Cold November Air + Hot Substack App
Newsletter + On This Day
“November Air” by Zach Bryan
Lyrics
Happy November. There’s definitely a chill in the air.
I woke up with a bit of a sore throat—from snoring one too many logs—wrapped snug-as-a-bug-in-a-rug like a burrito. I made myself a spot of tea to help soothe my throat and to help me warm up.
I might fire up the heater, but I’m in denial: How is it November already?
Also, how have I never heard of “November Air” or Zach Bryan before?
According to the Recording Industry Association of America, Bryan has sold 30M albums and singles since his 2019 debut, “DeAnn.”
Safe to say, I don’t keep up with popular music. But this country-folk song and its hunky, sailor-singer-songwriter have me feeling all warm and fuzzy this morning.
From what I’ve read about Mr. Bryan, there’s a chance I wouldn’t like him in person, but from afar, his music—and looks—fit my November mood perfectly.
Something else fitting my mood: the Substack app (available for Android and iOS) is gaining traction and usability. Team Substack is working hard to add features and squash bugs to improve the user experience.
According to Substack’s co-founder Hamish McKenzie, the app is now “the most powerful growth machine for creators.” And based on my own experience, he’s not being hyperbolic.
To encourage more people to try the app, Substack is sending select free subscribers complimentary one-month gift subscriptions.
While I don’t have any say in who gets the offer, if you receive an email, please consider redeeming it. This offer is fully-funded by Substack and helps support independent creators like myself grow (and pay the heating bill).
Stay warm and fuzzy…thanks for reading and subscribing!
Clint
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ON THIS DAY = NOVEMBER 1
BIRTHDAYS
1849 = William Merritt Chase = American painter and educator and founder of Chase School (now Parsons School of Design)
1889 = Hannah Höch = German Dada artist an originator of photomontage 🌈
1942 = Larry Flynt = American publisher and Larry Flynt Publications founder
1944 = Kinky Friedman = American singer-songwriter and author
1949 = David Foster = Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
1957 = Lyle Lovett = American singer-songwriter
1960 = Fernando “El Toro” Valenzuela = Mexican-American baseball icon
1960 = Tim Cook = American businessman and Apple Inc. CEO
1962 = Anthony Kiedis = American singer-songwriter and founding member of Red Hot Chili Peppers
1964 = Sophie B. Hawkins = American singer-songwriter
1967 = Tina Arena = Australian singer-songwriter
1972 = Toni Collette = Australian actor
1986 = Penn Badgley = American actor
CELEBRATIONS
Movember = ”Since 2003, Movember has funded more than 1,250 men’s health projects around the world, challenging the status quo, shaking up men’s health research and transforming the way health services reach and support men.”
EVENTS
1894 = Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
1894 = Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Native Americans, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
1941 = American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
1968 = The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.
1971 = The Body Politic, Canada’s first gay rights magazine, hits newsstands.
1972 = That Certain Summer, a made-for-TV movie about a teenage son learning about his divorced father’s homosexuality, airs on ABC. It is watched by almost 2 million people. (Matt Baume on That Certain Summer 📺)
1982 = Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of its factory in Marysville, Ohio.
PHOTO + QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful awareness that other people, other races, other voices, other habits of mind have as much integrity of being, as much claim on the world as you do... And I urge you, amid all the differences present to the eye and mind, to reach out to create the bond that...will protect us all. We are all meant to be here together.”
William Merritt Chase
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Chase in 1903: Oh yes, back when tech was evolving rapidly and the Zeitgeist was to foster greater international cooperation and trade. There were a number of artifical languages and interlanguages being created/tried out. All was well (comparatively) until 1914. Afterward things looked up again until the stockmarket crash, the war again....and so the cycle continues.