Gadzookery!

-To all you Rexburgians, i talked to Kelv this morning and we decided that it might be best if we didnt come up next weekend. we've got stuff going on and i have a paper due the monday that we would get back, and all kinds of the hassles involved right before finals. so we were thinking maybe after our finals are over we could make a stop, but we wanted to check on when your finals are. meighan (and others), dont kill us please!


Gadzookery is the use of archaic words and phrases, but im not going to do any of that today. i believe in the present and nothing but. i believe that static electricity has kidnapped my brain and replaced it with one of those little glass balls so that whenever you touch it the electricity inside comes and meets your finger. i say this because every time i do anything i shock myself. when i was changing my shirt last night, it was so full of static that it shocked every square inch of my torso as it came off. it was rather painful. and right now, my hair is standing nearly on end, and im having trouble keeping my eyes open. its all because of this storm thats (still) about to roll in. i wish it would hurry up and dump and lightning and thunder us. "i love the rain, it knows my pain. im so insane cuz i love the rain" first person to email me the name of the band who sang that gets a special prize. i decline from saying what the prize is because it would be a different one for each person. some people i would reward a hug, others a jamba juice, etc. but as i dont know who will win it, i will just decide the prize after i know who the winner is. but i can at least say its something you will enjoy. none of this "im going to call a kick in the pants a prize" crap.

Sooo, today is Yad sdrawkcaB, and i thought the balloons in the cannon center were very clever. very clever indeed. you should come check them out if you havent yet. and obviously all you non-Provoites are exempt. dont feel bad though, you have it better off in more ways than one. But you can still celebrate International Tatting Day. And today is the start of Library Week!!!!! and also Read a Road Map Week, but who really wants to do that. Library Week is where its at. I've made it my goal to read "the definitive record of the English language" but that will most likely take me much much much more than a week. i think to get through all 23 volumes of the OED would take months at least. but i will do it eventually.

And for birthdays:
Kelv Cutler, 1785
Otto Von Bismarck, 1815
Walter Kaufmann, 1907
Toshiro Mifune, 1920 (Shogun)
Jane Powell, 1928 (7 Brides for 7 Brothers)
Debbie Reynolds, 1932
Don Hastings, 1934 (CAPTAIN VIDEO!!!)
Phil Margo, 1942 (name that band!)
Gill Scott-Heron, 1949 (Stud List all the way!)
Peter O'Toole, 1956 (not the actor, this is the bassist for Irish rock group Hothouse Flowers, check 'em out!)

And deaths for this day:
Gillis van Valkenborch, 1611 (The world needs more Flemish painters, all the ones i've seen so far are on the death list...)
Patrick Gass, 1870 (Sgt. of Lewis & Clark expedition thingy)
Scott Joplin, 1917
Zawditu, 1st reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, 1930
Frederick Lord Chelmsford, 1933
Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky, 1936
Hippolyte Delehaye, 1941 (There goes another Flemish historian, we lost one the other day, too)
Freddie Lennon, 1976 (John's daddy)
Robert Doisneau, 1994

Where are Flemish people from, anyway? its the Netherlands, right?

And on this day in history:
Halleys comet passes within 0.0884 AUs of Earth, 374
Justinianus (<--Stud List material right here, I did a project on him once. well not on top of him, i meant he was the topic) becomes Emperor of Byzantium (now Turkey, Iran etc.) 527
Ruins of Pompeii found, 1748 (I'm going to live there someday and i will speak Italian. Heather, are you going to Pompeii this summer? that would be totally cool!)
Volcano Unsen on Japan erupts killing about 53,000, 1793 (I'm going to live here too)
Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Cocos Islands, 1836
Cincinnati became 1st US city to pay fire fighters a regular salary, 1853 (its a good thing too, firemen deserve it!)
Hampton Institute opens, 1868
Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo, 1929
Bonnie & Clyde kill 2 police officers, 1934 (I absolutely love this movie, everyone go check it out, right now!)
Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow, 1952 (these names sound familiar, almost as if i heard them in a dream. i wouldnt be at all surprised...)
World's biggest glass oven used, 1957
1st British ombudsman sir Edward Compton begins work, 1967 (I've always wanted to be an ombudsman)
John & Yoko release hoax they are having dual sex change operations, 1970
Japan allows its citizens to own gold, 1973 (I didn't know that they couldnt)
Wayne Gretzky breaks Bobby Orr's record with 103rd assist, 1980
Guns & Roses' Duff divorces Mandy Brix, lead singer for Lame Flames, 1990
Ultimate Warrior beats Hulk Hogan, 1990
Warsaw Pact officially dissolves, 1991
NHL players begin 1st strike in 75-year history, 1992 (very scary to imagine a world without hockey)
Billy Idol fined $2,000 for hitting a woman, 1992
NY Islanders retire Bobby Nystrom's uniform #23, 1995
69 year old Gordie Howe begins playing AHL game with Syracuse Crunch, 1997
My failed lame attempt at a good april fool's joke, 2004 (if you didn't notice, its in the birthday list. and its okay, that wasnt the only trick i have planned for today, i can do better than that)

right now im missing class. i got up at 6:45ish because my alarm (the sun) was going off (or i guess it went on...) and then i thought i had time to write this but apparently i didn't, so here i am typing away. im not listening to dr. pope, and that kind of makes me feel a little better about skipping class. ahhh, no American Heritage, or AmerHer or AmHtg or Giant American Pep Rally or whatever other name you've heard for it! im free! so im going to sign off now. good luck everyone on april fool's day. be witty and on your guard, and may the farce be with you