"The rich kids had convertibles and we had to ride the bus (55)..."

Yeah.  What.  Here we go.

To begin, I'd like to make an apology.  One of my loyal subjects wrote me thus:

"Brian,
I must say I am dissappointed to say that your severe lacking in the daily newsletter department has lead me, and possibly others, to believe you have gotten some sort of life.  I have noticed that it has not only become just "business days" of the week, but now I'm not even getting them on those days.  Then to add to it, this last one had hardly any personal rantings, personal jokes, or even the personal daily record of events.  Either you should formally denounce the daily newsletters, or tell and shock us all that you actually got a life, or get back on the ball.  I don't want you to think I'm angry.  I almost feel responsible, because I don't respond to them.  I don't have the time or the background experience to look up song titles, understand your elvish, but I didn't respond on the days you asked for simple things, like a dare.  I hope that I haven't discouraged you by not being an "acitve" reader, but I'd like you to know I get great joy everyday to read your emails.  Keep doing them.
Jase"

 

That put me in my place.  It's true that I havent been writing as faithfully as I have in the past.  And I'm really glad about the phrase "tell and shock us all that you actually got a life".  It lets me know that you arent assuming the worst.  I'm glad that it would come as a shock if I got a life.  The truth of the situation is, I love writing these, but sometimes my parents think I'm wasting time.  And I havent written since last Thursday because my internet committed suicide.  It randomly stopped working, and I havent had a chance to get online until today.  I apolagize for that.  I will try to write every day as is implied by the titles Daily Email or Daily Newsletter or Daily Blog or whatever you call them.

 

I went and saw Harry Potter III: The Prisoner of Azkaban last weekend.  Severe disappointment.  If you want to discuss that with me, I would be happy to receive emails or instant messages, but I will not discuss that in my mass messages because I wouldn't want to ruin it for anyone else.

 

And *da, dada DA!* I went on my first date in months last weekend.  Yah.  I went and got Slurpees and ate/drank them at DeMeyer Park with Megan.  It was cool.  In that the Slurpee numbed my hand.  And it was pretty fun too.  I was having trouble getting the last of my Slurpee out of the cup and she suggested that i crush it a little with my hand, so I did, and my cup cracked and spit Slurpeeness all over my hand.  Very exciting.  She laughed at me.  But it's ok because I laughed at her when the bugs attacked her.  But then she also laughed at me when the bugs flew down my straw.  Meh.  Good times, good times.

 

So, I'ma catch up on the last few holidays.  The 5th was World Environment Day, the 6th was National Gardening Exercise Day, the 7th was National Chocolate Ice Cream Day (oh happy!), and today is both Best Friends Day and Name Your Poison Day.
I think for tomorrow, as there is no holiday listed (*shock and surprise*), we will have to improvise and possibly celebrate many trivial things.  I will make a list of holidays that I think should be celebrated tomorrow, and any emails I get regarding this will also be added to tomorrow's email.  (And there will be an email tomorrow)

 

Did everyone watch Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals last night?  It was a pretty good game except that Tampa Bay won.  Seriously, no one wants the #1 seed to win.  Everyone always wants a huge upset, so it would have been really very cool if Calgary had overcome.  They were so close.  During the whole of finals, no team had won two games in a row, and it was Calgary's turn to win, but it was TB's home game.  And Fedotenko got both goals for TB, which was pretty cool.  I like Fedotenko all right.  Actually I like a few of TBs players, but I still think they shouldnt have won.

 

Happy Birthday to:

Eleonora Plantagenet, 1318 (I HATE THE PLANTAGENETS!!)
Giovanni D Cassini, 1625

William Dampier, 1652 (pirate!)

Moriz Heyne, 1837

Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867 (STUD LIST!!)

Guëmundur J¢nsson Kamban, 1888

 

(I only put him on today's birthday list because I saw that he was an Icelandic writer, and I'm currently reading a book by Snorri Sturluson, the most famous Icelandic prose writer ever.  It is of course translated into English, but it's fairly Icelandic still.  Lots of names.  Its a book about King Harald (of Norway) vs. King Harold (of England) vs. William the Conqueror (of Normandy, and he wasn't called the Conqueror until after the time period of this story.  It covers the time of Harald's (of Norway) rise to power until his death at the Battle of Hastings, 1066.  Check out www.battle1066.com if you get a spare minute.  Although I would spend more like a year there.  Back to birthdays...)

 

Jerry Stiller, 1927 (he's that old actor that always plays the dirty old man, i.e. Frank Costanza on Seinfeld)

Bryan McCabe, 1975 (Defenseman for NY Islanders)

 

Deaths of today:

Mohammed, 632  (STUD LIST!!)

"Black Prince" of Wales, son of King Edward of England, 1376

Hans Leo Hassler, 1612

Christian Huygens, 1695

George Wythe, 1806

Thomas Paine, 1809

Friedrich Heinrich Himmel, 1814

Andrew Jackson, 1845

 

And today in history:

Italy invaded by Attila the Hun, 452

39 German states unite under Act of Confederation, 1815

Washing machine patented, 1824

1st Civil Rights Act passes, 1886

Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School, 1917

World's largest flower blooms in NY Botanical Garden, 12' calla lily, 1937

Rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash", 1968

Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%, 1988

 

Good stuff.  My mother really wants me to get off the computer soon, so I will have to finish this up real quick like.  I need ideas of things to talk about.  Things like Streamlined Cows, from back in April.  I think I was supposed to also talk about Beveled Polyester Splicers, I think I'll do that tomorrow.  If anyone has a random thing that you think I should talk about, let me know and I'll do my best to write a full email about it.

 

"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."

             Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)

"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."

             Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852)

 

And a good day to you all!
Rianbay Arrishay

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