional IRA, 49. Jehovah, Jah, and Fallujah, 50. rupee cushion. 

November 9

GR: 1. doctor passed the intestinal test, 2. munchies in Munich, 3. Dylan Thomas died, age 39, after drinking 18 straight whiskeys (coma for 6 days, followed by pneumonia, liver disease), 4. 12 hour blackout, in 1965, over much of the  Eastern Seaboard, killed a tourist (who fell down an open elevator shaft, while looking for a way out of his NYC hotel); some were trapped in elevators, and subway cars, (all because of a 230-kilovolt transmission line "tripping") (what a drug!), TH: 5. "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe" - Carl Sagan, 6. Consulate overthrows the Directory (one revolutionary government for another), in 1799 France, 7. the first foreign trip by a US president was the 1906 trip by Teddy Roosevelt to Panama to inspect the construction site of the canal, (P.C.!),  8. (Australian) Sydney vicious sinks the (German) Emden (am done), 1914, South Pacific, 9. Su-Lin (not Sue, Lynn), the panda, 10. panda-monium, 11. Nazis, not Z's, not sleeping ("where evil does not sleep" -Gandalf, LOTR, Tolkien, on Mordor), 12. pandemonium, demonstrations, and demons, in monde (and on Mondays!), 13. Mordor and the reading room, lol, 14. Plato's cave, and Beatles/Epstein's Cavern, 15. East Germany opens the Berlin Wall this date in 1989, 16. Watts riots and megawatts and Angkor wat and whatever, 17. Mostar, Bosnia and the Death Star m.o., 18. Ivan Turgenev (author) and I.T. work, 19. sggs, suicide girls/goldman sachs, sir Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect behind an anglican cathedral and the classic red telephone box, 20. CS Lewis, Carl Sagan (say again?), christian science, controlled substance, computer science, caesarean section, cesium, cloud seeding, credit suisse, conditioned stimulus, hungarian digraph, 21. difficult pianist vs. hard penis, piano flow, W: 22. Silliness in Cilli, 23 Seville has evil in it, 24. Witchery during Brumaire, 25. Gabbing with General Ambrose Burnside in Gabon, 26. chewing on man, in Manchuria (man is the measure of all things -Protagoras; man is condemned to be free -Sartre; man is by nature a political animal -Aristotle), 27. mankind and woman-cruel, 28. carrots and carats and karate, 29. HMS his majesty's ship (SMS in German), HMAS her majesty's australian ship, 30. cocoa and Cocos, 31. Rath and fuhror, 32. Miike Japan and Michael takes the microphone, 33. the right to refuse military service / conscription is universal, imo (anybody, anytime, anywhere), 34. atomic number vs. mass number/nucleon number (same thing), (differentiates isotopes, numbers of neutrons in nuclei), 35. darmstadtium in the stadium, 36. Berlin Wall checkpoints and players checking the score (points), 37. conned in Uttarakhand, hoodwinked on Hoodoo mountain, tricked in Trikala, and scammed in Scammon Kansas, 38. hi and bye to Baikonur cosmodrome, 39. cause and effect in Kazakhstan, 40. Amman, amen, 41. Michael Jordan is ordinary (everybody puts balls in holes); Jordanian ordinance, 42. Me and Mary in Myanmar. 

November 10

GR: 1. Rimbaud eyes, Rimbaud dies, (and Rambo), TH: 2. French crusaders conquer a (Christian) Venetian city, to pay for transport on their ships to the Holy Land, 3. 1241 was the first time the Pope was elected by a conclave of cardinals, 4. Osage Indians agree (1808) to a reservation in OK (leaving their lands in MO and AR) that would someday make them rich (oil and gas deposits!), 5. Dr. Livingstone (and living water, dead as a doornail), 6. Gottlieb Daimler invents the motorcycle (1885), 7. Jack the Ripper and Jill the ripped, 8. Meuse-Argonne, music from my muse, argh! are gone!, 9. Anatole France, Ellen French, and Erica from America, 10. Getulio Vargas, Gloria Vanderbilt, Giuseppe Verdi, Grass Valley, and gay vampires, 11. Himalayan and her-a-standin', 12. a row at Rowe MA, 13. Martin Luther's Lutherans, and Jesse's jesters, 14. William Hogarth at Hogwarts, 15. Oliver Goldsmith, original ganster, 16. Granville Sharp and Ryan Dull, 17. Claude Rains and Kour Pour, 18. Richard Burton, Richard Branson, and R and B, (don't be a dick), 19. Roy Scheider, don't be shy, 20. Tim Rice, and Soy (I am, spanish), dancing salsa, 21. Donna Fargo and Wells Fargo, 22. birthday of USMC (1775), "teufel hunden" (devil dogs, in german), formed as the landing force for the Continental Navy, W: 23. succeed at suicide, 24. Turku is in Finland, not Turkey, 25. shut your trap, Chattrapati, 26. in a rut at Rutgers, 27. wearing new jerseys, 28. Worship of Reason (French revolutionary replacement for Catholicism; a state-sponsored atheistic religion), followed by Robespierre's deistic Cult of the Supreme Being (what's the difference? Is the Supreme somehow unreasonable?), CBS, 29. the crew team in Romania, 30. row row row your boat, Romans, Roma (gypsies), and Romanians, 31. the admiral admires the Admiralty islands, but the condescending look down on downtown Downey California, 32. darling in Arlington, 33. the Hope Diamond and Hellcatraz, the rock of despair, 34. naming my pen Kampuchea (it's a phenomenal pen), 35. freighter fright, 36. Zionism is a force of racism?, 37. noise annoys, noiz is Zion backwards, good and bad sound, a sound mind doesn't have voices, 38. Merlin enchants Berlin, 39. Lynn plays violin, 40. yellow sand from the yellow river empties into the Yellow Sea, you yellow-bellied varmint!, 41. Eve, evolution, and Evo Morales, 42. cease fire, commence water. 

November 11

GR: 1. Typhoid Mary, Mary Mallon, a carrier, but immune, caused 7 epidemics, killing at least a thousand, died herself at age 68 in 1938 (of a stroke), TH: 2. Asser, the welsh monk, dickering around with latin, 3. ant hill on the Antilles, 4. Supernova could be seen in daylight for 2 weeks (in 1572), 5. Nat Turner, your turn, and Janine Turner, turning heads, 6. JC, Jews' College founded (not a junior college, but a teachers' college, in London), 7. dust is mostly dead skin, although the dust storm in the Dust Bowl wasn't, says Dustin, 8. Otranto, Taranto, and Toronto, 9. a seizure in Rhodesia, 10. in chinese chains, tied up in Thailand, like lousy Laos, 11. George Patton patents the paten, 12. Pat O'Brien and Conan O'Brien, 13. Alger Hiss and Betty Boo, 14. curtains for Kurt, Vonnegut had guts, 15. Jonathan Winters, and Buffy Summers, 16. Demi Moore and Christian Lessing, 17. Calista Flockhart and Covington-French, 18. Leonardo DiCaprio, and LDC, less developed country, 19. WWI ended, the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 (kkk!);  it killed 9 million soldiers, and (at least) 5 million civilians, W: 20. Vern and Ferd, lol, 21. Tycho Brahe and taiko drums, 22. province and providence, 23. anal, oral, or animal (3 types of buggery), 24. the first college fraternity/secret society (not nazi) was the FHC Society (flat hat club), 25. insight into incitement, 26. wake up!  rise and shine!  uprising!  rise, I say!, 27. Bhutan lighter, 28. Stolen Generations (indigenous aborigines), 29. Jail, gaol, and JL, 30. The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is WA state (no. 42!), 31. 11/11/11 (1911) sees many midwestern US cities break their record highs AND lows, on the same day ("Great Blue Norther"), 32. the Compiegne campaign, 33. going digital, and relinquishing ink, 34. High treason and goodbye to reason, 35. Shrine of remembrance, the sweetness of forgetting, 36. greek has some sexy letters, 37. how do you pronounce Ngo?, 38. Kindu massacre, not kind, not hindu, but doing in, (killed and eaten), 39. Kuwait and coup eight, 40. all roads lead to Rhodesia, except the Carpathians, 41. Em and I are both gemini, (actually, eminem is libra, and I'm a virgo), 42. layoffs in Laos, 43. what's your angle on Angola? your goal?, 44. Iri South Korea and Irineo, roommate, and eerie vibes on Lake Erie, 45. Antigua and Barbuda, cease and desist, car and driver, construction and demolition, 46. hola, house of lords act, 47. Leonard Nimoy and Ninoy Aquino, 48. Wellington NZ and Germany, 49. Budapestilence and Sick in Sicily, 50. YA, young adult, Yasser Arafat, Yuri Andropov, years ago, Norwegian river, 51. Irma from Burma, 52. sucker! the devil made you sin! (bus crash, Sukkur district in Sindh province, Pakistan), 53. Typhoon Vamco (name given by the japanese meteorological agency), known as Ulysses in the Philippines.  

November 12

GR: 1. Robert Falcon Scott and his fellow expeditioners, lost twice: they were beaten to the South Pole, and died on the way home, TH: 2. mosque in Moscow, 3. Puritan preacher (John Bunyan) sentenced to jail for "unauthorized nonconformist preaching" (!), (but he wrote pilgrim's progress, while in prison),  4. ROT, reign of terror, killed 17,000+ opponents of the French Revolution, 5. at last! Atlanta!, 6. Larry, Lara, and Fort Laramie, 7. Volvo DL (David Livingstone), 8. Norway? no way!, 9. turpitude on the Tirpitz, 10. Tojo, Togo, and go-go dancers, 11. monster cyclone in Bangladesh (1970) kills hundreds of thousands, (worst natural disaster of century), 12. hypertext (is there such a thing as hypotext? yes!), 13. meatier meteors, 14. Jo Stafford, s.j., 15. Charles Manson, son of man, 16. Nadia Comaneci, makes it look easy (first-ever scoring of perfect 10s in Olympic history), 17. "nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely" -Rodin, W: 18. Pudge Heffelfinger! what a name, 19. Balkan chickens (bok! bok!), 20. reefer butts and referendums, 21. sky, skis, and ska, 22. Donald and Daffy duck!, waddle at Guadalcanal, 23. Ellis island ceases operations (1954), Ellis and Alice, 24. awful in Rafah, 25. Warren Harding (climber), Warren G, and Warren G. Harding (3 different people), 26. ketchup, catsup, catch up!, 27. 300-500,000 people (E Pakistanis, present day Bangladesh) died from the 1970 Bhola cyclone (one of the deadliest natural disasters in history), 28. Comoros, Camorra, and the .com era, 29. Soviet Socialists, space shuttle, not nazis, 30. Akihito, awkwardly hitting O, ah key heat toe, 31. protesters in a Dili pickle, 32. space aliens in East Timor, 33. European SD crisis, satan devil, sovereign debt, standard deviation, South Dakota, San Diego, sick duck, 34. BS, bullshit, bible study, bachelor of science, behavioral sciences, bloody sunday, backstage, Britney Spears.   

November 13

GR: 1. Opera composer Rossini composed most of his work while drunk, 2. Junior Samples, s.j., TH: 3. oof, urf, arf, 4. Soviet Viet Nam, so be it, 5. DT's and death, taxes, 6. sum of the Somme? nothing won, and over 1m casualties, on both sides, 7. AK, Aleksandr Kerensky, and Kalashnikov, Ayatollah Khomeini, 8. mma mama, (fantasia married music to animation), 9. chow mein and el-Alamein, 10. 57,939 (the number of names/deaths, on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, dedicated this date, 1992), 11. St. Augustine of Hippo vs. holy hungry hippo of St. Augustus, 12. Bahai founder, Baha'U'llah, birthday, 13. JC (James Clerk) Maxwell, with an understanding of the force (electromagnetism, anyway), 14. Sun Yat-Sen, shone brightly, 15. Jean Seberg, s.j., 16. CSA, confederate states of america, catholic saints and angels, child sexual abuse, crime syndicate of america, W: 17. hairy situation at El Harri, Morocco, 18. I have no pull in Constantinople, 19. the Holland tunnel is between NJ and NYC, (go figure), 20. HMS Ark Royal was an aircraft carrier, not like Noah's ark, except for the birds, 21. Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, the other CDC, assassinated, 22. what's the point of view of the president of Venezuela?, 23. March Against Death doesn't sound mad to me, (250-500,000 protesters), 24. Carol sings carols from Karelia, 25. Urumqi China and Uruk-hai (orcs), 26. bird has a Mozam-beak, 27. victims of villainy, vice, and vampires, 28. disarming a boxer is cutting off his arms, 29. Prestige oil spill, oxymoron and cognitive dissonance. 

November 14

GR: 1. caller, you're on the air, what's your problem? cholera!, 2. Booker T. Washington said, "Civilization started with a hoe," (ho ho), TH: 3. Earl Grey and Lady Jane Grey, and Gray Davis, 4. Lake Tana, and Satan (lake of fire), sobn, source of blue nile, 5. the despot de-spotted his shirt stain, 6. frozen assets of last burmese king Thibaw, 7. I'd like a room in Rumelia, please, 8. ED and the empress dowager, 9. Indianapolis 500 (miles), 10. Bhaktivedanta, founder of Hare Krishnas, died (1977), 11. G-D in Gdansk, 12. Booker T and Reed college, and Lech Walesa, 13. osmosis in the cosmos, 14. JC, John Curwen, 15. Claude Monet, clawing for money, 16. Pandit the bandit, 17. Aaron Copland in gangland, 18. Joseph McCarthy and Jenny McCarthy, 19. Veronica Lake and Joan Rivers and Creek Indians and Billy Ocean and Willow Bay and Holy See, and Sea Kumada, and live-streaming, 20. King Talal eat halal, 21. Prince Charles, so politically correct, like Peter Cook, W: 22. MMA and WWE, 23. Gottfried got fried, 24. Kirch, Kerch strait, Kirchner, 25. going to the pub on the day my book is published, 26. Joe and Sue, married at the Joensuu city hall, Finland, 27. vakia: a 40th of a maund (old unit of weight), (check of slow), 28. a bird, perched on my porch, eating brunch on a branch, 29. naming my feeder FDR, 30. vampires drink drunks, 31. climbing a mountain, getting high, 32. what goes up, must come down, (except for Tibetan sky burials), 33. b.s. about bird shit, doves are pigeons, symbol of peace is a flying rat!, 34. rock doves (rock concert for peace!), 35.  guano, you know? phosphate, nitrogen, and potassium, good for the soil, 36. Belarus, Belgrade, Belize, Campbell soup, Belle Époque, Belinda Carlisle, Bela Bartok, belvedere, ring a bell?, 37. UK, you kill, happiness is a warm gun, University of Kentucky (wildcats), Uttarakhand (devbhumi, land of the gods, uttarakhandi, who eat people like candy, j/k), 38. Ruby Bridges and Ruby Ridge, 39. Oder-Neisse line, and the odor of my niece, 40. cobblestones in Kabul, 41. a skeleton staff, just like The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (movie), and Jason and the Argonauts (movie), 42. transexuals on Neptune? ha, trans-neptunian object, 43. shooting spree (sometimes nazi), 44. the Hare Krishna rabbit hole (sorry hare), 45. Harry the hairy hare, 46. abject objects, a sobbing subject.  

November 15

GR: 1. (says actor:) I've played everything but a harp; time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana, 2. drinking mead with Margaret, TH: 3. Hapsburg and my friends, HAPS (Hugo, Augie, Pierre, Sara), 4. tobacco, to-front-o, 5. Pizarro, what a dick, (treacherous treatment of Atahualpa, Incan emperor), assassinated, himself, 6. Elsie, and Lewis and Clark, 7. Zebulon Pike, cool name! (like Elon Musk), 8. indemnity and ingopnity (!), 9. A Tale of Two Cities, a tail of two kitties, 10. Global warming is the devil's scorched-earth policy, 11. a base in the Congo river basin, 12. what did the nazis have against gypsies?  or jews, for that matter, 13. isp, independent state of Palestine, internet service provider, 14. stone of scone, (the reputed pillow (?)  on which Jacob had his vision of angels ascending a ladder to heaven), 15. Brad Pitt and William Pitt the elder, 16. Sir William Herschel (English astronomer, discovered both Uranus and infrared radiation), and Herschel Walker, 17. Lewis Stone and George Sand and The Rock and Rocky and Rock Hudson and Pebbles Flintstone, in Boulder, CO, 18. gawking at Georgia O'Keefe, 19. Ed Asner and Yasmine Bleeth, (also a fun name), I bequeath Bleeth's teeth to Heath!, 20. J.G. Ballard, novelist, (a novel list: Jesse, Greg, mallard duck), 21. AOC, articles of confederation, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, air operations center, age of consent, W: 22. aol, aod, ga (angel of the lord, angel of death, guardian angel), 23. taking umbrage with the Northumbrians, 24. brb, I need to fight the Battle of Morgarten, 25. crocodiles, crocs, and Kurucs, 26. the colored of Colorado, 27. emperor, electro magnetic pulse, and Embarcadero Montgomery Powell, (SF BART stations), 28. Dan, drunk, zig zags, in Danzig, 29. I killed a guy in Guayaquil (Ecuador), 30. doctor prescribes a trip to the Mohave Desert, 31. I eat chips, chips eat juice, 32. Colombo Sri Lanka, Columbine Colorado, Columbo (Peter Falk's character, crime drama), and Colombia, District of Columbia, Columbus (Cristobal colon),  combined with combs and combat and combes (valleys without water), and combustion, 33. Taoiseach is pronounced T-shuh, 34. teachers in t-shirts, teaching taoism, 35. chow chess coup, Ceausescu, 36. Luanne cheers "go, L.A.!", and Luanda Angola, 37. jars and cans, and Jharkhand India, 38. X-rays, X-files, X-men, and Xbox, 39. X-men and ex-men, 40. an essay on suicide attacks, 41. mangos don't come from mangroves, 42. Politburo standing committee, always on its feet, and Jesus, always sitting at the right hand of the father (both must suck!).   

November 16

GR: 1. Vicente de Valverde, eaten, at Puna island, off Ecuador, by natives (deservedly, imo), served him right, (with cheeses, iced?), 2. William Holden and Holden Caulfield and TX hold 'em, TH: 3. a beer with Tiberius, 4. eating dim sum with John Bright, 5. the butler's butt, 6. You know, Frank Bruno?, 7. Dwight Gooden and Baden Powell, 8. Jack Sheppard and Alan Shepard and shepherd moons, 9. demonic William Demont, (American Revolutionary War traitor), 10. are there moray eels in the Murray river? no, 11. ROT, remembrance of things past -Proust, 12. it ain't rocket science to import 88 German scientists (when the russians might be doing the same thing), 13. Norman Bates, Buffalo Bill, and (the real) Ed Gein, 14. The Sound of Music, The Sound of Silence, and Soundgarden, on Soundcloud, 15. subversive submarines, 16. a sound mind makes a sound argument regarding Prince William Sound, W: 17. Angie in Nanjing, 18. assuming the throne, sitting your ass on a chair, 19. heretic apostate, ha, 20. auto-da-fe, act of faith, automobile action, 21. attaboy, Atahualpa, 22. Cajamarca, opening a box of worms, like pandora, 23. Hessian confession session, 24. can't spell patriot without riot, or Pat, 25. Patricia, Patrick, cia trick, and patrimony money, 26. no aunts in Nantes, 27. heir apparent and I got my hair from my parents, 28. Greeks that reek; smelly Mel, 29. Susan's suzerainty, 30. bicycling the Cyclades, 31. aging in the Aegean, 32. hard labor in the holy land, hannibal lecter in a hockey league, 33. Victoria falls at the zimzam border, 34. noxious Knoxville, school of hard knocks, who's there?, 35. Louis Riel, keeping it real, 36. forensics is okay, Oklahoma (state no. 46), 37. flying Quantas to Quantico, 38. Albert Hofmann, and Anthony Hopkins, LSD and LDS, 39. worse off in Warsaw, 40. dastardly deeds of some dumb dickhead, 41. Hurtgen hurt again, 42. Duren ain't near the Gulf of Darien, 43. UNESCO, mescaline, tescoflex, sisco, and scientific classification of organisms, 44. venereal disease from Venus, 45. sky vodka on Skylab, 46. Lionel Messi is from Messier 13, says messy Jesse, 47. Dr. Boox from Bucharest, 48. Benazir Bhutto, Bhutan, and Bibi Netanyahu on yahoo, Annette on the net, Webb on the web, with a cuter pewter computer, 49. Misters, masters, ministers, mistresses, and mystics, 50. silly Milli Vanilli, you be illin', 51. Does Yahweh know the way to free Wei-we?  The nose knows no's, 52. from Foshan to the ocean, 53. world whirled, a twirling girl's url, Earl's pearls, Searle does curls, Milton Berle and I think I'm gonna hurl! 

November 17

GR: 1. Rodin, in a row with Dan, (The Thinker portrayed Dante), TH: 2. Giuseppe Verdi wasn't jewish, but jews also have a kind of baptism, called tvilah in a mikva, 3. Gettysburg address, get some!, 4. the Suez Canal took 10 years to build (more or Lesseps), 5. diplomaniac diplomats, 6. going to the isthmus on Christmas, 7. mennon and Lenin, and Anais and NIN (nine inch nails), 8. manly Karamanlis, 9. lunacy and the sea of tranquility on the moon (luna), 10. Sadat was a sad dot, 11. aw heck, a speck?, 12. the GOAT is merely a mote?, (greatest of all time), 13. NAFTA's afterglow, 14. Did Gordon Lightfoot have a lead foot?, (he has 6 children), 15. Lorne Michaels isn't forlorn, I'd gather, 16. Death Valley, Danny DeVito, and Darth Vader, (there's a Darth Vader jellyfish!), 17. infinitesimal decimal, bigwigs, and even less Jess, W: 18. Charles the Fat listens to Skinny Puppy, 19. the magnet magnate, 20. Sheriff Sharif, 21. renting a floor in Florence, 22. Tesharagon, Tesheraton, and Sonny and Cher, 23. marrying merry Mary, 24. Trump on trial for treason, has a ring to it, 25. USC, US congress, U of Southern California, Santa Clara U, 26. no fighting ever took place in the 1810 Anglo-Swedish war (?!), 27. Junta and hoonta (Star Wars character), 28. brb, I have to go to the Palmer Peninsula, 29. Valdivia isn't near the Maldives, 30. Gadsden purchase, and God's den, 31. cannons at fort Buchanon, 32. Enver was never in Denver, 33. Suez links med to red, from sea to shining sea, 34. Henry Howard Holmes (Herman Website Mudgett, not a midget), Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Hugo's House of Horrors, 35. mensch menshaviks, and the silent majority, 36. Thor's authority from the poor majority, 37. a bounced Czech check, 38. Reading Tartuffe in Tartu Estonia, 39. transistor sister, sister sledge, and sissy Spacek, 40. Lhamo Dondrub, troop 14 rah!, 41. in a casket on Blasket island, 42. Dulles International Airport can be quite exciting!, 43. Making progress by destroying congress (!), 44. HG Wells (Herbert George), mercury (Hg), and the Heidi Game, 45. It's My Lai, not Mai Lie, (or my lie), 46. God's sense of humor, and Mare Imbrium, 47. Prague Czechoslovakia, so p.c., 48. Fugendake, fugu, fuggedaboutit, frigates, fugues, fugees, fugitives, and fugazi, 49. defects and refection in the prefecture, 50. killed like sheep outside the temple of Hatshepsut, 51. luxury in Luxor Egypt, 52. SLT, speech and language therapy, salt, slits, sluts, and the slovenian tolar, sit, 53. Alberto Fujimori, A and F, 54. highfalutin' and a handful in Manfalut Egypt, 55. an eye doctor in Alaska? an optical Aleutian!, 56. tartar sauce from Tatarstan, 57. six dozen tornadoes touch down in 2013 Midwest, in an eleven hour span, (incl. 2 EF4's and 7 EF3's), 58. wooing Han...who, baby? (Wuhan, Hubei province).  

November 18

GR: 1. Jonestown massacre (1978), cyanide in the grape kool-aid, 918xx (including Jim), 276 children, 36 of which were babies, (refusers were shot or forced to drink at gunpoint), TH: 2. A basilica made of silicates, 3. Nathaniel B. Palmer, got the whole world in his hands (first person to reach Antarctica), 4. Four continental time zones begin use by railroads in USA and Canada (instead of thousands of local times), 5. defeat of Germany, dawg!, 6. Spain establishes democracy (1976), after 37 years of dictatorship, 7. Iran-Contra investigation concludes Reagan administration "exhibited secrecy, deception, and disdain for the law" (remind you of anyone?), 8. Vatican proclaims (1995) the ban on women priests is "definitive, infallible, and an unquestionable part of the Church's doctrine" (sexist, in other words), 9. Eugene Ormandy lands on Normandy, (Hungarian directs Philadelphia, hungry gets its fill), 10. George Gallup, giddyup, galloping, around the pole/poll, 11. Imogene Coca drinks cola, 12. Johnny Mercer, have mercy on the bursar, 13. Alan Shepard jr., herding leopards, 14. Beach Blanket Bingo, and Beach Blanket Babylon, 15. Elizabeth Perkins eats gherkins in a jerkin, 16. Dammit, (Kirk) Hammet!, jam it, ram it, slam it!, 17. vomit at the sight of a comet?, om...it, 18. Michael Mercury drives a Mercury to Mercury (on the road to heaven),  no matter the temperature/mercury, 18. Ariel is mercurial,  W: 19. Mercury, Saturn, Astrovan, Sol, Comet, Eclipse, Galaxy, Nova, Taurus, and the actual Tesla in space (!), 20. gulp, alpo, to cross the Alps, 21. pagans, heretics, atheists, apostates, unbelievers, infidel, and other freethinkers, 22. pope urban the second was a putz, 23. Unam Sanctam, "one holy church": (claims spiritual supremacy for the papacy, the necessity of belonging to RC for eternal salvation, and thus submission to the Pope, both temporal and spiritual), 24. consecrate, prosecute, and desecrate, consecutively, 25. the sorrows of young Werther and the battle of Vertieres, 26. demonic demon, Nick, from Nicaragua, 27. allah, all law, all ah, aha, baja, bahai, bah humbug!, hamburger in hamburg, homburg hat, 28. Nat, gnat, santa, sanaa (Yemen), tana (French), satan, ick, panic, 29. Tweety bird tweeting about Pope Sylvester, 30. bob bobbing around in the Bay of Bengal, 31. Michael Krasny and the battle of Krasnoi, 32. virgin olive oil from the Virgin Islands, pressed by virgins (Is Richard Branson a virgo? cancer!), 33. King Haakon, king of hackers, no way!, 34. MM, Mickie Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Marshall Mathers, and Marilyn Manson, 35. Tesharaville ain't Jonestown, (it ain't anything), in my head ("where I live"), 36. St. Pancras, patron saint of the pancreas, 37. Terry Waite, waited (kidnapped, '87-'91), 38. the constitution allows prostitution, 39. channel tunnel, chunnel, a fire, what fun, 40. a bonfire, not a bond fire, 41. the android chooses today's eye color off the Iraq, 42. SSC, safe sane and consensual (bdsm), same-sex couples, and sangha supreme council, thai the knot.  

November 19

GR: 1. The Statue of Liberty was originally intended as a lighthouse for Alexandria Egypt, at the entry to Suez Canal, TH: 2. if you're bored, you're boring; if you're incurious, you're stupid; and if you're human, you're doomed!, (just like any other animal, including Jesus, wannabe vampires, and superhuman super humans, in the soup), 3. I agree with Luther, you do not need the Church to worship God, (you don't need my blog, either, but I think it's holy, anyway), 4. God is odd on Cape Cod, says Rod, 5. a modern God nods to POD (prince of darkness), 6. Todd on the quad worships the sod, 7. Middle Earth, Mother Earth, Teshara (as earth), and ME, 8. Voltaire, and electricity in the air!, 9. Dumas urges us to do more, 10. Eating Laurie? there's a poem in it, says the laureate, 11. Julia Ward Howe, and Howard, 12. HBC, Hudson Bay Company, and historically black colleges, 13. Samuel Goldfish changed his name to Samuel Goldwyn, 14. (sigh) the Treaty of Versailles, attempting to create the League of Nations, was rejected by US senate (1919), why? petty personal politics, idealism vs. realism, and Woodrow Wilson's "physical collapse," 15. Trotsky expelled from politburo (do burros trot?), 16. Mona in Monaco, 17. Lincoln's Gettysburg address, for the dedication of a military cemetery, was terse, 2 minutes, 272 words, and "brilliantly and movingly articulated the meaning of the conflict for a war-weary public", 18. Morrissey (singer) and Tommy Dorsey (trombone and trumpet), and Jimmy Dorsey (clarinet),  Claire/Annette!, 19. Prime minister, ministering to numbers (ha), 20. Larry King and Queen Peggy, 21. Patrick's hat trick, messy Jesse, gregarious Greg, scary Larry, dangerous Dan, icky Vicki, piggy Peggy, and Bob Saget (rhymes with faggot, a drill instructor would say 'maggot'), scarin' poor Erin (blue heron?)..., 22. Ted Turner and Janine Turner and taking terns, 23. Calvin Klein, Caroline Kennedy, and Louis CK, 24. hi and bye to Meg Ryan, 25. Jodie Foster and (Garfield dog, Odie) and Dodie (singer) and Foster's (beer), and pater noster, (our father, Lord's Prayer, latin), and imposters on the roster, 26. Pater Noster on Eostre (old spelling of Easter), W: 27. Ricimer plays the dulcimer, 28. it is rash not to treat a rash, 29. equal is boring, say the Boricua, 30. okie dokie, Olkijoki (Finland, the place to go to die?), 31. the odyssey to Odesa, 32. Mengele and Angele (ship claimed by the Cornwall "Doom Bar"), 33. "mass is over", (mass is done, in Macedonia), turkeys are done, people are Finnish, 34. Count Dracula, countries, councils, pay at the counter, counting numbers, counting on you, and sesame street's "The Count", 35. Dracula's bodycount, bugs from Buganda, 36. I consult the Waffen, often, 37. SS, St. Stephen's parish, nazis perish, 38. Noah's ARK: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and Joan, too, 39. Gorby's corgi, 40. MG, Mikhail Gorbachev, meek heil, 41. Malay melee, 42. Sir BN, 43. under attack! under a tack?? lol, 44. Albanian, well I'll be, 45. Is Jessica Alba Albanian? (no), 46. Worst ever NBA brawl!, "Malice at the Palace" (Pacers-Pistons, 2004), several players, fans charged with assault and battery (A and B), resulting in: future limited alcohol sales at games, players forfeiting $11 million salary (9 suspensions, a total of 146 games), and probation/community service.

November 20

GR: 1. Leo Tolstoy, law enforcement officer, toy lion, died of pneumonia: he caught a chill running away from his wife, 2. 13yo kills 14yo (beaten by baseball bat) just to find out what killing feels like (just to watch him die), attorney blamed society, TH: 3. church courts?!, (king insists their jurisdiction be confined to ecclesiastical cases), 4. Hugo, Huguenots, and The Hague, 5. Codifying cod, ratifying rats, humanizing humans, and buggery, 6. independence, and the Indy dance, 7. vuvuzelas in Venezuela, 8. (80-ton) Sperm whale sinks a whaling ship! (1820), inspiring Melville to write Moby-Dick (1851), 9. bicycle went from hobby-horse (pushed with feet) to pedal on the front wheel (penny farthing) to modern (chain to rear cassette), 10. Charles Stewart Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce, (wonder twin powers, activate), 11. Garrett Morgan (American) invents the automatic traffic signal, (1923), 12. Tarawa atoll kills 1k Marines in 70 hours (but kills 4690 Japanese, so counted as a victory), 13. Nuremberg sentences 12 architects of nazi policy to death, 7 others from 10 years to life, and acquits 3, 14. Nadine Gordimer, and gordo (fat, in spanish) dining, 15. Richard Dawkins ain't Richard Dawson, 16. Veronica Hamel ain't Mark Hamill, a camel on amyl, W: 17. Dio and Diocletian, 18. Mona's cremation, in Cremona, 19. everyone in Milan eats milanos, 20. portobello mushrooms from Panama, 21. palisades, and pals of Sade, 22. Oi! Hanoi, oil, boi, oy, 23. Pink Floyd uses Wahl clippers, 24. Francisco Madero, and Arctic Monkeys radio, 25. fascists and faggots, bundle of rods, bundle of sticks, arrows in the claw of the eagle (dime), led zeppelin IV album cover (elderly man with a bundle on his back), 26. axis, not axe sis (!), 27. Alice, malice, palace, phallus, chalice, callous, Dallas, Tallis scholars, valise, 28. Doh! Department of Energy, Duke of Edinburgh, 29. DROC, democratic republic of Congo, declaration of the rights of the child, 30. sex, sax, socks, texas, explicit, six, sucks, success, and essex, 31. congress, intercourse, coitus, copulation, 32. Jomo Kenyatta, JK Rowling, j/k (just kidding), Jay Kay (Jamiroquai), 33. why is there a k in knee? knife?, (not like Knesset), 34. mass, fundamentalism, and ass/fundament, 35. bugs and bugles and buggery, 36. Kaaba and Cobb, CA, 37. orga/mecha, 38. Chikatilo ate 56 chickens, 39. I need to Peter Parker, 40. honking in Hong Kong, noise in Hanoi, sounds in Sindh province, racquet in Phuket, music in Munich, 41. boxing match in Mali, Bamako: bam! knockout, 42. playing guitar in Qatar, cut tar, are caught, 43. qat (Vanuatu deity, and khat, stimulant), 43. like coca leaves in South America, and betel nut in Asia, 44. qat, khat, chat, ghat, etc. (prevalent in Djibouti, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen), 44. causes excitement, loss of appetite, and euphoria, 45. Qatar is 88% non-Qatari (!), 45. Coca-Cola, the Beatles, and Cats!, 46. a chat with a cat, flying a kite with Kate.

November 21

GR: 1. Blackbeard the pirate's skull was turned into a punch bowl, Edward Teach taught a lesson, 2. the movie Deerhunter, on tv, spawned many russian roulette copycats, TH: 3. God reading Omni magazine on an omnibus, 4. (1906) the emperor of china issues an edict declaring an end to opium trafficking within 10 years (some estimates have half of china's population either addicted or involved in the opium trade(!), 5. suffra-jets! ha, 6. bombs in Birmingham, brr, that's cold, 7. intelligence analysts, testing everybody's IQ, making anal lists, seeking diversity (different kinds of intelligence!), 8. god's omnipotence and dog's power and wealth (paw!), 9. Croats, where my crows at?, 10. Henrietta Green and Alan Greenspan and the Green Party, 11. Rose Marie and Rene Magritte, Ricardo Montalban, 12. yet more JC, Joseph Campanella, and Juan Carlos, 13. Thomas Edison, wizard of Menlo Park, NJ (not a kkk wizard, not a Hogwarts wizard, but a technological wizard; he invented the phonograph), 14. a lizard's gizzards!, whiz and jizz, W: 15. AR-15 in Arkansas  (AL AK AZ AR), 16. 'al azar' means random, in spanish, en espanol, 17.  AAAA, Kalashnikov at random? please, no  (army aviation association of america), and (a type of electric battery) (not assault), 18. military assault on a battery, charge!, 19. do old batteries have salt on them? (no), the white crystals are potassium hydroxide, an electrolyte,  20. we need electrolytes, says gatorade, but don't ingest KOH!!, ok?,  (toxic), 21. talks sick, 22. tick talk, a flea/fly flow, 23. bird influenza, flu flew down the flue, 24. I can fly? that's an effing lie!, 25. Hebrew calendar (25 Kislev 3597, rededication of the temple in Jerusalem, is annually commemorated by Hanukkah), what happened year 0?, 26. According to (the venerable?) Maimonides, Big G created the universe (humans created year 1: 3761 BCE), nuts! (3762 plus 2022 is 5784), 27. my money is not on Maimonides, lol, 28. deez nuts, 29. tibble EC is how I pronounce Tbilisi (not easy, EZ), 30. the capitol of Georgia (Atlanta too), 30. math and Mattathias, 31. Pontian ain't Pontius Pilate, 32. sol, speed of light, Statue of Liberty, silence of lambs, statute of limitations, 33. 186,282 mps/ 670,616,629 mph, 34. 8 minutes 17 seconds (sun to earth, average), 35. speed of heavy? speed of dark? relative speed of 2 photons heading toward each other?, to ward, lol, 36. Walter Magaya and Magallanes and MAGA and Krav Maga; red hats and hatred, 37. hey jew, hey Jude, hey Julia, heiju (not a word, I think; heiji is, and also heijunka box), 38. sol, sole, soul, Seoul, and Saul, solicitor sold soil solo, soll (municipality in Austria), 39. Port Arthur (Tasmania, Texas, China): same Arthur? who?, 40. Pierre de Ruel, French General (cruel Ruel ate gruel as a rule, fool), 41. pool rules, stay cool, don't drool, only fools wear jewels, don't duel any cruel ghouls, who'll rule and send you to school, mules are uncool, don't be a tool, it's cold on Yule (in joules), bool, and for god's sake, no stool!, 42. pogrom, program, pogo stick, morgue op, prog rock / Prague, progress, re-SS, reassess, progg, 43. coke croak, 44. Serenity, Serene CO, Serena (Yuen, Williams), and sir Renee, reen (drainage ditch), 45. I like unilateral ceasefires.  any side, all adversaries, combatants, forces, (just go home), 46. fuck war, 47. corporate Islam, Islam a bod (Islamabad), like body politic, body electric (rush song), 48. fire in Paradise CA (86xx, 2018, "Camp Fire") and a fire in Paradise NV (85xx, 1980), too, 49. Oliver North and Kanye West and Harry South and Guy East, 50. Samui airport (Thailand) and Samurai (Japan), 51. a tornado tore my 'nads, 52. Bob from Zimbabwe, 53. Frodo is a fraud, 54. dude guilty on (all) 76 charges: 6 consecutive life sentences (w/o pop), plus / an additional (tautology and pleonasm) 763 1/4 years (huh? where did those extra 3 months come from!), 55. the sentence makes me laugh, but it's still a crying shame, 56. pop, possibility of parole, pa role, fatherhood, boyz in the hood, 57. Darrell E. Brooks and his river of blood, 58. name: dared to pentagon-flow satan (grok?)

November 22

GR: 1. Zapruder, rudely zapped, 2. OS, Os-wald, Oliver Stone, 3. hot mic and military-industrial complex, 4. stab the establishment, 5. A and F, attention and fame, 6. Mae West: "a hard man is good to find", TH: 7. Pope Honorius honors I/US (bible has God as plural, we), 8. Superman's cape of good hope, 9. laws in Spain (1542) give American Indians protection against enslavement, 10. Super bolero, 11. Mike Tyson becomes the youngest world heavyweight champion (age 20), (Floyd Patterson had won the title in 1956 at age 21), 12. Hoagy Carmichael eats a hoagie in Carmichael, CA, 13. R and D on Rodney Dangerfield, 15. Robert Vaughn drives an RV, W: 16. excuse me, I have to go do some black magic; I need to paladin, too, in Elizabeth Bathory's room, 17. I need to Winnie (pooh), I need to Mick (micturate) , 18. opus, compass, european, 19. John Lennon and Vladimir Lenin, jail and veal, mennonites and nine inch nails, 20. punch, bug juice, betelgeuse, beetle juice, insect blood, gross or delicious?, 21. confronting my demons on Van Diemen's land, 22. vampire bats and rob zombie (raining brain) and ghostface killah, 23. trippin' on sippin', 24. villains be illin', 24. is the force a farce?, 25. Bibi the space alien and Blackbeard (Edward Teach), to each his own, 26. reptilian brain and repeating tiles, 27. rebellion against reptilians!, liz the lizard, see you later alligator, in awhile crocodile, iguana go too!, a dragon in agony, a fake snake, the serpent was the perpetrator, fate ate, 28. the UC System, you see? Upper Canada and University of California and unassisted childbirth, umbilical cord, unification church, undercover, 29. Cutty Sark and cut in the dark and slutty mark and nutty (hark a lark, flying through the park, splat!), 30. Chiang Kai-Shek and Kaiser, 31. Jekyll and hydrogen bombs, 32. what year was Mel born?, Melbourne and Melburnians, (aborigines have been there over 40,000 years), 33. thinking about sociopaths / vampires, who toy with people, (blood)letting "toys," on the toilet, fills me with the urge to defecate, 34. the red flow of Pink Floyd, and Toy Story, 35. DHL, (Dalsey Hillblom Lynn), doctor hannibal lecter, day and half late, devil in the holy land, 36. rugby thugs, 37. ugh, a smug bug, 38. OR, operating room, you crane, ornj evolution, and fruit revolution, and orange shot into space? astronaut eating an orange.

November 23

GR: 1. strictly strychnine, never nightshade, TH: 2. Pope Alexander III established the procedure for canonizing saints, and inaugurated the 2/3 rule for papal elections (.666 %, lol), 3. Lizzy Borden and Henry Burden and Christopher Barden, 4. garbage collector, aka 'dustman', 5. Chattanooga, ooga-chaka, a chat? oh god, 6. Assaye, assayers, and asshole assassins, 7. Laurel and Hardy, Hardcastle and McCormick, Thomas Hardy (hale and hearty!), 8. Tweedle dee and tweedle dum, and "Boss" Tweed, 9. first jukebox, in an SF saloon, 5cents, 1 of 4 songs, 10. train cars have a "Jenny" coupler, 11. Joseph Smith, s.j., 12. Crippen and Mud-Bloods, 13. beer and liquor used to be prescribed for medical purposes, 14. (1964) Vatican abolishes latin as the official language of RC liturgy, (vox populii, instead... huh? voice of the people), 15. Franklin Pierce (troop 14, rah!), 16. Freddy Marsden, and Marsden hearings, 17. Diana Quick and Christopher Slowe, 18. Bruce Hornsby (played piano, not horn), and the range top, 19. lovin' my oven, 20. BTK, (2/11/20), billy the kid, bind/torture/kill, etc., (Burger King tray, say), W: 21. Maratha aftermath, 22. (534 bc) Thespis (of Icaria, named after Icarus) becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character on stage (thus, thespians), 23. evil in Seville, wicked in Wick, depraved in the deep, rotten in Lawton, cruel in Thule,  24. kippers, chapels, and kappel (yarmulke, skullcap), 25. SI, slave insurrection, st. ignatius, sports illustrated, metric system, etc., 26. toodle-oo, Tudela!, 27. ruptured core, spilling your guts, corruption, 28. God in Ogden Utah and Ogaden Africa (Somalia), as well as writers Ogden Nash and Dogen, 29. Hai Phong and bye, Darrell Fong, 30. kookoo for Cocoa Puffs on Cocos island, 31. Charles dog all, 32. Dr. Who, the world health organization, MSF (Doctors Without Borders), and of course, rock group The Who (Who are you, hoot hoot goes the owL, Low album, and Schwarzkopf), 33. cunning gunmen from Kunming, 34. I AM on a.m. radio in MA, mama, 35. AM/FM: ample Arctic Monkeys and frequent Freddy Mercury, 36. no one, none, showed up, or sat down, at the convention at the nun's convent, today at noon, 37. Rose Revolution (Georgia) wasn't the war of the roses (row?), 38. the road to Rhodesia and a Rhodes scholarship, 39. concentrate on consecrating c-nts, holy holes!, 40. Is (Ellen Johnson) Sirleaf in a Green Party?, 41. a calm bomb, and a stressed mess, curious about fury, enraged at a mage, 42. the sage turns the page, 43. in and out burger in Maguindanao, 44. Yeonpyeong is pronounced?, pie? lol, 45. my wind-up watch uses an arab spring, 46. celebrating a vertical landing with a horizontal mambo.   

November 24

GR: 1. Snuffleupagus has syphilis?, 2. Teshara, to share rheumatoid arthritis (not transmissible, actually), TH: 3. Talmud-flaps, 4. Abel Tasman discovers Tasmania (Cain and Tasmanian devil), 5. don't be a stranger, TX Ranger, 6. barbed wire patented (1874), transforming the west, 7. Clyde Coleman, self-starter, 8. (sigh) Saipan, 9. don't wear your communist ties, 10. Dawn Fraser and Matt Dusk, 11. chilling with David Frost, 12. Lt. William Calley: premeditated murder of 109 civilians at My Lai, and then pardoned by the president (?!?), seriously? wtf, 13. Origin of Species, published 1859, condemned by Christians as heresy, (seriously? wtf), 14. B.S. from Benedict Spinoza, 15. Laurence Sterne, and Howard Stern, and sternutation, 16. Grace Darling is G-D, 17. Vanderbilt built my customized Sprinter Van, 18. book burnings and Frances Burnett, 19. I have to Bat Masterson, brb, 20. Scott Joplin, s.j., 21. William F. Buckley jr. and making bucks, 22. Oscar, my self-driving car, 23. Annapolis, plebe site, plebiscite, W: 24. getting my fix on chicks, music, and quick picks; drugs, ugh, 25. pharmaceutical companies are drug dealers!, just say no, 26. lean and mean machine, clean, 27. the teen scene, 28. jeans, genes, and the dean intervenes, 29. the queen on the cover of a 'zine, 30. watching Bean on a submarine, 31. Rastafarian rats, 32. rats are people, too (he's a rat!), 33. rat from Montferrat, 34. Engels (communist manifesto) and Genghis (mongol emperor), 35. Mont Granier ain't Mt. Rainier (named after Peter Rainier, not rainfall), 36. sniper from Cyprus, 37. bored with warlords, 38. excited by spiteful slights, and mighty knights, and trite rites, 39. chicken and fries, in Dumfries and Galloway, 40. Abel Tasman & Tasmania, 41. Tarabai, regent of Maratha empire, and terabytes of data from Infinite Jest (Marathe), 42. TRD, Toyota racing development, Texas Ranger Division, and turds, 43. BLM, battle of lookout mountain, and Black Lives Matter, vidas negras importan, VNI, 44. Black Beauty (about a horse), 45. walking in Milwaukee, 46. revolvers, revolutions, and lovers, 47. making money (at a mint) and (pigs) makin' bacon, 48. bringing home petunia the pig, singing a new tune, 49. pork and porcupines, 50. Jawas from Tarawa, 51. AAA, Alexander Archipelago Alaska (also), 52. Teshara visits Tarawa, 53. merry Ana from the Marianas, 54. wussup, socialist unity party?, 55. Jack Ruby and Scooby-do, 56. overthrow and thrown overboard (naufrago), 57. throwing the brat into lava, in Bratislava, 58. Donald Johanson  (co-discoverer of Lucy, with Tom Gray, in Ethiopia) ain't Don Johnson, 59. Named after Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Beatles song -LSD-; like Mary Jane, or E, 60. Jim Jones, who founded Jonestown, found dead, 61. Fined? fine!, 62. Dhaka Bangladesh ain't DACA (deferred action for child arrivals) ain't Dakar Senegal, 63. sinking Sanka (instant decaf) with sanctions, (or literally, like the Boston tea party), in Helsinki, 64. a row with Kai in Cairo, 65. A hung parliament? I don't think so. 

November 25

GR: 1. japanese poet calls seppuku (ritual suicide by self-disemboweling) "the ultimate form of masturbation", TH: 2. I have to go to Boston, Massachusetts, brb, 3. struggle for the English crown (1120) when the heir dies, (drowns), who won? (daughter) Matilda or (nephew) Stephen?, 4. wretched conditions on hisss-paniola, 5. Sybilla Masters and Roy Masters and masters of the universe, 6. In 1834, a meal at Delmonico's (of soup, steak, coffee, and pie) went for 12 cents, 7. don't taunt tanta, 8. Tontons play Taunton, MA, and Star Wars tauntauns, 9. Noble Nobel, dynamite and peace, 10. Woody Woodpecker, Woodrow Wilson, Wes Westrum, Wonder Woman, whitewater, wishy-washy, wigwam, wishing well, weight watchers, weeble-wobbles, and world war, 11. Poland's popular president plurality, (1990), 12. Lech Walesa and Lawrence William (mr. T), 13. General Augusto Pinochet wears Gap clothing, but charges of torture and genocide ain't no joke, 14. International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women (IDEVAW): it is estimated that one in every 4 women worldwide has been, or will be, raped, 15. VW and Virginia Woolf, 16. CA and Christina Applegate (played Jesse), W: 17. events evince venting, 18. you can't trust an Etruscan!, 19. Saladin's paladins eat salad, 20. North Carolina and Karnataka, no car, car not, and don't call your brother raca (a car, backwards), 21. nobility, no bills!, living off the grid, eating off a griddle, 22. Caucasians, cock as us, 23. die, dying in dutch east india, idea, dei, 24. RVM motto, to seek the greater service and honor of God, (Religious of Virgin Mary), 25. rooting for Beirut, 26. the damned of Damascus, 27. exile, sex smile, seeing your ex walk down the aisle, 28. cyclones and self-instruction in psychology, alone, 29. (sigh) clone, 30. Mr. T and Missionary Ridge, Tennessee, 31. Powder River, just add water!, 32. gambit, Greece Albania Macedonia Bulgaria (Aromanians with bows and arrows, and aromas), 33. fielding questions about field equations (I feel you), 34. defeat, taking feet (like scalps, or ears, or teeth), 35. hobbling hobbits, don't make it a habit, says none of the nuns, 36. disturbed Serbians, mad from Madagascar, insane from Spain (but not Madrid), French in the Seine, 37. torpedo and a torn speedo, 38. BG, Brigadier General, Bill Gates, and the Big Guy, 39. indoctrinating doctors, 40. CIA and the Iran-Contra Affair, 41. cannon fodder and King Fahd, 42. Elian Gonzalez, for example, 43. haiku in Baku Azerbaijan, 44. Jedis in Jeddah, a deluge during the hajj, 45. pilgrimage, grim mage takes a pill, 46. magic cheese, frommage, from mage (how can anyone govern a nation that has 246 kinds of cheese? -Charles de Gaulle, french general, president of france 1959-69).

November 26

GR: 1. surfing, couch surfing, elevator surfing, TH: 2. Captain Savage exhibits a lion (at his house), 3. events happen and chess takes place, 4. Howie high on maui wowie, 5. Sauron the moron, gets his war on, 6. malice, cruelty, and the will to dominate (and McD's), 7. The price of the Ford Model A started at $460 (in 1927), 8. Chuichi Nagumo chews gum, 9. Cyril Cusack isn't related to John Cusack, 10. tea with teens, taking turns, and Tina Turner, 11. Scott Jacoby, s.j., W: 12. Man Upstairs, and the stairway to heaven, anybody home?, 13. Listening to the Wall in Wallachia, 14. Colossus of Roads (pun), 15. Thomas Telford in his Audi TT, time travel in his tourist trophy, 16. Sikes-Picot agreement, psychs pick O, 17. Khural, unicameral parliament of Mongolia, will cure all that ails ya! (quack, quack), 18. Mainila ain't Manila, 19. Casablanca isn't about the White House, 20. ducks can be dicks, 21. Jack be nimble, Jick be quack, 22. B.R. Ambedkar loads his truck bed, 23. Volunteer, V all the United Nations, in tears, 24. The Chosen and Chosin reservoir, 25. Teshara is close to Ashtar (a name associated with extraterrestrial communication since 1952), 26. Vrillon wasn't a villain, 27. heaviest ever recorded rainfall? 1.5 inches in 60 seconds (1970, Guadeloupe), 28.  bastards from Basse-Terre, 29. John Demjanjuk wasn't a j.d. (doctor of jurisprudence), he was just a dick, 30. Chaim Potok, l'chaim! (to life), 31. 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon, and Thai ties to terrorist islamist extremists. 

November 27

GR: 1. Dead and listening to the Grateful Dead, reading Eugene O' Neill for eons, driving my infiniti to infinity and beyond, and meeting up with Devan and Kevin in heaven (hello!), TH: 2. false rumors of atrocities in the holy land prompted Pope Urban II to call for the faithful to take Jerusalem from the Muslims (giving rise to the Crusades), 3. Gordon the warden, 4. Tanya is an orthodox Hasidic sacred religious text, 5. JW, Jehovah's witnesses (wit), John Walker (invented friction match, refused to patent it), Johnny Walker red, John Wick, Jaleel White, and Joko Widodo, 6. Yoko Ono is a widow, (but not a black widow), 7. Washita river, TX, 8. Mike Pence pencils in Pennsylvania, 9. charging Ion (Antonescu) with a crime, 10. Tool plays Toul, Toulon, and Toulouse, 11. Alger Hiss in Algeria and Hispaniola, 12. I agree with James Agee (haven't forgotten A Mother's Tale), 13. you decide if he was (Ernie) Wise, 14. King Kong, Hong Kong, Mike Kong, 15. Bruce Lee, like a spruce tree, 16. JH, Jimi Hendrix, Jonathan Heuser, HJ de Blij, 17. move over, Rover (Jimi died age 28 of a drug overdose 9/18/70), 18. kong dog toy and Congo and conga and congee, conclave, and Kongu Nadu, India, W: 19. is the commode named for Commodus, son of Marcus Aurelius?, (no.  French for 'convenient' or 'suitable'), 20. MMA, murderous mercenaries!  assassins!, 21. usurper Phocas makes emperor Maurice watch his (M's) 5 sons die before M is killed, himself, 22. Jerusalem Church is in Berlin (go figure), 23. Marian apparition (boo!), 24. reactionaries and the reactive mind, 25. Makhnovshchina wasn't in China, 26. surgeon urged to commit perjury, on pain of injury, 27. Cartels, Carlos, Karl, and cars, 28. James H Clark, Helen Clark, and Hovey, 29. Osiris is an exoplanet 159 ly away, 30. a light year is a distance, not a time, and is 5,878,499,814,210.01 miles (more than 5.8T miles), 31. Somehow we know Osiris has a hydrogen atmosphere, 32. Muppets, Muggles, Commons, 100 IQ or lower, lower classes, dalits, hoi polloi, and other like classifications (say, slaves), for better or worse, 33. X-Men, Master Race, Wizards, Lords (UN-commons? queers, weirdos), elites, royals, and, of course, gods.

November 28

GR: 1. lean cats from Catalina, TH: 2. Granada ain't Grenada, 3. a strait isn't (necessarily) straight, 4. Haarlem (Holland) isn't Harlem (NYC), 5. an essay on Stratford-upon-Avon, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South America, Soviet Army, something awful, sexaholics anonymous, Salvation Army, spontaneous abortion, systems analyst, sex appeal, sexual assault, special agent, San Antonio, San Andreas, surface area, situational awareness, etc., 6. general election doesn't elect generals (!), 7. swashbuckling (etymology?: swagger with a drawn sword, plus a small shield held in fist), 8. skywriting and disappearing ink, 9. Grand Ole Opry opens in 1925 (and still going!, the longest running radio broadcast in US history), radio goo, gaga, 10. baking a cake with William Blake, 11. journalists don't just write journals, 12. Randy Newman, Paul Newman, Alfred E. Neuman, and the Newman center, 13. the pastor voted for Lady Astor, W: 14. and now, the chief of grief, the master of disaster, the king of bling, the ruler of jewelers, the lord of Mordor, the head of red, the prince of wince, the boss of loss, putting the dick in dictator, the rant in tyrant, and the rat in autocrat, heeeeere's Donald Trump!, W: 15. Vijaya ain't vagina, 16.va-j-j, and V a Gina, 17. Ferdinand Marcos, Ferdinand Magellan radio and Active Minds radio, 18. Passive Minds in the evening, sucking on the boob tube, 19. Can't beat The Beat, 20. chairperson of the Cherokee on a rocking chair, 21. Uruguay, you are gay, like John and Monty, over and out, 22. I need to printing press, 23. you're in Nate, 24. piddle, Panama Independence Day, 25. Marianna, PA (mine explosion, 154xx, 1 survivor), marianna apparitions, 26. shoplifter stays tuned, jumpropes an earthquake, 27. the bane or boon of the Albanian boonies, 28. the ghost of Boonah (woof, boo-f), 29. an assembly of asses, 30. the nerve!  to attack Narva, says Minerva, 31. Frank, Winnie, and Joe meetup in 'Ron, 32. randy in Burundi, 33. one of the first discoverers of a pulsar (1967), Antony Hewish (jewish? you wish), 34. virtual particles defy common-sense, so maybe God, etc. deserves more credibility from the skeptical..., (Hewish's basic message), 35. E.T. go home, East Timor? Ethiopia? easter time zone?, 36. nighttime, new zzzz land, Sandman and Morpheus, Somnos, Hypnos, taking trip to Dreamland, where Zorro lives, 37. sleep and satan's leap, dream-demons, 38. Winter War and Cold War, 39. George from Georgia, 40. Mombasa-nova, 41. a kick in the crotch in Karachi, 42. Kano, Nigeria, pronounced con-o (not K-no), 43. eating some dim-sum in Aksum in Summer, before summiting Mt. Sumbing (Indonesia), Mt. Sumner (Palmer Land, Antarctica), and Mt. Summerson (also, Antarctica), 44. do ants have aunts and uncles?

November 29

GR: 1. a tabby cat named "Puss" lived a day after 36 years, the longevity record for domestic felines, 2. felines have canines, 3. spider monkey into S and M, TH: 4. Protestantichrist, 5. eating slurry in Surrey, England, 6. ooze and Oz and ohs (open heart surgery), 7. Brian Eno and Enos the chimpanzee, 8. Irish Republican Army, investment retirement accounts, and Ira (given name, male or female, meaning (Sanskrit) 'the earth', or Saraswati, goddess of wisdom and knowledge), 9. cattle in Seattle, 10. "Aim at heaven and you get Earth thrown in, aim at earth and you get neither" -CS Lewis, 11. G-D, Gaetano Donizetti, Italian operatic composer, 12. Little Women (by Louisa May Alcott) and Big Men (2014 documentary), 13. NAACP and Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 14. Proust and Madeleine L'Engle, 15. JM, John Mayall, Jim Marquis, Jay Em (Wyoming), Just Muslim, 16. Vin Diesel and Vin Scully and VIN (vehicle identification number), 17. Gertrude Jekyll and the Hyde amendment, 18. (Ian, Peggy, Rene, Alexander) and Sir John Ambrose Fleming, the flemish, and phlegm, 19. German germs, Flemish phlegm, sick Sikhs, ill in Illinois, and of course, Mysore, 20. with a name like AAB, no wonder she was a prodigy/genius, (Augusta Ada Byron), Lovelace and hating leather, W: 21. Genus homo isn't genius homosexual, 22. I belong to a family!  a taxonomic family.  the hominid family of primates.  KPCOFGS of humans is Kingdom- Animal (like the drumming muppet!), Phylum- Chordate (dating a marine), Class- Mammal (yes, we have class), Order- Primate (or maybe Dominican), Family- Hominidae (Hominids and Great Apes, I agree, apes are great!), Genus- Homo, Species- Sapiens (sapient, wise), 23. it's nice to belong to a family, even if only a taxonomic one!, 24. Genus trivial pursuit? wha?, no eye?, 25. a primate mates with the prime minister, the amazon prime delivery person, or a member of the PRI party (mexico), 26. H om in id DAE (Hospital meditation in (ego/id/superego) David Andrew Eldridge), 27. id is also identification, or identity, or id est (latin), 28. Why don't people name their kids Chlothar, Charibert, Guntram, Sigebert, and Chilperic, anymore? ha, 29. the Natchez have snatches, and there are nipples in Naples, and there's twats in Ankor Wat, and dicks in Dickinson ND, 30. American, like Eric and Erica's kin, 31. Indian raga in Moraga, 32. Zong, so very wrong, 33. Nuge is huge in NJ, 34. Porch a gull, perched on the porch, 35. does rebellion ring a bell? with a rebel yell she cried more, more, more!, 36. punctation ain't punctuation, 37. I confess I don't really know the difference between Germany, Prussia, and Bavaria; (and Austria), 38. Arapaho rappers, 39. Modoc and a doctor's modus operandi, 40. oh no! Yoko Ono is on the phonograph, 41. Poland isn't at either pole, 42. praying for prey, the people's republic of Yugoslavia, proie, slavic slaves, 43. pop goes the IR weasel, partition of Palestine, 44. we are all in space, 45. Elizabeth warren commission, 46. Dorval is adorable, 47. I want to hold your hand, lol, and maybe the rest of you, too, 48. Pong, donkey kong, long dong, strong Wong, the Hmong, Song Dynasty, and the gong show, 49. Surinamese surnames, 50. NorKor berserkers, 51. cat mew-tiny, 52. Blue Steele coffee shop (renamed site of Lakewood shooting, (WA), where Maurice Clemmons killed 4 police officers.    

November 30

GR: 1. Zeppo, last survivor of the Marx brothers, dies (age 78, 1979); he was the straight man, but grew tired of the role and became an agent, TH: 2. tip: take it personally, 3. Jesus Christine, and trans-substantiation, 4. the dinosaurs, such crater-haters, 5. Thomas Paine (american revolutionary) and Pleasure P (rapper), 6. Confederate Army of Tennessee, and cool cats, 7. First international soccer match (1872, Scotland vs. England, a goalless draw), 8. near-naked, "scantily clad", panties tease, the bikini is key, 9. first softball game (1887, Chicago), 10. Boers, Afrikaners, and boring africans, 11. Steph Curry and Harvey "Kid Curry" Logan, 12. 1919, not nazi, women are allowed to vote for the first time in French elections, 13. putting the 'men' in ecumenical, Captain EO and Eastern Orthodox, 14. the whim of women, 15. BC, before christ, bill clinton, background check, british columbia, baja california, boston college, battle command, 16. Jonathan Swift, s.j., 17. SLC, Salt Lake City, and Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain, empty), 18. empty, essay, seedy, ellen, easy, etc., 19. Winston Churchill and WC Fields (William Claude), 20. Dick Clark in d.c. (District of Columbia), Dubai city, data center, detective comics, driverless car, 21. dm, David Mamet, Dmitri Medvedev, dead milkmen, depeche mode, dungeon master, death metal, data mining, dark matter, 22. Ridley Scott and religious studies, 23. Abbie Hoffman, cultural revolutionary, suicided in 1989 at age 52 by phenobarbital overdose, (yippie? ugh), W: 24. a dog named Diogi, doctor ollie guacho, 25. ooze and ahs (Atlantic hurricane season: 6/1-11/30), 26. Jethro Tull, Justin Trudeau, John Travolta, Justin Timberlake, James Taylor, JT Snow, Juneteenth, and me!, 27. God on a cross, and the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, (first modern state to abolish the death penalty), 28. faster, master!, 29. SFU, Louisiana Territory (from Spain to France to USA, within 20 days), 30. knock it off, Nakhimov!, 31. Franklin TN was named after Ben, (who had as many as 7 slaves), battle of Franklin was a union victory, 32. patents and intelligence on pat, 33. CP, crystal palace, communist party, capital punishment, child pornography, command post, cerebral palsy, candlepower, colored people, ceteris paribus, 34. rumble in Rumbula, 35. being a pal of ben stein is mandatory, 36. kabaka (king) and Chewbacca, 37. Barbados and prohibition, 38. PPP, Pakistan people's party, people power party, purchasing power parity, public-private partnership, paycheck protection program, postpartum psychosis, powerpoint presentation, point pleasant park, 39. Sharjah, Jah rule, Shara and sharia, 40. Thriller (1982), the best selling album in history, 41. irate IRA, 42. Walmart and ExxonMobil, some of the "big boys", 43. 93 and 49, Samuel Little and Gary Ridgway, bodycount/confirmed kills (ugh), 44. Lion Air, winged lion, griffin, cagey KG, 45. John Sentamu, s.j. (Church of England, ack chew ally), 46. poor old Saud, lol (aqualung), 47. Maya-Maya airport is in ROC (Republic of Congo), not Mexico, 48. AMI, Aztec Maya Inca (going south, friend), 49. Oxford University, OU, Oh you, Oxford hs, MI;  Oxford, hug and kiss for D. 

v

they know you're interesting, jess

they know you're a bit crazy

we think you're kinda well, jess

we know you're well, Jesse

it's fuckin amazing that you're doin this, Jesse

that IS why you're law, jess

   (wtf? these are voices)

song lyric:

"eternities passing in seconds"

     (like, say, for a computer?)

Clarification

I'm not trying to be the Alpha

   am I a puppet?  Islam means submission...

I'm not saying I created the universe

   I seriously doubt I will time travel back (in the future)

I'm not saying I love everyone

   (hate the sin, love the sinner)

   at least not how most people think of love (eros)

I'm not saying I can do anything

    (like above the law, or defy physics, or heal everyone)

I don't know everything (maybe I know nothing!)

     I think, therefore I am (I think)

So I'm not number 1, the Creator, Love, omnipotent, omniscient

I'm not a father (as far as I know)

BUT

I think I'm telling the truth (my own), which is good

And I think I'm good (bible says only God is good)

I am

present society in "terminal levels of psychosis and alienation"

the joy of joining (and joints)

rise up, zombies!  understanding, all over the world (you down?)

beliefs, and leaves (is your creed deciduous or evergreen?)

offer, off fur, off her

cause and effect, caws (crows) and f(x)

I've currently got Julia, by Sza, on repeat in my brain

some of my favorite names!: Pudge Heffelfinger, Zebulon Pike, Engelbert Humperdinck, Yasmine Bleeth, Elon Musk, Annette Riddle, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Dweezil Zappa...

I also like saying lechuga (lettuce, in spanish)