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

Today is:
World Rainforest Day, National HVAC Tech Day, & National Chocolate Eclair Day !!!

Classical B-Days:
1611 Pablo Bruna, Spanish blind composer
1684 Francesco Manfredini, Italian Baroque composer/violinist/maestro di cappella

Rock/Folk B-days:
1948 Todd Rundgren, American rock singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist [ Group(s): The Tubes/Grand Funk Railroad ]
1953 Cyndi Lauper, American singer [ Group(s): n/a ]

WRR 101.1 FM ― MotD:
Kenneth J. Alford: "Old Panama" march

WWotD:
tortiloquy ― (n.) crooked speech.

QotD:
“Therefore, even the lover of myth is in a sense a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonders.” ― Aristotle

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

Today is:
World Sea Turtle Day, National Cracker Jack Day, National Fudge Day, & Bloomsday !!!

Classical B-Days:
1928 Sergiu Comissiona, Romanian-Israeli-American conductor
1942 David Parry, British-Canadian folk musician/storyteller/actor/stage director/teacher

Rock/Folk B-days:
1952 Gino Vannelli, Canadian singer [ group(s): n/a ]
1953 Ian Mosley, British drummer [ group(s): Marillion ]

WRR 101.1 FM ― MotD:
John Philip Sousa: "Comrades of the Legion" march

WWotD:
unsonsy ― boding or causing misfortune: unlucky; unpleasant, disagreeable.

QotD:
“If inside movie theater figure out beyond waif, then waif beyond tea party ceases to exist.” ― from the Spam Poetry collection

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

Today is:
INternational Bath Day, National Pop Goes the Weasel Day, National Cucumber Day !!!

Classical B-Days:
1884 John McCormack, Irish-American operatic and popular tenor
1895 Cliff Edwards, American singer, aka "Ukulele Ike"

Rock/Folk B-days:
1945 Rod Argent, English rock musician [ group(s): The Zombies/Argent ]
1963 Chris DeGarmo, American guitarist [ group(s): Queensryche ]

WRR 101.1 FM ― MotD:
John Philip Sousa: "The Stars and Stripes Forever" march

WWotD:
zyxt ― thou seest (obs. Kentish)

QotD:
“You are totally unique, just like everyone else.” ― Margaret Mead

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

Today is:
World Oceans Day, National Upsy Daisy Day, & National Best Friends Day !!!

Classical B-Days:
1671 Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer
1810 Robert Schumann, German pianist/composer/music critic

Rock/Folk B-days:
1947 Annie Haslam, British art-rock singer-songwriter [ group(s): Renaissance ]
1951 Bonnie Tyler [Gaynor Hopkins], Welsh rocker [ group(s): n/a ]
1958 Michael "Jakko" Jakszyk [Curran], British rock singer/songwriter/guitarist/producer/actor [ group(s): King Crimson ]

WRR 101.1 FM ― MotD:
Karl Lawrence King: "Sells-Floto Triumphal" march

WWotD:
ketchcraft ― the hangman's craft [after Jack Ketch, an infamous London executioner].

QotD:
“The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.” ― Nicholas Murray Butler

Personal Commentary/Observation
So one of the books on my "Comfort Reads" list, which are books I read and reread and reread over and over when I'm stressed, is A Psalm For The Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. By strange coincidence today - the mini Echo Show in my office popped up and suggested that I might try Sleep Sounds - "Cricket Sounds" today. How did it know about the crickets?

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Today is:
World Pest Day, National Drive-In Movie Day, & National YoYo Day !!!

Classical B-Days:
1815 Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto, Portuguese violinist/hornist/composer
1903 Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer
1923 Allan Wicks, British cathedral organist/choral conductor

Rock/Folk B-days:
1944 Edgar Froese, German musician [ group(s): Tangerine Dream ]
1946 Tony Levin, American bassist/Chapman Stick player [ group(s): King Crimson/Asia ]
1948 Richard Sinclair, British progressive rock bassist/singer/guitarist/songwriter [ group(s): Caravan ]

WRR 101.1 FM ― MotD:
Paul Anka: "The Longest Day" soundtrack march

WWotD:
polyproprioception ― the vertigo that comes from perceptually being in two places at once (coined by John Scalzi.)

QotD:
“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.” ― Rachel Carson

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

Today is:
International VW Bus Day, National Bubba Day, & National Doughnut Day !!!

Classical B-Days:
1857 Edward Elgar, English composer
1900 David Wynne, Welsh composer

Rock/Folk B-days:
1951 Dave Flett, Scottish rock guitarist [ group(s): Manfred Mann's Earth Band/Thin Lizzy ]
1951 Steve Brookins, American rocker [ group(s): .38 Special ]

WRR 101.1 FM ― MotD:
John Philip Sousa: "New Mexico" march

WWotD:
blurfled ― intoxicated.

QotD:
“A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” ― anonymous

Currently Reading

• The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers ( Wayfarers #1/4, mmpb - pg. 198/438 ) [re-read]
  
• Shadow Captain by Alastair Reynolds ( The Revenger series #2/3, tpb - pg. 252/423 )
  
• The Battle of Evernight by Cecelia Dart-Thornton ( The Bitterbynde Trilogy #3/3, mmpb - pg. 240/624 ) [re-read]
  

... and one of my five go-to comfort re-reads:

• The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison ( hc - pg. 58/419 )
  

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

Today is:
World Parrot Day, World Otter Day, National Macaroon Day, & National Smile Day !!!

Classical B-Days:
1929 Zoltán Aladár, Transylvanian composer/music critic/teacher
1931 Shirley Verrett, American mezzo-soprano

Rock/Folk B-days:
1948 John Bonham, English rock drummer [ group(s): Led Zepplin ]
1952 Karl Bartos, German electronic percussionist/composer [ group(s): Kraftwerk ]

WRR 101.1 FM ― MotD:
Ralph Vaughn-Williams: "English Folk Song Suite - 1.) March: Seventeen Come Monday"

WWotD:
orexis ― the aspect of mental activity concerned with emotion and desire rather than cognition;
appetite, desire.

QotD:
“To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring -- it was peace.” ― Anne Raver

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

Today is:
World Lindy Hop Day, National Paper Airplane Day, National Polka Day, & National Road Trip Day !!!

Classical B-Days:
1591 Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer
1773 Hans Georg Nägeli, Swiss composer

Rock/Folk B-days:
1940 Levon Helm, American drummer/singer/actor [ group(s): The Band ]
1948 Stevie Nicks, American rock singer-songwriter [ group(s): Fleetwood Mac ]

WRR 101.1 FM ― MotD:
John Philip Sousa: "Mother Goose" march

WWotD:
snook ― [of uncertain origin] a derisive gesture, thumb to nose with fingers spread, usu. in phrase to cop a snook.

QotD:
“You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become? ” ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

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

Today is:
International Tiara Day, National Scavenger Hunt Day, & National Yucatan Shrimp Day !!!

Classical B-Days:
1767 Josef Schnabel, German composer
1886 Paul Paray, French organist/conductor/composer
1905 Zdeněk Blažek, Czech composer/music theorist

Rock/Folk B-days:
1946 Steve Upton, British-Welsh rock drummer [ Group(s): Wishbone Ash ]
1947 Albert Bouchard, American musician, singer, and songwriter [ Group(s): Blue Öyster Cult ]
1960 Guy Fletcher, British musician/keyboardist [ Group(s): Dire Straits ]

WRR 101.1 FM ― MotD:
John Philip Sousa: "La Flor de Sevilla" march

WWotD:
graustark ― an imaginary place of high romance.

QotD:
“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.” ― Michel de Montaigne

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

Today is:
World Goth Day, National Maritime Day, & National Vanilla Pudding Day !!!

Classical B-Days:
1759 Gervais-François Couperin, French composer
1813 Richard Wagner, German composer

Rock/Folk B-days:
1950 Bernie Taupin, British lyricist/singer [ group(s): Elton John ]
1953 Stuart Elliott, British rock session drummer [ group(s): Kate Bush/Alan Parsons Project/Al Stewart ]

WRR 101.1 FM ― MotD:
James Henry Fillmore Jr.: "His Honor" march

WWotD:
airgonaut ― (n) one who journeys through the air.

QotD:
“And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.” ― Suzan-Lori Parks