Weather + Under The Weather

Rainy Days Are Here Again...Along With Sleepless Nights

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I didn’t sleep much overnight. This morning, I feel like a zombie.

As a lifelong insomniac, this isn’t uncommon, but coupled with the recent time change and a forecast full of gray, rainy days, I feel jet-lagged and a little sick.

Something about the endless overcast skies makes it harder to snap out of the haze. The world outside is dreary, and my brain feels like it’s buffering.

I keep telling myself to embrace the slow pace, let the weather match my energy instead of fighting against it. But I also know that at some point, I’ll need to shake off the fog—because the world doesn’t stop just because I didn’t sleep.

For now? Another nap, some white noise machine, and hope that tonight will bring a return to a more “normal” sleep schedule.

Sweet dreams are made of this…
Clint 🌈✌️

ON THIS DAY = MARCH 11

BIRTHDAYS

• 1895 = Shemp Howard = American comedian and actor

• 1903 = Lawrence Welk = American accordion player and bandleader

• 1934 = Sam Donaldson = American journalist

• 1942 = Joe Brainard = American artist and writer 🌈

• 1950 = Bobby McFerrin = American singer-songwriter and conductor

• 1950 = Jerry Zucker = American filmmaker

• 1953 = Jimmy Iovine = American record producer Beats co-founder

• 1955 = Bill Siksay = Canadian politician 🌈

• 1955 = Nina Hagen = German singer-songwriter

• 1957 = The Lady Chablis = American drag entertainer 🌈

• 1959 = Nina Hartley = American adult actor/director and sex educator

• 1963 = David LaChapelle = American photographer and director 🌈

• 1964 = Peter Berg = American filmmaker and actor

• 1965 = Wallace Langham = American actor

• 1967 = John Barrowman = Scottish-American actor and singer 🌈

• 1968 = Lisa Loeb = American singer-songwriter

• 1969 = Terrence Howard = American actor and producer

• 1971 = Johnny Knoxville = American actor and entertainer

• 1977 = Eudy Simelane = South African footballer 🌈

• 1978 = Christopher Rice = American writer 🌈

• 1979 = Benji Madden + Joel Madden, American singer-songwriters

• 1980 = Mark Rober = American YouTuber, engineer, inventor, and educator

• 1982 = Thora Birch = American actor, producer, and director

• 1989 = Anton Yelchin = Russian-American actor

EVENTS

• 222 = Roman Emperor Elagabalus is assassinated at age 18 because of his relationship with Hierocles, a charioteer.

• 1702 = The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper, is published for the first time.

• 1851 = The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice, Italy.

• 1927 = In NYC, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.

• 1957 = Charles Van Doren finally loses on the NBC game show Twenty-One after winning $129,000 - later revealed to be fixed

HOLIDAYS + OBSERVANCES

• Commonwealth Day

• National Johnny Appleseed Day

PORTRAIT + QUOTE OF THE DAY

“If I’m as normal as I think I am, we’re all a bunch of weirdos.”
Joe Brainard

SUBSTACK + YOUTUBE

• Substack = NSFW + Pioneers + Pride + SFW

• YouTube = Playlists + Streams + Videos

LINKS
Bluesky + Ko-Fi + Linktree + YouTube

SHOP
Art Prints + Merch + Pride
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