Blowing Kisses...

Now Accepting Valentine's Day Wishes

I don’t want to speak for my fellow single siblings out there, but I love Valentine’s Day.

Any and every chance to celebrate any kind of love—familial, platonic, or romantic—warms my heart.

So…if you would like to share a Valentine’s Day message, please DM or email me a super short—preferably one sentence long—note to your loved one(s).

Past, present, or future, love is love. Always was. Always will be.

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My plan is to share all the messages I receive—along with my own—on Friday. Fingers crossed, I get so many the email version won’t be able to show them all—there’s a limit to how long emails can be apparently—but the blog version will include them all.

If you’re familiar with Delilah’s radio show, I want to do something similar with the heart-filled post. Without the songs. Though I’m not ruling out a few love songs.

Thanks in advance for sharing and showing love to your nears and dears!
Clint 🌈✌️

P.S. Over the weekend, I got a note asking if I had a favorite montage I’ve made. Like most artists (and parents), I officially don’t have favorites. But if I had to pick, it would be the one above. It’s one of the few times I’ve been able to remix the song. Because the singer-songwriter Cullah released the song under Creative Commons. What a great guy…and great song. “Save My Soul” has helped save my soul.

P.P.S. Over on YouTube, I just noticed my channel now has 15,012 subscribers. Wow! And on Substack, the blog keeps gaining traction. Total subscribers—free, paid and patron—is currently 1,960. So close to 2K…yay!

Big thanks to all who’ve recently become paid subscribers…you rock my world!

And for those that rather not subscribe, donations and tips are always appreciated.

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

• Thousands Call On Christie’s To Cancel AI Art Auction On Open Letter (The Art Newspaper)

• These People Are Exhausting: Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively’s Struggle For Control (The Hollywood Reporter)

• iOS 18.3.1—Update Now Warning Issued To All iPhone Users (Forbes)

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ON THIS DAY = FEBRUARY 11

BIRTHDAYS

• 1847 = Thomas Edison = American engineer and businessman

• 1855 = Ellen Day Hale = American artist 🌈

• 1909 = Joseph L. Mankiewicz = American filmmaker

• 1909 = Max Baer = American boxer and actor

• 1917 = Sidney Sheldon = American author and screenwriter

• 1919 = Eva Gabor = Hungarian-American actor

• 1926 = Leslie Nielsen = Canadian-American actor and producer

• 1930 = Mary Quant = British fashion designer

• 1930 = Roy De Forest = American painter and academic

• 1934 = Tina Louise = American actor and singer

• 1936 = Burt Reynolds = American actor and director

• 1941 = Sérgio Mendes = Brazilian pianist and composer

• 1947 = Derek Shulman = Scottish singer-songwriter

• 1962 = Sheryl Crow = American singer-songwriter

• 1962 = Tammy Baldwin = American politician 🌈

• 1969 = Jennifer Aniston = American actor

• 1971 = Damian Lewis = English actor

• 1972 = Kelly Slater = American surfer

• 1974 = D'Angelo = American singer-songwriter

• 1979 = Brandy Norwood = American singer-songwriter and actor

• 1980 = Matthew Lawrence = American actor and singer

• 1981 = Kelly Rowland = American singer and actor

• 1992 = Taylor Lautner = American actor

EVENTS

• 1933 = LAPD Red Squad raid on John Reed Club art show in the U.S. results in the destruction of a dozen political artworks.

• 1938 = BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term “robot.”

• 1967 = Organized by the owner of the gay bar Pandora’s Box and built on the Black Cat Tavern protests of weeks earlier, about 200 LGBT people watch as 40 picketers demonstrate in front of the Black Cat in coordination with hippies and other counterculture groups who had been targeted by police for harassment and violence.

• 1976 = The Frente de Liberación Homosexual made their final public appearance, shortly before the group's dissolution due to political repression after the Argentine coup d'état.

• 1990 = Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.

HOLIDAYS + OBSERVANCES

• Black History Month

• LGBT History Month (UK)

• National Guitar Day

• National Inventors' Day

• National Shut-In Visitation Day

PHOTO + QUOTES OF THE DAY

“We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.”
Thomas A. Edison

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
Thomas A. Edison

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