Yes sir, it's (Tuesday, Mangal-waar, Seshanbeh, yawm-ath-thalatha, Fidal, Pungenday). The only thing good about that is that it's not Monday any longer. The skies in KC look a little ominous today. Apparently I have gone insane...but the insanity is a complete 180 from my previous mental state. In any case, the world seems to be spinning towards something strange and positive. Being that I've been completely oblivious to what's going on in the local news which sort of happens when you rely wholly on the internet for news. It seems that the KCPD are shooting a bunch of people. They probably deserve it. But I think there have been like three police shootings in the past week and that's just a little crazy. Obviously we're approaching summer and we all know what that means. People start losing their minds.
In 1497 Pope Alexander VI excommunicated Girolamo Savonarola. Savonarola was a Dominican priest who was higly critical of the moral corruption of the clergy (imagine that). Savonarola was very popular in Florence, Italy and was responsible for the Bonfire of the Vanities in which he ordered Florentines to burn items which siginfied moral laxity such as: mirrors, cosmetics, lewd pictures, musical instruments, fine dresses, and a lot of artwork. Sounds like he'd make a good citizen of Kansas. (The picture is of his execution.) In 1607 Jamestown Settlement was founded. In 1787 11 ships filled with prisoners left Portsmouth, England to found a penal colony in Australia. In 1846 the US declared war on Mexico. In 1880 in Menlo Park, NJ Thomas Edison tested his electric railway. Eight years later Brazil abolished slavery. In 1939 the first commercial radio station debuted in Bloomfield, CT. In 1958 Velcro was trademarked. In 1980 an F3 tornado hit Kalamazoo, MI. I lived in Kalamazoo for six years and have to say that it's not a bad place at all. The following year Mehmet Al Agca attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II but failed. In 1985 the Philadelphia Police dropped a bomb on a housing complex in an attempt to root out members of MOVE. Eleven people died and an entire city block burned to the ground. At least the KCPD is dropping bombs on the city. And in 1996 600 people died in Bangladesh due to bad weather, I know, shocker.
In ancient Rome, today was the Lemuralia, a day in which Romans would exorcise malevolent ghosts, known as larvae or lemures, from their houses. They would walk around the house barefoot throwing black beans over their shoulders chanting, "With these beans I redeem me and mine." Apparently May was a month when the dead were thought to be a little too close to the living which made May a bad month to get married in, hence today's title.
In Fiji today is Rotuma Day.
Happy Birthday: Pope Innocent XIII (dead); Pope Pius IX (dead); Georges Papanikolaou, inventor of the Pap smear; Joe Louis (from Detroit); Roger Zelazny, the Mormon sci-fi author; Harvey Keitel, who's been naked in a few movies; Stevie Wonder (from Saginaw, MI); Dennis Rodman, weirdo; Debbie Stull, mother of Allie; Laura K., lover of the tree; and Darius Rucker, of Hootie and the Blowfish- "No bull S&%T, no slaveships, no motherf$#kin' Hootie and the Blowfish."
Enjoy your Tuesday. It only happens once a week.
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