Get your ‘Cheap Sunglasses’ now, because we’ll be wearing ‘Sunglasses At Night’ since the ‘The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades’ on this Shades Day!
Record number:
For year = 138 (Thursday, 17-MAY’24)
Running count = 867
Countdowns:
Armed Forces Day = 01 Day
Memorial Day = 10 Days (fixed)
New Year (2025) = 227 Days (fixed)
Today’s birthdays/anniversaries/other:
The first televised sporting event in America occurred on this date in 1939 when a single camera was used to televise a baseball game between Princeton University and Columbia University. It was broadcast to the experimental NBC station W2XBS. Princeton won the pitcher’s duel, 2-1.
Random Shoutout(s)/Playlist Highlight: (not a link; available for listening on Spotify)
Highlighted CLE-DAL college/professional scores and Canton, OH weather stats:
Random Note(s):
The Family Holiday Association (FHA) in the United Kingdom (UK) created today’s chosen random holiday. This charity provides free day trips and seaside breaks to families who have been struggling with things like domestic violence, grief, illness, or mental health issues. Those families are typically referred to the FHA by other charities, social workers, and teachers.
The recent Northern Lights phenomenon reached as far south as the Pacific island of New Caledonia. This is the first time in recorded history that citizens of that area witnessed naked-eye auroras and cements the May 10th electromagnetic storm as one of the greatest over the past 500 years!
Random image:
Random holiday picked: Shades Day is celebrated on the closest Friday to International Day of the Family (May 15th) in the UK and elsewhere around the world. It celebrates another form of headgear that can be both fashionable and functional –sunglasses.
Musical trilogy:
(1) Next track in my current playlist (Likes on Spotify)
(2) Today’s holiday-themed track
(3) Editor’s choice/random track
- “Cheap Sunglasses” by ZZ Top (playlist track N/A; track 09 on Deguello -1979) –this was not the next song in my playlist (Fernando by ABBA was), but I felt like making a random-holiday-trilogy today. If you have ever tried to get the same guitar sound while using the same equipment that guitarist Billy Gibbons did, but just couldn’t quite get the tone to match, it is because his Marshall Major amplifier had a blown tube in it at the time. This song has been sampled in a variety of rap songs and by Kid Rock in his “Cramp Ya Style” track.
- “Sunglasses At Night” by Corey Hart (track 01 on First Offense -1983) –Mr. Hart got the inspiration for this song at the studio. It seems the HVAC vents were directly above the mixing console and would blow air directly into the faces of the control room technicians, so they began wearing shades to protect their eyes from any airborne particles. The video was shot in the old Don Jail building in Toronto and East of the Don River.
- “The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades” by Timbuk 3 (track 01 on Greetings From Timbuk 3 -1986) –the start of this song always reminds of that Huey Lewis and The News track, “Workin’ for a Livin’.” This song can be listened to from several perspectives. One would be as a light and airy, fun song to sing when you are feeling upbeat. However, you can also take it differently if you view the lyrics as sarcastic, in which case the need for future glasses takes on a different tone. Whatever the original intent, it was certainly a monster hit for this band when it was first released.
Find these tracks and previous blog entry tracks on Spotify in the Randomly Accessed Musing Tracks MAY24 (or APR24, MAR24, FEB24, JAN24, etc.):
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The term “Maundy” comes from the Latin word mandatum, which means “command.” The religious term comes from the Last Supper, believed to have taken place on a Thursday. According to the Bible, Jesus, who was at the height of his power and influence, washed his disciple’s feet in the ultimate display of no-ego humility. He then commanded them to do the same for one another. This is in line with what he was always preaching: the most important commandment was to love God, but the second-most important commandment (sort of a “1” and “1A” situation) was to love one another. It is also a wonderful guide for choosing leaders. When you have a choice, which one is most likely to show humility and compassion towards all?
Proverbs 11:1 – A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.
Proverbs 23:23 – Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
Ecclesiastes 5:10 – He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.
Proverbs 6:16 – There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him:
17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,
19 a false witness who pours out lies, and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.
Luke 16:14 – The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things, and they ridiculed him.
My Daily Prayer: Dear Lord, if it is within your will, please bless this home and all those who dwell in and around it, as well as the abodes and areas where my family and friends live, whom I think of daily. Indeed, even unto the whole world. Help all of them see your splendor and help bring peace on Earth. For yours is the glory and kingdom of heaven forever and ever. Amen!
Remember, Fear is the Mind-Killer, Don’t Panic, Keep Your Head Right with Ball, and May God be gracious to you, bless you, and make His face shine upon you.
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Sources include, but are not limited to: NOAA at weather.gov, timeanddate.com, The Sky This Week on Astronomy.com, holidayscalendar.com, onthisday.com, Yahoo! Sports, college athletics pages, Basketball Reference, Hockey Reference, etc., spaceweather.com, Wikipedia, songmeanings.com, SoundCloud.com, UPI.com, various news sites (I prefer to hear both sides of the argument*), and notes I’ve been keeping since I bought my first ledger in the mid-1980s.
* -In most cases, there is a little bad and good on both, and I feel that we, as a species, far too often close our minds. We take the quick and easy side that we find most to our liking and vilify everything else, when we should instead, be pushing our race and ourselves at every turn to a better understanding of all if we truly want to evolve into what we are capable of achieving. Can you imagine what kind of world it would be if we all just stopped looking out for number one, or choosing violence as an answer? Instead of looking out, we need to look in and make sure we like what we see, and then keep working to improve upon it, which will spread the positive. What if all the money and energy spent daily on war-related and hate-based things were focused on helping not just our fellow humans, but also our fellow Earth creatures? You want a paradise? Right there is the blueprint -every single person making the conscious effort to do better every moment of every day (“Fight the Good Fight” -Triumph). The question is, how bad do we want it and how far are we willing to go in order to get it? Bob Marley and Curtis Mayfield had it right. One Love/People Get Ready.