Monday, March 02, 2020

Recurring Bit, 50th Anniversary Version

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do. And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.” -- Theodore Seuss Geisel


Dr. Seuss would have turned 120 on March 2, 2020. Not coincidentally, one of his more obscure but nonetheless beloved characters celebrates the 50th anniversary of his birth this very same day. As the good doctor wrote about this uniquely Seussian character, “Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.”


Our goal is to keep doing this blog long enough that we have enough content that recurs on a specific day to cover the entire year, thusly pre-filling our editorial calendar. We're getting there.

11 comments:

rob said...

postcount, bitches

T.J. said...

Very proud of us for having "Dave's a killer" and "dave's a mess" post labels.

rob said...

klomentum = nomentum

Dave said...

thanks guys!

in honor of this day, i wrote a sueussian pome

http://sentenceofdave.blogspot.com/2020/03/dave-turns-fifty-theodore-geisel-would.html

and i think the good dr. would have been 116 today, not 120.

TR said...

Dave’s a killer! Tremendous deep-cut Slapshot reference. I think I’m gonna watch that w/ my boys. Are there boobies shown in that.

Happy birthday Dave. Welcome to the world of AARP.

Whitney said...

TR... dude. Slap Shot is amazing but filthy, filthy, filthy dirty. Beware.

Whitney said...

Upside… I am now available to go to the CAA tournament if I so desire.

Downside… That’s because they just canceled our grad school trip to Paris and Munich due to the coronavirus and the fact that the businesses we were slated to visit have sent all their employees home to work remotely.

Downside… Naturally, the tribe will lose the first game they play.

TR said...

Whitney’s European Vacation would’ve made for some great content. Bummer. And we were all gonna chip in on a beret for you that said “Rusty”.

My wife is ready to cancel our spring break Cayman Islands trip. I summoned all my points/miles hoarding/spending abilities to make this happen, and I’m not ready to let it go. If we survive the flight, the area should be less than normally full.

zman said...

Two guys came back from Osaka and went straight to the office. What’s the worst that could happen?

Danimal said...

Chris Matthews...me too'd too?

TR said...

Flavor Flav’s attorney says “there is no Public Enemy without Flavor Flav.” Well, maybe there’s no “911 is a Joke” without Flav, but we’re pretty good with the rest of the catalog.