:: quick facts :: tuesday, october 14

well, i've been a rather inconsistent blogger this past week. that will change as i'm now back into the swing of the regular school week, which affords me plenty of time to procrastinate and write stuff here. i've started importing posts from the blog onto facebook, so i've you're reading this there, please visit the blog. you'll get more out of it (especially as this post will most likely end soon if you're reading on facebook, but will continue here on the blog). let's get back on track with some quick facts.


the current time :: 5:08

my current location :: the apartment couch

currently playing on the tv :: cash cab

fact :: i am once again victorious in my fantasy football league, moving me to 4-2 and in second place overall.

currently meandering the expanses of my mind :: "wow, that caption under the shaherazad's camel's picture is seriously epic. maybe too epic for the situation." (see it here)

what to watch tonight :: i'm going with the back to back duo of house and fringe on fox. both really good shows. check them out.

notable music releases :: keane's perfect symmetry and ray lamontagne's guilt in the grain (keane can be found on my semi-recently posted guide "the british invasion :: thirteen british band you should be listening to..."

today in history ::

• george washinton proclaims the first thanksgiving day in 1789.
• the chicago cubs win the 1908 world series. sadly, my cubbies haven't won since...
• theodore roosevelt is shot by a salloon keeper while campaigning in milwaukee, wisconsin. he delivers his scheduled speech despite the flesh wound and the bullet still being lodged in his body.
• the first winnie-the-pooh book, written by a. a. milne, is first published in 1926.
• the cuban missile crisis begins when a u-2 flight over cuba uncovers soviet nuclear weapons being installed, in 1958.
• joan baez is arrested in a blockade of the military induction center in oakland, california.
• ronald reagan proclaims a war on drugs. i think we're losing that one.
  

born today in history ::

• william penn
• dwight d. eisenhower
• e. e. cummings
• john wooden
• sir roger moore
• thomas dolby (who was blinded with science in that song i can't ever get out of my head)
• jim rome
• p. j. brown
• usher

more to come...