#dublin art book fair

[garadinervi]

Simon Cutts and Erica Van Horn – Coracle Press Books, 2022  [Workhouse Union, Callan, Co. Kilkenny. Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin]

[laweyd]

Pre-order of my horror comic is now available in my online shop !

Hello everyone!

Now that ShortBox Comics Fair and the Thought Bubble comics festival is finished; I’m very happy to announce that my horror comic «It all Ends with Me» is now available for pre-orders through my online shop until the 10.december!

I also added in my previous sb comics fair comic from last year (See you again, maybe), my artzines as well as some new original- and fan- art prints !

⭐️Shop link: laweyd.bigcartel.com

A few friendly reminders before you order:

- pre-orders (and other books/prints etc that you bought with it) will be shipped out between 1-10. january!

-Unfortunately, the book won’t be arriving by chrismas or new year. You will also receive shipping notification by email once it has been shipped out.

-Regular non pre-orders will be shipped out every 1-3 days.

- After the comic had it’s debut at the ThoughtBubble festival; I dropped off some copies at these stores if you live nearby !

⭐️ GOSH! Comics, London, UK 🇬🇧

⭐️ Little Deer Comics, Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪

⭐️OUTLAND, Oslo, Norway 🇳🇴

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 8.2

Holidays

Airborne Forces Day (Russia)

Airmobile Forces Day (Ukraine)

Aviation Day (Slovenia)

Bonalu (Telangana, India)

Bunny Day (Japan)

Congolese Genocide Day (Congo (DRC))

Crabhog Day

Day of Airborne Forces (Russia)

Day of Azerbaijani Cinema (Azerbaijan)

Day of Maiden Katrica (Elder Scrolls)

Day of the Water Nymphs (Macedonia)

Deez Nutz Day

Dinosaurs Day

802 Day

Emancipation Day (Several Caribbean nations)

Escalator Day

Ewe Day (French Republic)

Fallen Paratroopers Remembrance Day (Ukraine)

Fiesta La Patrona (Spain)

Greenwich Mean Time Day

Hydroxychloroquine Day (India)

I Came I Saw I Conquered Day

Ilinden Day (Republic Day; Macedonia)

International Golden Lion Tamarin Day

International Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Day

Jabotinsky Day (Israel)

Lady Godiva Day (Coventry, UK)

Little Mix Appreciation Day

International Jewish Day

International Pony Day

Lady of the Angels Day (Costa Rica)

Lincoln Penny Day

Mark Lee Day (K-Pop)

Mary Prince Day (Bermuda)

Mindfulness Day

National Blockchain Day

National Boob Day

National CAD Day (a.k.a. National Computer-Aided Design Day)

National Children’s Day (Tuvalu)

National Coloring Book Day

National Ex-Girlfriend Day

National Hugh Day

National Jacqueline Day

National Rap Music Day

National Sisters Day

Our Lady of the Angels Day (Costa Rica)

Pantsu Day (Japan)

Paratroopers Day (Russia)

Republic Day (North Macedonia)

Roma Holocaust Memorial Day (EU)

Take a Penny, Leave a Penny Day

World Anglo-Indian Day

World Feed the Poor Day

World Find a Four Leaf Clover Day

Yeezy Day (Adidas)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Make Some Old-Fashioned Lemonade Day

Miracle Treat Day (Dairy Queen)

National Ice Cream Sandwich Day

Independence & Related Days

Butuan City Charter Day (Philippines; 1950)

Declaration of Independence 1st signed (US; 1776)

Kabankalan City Charter Day (Philippines)

Makira Ulawa Province Day (Solomon Islands)

Napoleon Bonaparte made 1st Consul for Life (France; 1802)

1st Friday in August

August Bank Holiday (UK) [1st Friday]

Bandcamp Friday [1st Friday]

Braham Pie Day (Minnesota) [1st Friday]

CafeSmart Day [1st Friday]

Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]

Health Advocate Day [1st Friday]

International Beer Day [1st Friday]

International Mustache Day [1st Friday]

Jeans for Genes Day (Australia) [1st Friday]

Moxee Hop Festival begins (Washington) [1st Friday]

National Water Balloon Day [1st Friday]

Tomboy Tools Day [1st Friday]

Twins Day Festival begins (Twinsburg, Ohio) [1st Full Weekend, begins 1st Friday]

Umuganura Day (Harvest Thanksgiving; Rwanda) [1st Friday]

Weekly Holidays beginning August 2 (1st Week of August)

Gallop International Tribal Indian Powwow (thru 8.11)

Sturgis Motorcycle Rally (Sturgis, South Dakota) [1st Friday for 10 Days] (thru 8.11)

Twins Days (thru 8.4) [1st Full Weekend; Friday thru Sunday]

Festivals Beginning August 2, 2024

Appalachian Arts & Crafts Fair & Festival (Buckley, West Virginia) [thru 8.3]

Beer, Bourbon & BBQ Festival (Cary, North Carolina) [thru 8.3]

Blueberry Arts Festival (Ketchikan, Alaska) [thru 8.4]

Blueberry Festival (Wilton, Maine) [thru 8.3]

Brat Days (Sheboygan, Wisconsin) [thru 8.3]

Brew at the Zoo (Columbia, South Carolina)

Calgary Fringe Festival (Calgary, Canada) [thru 8.10]

Charlestown Seafood Festival (Charlestown, Rhode Island) [thru 8.4]

Clark Potato Days (Clark, South Dakota) [thru 8.4]

Cowtown Days Festival (Ellsworth, Kansas) [thru 8.4]

Creamery Picnic (Stevensville, Montana) [thru 8.3]

Dublin Irish Festival (Dublin, Ohio) [thru 8.4]

Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Edinburgh, Scotland) [thru 8.26]

Edinburgh International Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland) [thru 8.25]

Festa Italiana (Naperville, Illinois) [thru 8.4]

Festival of the Flowers in Medellín (Medellín, Colombia) [thru 8.11]

Fish Sandwich Festival (Bay Port, Michigan) [thru 8.3]

Glad-Peach Festival (Coloma, Michigan) [thru 8.4]

Glengarry Highland Games (Maxville, Canada) [thru 8.3]

Gorolski Święto (Jablunkov, Czech Republic) [thru 8.4]

Grape Country Craft Beverage Festival (Dunkirk, New York) [thru 8.4]

Guča Trumpet Festival (Guča, Serbia) [thru 8.4]

Indiana State Fair (Indianapolis, Indiana) [thru 8.18]

Locomotion Festival (Felton, California) [thru 8.4]

Mossyrock Blueberry Festival (Mossyrock, Washington) [thru 8.4]

New Jersey State Fair/Sussex County Farm and Horse Show (Augusta, New Jersey) [thru 8.10]

Newport Jazz Festival (Newport, Rhode Island) [thru 8.4]

North Branford PoCo Festival (North Branford, Connecticut) [thru 8.4]

Old Time Harvest Festival (Jordan, Minnesota) [thru 8.4]

One Love Reggae Festival (Wiesen, Austria) [thru 8.3]

Otakon (Washington, DC) [thru 8.4]

Pluk de Nacht Film Festival (Utrecht, Netherlands) [thru 8.10]

Possum Festival (Wausau, Florida) [thru 8.3]

Reggae on the River (Piercy, California) [tgru 8.4]

Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo (Edinburgh, United Kingdom) [thru 8.24]

Scranton Jazz Festival (Scranton, Pennsylvania) [thru 8.4]

Sidmouth Folk Festival (Sidmouth, United Kingdom) [thru 8.9]

Spiedie Fest and Balloon Rally (Binghamton, New York) [thru 8.4]

SunSka Festival (Vertheuil, France) [thru 8.4]

Sweet Pea Festival (Bozeman, Montana) [thru 8.4]

Taste of the Coeur d'Alene (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) [thru 8.4]

Tokyo Idol Festival (Tokyo, Japan) [thru 8.4]

Vintage Ohio Wine Festival (Kirtland, Ohio) [thru 8.3]

Watsonville Strawberry Festival (Watsonville, California) [thru 8.4]

World Cosplay Summit (Nagoya, Japan) [thru 8.4]

Feast Days

Ahudemmeh (Syriac Orthodox Church)

Albert Bloch (Artology)

Alfonso A. Ossorio (Artology)

Arthur Dove (Artology)

Barley Day (Pagan)

Basil Fool for Christ (Russian Orthodox Church)

Bei Dao (Writerism)

Chateaubriand (Positivist; Saint)

Death of King Rufus Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Distribution of Charity Moneys (Strictly Imps Only; Shamanism)

Dryads Day (Greek Wood & Water Gods)

Elias (a.k.a. Ilia or Elijah the Prophet; Christian; Saint)

Etheldritha (a.k.a. Alfrida; Christian; Saint)

Eusebius of Vercelli (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Anahita (Ancient Persia; Everyday Wicca)

Feast of Our Lady of the Angeles of the Portiuncula (Franciscan Order)

Fomorian King Bres’ Agricultural Gifts Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Håkon Stenstadvold (Artology)

Holling C. Holling (Artology)

Ilinden Day (St. Elijah Day; Macedonia)

Isabel Allende (Writerism)

James Baldwin (Writerism)

Jan van Scorel (Artology)

John Radecki (Artology)

John French Sloan (Artology)

Justin Russolillo (Christian; Blessed)

Khao Phansa begins (Buddhist Lent; Thailand)

Lady of the Angels’ Day (Costa Rica)

Martian Time-Slip, by Philip K. Dick (Novel; 1964)

Monster Monster (Muppetism)

Peter Faber (Christian; Saint)

Peter Julian Eymard (Christian; Saint)

Perdono di Assisi (Pardon of Assisi), the plenary indulgence related to St.Francis of Assisi originated in the church of Porziuncola (Catholic Church)

Richard Wilson (Artology)

Robert Holdstock (Writerism)

Robert Goddard Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Samuel David Ferguson (Episcopal Church)

Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten (Artology)

Sidwell (Christian; Saint) [Farmers]

Stephen I, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Theodots (Christian; Martyr)

Thomas of Dover (Christian; Saint)

Vermicelli Day (Pastafarian)

Virgin of Los Angeles Day (Costa Rica)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

American Graffiti (Film; 1973)

Castle in the Sky (Studio Ghibli Animated Film; 1986)

Doc Hollywood (Film; 1991)

Doing Impossible Stunts (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1940)

Don’t Look Back, by Boston (Album; 1978)

Emma (Film; 1996)

Europa Report (Film; 2013)

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (Film; 2019) [F&F]

Follow That Bird (Film; 1985)

In the Heat of the Night (Film; 1967)

It’s a Greek Life (Rainbow Parade Cartoon; 1936)

Lady, Play Your Mandolin! (WB MM Cartoon; 1931)

The Others (Film; 2001)

The Pebbles on the Beach, by Clarence Ellis (Geology Book; 1954)

Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, “The Moonlight Sonata,” by Ludwig Van Beethoven (Piano Sonata; 1802)

The Suburbs, by Arcade Fire (Album; 2010)

Testament of Youth, by Vera Brittain (memoir; 1933)

2 Guns (Film; 2013)

Weird Science (Film; 1985)

Today’s Name Days

Eusebius, Julian, Petrus, Stefan (Austria)

Anđela, Arnir, Euzebije (Croatia)

Gustav (Czech Republic)

Hannibal (Denmark)

Helger, Helgo, Holger, Olger (Estonia)

Kimmo (Finland)

Julien (France)

Adriana, Eusebius, Juliam, Julan (Germany)

Justinianos (Greece)

Lehel (Hungary)

Eusebio (Italy)

Norma, Normunds, Stefans (Latvia)

Alfonsas, Guoda, Gustavas, Tautvaldas (Lithuania)

Karen, Karin (Norway)

Alfons, Alfonsyna, Borzysława, Gustaw, Ilia, Karina, Maria, Stefan (Poland)

Stefan (Romania)

Gustáv (Slovakia)

Ángeles, Eusebio (Spain)

Kajsa, Karin (Sweden)

Alf, Alfie, Alfonsina, Alfonso, Alford, Alfred, Alfreda, Alfredo, Alonso, Alonza, Alonzo, Alphonso, Fonzie (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 215 of 2024; 151 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of Week 31 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 28 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Xin-Wei), Day 28 (Wu-Xu)

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

Hebrew: 27 Tammuz 5784

Islamic: 26 Muharram 1446

J Cal: 5 Purple; Fryday [5 of 30]

Julian: 20 July 2024

Moon: 4%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 18 Dante (8th Month) [Chateaubriand]

Runic Half Month: Thorn (Defense) [Day 10 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 44 of 94)

Week: 1st Week of August

Zodiac: Leo (Day 12 of 31)

[grandhotelabyss]

riverrun. Yes, probably the writer Aaron Gwyn, who's done two threads now—one, two—and amusingly replied to someone who self-righteously asked how reading Finnegans Wake made one "a better human."

I can't be much help, however. I've certainly read some of FW over the years. In Colin MacCabe's Joyce seminar back in the year 2001 we read the Shem and Shaun part and the conclusion with Anna Livia Plurabelle; in graduate school I was in an FW reading group for a few months where we did the first 100 pages or so. But I've never read the whole thing, whatever "reading" here means.

I didn't enjoy the reading group, through no fault of theirs, because they quite correctly leaned in to the aspect of the book—maybe the only real aspect the book has in the end—that calls for a cross-word puzzler's head full of verbal trivia. This tends not to be the level on which I enjoy literature.

MacCabe, on the other hand, persuaded me of book's weight with his psychoanalytic classroom gloss on lines like

If you spun your yarns to him on the swishbarque waves I was spelling my yearns to her over cottage cake.

A cursory Google turns up MacCabe's interpretation here:

As Anna thinks back over her past life, she remembers how much her husband (the ubiquitous figure who is indicated by the letters HCE) wanted a daughter, hoping for a female in the family who would believe his stories, who would give to him the respect that he feels is his due. But the father is inevitably disappointed for the mother teaches her daughter that beneath the stories and the identities lies the world of letters and desire. While the father tells the son stories, the mother teaches the daughter the alphabet: “If you spun your yarns to him on the swishbarque waves I was spelling my yearns to her over cottage cake” (FW, 620). The father’s yarns (stories) are displaced by the mother’s yearns (desires); telling gives way to spelling. It is this struggle between meaning and sound, between story and language, between male and female that Finnegans Wake enacts, introducing the reader to a world in which his or her own language can suddenly reveal new desires beneath old meanings as the material of language forms and reforms.

Is this enough to make me proceed through the verbal thicket? I can't shake the feeling that Joyce here demands too many public rights for a purely private fixation. Updike, introducing Nabokov's Lectures on Literature:

For Nabokov, the world—art's raw material—is itself an artistic creation, so insubstantial and illusionistic that he seems to imply a masterpiece can be spun from thin air, by pure act of the artist's imperial will. Yet works like Madame Bovary and Ulysses glow with the heat of resistance that the will to manipulate meets in banal, heavily actual subjects. Acquaintance, abhorrence, and the helpless love we give our own bodies and fates join in these transmuted scenes of Dublin and Rouen; away from them, in works like Salammbô and Finnegans Wake, Joyce and Flaubert yield to their dreaming, dandyish selves and are swallowed by their hobbies.

This may also by true of VN's Ada, which I never finished. We each draw the line in a different place. I'm sure I'm only denying myself an advanced form of pleasure. This is, after all, what I'd tell people who with a truculent and phony populism would spurn the incomparable joys of Ulysses.

Re: Flaubert and Joyce—I'm too lazy to hunt for it, but I think I actually said that Ulysses breaks the sentence free. Flaubert immobilized prose by turning it into blocks of precision reportage—granted, this is not quite fair to Flaubert—but Joyce loosened it up again by turning it into poetry, "poetry" implying both euphony and polysemy. Pound, quoting a German to Latin dictionary in ABC of Reading: "Dichten = condensare." Finnegans Wake is, I can't deny it, the logical-teleological next step in the Hegelian process, making every single word a whole world, Blake's "heaven in a grain of sand."

(Some of what's said against FW could be said against Pound's Cantos—of which I've read some—and Blake's Jerusalem—of which I've read all, whatever [again!] "reading" here means.)

Since I am not actually barred from this promised land, why do I still content myself with what Stephen Dedalus calls, with unsurprising reference not only to a book everybody knows but also to a book nobody does, "A Pisgah Sight of Palestine"? Is it time for me to give the Wake another try?

[brookston]

Holidays 9.7

Holidays

Air Force Day (Pakistan)

Bitcoin Day

Carl Garner Federal Lands Cleanup Day

Civil Servant’s Day (Nepal)

Day of Military Intelligence (Ukraine)

Engineer Troops Day (Armenia)

Feel the Love Day

Festa Della Rificolona begins (Paper Lantern Festival; Florence, Italy)

Fish Farmer Day (Russia)

First Day of Peel Season

Flag Day (Kuwait)

Fluidra International Pool Pro Day

Google Commemoration Day

Grandad’s Day

Grandma Moses Day

Hera Asteroid Day

International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies (UN)

International Day of Police Cooperation

International Manatee Day

Lusaka Peace Agreement Day (a.k.a. Victory Day; Mozambique)

Military Intelligence Day (Ukraine)

Miss America Day

Napoleon Day

National Attention Deficit Disorder Awareness Day

National Buy A Book Day

National Clean Out Your Garage Day

National Dildo Day

National First Day of Peel Season

National Grateful Patient Day

National Napoleon Day

National New Hampshire Day

National Regina Day

National Tatiana Day

National Threatened Species Day (Australia)

Neither Snow Nor Rain Day

Newt Day

Nijamati Sewa Divas (Civil Servants Day; Nepal)

907 Day

Raggedy Ann Day

Seven of Nine Day

Still’s Disease Awareness Day

Superhuman Day

Texas Energy Savings Day (Texas)

Threatened Species Day (Australia)

Turn A Cartwheel in Public Day

Victory Day (Mozambique)

Walter White Day

Wild Rose Day (French Republic)

World Day of the Diver

World Duchenne Awareness Day

World Fair Play Day

World Field Epidemiology Day

World Menopause and Work Day

Youth Mental Health Day (UK)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Acorn Squash Day

Gray’s Papaya Day (New York)

National Beer Lover’s Day

New England Apple Day

Porter's Porter Day

Salami Day

Independence & Related Days

Brazil (from Portugal, 1822)

Constitution Day (Fiji)

Istria (Declared; 2005) [unrecognized]

1st Saturday in September

Coffee Day (Germany) [1st Saturday]

Digital Detox Day (UK) [1st Saturday]

Franchise Appreciation Day [Saturday Before Labor Day]

International Vulture Awareness Day [1st Saturday]

National Chouriço Day [Saturday of Labor Day Weekend]

National Cowgirl Day [Saturday of Labor Day Weekend]

National Hummingbird Day [1st Saturday]

National Mustard Day [1st Saturday]

National Play Outside Day [1st Saturday of Every Month]

National Services Day (Ireland) [1st Saturday]

National Tailgating Day [1st Saturday]

National Writing Date Day [1st Saturday]

Sandwich Saturday [Every Saturday]

Satyr's Day (Silenus, Greek God of Beer Buddies and Drinking Companions) [1st Saturday of Each Month]

Scottish Food & Drink Fortnight begins (Scotland) [1st Saturday thru 3rd Sunday]

Six For Saturday [Every Saturday]

Sleep Over Saturday [1st Saturday of Each Month]

Social Saturday [1st Saturday of Each Month]

Sourdough Saturday [1st Saturday of Each Month]

Spaghetti Saturday [Every Saturday]

Turkey Vulture Day [1st Saturday]

World Beard Day [1st Saturday]

Weekly Holidays beginning September 7 (1st Full Week of September)

Vermont Cheese Week (Statewide, Vermont) [thru 9.15]

Festivals Beginning September 7, 2024

Art & Wine Festival (Mountain View, California) [thru 9.8]

Autumn Harvest Fest Weekends (Mukuwonago, Wisconsin) [thru 10.27]

Belize Carnival Road March (Belize City, Belize)

Belmar San Gennaro Festival (Belmar, New Jersey)

Big Chili Cook-Off Music & Arts Festival (Evergreen, Colorado)

Blues Burgers & BBQ Festival (Fort Pierce, Florida) [thru 9.8]

Brass City Brew & Que (Waterbury, Connecticut)

Bridgeton Milling Days (Bridgeton, Indiana) [thru 9.8]

Central New York's Tomatofest (Auburn, New York)

Chili and Beer Festival (Mt. Crested Butte, Colorado)

Crafty Apple Fest (Chilton, Wisconsin)

Crush 2024 (Temecula, California)

Dublin Fringe Festival (Dublin, Ireland) [thru 9.22]

Fall Fest (Hinckley, Minnesota)

Food Trucktemberfest (Monmouth Park, Oceanport, New Jersey)

Garden City Chili Cook-Off, Hot Rod & Motorcycle Show (Garden City, Michigan)

Gettysburg Wine and Music Festival (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) [thru 9.8]

Grape Stomp Festival (Stillwater, Minnesota) [thru 9.8]

Harvest Wine Festival (Altavista, Virginia)

Heart of the Valley Septembeerfest (Corvallis, Oregon)

Hudson Valley Wine & Food Fest (Rhinebeck, New York) [thru 9.8]

Julian Grape Stomp Festa (Julian, California)

Knox Asian Festival (Knoxville, Tennessee) [thru 9.8]

Lakeview Taco Fest (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 9.8]

La Ulu (Breadfruit Day; Maui, Hawaii)

Lenexa Spinach Festival (Lenexa, Kansas)

Lewistown Chokecherry Festival (Lewistown, Montana)

Lollapalooza (Berlin, Germany) [thru 9.8]

Mushroom Festival (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania) [thru 9.8]

Orthodox Food Festival (Denver, Colorado)

Oxford Lions Club Watermelon Feed (Oxford, Kansas)

Pardeeville Watermelon Festival (Pardeeville, Wisconsin)

Pig Island NYC (Staten Island, New York)

Pittsburg Seafood & Music Festival (Pittsburg, California)

Rhode Island Seafood Festival (Providence, Rhode Island) [thru 9.8]

Rificolona Festival (Florence, Italy)

Rockbridge Beer & Wine Festival (Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia)

San Luis Valley Potato Festival (Monte Vista, Colorado)

Septemberfest (Forestville, New York) [thru 9.8]

Slice of Saugatuck Festival (Saugatuck, Connecticut)

St Peter’s Annual Apple Festival (Monroe, Connecticut) [thru 9.8]

Superior Chili & Beer Fest (Superior, Colorado)

Tacos and Tequila Marietta Square (Atlanta, Georgia)

Trimble County Apple Fest (Bedford, Kentucky) [thru9.8]

U.P. Fall Beer Festival (Marquette, Michigan)

Valparaiso Popcorn Festival (Valparaiso, Indiana)

Virtual Sous Vide Summit (Baltimore, Maryland) [thru 9.8]

Whiskies of the World (Denver, Colorado)

Wine on the Beach (Seaside Heights, New Jersey) [thru 9.8]

World Championship Squirrel Cook Off (Springdale, Arkansas)

Feast Days

Alcmund and Tilbert (Christian; Saints)

Alexandre Falguière (Artology)

Anastasius the Fuller (Christian; Saint)

The Apocalypse (Pastafarian)

Clodoald (a.k.a. Cloud; Christian; Saint)

Colour Symphony, by Arthur Bliss (Symphony; 1922)

Coulomb (Positivist; Saint)

Daena’s Day (Maiden Goddess of the Parsees; Everyday Wicca)

Day to Honor Yemaya (Yoruba Orisha, Goddess & Bringer of Life; Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Eunan (Christian; Saint)

Evurtius, Bishop of Orleans (Christian; Saint)

Festival of Durga (Goddess of Energy and the World)

Gort (Celtic Book of Days)

Grandma Moses (Artology)

Gratus of Aosta (Christian; Saint)

Grimonia (a.k.a. Germana; Christian; Saint)

Healer’s Day (Everyday Wicca)

Jacob Lawrence (Artology)

Jennifer Egan (Writerism)

John of Nicomedia (Christian; Martyr)

Johan Tobias Sergel (Artology)

Madelberte (Christian; Saint)

Margaret Landon (Artology)

Marko Krizin (Christian; Saint)

Mary Bauermeister (Artology)

Matthäus Günther (Artology)

Media Aestas VI (Pagan)

Murray Monster (Muppetism)

Old Boyfriends/Girlfriends Remembrance Day (Pastafarian)

Regina (Christian; Saint)

Sozon (Christian; Martyr)

Stephen Pongracz (Christian; Saint)

Susan St. James Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Taylor Caldwell (Artology)

Welsh Fairies Bonnet-Hurling Competition (Shamanism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [26 of 32]

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 41 of 60)

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [43 of 60]

Premieres

A Momentary Lapse of Reason, by Pink Floyd (Album; 1987)

Andy Panda’s Victory Garden (Andy Panda Cartoon; 1942)

Anna and the King of Siam, by Margaret Landon (Memoir; 1943)

Anna Karenina (Film; 2012)

Astro Boy (Animated TV Series; 1963)

Bad, by Michael Jackson (Song; 1987)

Brandy, by Brandy (Album; 1994)

The Brother from Another Planet (Film; 1984)

Buddy Holly, by Weezer (Song; 1994)

Captains and the Kings, by Taylor Caldwell (Novel; 1972)

Circus (Ub Iwerks Flip the Frog Cartoon; 1932)

French Fried, featuring Farmer Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1930)

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, by Elton John (Song; 1973)

Kentucky Belles (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1931)

The Lady in Red (WB MM Cartoon; 1935)

A Momentary Lapse of Reason, by Pink Floyd (Album; 1987)

Muscle Beach Tom (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1956)

Music Hath Charms (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1936)

No Sail (Disney Cartoon; 1945)

Papa Gets the Bird (MGM Cartoon; 1940)

Peppermint (Film; 2018)

Rock Star (Film; 2001)

The Silver Chair, by C.S. Lewis (Novel; 1953) [The Chronicles of Narnia #4]

SportsCenter (Sports TV Show; 1979)

Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying, by Wolfgang Langewiesche (Flying Book; 1944)

Switchin’ Kitten (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1961)

3:10 to Yuma (Film; 2007)

True Blood (TV Series; 2008)

The Unmentionables (WB MM Cartoon; 1963)

Video Killed the Radio Star, by The Buggles (1979)

Why Mules Leave Home, featuring Farmer Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1934)

You Send Me, by Sam Cooke (Song; 1957)

Today’s Name Days

Otto, Ralph, Regina (Austria)

Marko, Memorije, Regina (Croatia)

Regína (Czech Republic)

Robert (Denmark)

Regiina, Reina (Estonia)

Arhippa, Arho, Milo, Miro (Finland)

Reine (France)

Otto, Ralph, Regina (Germany)

Casino, Sozon (Greece)

Regina (Hungary)

Grato (Italy)

Ermins, Regīna, Valdone (Latvia)

Bartas, Bartė, Palmira, Regina (Lithuania)

Regine, Rose (Norway)

Domasława, Domisława, Marek, Melchior, Regina, Rena, Ryszard (Poland)

Marianna (Slovakia)

Judit, Judith, Regina (Spain)

Kevin, Roy (Sweden)

Raegan, Raina, Rana, Rani, Reagan, Regan, Regina, Regine, Yale (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 251 of 2024; 115 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of Week 36 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 7 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Guy-You), Day 5 (Jia-Xiu)

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

Hebrew: 4 Elul 5784

Islamic: 3 Rabi I 1446

J Cal: 11 Gold; Foursday [10 of 30]

Julian: 25 August 2024

Moon: 17%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 27 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Vauban]

Runic Half Month: Ken (Illumination) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 80 of 94)

Week: 1st Full Week of September

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 17 of 32)

Calendar Changes

Ken (Illumination) [Half-Month 18 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 9.21)

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2023

1. What did you do in 2023 that you’d never done before?

Ride a camel, knit a cardigan, visit Morocco, make a board game.

2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

Nope

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

Someone reasonably close, yeah. A fair few accquaintances, too.

4. Did anyone close to you die?

Nobody too close.

5. What countries did you visit?

Morocco, UAE, Australia, Scotland, England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, and plenty of travel around NZ.

6. What would you like to have in 2024 that you lacked in 2023?

A job and apartmentin Dublin.

7. What dates from 2023 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

It's been a year of great travel, three weddings, and a ton of great concerts, so pretty much all of those.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

I think getting the Wellbeing Better World published. Super stoked to be involved with creating resources that support young people to have better understanding of how to care for themselves and others.

9. What was your biggest failure?

I honestly can't think of anything major. Maybe killing my rosemary?

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

Had covid at the start of the year, and a gastro bug while I was in Edinburgh. While the wisdom teeth removal and IUD replacement were deliberate, they both also wiped me out for quite some time.

11. What was the best thing you bought?

Travel, concert tickets, and my travel bag.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?

Most people deserve celebration for something or other.

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?

Many world leaders, and the people that continue to support them.

14. Where did most of your money go?

Travel, rent, the dentist.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?

Travel, weddings, concerts

16. What song will always remind you of 2023?

Oh boy, so many for different reasons: - Rescue - Yuna - Haul Away - Grace Petrie - Stick Season - Noah Kahan - Pretty much anything by Skerryvore, Gaz Brookfield, or Nati Dredd

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:

a) happier or sadder? Happier

b) thinner or fatter? I think about the same?

c) richer or poorer? Richer

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?

Spending time outside, organising gatherings with friends

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?

Going back to sleep after waking up

20. How did you spend Christmas?

The usual combination of family and family friends. Lunch at my aunt and uncle's place, then an assortment of people over for dinner at my parents’ place.

21. Did you fall in love in 2022?

Nah

22. How many one-night stands?

None

23. What was your favourite TV program?

Heartstopper was a significant obession.

24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?

Nah, hate is a strong word, and I'm fortunate enough to be able to largely ignore anyone that comes close to fitting that category.

25. What was the best book you read?

Art and Gwen Are Not In Love - Lex Croucher

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?

Either Nati Dredd or Grace Petrie. It's been an excellent year for music.

27. What did you want and get?

All the travel and concerts. A few nice clothes.

28. What did you want and not get?

Laid in Ireland?

29. What was your favourite film of this year?

Nimona

30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?

Turned 32. Was taken out for a whiskey distilling tour in Dublin, and had a party thrown for me that weekend.

31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?

Having a tidier room, maybe?

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2022?

Same as ever. Jeans, shirt, whatever is mostly clean and has pockets.

33. What kept you sane?

Music, podcasts, friends, colleagues, monthly supervision sessions, naps, reading, taking time out.

34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?

Nati Dredd or the very attractive man in a kilt playing bagpipes in Skerryvore

35. What political issue stirred you the most?

Way too many, sadly. Youth justice, various wars and civil rights movements, depressing election results.

36. Who did you miss?

Most people at some point or other. Caitlin is still top of the list due to most regularly being on the opposite side of the world.

37. Who was the best new person you met?

All my various travel friends. Cydney gets a special mention.

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2022:

Don't always trust the rain to keep your outside plants well watered.

39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:

"Send a postcard to my year eleven self, in her year eleven health, Saying everything's gonna be just fine, No you won't grow out of it, you will find the clothes that fit. And the images that fucked ya, were a partiarchal structure, And you never will surrender, to a narrow view of gender, And I swear there'll come a day, when it won't matter what they say, On the labels on the doors, you will figure out what's yours." - Black tie, Grace Petrie

40. How did you spend New Year’s Eve?

Up at the place we had just outside Jamboree with colleagues, a few gin and tonics, and some board games.

[theartoflorcan]

My two books are there at @templebargalleryandstudios for the Dublin Art Book Fair 2023 alongside a whole load of amazing books, zines and publications. It runs until the 17th of December so pop on down!

#art #drawing #illustration #candy #sweets #candinomicon #lovecraftian #occult #drawingchallenge #octoberdrawingchallenge #Prompt3 #strange #weird #book #books #bookfair #irishart #irishartist #dublinartist #dublinart #shamelessselfpromotion #DABF23 #TempleBarGalleryAndStudios #lorcancassidy

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This video is about George RR Martin, author of Game of Thrones and the Song of Ice and Fire Series. This video is posted so that people can watch answers to his most popular questions non-stop, possibly before they interview him or watch him live so that they don't keep asking the same damn questions over and over again. There will be a second video with such answers as "Who is your favorite Character" and 'Why did you kill Ned?" Post comments on other stupid questions he keeps getting asked. Hopefully in the future, interviewers will ask more original and interesting questions.

CONTENTS INCLUDE: On idea for game of thrones on first professional submissions on where he would live in westeros on names in westeros on keeping secrets in books books vs tv show on taking something written back on his writing origin (bayone new jersey) on future of writing storytelling on crazy fan theories on adding cut material tv favorite scene on initial writing encouragement books vs tv on sexual content on show how he writes on fantasy tropes on who he read in high school on prequel stories on show power on hardest chapter to write on keeping ideas straight on when he writes on religions in westeros on politics in westeros on original trilogy idea on first published words on women in power

This video is about George RR Martin, author of Game of Thrones and the Song of Ice and Fire Series. This video is posted so that people can watch answers to his most popular questions non-stop, possibly before they interview him or watch him live so that they don't keep asking the same damn questions over and over again.

There will be a second video with such answers as "Who is your favorite Character" and 'Why did you kill Ned?"

Post comments on other stupid questions he keeps getting asked. Hopefully in the future, interviewers will ask more original and interesting questions.

CONTENTS INCLUDE: Are the Wall & statue of Braavos built by man? On good vs Evil How long does he plan to write On brans paralysis, mental or physical Are wildlings related to humans? What made him use different POVs On early story influences ART vs Commerciality On turning books to movies On reading great fiction On RA Lafferty on meeting howard waldrop and gardner dozois on harlan ellison and writing with howard on howard waldrop on armageddon rag and Fair use lyrics on the first hugo losers party on first horror award on meeting wife first time paris on being a toastmaster on good/bad cons and guest of honors at events on 1979 kentucky convention on first writing convention panels

George RR Martin Q&A The Grove Los Angeles July 26, 2011

George RR Martin answering a few questions before his book signing at the Barnes and Noble at The Grove in Los Angeles.

George RR Martin Q&A The Grove Los Angeles July 26, 2011

George R.R. Martin in conversation with Maura McHugh of Dublin 2019: An Irish Worldcon after a special screening of Forbidden Planet in 35mm. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on the 17th of August 2019.

Oldest George RR Martin Interview (1991)

[aislingkeaveyart]

Tsundoku Art Book Fair

13-16 July 2023,Thursday to Sunday, 10am-5pm The Printworks, Dublin Castle,Dame Street, Dublin 2 I am delighted to have my book Heartland / Hearthland present at Tsundoku Art Book Fair in Dublin this week as part of PhotoIreland Festival! I am also doing a signing event of Heartland / Hearthland at 1pm on Saturday 15th July Find out more about the list of publishers and programme of events on…

[teacherintransition]

The Porch…

What is it that stays in our heart about a place?

This year to date we’ve spent thirteen weeks in Alexandria, Louisiana; one week in Conroe; three weeks in Scotland and Ireland and fourteen weeks in Granbury, Texas. Thirty one weeks out of forty four we’ve spent traveling and away from home. My math skills being what they are, I think that leaves us with thirteen weeks at our home in Nacogdoches. It’s been an exciting year for two “solid” adults who have lived in the same house for thirty years, both worked in the same area for thirty four years. I was surprised that this is apparently not typical. Go figure …

If we’ve been stuck in a rut, we have found that out and for eight years it’s been our quest to be a part of as much of the world as possible. Italy, Mexico, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Ireland and on and on. I’ve seen so many places that have left their mark on my soul. Living in two towns in one year has been an amazing experience. Alexandria was fantastic with incredible places, centers of art, diverse restaurants and a pub of all pubs. Fortunate we were to make good friends. In Granbury, the art and music scene was a hidden treasure. The scenery and terrain were so much of what I’ve desired to be around and friends were made as we reluctantly had to head back to Nac.

So, I’ve heard the question, “of all those adventures, what sticks out in your mind as the most special?” I hate questions like this… how do you reduce a tapestry of travel and excitement to one location? Not fair!! But, if I must, I will alter the question a bit. I adjust it to say, “where did you find the most peaceful, content spot in all your travels? In other words, where did you find calm and stillness? This is a bit easier to answer: the front porch. The front porch of our little cabin just outside Granbury. Not what you’d think huh? Not St. James Gate in Dublin, not Riva Garda in Italy, not La Sagrada Familia in Spain, not the banks of the Red River in Alexandria… but this common, not spectacular porch in central west Texas. Circumstances and timing made this place a peaceful sanctuary… it physically doesn’t compare with so many of the places I’ve been; but the time and place of this, dare say the spirit of this spot, gave me such comfort. It was a moment in time, a coming together of intangibles that gave me solace.

On October 17, 2022, I made a daily post on the bane of our existence, Facebook, and I wrote the following:

I woke up around 7:15, looked after the dogs and folded some laundry. Lazed a bit sitting on the porch as my herd did their business. Drove into town to have coffee and do some writing. I put in a few hours and drove back home. I returned to the porch with my book, Time and Chance, written about Henry II. The breeze is gentle but invigorating…the sky blue and streaked white with slowly moving clouds. The same hawks from yesterday float on the wind all along the horizon. I look down and all three dogs lay still and content at my feet. The trees dance in the wind and I think about putting on a jacket. Surely, right here … in this moment… there is no better place to be on this earth….fleeting thought it is…

This is the contentment this very commonplace front porch gave me. It’s appeal you ask? It was time out of place: a squeaky wooden porch with rocking chairs that looked out over a small pasture with scrub trees and mesquite along the horizon. The spot was timeless. The vast open sky, uninterrupted by pine trees and city scapes, laid out a dazzling tapestry of stars and moon and eternal space that can’t be seen in East Texas. Didn’t the alps have open sky? The Ring of Kerry? The waters of the Gulf of Mexico…and the Mediterranean? Didn’t they have breath taking open skies with mesmerizing star scapes? Yes, they did, but time and acquaintance and state of mind can turn a piece of coal into a diamond when the heart has a say.

It was what the Irish call “a thin place;” a place where the spirits of the past and the call of dreams are so close…you can reach out and touch them. I was with grandpa listening to stories; I was with characters from my study of history looking out on the frontier; I was with the gods and they danced and flew among the stars…I was with my three indispensable, canine companions…I was alone in my dreams. Many nights I sat with Cowboy Jack sleeping beside me, and stargazed into the early morning hours free from time and space. Everyday, CowboyJack, Scarlett and Chunk longed to sit with me at my feet on that porch, perhaps drawing from me the contentment and calm I know radiated around me. It was so simple… it was, in that special moment, …perfect. I doubt very seriously it would have the same effect if I would sit there this evening. Robert Frost knew this fleeting nature of the magic found in the moment when he sadly bemoaned,

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.*

Expectations change, circumstances alter, states of mind are in flux. These are the reasons magic is fleeting and unexpected. Front porches are found everywhere, but I found the magic one …

*Frost, Robert; “Nothing Gold Can Stay;” The Poetry of Robert Frost; Henry Holt and Company; 1942

[whatsortofschoolisthis]

IDENTITY

Full Name: Wednesday Anne Drew

Nicknames: Wen, Drew.

Name Meanings: Wednesday — German, ”Woden’s Day”,  Anne— Hebrew, “God has Favored Me” , Drew — Irish, Original surname  Ó Draoi “Descendant of the Druid”.

Date of Birth: Christmas Day, 1972

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Straight

Blood Status: Pureblood.

Ethnicity/Race: White/Caucasian.

Nationality: Irish/American (Dual Citizenship).

MBTI Type: ENTP-A- The Debater

Residence:  Wizarding Dublin, Ireland

MAGIC

Wand:

Wood: Cherry Wood Wand

Core: Thestral Core.

Length: 10 inches

Flexibility: Inflexible

Other Magical Abilities: Animagus, Scarlet Tanager. 

Patronus: American Beaver.

Patronus Memory: Eating wild strawberries with her older brother Jericho

Boggart:  A dark indistinguishable shape with red eyes and sharp teeth, what a ‘haint’ might look like in Wednesday’s eyes.

Riddikulus: The creature turns into a dapper 1920s man dancing aggressively around

Amortentia:

Wednesday smells creature treats, potions classroom, and a fireplace.

Wedneday smells like Strawberries, spruce forests, and clean mountain air.

Mirror of Erised:  A simple house with a calico cat and a one eared crup, it looks a lot like her late great-grandmother’s house.

HOGWARTS

House: Ravenclaw

OWL Classes:

Transfiguration - O

Charms - E

Herbology - E

Astronomy - O

Potions - E

History of Magic - A

Defense Against the Dark Arts - O

Flying - P

OWL Electives:

Ghoul Studies- O

Care of Magical Creatures- A

NEWT Classes:

Charms- O

Potions- O

Astronomy- E

Defense Against the Dark Arts- E

Quidditch: No

Prefect: Yes

Clubs: Sphinx Club, Bookbinding club, and Ghoul Club.

Favorite Professors: Professor Rakepick (she is the only one) and Professor Sinstra. 

Least Favorite Professors:  Professor Snape.

CAREER

11 to 17 - Hogwarts student. Worked part time at Honeydukes as a saleswitch.

18 to 24- Bookbinder at Florish and Blotts, Graduated from the University of Limerick with a degree in anthropology.

25 to 26- Went into hiding during the war and was captured.

26 to 28- Escaped and fled to Romania.

28 to 98- Magical Anthropologist/writer.

APPEARANCE

Faceclaim: No Idea,

Height: 5 ft 6.

Weight & Physique: 140 pounds, thin.

Hair Color: Brick red

Hair Style: Long and wavy, worn down.

Eye Color: Blue.

Skin Tone: Fair

Scars: None, surprisingly. 

Modifications: (piercings, tattoos, glasses, etc.)  : Gets a tattoo of a lobelia flower on her wrist in her fifth year.

Distinguishing Marks: Heart shaped birthmark on her right shoulder.

Clothing Style: Skirts with sweaters.

Accessories: A bracelet her mom got her and tortoiseshell glasses.

What’s In Her Pockets: Her wand.

What’s In Her School Bag:

Textbooks

Parchment and quills.

Pens.

Knitting needles.

Handmade book of ‘Granny Magic’ spells passed down from her great-great-great grandmother.

Bookbinding kit.

A few galleons.

VOICE & LANGUAGE

Voiceclaim: Kate Micucci.

Accent: (might differ from voiceclaim’s) : American with a bit of Dublin thrown in 

Dialect: Local Dublin English mixed with American English and Appalachian English. She sounds weird.

Languages Spoken: English, Irish, and Appalachian English.

Languages Understood: English, Irish, and Appalachian English.

Speech and/or Language Disorder: None

FAMILY

Father: Noal Marvin Drew

Born on Halloween 1928 to Easton and Aideen Drew in a wizarding village in the Appalachian Mountains. The oldest of five children, three boys and two girls. (Noal, Skylar, Baylor, Easton Junior, and Kinley.)

His grandparents were well known blood purists, his mother coming from the Edelwood family (one of the pure 10) and his father being distantly related to 27 members of the sacred 28 and one of the pure 10 in the US. 

His parents did not buy into their ideologies and they were disowned and driven out of their home village of Vespers.  

Unfortunately, most of his siblings did buy into purism and the only one Noal still speaks to is Easton Junior.

He had a very happy and chaotic childhood.

Noal was sorted into Horned Serpent in Illvermony and was on their broom racing team.

Became a Cursebreaker after graduation and worked with his sister Skylar.

He met Ilse while breaking a curse for the O’Malley family and they started writing back and forth. They got married in 1950 and had Bailey in 1952, Jericho in 1965, Wednesday in 1972, and Rosie in 1979.

Noal and Ilse immigrated to Ireland in 1978 so Ilse could be closer to her family after her father died and to have a new start after a falling out with Skylar over blood purism. They brought Aideen with them.

Noal loves all his children/family and is always looking for Jericho and Danny.

Faceclaim: Harrison Ford.

Mother: Ilse Marie Drew (Nee Edelwood).

Born on June 8th 1928, in Traelee Ireland to Maxwell (born in Appalachia, USA) and Mary Edelwood. She had one sister named June who died in 1948 due to complications from Pneumonia.

Ilse had a very pleasant childhood and would often play with her maternal cousin Saorise, who lived nearby. 

Ilse was sorted into Ravenclaw and played keeper for their Quidditch team.

After graduation, she worked with her maternal grandfather on his tree farm and opened a small stand for drinks that she had from the fruit of the fruit trees. Here she met Noal who was helping her grandfather get rid of a curse on one of his older trees. They started writing and were married on May 28th 1950 and Ilse immigrated to America with her husband in 1951.

Ilse became an American citizen in 1952 a month before Bailey was born. 

Moved back to Ireland in 1978 after her father died to help her mother and to keep her children away from Skylar.

She loves her family and her husband. No one is allowed to bad mouth him.

Faceclaim: Maureen O'Hara

Older Brother: Bailey John Drew

Born on March 30th, 1952.

Was sorted into Wampus House at illvermorny and played chaser on their Quidditch team.

Works as a train engineer. Was never interested in magical work.

Very quiet. Doesn’t talk a lot and when he does, you’d better listen. because it’s important.

Wednesday isn’t all that close to him but she does love him.

Faceclaim: Young Clint Eastwood.

Brother: Jericho Jacob Drew

Born on Thanksgiving Day 1965.

Jericho is a highly intelligent Ravenclaw with low wisdom and enjoys things he finds challenging, which is why he helped Danny hunt the vaults.

A very sweet person and a good older brother, in direct contrast to Danny, who is an asshole.

He becomes an archaeologist after being freed from the vault and swears off cursebreaking as a career.

Wednesday adores him even though he can be “A bit reckless and stupid.”

Faceclaim: River Phoenix.

Sister: Rosie June Drew

Born on July 4th, 1979.

The baby of the family and a future Gryffindor. Very adventurous, always giving her mother and Wednesday a heart attack.

Wants to be a Cursebreaker like her dad and cousins, her favorite being Sean.

Rosie thinks Wednesday is annoying and a busybody. Wednesday thinks she is annoying and too careless. They love each other.

Faceclaim: Young Liliana Mumy.

Cousins: Rubin, Wren, Fiadah, Danny, Bryn, Hecate, Sean, and Kit. Also Evangeline.

She gets along best with Hecate but even then they fight a lot. 

Being around Evangeline is a bit awkward but it’s not her circus or her clowns so she treats Evangeline like she would anyone else- with condescension and like she can’t read.

They all love each other, don’t get me wrong, but they tend to rub one other the wrong way.

Wednesday treats Rubin and Wren as aunts due to the age difference.

She tends to avoid Fiadah like the plague, the woman makes Wednesday VERY uncomfortable.

Pets: Rat named Bobbin and a Barn owl named Spectacles. 

FRIENDSHIPS

Best Friends:

Angelica Cole.

Jane Court

Chester Davies.

Bill Weasley.

Close Friends:

Orion Amari.

Murphy McNully (by force, he befriended her by force).

Ben Copper, somehow.

Friends:

Victor Katsuki.

Erika Rath

Acquaintances:

Everyone else.

It’s Complicated:

Chiara Lobasca.

Jae Kim

Dormmates:

Unnamed Ravenclaws.

Rivals: Tulip Karasu.

Enemies: R, Death Eaters, Rakepick, Merula Snyde. 

ROMANCE & CHILDREN

Love Interest: Jae Kim/Felix Rosier

They met while at Hogwarts, Felix was much older so Wednesday didn’t talk to him much.

Wednesday dated Jae Kim in her 3rd year through the beginning of her 4th year and acted like an absolute crazy person. Jae broke it off and started dating Chiara at the end of year 4 and Wednesday took it very badly.

Ben, of all people, gave her a ‘get your shit together’ talk, which kept her from burning bridges with her ex and her family in their 6th year and her 7th.

She starts dating Felix when she’s 20 and they get married when she’s 23.

Future Daughter: Raven May Rosier

Born October 10th 1996 at 12:00pm .

She’s a quiet unassuming girl and would like to be the next Hogwarts Librarian when she grows up. Ravenclaw.

Willow wand, 11 and a half inches, with a unicorn hair core and bendy.

Future Son: Maxwell John Rosier

Born on August 31st 2000 at 6:00am. 

Loud, boisterous, and utterly chaotic, Slytherin. Would like to own his own Joke Shop in the US or be an electrician.

Dogwood wand, 11 inches, dragon heartstring core, and very flexible.

PERSONALITY

Traits:

Positive: Intelligent, brave, loyal, kind generous.

Neutral: Outspoken, polite, cautious, sarcastic.

Negative: Stubborn, possessive, pessimistic, know it all, uptight, and nosy.

Favorites:

Color: Burgundy 

Food: Biscuits and gravy.

Weather: Cool and windy

Books: Mostly non-fiction, does enjoy Agatha Christie novels though.

Hobbies: Bookbinding, reading, building model trains, knitting, gardening, and writing.

Music: Jazz music

Dislikes: Blood supremacy, rock music, snow,

Description: Despite being a stick in the mud, Wednesday does love her family and friends and would do anything to help them (within reason). She can be very possessive and often has to keep herself from acting on those impulses.

MBTI Description: "Quick-witted and audacious, Debaters aren’t afraid to disagree with the status quo. In fact, they’re not afraid to disagree with pretty much anything or anyone. Few things light up people with this personality type more than a bit of verbal sparring – and if the conversation veers into controversial terrain, so much the better."

HISTORY & BACKGROUND

Pre-Hogwarts Childhood:

Wednesday was born in the small Wizarding town of Redwood in 1972. Her Paternal grandfather died shortly before she was born.

She had a fairly pleasant early childhood, following Jericho and Bailey around their property and visiting with her Mimi (great grandmother) who lived in a house on the property

Her Mimi died in her sleep when Wednesday was 6. Jericho and Wednesday found her.

They immigrated to America not long after her maternal grandfather died and left Bailey behind as he had no desire to move to Ireland or be anywhere near "that death eater shit."

Jacob went missing alongside Jacob after searching for the cursed vaults.

Hogwarts Years:

Trying to google everything would only frustrate me and waste my time, so I’m not going into detail.

Becomes a prefect in her third year.

Wednesday helps with the vaults and with research on them.

Second Wizarding War:

Forced to go into hiding during the war due to her marriage to Felix and they are seperated after being found out by Purists.

After being held captive for several months while the Death Eaters tried to get Felix on their side, she managed to escape

Wednesday joined her husband in Romania shortly before having Raven. They housed refugees in their home and Granny (Aideen).

Adulthood:

Wednesday spent the rest of her life in Romania with Felix writing and studying Muggle ghosts, which she refers to as haints.

Aideen dies a very old woman in Wednesdays home.

Death:

Wednesday dies of a stroke at the age of 98, a decade before Felix. She left two children, four grandchildren, and eight grandchildren.

MISCELLANEOUS

Wednesday enjoys American action movies, her favorites being Terminator and Speed.

She likes her own children but not other people's.

Can't carry a tune and is tone deaf.

Considered becoming a train engineer if she turned out to be a Squib and still really likes trains.

Mimi taught her to knit and Wednesday finished her final project: scarves for their family Christmas.

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[brian-in-finance]

Will 2022 be the year of Caitriona Balfe? Outlander star, 42, who was 'the biggest model to come out of Ireland' before ditching 'miserable' catwalk career for acting in her late 20s is tipped for Oscar glory for Belfast role

Caitriona Balfe, 42, was born in Dublin before moving close to the Irish border

A lover of theatre and voracious reader, a teenage Balfe went off to study drama

But soon a model scout spotted her in a store and launched her first career

She already has a loyal fan base thanks to TV's time-travelling romance Outlander, but now Caitriona Balfe's role in Kenneth Branagh's Belfast is set to propel her to Hollywood stardom and Oscar glory.

Balfe, 42, was born in Dublin before moving with her six siblings close to the Irish border in Tydavnet, County Monaghan, where her father was a police sergeant in the Garda Síochána.

A lover of theatre and voracious reader, a teenage Balfe studied drama at Dublin Institute of Technology in Rathmines, but before she had a chance to properly start her performing career, a model scout spotted her in a supermarket and launched her onto the catwalk.

During a decade in the industry, Balfe stepped out for Chanel, Givenchy, Dolce & Gabbana and Louis Vuitton, and in a 2009 article for the Irish Independent, Derek Daniels, founder of Assets Model Agency, described her as ‘arguably the biggest model to come out of this country’.

However, Balfe 'was slightly miserable doing what I was doing' and wished to give performing another go - gathering small movie credits including as an extra on The Devil Wears Prada, where viewers would have only caught a glimpse of her feet running across the camera during the opening.

Her acting career truly started again after she landed one of the leading parts in the critically acclaimed Starz romance series Outlander, playing time-travelling heroine Claire Fraser for six seasons; soon she'll prepare to shoot a seventh.

She appeared in Money Monster alongside George Clooney and Julia Roberts in 2016, and in Ford v Ferrari with Matt Damon and Christian Bale, but it's her latest role in Belfast, released on January 21 and inspired by Branagh's childhood in 1960s Northern Ireland during the Troubles, which has her tipped for Oscar glory.

The mother-of-one is married to musician Tony McGill, but keeps their relationship out of the spotlight, and managed to keep her pregnancy a secret, announcing on Instagram last year that they had welcomed a son.

Balfe wed her husband Tony McGill (pictured together during the year they were married) in 2019 after announcing their engagement at the Golden Globes in January 2018

Last week, it was announced Balfe, who plays Ma, the matriarch of a pacifist Protestant family in the film, had been nominated for an Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for Hollywood's Screen Actors Guild awards.

The SAG Awards, voted on by members of the SAG-AFTRA acting union, are scheduled to be handed out at a ceremony in Los Angeles on February 27.

The results are closely watched because actors form the largest voting group in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organisation that will present the Oscars in March.

Proving her increasing popularity thanks to her performance in Belfast, 'every magazine [also] wants [Balfe] on the cover', according to The Irish Times, with the actress already appearing on the front cover of Vanity Fair's Awards Insider issue.

Balfe came to acting late - she was in her late 20s when she gave up a career as a runway model to act, shooting to fame on the first series of Outlander in 2014, which was adapted from a successful book series.

Three years ago, she won acclaim for her performance opposite Christian Bale in the Oscar-winning and crowd-pleasing sports drama Ford v Ferrari. But Belfast is her biggest feature film role to date.

Balfe was 'slightly miserable' in her modelling career before quitting to become an actor and has previously detailed her struggle while working in the fashion industry.

She reflected on her time as a model in a candid chat on the Thanks A Million podcast with Angela Scanlon in January 2021.

It's her latest role in Belfast (pictured), released on January 21 and inspired by Branagh's childhood in 1960s Northern Ireland during the Troubles, which has her tipped for Oscar glory

Balfe appears in a scene from Belfast. Balfe, 42, was born in Dublin before moving with her six siblings close to the Irish border in Tydavnet, County Monaghan, where her father was a police sergeant

Looking back, Balfe hit out at the 's**t agencies' she worked with in the past as she criticised the 'weird balance of power' in the industry as a whole.

The actress worked in advertising campaigns with brands like Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana and Balenciaga for a period of ten years before going into acting.

While she didn't name companies, Balfe said: 'You're supposed to automatically be this fun, interesting, edgy person that fashion people want to be around. But then at the same time you have to be so skinny and so androgynous.

'There was always people doing better and constantly being compared to people. I think, as a young woman in your teens and twenties, it's hard enough.

'You know, there's so many times where you would go into castings or even fittings for jobs that you already supposedly had and somebody in the room would just be annihilating how you look, or your lack of personality, or you talk too much.

'All in front of you. It's really tough. I have so much admiration for girls who can come through that unscathed.'

She went on: 'I think everybody goes through a really wobbly phase afterwards trying to sort of find their footing or find what their next step is, because in one way, it opens up so many doors and it does open your mind to so many things and it does give you an incredible education in a certain way.

A lover of theatre and voracious reader, a teenage Balfe (pictured in 2021) went off to study drama at Dublin Institute of Technology in Rathmines

'But in another, it infantilises you and it stunts you in so many other ways. I think it takes a while to sort of like rebalance all of that... There's such a veneer of like "everyone's so cool in this industry".

'And that's drilled into you from quite a young age about, you know, don't rock the boat, don't be uncool, being uncool is defending yourself or questioning something or being deaf and not stiff or not taking your top off.

'"Why wouldn't you take a top off? It's just t**s. Come on, like just be cool." I can't tell you how many times that situation happened. I was very lucky.

'I had some amazing bookers and had some amazing agencies, but I also had some absolute s**t agencies, and they've positioned themselves, I think, as they protect the girls.

'But because they've made themselves management companies, they also take zero responsibility. So all the girls are self-employed and, in fact, they employ the agents.

'It's such a weird balance of power because the people that you are supposedly employing are the people who are the gateway to all the jobs.

'They dictate your earning power, but they also dictate everything... The worst thing, I think, if you talk to any model, used to be the days you'd have to go into the agency and you walk in and literally everybody is scanning you head to toe.

'What are you wearing? Do you look cool? Are you thin enough? Are you going to the right places or dating the right people?'

But Balfe did add that she felt there were 'parts' of being in the industry that 'were good'.

The series' showrunner Ronald D. Moore revealed in May 2020 in an interview with Collider that Balfe had to immediately hop on a plane for Scotland after winning the role.

While speaking via video chat with Collider Editor-in-Chief Steve Weintraub, Moore said he initially expected Balfe's role as Claire to be the easiest to cast.

Instead, he immediately knew Sam Heughan was right for her lover, but had trouble nailing down Claire's part.

'We read a lot of actresses, we saw a lot of tape,' Moore continued.

He needed Claire to be 'really smart' and someone 'you could see thinking,' while still having great chemistry with Heughan, which limited the possibilities.

Balfe's audition tape arrived 'late in the game,' and she instantly rocketed to near the top of the pile, though a chemistry audition with Heughan sealed the deal for her.

'Once we cast her, she was on a plane to Scotland within a day and shooting, like, two days later. We were so close to the beginning of production there,' Moore said. 'It was really starting to scare everyone.'

During a decade in the industry, Balfe (pictured in 2020) stepped out for Chanel, Givenchy, Dolce & Gabbana and Louis Vuitton, and in a 2009 article for the Irish Independent, Derek Daniels, founder of Assets Model Agency, described her as ‘arguably the biggest model to come out of this country’

'In the beginning, I said, "We're going to cast Claire first because she'll be the easiest to find because she's a smart 20th century British woman, and there're lots of them,"' Moore said.

It was Jaime, the role that Heughan filled, that Moore anticipated being difficult to cast, but instead he was the first person cast for the series.

Outlander follows the romance through time between Claire, an English combat nurse in 1945, who becomes transported back in time to 1743, where she meets her soulmate Jamie.

There are currently nine books in Diana Gabaldon's Outlander novel series, with the most recent book, Go Tell The Bees That I'm Gone, published in November.

Unlike other series that may differ from their original adapted works, Balfe said during a recent TV appearance that for the most part Outlander stays true to the original.

‘We change things here and there but, for the most part, you know and Diana is such a huge part of the show, she's been on the show, she's written an episode.'

As a result of the book's popularity, the series had an instant fan base when it debuted on television.

Balfe said she and her co-star Sam Heughan were greeted by 2,500 fans of the book when they attended an event not long after beginning filming.

'These were book fans. The series was huge, and the series has been around for 20 years, and so when we started we filmed I think for about two months and Sam and I were brought to LA and we were brought to this auditorium where there were over two and a half thousand fans who went mental.'

Since signing on to Outlander and cementing her status as an actress, Balfe has steadily built up her stock of acclaimed roles.

Yet while the public becomes more and more aware of her, Balfe continues to keep her personal life largely private.

Yet while the public becomes more and more aware of her, Balfe continues to keep her personal life largely private. Pictured, Balfe and Tony in 2017

The 42-year-old even managed to keep her pregnancy under wraps for nine months, taking to Instagram in August 2021 to make the surprise announcement.

She shared a black and white shot showing her holding her baby's hand and a lengthy, impassioned caption.

She penned: 'I’ve been off socials for a while as I was taking some time to enjoy cooking up this little human …. We are so grateful for this little soul'.

Her post went on: 'That he chose us as his parents. I’m in awe of him already and can’t help stare and wonder at all the possibilities of who he will become, where he will go and what he’ll do on the big adventure of his life...

'Right now he seems so small and fragile and I constantly think how grateful I am that I live in a place, in a time where he is born into peace and safety...

'Yet at the same time I see so many in the world right now that aren’t afforded that same privilege and opportunity who are born into famine or war and how unjust it is that the same safety isn’t there for all children...

‘Here in the west we have so much, we are so lucky and so if you’d like to join me in supporting any of the wonderful charities that need help trying to give those that are forgotten dignity and hope...

'We can give the gift of peace and safety and opportunity to a few more children … @wchildcancer @chooselove @unicef @refugees'.

Balfe wed her husband Tony in 2019 after announcing their engagement at the Golden Globes in January 2018. Filming for Outlander season six wrapped in June, meaning Balfe would have been keeping her baby news under wraps on set.

The Dubin-born actress previously told People that Tony popped the question over the festive period, saying: 'It happened over the break. I’m very happy.'

Balfe and her husband, who dated for two years before becoming engaged, predominantly keep their relationship out of the spotlight, and are rarely seen together.

The 42-year-old even managed to keep her pregnancy under wraps for nine months, taking to Instagram in August 2021 to make the surprise announcement (pictured)

She shared a black and white shot showing her holding her baby's hand and a lengthy, impassioned caption (pictured)

The pair were first pictured together in 2015, after a friend shared an Instagram video of the actress sat on her partner's lap.

They were then photographed together at the 2017 Oscar Wilde Awards in Los Angeles, after also attending a 2016 ceremony which saw Jodie Foster received her star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

Tony is a musician who also managed Scottish band The Fratellis. The couple first met in London before settling down in Glasgow, with the family now splitting their time between the two cities.

The couple tied the knot in September 2019 at St. Mary’s Church in Bruton, Somerset.

She told The Irish Mirror: 'I managed to squeeze it in on a weekend during production, but it was beautiful and I had all my close friends and family there.

'Once you are in a room full of people that you love and who love you, it's just so special and fun. I just want to be happy and to try to stay sane.'

Recently speaking to USA Today, Balfe revealed she enjoyed a tiny role in the opening credits of The Devil Wears Prada.

She said: 'It's the opening scene where everybody's walking in front of the (Runway magazine) building, which is when I think my feet might be in it.

'I saw Meryl, but we weren't hanging (on set). I don't think we were allowed to get too close.'

She also spoke to the publication about her own personal connection to the Troubles, recalling shopping trips and dentist visits where they'd pass through British Army checkpoints and soldiers would point machine guns at the family's vehicle.

'That was quite normal in my mind as a kid, because that was just what we saw,' Balfe said.

But admitted that she was shaken by one bombing not far from her home when she was aged just seven.

Remember… there's so many times where you would go into castings or even fittings for jobs that you already supposedly had and somebody in the room would just be annihilating how you look, or your lack of personality, or you talk too much. — Caitríona Balfe

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 9.7

Holidays

Air Force Day (Pakistan)

Bitcoin Day

Carl Garner Federal Lands Cleanup Day

Civil Servant’s Day (Nepal)

Day of Military Intelligence (Ukraine)

Engineer Troops Day (Armenia)

Feel the Love Day

Festa Della Rificolona begins (Paper Lantern Festival; Florence, Italy)

Fish Farmer Day (Russia)

First Day of Peel Season

Flag Day (Kuwait)

Fluidra International Pool Pro Day

Google Commemoration Day

Grandad’s Day

Grandma Moses Day

Hera Asteroid Day

International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies (UN)

International Day of Police Cooperation

International Manatee Day

Lusaka Peace Agreement Day (a.k.a. Victory Day; Mozambique)

Military Intelligence Day (Ukraine)

Miss America Day

Napoleon Day

National Attention Deficit Disorder Awareness Day

National Buy A Book Day

National Clean Out Your Garage Day

National Dildo Day

National First Day of Peel Season

National Grateful Patient Day

National Napoleon Day

National New Hampshire Day

National Regina Day

National Tatiana Day

National Threatened Species Day (Australia)

Neither Snow Nor Rain Day

Newt Day

Nijamati Sewa Divas (Civil Servants Day; Nepal)

907 Day

Raggedy Ann Day

Seven of Nine Day

Still’s Disease Awareness Day

Superhuman Day

Texas Energy Savings Day (Texas)

Threatened Species Day (Australia)

Turn A Cartwheel in Public Day

Victory Day (Mozambique)

Walter White Day

Wild Rose Day (French Republic)

World Day of the Diver

World Duchenne Awareness Day

World Fair Play Day

World Field Epidemiology Day

World Menopause and Work Day

Youth Mental Health Day (UK)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Acorn Squash Day

Gray’s Papaya Day (New York)

National Beer Lover’s Day

New England Apple Day

Porter's Porter Day

Salami Day

Independence & Related Days

Brazil (from Portugal, 1822)

Constitution Day (Fiji)

Istria (Declared; 2005) [unrecognized]

1st Saturday in September

Coffee Day (Germany) [1st Saturday]

Digital Detox Day (UK) [1st Saturday]

Franchise Appreciation Day [Saturday Before Labor Day]

International Vulture Awareness Day [1st Saturday]

National Chouriço Day [Saturday of Labor Day Weekend]

National Cowgirl Day [Saturday of Labor Day Weekend]

National Hummingbird Day [1st Saturday]

National Mustard Day [1st Saturday]

National Play Outside Day [1st Saturday of Every Month]

National Services Day (Ireland) [1st Saturday]

National Tailgating Day [1st Saturday]

National Writing Date Day [1st Saturday]

Sandwich Saturday [Every Saturday]

Satyr's Day (Silenus, Greek God of Beer Buddies and Drinking Companions) [1st Saturday of Each Month]

Scottish Food & Drink Fortnight begins (Scotland) [1st Saturday thru 3rd Sunday]

Six For Saturday [Every Saturday]

Sleep Over Saturday [1st Saturday of Each Month]

Social Saturday [1st Saturday of Each Month]

Sourdough Saturday [1st Saturday of Each Month]

Spaghetti Saturday [Every Saturday]

Turkey Vulture Day [1st Saturday]

World Beard Day [1st Saturday]

Weekly Holidays beginning September 7 (1st Full Week of September)

Vermont Cheese Week (Statewide, Vermont) [thru 9.15]

Festivals Beginning September 7, 2024

Art & Wine Festival (Mountain View, California) [thru 9.8]

Autumn Harvest Fest Weekends (Mukuwonago, Wisconsin) [thru 10.27]

Belize Carnival Road March (Belize City, Belize)

Belmar San Gennaro Festival (Belmar, New Jersey)

Big Chili Cook-Off Music & Arts Festival (Evergreen, Colorado)

Blues Burgers & BBQ Festival (Fort Pierce, Florida) [thru 9.8]

Brass City Brew & Que (Waterbury, Connecticut)

Bridgeton Milling Days (Bridgeton, Indiana) [thru 9.8]

Central New York's Tomatofest (Auburn, New York)

Chili and Beer Festival (Mt. Crested Butte, Colorado)

Crafty Apple Fest (Chilton, Wisconsin)

Crush 2024 (Temecula, California)

Dublin Fringe Festival (Dublin, Ireland) [thru 9.22]

Fall Fest (Hinckley, Minnesota)

Food Trucktemberfest (Monmouth Park, Oceanport, New Jersey)

Garden City Chili Cook-Off, Hot Rod & Motorcycle Show (Garden City, Michigan)

Gettysburg Wine and Music Festival (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) [thru 9.8]

Grape Stomp Festival (Stillwater, Minnesota) [thru 9.8]

Harvest Wine Festival (Altavista, Virginia)

Heart of the Valley Septembeerfest (Corvallis, Oregon)

Hudson Valley Wine & Food Fest (Rhinebeck, New York) [thru 9.8]

Julian Grape Stomp Festa (Julian, California)

Knox Asian Festival (Knoxville, Tennessee) [thru 9.8]

Lakeview Taco Fest (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 9.8]

La Ulu (Breadfruit Day; Maui, Hawaii)

Lenexa Spinach Festival (Lenexa, Kansas)

Lewistown Chokecherry Festival (Lewistown, Montana)

Lollapalooza (Berlin, Germany) [thru 9.8]

Mushroom Festival (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania) [thru 9.8]

Orthodox Food Festival (Denver, Colorado)

Oxford Lions Club Watermelon Feed (Oxford, Kansas)

Pardeeville Watermelon Festival (Pardeeville, Wisconsin)

Pig Island NYC (Staten Island, New York)

Pittsburg Seafood & Music Festival (Pittsburg, California)

Rhode Island Seafood Festival (Providence, Rhode Island) [thru 9.8]

Rificolona Festival (Florence, Italy)

Rockbridge Beer & Wine Festival (Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia)

San Luis Valley Potato Festival (Monte Vista, Colorado)

Septemberfest (Forestville, New York) [thru 9.8]

Slice of Saugatuck Festival (Saugatuck, Connecticut)

St Peter’s Annual Apple Festival (Monroe, Connecticut) [thru 9.8]

Superior Chili & Beer Fest (Superior, Colorado)

Tacos and Tequila Marietta Square (Atlanta, Georgia)

Trimble County Apple Fest (Bedford, Kentucky) [thru9.8]

U.P. Fall Beer Festival (Marquette, Michigan)

Valparaiso Popcorn Festival (Valparaiso, Indiana)

Virtual Sous Vide Summit (Baltimore, Maryland) [thru 9.8]

Whiskies of the World (Denver, Colorado)

Wine on the Beach (Seaside Heights, New Jersey) [thru 9.8]

World Championship Squirrel Cook Off (Springdale, Arkansas)

Feast Days

Alcmund and Tilbert (Christian; Saints)

Alexandre Falguière (Artology)

Anastasius the Fuller (Christian; Saint)

The Apocalypse (Pastafarian)

Clodoald (a.k.a. Cloud; Christian; Saint)

Colour Symphony, by Arthur Bliss (Symphony; 1922)

Coulomb (Positivist; Saint)

Daena’s Day (Maiden Goddess of the Parsees; Everyday Wicca)

Day to Honor Yemaya (Yoruba Orisha, Goddess & Bringer of Life; Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Eunan (Christian; Saint)

Evurtius, Bishop of Orleans (Christian; Saint)

Festival of Durga (Goddess of Energy and the World)

Gort (Celtic Book of Days)

Grandma Moses (Artology)

Gratus of Aosta (Christian; Saint)

Grimonia (a.k.a. Germana; Christian; Saint)

Healer’s Day (Everyday Wicca)

Jacob Lawrence (Artology)

Jennifer Egan (Writerism)

John of Nicomedia (Christian; Martyr)

Johan Tobias Sergel (Artology)

Madelberte (Christian; Saint)

Margaret Landon (Artology)

Marko Krizin (Christian; Saint)

Mary Bauermeister (Artology)

Matthäus Günther (Artology)

Media Aestas VI (Pagan)

Murray Monster (Muppetism)

Old Boyfriends/Girlfriends Remembrance Day (Pastafarian)

Regina (Christian; Saint)

Sozon (Christian; Martyr)

Stephen Pongracz (Christian; Saint)

Susan St. James Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Taylor Caldwell (Artology)

Welsh Fairies Bonnet-Hurling Competition (Shamanism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [26 of 32]

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 41 of 60)

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [43 of 60]

Premieres

A Momentary Lapse of Reason, by Pink Floyd (Album; 1987)

Andy Panda’s Victory Garden (Andy Panda Cartoon; 1942)

Anna and the King of Siam, by Margaret Landon (Memoir; 1943)

Anna Karenina (Film; 2012)

Astro Boy (Animated TV Series; 1963)

Bad, by Michael Jackson (Song; 1987)

Brandy, by Brandy (Album; 1994)

The Brother from Another Planet (Film; 1984)

Buddy Holly, by Weezer (Song; 1994)

Captains and the Kings, by Taylor Caldwell (Novel; 1972)

Circus (Ub Iwerks Flip the Frog Cartoon; 1932)

French Fried, featuring Farmer Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1930)

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, by Elton John (Song; 1973)

Kentucky Belles (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1931)

The Lady in Red (WB MM Cartoon; 1935)

A Momentary Lapse of Reason, by Pink Floyd (Album; 1987)

Muscle Beach Tom (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1956)

Music Hath Charms (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1936)

No Sail (Disney Cartoon; 1945)

Papa Gets the Bird (MGM Cartoon; 1940)

Peppermint (Film; 2018)

Rock Star (Film; 2001)

The Silver Chair, by C.S. Lewis (Novel; 1953) [The Chronicles of Narnia #4]

SportsCenter (Sports TV Show; 1979)

Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying, by Wolfgang Langewiesche (Flying Book; 1944)

Switchin’ Kitten (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1961)

3:10 to Yuma (Film; 2007)

True Blood (TV Series; 2008)

The Unmentionables (WB MM Cartoon; 1963)

Video Killed the Radio Star, by The Buggles (1979)

Why Mules Leave Home, featuring Farmer Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1934)

You Send Me, by Sam Cooke (Song; 1957)

Today’s Name Days

Otto, Ralph, Regina (Austria)

Marko, Memorije, Regina (Croatia)

Regína (Czech Republic)

Robert (Denmark)

Regiina, Reina (Estonia)

Arhippa, Arho, Milo, Miro (Finland)

Reine (France)

Otto, Ralph, Regina (Germany)

Casino, Sozon (Greece)

Regina (Hungary)

Grato (Italy)

Ermins, Regīna, Valdone (Latvia)

Bartas, Bartė, Palmira, Regina (Lithuania)

Regine, Rose (Norway)

Domasława, Domisława, Marek, Melchior, Regina, Rena, Ryszard (Poland)

Marianna (Slovakia)

Judit, Judith, Regina (Spain)

Kevin, Roy (Sweden)

Raegan, Raina, Rana, Rani, Reagan, Regan, Regina, Regine, Yale (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 251 of 2024; 115 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of Week 36 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 7 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Guy-You), Day 5 (Jia-Xiu)

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

Hebrew: 4 Elul 5784

Islamic: 3 Rabi I 1446

J Cal: 11 Gold; Foursday [10 of 30]

Julian: 25 August 2024

Moon: 17%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 27 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Vauban]

Runic Half Month: Ken (Illumination) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 80 of 94)

Week: 1st Full Week of September

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 17 of 32)

Calendar Changes

Ken (Illumination) [Half-Month 18 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 9.21)

[ladyrea]

Reading List - Classics

I haven’t been reading as often as I’d have liked these past few months. I used to be quite the voracious reader, so I want to get some of that enthusiasm for literature back and make the necessary time for one of my most beloved hobbies. One of my aspirations is to be a well-read, well-rounded, and cultured reader, so I’ll begin with the classics! I’m going off of some lists I found online, but also some of my own personal picks. I’ll link the site here, because I will be omitting some books I have already read.

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (In Spanish)

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Call of the Wild - Jack London

To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

The Death of the Heart - Elizabeth Bowen

Tess of the d’Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy

The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

Emma - Jane Austen

Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell

A Doll’s House - Henrik Ibsen

The Bell Doll - Sylvia Plath

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (In Castilian)

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

The Go-Between - L.P Hartley

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey

The Grapes of Wrath  - John Steinbeck

Beloved - Toni Morrison

The Code of the Woosters - P.G Wodehouse

Dracula - Bram Stoker

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Dubliners - James Joyce

Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

The Color Purple - Alice Walker

The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

Middlemarch - George Eliot

Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot

Another Country - James Baldwin

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

Ulysses - James Joyce

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 

The Diary of a Nobody - George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni 

Orlando - Virginia Woolf

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

The Time Machine - H.G Wells

The Art of War - Sun-Tzu

The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

East of Eden - John Steinbeck

Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller

Women in Love - D.H Lawrence

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maugham 

Lost Illusions - Honore de Balzac

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch

The Castle - Franz Kafka

I, Claudius - Robert Graves

The Razor’s Edge - W. Somerset Maugham

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce

North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes (In Spanish)

[brookston]

Holidays 8.2

Holidays

Airborne Forces Day (Russia)

Airmobile Forces Day (Ukraine)

Aviation Day (Slovenia)

Bonalu (Telangana, India)

Bunny Day (Japan)

Congolese Genocide Day (Congo (DRC))

Crabhog Day

Day of Airborne Forces (Russia)

Day of Azerbaijani Cinema (Azerbaijan)

Day of Maiden Katrica (Elder Scrolls)

Day of the Water Nymphs (Macedonia)

Deez Nutz Day

Dinosaurs Day

802 Day

Emancipation Day (Several Caribbean nations)

Escalator Day

Ewe Day (French Republic)

Fallen Paratroopers Remembrance Day (Ukraine)

Fiesta La Patrona (Spain)

Greenwich Mean Time Day

Hydroxychloroquine Day (India)

I Came I Saw I Conquered Day

Ilinden Day (Republic Day; Macedonia)

International Golden Lion Tamarin Day

International Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Day

Jabotinsky Day (Israel)

Lady Godiva Day (Coventry, UK)

Little Mix Appreciation Day

International Jewish Day

International Pony Day

Lady of the Angels Day (Costa Rica)

Lincoln Penny Day

Mark Lee Day (K-Pop)

Mary Prince Day (Bermuda)

Mindfulness Day

National Blockchain Day

National Boob Day

National CAD Day (a.k.a. National Computer-Aided Design Day)

National Children’s Day (Tuvalu)

National Coloring Book Day

National Ex-Girlfriend Day

National Hugh Day

National Jacqueline Day

National Rap Music Day

National Sisters Day

Our Lady of the Angels Day (Costa Rica)

Pantsu Day (Japan)

Paratroopers Day (Russia)

Republic Day (North Macedonia)

Roma Holocaust Memorial Day (EU)

Take a Penny, Leave a Penny Day

World Anglo-Indian Day

World Feed the Poor Day

World Find a Four Leaf Clover Day

Yeezy Day (Adidas)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Make Some Old-Fashioned Lemonade Day

Miracle Treat Day (Dairy Queen)

National Ice Cream Sandwich Day

Independence & Related Days

Butuan City Charter Day (Philippines; 1950)

Declaration of Independence 1st signed (US; 1776)

Kabankalan City Charter Day (Philippines)

Makira Ulawa Province Day (Solomon Islands)

Napoleon Bonaparte made 1st Consul for Life (France; 1802)

1st Friday in August

August Bank Holiday (UK) [1st Friday]

Bandcamp Friday [1st Friday]

Braham Pie Day (Minnesota) [1st Friday]

CafeSmart Day [1st Friday]

Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]

Health Advocate Day [1st Friday]

International Beer Day [1st Friday]

International Mustache Day [1st Friday]

Jeans for Genes Day (Australia) [1st Friday]

Moxee Hop Festival begins (Washington) [1st Friday]

National Water Balloon Day [1st Friday]

Tomboy Tools Day [1st Friday]

Twins Day Festival begins (Twinsburg, Ohio) [1st Full Weekend, begins 1st Friday]

Umuganura Day (Harvest Thanksgiving; Rwanda) [1st Friday]

Weekly Holidays beginning August 2 (1st Week of August)

Gallop International Tribal Indian Powwow (thru 8.11)

Sturgis Motorcycle Rally (Sturgis, South Dakota) [1st Friday for 10 Days] (thru 8.11)

Twins Days (thru 8.4) [1st Full Weekend; Friday thru Sunday]

Festivals Beginning August 2, 2024

Appalachian Arts & Crafts Fair & Festival (Buckley, West Virginia) [thru 8.3]

Beer, Bourbon & BBQ Festival (Cary, North Carolina) [thru 8.3]

Blueberry Arts Festival (Ketchikan, Alaska) [thru 8.4]

Blueberry Festival (Wilton, Maine) [thru 8.3]

Brat Days (Sheboygan, Wisconsin) [thru 8.3]

Brew at the Zoo (Columbia, South Carolina)

Calgary Fringe Festival (Calgary, Canada) [thru 8.10]

Charlestown Seafood Festival (Charlestown, Rhode Island) [thru 8.4]

Clark Potato Days (Clark, South Dakota) [thru 8.4]

Cowtown Days Festival (Ellsworth, Kansas) [thru 8.4]

Creamery Picnic (Stevensville, Montana) [thru 8.3]

Dublin Irish Festival (Dublin, Ohio) [thru 8.4]

Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Edinburgh, Scotland) [thru 8.26]

Edinburgh International Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland) [thru 8.25]

Festa Italiana (Naperville, Illinois) [thru 8.4]

Festival of the Flowers in Medellín (Medellín, Colombia) [thru 8.11]

Fish Sandwich Festival (Bay Port, Michigan) [thru 8.3]

Glad-Peach Festival (Coloma, Michigan) [thru 8.4]

Glengarry Highland Games (Maxville, Canada) [thru 8.3]

Gorolski Święto (Jablunkov, Czech Republic) [thru 8.4]

Grape Country Craft Beverage Festival (Dunkirk, New York) [thru 8.4]

Guča Trumpet Festival (Guča, Serbia) [thru 8.4]

Indiana State Fair (Indianapolis, Indiana) [thru 8.18]

Locomotion Festival (Felton, California) [thru 8.4]

Mossyrock Blueberry Festival (Mossyrock, Washington) [thru 8.4]

New Jersey State Fair/Sussex County Farm and Horse Show (Augusta, New Jersey) [thru 8.10]

Newport Jazz Festival (Newport, Rhode Island) [thru 8.4]

North Branford PoCo Festival (North Branford, Connecticut) [thru 8.4]

Old Time Harvest Festival (Jordan, Minnesota) [thru 8.4]

One Love Reggae Festival (Wiesen, Austria) [thru 8.3]

Otakon (Washington, DC) [thru 8.4]

Pluk de Nacht Film Festival (Utrecht, Netherlands) [thru 8.10]

Possum Festival (Wausau, Florida) [thru 8.3]

Reggae on the River (Piercy, California) [tgru 8.4]

Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo (Edinburgh, United Kingdom) [thru 8.24]

Scranton Jazz Festival (Scranton, Pennsylvania) [thru 8.4]

Sidmouth Folk Festival (Sidmouth, United Kingdom) [thru 8.9]

Spiedie Fest and Balloon Rally (Binghamton, New York) [thru 8.4]

SunSka Festival (Vertheuil, France) [thru 8.4]

Sweet Pea Festival (Bozeman, Montana) [thru 8.4]

Taste of the Coeur d'Alene (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) [thru 8.4]

Tokyo Idol Festival (Tokyo, Japan) [thru 8.4]

Vintage Ohio Wine Festival (Kirtland, Ohio) [thru 8.3]

Watsonville Strawberry Festival (Watsonville, California) [thru 8.4]

World Cosplay Summit (Nagoya, Japan) [thru 8.4]

Feast Days

Ahudemmeh (Syriac Orthodox Church)

Albert Bloch (Artology)

Alfonso A. Ossorio (Artology)

Arthur Dove (Artology)

Barley Day (Pagan)

Basil Fool for Christ (Russian Orthodox Church)

Bei Dao (Writerism)

Chateaubriand (Positivist; Saint)

Death of King Rufus Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Distribution of Charity Moneys (Strictly Imps Only; Shamanism)

Dryads Day (Greek Wood & Water Gods)

Elias (a.k.a. Ilia or Elijah the Prophet; Christian; Saint)

Etheldritha (a.k.a. Alfrida; Christian; Saint)

Eusebius of Vercelli (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Anahita (Ancient Persia; Everyday Wicca)

Feast of Our Lady of the Angeles of the Portiuncula (Franciscan Order)

Fomorian King Bres’ Agricultural Gifts Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Håkon Stenstadvold (Artology)

Holling C. Holling (Artology)

Ilinden Day (St. Elijah Day; Macedonia)

Isabel Allende (Writerism)

James Baldwin (Writerism)

Jan van Scorel (Artology)

John Radecki (Artology)

John French Sloan (Artology)

Justin Russolillo (Christian; Blessed)

Khao Phansa begins (Buddhist Lent; Thailand)

Lady of the Angels’ Day (Costa Rica)

Martian Time-Slip, by Philip K. Dick (Novel; 1964)

Monster Monster (Muppetism)

Peter Faber (Christian; Saint)

Peter Julian Eymard (Christian; Saint)

Perdono di Assisi (Pardon of Assisi), the plenary indulgence related to St.Francis of Assisi originated in the church of Porziuncola (Catholic Church)

Richard Wilson (Artology)

Robert Holdstock (Writerism)

Robert Goddard Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Samuel David Ferguson (Episcopal Church)

Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten (Artology)

Sidwell (Christian; Saint) [Farmers]

Stephen I, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Theodots (Christian; Martyr)

Thomas of Dover (Christian; Saint)

Vermicelli Day (Pastafarian)

Virgin of Los Angeles Day (Costa Rica)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

American Graffiti (Film; 1973)

Castle in the Sky (Studio Ghibli Animated Film; 1986)

Doc Hollywood (Film; 1991)

Doing Impossible Stunts (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1940)

Don’t Look Back, by Boston (Album; 1978)

Emma (Film; 1996)

Europa Report (Film; 2013)

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (Film; 2019) [F&F]

Follow That Bird (Film; 1985)

In the Heat of the Night (Film; 1967)

It’s a Greek Life (Rainbow Parade Cartoon; 1936)

Lady, Play Your Mandolin! (WB MM Cartoon; 1931)

The Others (Film; 2001)

The Pebbles on the Beach, by Clarence Ellis (Geology Book; 1954)

Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, “The Moonlight Sonata,” by Ludwig Van Beethoven (Piano Sonata; 1802)

The Suburbs, by Arcade Fire (Album; 2010)

Testament of Youth, by Vera Brittain (memoir; 1933)

2 Guns (Film; 2013)

Weird Science (Film; 1985)

Today’s Name Days

Eusebius, Julian, Petrus, Stefan (Austria)

Anđela, Arnir, Euzebije (Croatia)

Gustav (Czech Republic)

Hannibal (Denmark)

Helger, Helgo, Holger, Olger (Estonia)

Kimmo (Finland)

Julien (France)

Adriana, Eusebius, Juliam, Julan (Germany)

Justinianos (Greece)

Lehel (Hungary)

Eusebio (Italy)

Norma, Normunds, Stefans (Latvia)

Alfonsas, Guoda, Gustavas, Tautvaldas (Lithuania)

Karen, Karin (Norway)

Alfons, Alfonsyna, Borzysława, Gustaw, Ilia, Karina, Maria, Stefan (Poland)

Stefan (Romania)

Gustáv (Slovakia)

Ángeles, Eusebio (Spain)

Kajsa, Karin (Sweden)

Alf, Alfie, Alfonsina, Alfonso, Alford, Alfred, Alfreda, Alfredo, Alonso, Alonza, Alonzo, Alphonso, Fonzie (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 215 of 2024; 151 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of Week 31 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 28 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Xin-Wei), Day 28 (Wu-Xu)

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

Hebrew: 27 Tammuz 5784

Islamic: 26 Muharram 1446

J Cal: 5 Purple; Fryday [5 of 30]

Julian: 20 July 2024

Moon: 4%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 18 Dante (8th Month) [Chateaubriand]

Runic Half Month: Thorn (Defense) [Day 10 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 44 of 94)

Week: 1st Week of August

Zodiac: Leo (Day 12 of 31)

[theartoflorcan]

It was so nice to see my silly little tomes out in the wild alongside so many other lovely publications, books and zines at @templebargalleryandstudios for the Dublin Art Book Fair 2022 this last week. #art #drawing #illustration #candy #insect #prayingmantis #peppermintmantis #alphabet #drawingchallenge #octoberdrawingchallenge #Prompt2 #strange #weird #book #books #bookfair #irishart #irishartist #dublinartist #dublinart #shamelessselfpromotion #DABF22 #TempleBarGalleryAndStudios #lorcancassidy (at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClwZaPKsPoJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=