#Tempest Bledso

[mannytoodope]

Cockroach: Theo! Theo Theo?

Theo: In Here.

Cockroach: Don't do It! Stop!

Theo: What?

Cockroach: Don't shave your head. We're not in the video.

Theo: What?!

Cockroach: I've been calling, but it's been busy.

Theo: That was Vanessa. What's wrong?

Cockroach: I'm beat. I ran over here. Let's sit down.

This is terrible.

Theo: What happened?

Cockroach: I went down early, and I couldn't even get on the set.

Theo: You're kidding.

Cockroach: There were 200 guys already everyone had a shaved head.

Theo: Whoa!

Cockroach: They took the first 13 and sent the rest home. I told the assistant, "You said I was in." He gave me $50 for showing up.

Theo: Fifty bucks? That's great!

Cockroach: Yeah, but look at this.

 Theo: Cockroach girls going to love it when they see you like

Cockroach: that yeah you're right I don't know whyI got so freaked about it anyway you need, 

Vanessa: What are you doing? Cockroach(laughs)

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 8.1

Beer Birthdays

Henry Hess (1859)

Frederick Gettelman Jr. (1915)

Robbin Bain, Miss Rheingold 1959 (1938)

Five Favorite Birthdays

William Clark; explorer (1770)

Jerry Garcia; rock guitarist, singer (1942)

James Gleick; writer, journalist (1954)

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones; labor organizer (1837)

Herman Melville; writer (1819)

Famous Birthdays

Tempest Bledsoe; actor (1973)

Tommy Bolin; rock musician (1951)

Jim Carroll; poet, writer, actor (1950)

Claudius I; Roman emperor (10 B.C.E.)

Coolio; rapper (1963)

Rick Coonce; rock singer, drummer (1947)

Robert Cray; singer (1953)

Richard Dadd; English artist (1817)

Dom DeLuise; comedian, actor (1933)

Suzi Gardner; rock musician (1960)

Arthur Hill; actor (1922)

Francis Scott Key; poet (1779)

Howard Kurtz; journalist (1953)

Jean Baptiste Lamarck; naturalist (1744)

Sam Mendes; film director (1965)

Maria Mitchell; astronomer (1818)

Jason Momoa; actor (1979(

Taylor Negron; comedian, actor (1958)

Michael Penn; singer, songwriter (1958)

Yves Saint-Laurent; fashion designer (1936)

Park Si-eun; South Korean actress (2001)

Robert James Waller; writer (1939)

Tom Wilson; cartoonist (1931)

[loveboatinsanity]

[queerbookcorner]

Pride Alphabet continues with L for Lesbian! For my picks, I went with lesser known titles as opposed to the big ones (Carol, Fingersmith, Ash, etc) which are pretty standard “must reads” for anyone looking for f/f.

Previous Rec Lists: {A for Asexual+Aromantic | B for Bisexual | G for Genderqueer | G for Gay | I for Intersex} {POC 1 | POC 2}

Top 3 (Uncommon) Picks: 

The Dark Wife by S.E. Diemer Sassy Summary: Lesbian retelling of Persephone and Hades with a focus on love and companionship instead of the usual darker/edgier retellings. (And the author has it up for FREE on their site here!)

Rep: Both leading ladies and a secondary lady are all lesbians.

Miranda in Milan by Katherine Duckett Sassy Summary: If you've ever felt that Miranda from Shakespeare's The Tempest was too awesome for where her story went- this is the retelling for you! Exploring Miranda, the place of women, and now her relationship with a woman of color- this Gothic reimagining of Miranda’s tale gives one of Shakespeare’s heroines the love story she deserved.

Rep: Love interest is from Marrakech.

A Study in Honor by Claire O'Dell Sassy Summary: Black. Sapphic. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. In a political thriller in a post Trump-era world. And it's a series with a new book coming out in July!

Rep: Both leads are black lesbians and there are poc amongst the side characters.

The rest of the list: 

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by by Jeanette Winterson

Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard

The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

10 Things I Can See from Here by Carrie Mac

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins

Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule

Odd Girl Out by Ann Bannon

Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden

Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno

Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller

Wildthorn by Jane Eagland

Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by by Jaye Robin Brown

Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour

Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue

Get it Together, Delilah! by Erin Gough

Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel

Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake

Ruby-Fruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

Daughter of Mystery by Heather Rose Jones

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata

Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls

How to Talk to Nice English Girls by Gretchen Evans 

Silhouette of a Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin

Carol by Patricia Highsmith

A Thin Bright Line by Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Who is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht 

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling

Ash by Malinda Lo

[thewebcomicsreview]

Tonight on Legend of the Hare: Shame! 

Ah yes, the great freakout of 2014. I felt that the story wasn’t working because I didn’t characterize Jill at all before starting it, and seeing how gruesome the dead rabbits were made me want to abandon the plan for Jill to accidentally burn Molly (even though the CAT TORCHER poster is still prominently displayed next to a bunch of the ale, so I was still holding on to it a little). I also didn’t feel like I’d properly set up Jill, so time for a soft reboot! Jill gets kicked back to Earth so we can learn more about her shitty life before the plot starts again!

Re-reading this, I’m surprised both at how unnecessary it was, but also at how it kind of worked despite being a panic move and a story I didn’t like the start of. “I got super wasted last night and became a magical girl” is an interesting premise, and it it recontextualizes the tattoo in a thematic way that’s pretty slick for how unplanned it is. I kind of lucked into it. It looks planned!

This is also an attempt to establish Tempest as a character. The smart, socially active one who had her shit together. Why is she friends with Jill? Is she friends with Jill, or just roomies? That’s a great question, but she ended up being kind of secondary. I tried to promote Tempest to main character in book 2, but then book 2 got cancelled, c’est la vie.

Here’s some Tempest Trivia, though: Her name comes from Cosby Show actress Tempestt Bledsoe, for no reason other than I thought “Tempest” was a cool name. Her never-mentioned-in-the-comic last name, Flowers, is from Ramona Flowers of Scott Pilgrim vs The World, again just because I thought it sounded nice. While we’re on a name kick, did you know Saffron and Sage is named after a sandwich shop called Bailey and Sage I used to live near? Sage the character was not part of the original plan for that story, but I liked the name enough that I put him in!

Jesus Christ, though. This page has eight panels on it, one of which is an establishing shot! I’m lucky Carlos didn’t fly to America to beat me up.

[porlockstompf]

Reading de Nacht Reading 2018

                                  my favourite books of the year

my overall favourite book of the year:

wiliam h gass "the william h gass reader" (2018)

post-cyberpunkstompf:

01 cixin liu "ball lightning" (2018)

02 kim stanley robinson "red moon" (2018) 03 dave hutchinson "europe at dawn" (2018)      + dave hutchinson "shelter (the aftermath 01)" (2018) 04 paul kincaid "ian m banks (modern masters of science fiction)" (2017) 05 hannu rajaniemi "summerland" (2018)

06 m john harrison "you should come with me now: stories of ghosts" (2017) 07 wade rousch (ed) "twelve tomorrows (2018) 08 christopher moore "noir" (2018) 09 jonathan strahan (ed) "infinity's end" (2018)     + jonathan strahan (ed) "the best sf & f of the year, vol XII" (2018) 10 neil clarke (ed) "the final frontier" (2018)      + neil clarke (ed) "the best sf of the year vol III" (2018)

11 gardner dozois (ed) "the year's best sf: thirty-fifth annual collection" (2018) 12 steve toutonghi "side life" (2018) 13 mike ashley (ed) "lost mars: the golden age of the red planet" (2018) 14 mary robinette kowal "the calculating stars: a lady astronaut novel" (2018) 15 mingwei song & theodore huters (eds)  "the reincarnated giant:      an anthology of twenty-first century chinese science fiction" (2018)

16 john zakour & lawrence ganem "the peach-blonde bomber" (2018) 17 becky chambers "record of a spaceborn few" (2018) 18 yoon ha lee "revenant gun" (2018) 19 derek künsken "the quantum magician" (2018) 20 gregory benford "rewrite" [arc] (2019)

21 richard k morgan "thin air" (2018) 22 charles stross "the labyrinth index" (2018) 23 john varley "irontown blues" (2018) 24 peter watts "the freeze-frame revolution" (2018) 25 karl schroeder "the million" (2018)

26 drew williams "the stars now unclaimed" (2018) 27 peter f hamilton "the salvation" (2018) 28 neal asher "the soldier" (2018) 29 nick mamatas "the people's republic of everything" (2018) 30 s j morden "one way" (2018)

31 gareth l powell "embers of war" (2018) 32 alex white "a big ship at the end of the universe" (2018)      + alex white "a bad deal for the whole galaxy" (2018) 33 s k dunstall "stars unchartered" (2018) 34 catherynne m valente "space opera" (2018) 35 alastair reynolds "elysium fire" (2018)

36 charles stross "dark state" (2018) 37 n k jemisin (ed) "the best american sf & f 2018" (2018) 38 jack mcdevitt "the long sunset" (2018)   + jack mcdevitt "a voice in the night" (2018) 39 elizabeth moon "into the fire" (2018) 40 r.e. stearns "barbary station" (2017) /      steven erikson "willfull child III: the search for spark" (2018)

polarstompf:

01 david hewson "the savage shore" (2018)

     ex aequo      andrea camilleri "the pyramid of mud" (2018)      + andrea camilleri "death at sea: montalbano's early cases" (2018)

02 mirko zilahy "de schaduw" (2017)   + mirko zilahy "de mythe van de dood" (2018) 03 mick herron "london rules" (2018)   + mick heron "the drop" (2018) 04 volker kutscher "babylon berlin" (2017)   + volker kutscher "the silent death" (2017)   + volker kutscher "goldstein" (2018) 05 chris petit "pale horse riding" (2017)

06 edgar cantero "this body's not big enough for both of us" (2018) 07 ian rankin "in a house of lies" (2018) 08 philip kerr "greeks bearing gifts" (2018) 09 jack grimwood "nightfall berlin" (2018) 10 dolan cummings "the existential leap: a crime story" (2017)

11 ann van loock "de expo '58 moorden" (2018) 12 massimo carlotto "master of knots" (2004) 13 joseph knox "sirens" (2018)     + joseph knox "the smiling man" (2018) 14 geir tangen "het meesterwerk" (2017) 15 kate atkinson "transcription" (2018)

16 patrick conrad "diep in december" (2018) 17 jorge zepeda patterson "zwarte trui" (2018) 18 wolfgang burger "heidelberg requiem" (2016) 19 charles cumming "a divided spy" (2016)      + charles cumming "the man between" (2018) 20 frank goldammer "the air raid killer" (2018)      + frank goldammer "a thousand devils" (2018)

21 andreas norman "stille oorlog" (2018) 22 jesper stein "de onrust" (2018)      + jesper stein "papa" (2018) 23 luca d'andrea "in de greep van de waanzin" (2018) 24 jo nesbø  "macbeth" (2018) 25 hans dooremalen "descartes in amsterdam: filosofische detective" (2018) /      chris pavone "the expats" (2012)

klassikstompf:

01 wiliam h gass "the william h gass reader" (2018)

02 louis armand "breakfast at midnight" (2012)      + louis armand "the combinations" (2016)      + louis armand "canicule" (2013)      + louis armand "cairo" (2014) 03 andrew crumey "the great chain of unbeing" (2018) 04 viv albertine "throw away unopened" (2018) 05 daniela cascella "singed" (2017)

06 ted geltner "blood, bone, & marrow: a biography of harry crews" (2017) 07 steve erickson "zeroville" (2007) 08 olga tokarczuk "drive your plow over the bones of the dead" (2018) 09 julián ríos "the house of ulysses" [] (2010)      + julián ríos "poundemonium" [1997] 10 daniel mendelsohn "an odyssey: a father, a son, and an epic" (2017)

11 giorgio van straten "in search of lost books: the forgotten stories of eight mythical volumes" (2017) 12 pascal mercier "night train to lisbon" (2004) 13 tony white "the fountain in the forest" (2018) 14 alejandro zambra "not to read" (2018) 15 gabriel josipovici "the cemetery in barnes" (2018)

16 lucy ives "impossible views of the world" (2017) 17 matthew herbert "the music: a novel through sound" (2018) 18 ann quin "the unmapped country: stories & fragments" (2018) 19 stephen fry "mythos" (2017) & "heroes" (2018) 20 johan swinnen "happening: de aanslag op de Inno" (2017)

21 ermanno cavazzoni "the nocturnal library" (2018) 22 richard powers "the overstory" (2018) 23 alain robbe-grillet "project for a revolution in ny" (1972) 24 melchior vischer "second through brain" (2015) 25 bob van laerhoven "return to hiroshima" (2018)      + bob van laerhoven "dossier feuerhand" (2017)      + bob van laerhoven "dangerous obsessions" (2015)      + bob van laerhoven "heart fever" (2018)

gedächtnisstompf:

01 jacques derrida "geschlecht III: sexe, race, nation, humanité" (2018)      + jacques derrida "le goût du secret: entretiens 1993-1995" (2018)

02 tom cohen, claire colebrook & j hillis miller      "theory & the disappearing future:  on deman, on benjamin" (2011) 03 hannah arendt "het waagstuk van de politiek:      over politieke leugens en burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid" (2018)      + dirk de schutter "hannah arendt: politiek denker" (2015) 04 serge andré "les perversions #1: le fétichisme" (2013)      + serge andré "les perversions #1: le sadisme" (2013)      + serge andré "les perversions #1: le masochisme" (2013) 05 ger groot "4 ongemakkelijke filosofen: nietzsche, cioran, bataille, derrida"            (2003)

06 mark fisher "k-punk: the collected & unpublished writings (2014-2016)" (2018) 07 molier, ellian, rijpkema (eds) "de strijd om de democratie:      essays over democratische zelfverdediging" (2018) 08 florentijn van rootselaar "filosofisch veldwerk:      grote filosofen van nu over leven in barre tijden" (2018) 09 lieven de cauter "van de grote woorden & kleine dingen" (2018) 10 nemanja mitrovic      "the (im)possibility of literature as the possibility of ethics" (2017)

11 sue prideaux "i am dynamite! a life of friedrich nietzsche" (2018) 12 paul farley & michael symmons roberts "deaths of the poets" (2018) 13 erik bledsoe (ed) "perspectives on harry crews" (2001) 14 kailash c baral & r radhakrishan (eds)      "theory after derrida: essays in critical praxis"(2018) 15 agnes czajka & bora isyar (eds)      "europe after derrida: crisis & potentiality" (2016)

poesisstompf:

01 john cooper clarke "the luckiest guy alive" (2018)

02 kate tempest "running upon the wires" (2018) 03 robin robertson "the long take" (2018) 04 david austin "dread poetry & freedom:      linton kwesi johnson & the unfinished revolution" (2018) 05 tommy pico "junk" (2018)

platterstompf:

01 power, devereux, & dillane (eds)       "heart & soul: critical essays on joy division" (2018)

02 michael glasmeier & ursula block (eds) "broken music: artists' recordworks"         (2nd edition 2018) 03 mark e smith "messing up the paintwork: the wit & wisdom of mark e smith"         (2018) 04 willy dirickx (ed) "de brassers" (2018) 05 tommy mackay "40 odd years of the fall" (2018)

06 john h baker "the art of nick cave: new critical essays" (2013) 07 will oldham "songs of love & horror: collected lyrics of will oldham" (2018)      + alan licht (ed) "will oldham on bonnie 'prine' billy" (2012) 08 michael goddard & benjamin halligan      "mark e smith & the fall: art, music, & politics" (2013) 09 daniel kane "do you have a band? poetry & punk rock in nyc" (2017) 10 bendle "permanent transience" (2015)

11 david grubbs "now that the audience is assembled" (2018) 12 nick soulsby "swans: sacrifice & transcendence (the oral history)" (2018)      + michael gira "the egg: stories" (2018) 13 robert young & irmin schmidt "all gates open: the story of can" (2018) 14 mike goldschmith "discord: the story of noise" (2012) 15 bruce russell      "gilded splinters: essays & aphorisms towards an aesthetic of noise" (2018)

16 philippe robert "agitation frite" (2018)²      + philippe robert "action friite" (2018)      + philippe robert "action frIIIte" (2018) 17 guillaume belhomme, philippe robert, ea "le son du grisli:      varèse, tzara, mochizuki & cave" (2018) 18 david stubbs "future days: krautrock & the building of modern germany"                (2018)       + david stubbs "mars by 1980: the story of electronic music" (2018) 19 blixa bargeld "europa: una letania" [2009] (2018) 20 chris bohn (ed) "the wire" 

21 richard hirst (ed)      "we were strangers: stories inspired by unknown pleasures" (2018) 22 françois girodineau "nick cave & the bad seeds: tender prey" (2018) 23 mick middles "the fall" (2009) 24 jim dooley "red set: a history of gang of four" (2018) 25 mats gustafsson      "discaholics! record collector confessions vol I (2nd ed)" (2018) /      + rob van scheers "drie akkoorden & de waarheid: muzikale levenslessen"              (2014)

stagestompf:

01 ian rankin & rona munro "rebus: long shadows" (2018)

humorstompf:

01 robin ince       "i'm a joke & so are you: a comedian's take on what makes us human"       (2018) 02 simon munnery "how to live" (2018) 03 lucien randall "disgusting bliss: the brass eye of chris morris" (2011)

bilderstompf:

01 michael glasmeier & ursula block (eds)      "broken music: artists' recordworks" (2nd edition 2018)

02 thomas bernhard & ferry radax "thomas bernhard: 3 days" (2016) 03 ed van der elsken "love on the left bank" (2002) 04 philippe monsel "francis bacon" (1994)

05 paul duncan & jürgen müller (eds)   "film noir plus taschen's top 50 pick of noir classics from 1940-1960" (2017) 06 cuauhtémoc medina "manifesta 9: the deep of the modern" (2012) 07 julian schnabel: permanently becoming & the architecture of seeing" (2012) 08 reinhard kleist "nick cave & the bad seeds: an art book" (2018)

wissenschaftstompf & other distractions:

01 brian cox & robin ince      "how to build a universe: an infinite monkey cage adventure" (2017)

02 patrick moore & chris north       "the sky at night: answers to questions from across the univers" (2012) 03 chip carter "obsessed with star trek" (2011) 04 leon hunt "danger:diabolik" (2018)

cyclostompf:

01 jean cléder "petite éloge de la course cycliste" (2018)

02 max leonard "higher calling: cycling's obsession with mountains" (2018) 03 colin o'brien      "giro d'italia: the story of the world's most beautiful bike race" (2018) 04 velominati      "wielergoden: de meest heldhaftige renners ooit 38 heroïsche verhalen”           (2018) 05 william fotheringham "sunday in hell" (2018)

06 jonas heyerick (ed) "bahamontes" (magazine) o.a. extra editie de giro (2018) 07 jorge zepeda patterson "zwarte trui" (2018) 08 dirk jan roeleven "de nieuwe fiets: villar san constanzo - a'dam" (2018) 09 frederik baeckelandt "gino bartali (les héros 03)" (2018) 10 chris sidwells "the call of the road: the history of cycle road racing" (2018)

10 john dowie "the freewheeling john dowie:                  a comedian, a bike, & a tent, what could possibly go right?" (2018) 12 edward pickering "the ronde:       inside the tour of flanders, the world's toughest bike race" (2018) 13 charles pope "a golden age of cycling" (2018) 14 roger gilles "women on the move:       the forgotten era of women's bicycle racing" (2018) 15 peter cossins "the first tour de france:       60 cyclists & 19 days of daring on the road to paris" (2017)

16 paul maunder "the wind at my back: my cycling life" (2018)       + paul maunder "rainbows in the mud" (2017) 17 giacomo pellizzari "het geheim van de eenzame fietser" [2015] (2017) 18 dries de zaeytijd & fons leroy "25 jaar kweekvijver van koerstalent" (2018) 19 peter sagan "my world" (2018) 20 bradley wiggins "icons: my inspiration, my motivation, my obsession" (2018)

most pleasing purchases:

01 jayne county "man enough to be a woman" (1996)

02 berns, moyaert, & van tongeren (eds)      "de god van denkers en dichters: opstellen voor samuel ijsseling" (1997)

03 anselm kiefer       "l'art survivra à ses ruines: anselm kiefer au collège de france" (2011) 04 ludger lütkehaus       "'ruhe. grösse, sonnenlicht': friedrich nietzsche in sils-maria" (2014) 05 paul raabe "spaziergange durch nietzsches sils-marie" (1994)

… tsundoku !

may your home be safe from tigers, leroy, x HNY!

find me on LT:

TBR... PILING UP ...

postcyberpunkstompf:

adam roberts "adam (the aftermath 02)" (2018) eric brown "the martian simulacra: a sherlock holmes mystery" (2018) gary gibson "scienceville & other worlds" (2018) greg egan "phoresis" (2018) ian mcdonald "time was" (2018) ian whates & tom hunter (eds) "2001: an odyssey in words: celebrating the centenary of arthur c clarke's birth" james lovegrove "firefly: big damn hero" (2018) james patrick kelly "the promise of space & other stories" (2018)

jeff noon "a man of shadows" (2017) + jeff noon "the body library" (2018) kevin j anderson "selected stories: science fiction vol I" (2018) rich larson "tomorrow factory: collected fiction" (2018) seb doubinsky "missing signal" (2018) stephen baxter "redemption" (2018) + stephen baxter "xelee: vengeance" (2018) steve erikson "rejoice" (2018) tom schweterlitsch "the gone world" (2018) & maybe, just maybe: jay key "how to pick up women with a drunk space ninja" (2018) + jay key "how to win a pit fight with a drunk space ninja" (2018)

polarstompf:

dario correnti "heimwee naar bloed" (2018) giancarlo de cataldo "suburra" (2017) matthew pearl "the dante chamber" (2018) victor del árbol "a million drops" (2018) zygmunt miloszewski "priceless" [2013] (2018)

[patsmusictshirts]

Jerry Garcia would have turned 75 if he were still alive today. I might not be alive today if it weren’t for some serendipitously nearby EMTs the first time I tried to go see The Grateful Dead, and ended up getting hit by a van. (Apologies to my friends Jim and Dave that we never made it to the show!)

Norwood Hospital was throbbing with bad trips that night, and freaking out my concussed teenage head. But I am alive today, and I’m 44, the exact same age as Tempest Bledsoe. I’m exactly 10 years younger than Coolio, and exactly 14 years younger than Joe Elliott of Def Leppard. I don’t have T-shirts that celebrate any of the latter folks.

Anyway, I did eventually get to see the Dead a few years after my failed attempt. (Thanks Ariel, Josh, and Mike!)

Partly because of the drama/trauma of my previous effort, it felt like a dream, and I had a tough time convincing myself it wasn’t, because I knew all of the first few songs, and that band has like 7 million songs, right? I don’t think I got this shirt at the show though.

If memory serves correctly, this shirt came from a trade I did with my friend Mark. I can’t remember what shirt he got from the deal.

But yeah, this shirt is basically unwearable now. I imagine it fetching top price at auction though, mostly due to the #celebrityPitStains. And I imagine the purchaser being some rich rock dude who wants to look like he's got real cred onstage, and make his fans be like, "Woah, I never thought [fill in rich rocker name here] would cop to liking the Grateful Dead!"

But a note to the next owner of this shirt, whoever it may be: If you're not careful, it will leave a weird sunburn on your back.

BID ON THIS SHIRT NOW! http://ebay.to/2xJxvMf

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 8.1

Beer Birthdays

Henry Hess (1859)

Frederick Gettelman Jr. (1915)

Five Favorite Birthdays

William Clark; explorer (1770)

Jerry Garcia; rock guitarist, singer (1942)

James Gleick; writer, journalist (1954)

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones; labor organizer (1837)

Herman Melville; writer (1819)

Famous Birthdays

Tempest Bledsoe; actor (1973)

Tommy Bolin; rock musician (1951)

Jim Carroll; poet, writer, actor (1950)

Claudius I; Roman emperor (10 B.C.E.)

Coolio; rapper (1963)

Rick Coonce; rock singer, drummer (1947)

Robert Cray; singer (1953)

Richard Dadd; English artist (1817)

Dom DeLuise; comedian, actor (1933)

Suzi Gardner; rock musician (1960)

Arthur Hill; actor (1922)

Francis Scott Key; poet (1779)

Howard Kurtz; journalist (1953)

Jean Baptiste Lamarck; naturalist (1744)

Sam Mendes; film director (1965)

Maria Mitchell; astronomer (1818)

Jason Momoa; actor (1979(

Taylor Negron; comedian, actor (1958)

Michael Penn; singer, songwriter (1958)

Yves Saint-Laurent; fashion designer (1936)

Park Si-eun; South Korean actress (2001)

Robert James Waller; writer (1939)

Tom Wilson; cartoonist (1931)

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 8.1

Beer Birthdays

Armin Louis Neubert (1864)

Henry Hess (1859)

Frederick Gettelman Jr. (1915)

Five Favorite Birthdays

William Clark; explorer (1770)

Jerry Garcia; rock guitarist, singer (1942)

James Gleick; writer, journalist (1954)

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones; labor organizer (1837)

Herman Melville; writer (1819)

Famous Birthdays

Tempest Bledsoe; actor (1973)

Tommy Bolin; rock musician (1951)

Jim Carroll; poet, writer, actor (1950)

Claudius I; Roman emperor (10 B.C.E.)

Coolio; rapper (1963)

Rick Coonce; rock singer, drummer (1947)

Robert Cray; singer (1953)

Richard Dadd; English artist (1817)

Dom DeLuise; comedian, actor (1933)

Suzi Gardner; rock musician (1960)

Arthur Hill; actor (1922)

Francis Scott Key; poet (1779)

Howard Kurtz; journalist (1953)

Jean Baptiste Lamarck; naturalist (1744)

Sam Mendes; film director (1965)

Maria Mitchell; astronomer (1818)

Jason Momoa; actor (1979(

Taylor Negron; comedian, actor (1958)

Michael Penn; singer, songwriter (1958)

Yves Saint-Laurent; fashion designer (1936)

Park Si-eun; South Korean actress (2001)

Robert James Waller; writer (1939)

Tom Wilson; cartoonist (1931)

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 8.1

Beer Birthdays

Henry Hess (1859)

Frederick Gettelman Jr. (1915)

Five Favorite Birthdays

William Clark; explorer (1770)

Jerry Garcia; rock guitarist, singer (1942)

James Gleick; writer, journalist (1954)

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones; labor organizer (1837)

Herman Melville; writer (1819)

Famous Birthdays

Tempest Bledsoe; actor (1973)

Tommy Bolin; rock musician (1951)

Jim Carroll; poet, writer, actor (1950)

Claudius I; Roman emperor (10 B.C.E.)

Coolio; rapper (1963)

Rick Coonce; rock singer, drummer (1947)

Robert Cray; singer (1953)

Richard Dadd; English artist (1817)

Dom DeLuise; comedian, actor (1933)

Suzi Gardner; rock musician (1960)

Arthur Hill; actor (1922)

Francis Scott Key; poet (1779)

Howard Kurtz; journalist (1953)

Jean Baptiste Lamarck; naturalist (1744)

Sam Mendes; film director (1965)

Maria Mitchell; astronomer (1818)

Jason Momoa; actor (1979(

Taylor Negron; comedian, actor (1958)

Michael Penn; singer, songwriter (1958)

Yves Saint-Laurent; fashion designer (1936)

Park Si-eun; South Korean actress (2001)

Robert James Waller; writer (1939)

Tom Wilson; cartoonist (1931)

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 8.1

Beer Birthdays

Henry Hess (1859)

Frederick Gettelman Jr. (1915)

Five Favorite Birthdays

William Clark; explorer (1770)

Jerry Garcia; rock guitarist, singer (1942)

James Gleick; writer, journalist (1954)

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones; labor organizer (1837)

Herman Melville; writer (1819)

Famous Birthdays

Tempest Bledsoe; actor (1973)

Tommy Bolin; rock musician (1951)

Jim Carroll; poet, writer, actor (1950)

Claudius I; Roman emperor (10 B.C.E.)

Coolio; rapper (1963)

Rick Coonce; rock singer, drummer (1947)

Robert Cray; singer (1953)

Richard Dadd; English artist (1817)

Dom DeLuise; comedian, actor (1933)

Suzi Gardner; rock musician (1960)

Arthur Hill; actor (1922)

Francis Scott Key; poet (1779)

Howard Kurtz; journalist (1953)

Jean Baptiste Lamarck; naturalist (1744)

Sam Mendes; film director (1965)

Maria Mitchell; astronomer (1818)

Jason Momoa; actor (1979(

Taylor Negron; comedian, actor (1958)

Michael Penn; singer, songwriter (1958)

Yves Saint-Laurent; fashion designer (1936)

Park Si-eun; South Korean actress (2001)

Robert James Waller; writer (1939)

Tom Wilson; cartoonist (1931)

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 8.1

Beer Birthdays

Henry Hess (1859)

Frederick Gettelman Jr. (1915)

Five Favorite Birthdays

William Clark; explorer (1770)

Jerry Garcia; rock guitarist, singer (1942)

James Gleick; writer, journalist (1954)

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones; labor organizer (1837)

Herman Melville; writer (1819)

Famous Birthdays

Tempest Bledsoe; actor (1973)

Tommy Bolin; rock musician (1951)

Jim Carroll; poet, writer, actor (1950)

Claudius I; Roman emperor (10 B.C.E.)

Coolio; rapper (1963)

Rick Coonce; rock singer, drummer (1947)

Robert Cray; singer (1953)

Richard Dadd; English artist (1817)

Dom DeLuise; comedian, actor (1933)

Suzi Gardner; rock musician (1960)

Arthur Hill; actor (1922)

Francis Scott Key; poet (1779)

Howard Kurtz; journalist (1953)

Jean Baptiste Lamarck; naturalist (1744)

Sam Mendes; film director (1965)

Maria Mitchell; astronomer (1818)

Taylor Negron; comedian, actor (1958)

Michael Penn; singer, songwriter (1958)

Yves Saint-Laurent; fashion designer (1936)

Robert James Waller; writer (1939)

Tom Wilson; cartoonist (1931)

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 8.1

Beer Birthdays

Henry Hess (1859)

Frederick Gettelman Jr. (1915)

Five Favorite Birthdays

William Clark; explorer (1770)

Jerry Garcia; rock guitarist, singer (1942)

James Gleick; writer, journalist (1954)

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones; labor organizer (1837)

Herman Melville; writer (1819)

Famous Birthdays

Tempest Bledsoe; actor (1973)

Tommy Bolin; rock musician (1951)

Jim Carroll; poet, writer, actor (1950)

Claudius I; Roman emperor (10 B.C.E.)

Coolio; rapper (1963)

Rick Coonce; rock singer, drummer (1947)

Robert Cray; singer (1953)

Richard Dadd; English artist (1817)

Dom DeLuise; comedian, actor (1933)

Suzi Gardner; rock musician (1960)

Arthur Hill; actor (1922)

Francis Scott Key; poet (1779)

Howard Kurtz; journalist (1953)

Jean Baptiste Lamarck; naturalist (1744)

Sam Mendes; film director (1965)

Maria Mitchell; astronomer (1818)

Taylor Negron; comedian, actor (1958)

Michael Penn; singer, songwriter (1958)

Yves Saint-Laurent; fashion designer (1936)

Robert James Waller; writer (1939)

Tom Wilson; cartoonist (1931)

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 8.1

Beer Birthdays

Henry Hess (1859)

Frederick Gettelman Jr. (1915)

Five Favorite Birthdays

William Clark; explorer (1770)

Jerry Garcia; rock guitarist, singer (1942)

James Gleick; writer, journalist (1954)

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones; labor organizer (1837)

Herman Melville; writer (1819)

Famous Birthdays

Tempest Bledsoe; actor (1973)

Tommy Bolin; rock musician (1951)

Jim Carroll; poet, writer, actor (1950)

Claudius I; Roman emperor (10 B.C.E.)

Coolio; rapper (1963)

Rick Coonce; rock singer, drummer (1947)

Robert Cray; singer (1953)

Richard Dadd; English artist (1817)

Dom DeLuise; comedian, actor (1933)

Suzi Gardner; rock musician (1960)

Arthur Hill; actor (1922)

Francis Scott Key; poet (1779)

Howard Kurtz; journalist (1953)

Jean Baptiste Lamarck; naturalist (1744)

Sam Mendes; film director (1965)

Maria Mitchell; astronomer (1818)

Taylor Negron; comedian, actor (1958)

Michael Penn; singer, songwriter (1958)

Yves Saint-Laurent; fashion designer (1936)

Robert James Waller; writer (1939)

Tom Wilson; cartoonist (1931)