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
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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Clint, honey, it's "Fasten seat belts," for the bag of nuts we are about to see in our Federal government. The difference is: You try to avoid mistakes. Bless you, child.