OTD: Wed. 19JUL2023

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Coming to you live from Deeping St. Magma, County Gloamshire ...

Today is:
International Balloon Dog Day, National Take Your Poet To Work Day, & National Hot Dog Day!!!

Classical B-Days:
1827 Wilhelm Kalliwoda, Bohemian-German pianist/composer/kapellmeister/music teacher
1873 Louis Zimmermann, Dutch violinist/composer/1st concert master of Concert

Rock/Folk B-days:
1947 Brian May, British rock guitarist [ Group(s): Queen ]
1948 Keith Godchaux, American pianist/singer [ Group(s): Grateful Dead ]
1952 (Larken) Allen Collins, American southern rock guitarist/songwriter [ Group(s): Lynyrd Skynyrd ]

WRR 101.1 FM ― MotD:
George Gershwin: "Strike Up the Band" march

WWotD:
blateration ― (n) chatter; babbling.

QotD:
“I'll take the spokes from your wheelchair and a magpie's wings
and tie 'em to your shoulders and your feet.
I'll steal a hacksaw from my dad and cut the braces off your legs
and we'll bury 'em tonight in the cornfield."
― lyrics from "Kentucky Avenue" by Tom Waits