#iditarod 2022

[edge--effects]

Apayauq Reitan is the first out transgender woman to complete the legendary Iditarod sled dog race across Alaska. Hear her story of resilience and purpose in an adventure that celebrates her Iñupiaq roots.

[darkwood-sleddog]

Hugh Neff...at it again....

[yourdailyqueer]

Apayauq Reitan

Gender: Transgender woman

Sexuality: N/A

DOB: Born 1998

Ethnicity: Native American (Iñupiaq)

Nationality: American / Norwegian

Occupation: Prof dog musher

Note: In 2022, she became the first openly transgender woman to compete in the Iditarod

[sergeifyodorov]

so the iditarod. any fun facts?

the Iditarod Trail as we know it was originally a mail trail. in the far north, dogs have been used as freight runners since precontact times by alaska native peoples like the inupiat (in fact, the name for the "malamute" sled dog breed comes from the name for a group of the inupiat, the malemiut who lived on the seward peninsula.

as a draft animal dogs are, pound for pound, stronger and faster than horses, and in an environment like the alaskan interior a carnivore is much easier to feed than a hay-eating herbivore. they are also much better at navigating the winding, slippery, and often difficult trails -- there are places that snowmachines can't go, to this day, but dogs can. old mail trail runners would have teams of twenty or more dogs, hauling cargo like gold and mail and people through the interior. the town of iditarod itself, although now largely a ghost town, once was larger than anchorage!

the history of the iditarod race starts in the winter of 1925 when nome, a town on the icebound bering sea, suffered a diphtheria outbreak. without serum and with no way to get it there by other means -- icebound, so no boats, and the only pilot who could make the trip was on the other end of the continent -- they organized a trail relay, seven hundred miles long. it took them six days.

fifty years later, with mushing considered a dying sport, they decided to resurrect the iditarod as a race, anchorage to nome, one musher and fourteen dogs. it's about a thousand miles long -- there's two different routes, which alternate every year.

uh list of fun trivia below the cut so i don't make this TOO long

specifying the two routes thing: the routes only diverge at about the halfway point and reconnect at about the three-quarter mark, at the checkpoint right before they hit the bering sea.

trail dogs wear little booties, not because their feet get cold but to protect them from things like fallen branches, and other hazards on the trail. mushers can go through hundreds of booties in a race.

the last musher to complete the iditarod is called the "red lantern," which is a tradition that apparently started as a joke and stuck. you may have heard of musher apayauq reitan, who made history as the first out trans person to run the iditarod? she was the red lantern in 2022!

the current general frontrunners of the iditarod are father and son mitch and dallas seavey. dallas is one of two people to have won the race five times.

four people have won four times, including susan butcher, one of the first women to win.

race times can vary HUGELY depending on year and musher. the records are about eight and a half days, but it's not uncommon for people to take two weeks. libby riddles, who won in 1985, had a winning time of 18 days!

[zulayawolf]

March 4 - bump. Moguls on the trail through the Iditarod trail's Farewell Burn in March 2022.

[alexalily]

Alexa's Favorite Movies of 2023

The movies that I watched for the first time in 2023 that I enjoyed the most or that really stuck in my mind for some reason or another. They are presented in no particular order.

I also ranked all the 2023 new releases I watched this year.

If you would like to see a similar list about the video games I played in 2023, you can see it here on Tumblr or over on Backloggd.

If you would like to see a similar list about the books I read in 2023, you can see it here on Tumblr.

How to Blow Up A Pipeline (2022, dir. Daniel Goldhaber)

The scene in the bar has a Christmas tree in the background, therefore I am using this as my answer when someone asks about my favorite Christmas movie and I want to be an asshole about it.

The Way Things Go (2023, dir. Amalia Farrow)

For me, 2023 was a year where I lost a lot of friends. No drama, no arguments, no falling-outs. Sometimes people just drift away. Maybe I didn't do enough to maintain that friendship or maybe they didn't or maybe both of us didn't. But sometimes it happens. And I think it happened to me a lot this year. It's something that has happened to me a lot in life - this kind of drifting away from people or groups. But this year it seemed to happen a lot more and has left me frequently feeling much more alone than it has ever before. But also I found someone special this year and that's been amazing. And this two-and-a-half minute long shortfilm encapsulates that feeling better than my little blurb here did and better than any other piece of media I've ever seen.

The Way Things Go is available to watch on YouTube for free.

Tahara (2020, dir. Olivia Peace)

There are lots of movies featuring shitty teenagers but this feels like it really nails a lot of ways in which teenagers were shitty back when I was a shitty teenager. Some of the best written shitty teens I've ever seen, in movies or any other medium. Top tier shitheads all over the place here.

Carol (2015, dir. Todd Haynes)

New favorite Christmas movie, by a country mile.

I didn't really know anything about this movie besides Christmas Lesbians so the whole "fighting for custody of her child" plotline really caught me off guard. It's so damn good tho. The whole thing. This may end up being a yearly holiday rewatch.

Cassandro (2023, dir. Roger Ross Williams)

Wrestling is something that I've never been directly into but I love to hear about. Listening to people who love wrestling talk about it and describe the storylines and stories is so much fun. Honestly I think it may be the best way to consume wrestling, especially for someone who can be squeamish about violence and injuries (aka me). So, I really love wrestling movies! And I just think it was nice to see one that didn't end with "and he got addicted to painkillers and died at the age of 42" or something! A wrestling story without a tragic end, whodathunkit.

May December (2023, dir. Todd Haynes)

My immediate reaction after watching this was "what the fuck did I just watch" which is why I didn't give it a rating or leave a review at all. It left me so befuddled that I didn't know what to think of it and needed time to process it. And over time as I think about it and contemplate my own feelings and see other peoples reactions and discussions to it, I've come to like it quite a bit.

Apayauq (2023, dir. Zeppelin Zeerip)

Apayauq is so cool!! She finished last in the Iditarod which earned her the Red Lantern Award and that fuckin' rules!! Lovely lil short doc about her and her life and her journey with gender and also her journey dogs across a whole lot of snow.

Apayauq is available to watch on YouTube for free.

NAGA (2023, dir. Meshal Aljaser)

There is some recency bias at play here but also I have thought about NAGA every day since I watched it almost two weeks ago. That scene when Sarah is alone at the car in the middle of the desert with only the headlights to illuminate the empty fucking void of a world she find herself in and then suddenly something starts to approach her… that scene specifically has been bouncing around in my head near-constantly. Just some incredible imagery and visual work going on there.

Dark Angel: The Ascent (1994, dir. Linda Hassani)

This is a movie that not only exceeded my expectations but kind of completely blew them out of the water?? I was expecting some horror-adjacent schlock about a demon from hell coming to Earth to kill the shit out of 'sinners' or whatever and on one hand, yes, that is true, that is what this movie is. But it's also just genuinely good?? It fuckin rules that right off the bat it is showing people being tortured in hell and then a voice clarifies that these aren't just any ol' sinners, no, these are landlords and bankers who exploited the working class. Veronica is a trans icon and this is the hill I will die on.

Wifelike (2022, dir. James Bird)

this movie is garbage but it has the funniest name of maybe any movie i've ever seen or heard of. fucking WIFELIKE. WIFE. LIKE. god damn lmao

The Doom Generation (1995, dir. Gregg Araki)

I first watch The Doom Generation as a deeply depressed teenager and then occasionally watched it every few years throughout my deeply depressing 20s and now I am keeping that up by watching it again in my deeply depressed 30s. It's a good movie! It's pretty hard to recommend, mostly because of the ending! I've looked into more of Gregg Araki's work and have really enjoyed what I've seen so far so I think he may end up being one of my favorite directors ever and it all kinda started with seeing a movie about angry depressed teenagers who are lost in life when I was an angry depressed teenager who was lost in life.

Hellraiser (2022, dir. David Bruckner)

Earlier this year, I went through all eleven Hellraiser movies. It was a trial and journey that I suggest absolutely no one else go on. So maybe it's just because there's, like, six movies in a row that are trash-garbage terrible before you get to this one which is Somehow Good. Maybe my feelings on this one are higher than they should be because it was an actually competently made movie after slogging through the refuse that is the bulk of the Hellraiser franchise. But dammit I liked it and the new femme Pinhead is incredibly hot and I finally understand why people were so horny for Pinhead in the original one (or two (or three)) movies. Those old ones are good to! But this one stuck with me more, for now.

Wingwomen (2023, dir. Mélanie Laurent)

I mean, this is definitely the best movie I've seen about a polycule of international thiefs that pull off One Last Heist so that the eldest of them can retire and go live their life how they want. I really hope it becomes a much bigger genre in the future.

Imagine Me & You (2005, dir. Ol Parker)

This is technically not a first-time watch because I have seen it three or four times before but the last time was something like five or six years ago. This movie holds some really strong importance to me because it was one of the things I saw as a confused queer teen that was really strugging with my own feelings and my place in life. When I watched it, it was one of the only things I had seen where woman could be queer and open and happy. There was no big falling out with family. There was no major drama or tragedy to it. It's just a lesbian rom-com. And while it probably isn't the best in that particular sub-genre, it hit me at a time when I really needed it and that makes it special to me. Lena Headey should be in more movies where she's a lesbian, I think that would be good for us as a society.

The Duke of Burgundy (2014, dir. Peter Strickland)

Trying to figure out how to talk about all my favorite parts of this without just outing myself and all the perverted kinks I'm into ahahaha it's a good movie, I swear!! it's not just perverse and exciting!! but it's also that!!

Stay On Board: The Leo Baker Story (2022, dir. Nicola Marsh, Giovanni Reda)

Skateboarding is cool! I used to be way into it as a teen and it has always lived in the back of my mind as a cool thing for cool people. I think this year I watched something like 3 or 4 skateboarding documentaries which seems like a lot! And, hey, this one is the best because it's about a queer man coming out and not just finding his place in the world but making his place. It's a very sweet and emotional story with some strong moments. I hope Leo is doing well out there, he seems like a real solid dude.

Mutt (2023, dir. Vuk Lungulov-Klotz)

I first heard about this movie via the radio(!) when I heard an interview (on NPR, probably) with the director/director Vuk Lungulov-Klotz. Riding in the car with my father (who I am not out to), hearing about this movie about a day in the life of a trans man, and just kind of vibrating with excitment about it but feeling scared to express that at all because my father would then have Some Questions that I was not ready to answer then. I had to discreetly make a note about the movie on my phone so I could figure out how to watch it ASAP and I am so glad I was eventually able to see it because it's so damn good. Feña has a fucking miserable day and it is so much fun to watch. He is so exhausted and stretched thin and trying his best and if that ain't the most relatable mood for a trans person in America then I don't know what is.

Fanfic (2023, dir. Marta Karwowska)

The scene when Tosiek puts on masc clothes and experiences gender euphoria for the first time has been burned into my memory and I will never forget it. What a special moment. It really reminded me of the first time I wore a skirt. Everything felt magical, as if I had unlocked some secret in life. And I had! Because being trans fuckin' rules.

The Pope's Exorcist (2023, dir. Julius Avery)

One of the most bewildering movies I've ever seen in both the best and worst ways. What a fascinating thing. It seems like it'll just be some ghost/haunting/exorcism movie but then it turns into some Catholic church apologia and sets up not just a sequel but a whole franchise. It is something that needs to be seen to be believed. Really kinda wild that it exists in the form it is. Like, no one look at this and said "what the fuck are we doing here?" Amazing.

[tonichelleak]

Jason Mackey and team at the Ceremonial and ReStart of Iditarod 51. Jason is the younger brother of 4-time Iditarod and Yukon Quest Champion Lance Mackey. Lance passed away in September of 2022 and Jason took his brother’s ashes onto this year’s Iditarod trail. Jason had a rough go throughout the race and was barely able to finish, but finish he did as RED LANTERN (last place). He was also voted as Most Inspirational by his fellow finishers.

[morczine]

The latest issue appeared on 2/2/2022, in an edition of 60 copies, with a screenprinted cover.

Central theme: 'absence'. we talked to/wrote about artists who took a long break, or really slowed down their pace, and eventually returned. or not.

content:

an interview with John Davis

an interview with Kate Wright of Movietone

an interview with Dana Hatch of Cheater Slicks

a write-up about The Iditarod

reviews of two new Linda Smith releases

reviews of two old Tia Blake releases

reviews of an archival reissue of Waste and two new releases by Ford's Fuzz Inferno

recipes by Will and Dave

a download coupon for a random morc-release

[dogboyboyshorts]

[image id: a tumblr comment from safetypinserenade on March 27 2022 that says “i am learning about so many new contests recently. First the iditarod and now this” /end id]

Billy Lane, winner of the Seattle Mr. Leather contest in 1998 and first trans man to compete in the International Mr. Leather contest.

[toughgirlchallenges]

Sunny Stroeer: Completing the Iditarod Trail Invitational 1,000-Mile Race on Skis, Becoming the First Woman to Do So.

Sunny is a professional adventure athlete, guide service owner and story teller based in Kanab, Utah.  

After obtaining an MBA from Harvard Business School and pursuing a career as a management consultant in her twenties, Sunny decided to leave behind the business world in order to focus full-time on mountains, climbing and VLDs (very long distances). 

Today, she is a professional athlete and owner of two guiding businesses - AWExpeditions and Dreamland Safari Tours. 

She is also the founder of the AWE Summit Scholarship Foundation that breaks down barriers for women+ to access mountaineering and the backcountry -- in the form of tens of thousands of dollars in expedition scholarships. 

Sunny first came on the Tough Girl Podcast on Jun 23, 2020. Sharing her story about being the first woman to circumnavigate and summit Aconcagua in a single push. 

You can listen to that episode Here

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Show notes

Who is Sunny 

Working as a professional adventure athlete and running her own travel companies 

Sunny first came on the Tough Girl Podcast on Jun 23, 2020. First woman to circumnavigate and summit Aconcagua in a single push.

What happened in 2020 

Deciding to buy a tour company/guide service business

Using her MBA from Harvard

Thriving with the challenge and the uncertainty 

Pursuing her own adventures and being her own boss

Getting involved in running Fastest Known Times (FKTs)

Starting to focus on adventuring in Alaska

350 mile race on cross country skis - Iditarod Trail Invitational (ITI), held in Alaska during Winter (2021)

Planning to head to the South Pole in the future 

More info about the ITI and how its structured, and what you can expect. 

The short version - 350 miles. The long version 1000 miles. You need to do the short version of the race before you can attempt to race the longer version.

The different modes of travel: Fat bike, dogs, skies, walking

The lessons learned from the recce before the bigger race

No mandatory gear list

Being able to connect with folks who had done the race before to get advice and tips

Leaving her comfort zone behind and moving into the stretch zone

Dealing with uncomfortable feelings

Reflection back on her first ITI in 2021 

Dealing with overflow

Not having a background in cross country skiing

Knowing that she able to keep herself safe in these extreme conditions

Dealing with broken bindings and having to hike the final 150 miles

Having a 10 day deadline to cover the 350 miles

Being pushed to her limits both physically and emotionally 

Going back in 2022 to ski the 350 mile distance again - gaining more experience and knowledge

Fat biking the race in 2023 with her husband

Feeling ready to commit to the 1000 miles race in 2024

Race strategy and plan (both adhoc and thought through)

Needing to complete the 1000 miles (approx 930 - 960 miles) in 30 days

Dealing with a stress fracture on her shin in the December and only having 5 weeks to train

Using both a backpack and a pulk/sled to transport gear. 

Dealing with the cold and trying to avoid getting wet in -30/-40 degrees

Aiming to travel slowly, keeping her heart rate low in an aim to keep from sweating

Dealing with wet and damp gloves and getting a little bit of frost bite on her fingers. 

Dealing with numb heels and maybe a little bit of nerve damage after the race

Highlights and magical moment from life on the trail

Being in her own thoughts for 14hrs or more a day

Food and nutrition on the trail

Feeling the pressure to reach the finish line before the cut off point

Making it across the sea ice before it flooded or melted

Being 200 miles from the finish on the North Shore

Becoming the first women to ski the ITI 1000

Recovery after the race (doughnuts & wine!)

How to connect with Sunny and to follow along with her adventures

Final words of advice and and wisdom to inspire and motivate women and girls 

Why you need to continually be pushing your comfort zone 

  Social Media

Websites: 

www.sunnystroeer.com 

www.awexpeditions.org 

www.dreamlandtours.net 

www.summitscholarship.org

Instagram:

@sstroeer 

@awexpeditions 

@dreamlandsafari 

  Check out this episode!

[brookston]

Holidays 3.4

Holidays

Benjamin Harrison Day (Indiana)

Brain Injury Awareness Day

Casmir’s Day (Lithuania, Poland)

Catherine O’Hara Day

Charter Day (Pennsylvania)

Courageous Followers Day

Dance the Waltz Day

Do Something Day

Festival of Pirate Utopias

Game Master’s Day

Global Day of the Engineer

Healing From the Inside Out Day

Hot Springs National Park Day

Holy Experiment Day

Hug A G.I. Day (a.k.a. Hug a Member of the Military Day)

International GM Appreciation Day (a.k.a. Game Master’s Day)

International HPV Awareness Day

International Scrapbooking Industry Day

March Forth — Do Something Day

Marching Music Day (a.k.a. Marching Band Day)

National Backcountry Ski Day

National Grammar Day

National Ida Day

National Marching Arts Day

National Quinton Day

National Ray Day

National Safety Day (India)

National Sons Day

National Waltz Day

Old Inauguration Day (US)

Racial Healing and Reconciliation Day

Sultan’s Coronation Day (Malaysia)

This Way To the Egress Day

Toy Soldier Day

U.S. Congress Day

World Day of the Fight Against Sexual Exploitation

World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development

World Evanescence Day

World Information Architecture Day

World Obesity Day

Zhonghe Festival (China)

Food & Drink Celebrations

American Tavern Day

Cadbury Chocolate Day

National Pound Cake Day

National Snack Day

1st Saturday in March

Georgia Beer Day (Georgia) [1st Saturday]

Iditarod Dogsled Race begins [Saturday of 1st Full Weekend]

International Open Data Day [1st Saturday]

National American Paddlefish Day

National Platypus Day [1st Saturday]

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

National R&B Music Day [1st Saturday]

Running of the Reindeer (Alaska) [1st Saturday]

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

Sock Monkey Day [1st Saturday]

World Telemark Day [1st Saturday]

Independence Days

Vermont Statehood Day (#14; 1791)

Feast Days

Adrian of Nicomedia (Christian; Saint) [brewers] *

The Anestheria (Festival of Flowers; Ancient Greece)

Bulwar-Lytton Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Casimir, Prince of Poland (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Ra in His Barge at Heliopolis (Ancient Egypt)

Feast of Rhiannon (Celtic/Welsh Mother Goddess)

Feast of Tou Tei (Earth God; Macau) [2nd Day of 2nd Lunar Month]

Felix of Rhuys (Christian; Saint)

Giovanni Antonio Farina (Catholic Church)

Humbert III, Count of Savoy (Roman Catholic Church)

Lucius, Pope and Martyr (Christian; Saint)

Maha Shivaratri (Great Night of Shiva, Vigil & Feast for Transendence; Hinduism)

March Forth and Demand Something Day (Pastafarian)

Media Hiems II (Pagan)

Paul Cuffee (Episcopal Church)

Peter of Pappacarbone (Christian; Saint)

Random Day (Pastafarian)

Rowlf the Dog (Muppetism)

Smerdley (Muppetism)

Thales (Positivist; Saint)

Zoltán Meszlényi (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fatal Day (Pagan) [6 of 24]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [12 of 37]

Premieres

The Adjustment Bureau (Film; 2011)

Babette’s Feast (Film; 1988)

The Batman (Film; 2022)

Cinderella (Animated Disney Cartoon; 1950)

Be Cool (Film; 2005)

The Chase (Film; 1994)

Chocolat, by Joanne Harris (Novel; 1999)

Cinderella (Animated Disney Film; 1950)

Fallen, by Evanescence (Album; 2003)

Here’s Little Richard, by Little Richard (Album; 1957)

London Has Fallen (Film; 2016)

No, by Meghan Trainor (Song; 2016)

Nosferatu (Silent Film; 1922)

Pluto’s Surprise Package (Disney Cartoon; 1949)

Police Squad! (TV Series; 1982)

Rango (Animated Film; 2011)

’Round About Midnight, by Miles Davis (Album; 1957)

Sherlock Holmes in “A Study in Scarlet” (Novel; 1881)

The SpongeBob Movie on the Run (Animated Film; 2021)

Surfing’ U.S.A., by The Beach Boys (Song; 1963)

Swan Lake, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Ballet; 1877)

Symphony No. 2, a.k.a. Resurrection, by Gustav Mahler (Symphony; 1895)

Tender Mercies (Film; 1983)

Up Periscope (Film; 1959)

The Voice of Frank Sinatra, by Frank Sinatra (Album; 1946)

Waterloo, by Abba (Song; 1974)

We're Only in It for the Money, by Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention (Album; 1968)

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (Film; 2016)

Zootopia (Animated Film; 2016)

Today’s Name Days

Edwin, Humbert, Kasimir (Austria)

Bozhidar, Bozhidara, Dora, Gerasim, Teodor, Teodora, Todor (Bulgaria)

Eugen, Kazimir, Miro, Natko (Croatia)

Stela (Czech Republic)

Adrianus (Denmark)

Almar, Eimar, Elmar, Elmer, Elmet, Elmo (Estonia)

Ari, Arsi, Atro (Finland)

Casimir (France)

Edwin, Humbert, Kasimir (Germany)

Gerasimos, Theodoros (Greece)

Kázmér (Hungary)

Casimiro, Lucio, Nestore, Umberto, Urbano (Italy)

Alise, Auce (Latvia)

Daina, Daugvydas, Kazimieras, Vaclava (Lithuania)

Ada, Adrian (Norway)

Adrian, Adrianna, Arkadiusz, Arkady, Eugeniusz, Kazimierz, Lew, Lucja, Łucja, Lucjusz, Wacław, Wacława (Poland)

Gherasim, Teodor (Romania)

Kazimír (Slovakia)

Casimiro (Spain)

Adrian, Adriana (Sweden)

Julianna, Julianna (Ukraine)

Casimir, Humbert, Humberto, Kasimir, Kasimira, Placida, Placidia (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 63 of 2023; 302 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 9 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 14 of 28]

Chinese: Month 2 (Yi-Mao), Day 13 (Xin-You)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 11 Adar 5783

Islamic: 11 Sha’ban 1444

J Cal: 2 Ver; Twosday [2 of 30]

Julian: 19 February 2023

Moon: 93%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 67 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Thales]

Runic Half Month: Tyr (Cosmic Pillar) [Day 9 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 74 of 90)

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 13 of 29)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 3.4

Holidays

Benjamin Harrison Day (Indiana)

Brain Injury Awareness Day

Casmir’s Day (Lithuania, Poland)

Catherine O’Hara Day

Charter Day (Pennsylvania)

Courageous Followers Day

Dance the Waltz Day

Do Something Day

Festival of Pirate Utopias

Game Master’s Day

Global Day of the Engineer

Healing From the Inside Out Day

Hot Springs National Park Day

Holy Experiment Day

Hug A G.I. Day (a.k.a. Hug a Member of the Military Day)

International GM Appreciation Day (a.k.a. Game Master’s Day)

International HPV Awareness Day

International Scrapbooking Industry Day

March Forth — Do Something Day

Marching Music Day (a.k.a. Marching Band Day)

National Backcountry Ski Day

National Grammar Day

National Ida Day

National Marching Arts Day

National Quinton Day

National Ray Day

National Safety Day (India)

National Sons Day

National Waltz Day

Old Inauguration Day (US)

Racial Healing and Reconciliation Day

Sultan’s Coronation Day (Malaysia)

This Way To the Egress Day

Toy Soldier Day

U.S. Congress Day

World Day of the Fight Against Sexual Exploitation

World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development

World Evanescence Day

World Information Architecture Day

World Obesity Day

Zhonghe Festival (China)

Food & Drink Celebrations

American Tavern Day

Cadbury Chocolate Day

National Pound Cake Day

National Snack Day

1st Saturday in March

Georgia Beer Day (Georgia) [1st Saturday]

Iditarod Dogsled Race begins [Saturday of 1st Full Weekend]

International Open Data Day [1st Saturday]

National American Paddlefish Day

National Platypus Day [1st Saturday]

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

National R&B Music Day [1st Saturday]

Running of the Reindeer (Alaska) [1st Saturday]

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

Sock Monkey Day [1st Saturday]

World Telemark Day [1st Saturday]

Independence Days

Vermont Statehood Day (#14; 1791)

Feast Days

Adrian of Nicomedia (Christian; Saint) [brewers] *

The Anestheria (Festival of Flowers; Ancient Greece)

Bulwar-Lytton Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Casimir, Prince of Poland (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Ra in His Barge at Heliopolis (Ancient Egypt)

Feast of Rhiannon (Celtic/Welsh Mother Goddess)

Feast of Tou Tei (Earth God; Macau) [2nd Day of 2nd Lunar Month]

Felix of Rhuys (Christian; Saint)

Giovanni Antonio Farina (Catholic Church)

Humbert III, Count of Savoy (Roman Catholic Church)

Lucius, Pope and Martyr (Christian; Saint)

Maha Shivaratri (Great Night of Shiva, Vigil & Feast for Transendence; Hinduism)

March Forth and Demand Something Day (Pastafarian)

Media Hiems II (Pagan)

Paul Cuffee (Episcopal Church)

Peter of Pappacarbone (Christian; Saint)

Random Day (Pastafarian)

Rowlf the Dog (Muppetism)

Smerdley (Muppetism)

Thales (Positivist; Saint)

Zoltán Meszlényi (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fatal Day (Pagan) [6 of 24]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [12 of 37]

Premieres

The Adjustment Bureau (Film; 2011)

Babette’s Feast (Film; 1988)

The Batman (Film; 2022)

Cinderella (Animated Disney Cartoon; 1950)

Be Cool (Film; 2005)

The Chase (Film; 1994)

Chocolat, by Joanne Harris (Novel; 1999)

Cinderella (Animated Disney Film; 1950)

Fallen, by Evanescence (Album; 2003)

Here’s Little Richard, by Little Richard (Album; 1957)

London Has Fallen (Film; 2016)

No, by Meghan Trainor (Song; 2016)

Nosferatu (Silent Film; 1922)

Pluto’s Surprise Package (Disney Cartoon; 1949)

Police Squad! (TV Series; 1982)

Rango (Animated Film; 2011)

’Round About Midnight, by Miles Davis (Album; 1957)

Sherlock Holmes in “A Study in Scarlet” (Novel; 1881)

The SpongeBob Movie on the Run (Animated Film; 2021)

Surfing’ U.S.A., by The Beach Boys (Song; 1963)

Swan Lake, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Ballet; 1877)

Symphony No. 2, a.k.a. Resurrection, by Gustav Mahler (Symphony; 1895)

Tender Mercies (Film; 1983)

Up Periscope (Film; 1959)

The Voice of Frank Sinatra, by Frank Sinatra (Album; 1946)

Waterloo, by Abba (Song; 1974)

We're Only in It for the Money, by Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention (Album; 1968)

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (Film; 2016)

Zootopia (Animated Film; 2016)

Today’s Name Days

Edwin, Humbert, Kasimir (Austria)

Bozhidar, Bozhidara, Dora, Gerasim, Teodor, Teodora, Todor (Bulgaria)

Eugen, Kazimir, Miro, Natko (Croatia)

Stela (Czech Republic)

Adrianus (Denmark)

Almar, Eimar, Elmar, Elmer, Elmet, Elmo (Estonia)

Ari, Arsi, Atro (Finland)

Casimir (France)

Edwin, Humbert, Kasimir (Germany)

Gerasimos, Theodoros (Greece)

Kázmér (Hungary)

Casimiro, Lucio, Nestore, Umberto, Urbano (Italy)

Alise, Auce (Latvia)

Daina, Daugvydas, Kazimieras, Vaclava (Lithuania)

Ada, Adrian (Norway)

Adrian, Adrianna, Arkadiusz, Arkady, Eugeniusz, Kazimierz, Lew, Lucja, Łucja, Lucjusz, Wacław, Wacława (Poland)

Gherasim, Teodor (Romania)

Kazimír (Slovakia)

Casimiro (Spain)

Adrian, Adriana (Sweden)

Julianna, Julianna (Ukraine)

Casimir, Humbert, Humberto, Kasimir, Kasimira, Placida, Placidia (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 63 of 2023; 302 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 9 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 14 of 28]

Chinese: Month 2 (Yi-Mao), Day 13 (Xin-You)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 11 Adar 5783

Islamic: 11 Sha’ban 1444

J Cal: 2 Ver; Twosday [2 of 30]

Julian: 19 February 2023

Moon: 93%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 67 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Thales]

Runic Half Month: Tyr (Cosmic Pillar) [Day 9 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 74 of 90)

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 13 of 29)

[basurdeeditions]

ALASKA: LA ÚLTIMA GRAN AVENTURA

ALASKA: LA ÚLTIMA GRAN AVENTURA

SINOPSIS. 2022, España, 30min Director:Javier Navarro de Almeida ALASKA: LA ÚLTIMA GRAN AVENTURA: Gaizka Aseguinolaza se enfrenta a una de las zonas más salvajes del planeta: Alaska. Sueña completar la ITI 1000 (Iditarod), una de las ultramaratones invernales más duras del mundo, llamada, popularmente, ‘’la última gran aventura’’. Lo hará con su fatbike, en total autosuficiencia, sintiendo el…

[darkwood-sleddog]

Apayauq Reitan, the first trans women to run Iditarod, finishes last and wins the “Committed Through the Last Mile” award. The award, given by Lynden, honors Apayauq for her perseverance and commitment to finish the race through unexpected challenges. The last half of the pack of those running Iditarod faced sudden and extreme weather that caused many competitors to have to scratch and be rescued by race officials.

Apayauq had seven dogs in harness at the time of her finish and although this was not her rookie Iditarod, this was her first one she ran out and proud as an Indigenous trans women.

[akdogdriver]

Dan Kaduce comes in 4th, with all 14 dogs 🐕🐕

Not many drive all their dogs to Nome, I believe this is the highest finish for a full team 😎

[edge--effects]

a tracking number’s been created for my iditarod musher bib hat 👁👄👁

i can’t decide whether to leave it as is (safe, stealth option) or to add, like, a little trans flag patch somewhere to really drive home the significance of this year and the hat’s little numbered musher bib