#CB Jamaica

[emotionalsupportsoccerball]

Hey humans! If you’re in the US of A like myself and want to catch as many of the international friendlies as you can tomorrow, here’s where you can do that in the States!

England vs Germany - 2:30pm EST (Golazo Network)

Spain vs Canada - 4pm EST (Paramount+)

France vs Jamaica DELAYED REPLAY 5:30pm EST (CBS Sports Network)

All the matches below unfortunately require a VPN that allows you to fake being in another place, as they are unfortunately not streaming anywhere in the United States

If can pretend to be Australian you can get the Australian vs Switzerland 2pm EST match on Paramount+

If you can pretend to be Swedish, you can find Sweden vs Luxembourg on Discovery+ at 1:30pm EST

If you can pretend to be Irish you can find Ireland vs Georgia on RTE Player at 12pm EST

If you’re looking for another match let me know and I’ll do my best to try and find it for you! Also, a fair amount of these get live streamed on YouTube by channels like Womens Football!

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2024/03

3/1 GIVE A MAN A BREAK HIPHOP/R&B GUEST DJ:LAAAMEN DJ:@&M/BABYMAR/ハカセジャズオ/CARITA/大山のぶ夫 OPEN 20:00 入場無料

3/2 不整脈 ALL GENRE GUEST DJ:天敵/火星人から来た人 DJ:ARITA/73/コーヒーゼリー OPEN 18:00 ¥1000/1D

3/6 CHEEBA CHEEBA CHEEBA ALL GENRE あなたのお気に入りの曲、クラブで大音量で流しませんか? ルールは簡単!ムズカシイことぬき!飲みながら延々Back to Back（一曲ごとにDJが替わる）で音を流しましょうというイベントです。普段DJをしない方にも大音量で音楽を流して頂きたい!そんな思いで毎月第1水曜日に開催。一見さん大歓迎! プレイしたい音楽メディアに縛りはありません! ・スマホや携帯の音源!・MP3プレイヤー!・レコード!・CD!・その他音の出る機械、楽器! お気に入りの音楽を持ってきて下さい！音楽ジャンルは問いません。 OPEN 20:00 入場無料

3/7 TOURISM TECHNO/HOUSE GUEST DJ:KUNI/BLANC=CHANG DJ:本間本願寺 デトロイト、シカゴ、デトロイト、デトロイト。 OPEN 20:00 入場無料

3/8 NATURA-RHYTHM ALL GENRE GUEST DJ:一休/松崎慶太 DJ:YASUDA/SA-ME/しゅわっち☆/glico/川上亮/大山のぶ夫 OPEN 20:00 入場無料

3/9 COMPASS HIPHOP & GOOD MUSIC GUEST LIVE:KOHEI JAPAN DJ:H!ROKi/STEFANY/IYOTA/COUTA/@&m LIVE:zoe/A Gang Of Wanderers/RAP MARUYAMA/SANGA SKYE FOOD:鮎 OPEN 17:00 ¥2000/2D

3/10 SPLASH REGGAE&熱帯MUSIC GUEST DJ:JUN(ex.ICHINANA) DJ:MAGOKORO SOUND/MAME-JAPAN/IYOTA/AKIYA/KURO/大山のぶ夫 MC:バケツ OPEN 18:00 ¥1000/1D+カレー

3/15 膀胱破裂 ENDLESS B2B GUEST DJ:SAKATAK DJ:安田晋一郎/BABY-MAR/BASHIMELLOW/あゆみ/大山のぶ夫 金曜の地獄谷！恐怖のENDLESS BACK 2 BACK！！ OPEN 20:00 入場無料

3/16 キッズウォー ALLゆとりミュージック
GUEST DJ:GORI/NOBU DJ:しゅわっち☆/かなつ/マコトキングストン/よしとき/ARATA/けだま OPEN 20:00 入場無料

3/17 SUGAR SPUN SISTER INDIE ROCK/POP GUEST DJ:GOU.S/NENJI DJ:HARU/MAO/ODA/SAKI OPEN 18:00 ¥1000/1D

3/20 SOUL JAMAICA 春の祭典SPECIAL SOUL/HIPHOP/REGGAE GUEST DJ:ROCK-Tee/TATSUTA/MACHIKUN GUEST LIVE:FLOAT JAM/RAP MARUYAMA/SANGA SKYE/BUTTER DOGG SUPPORT DJ:KOMIYAMA (ITABASHI GROOVY SPOT) DJ:岡泰之/PINO/HARAKEN/OSAGARI/TOMOHIRO HASEGAWA/大山のぶ夫 OPEN 20:00 入場無料

3/21 JUPITER ALL GENRE GUEST DJ:アイコスくん DJ:GAKU”sue”院/Ringino/レイモンド・ヤノ/TOMO/WATANUKI/YUSUKE OPEN 20:00 入場無料

3/22 BA・BAR営業 ALL GENRE ゲスト爺:G+G MUSIC FACTORY(COOLG & 岩村隆) 選曲:松井/gocci/めぐみ/HIDE/SHOWHOW/大山のぶ夫 お茶請け:有賀/城戸/松井/大山 ババアのバー営業、ババー営業。世話焼きババアと釣りじじいがお茶請け持って寄り合いだ。 ��）当日、全てのババアは敬老価格ドリンク100円引きとなります。 OPEN 20:00 入場無料 ※別途フードチャージ 男性500円 女性400円頂戴致します

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3/24 PEANUTS CAFE JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/ROCK/LATIN/AND MORE GUEST DJ:DJ Sight/aribo (Flight Free Soul)/岩村隆 DJ:DJ:ハカセジャズオ/TIGER/ぱっぽん/鳴海/Mitsman Groove/Ringino/大山のぶ夫 OPEN 18:00 入場無料

3/29 JAPONISME HIPHOP LIVE:ISO-N/蘇流邪/K-RUSH/兎馬フィグ/MAN SUN’S/GUM/ジョナッシ/BURDON/MC未納 DJ:HOLLYTREE/尻麻呂(MAN SUN’S)/DJ CAIMAN OPEN 18:00 ¥1000/1D

3/30 焼鳥酒場 OHAYO 1st ANNIVERSARY PARTY HIPHOP LIVE:RAP MARUYAMA DJ:PINO/小宮山剛/SHOWBEE/PAN/CHimuu Yayoi CB/受身十段/HASEGAWA/OSAGARI/haraken OPEN 17:00 ¥1000/1D

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Kamala Harris Reveals New Jamaican Accent On 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert'

IDIOT

On Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris was subjected to more mockery after a late-night talk show appearance with CBS host Stephen Colbert, as she decided to adopt another “fake accent.”

59-year-old Harris faced backlash on social media platforms and in news articles after revealing what some deemed to be a Jamaican patois during her Tuesday interview with the host of “The Late Show,” as the VP and Democrat nominee continued to criticize former President Donald Trump.

The bizarre accent change occurred while the Democrat nominee discussed Trump’s previous criticism of the federal response to Hurricane Helene.

Although Harris’s father is originally from Jamaica, it has been clear throughout her vice presidency and whole political career that she has never had any sort of Jamaican accent, up until now. 

“[Kamala’s father] Donald J. Harris, 86, a distinguished economist, lives with his second wife only two miles from the vice president’s official residence in Washington, yet he has been estranged for years from his daughter and the two seldom speak,” the New York Times reported.

Harris, who was born in Oakland, California, and raised in Canada, has also come under fire in the past for seemingly adopting urban, Midwestern, Spanish, Southern, French, and now, Jamaican accents.

“Have you no empathy, man? You know? For the, the suffering of other people. Have you no sense of purpose?” Harris said in a Jamaican accent, accusing Trump of playing “political games.” She also previously accused DeSantis of ignoring her calls for more Hurricane assistance.

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 9, 2024

“Wake up babe, new Kamala Harris accent just dropped,” posted GOP political commentator, Savannah Hernandez.

Meanwhile, others compared Harris’s Jamaican accent to a Bob Marley impression.

The vice president has consistently been mocked for changing up her accent occasionally. Most recently during her late-night visit, Harris also ripped open a can of Miller High Life and took a sip in front of the audience, showing Americans that she’s the “cool stepmom” that voters can relate to.

Harris was criticized just last month for shifting her accent on two different occasions in order to relate to the demographic that she was speaking to at the time.

She was accused of voicing an obvious Southern drawl while speaking to teacher union members on September 2nd.  

Additionally, Harris was widely criticized on September 14th for seemingly changing her accent in order to sound more “urban” while giving a speech to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, which many found to be extremely racist.

On the campaign trail, critics have frequently accused Harris of changing the tone of her speech while addressing various groups, particularly at gatherings attended primarily by Black voters. However, this is nothing new, as Harris was also accused of adopting a fake French accent back in 2021 while addressing scientists at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.

“By altering her accent, [Kamala] might be perceived as inauthentic or manipulative and ultimately could undermine trust if the audience feels she is not genuine,” New York psychotherapist, Jonathan Alpert, said. “Authenticity is critical in building meaningful connections with the electorate, and if people perceive the accent as disingenuous, it could damage Harris’s credibility,” he added.

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Holidays 10.4

Holidays

Assault on Friedrichstadt Day (Denmark)

Blessing of the Animals at the Cathedral Day

Cable Street Day (UK)

Carrying in the Pudding (London, UK)

Crew Appreciation Day

Ctenophore Day

Day of Peace and Reconciliation (Mozambique)

Day of the Space Forces (Russia)

Dick Tracy Day

eDay (New Zealand)

Forever Alone Day

Get Your Friend Day

Global Work From Home (WFH) Day

Golf Lovers Day (a.k.a. National Golf Day)

Hug a Non-Meat Eater Day

Improve Your Office Day

International Dakota Johnson Day

International No Disposable Cup Day

International Sputnik Day

International Toot Your Flute Day

International Walk & Bike to School Day

International Wound Hygiene Day

International Zookeeper Day

Kids Music Day

Kindness to Animals Day

National Capicola / Capocollo / Gabagool Day

National CB Radio Day

National Clothespin Day

National COVID-19 Remembrance Day

National Day of Action for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls & Two-Spirit People (Canada)

National Day of Chilean Music (Chile)

National Day of Life (Colombia)

National 4-H Spirit Day

National Laura Day

National Mask Exemption Awareness Day

National Ship in a Bottle Day

National Side Bae Day

National Sisters in Spirit Day (Canada)

National Talk Like a Trucker Day

National Teach German Day

National Trucker’s Appreciation Day

Odd Socks Day (Australia)

Peace and Reconciliation Day (Mozambique)

See the Light Day

Snoopy Day

Space Forces Day (Russia)

Territory Day (Christmas Island)

Thanksgiving Day (Saint Lucia)

Thimpu Tsechu (Bhutan)

Ten-Four Day

What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? Day

Winter Squash Day (French Republic)

World Animal Day

World College Radio Day

World Day of Bullying Prevention

World Pet’s Day

World RBD Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Canadian Beer Day

Cinnamon Roll Day (Finland)

Kanelbullens Dag (Cinnamon Bun Day; Sweden)

National Frappe Day

National Taco Day

National Vodka Day

Sardines Day (Japan)

Independence & Related Days

Belgium (from the Netherlands, 1830)

Constitution Day (Vanuatu)

Lesotho (from UK, 1966)

1st Friday in October

Bandcamp Friday [1st Friday]

Barrel-Aged Beer Day [1st Friday]

Byte Night (UK) [1st Friday]

Cerrado Mineiro Day [1st Friday]

Children’s Day (Singapore) [1st Friday]

College Radio Day [1st Friday]

Comfort Food Friday [Every Friday]

Fast Food Friday [1st Friday of Each Month]

Five For Friday [Every Friday]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

Freaky Friday [1st Friday of Each Month]

French Canadian Heritage Day (Michigan) [1st Friday]

Friday Finds [Every Friday]

Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]

Kids Music Day [1st Friday]

Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest begins (Canada) [Friday before 2nd Monday thru 10.19]

Manufacturing Day (a.k.a. MFG Day) [1st Friday]

National Beep Beep Day (Ireland) [1st Friday]

National Body Language Day [1st Friday]

National Denim Day (a.k.a. Lee National Denim Day) [1st Friday]

National Disease Intervention Specialist (DIS) Recognition Day [1st Friday]

National Diversity Day [1st Friday]

National Potato Day (Ireland) [1st Friday]

National Tree Planting Day (Jamaica) [1st Friday]

Plaidurday [1st Friday]

TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) [Every Friday]

World College Radio Day [1st Friday]

World Multiplication Table Day [1st Friday]

World Smile Day [1st Friday]

Weekly Holidays beginning October 4 (1st Week of October)

Cleveland Beer Week (Cleveland, Ohio) [thru 10.13]

Milford Restaurant Week (Milford, Connecticut) [thru 10.13]

National Manufacturing Week (thru 10.10) [Begins 1st Friday]

National Storytelling Week (thru 10.6) [1st Full Weekend]

World Space Week (thru 10.10)

Festivals Beginning October 4, 2024

Alabama Butterbean Festival (Pinson, Alabama) [thru 10.5]

Alabama National Fair (Montgomery, Alabama) [thru 10.14]

Anacortes Bier Near The Pier (Anacortes, Washington) [thru 10.5]

Applefest Celebration (Franklin, Pennsylvania) [thru 10.6]

Apple Harvest Festival (Southington, Connecticut) [thru 10.6 & 10.11-13]

Arkansas Apple Festival (Lincoln, Arkansas) [thru 10.6]

Art & Wine Walk (Chico, California) [thru 10.6]

Austin City Lights (Austin, Texas) [thru 10.13]

Bayfield Apple Festival (Bayfield, Wisconsin) [thru 10.6]

Beaufort Shrimp Festival (Beaufort, South Carolina) [thru 10.5]

Berlin Festival of Lights (Berlin, Germany) [thru 10.13]

Berwick Riverfest (Berwick, Pennsylvania) [thru 10.6]

Bloomfield Apple Festival (Bloomfield, Indiana) [thru 10.6]

Brews and Brats Oktoberfest (Kingman, Arizona) [thru 10.5]

Brunswick Pecan Festival (Brunswick, Missouri) [thru 10.6]

California Avocado Festival (Carpinteria, California) [thru 10.6]

Cedaredge Applefest (Cedaredge, Colorado) [thru 10.6]

Clayton Oktoberfest (Clayton, California) [thru 10.6]

Colisium International Music Forum (Moscow, Russia.) [thru 10.5]

Ertel Cellars Winery 18th Annual Festival (Batesville, Indiana) [thru 10.5]

Fall into Tupelo featuring Chili Fest (Tupelo, Mississippi) [thru 10.5]

Great Highwood Pumpkin Festival (Highwood, Illinois) [thru 10.6]

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival (San Francisco, California) [thru 10.6]

Harrisburg Wine and Fine Spirits Festival (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)

L.A. Comic Con (Los Angeles, California) [thru 10.6]

Lebanese Food Festival (Lewisville, Texas) [thru 10.6]

Lincoln Park Wine Festival (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 10.6]

Lone Star Gourd Festival (Dripping Springs, Texas) [thru 10.5]

Louisiana Cattle Festival & Fair (Abbeville, Louisiana) [thru 10.6]

MagicCon (Bonn, Germany) [thu 10.6]

The New York Coffee Festival (New York, New York) [thru 10.6]

North Carolina Seafood Festival (Morehead City, North Carolina) [thru 10.6]

Ohio Gourd Show (Delaware, Ohio) [thru 10.6]

Oktoberfest (Amana Colonies, Iowa) [thru 10.6]

Oktoberfest (Fredericksburg, Texas) [thru 10.6]

Oktoberfest (Lava Hot Springs, Idaho) [thru 10.5]

Oktoberfest Northwest (Puyallup, Washington) [thru 10.6]

Ozark Fall FarmFest (Springfield, Missouri) [thru 10.6]

Pumpkinfest (Zeeland, Michigan) [thru 10.5]

Pumpkinfest (Webster, South Dakota) [thru 10.5]

Republic Pumpkin Daze (Republic, Missouri) [thru 10.5]

Sorghum Festival (Springfield, Kentucky) [thru 10.5]

Squealin' on the Square (Laurens, South Carolina) [thru 10.5]

Springs Folk Festival (Springs, Pennsylvania) [thru 10.5]

St. George Antiochian Orthodox Food Festival (Phoenix, Arizona) [thru 10.6]

Twin Cities Oktoberfest (St. Paul, Minnesota) [thru 10.5]

Unicoi County Apple Festival (Erwin, Tennessee) [thru 10.5]

West Point Crab Carnival (West Point, Virginia) [thru 10.5]

Feast Days

Amun (a.k.a. Ammon; Christian; Saint)

Anne Rice (Writerism)

Aurea (Christian; Saint)

Beethoven (Positivist; Saint)

Buster Keaton Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Buttering-Up Final (Shamanism)

Chong Yeung Festival (Festival of Ancestors; Macau)

David & Dickory (Muppetism)

Day of Victory of Heaven (Unification Church)

Double Ninth Festival (China) [9th day of 9th Lunar month]

Edwin, King of Northumberland (Christian; Saint)

Elder’s Day (China) [9th Day of 9th Lunar Month]

Feast of Hathor (Egyptian God of Drunkenness)

Fortified Wines Day (Pastafarian)

Francesco Solimena (Artology)

Francis of Assisi (Christian; Saint)

Frederic Remington (Artology)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Artology)

Jejunium Cereris (Fast of Ceres; Ancient Rome; Everyday Wicca)

Jean-François Millet (Artology)

Jejunium Cereris (Feast for Demeter; Pagan)

Kazuki Takahashi (Artology)

Lucas Cranach the Younger (Artology)

Marcus and Marcian (Christian; Martyrs)

Martyrs of Triers (Christian; Saint)

October Winds Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Petronius of Bologna (Christian; Saint)

Pietro Consagra (Artology)

Robert Lawson (Artology)

Roy Blount Jr. (Writerism)

Wolf Kahn (Artology)

Hebrew Calendar Holidays [Begins at Sundown Day Before]

Rosh Hashanah, Day 3 (Ends at Sundown; Judaism) [29 Elul-2 TIshrei]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Prime Number Day: 277 [59 of 72]

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [46 of 57]

Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [46 of 60]

Premieres

ABC After School Specials (TV Series; 1972)

Alice in the Wooly West (Ub Iwerks Alice Disney Cartoon; 1926)

All the Right Reasons, by Nickelback (Album; 2005)

An American in Paris (Film; 1951)

Around the World (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1931)

The Batman Superman Movie: World’s Finest (WB Animated Film; 1997)

Beverly Hills 90120 (TV Series; 1990)

Blackboard Jumble (Droopy MGM Cartoon; 1957)

Bound (Film; 1996)

Bridge of Spies (Film; 2015)

Commando (Film; 1985)

Dolemite Is My Name (Film; 2019)

The EGGcited Rooster (WB MM Cartoon; 1952)

Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective, by Donald J. Sobol (Novel; 1963)

Extraordinary Machine, by Fiona Apple (Album; 2005)

The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1981)

Goldie Locks and the Three Bears (Ub Iwerks Laugh-O-Grams Cartoon; 1922)

Gravity (Film; 2013)

How Wet Was My Ocean (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1940)

Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby, by Louis Jordan (Song; 1943)

Joker (Film; 2019)

Jumping with Toy (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1957)

Knight Templar, by Leslie Charteris (Novel; 1930) [Saint #4]

The Last Emperor (Film; 1987)

Last of the Curlews (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1972)

Leave It To Beaver (TV Series; 1957)

The Longest Day (Film; 1962)

Lost Horizon, by James Hilton (Novel; 1933)

Lovesick (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit; 1937)

The Man in the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick (Novel; 1962)

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays, by Albert Camus (Essays; 1942)

Neon Genesis Evangelion (Japanese Anime; 1995)

Notes on Democracy, by H.L. Mencken (Political Book; 1926)

River Ribber (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1945)

The Saint, starring Roger Moore (TV Series; 1962)

Showdown (Fleischer Cartoon; 1942) [#11]

Spree for All (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1946)

That Thing You Do (Film; 1996)26)

Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! (WB Animated Film; 2022)

200 Motels, by Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention (Soundtrack Album; 1968)

Walls & Bridges, by John Lennon (Album; 1974)

Today’s Name Days

Aurea, Edwin, Franz (Austria)

Franciska, Franjo, Franka (Croatia)

František (Czech Republic)

Franciscus (Denmark)

Randel, Rando, Randolf, Ranno (Estonia)

Frans, Saija, Saila (Finland)

Aure, Bérénice, François, Frank, Orianne, Sarah (France)

Aurora, Edwin, Emma, Franz, Thea (Germany)

Ierotheos, Kallisthenis, Verina (Greece)

Ferenc (Hungary)

Francesco, Petronio (Italy)

Francis, Modra, Zaigonis (Latvia)

Eivydė, Mąstautas, Pranas, Pranciškus (Lithuania)

Frank, Frans (Norway)

Edwin, Franciszek, Konrad, Konrada, Manfred, Manfreda, Rozalia (Poland)

Ierotei (Romania)

František (Slovakia)

Francisco (Spain)

Frank, Frans (Sweden)

Damara, Damaris, Berenice, Bernice, Bonita, Bonnie, Bunny, Fannie, Fanny, Frances, Francesca, Francesco, Francine, Francis, Francisco, Frank, Frankie (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 278 of 2024; 88 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of Week 40 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 6 of 28]

Chinese: Month 9 (Jia-Xu), Day 2 (Xin-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 2 Tishri 5785

Islamic: 30 Rabi I 1446

J Cal: 8 Orange; Onesday [8 of 30]

Julian: 21 September 2024

Moon: 3%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 26 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Weber / Rossini]

Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 13 of 90)

Week: Last Week of September/1st Week of October

Zodiac: Libra (Day 12 of 30)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 10.4

Holidays

Assault on Friedrichstadt Day (Denmark)

Blessing of the Animals at the Cathedral Day

Cable Street Day (UK)

Carrying in the Pudding (London, UK)

Crew Appreciation Day

Ctenophore Day

Day of Peace and Reconciliation (Mozambique)

Day of the Space Forces (Russia)

Dick Tracy Day

eDay (New Zealand)

Forever Alone Day

Get Your Friend Day

Global Work From Home (WFH) Day

Golf Lovers Day (a.k.a. National Golf Day)

Hug a Non-Meat Eater Day

Improve Your Office Day

International Dakota Johnson Day

International No Disposable Cup Day

International Sputnik Day

International Toot Your Flute Day

International Walk & Bike to School Day

International Wound Hygiene Day

International Zookeeper Day

Kids Music Day

Kindness to Animals Day

National Capicola / Capocollo / Gabagool Day

National CB Radio Day

National Clothespin Day

National COVID-19 Remembrance Day

National Day of Action for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls & Two-Spirit People (Canada)

National Day of Chilean Music (Chile)

National Day of Life (Colombia)

National 4-H Spirit Day

National Laura Day

National Mask Exemption Awareness Day

National Ship in a Bottle Day

National Side Bae Day

National Sisters in Spirit Day (Canada)

National Talk Like a Trucker Day

National Teach German Day

National Trucker’s Appreciation Day

Odd Socks Day (Australia)

Peace and Reconciliation Day (Mozambique)

See the Light Day

Snoopy Day

Space Forces Day (Russia)

Territory Day (Christmas Island)

Thanksgiving Day (Saint Lucia)

Thimpu Tsechu (Bhutan)

Ten-Four Day

What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? Day

Winter Squash Day (French Republic)

World Animal Day

World College Radio Day

World Day of Bullying Prevention

World Pet’s Day

World RBD Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Canadian Beer Day

Cinnamon Roll Day (Finland)

Kanelbullens Dag (Cinnamon Bun Day; Sweden)

National Frappe Day

National Taco Day

National Vodka Day

Sardines Day (Japan)

Independence & Related Days

Belgium (from the Netherlands, 1830)

Constitution Day (Vanuatu)

Lesotho (from UK, 1966)

1st Friday in October

Bandcamp Friday [1st Friday]

Barrel-Aged Beer Day [1st Friday]

Byte Night (UK) [1st Friday]

Cerrado Mineiro Day [1st Friday]

Children’s Day (Singapore) [1st Friday]

College Radio Day [1st Friday]

Comfort Food Friday [Every Friday]

Fast Food Friday [1st Friday of Each Month]

Five For Friday [Every Friday]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

Freaky Friday [1st Friday of Each Month]

French Canadian Heritage Day (Michigan) [1st Friday]

Friday Finds [Every Friday]

Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]

Kids Music Day [1st Friday]

Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest begins (Canada) [Friday before 2nd Monday thru 10.19]

Manufacturing Day (a.k.a. MFG Day) [1st Friday]

National Beep Beep Day (Ireland) [1st Friday]

National Body Language Day [1st Friday]

National Denim Day (a.k.a. Lee National Denim Day) [1st Friday]

National Disease Intervention Specialist (DIS) Recognition Day [1st Friday]

National Diversity Day [1st Friday]

National Potato Day (Ireland) [1st Friday]

National Tree Planting Day (Jamaica) [1st Friday]

Plaidurday [1st Friday]

TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) [Every Friday]

World College Radio Day [1st Friday]

World Multiplication Table Day [1st Friday]

World Smile Day [1st Friday]

Weekly Holidays beginning October 4 (1st Week of October)

Cleveland Beer Week (Cleveland, Ohio) [thru 10.13]

Milford Restaurant Week (Milford, Connecticut) [thru 10.13]

National Manufacturing Week (thru 10.10) [Begins 1st Friday]

National Storytelling Week (thru 10.6) [1st Full Weekend]

World Space Week (thru 10.10)

Festivals Beginning October 4, 2024

Alabama Butterbean Festival (Pinson, Alabama) [thru 10.5]

Alabama National Fair (Montgomery, Alabama) [thru 10.14]

Anacortes Bier Near The Pier (Anacortes, Washington) [thru 10.5]

Applefest Celebration (Franklin, Pennsylvania) [thru 10.6]

Apple Harvest Festival (Southington, Connecticut) [thru 10.6 & 10.11-13]

Arkansas Apple Festival (Lincoln, Arkansas) [thru 10.6]

Art & Wine Walk (Chico, California) [thru 10.6]

Austin City Lights (Austin, Texas) [thru 10.13]

Bayfield Apple Festival (Bayfield, Wisconsin) [thru 10.6]

Beaufort Shrimp Festival (Beaufort, South Carolina) [thru 10.5]

Berlin Festival of Lights (Berlin, Germany) [thru 10.13]

Berwick Riverfest (Berwick, Pennsylvania) [thru 10.6]

Bloomfield Apple Festival (Bloomfield, Indiana) [thru 10.6]

Brews and Brats Oktoberfest (Kingman, Arizona) [thru 10.5]

Brunswick Pecan Festival (Brunswick, Missouri) [thru 10.6]

California Avocado Festival (Carpinteria, California) [thru 10.6]

Cedaredge Applefest (Cedaredge, Colorado) [thru 10.6]

Clayton Oktoberfest (Clayton, California) [thru 10.6]

Colisium International Music Forum (Moscow, Russia.) [thru 10.5]

Ertel Cellars Winery 18th Annual Festival (Batesville, Indiana) [thru 10.5]

Fall into Tupelo featuring Chili Fest (Tupelo, Mississippi) [thru 10.5]

Great Highwood Pumpkin Festival (Highwood, Illinois) [thru 10.6]

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival (San Francisco, California) [thru 10.6]

Harrisburg Wine and Fine Spirits Festival (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)

L.A. Comic Con (Los Angeles, California) [thru 10.6]

Lebanese Food Festival (Lewisville, Texas) [thru 10.6]

Lincoln Park Wine Festival (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 10.6]

Lone Star Gourd Festival (Dripping Springs, Texas) [thru 10.5]

Louisiana Cattle Festival & Fair (Abbeville, Louisiana) [thru 10.6]

MagicCon (Bonn, Germany) [thu 10.6]

The New York Coffee Festival (New York, New York) [thru 10.6]

North Carolina Seafood Festival (Morehead City, North Carolina) [thru 10.6]

Ohio Gourd Show (Delaware, Ohio) [thru 10.6]

Oktoberfest (Amana Colonies, Iowa) [thru 10.6]

Oktoberfest (Fredericksburg, Texas) [thru 10.6]

Oktoberfest (Lava Hot Springs, Idaho) [thru 10.5]

Oktoberfest Northwest (Puyallup, Washington) [thru 10.6]

Ozark Fall FarmFest (Springfield, Missouri) [thru 10.6]

Pumpkinfest (Zeeland, Michigan) [thru 10.5]

Pumpkinfest (Webster, South Dakota) [thru 10.5]

Republic Pumpkin Daze (Republic, Missouri) [thru 10.5]

Sorghum Festival (Springfield, Kentucky) [thru 10.5]

Squealin' on the Square (Laurens, South Carolina) [thru 10.5]

Springs Folk Festival (Springs, Pennsylvania) [thru 10.5]

St. George Antiochian Orthodox Food Festival (Phoenix, Arizona) [thru 10.6]

Twin Cities Oktoberfest (St. Paul, Minnesota) [thru 10.5]

Unicoi County Apple Festival (Erwin, Tennessee) [thru 10.5]

West Point Crab Carnival (West Point, Virginia) [thru 10.5]

Feast Days

Amun (a.k.a. Ammon; Christian; Saint)

Anne Rice (Writerism)

Aurea (Christian; Saint)

Beethoven (Positivist; Saint)

Buster Keaton Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Buttering-Up Final (Shamanism)

Chong Yeung Festival (Festival of Ancestors; Macau)

David & Dickory (Muppetism)

Day of Victory of Heaven (Unification Church)

Double Ninth Festival (China) [9th day of 9th Lunar month]

Edwin, King of Northumberland (Christian; Saint)

Elder’s Day (China) [9th Day of 9th Lunar Month]

Feast of Hathor (Egyptian God of Drunkenness)

Fortified Wines Day (Pastafarian)

Francesco Solimena (Artology)

Francis of Assisi (Christian; Saint)

Frederic Remington (Artology)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Artology)

Jejunium Cereris (Fast of Ceres; Ancient Rome; Everyday Wicca)

Jean-François Millet (Artology)

Jejunium Cereris (Feast for Demeter; Pagan)

Kazuki Takahashi (Artology)

Lucas Cranach the Younger (Artology)

Marcus and Marcian (Christian; Martyrs)

Martyrs of Triers (Christian; Saint)

October Winds Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Petronius of Bologna (Christian; Saint)

Pietro Consagra (Artology)

Robert Lawson (Artology)

Roy Blount Jr. (Writerism)

Wolf Kahn (Artology)

Hebrew Calendar Holidays [Begins at Sundown Day Before]

Rosh Hashanah, Day 3 (Ends at Sundown; Judaism) [29 Elul-2 TIshrei]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Prime Number Day: 277 [59 of 72]

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [46 of 57]

Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [46 of 60]

Premieres

ABC After School Specials (TV Series; 1972)

Alice in the Wooly West (Ub Iwerks Alice Disney Cartoon; 1926)

All the Right Reasons, by Nickelback (Album; 2005)

An American in Paris (Film; 1951)

Around the World (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1931)

The Batman Superman Movie: World’s Finest (WB Animated Film; 1997)

Beverly Hills 90120 (TV Series; 1990)

Blackboard Jumble (Droopy MGM Cartoon; 1957)

Bound (Film; 1996)

Bridge of Spies (Film; 2015)

Commando (Film; 1985)

Dolemite Is My Name (Film; 2019)

The EGGcited Rooster (WB MM Cartoon; 1952)

Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective, by Donald J. Sobol (Novel; 1963)

Extraordinary Machine, by Fiona Apple (Album; 2005)

The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1981)

Goldie Locks and the Three Bears (Ub Iwerks Laugh-O-Grams Cartoon; 1922)

Gravity (Film; 2013)

How Wet Was My Ocean (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1940)

Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby, by Louis Jordan (Song; 1943)

Joker (Film; 2019)

Jumping with Toy (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1957)

Knight Templar, by Leslie Charteris (Novel; 1930) [Saint #4]

The Last Emperor (Film; 1987)

Last of the Curlews (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1972)

Leave It To Beaver (TV Series; 1957)

The Longest Day (Film; 1962)

Lost Horizon, by James Hilton (Novel; 1933)

Lovesick (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit; 1937)

The Man in the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick (Novel; 1962)

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays, by Albert Camus (Essays; 1942)

Neon Genesis Evangelion (Japanese Anime; 1995)

Notes on Democracy, by H.L. Mencken (Political Book; 1926)

River Ribber (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1945)

The Saint, starring Roger Moore (TV Series; 1962)

Showdown (Fleischer Cartoon; 1942) [#11]

Spree for All (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1946)

That Thing You Do (Film; 1996)26)

Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! (WB Animated Film; 2022)

200 Motels, by Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention (Soundtrack Album; 1968)

Walls & Bridges, by John Lennon (Album; 1974)

Today’s Name Days

Aurea, Edwin, Franz (Austria)

Franciska, Franjo, Franka (Croatia)

František (Czech Republic)

Franciscus (Denmark)

Randel, Rando, Randolf, Ranno (Estonia)

Frans, Saija, Saila (Finland)

Aure, Bérénice, François, Frank, Orianne, Sarah (France)

Aurora, Edwin, Emma, Franz, Thea (Germany)

Ierotheos, Kallisthenis, Verina (Greece)

Ferenc (Hungary)

Francesco, Petronio (Italy)

Francis, Modra, Zaigonis (Latvia)

Eivydė, Mąstautas, Pranas, Pranciškus (Lithuania)

Frank, Frans (Norway)

Edwin, Franciszek, Konrad, Konrada, Manfred, Manfreda, Rozalia (Poland)

Ierotei (Romania)

František (Slovakia)

Francisco (Spain)

Frank, Frans (Sweden)

Damara, Damaris, Berenice, Bernice, Bonita, Bonnie, Bunny, Fannie, Fanny, Frances, Francesca, Francesco, Francine, Francis, Francisco, Frank, Frankie (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 278 of 2024; 88 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of Week 40 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 6 of 28]

Chinese: Month 9 (Jia-Xu), Day 2 (Xin-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 2 Tishri 5785

Islamic: 30 Rabi I 1446

J Cal: 8 Orange; Onesday [8 of 30]

Julian: 21 September 2024

Moon: 3%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 26 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Weber / Rossini]

Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 13 of 90)

Week: Last Week of September/1st Week of October

Zodiac: Libra (Day 12 of 30)

[wellimacraftyoldcoot]

 Where there's smoke.....

NEWS FROM THE YEAR 2059

 

Ozone created by electric cars now killing millions in the seventh largest country in the world, Mexifornia, formerly known as California.  

 

White minorities still trying to have English recognized as the third language.

 

Couple petitions court to reinstate heterosexual marriage. 

 

Iran still closed off; physicists estimate it will take at least 100 more years before radioactivity decreases to safe levels.  

 

France pleads for global help after being taken over by Jamaica. No other country comes forward to help the beleaguered nation!

 

The last Castro finally dies at age 112; Cuban cigars can now be imported legally, but President Chelsea Clinton has banned all smoking.  

 

George Z. Bush says he will run for president in 2060.  

 

Postal Service raises price of first-class stamp to $17.89 and reduces mail delivery to Wednesdays only.  

 

Average weight of Americans drops to 250 lbs. and life expectancy is now at 57.2 yrs.

 

85-year and $375.8 billion study: Diet and exercise is the key to weight loss. 

 

Global cooling blamed for citrus crop failure for third consecutive year in Mexifornia and Floruba.  

 

Abortion clinics are now available in every high school in the United States. 

 

Senate still blocking drilling in ANWR, even though gas is selling for 4532 Pesos per liter and gas stations are only open Tuesdays and Fridays.  

 

Massachusetts executes the last remaining conservative.  

 

Supreme Court rules any punishment of criminals violates their civil rights. 

 

A Couple Finally Achieved Sexual Harmony. They had simultaneous headaches.

 

Average height of NBA players is now nine feet seven inches, and have only 5 illegitimate children. 

 

New federal law requires that all assault weapons, ie; nail clippers, screwdrivers, fly swatters and rolled-up newspapers must be registered by January 2060.  

 

IRS sets lowest tax rate at 75 percent.

 

DOJ, FBI, CIA, NSA, IRS, DNC, NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, NPR  are still searching for something that will posthumously convict Donald J. Trump.

[shebeafancyflapjack]

It's funny cause like CBS has Nigel and I always wondered (especially given Fanny's line about not approving of Americans) what it would have been like if an American had died on the Button House grounds and they had to deal with that. I always saw it as being an American soldier like from Cap's time but I don't know.

One could be really picky and say that Kitty is technically American (as in Jamaica being part of "the Americas" landmass) but I think that's a stretch Fanny can easily forgive her for.

I think the equivalent of that rivalry for us would be a German soldier ghost in BH, for Cap at least. Other than Fanny just not liking them much, dunno if any other characters including Cap have beef with the US (going from my granddad's war experience, he loved working with "the Yanks").

[jenifersohowe]

Let's Stay Together (Al Green Cover) - Tanner Patrick

WELCOME YOU TO NO 1 SONG HERE THAT YOU HAVE EVER LISTENED TO THE NEW MUSIC OF THIS AND NEXT GENERATION . IT HAD BEEN TRANSFORMED FROM OLD RANDB WITH REGGAE MUSIC OF MUSIC GENRE FROM JAMAICA IN NORTH AMERICA IN 70-8O’S INTO NEW MODERN ONE WITH LOVELY MELODY EITHER LOVELY VOCALS SINGING OF AMERICAN SONG WRITER AND MUSICIAN, A MUSIC PRODUCER LIKE HIS SIBLINGS C.E.O MUSIC GENIUS CREATOR AND MUSIC PRODUCER C.E.O STAR GRAYSON HOWE.

WELCOME TO LISTEN TO MUSIC GENIUS CREATOR C.E.O LEADER TANNER PATRICK HOWE WITH YOU, AN AMERICAN SUPERSTAR AND SUPERIDOL OF ALL MUSIC GENRE STAR IDOL C.E.O LEADER TANNER PATRICK HOWE’S HIS LOVELY VOCAL IN THIS SONG NAMED ‘’ LETS STAY TOGETHER’’ IN HIS RELEASED ALBUM NAMED ‘’ THE VINTAGE VAULT ‘’ IN 2023′S WHO IS JENIFER SO HOWE’S SPOUSE HUSBAND TANNER PATRICK,

THEY ARE TWO MUSIC GENIUS CREATORS AND C.E.OS LEADERS OF NEW GENERATION WITH THEIR SPECIAL CREATION , OVERMORE THEY ARE TWO DESIGNERS C.E.OS STARS OF PATTERNS DESIGNS LEADERS CREATORS AND TECHNICIANS MAKERS , TWO BLESSED SONS OF AMERICANS C.E.OS DESIGNERS C.E.OS DESIGNS CREATORS AND TECHNICIANS MAKERS HONORED TALENTED RESPECTED PARENT NAMED HOWE WITH DESIGNERS C.E.OS LEADERS LADY HOWE AND GENTLEMAN HOWE’S ADULTS SONS IN AMERICANS FAMILY PROFESSIONALS CAREERS DESIGNERS C.E.OS AND MUSIC STUDIO PRODUCTION LABEL LEADERS NAMED HOWE’S INTRODUCTION WITH YOU,

MUCH LOVE !!

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[news4dzhozhar]

Woman Pleads Guilty To Scamming One Fund - CBS Boston

**This woman was asking to get caught. She would give interviews faking a ridiculous stutter that she claimed was caused by brain damage. She also conned local contractors to do free work where she lived claiming that her balance had been affected and that her house now needed railings and ramps. Medical testing later proved she made it all up and faked documents she submitted. She claimed to have been walking in the area of the marathon and that the blast threw her into a wall so hard that she sustained brain damage. It later came out that at the time of the explosions she was actually several blocks away**

BOSTON (CBS) -- A Jamaica Plain woman pleaded guilty Friday on charges that she scammed the One Fund in the months after the Boston Marathon bombings.

Joanna Leigh, 41, pleaded guilty to five counts of larceny over $250 and one count of making a false claim to a government agency for accepting donations from the One Fund and a local school.

A judge sentenced Leigh to one year in the house of corrections, suspended for a three-year probationary term. The judge also ordered her to pay full restitution, perform 300 hours of community service, undergo a mental health evaluation and take part in any necessary treatment.

Leigh had been indicted in March on charges that she accepted nearly $40,000 in cash and benefits.

Prosecutors say she received about $18,000 from the Massachusetts Victims of Violent Crime Compensation program, nearly $9,400 from a GoFundMe account she created, $8,000 through the One Fund, nearly $1,900 from a fundraiser held by students and staff at the Mildred Avenue Middle School in Mattapan who believed she was a Marathon bombing victim.

Though Leigh was at the Boston Marathon in 2013 when bombs went off near the finish line, prosecutors said she was not injured.

Police said Leigh received about $900 in dermatology services that were offered at no cost to bombing victims. Most people taking advantage of the services were treated for scarring, but Leigh was treated for facial redness that she suffered from before the bombings.

She also falsely claimed to have suffered a brain injury in the blasts.

Following Friday's guilty plea, defense attorney Norman Zalkind said Leigh will immediately pay back the money she received using her mother's savings.

Zalkind added that Leigh likely would have been able to obtain the money legally because she was diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after the bombings.

[cbjamaica]

Real estate agents in Jamaica are the finest at connecting buyers and sellers in minutes. Ten years ago, a search for land might have started at a local realtor’s office or simply by driving about the area. You’d spend an early evening at the specialist’s office, browsing through pages of active property listings from the local MLS (MLS).

[lynnharri0]

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[mistavybe]

FYI: Lorraine Toussaint was BORN AND RAISED IN TRINIDAD UNTIL THE AGE OF TEN… and then MOVED TO BROOKLYN WITH HER TRINIDADIAN MOTHER. Literally the most Trini-American origin story possible. And she still clearly has and uses her authentic Trini accent TO THIS DAY too! Go watch her on the hit CBS show The Equalizer, spitting pure Trini eloquence alongside series lead Queen Latifah if you don’t believe me. 😏🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹

Of course his white ass wrongly thought the whole Caribbean diaspora is the watered down Americanised fairy tale version of Jamaica that exists only in American wypipos minds. Of course his white ass did! 🤦🏾‍♂️🤬

May whatever Divine Power you believe in fully bless Lorraine Toussaint to the highest possible degree 🙌🏾. Protect her at all costs going forward. 🙏🏾

Season 3 of The Equalizer will premiere on Sunday, October 2nd, 2022 at 8:30pm ET on CBS. 🖥

[somethingvinyl]

I’m writing a Vinyl Detective fanfiction

And I apologize for nothing. Here’s the summary and chapter 1--new chapter on AO3 every Tuesday! (I’ll put the link in a reblog.) Leave me a comment if you read it.

A mysterious client who maintains strict anonymity hires the Vinyl Detective to hunt down a dubplate by a long-dead reggae star. This record is more than rare—it’s unique. Only one was ever pressed. The Vinyl Detective enlists the help of a podcast host and a cassette-collecting DJ and circles in on the disc. But when the people who hear the song start to turn up dead, the Vinyl Detective has to question the motives of his anonymous client. This adventure will take the Vinyl Detective all the way to Kingston, Jamaica. Between corrupt politicians, car chases, and getting himself arrested, he’ll have a hard time figuring out who he can trust.

Chapter 1

I think I’ve hit a vein.

I was combing the stacks at a charity shop with my friend and sometime moocher, Jordon Tinkler. I’d just finished taking him out to lunch, but on this day he’d earned his meal fair and square by helping me customize a new laptop. Tinkler paid for his hifi habit as a computer programmer, and when he saw the off-the-shelf laptop I was about to buy to replace the my rapidly declining one, he’d looked at me as if I was thinking of trading in my Linn Sondek turntable for a portable record player made of cardboard. He’d had me buy a heap of components for a fraction of the cost of the new laptop and cobbled together a computer with much better specs on his living room carpet while listening to John Mayall and Small Faces records. He told me not to worry about it—he did it because he loved it. A sentiment I could readily understand. But I’d insisted he let me buy him lunch as a thank you. And of course lunch came with a crate digging trip afterward.

A crate digging trip at which, among the usual Sing Along with Mitch Miller and Christmas Classics records, I’d just found a 1968 original of the Zombies’ Odessey and Oracle on CBS, and in mono, too. Not my kind of music, but highly sought after, and worth a pretty penny.

Where Tinkler paid for his habit working with computers, I paid for mine selling records. I found some like this, out of nowhere in charity shops. But my specialty these days was hunting down rare records for clients willing to pay my way.

They call me the Vinyl Detective.

Okay, so I’d been the one to start calling myself that. And when I started, it was a bit grandiose. But these days, I felt I’d earned the title.

Behind the Zombies, I found a pile of Beatles albums—a little basic, but they’d sell briskly. A quick inspection showed that the later albums were early pressings, but the early ones were all late 60s pressings on Apple, which were much less valuable. But they’d all sell for more than I was about to pay for them. Worth a few biscuits for the cats and a few bags of coffee beans for the grinder, at least.

There was plenty I recognized in the pile near these—obviously the collection of a real music fan. I tried not to reflect on the most likely scenario for these records ending up here, which was the death of that music fan. I took some comfort from the idea that my default next-of-kin, my live-in girlfriend and technically-common-law-wife Nevada, would know how to get my records to the sorts of collectors who would really appreciate them upon my death—a death that I skirted close to much more often than one might expect for a record hunter. My beloved collection would never go to a charity shop.

I was flipping through a bunch of records I didn’t recognize when a title made me stop. It wasn’t an album or artist I recognized; it was by someone called Donnie “Ready to Run” Robertson. But the album title, Waiting on a Brighter Day, was familiar. Familiar in that way that if I didn’t figure out why, it would only bother me.

“Oh, there’s a keeper, mate,” Tinkler said, looking over my shoulder.

“You think so?”

“Oh, yeah. Dead rare, worth a king’s ransom to the right collector.”

I studied the bearded face that presumably belonged to Donnie Robertson on the cover—a dark-skinned, serious visage with deeply staring eyes, as if he’d been meditating on some vital philosophical question when the picture was taken. The face was surrounded by a black halo of dreadlocks. I turned the record over to find a pencil sketch reproduced on the back—a lion fighting a serpent—colored over with red, gold, and green stripes.

“Since when do you know about reggae?” I asked Tinkler. It wasn’t his genre. He was primarily a fan of the heavy blues rock of the 60s and 70s.

“I could hardly be a self-respecting dope smoker without dabbling in a bit of reggae,” he replied. “I’ve got originals of all of Bob Marley’s Island discography, and a fair few Trojan Records compilations.”

“Why do I recognize this album title?” Waiting on a Brighter Day.

“You’ll certainly have heard the Erik Make Loud cover.”

Of course. Our friend—Tinkler’s more than mine—the former guitarist for the legendary 60s band Valerian, who went on to a mildly successful solo career as a guitar god. Born Eric McCloud, but self-rechristened Erik Make Loud. Though I suppose the Vinyl Detective has no room to scoff at silly self-invented nicknames. None of his albums were my cup of tea (especially seeing as how my cup of tea would contain coffee), but I’d certainly heard them round Tinkler’s plenty.

“All the guitar greats were messing about with reggae in the mid 70s,” Tinkler went on. “Eric Clapton helped launch Bob Marley into mainstream success with his cover of ‘I Shot the Sheriff.’ And Erik Make Loud discovered Ready Robertson for the British audience.”

“With somewhat less spectacular results,” I said. I’d heard of Bob Marley, but never this Robertson. I was scanning the rest of the songs on the back of the sleeve, and none except the title track seemed familiar.

“Well, Erik Make Loud, love him as I do, is no Eric Clapton. But Ready Robertson is much beloved by serious reggae heads. I’m sure there’s plenty of demand for an original press of his most well known album.”

A quick scan of Discogs on my phone confirmed this—very few copies changing hands, and for plenty of money each, with none on sale right then. Find the right collector and I’d certainly get a nice pay day.

Back at Tinkler’s house, we listened to my acquisitions to play grade them on his Thorens TD 124 and enormous horn-loaded speakers. The Zombies record was a few steps shy of perfect, a solid VG+, still worth plenty. But the Ready Robertson sounded amazing, perhaps unplayed, near mint for sure. As we listened to side two, we opened up my brand new laptop and Tinkler helped me craft a post for my blog about my Ready Robertson find. We looked up some biographical details for background. His career had been awfully short—he’d been in the UK for a few years in the early 70s, traveling in the same circles as Bob Marley’s Wailers and making a name for himself. But when he returned to his native Kingston, Jamaica, he’d been picked up for a gang murder that happened before he left. He maintained his innocence, but he’d been convicted and died in prison a few years later. He could easily have been another global superstar if his recording days had not been so rudely truncated. Waiting on a Brighter Day was his only proper album. He’d released a bunch of singles in Jamaica, which wasn’t an album market in those days, and those had been compiled and recompiled in every imaginable configuration since—you could buy ten different Ready Robertson albums with ten titles on ten record labels, but they were all composed of the same few dozen tracks. Lax copyright laws. Waiting on a Brighter Day was different: recorded in Britain at Abbey Road Studios, released by EMI, copyright rigorously enforced. And excellent production values, my audiophile heart noted. But only issued a few times, despite the obvious interest in the music. And the copy I’d just bought was the absolute first pressing.

Tinkler put on Erik Make Loud’s 1974 cover version after we’d finished the original. Ready Robertson’s “Waiting on a Brighter Day” was a gorgeously melancholy song reflecting the ills of the world and the singer’s hope for the future. Erik Make Loud’s was faithful to the words and melody, even the characteristic reggae choppy guitar strokes on the upbeats, but substituted the reflective feel of the original for a party atmosphere. It was much more radio friendly. I could imagine Tinkler and his friends passing a joint around to it in school. But it was obvious which was the superior version. That depth I saw in Ready Robertson’s eyes on the cover of his LP was very much present in his music, and very much overlooked by his British interpreter.

I published my blog post about Waiting on a Brighter Day. I didn’t elaborate on my feelings about Erik Make Loud’s cover except to note that Ready’s less famous original was the better version. I gathered my records and left for home, having promised Tinkler a percentage of my profit from the Ready Robertson record for his expertise. Entirely too small a percentage, considering that I’d probably have left it in the shop without him, but he had a day job and I hadn’t. I had an offer on the record by the end of the week, and it was safely enclosed in an LP mailer and sent along to Brighton the next day. The others needed no blog post—the Zombies sold immediately for a number with a comma in it, and the Beatles moved quickly enough. Together, that day’s charity shop haul paid my rent and all my bills for the month with enough left over for a dead mint copy of Chet Baker’s Chet album on Riverside for me and a splurge bottle of Rhone red for Nevada, even after paying Tinkler his bit. And with that, I considered my brief career as a reggae historian satisfactorily concluded.

I’d almost forgotten all about Ready Robertson when I received an email two months later.

[xofantasycloud]

are u and should we be worried that Sonnett hasn’t played yet? idk i feel like maybe Vlatko doesn’t favor her as much as his other clear preferences

No I’m not worried that she hasn’t played. Am I frustrated that she hasn’t? Sure. But my hope is that Vlatko’s managing the Spirits minutes because of their schedule and that’s the reason why she hasn’t played as much.

I think that if she doesn’t play today, I’m almost certain of the fact that she’ll play against Mexico. I just hope that the back line today is prepared to deal with Jamaica, because they’ve looked really sharp and I’m kinda nervous that he chose the back line that he did. Personally, I would’ve put in Sonnett as CB instead of Cook, but maybe that’s his planned half time sub. But we’ll see, because who knows what’s going on inside his head atm…

[pryceofwisdom]

Blog 4: Research

As I started to write, I quickly realized that research is a necessity. My character Angel is supposed to migrate to Queens, New York from Jamaica. I know plenty about New York and even more about Jamaica, but what I wasn’t well versed on was the legal age of marriage or the citizenship process. In the short story, Marcia is expected to get move to the U.S., get married to a friend of the family, and eventually file for her family’s citizenship once her citizenship is confirmed. 

According to Lewis’ article, the legal age of consent for marriage in the state of New York is 18 years old. Which influenced me to change Angel’s age from 16 to 17. She will leave Jamaica a week or so before her 18th birthday. 

One might hope that becoming a citizen through marriage would be an easy process but it is not. According to nolo.com, there are a number of documents that must be completely and the process can take at least 3 years. Knowing this information has significantly changed my timeline of events and what I want to focus on. Being that this is a short story, I believe it’s crucial to be detailed but not drawn out. It really is a slippery slope.

References:

Bray, Ilona. “How Long Must I Be Married to a U.S. Citizen to Get U.S. Citizenship by Marriage?” Www.nolo.com, Nolo, 5 July 2021, https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/how-i-married-us-citizen-us-citizenship.html.

Lewis, Sophie. “New York Bans Child Marriage - Only the Sixth State to Officially Do So.” CBS News, CBS Interactive, 23 July 2021, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-york-ban-child-marriage-law-governor-andrew-cuomo/.

[shebeafancyflapjack]

So if kitty was alive during the American revolutionary war, She could’ve had cousins who joined the army to fight the rebellious colonialists. Perhaps one of them was in the same regiment as Nigel from cbs ghosts 

Possibly? Or maybe she had blood relatives in Jamaica who travelled up north into the States to fight for independence. She could have had interests on both sides.

Personally I don't think it was something she was concerned with, given how obviously sheltered she was and I doubt she was given much of an education outside of how to behave like a lady.