This Week’s Mixed Bag of Nuts

The Good + The Bad + The Ugh-ly

First things first: My sincere apologies for last night’s email mishap.

Long story short: While updating my template, I got distracted by a phone call and accidentally hit “publish” instead of “save.” I’ll do my best not to do it again…again.

Now, let’s talk about this week. Briefly.

It’s been a real mixed bag of nuts here at Collide Press—some good, some bad, and a fair bit of ugh-ly. Rather than dive into a full essay, I thought I’d switch it up and curate a list of articles and videos that sum up the past few days…all for your consideration:

THE GOOD

• 10 David Lynch Quotes (Bored Panda)

• Feeling Content In A World Obsessed With More (The Ecstatic Self) 📺

• Michelle Obama Will Skip Trump Inauguration (Associated Press) #MeToo

• Nothing Is What It Seems In Magritte’s Most Iconic Artwork (Artnet News)

THE BAD

• David Lynch Obituary (The Guardian)

• California Wildfires Are An Insurance Nightmare (LegalEagle) 📺

• Trump's Cabinet Pick For Homeland Security Is Kristi Noem (NPR)

• The American ‘Oligarchy’ Biden Denounced…Gained $1.5 Trillion (Fortune)

THE UGH-LY

• How the F*ck Did Trump Actually Win? (F.D Signifier) 📺

• Trump’s Official Portrait Claims To ‘Go Hard’… (The Guardian)

• Baldoni Sues Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds… (Emily D. Baker) 📺

• Elon Musk’s Leaked DMs Situation is Pathetic… (Philip DeFranco) 📺

Wishing you a good day and a great weekend ahead!
Clint 🌈✌️

P.S. To reach my goal of 2,000 subscribers by February 1st, I’m back on Threads and—to a lesser degree—Instagram. Bluesky is great, but a little too quiet for my purposes. So for those into social media, feel free to follow along…all my links are on Linktree.

ON THIS DAY = JANUARY 17

BIRTHDAYS

• 1706 = Benjamin Franklin = American publisher, inventor, and politician

• 1867 = Carl Laemmle = German-American Universal Studios co-founder

• 1880 = Mack Sennett = Canadian-American actor and filmmaker

• 1886 = Ronald Firbank = English writer 🌈

• 1899 = Al Capone = American mob boss

• 1922 = Betty White = American actor, tv personality, and animal rights activist

• 1927 = Eartha Kitt = American actor and singer

• 1928 = Vidal Sassoon = English-American hairdresser and businessman

• 1931 = James Earl Jones = American actor

• 1933 = Shari Lewis = American actor, puppeteer/ventriloquist, and tv host

• 1939 = Maury Povich = American talk show host and producer

• 1942 = Muhammad Ali = American boxer and activist

• 1947 = Dale McCormick = American politician 🌈

• 1962 = Hugh Steers = American painter 🌈

• 1962 = Jim Carrey = Canadian-American actor and comedian

• 1962 = Sebastian Junger = American journalist and author

• 1964 = Michelle Obama = American lawyer, activist, and 44th FLOTUS

• 1975 = Freddy Rodriguez = American actor

• 1980 = Zooey Deschanel = American singer-songwriter and actor

• 1995 = Indya Moore = American actor and model 🌈

EVENTS

• 1904 = Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard premiere in Moscow.

• 1920 = Prohibition begins in the US.

• 1946 = The UN Security Council holds its first session.

• 1961 = POTUS Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military–industrial complex" as well as the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending.

• 1971 = Novelist Merle Miller comes out in a New York Times Magazine essay entitled “On Being Different: What it Means to Be a Homosexual.”

• 1984 = SCOTUS rules (5-4) that private use of home VCRs to tape tv programs for later viewing does not violate federal copyright laws.

• 1991 = Operation Desert Storm begins as aircraft strike positions across Iraq.

• 1998 = The Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky affair breaks on the Drudge Report.

• 2013 = Lance Armstrong confesses to doping on Oprah's Next Chapter.

HOLIDAYS + OBSERVANCES

• National Bootlegger's Day

• Popeye The Sailor Man Day

QUOTES OF THE DAY

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
Benjamin Franklin

“I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick.”
Muhammad Ali

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