#montana the donkey

[laf-outloud]

@genpadalecki Don’t make any donkey assumptions, it makes an ass outta you and me

Welcome to the Padalecki ranch, Merlin and Montana! So much cuteness!

[woodsfae]

Look at them. They are so small

[keytomind]

My best friend at the greatest Airbnb on the planet!

My Montana adventure is coming to an end, but I’m celebrating another birthday as well as I found my new home out here and I can’t wait to take my talents out west to the great state of Montana 🤠

[jhsharman]

Oh So Pretty

Reggie in the fourth one, Jughead in the ninth, Fred Andrews in the 13th. The rest is Archie, who has various reasons he needs to put on a dress.

The theme tapers off considerably, and my hunch is it would be another three decades to produce this number of cross dressing instances (through a considerably increased output of comics) -- though possibly it could be an easy enough go-to for lazy one and half page gags such that I am wrong.

[toomanypicrews]

[yeoldenews]

For all my fellow name nerds out there, I am very pleased to present the second annual "Gloyd Roberson Memorial List of Actual Human Children Who Wrote Letters to Santa in 1920s/30s Oklahoma".

These aren’t all necessarily “weirder than Gloyd” but fall into three rough categories which I’ve dubbed: “that’s got a nice ring to it”, “if I used this in a novel it would be considered too unrealistic” and “you’ve got 5 seconds to name a character that lives in 1920s Oklahoma, GO!”:

Selvyn Atteberry

Dyer Banfield

Bert Baxter

Hilda Bender

Imogene Berry

Heloise Blakely

Burl Boyer

Clyda Pearl Boyington

Okal Brooks

Vada Jo Bricker

Deverett Brumley

Lee Roy Buck

Vivian May Burdue

Donnie Buster

Elmarie Button

Junior Buzzard

Melchor Caldex

Tycene Calhoun

Tiny Bell Callison

Dapalene Caywood

Edney Clopton

Buster Combs

Georgia Countryman

Vantruba Crockett

Alto Day

Buddie DeWayne

Violet Divine

Elwanda Downing

Cletys Durham

Thurlo Epps

Apple Fields

Floyd Fleetwood

Metherine Franklin

Ula Fay French

Wanda Jo Fronterhouse

Irline Fuller

Jack Gritzmaker

J. D. Grizzle

Billie Jean Gulley

Joline Hardcastle

Kaloolah Herrill

Thelias Hatfield

Elva Heavins

Coleman Hewlett

Helen Hillhouse

Virgil Holderby

Katymae Houston

Myree Huffstutlar

Estelline Hurrypack

Blondie Huhm

Lila Lou Jackson

Denver Jones

Vernell Lambert

Sonny Boy Lockart

Dinkey Long (autocorrect really wanted this to be Donkey Kong)

Bamma Lynn

Rep Madden

Standford Mann

Jack Mattingly

Goldia McGee

Madge Messinger

Mauzell Mullins

Jeffie Wayne Muskrat

Archibald Neighbors

Hazel Nickerson

Eulah Oakley

Lyle Oyler

Milburn Partain

Jackson Payne

Montana Phillips

Bobbie Dean Phoenix

Toots Putman

Madonna Mae Rickey

Cyprine Robertson

Juanelle Schneeberger

Billie Jean Sparks

Texanna Smith

Pansy Stetson

Patsy Ruth Stubblefield

Eldon Sweezy

Hoy Trotter

Pearl Vandorien

Leland Weems

Joe Bob West

Wayness Whitely

Buster Wyatt

John Ira Youngblood

Domby Zinn

[mostlysignssomeportents]

A year in illustration (2024), Part four

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/07/great-kepplers-ghost/art-adjacent

Part one

Part two

Part three

The US Copyright Office frees the McFlurry

Figuring out how to illustrate the problems of DRM in McFlurry machines took some doing, but I'm super happy with how the HAL 9000-eyed poop emoji inside a spattered McFlurry cup (fair use of a McDonald's promo image) worked out.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/28/mcbroken/#my-milkshake-brings-all-the-lawyers-to-the-yard

(Image: Cryteria, CC BY 3.0, modified)

Keeping a suspense file gives you superpowers

Another Keppler classic: originally, this was FDR being offered a helping hand to cut through his paperwork. I added in one of the elephant heads I'd cropped out for election illustrations, and used it to represent "not forgetting."

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/26/one-weird-trick/#todo

The housing crisis considered as an income crisis

The underlying image is another Keppler, showing death flamboyantly dicing with a millionaire. I added in an official (hence public domain) Reagan portrait, some monopoly houses, and a vintage aerial photo of Levittown, halftoned to disguise scaling artifacts.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/24/i-dream-of-gini/#mean-ole-mr-median

Retiring the US debt would retire the US dollar

More of Keppler's outstanding Uncle Sams! Add in a super-rezzed-up US $100 (all that intanglio looks great at high mag) and you've got an instantly arresting image.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/21/we-can-have-nice-things/#public-funds-not-taxpayer-dollars

Penguin Random House, AI, and writers' rights

The impatient guy makes another appearance in this WPA image of an adult literacy class; he's joined by another "business man" type, this one from a midcentury ad for a multi-level marketing scheme selling…business suits! The pupils' heads are all HAL 9000 eyes, natch, but don't miss all the little Easter Eggs, like the reeve and peasants in the frames on the walls.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/19/gander-sauce/#just-because-youre-on-their-side-it-doesnt-mean-theyre-on-your-side

(Image: Cryteria, CC BY 3.0, modified)

You should be using an RSS reader

The guerrilla fighter is back, this time standing atop some mainframe equipment ganked from a Univac ad. The halftoned RSS logo in the background really works, especially with a partially blended GIMP "supernova" effect behind the rebel.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/#read-receipts-are-you-kidding-me-seriously-fuck-that-noise

Dirty words are politically potent

I spent a bunch of time experimenting with different ways of making emphatic speech bubbles and it paid off here; that poop emoji's gawlix is in a good home. Halftoning the foreground element (the poop) works surprising well here. I should do more of that.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/14/pearl-clutching/#this-toilet-has-no-central-nervous-system

Lina Khan's future is the future of the Democratic Party – and America

Keppler's Uncle Sam Cop is back, along with another Keppler – a carpetbagger flying through the air after getting a kick in the pants. I got good use out of one of my Democratic Party donkeys here. The background is a half-tones WPA travel poster for Montana.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/11/democracys-antitrust-paradox/#there-will-be-an-out-and-out-brawl

Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked

I actually made this brick by hand: first I rescaled a box image until it had the right proportions, then I found a public domain texture that was the right kind of brick and used the perspective tool to put it over each face of the box. I told you public domain bricks are hard to find.

It was very satisfying overlaying all the elements of the Fisker car I cropped out onto the brick.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/10/software-based-car/#based

Prime's enshittified advertising

Nothing exceeds like excess! The flayed face with eyeballs comes from a 19th century book of French anatomical drawings. The calipers' handles just didn't look right (I referred to stills from Clockwork Orange to try and get 'em to work), but then I hit on the idea of using the "As Seen on TV" logo, which worked perfectly. The halftoned K-Tel ad-card background doesn't quite work, I think.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/03/mother-may-i/#minmax

"That Makes Me Smart"

This is actually two Kepplers; the original guy in the leg-hold trap is some lost-to-history politician embroiled in a lost-to-history scandal. But once I added (yet another!) of Keppler's Uncle Sam heads to his body (recoloring his coat and converting his trousers to red stripes), it became a perfect visual representation of America, trapped. The halftoned US flag is my favorite background yet.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/04/its-not-a-lie/#its-a-premature-truth

The far right grows through "disaster fantasies"

When it came to finding heavily armored and armed weirdos, I was spoilt for choice; same goes for grainy photos of vintage malls that look good after halftoning. Add in the goofy, grinning newsie's head and overlay his hat in camou, and it's perfect.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/24/mall-ninja-prophecy/#mano-a-mano

Boss politics antitrust

Finally, I got a chance to use Keppler's "Capital Controls the Senate!" I agonized over which corporate logos to use. Boss Tweed is back, with a Trump wig and MAGA hat.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/12/the-enemy-of-your-enemy/#is-your-enemy

Antiusurpation and the road to disenshittification

A diptych! Both sides' backgrounds come from Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights" – hell on the left, heaven on the right. The happy gas-jockey's old-fashioned ethyl pump divides the scene. The head-devouring dragon (with HAL 9000's eye) is a delightfully gory detail from Goltzius's 1183 painting of a couple guys having a hard time indeed.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/07/usurpers-helpmeets/#disreintermediation

(Image: Cryteria, CC BY 3.0, modified)

Bluesky and enshittification

I know, canonically the sirens who tempted Ulysses were merfolk, not half-woman/half-birds, but all the merwoman versions have a ton of naked breasts in them, and frankly, Waterhouses's 1891 "Ulysses and the Sirens" just rips. It took a lot of fiddling with the perspective tool and the clone brush to swap their bodies for the Bluesky butterfly wings, but it still looked weird until I mapped in a kind of scaly, butterfly wing texture.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast

Shifting $677m from the banks to the people, every year, forever

I replaced Moses parting the Red Sea with Keppler's Uncle Sam Cop, but something still wasn't right. Then I figured out how to turn the Red Sea into a giant, aquatic US $100 bill (loooove that intaglio!) and it was awesome.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/01/bankshot/#personal-financial-data-rights

[emlovesstates]

Maine: Isn’t it weird that we can’t ride any other animal except horses. Like if horses weren’t a thing, humans would be fucked cause we couldn’t ride any other animals. Like riding animals wouldn’t really be a thing. We should probably be more grateful to horses.

Florida: Elephants.

Maine: Blocked.

Montana: Camels.

Maine: Extra blocked.

Montana: Donkeys.

Maine: Ultra blocked.

New York : That dick.

Maine: ...Followed.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Kevin Robillard and Arthur Delaney at HuffPost:

CHICAGO ― Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer stood on stage at the Democratic National Convention and made a very bold prediction. “We’re going to hold the Senate again, and we’re poised to pick up seats,” he told the delegates in the United Center. The fact Schumer feels confident in his prediction reflects the remarkable strength of most Democratic incumbents in swing states. But it also flies in the face of a tough reality for Democrats: Even if they win every swing state race, it might not be enough to get them control of the U.S. Senate. To keep the word “majority” in Schumer’s title, Democrats will need to win at least one of three states where Republican nominee Donald Trump is a significant favorite in November: Texas, Florida or Montana. Each of the three states presents distinct challenges for the party, and it’s difficult to describe them as favored in any of the three.

It’s the culmination of a long-standing problem for the party: The Senate’s bias toward rural states advantages the GOP’s political coalition, forcing Democrats to repeatedly pitch the political equivalent of perfect games to stay in control of Congress’ upper chamber. Republicans clearly believe the social conservatism of those voters will be more than enough for them to flip the Senate, with a win in West Virginia essentially guaranteed following the retirement of Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W. Va.). Democrats currently have a 50-49 edge in the chamber.

“Securing the border is top of mind for voters, and Senate Democrats are delusional if they think they’re going to win with candidates like Colin Allred, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell and Sen. Jon Tester, who have long records of opposing border security,” said Torunn Sinclair, the communications director for Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC controlled by allies of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. In Montana, Democrats have the advantage of incumbency, but it might not be enough for Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) to overcome a challenge from Republican Tim Sheehy. In Texas and Florida, Democrats are running against unpopular GOP incumbents Ted Cruz and Rick Scott, but are also on long-standing statewide losing streaks.

The road for the Democrats to retain even a 50+VP majority, let alone an outright one, in the Senate will be a very tough one, as West Virginia is assured of flipping Republican.

For the Donkeys to keep control, they need to either have Kamala Harris/Tim Walz win the Presidency and no other Democratic candidate lose (50+VP scenario), or flip either Texas and/or Florida and keep what they got.

[murdercide626]

"ENEMIES OF GAIA"

aka "Defilers of the Earth!"

aka "Awesome Possum's Hit List"

Hexxus (FernGully: The Last Rainforest)

Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Dario Agger/"The Minotaur" (Marvel Comics)

Dr. Barbara Blight (Captain Planet)

King K. Rool (Donkey Kong Country)

Dr. Neo Cortex (Crash Bandicoot)

Montana Max (Tiny Toon Adventures)

Cyril Sneer (The Raccoons)

Capital B (Yooka-Laylee)

Rebecca Madison (Phantom 2040)

Hedorah (Godzilla)

Duke Nukem (Captain Planet)

Megatox (Sonic the Comic)

Diesel Weasel (Rick and Morty)

Fire Lord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Dr. Killemoff (Toxic Crusaders)

C. Montgomery Burns (The Simpsons)

Rufus Shinra (Final Fantasy VII)

Hoggish Greedly (Captain Planet)

Gruntilda Winkybunion (Banjo-Kazooie)

Porky Minch (Mother 3)

Fenton Sludge (Goof Troop)

Lawrence Limburger (Biker Mice from Mars)

Dr. Machino (Awesome Possum... Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt)

[westadventure24]

Day 3 - Unexpected Ending to a Perfect Day

The navigator must have done a great job helping her dad get on the right road to Custer State Park since we are here and ready to hit the hay at Legion Lake Campground.

After arrival this afternoon, we cruised around the wildlife loop, where I was anxiously hoping to see my favorite….wild burros. I started to fret as we were more than halfway around the loop and we had only seen a few pronghorn antelope from a distance. Todd assured me not to worry…the time would come. The road kept winding and then we saw the largest herd of bison so far. There were many mamas with their spring calves. Some running to keep up with the group. So sweet!

So, we followed the herd and FINALLY saw a pack of donkeys with several babies themselves! Who could ask for anything better? I loaded my pockets with carrots and out we all went to make new friends. Mom was quite timid at first, but could quickly see the gentle soul of a donkey. Dad, being a true farmer, had no concerns with making these new friends. Todd found one specific little guy who followed him the entire time we were with the herd. I love them all, but there was an old fellow who seemed ever so lonely that I loved best. I could have stayed all day, but we had to move along to go to the Chuckwagon dinner.

What a great time that was! They first made certain that everyone had a mandatory cowboy hat. You didn’t think we brought those from home, did you?? The wagon train ride through the wilderness was entertaining in many ways…saw some deer, turkeys and some more pronghorn antelope. Cowboy Keith told us of his homesteading ancestors, history of the land and led us in some sing-along songs. While we didn’t know them all, we sang along with the ones we did! Upon arrival at the hollow, the cowboys and cowgirls served us up a steak with all the normal Chuckwagon grub. The singing continued and there was even some dancing in honor of a couple celebrating 42 years of wedded bliss…we all know all everyday of all 42 years were likely not blissful, but we can pretend for this story. Dad and I went up to join in with some of the others…as expected, Mom and Todd had no interest. The father daughter dance turned out to be a hot mess, but we definitely had a good laugh.

The night ended with two lovely surprises! Ryan and Canyon caught up to us on their route to Montana and came over for a nice evening around the campfire ring….and so did a BIG bison!! Luckily he was at the campsite across from us!!! No lie…see the photographic evidence below. Once again, I say HOLY BISON Batman!!!

For all we have already experienced, I can’t believe it is only Day 3. May the rest of this trip be just as enjoyable. Starting tomorrow with Mt. Rushmore!

[laf-outloud]

@Tee-Spud Poitou Donkeys We had the pleasure of delivering Tee-Spud PoiTou Merlin and Texas Poitou Donkeys Montana today. They are already loved and will be well taken care of. Thank you Gen and Jared for your hospitality and for being a part of saving this incredible breed.

Donkeys!!! Awe! Merlin and Montana are so cute! (So are the Padaleckis!)

(I'm guessing the goats will still reign as assholes, though!)

[hermesserpent-stuff]

Ok how about something light and fun, the whole spider nephew family together playing Mario kart? Who do they play as, who has the worst luck, and who is the most competitive? I can only imagine the chaos and I find it hilarious.

So! I haven't played much Mario Cart since the Gameboy advanced days. (And gameboy color but can't recall if the game was on that) so I think my answer will not be 100% correct. That said:

Montana: mostly just plays up not knowing what's going on and constantly drives of the track. Can he play well? No one knows for sure. He is Mario tho.

Ox- Bowser. Plays okay.middle of the pack.

Dan- wants to win. Was best until Peter came along. King boo main.

Quen- really into it. Will always use shells on people. Mains Luigi.

Harry- sucks. And always is last. Worst luck too when it comes to items. Is daisy

Peter- funky Kong. Best player with little practice. Mid tere luck

Rhino-back of the pack. Toad.

Sandman- dry bones super lucky. Consistently second or third.

Electro: donkey Kong. Mid tere driver. Very competitive

^-^

[kdawn0201]

The donkeys pose for the best selfies with Montana

[brookston]

Holidays 1.15

Holidays

Alpha Kappa Alpha Day

Armed Forces Remembrance Day (Nigeria)

Army Day (India)

Aswan High Dam Day

Basketball Rules Day

British Museum Day (UK)

Commemoration Day of the Genocide Against Albanians (Kosovo)

Composer Day (Mexico)

Democratic Donkey Day

Esquipulas (Guatemala)

First Super Bowl Anniversary Day

4-H Day

George Price Day (Belize)

Guster Day (Boston, Massachusetts)

Halfway Point of Meteorological Winter

Happy Days Day

I Love Public Schools Day (Nebraska)

International Free Agent Signing Day (Baseball)

International Vote from Abroad Day

John Chilembwe Day (Malawi)

Korean Alphabet Day (a.k.a. Chosen-gul)

Massage Parlor Day

Miracle on the Hudson Day

Moliere Day (France)

Museum Day (UK)

National Charango Day

National Go and Do Good Day

National Hat Day

National Humanitarian Day

National Kayla Day

National Parks Free Entrance Day

National Pothole Day (UK)

National Twitter Day

National Zombies Day

Ocean Duty Day (Indonesia)

Procrastinator’s New Year

Sagichō at Tsurugaoka Hachimangū (Kamakura, Japan)

Seijin-No-Hi (Adult’s Day; Japan)

South Wind’s Prayer (Elder Scrolls)

Space Mountain Day

Super Bowl Anniversary Day

Teacher’s Day (Venezuela)

Telephone Directory Day (UK)

Thank Your Mentor Day

Thiruvalluvar Day (India)

Tin Day (French Republic)

Wikipedia Day

Willie Hoppe Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Big Dudes Big Foods Day

Craft-Brew Day (Berkeley, California)

Francis Tavern Day (New York)

National Bagel Day (a.k.a. Bagels and Lox Day)

National Booch Day

National Fresh Squeezed Juice Day

Strawberry Ice Cream Day

Wassailing the Apple Trees

Nature Celebrations

Arbor Day (Egypt, Florida, Jordan, Lousiana)

Ivy Day (Hedera helix

National Eskimo Dog Day

Tree Planting Day (Egypt)

Tulpanens Dag (a.k.a. Tulip Day; Sweden)

Independence, Flag & Related Days

Commonwealth of Abrus (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

International Recognition Day (Croatia)

Vermont (Declared their Independence under the name New Connecticut; 1777)

3rd Wednesday in January

Hump Day [Every Wednesday]

Museum Selfie Day [3rd Wednesday]

Wacky Wednesday [Every Wednesday]

Wandering Wednesday [3rd Wednesday of Each Month]

Website Wednesday [Every Wednesday]

Weedless Wednesday [3rd Wednesday]

Wiener Wednesday [3rd Wednesday of Each Month]

Weekly Holidays beginning January 15 (2nd Full Week of January)

None Known

Festivals Beginning January 15, 2025

Montana Agricultural & Industrial Expo (Great Falls, Montana) [thru 1.17]

Northwest Agricultural Show (Salem, Oregon) [thru 1.17]

Northwest Hay Expo (Kennewick, Washington) [thru 1.16]

Feast Days

Abeluzius (Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church)

Arnold Janssen (Christian; Saint)

Ask the Minotaur Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Black Christ of Esquipulas Day (Guatemala)

Bonitus (Christian; Saint)

Calybite (Christian; Saint)

Carmentalia (Old Roman Festival to Porrima and Postverta)

Ceolwulf (Christian; Saint)

Feast of the Abbot of Unreason

Feast of the Vestal Virgins (Ancient Rome; Everyday Wicca)

Fo-Hi (Positivist; Saint)

The Fragglettes (Muppetism)

Francis Ferdinand de Capillas (A Martyred Saint of China)

Isidore of Alexandria (Christian; Saint)

Ita (Christian; Saint)

John Calybites (Christian; Saint)

Macarius the Elder of Egypt (Western Christianity)

Maurus and Placidus (Order of Saint Benedict)

Muspellheim Day: Surt’s Blot (Pagan)

Niccolo Machiavelli Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Nozawa Onsen Fire Festival (a.k.a. Tondo Matsuri, Sai No Kami, Sagicho, Dondo Yaki, and Dōsojin Matsuri; Japan)

Our Lady of the Poor (Christian; Saint)

Paul the Hermit (a.k.a. Paul of Thebes; Christian; Saint)

Unicorn Hunting Day (Pastafarian)

Secular Saints Days

Captain Beefheart (Music)

Chuck Berry (Music)

Lee Bontecou (Art)

Eugène Brands (Art)

Ernest J. Gaines (Literature)

Queen Ida Guillory (Music)

Frances Benjamin Johnston (Art)

Martin Luther King Jr. (Philosophy)

Gene Krupa (Music)

Jean-Baptiste Moliere (Literature)

Giovanni Segantini (Art)

Robert Silverberg (Literature)

Edward Teller (Science)

Ronnie Van Zandt (Music)

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Art)

Stanisław Wyspiański (Art)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [3 of 53]

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [7 of 32]

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

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [6 of 60]

Premieres

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Trade Organization; 1927)

Alice the Toreador (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1925)

Alice’s Balloon Race (Disney Cartoon; 1926)

Alice’s Orphan (Disney Cartoon; 1926)

Be Mice to Cats (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1960)

The Benny Hill Show (BBC TV Series; 1955)

The Book of Eli (Film; 2010)

Bullwinkle Bites Back or Nothing But the Tooth (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 90; 1961)

Bullwinkle Makes His Bid or Going! Going! Gun! (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 195; 1963)

Call the Midwife (BBC TV Series; 2012)

The Candy House (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1934)

Catch the Saint, by Christopher Short (Short Stories; 1975) [Saint #45]

The Dig (Film; 2021)

Donald’s Weekend (Disney Cartoon TV Special; 1958)

Education for Death (Disney Cartoon; 1943)

Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchet (Novel; 1987) [Discworld #3]

The Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan (Novel; 1990) [Wheel of Time #1]

The Fastest Guitar Alive (Film; 1967)

Feather Dusted (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)

Ford F-Series Truck (Truck; 1958)

Get It On, recorded by Chase (Song; 1971)

Goggle Fishing Bear, featuring Barney Bear (MGM Cartoon; 1949)

Happy Days (TV Series; 1974)

Hill Street Blues (TV Series; 1981)

I Can’t Explain, by The Who (Song; 1965)

It’s the Talk of the Town, by The Glen Gray Orchestra (Song; 1942)

The Last of Us (TV Series; 2023)

Low, by David Bowie (Album; 1977)

Man Bites Dog (Film; 1993)

The Man in the High Castle (TV Series; 2015)

Metal-Munching Mice, Part 1 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 89; 1961)

Moonstruck (Film; 1987)

Moonwalkers (Film; 2016)

My Sweet Lord, by George Harrison (Song; 1971)

My World Is Empty Without You, by The Supremes (Song; 1966)

Norm of the North (Animated Film; 2016)

Pentagon (Gov’t Building; 1943)

The Philosophy Of The Revolution, by Gamal Abdel Nasser (Political Theory; 1956)

The Pied Piper of Basin Street (Swing Symphony Cartoon; 1945)

The Pigman, by Paul Zindel (Novel; 1968)

Porky’s Poppa (WB LT Cartoon; 1938)

Quartet for the End of Time, by Olivier Messiaen (Chamber Music; 1941)

Reign of the Supermen (WB Animated Film; 2019)

Rock the Boat, by Aaliyah (Song; 2002)

Savoy Shout, recorded by Luis Russell & His Burning Eight (Song; 1929)

The Sea Beast (Film; 1926)

A Separate Reality, by Carlos Castaneda (Philosophy Book; 1971)

Sleeping Beauty, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Ballet; 1890)

Space Mountain (Disneyland Attraction; 1975)

Sunbeam Motor Company (Automobile Company; 1905)

University of Notre Dame (School; 1844)

Utopia (UK TV Series; 2013)

The Vanishing American or No Moose is Good Moose (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 196; 1963)

Varsity Blues (Film; 1999)

WandaVision (TV Series; 2021)

Weathering With You (Anime Film; 2020)

Yayati: A Classic Tale of Lust, by Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (Novel; 1963)

Today’s Name Days

Dietwald, Marcel, Tilman (Austria)

Marcel, Mislav, Oton (Croatia)

Ctirad (Czech Republic)

Marcellus (Denmark)

Illimar, Ilmar, Ilmo (Estonia)

Solja(Finland)

Rachel, Rémi (France)

Arno, Arnold, Mauro, Romedius (Germany)

Loránd, Lóránt (Hungary)

Ida, Mauro (Italy)

Felicita, Fēlikss (Latvia)

Meda, Paulius, Skirgaila, Snieguolė (Lithuania)

Laura, Laurits (Norway)

Aleksander, Dąbrówka, Dobrawa, Domasław, Domosław, Izydor, Makary, Maur, Paweł (Poland)

Pavel (Romania)

Dobroslav (Slovakia)

Mauro (Spain)

Laura, Lorentz (Sweden)

Deidre, Deirdre, Deja, Marten, Martin, Marty (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 15 of 2025; 350 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 3 of Week 3 of 2025

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ruis (Elder) [Day 25 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Ding-Chou), Day 16 (Jia-Shen)

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

Coptic: 7 Tubah 1741

Hebrew: 15 Teveth 5785

Islamic: 15 Rajab 1446

J Cal: 15 White; Oneday [15 of 30]

Julian: 2 January 2025

Moon: 96%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 15 Moses (1st Month) [Fo-Hi]

Runic Half Month:Peorth (Womb, Dice Cup) [Day 9 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 26 of 90)

Week: 2nd Full Week of January

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 25 of 30)

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Holidays 1.15

Holidays

Alpha Kappa Alpha Day

Armed Forces Remembrance Day (Nigeria)

Army Day (India)

Aswan High Dam Day

Basketball Rules Day

British Museum Day (UK)

Commemoration Day of the Genocide Against Albanians (Kosovo)

Composer Day (Mexico)

Democratic Donkey Day

Esquipulas (Guatemala)

First Super Bowl Anniversary Day

4-H Day

George Price Day (Belize)

Guster Day (Boston, Massachusetts)

Halfway Point of Meteorological Winter

Happy Days Day

I Love Public Schools Day (Nebraska)

International Free Agent Signing Day (Baseball)

International Vote from Abroad Day

John Chilembwe Day (Malawi)

Korean Alphabet Day (a.k.a. Chosen-gul)

Massage Parlor Day

Miracle on the Hudson Day

Moliere Day (France)

Museum Day (UK)

National Charango Day

National Go and Do Good Day

National Hat Day

National Humanitarian Day

National Kayla Day

National Parks Free Entrance Day

National Pothole Day (UK)

National Twitter Day

National Zombies Day

Ocean Duty Day (Indonesia)

Procrastinator’s New Year

Sagichō at Tsurugaoka Hachimangū (Kamakura, Japan)

Seijin-No-Hi (Adult’s Day; Japan)

South Wind’s Prayer (Elder Scrolls)

Space Mountain Day

Super Bowl Anniversary Day

Teacher’s Day (Venezuela)

Telephone Directory Day (UK)

Thank Your Mentor Day

Thiruvalluvar Day (India)

Tin Day (French Republic)

Wikipedia Day

Willie Hoppe Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Big Dudes Big Foods Day

Craft-Brew Day (Berkeley, California)

Francis Tavern Day (New York)

National Bagel Day (a.k.a. Bagels and Lox Day)

National Booch Day

National Fresh Squeezed Juice Day

Strawberry Ice Cream Day

Wassailing the Apple Trees

Nature Celebrations

Arbor Day (Egypt, Florida, Jordan, Lousiana)

Ivy Day (Hedera helix)

National Eskimo Dog Day

Tree Planting Day (Egypt)

Tulpanens Dag (a.k.a. Tulip Day; Sweden)

Independence, Flag & Related Days

Commonwealth of Abrus (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

International Recognition Day (Croatia)

Vermont (Declared their Independence under the name New Connecticut; 1777)

3rd Wednesday in January

Hump Day [Every Wednesday]

Museum Selfie Day [3rd Wednesday]

Wacky Wednesday [Every Wednesday]

Wandering Wednesday [3rd Wednesday of Each Month]

Website Wednesday [Every Wednesday]

Weedless Wednesday [3rd Wednesday]

Wiener Wednesday [3rd Wednesday of Each Month]

Weekly Holidays beginning January 15 (2nd Full Week of January)

None Known

Festivals Beginning January 15, 2025

Montana Agricultural & Industrial Expo (Great Falls, Montana) [thru 1.17]

Northwest Agricultural Show (Salem, Oregon) [thru 1.17]

Northwest Hay Expo (Kennewick, Washington) [thru 1.16]

Feast Days

Abeluzius (Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church)

Arnold Janssen (Christian; Saint)

Ask the Minotaur Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Black Christ of Esquipulas Day (Guatemala)

Bonitus (Christian; Saint)

Calybite (Christian; Saint)

Carmentalia (Old Roman Festival to Porrima and Postverta)

Ceolwulf (Christian; Saint)

Feast of the Abbot of Unreason

Feast of the Vestal Virgins (Ancient Rome; Everyday Wicca)

Fo-Hi (Positivist; Saint)

The Fragglettes (Muppetism)

Francis Ferdinand de Capillas (A Martyred Saint of China)

Isidore of Alexandria (Christian; Saint)

Ita (Christian; Saint)

John Calybites (Christian; Saint)

Macarius the Elder of Egypt (Western Christianity)

Maurus and Placidus (Order of Saint Benedict)

Muspellheim Day: Surt’s Blot (Pagan)

Niccolo Machiavelli Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Nozawa Onsen Fire Festival (a.k.a. Tondo Matsuri, Sai No Kami, Sagicho, Dondo Yaki, and Dōsojin Matsuri; Japan)

Our Lady of the Poor (Christian; Saint)

Paul the Hermit (a.k.a. Paul of Thebes; Christian; Saint)

Unicorn Hunting Day (Pastafarian)

Secular Saints Days

Captain Beefheart (Music)

Chuck Berry (Music)

Lee Bontecou (Art)

Eugène Brands (Art)

Ernest J. Gaines (Literature)

Queen Ida Guillory (Music)

Frances Benjamin Johnston (Art)

Martin Luther King Jr. (Philosophy)

Gene Krupa (Music)

Jean-Baptiste Moliere (Literature)

Giovanni Segantini (Art)

Robert Silverberg (Literature)

Edward Teller (Science)

Ronnie Van Zandt (Music)

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Art)

Stanisław Wyspiański (Art)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [3 of 53]

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [7 of 32]

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

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [6 of 60]

Premieres

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Trade Organization; 1927)

Alice the Toreador (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1925)

Alice’s Balloon Race (Disney Cartoon; 1926)

Alice’s Orphan (Disney Cartoon; 1926)

Be Mice to Cats (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1960)

The Benny Hill Show (BBC TV Series; 1955)

The Book of Eli (Film; 2010)

Bullwinkle Bites Back or Nothing But the Tooth (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 90; 1961)

Bullwinkle Makes His Bid or Going! Going! Gun! (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 195; 1963)

Call the Midwife (BBC TV Series; 2012)

The Candy House (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1934)

Catch the Saint, by Christopher Short (Short Stories; 1975) [Saint #45]

The Dig (Film; 2021)

Donald’s Weekend (Disney Cartoon TV Special; 1958)

Education for Death (Disney Cartoon; 1943)

Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchet (Novel; 1987) [Discworld #3]

The Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan (Novel; 1990) [Wheel of Time #1]

The Fastest Guitar Alive (Film; 1967)

Feather Dusted (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)

Ford F-Series Truck (Truck; 1958)

Get It On, recorded by Chase (Song; 1971)

Goggle Fishing Bear, featuring Barney Bear (MGM Cartoon; 1949)

Happy Days (TV Series; 1974)

Hill Street Blues (TV Series; 1981)

I Can’t Explain, by The Who (Song; 1965)

It’s the Talk of the Town, by The Glen Gray Orchestra (Song; 1942)

The Last of Us (TV Series; 2023)

Low, by David Bowie (Album; 1977)

Man Bites Dog (Film; 1993)

The Man in the High Castle (TV Series; 2015)

Metal-Munching Mice, Part 1 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 89; 1961)

Moonstruck (Film; 1987)

Moonwalkers (Film; 2016)

My Sweet Lord, by George Harrison (Song; 1971)

My World Is Empty Without You, by The Supremes (Song; 1966)

Norm of the North (Animated Film; 2016)

Pentagon (Gov’t Building; 1943)

The Philosophy Of The Revolution, by Gamal Abdel Nasser (Political Theory; 1956)

The Pied Piper of Basin Street (Swing Symphony Cartoon; 1945)

The Pigman, by Paul Zindel (Novel; 1968)

Porky’s Poppa (WB LT Cartoon; 1938)

Quartet for the End of Time, by Olivier Messiaen (Chamber Music; 1941)

Reign of the Supermen (WB Animated Film; 2019)

Rock the Boat, by Aaliyah (Song; 2002)

Savoy Shout, recorded by Luis Russell & His Burning Eight (Song; 1929)

The Sea Beast (Film; 1926)

A Separate Reality, by Carlos Castaneda (Philosophy Book; 1971)

Sleeping Beauty, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Ballet; 1890)

Space Mountain (Disneyland Attraction; 1975)

Sunbeam Motor Company (Automobile Company; 1905)

University of Notre Dame (School; 1844)

Utopia (UK TV Series; 2013)

The Vanishing American or No Moose is Good Moose (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 196; 1963)

Varsity Blues (Film; 1999)

WandaVision (TV Series; 2021)

Weathering With You (Anime Film; 2020)

Yayati: A Classic Tale of Lust, by Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (Novel; 1963)

Today’s Name Days

Dietwald, Marcel, Tilman (Austria)

Marcel, Mislav, Oton (Croatia)

Ctirad (Czech Republic)

Marcellus (Denmark)

Illimar, Ilmar, Ilmo (Estonia)

Solja(Finland)

Rachel, Rémi (France)

Arno, Arnold, Mauro, Romedius (Germany)

Loránd, Lóránt (Hungary)

Ida, Mauro (Italy)

Felicita, Fēlikss (Latvia)

Meda, Paulius, Skirgaila, Snieguolė (Lithuania)

Laura, Laurits (Norway)

Aleksander, Dąbrówka, Dobrawa, Domasław, Domosław, Izydor, Makary, Maur, Paweł (Poland)

Pavel (Romania)

Dobroslav (Slovakia)

Mauro (Spain)

Laura, Lorentz (Sweden)

Deidre, Deirdre, Deja, Marten, Martin, Marty (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 15 of 2025; 350 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 3 of Week 3 of 2025

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ruis (Elder) [Day 25 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Ding-Chou), Day 16 (Jia-Shen)

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

Coptic: 7 Tubah 1741

Hebrew: 15 Teveth 5785

Islamic: 15 Rajab 1446

J Cal: 15 White; Oneday [15 of 30]

Julian: 2 January 2025

Moon: 96%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 15 Moses (1st Month) [Fo-Hi]

Runic Half Month:Peorth (Womb, Dice Cup) [Day 9 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 26 of 90)

Week: 2nd Full Week of January

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 25 of 30)