Studio Saturday Sniffles

Allergies, Antihistamines, and Artistic Ambitions

MR. SNUFFLEUPAGUS FROM SESAME STREET

’Tis the season for my allergies to kick in again. They are as reliable and as pointless as last weekend’s time change, if you ask me.

Since getting back from our cruise on Tuesday, I’ve been doing my best to catch up on sleep and fend off anything I might have caught on the ship. While I feel a lot more rested, I’m still as stuffy as Mr. Snuffleupagus. And I don’t live in/on Sesame Street.

I’m not exactly sick, but I don’t feel exactly well either. So my goal today (and tomorrow if necessary) is simple: bore my allergies into submission, medicate responsibly, and rest even more.

I had hoped to have a new batch of montages ready by now, but it will be another day or three before they are finished. Sorry about that.

The good news is that there are hundreds of montages ready to explore and revisit over on Substack and YouTube. There’s plenty of eye candy to keep you company while I sneeze and snooze my way through the weekend.

Here’s hoping clearer thoughts and clearer sinuses are right around the corner.

Keep calm and breathe on!
Clint 🌈✌️

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ON THIS DAY = NOVEMBER 8

BIRTHDAYS

• 1836 = Milton Bradley = American businessman

• 1838 = Herculine Babin = French writer 🌈

• 1847 = Bram Stoker = Irish novelist, critic, and Count Dracula creator

• 1883 = Charles Demuth = American painter 🌈

• 1884 = Hermann Rorschach = Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst

HERMANN RORSCHACH

• 1900 = Margaret Mitchell = American journalist and author

• 1914 = Norman Lloyd = American actor, director, and producer

• 1916 = Clinton Jones = American Episcopal priest and activist 🌈

• 1918 = Hermann Zapf = German typographer and calligrapher

• 1920 = Esther Rolle = American actor

• 1927 = Patti Page = American singer and actor

• 1931 = Morley Safer = Canadian-American journalist and author

• 1935 = Alain Delon = French-Swiss actor, producer, and screenwriter

• 1947 = Minnie Riperton = American singer-songwriter

• 1948 = Jamison Green = American activist, author, and educator 🌈

• 1949 = Bonnie Raitt = American singer-songwriter

• 1950 = Mary Hart = American journalist and actor

• 1952 = Alfre Woodard = American actor

• 1954 = Rickie Lee Jones = American singer-songwriter

• 1956 = Richard Curtis = New Zealand-English filmmaker

• 1956 = Roy Simmons = American professional football player 🌈

• 1959 = Chi Chi LaRue = American drag queen, DJ, and filmmaker 🌈

• 1960 = Michael Nyqvist = Swedish actor and producer

• 1961 = Leif Garrett = American singer, actor, and tv personality

• 1965 = Craig Chester = American actor and screenwriter 🌈

• 1966 = Gordon Ramsay = British chef, restaurateur, and tv host/personality

• 1968 = Parker Posey = American actor

• 1970 = Diana King = Jamaican singer-songwriter

• 1970 = Tom Anderson = American businessman and Myspace co-founder

• 1972 = Gretchen Mol = American model and actor

• 1972 = Judith Gough = British diplomat 🌈

• 1973 = David Muir = American journalist 🌈

• 1974 = María Rachid = Argentinian politician and activist 🌈

• 1974 = Matthew Rhys = Welsh actor

• 1977 = Jully Black = Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

• 1982 = Sam Sparro = Australian singer-songwriter and producer 🌈

• 1985 = Jack Osbourne = English-American tv personality

• 1989 = SZA = American singer-songwriter

EVENTS

• 1895 = While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.

• 1920 = Rupert Bear, illustrated by Mary Tourtel makes his first appearance in print.

• 1933 = POTUS Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than four million unemployed.

• 1965 = Days of Our Lives premieres on NBC.

• 1971 = Led Zeppelin releases “Stairway to Heaven” on their fourth studio album.

• 1973 = The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper outlet along with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9 million.

HOLIDAYS + OBSERVANCES

• Intersex Day of Remembrance

• National Cappuccino Day

• National Harvey Wallbanger Day

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PORTRAIT + QUOTE OF THE DAY

BRAM STOKER (1906)

“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
Bram Stoker