Today is the Royal Ploughing Ceremony (Wan Phra Ratcha Phithi Phuet Monkhon Lae Charot Phra Nangkhan Raek Na Khwan) in Thailand, a government holiday. It is also known as Farmers’ Day. The Royal Ploughing Ceremony is an ancient royal tradition observed in Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season.
Who the hell is Kevin?????
A Day in Court…
no good birthdays today. Here’s Gordon Lightfoot.
Today is Independence Day in Angola. After a long and bloody war, Portugal granted Angola independence on November 12, 1975. The United States did not recognize the Angolan government for another 18 years because we thought they were evil commies.
A little irony…
Today is the birthday, in 1945, of Neil Young, Canadian singer, song-writer and activist. He performed both individually and with a number of bands – Buffalo Springfield, Crazy Horse, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and so forth. I was a bit torn this morning about which video to post, so here are two – Ohio written by him and performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and Heart of Gold performed by him and a backup band at Farm Aid. I like Heart of Gold but Ohio is so wrenching and brings back such memories….
Have something to eat
Try some yoga
So….
The owner of a seafood restaurant sends one of his sons undercover to his rival's restaurant. The dad tells him to get a job as a cook and figure out the recipe for his rival's famous clam chowder. The first day, the son comes home with a basic list of ingredients that the rival uses. They try making it, but it doesn't turn out the same. The dad sends him back. The second day, the son comes home having watched the rival chef prepare the chowder. They try again to make it, and it's close, but the consistency is off. "It's too watery!" said the dad. "It needs to be thicker!" They try to figure out what they're doing wrong, and the son realizes that he was distracted for a minute while the chef did something. "He must have added a secret ingredient, one not on the list, while you looked away!" concludes the dad. He sends his son back for a third day, this time telling him not to take his eyes off the chef for a second. The son comes back the next day excited. "You'll never believe what I saw!" he says. "He did have a secret ingredient, it's a piece of paper!" "A piece of paper?" "Yeah, he keeps a stack of printed paper in the kitchen. It's a bunch of Wikipedia articles he's printed out, of various movies. When he makes the chowder, he tears out the synopsis of a movie from one of the articles and puts it in. It's the strangest thing, but that's the secret ingredient." "Ah," says the dad, "the plot thickens."
Today is the birthday, in 1943, of Mick Jagger.
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