Monday OT: August 31 is Eat Outside Day

August 31 is day 244 of the Gregorian Calendar year, Pungenday, Bureaucracy 24, 3186 YOLD (Discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.7.14.10 mlc (the Mayan Long Count)

Just remember to stay drunk

“Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually. Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken. And if sometimes, on the stairs of a palace, or on the green side of a ditch, or in the dreary solitude of your own room, you should awaken and the drunkenness be half or wholly slipped away from you, ask of the wind, or of the wave, or of the star, or of the bird, or of the clock, of whatever flies, or sighs, or rocks, or sings, or speaks, ask what hour it is; and the wind, wave, star, bird, clock will answer you: "It is the hour to be drunken!” -- Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

  On this day in history: 1795 – The British captured Trincomalee from the Dutch to keep it out of French hands.  Uh huh. 1798 – Irish rebels, with French assistance, established the short-lived Republic of Connacht. 1895 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin patented his navigable balloon. 1897 – Thomas Edison patented the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector. 1907 – Russia and the UK signed the Anglo-Russian Convention, by which the UK recognized Russian preeminence in northern Persia, while Russia recognized British preeminence in southeastern Persia and Afghanistan.  Isn't it cute how nicely nation states play together. 1935 – The United States passed the first of its Neutrality Acts. 1939 – Nazi Germany mounted a false flag attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day, thus starting World War II in Europe.  Nobody would ever do such a thing these days, would they uncle? Heh. 1957 – The Federation of Malaya gained its independence from the UK. 1962 – Trinidad and Tobago became independent. 2016 – Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff was removed from office.   Born this day in:  0012 – Caligula, emperor 1663 – Guillaume Amontons, physicist and instrument maker 1767 – Henry Joy McCracken, businessman and activist, founded the Society of United Irishmen  1775 – Agnes Bulmer, poet and author 1797 – Stephen Geary, architect, inventor and entrepreneur 1821 – Hermann von Helmholtz, physician and physicist 1842 – Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, journalist, publisher, and activist 1870 – Maria Montessori, physician and educator 1879 – Alma Mahler, composer and author 1893 – Lily Laskine, harp player  1897 – Fredric March, actor, and singer 1908 – William Saroyan, novelist, playwright, and short story writer   1911 – Arsenio Rodríguez, tres player, composer, and bandleader 1913 – Helen Levitt, photographer and cinematographer 1913 – Bernard Lovell, physicist and astronomer 1918 – Alan Jay Lerner, songwriter and composer 1925 – Moran Campbell,  physician and academic, invented the venturi mask 1930 – Big Tiny Little, pianist 1932 – Roy Castle, dancer, singer, comedian, actor, television presenter and musician 1935 – Eldridge Cleaver, activist and author 1937 – Bobby Parker, singer, songwriter ,and guitarist 1939 – Jerry Allison, drummer and songwriter 1940 – Robbie Basho, guitarist, pianist, and composer 1940 – Wilton Felder, saxophonist and bass player 1944 – Christine King, historian and academic 1945 – Van Morrison, singer, songwriter and musician 1945 – Itzhak Perlman, violinist and conductor 1945 – Bob Welch, singer and guitarist 1946 – Ann Coffey, social worker and politician 1946 – Jerome Corsi, theorist and author 1948 – Rudolf Schenker, guitarist and songwriter 1949 – Hugh David Politzer, physicist and academic 1949 – Rick Roberts, country-rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1955 – Anthony Thistlethwaite, saxophonist and bass player 1955 – Gary Webb, journalist, author, and martyr who exposed CIA crimes 1957 – Gina Schock, drummer 1957 – Glenn Tilbrook, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1960 – Chris Whitley, singer, songwriter,and guitarist 1963 – Reb Beach, guitarist 1967 – Gene Hoglan, drummer 1970 – Debbie Gibson, singer, songwriter, producer, and actress 1976 – Vincent Delerm, singer, songwriter, and pianist   Died this day in: 

“Always be a poet, even in prose.” -- Charles Baudelaire

  0318 – Liu Cong, emperor of the Xiongnu state 0731 – Otomo no Tabito, poet 1688 – John Bunyan,  preacher, theologian, and author 1811 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville, admiral and explorer 1867 – Charles Baudelaire, poet and critic 1954 – Elsa Barker, author and poet 1963 – Georges Braque, painter and sculptor 1985 – Frank Macfarlane Burnet,  virologist and academic, 1986 – Elizabeth Coatsworth, author and poet   1986 – Henry Moore, sculptor and illustrator 2002 – Lionel Hampton, vibraphonist, percussionist, pianist, composer, and bandleader 2002 – Farhad Mehrad, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and pianist 2002 – George Porter, chemist and academic 2005 – Joseph Rotblat, physicist and academic 2008 – Ike Pappas, journalist 2013 – David Frost, journalist and television show host   Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: National Trail Mix Day Eat Outside Day Go together rather nicely, dontcha think.   Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies ;-)