Crabs and Beer!

At 05:12 AM Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, the coast of Northern California was struck by a major earthquake with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). Devastating fires soon broke out in San Francisco and lasted for several days. More than 3,000 people died and over 80% of the city was destroyed. The event is remembered as the deadliest earthquake in the history of the United States. The death toll remains the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California’s history and high on the list of worst American disasters.

Between 227,000 and 300,000 people were left homeless out of a population of about 410,000. As damaging as the earthquake and its aftershocks were, the fires that burned out of control afterward were far more destructive. It has been estimated that at least 80%, and at most over 95%, of the total destruction was the result of the subsequent fires. Within three days, over 30 fires, caused by ruptured gas mains, destroyed approximately 25,000 buildings on 490 city blocks. The fires cost an estimated $350 million at the time (equivalent to $8.9 billion in 2023).

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Gotta love Utah…

Katy…

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BADA BING!!!!

My life is a constant battle between wanting to correct grammar and wanting to have friends.

Sometimes I meet people and feel bad for their dog.

You can’t change the people around you, but you can change the people around you.

Steal this chant for your next rally: Small Hands Small Feet – All He Does is Golf and Tweet.

So, it’s okay for a cat to run away and hide under the bed when visitors come, but, when I do it, it’s “rude” and “antisocial.”

My 401k has been converted to a 404k.

I miss the old sleepy guy who never bankrupted a casino or our economy or turned our country into a global pariah.

I miss the calm old guy who rescued the economy without turning every single headline into a circus act.

God: I should have made more AOCs.

I will never understand how folks let a man who bankrupted 6 companies convince them he’d be better for the economy than the prosecutor with an economics degree.

If you serve your kids frozen pizza or chicken nuggets for dinner, you are a terrible parent. I don’t care how busy you are, find the time to microwave them.

I went to the grocery store today and the cashier said my total was $208.47. I wanted a second opinion so I went to self-checkout and my new total was 43.20.

If you honestly think stealing food stamps is easy, you’ve clearly never tried qualifying for them.

Boobytrap spelled backward is partyboob.

Dr. Oz was confirmed to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which is great news for the snake oil industry.

Getting older is wild. I thought I blacked out for 20 minutes this morning. Turns out, I just put my hoodie on backward.

Sign of the year at protest…Hey trump, nobody paid us to be here! We all hate you for free!

I’ll never be okay with donut shops cutting a hole in my donut, and then charging me separately for the same hole they robbed me of.

When someone tells me I look familiar, I just tell them “I do porn”.

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Enjoy the weekend! Here’s Dire Straits… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd9TlGDZGkI

Today is Ellis Island Family History Day, a day to celebrate the achievements and contribution of the immigrants and their descendants who came through Ellis Island; on the anniversary of the day, in 1907, when 11,747 immigrants were processed through the island, the most in one day).

Ellis Island, in New York Harbor, was used to process immigrants to the US starting on January 1, 1892. Its first immigrant was Annie Moore, a 17-year-old girl from Cork, Ireland, who was traveling with her two brothers to meet their parents in the U.S. From 1892 to 1954, nearly 12 million immigrants arriving at the Port of New York and New Jersey were processed there; approximately 40% of Americans may be descended from these immigrants.

New York was not the only port of immigration during the period. Right here in Maryland, Baltimore was one of the largest ports of immigration with some 2 million immigrants arriving through the Locust Point terminal. Many of the immigrants arriving in Baltimore traveled west on the B&O railroad. A partnership between teh B&O and the North German Lloyd Steamship Line allowed immigrants to purchase a single ticket for transatlantic travel to America and rail travel further west on the B&O railroad.

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200-year nuts!

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On this day in 1974, Vinnie Taylor guitarist with US rock ‘n roll revival band Sha Na Na was found dead in a Holiday Inn hotel room in Charlottesville, Virginia from a drug overdose. Sha Na Na played at the Woodstock Festival, their 90-second appearance in the Woodstock film brought the group national attention. The group appeared in the movie Grease as Johnny Casino & The Gamblers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCB95WrqApk

The Songkran festival is the traditional Thai New Year’s Day and is celebrated from April 13th to April 15th. The word Songkran is from the Sanskrit language and means the passage of the sun from one sign of the Zodiac to another. That means there are twelve Songkrans each year, but the significance of this Songkran (sometimes called Major Songkran to distinguish it from the others) is when the sun enters the sign of Aries the Ram. The particular event was also closely related to the Vernal Equinox.

Celebrating New Year at the time of the Vernal Equinox was very common in the past. The Songkran celebration is similar to those of the Indian Holi Festival, the Chinese Ching Ming, and the Christian Festival of Easter.

The most famous aspect of the Songkran celebrations is the throwing of water. The custom originates from spring cleaning aspect of Songkran. Part of the ritual was the cleaning of images of Buddha. Using the ‘blessed’ water that cleaned the images to soak other people is seen as a way of paying respect and bring good fortune.

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Today is the birthday, in 1948, of Larry Ferguson, Hot Chocolate, who had the 1975 US No.3 single ‘You Sexy Thing’ the 1977 UK No.1 single ‘So You Win Again’ and over 25 other Top 40 hits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DwEni2N_-A

On this day in 1606, King James I issued a charter to The Virginia Company with the objective of colonizing the eastern coast of America. The coast was named Virginia, after Elizabeth I, and it stretched from present-day Maine to the Carolinas. The company’s shareholders were Londoners, and it was distinguished from the Plymouth Company, which was chartered at the same time and composed largely of gentlemen from Plymouth, England.

John Rolfe had introduced new and better strains of tobacco from the Caribbean. Cultivation of Rolfe’s new tobacco strains produced a strong commodity crop for export for the London Company and other early English colonies and helped to balance a national trade deficit with Spain. The company failed in 1624, following the widespread destruction of the Great Massacre of 1622 by indigenous peoples in the colony, which decimated the English population. On 24 May, James dissolved the company and made Virginia a royal colony from England with propertied male colonists retaining some representative-government through the lower house, the House of Burgesses.

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Irony alert!

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Signses…

April 9, 2025

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Today is the birthday, in 1959, of American guitarist, singer, and songwriter Brian Setzer, guitar, vocals, The Stray Cats who spearheaded the neo-rockabilly movement of the early 1980s. They scored the 1980 UK No.9 single ‘Runaway Boys’, and the 1983 US No.3 single ‘Stray Cat Strut’. He later worked with his swing revival band, the Brian Setzer Orchestra. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEtbfzMLVWU

Today is the anniversary of the discovery of the statue Aphrodite of Melos, better known as Venus de Milo. The statue is an ancient Greek marble sculpture that was created during the Hellenistic period. Its exact dating is uncertain, but the modern consensus places it in the 2nd century BC, perhaps between 160 and 110 BC. It was rediscovered in 1820 on the island of Milos, Greece, and has been displayed at the Louvre Museum since 1821. Since the statue’s discovery, it has become one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture in the world.

The Venus de Milo is believed to depict Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, whose Roman counterpart was Venus. The statue is missing both arms, the left foot, and the earlobes. There is a filled hole below her right breast that originally contained a metal tenon that would have supported the right arm. The sculpture was originally identified as depicting Aphrodite holding the apple of discord as a marble hand holding an apple was found alongside it; recent scientific analysis supports the identification of this hand as part of the sculpture.

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I’ll stick with the cow…

Sue and Rick

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chat + eau = chateau

Health nut??

BADA BING!!!

Imagine telling Denmark they don’t do enough for people in Greenland when Greenland has universal healthcare and you don’t.

So after arguing for an hour with a man who said I was in his seat, he finally said, “OK, YOU fly the plane!”

Canada elected a guy with a PhD in economics from Oxford. Mexico elected a woman with a degree in physics and a PhD in energy engineering. America elected a geriatric orange conman who talks like a carnie and went bankrupt six times.

Until the day I die, I will never understand how they were more upset about a Super Bowl halftime show than Elon Musk stealing our social security numbers.

Could we just commission artists to paint unflattering portraits of him every day to keep him occupied?

I was watching a TV show for about 10 minutes and this lady was listing all of these great things to do for fun. Then I realized that it was one of the religious channels and she was reading a list of sins.

Don’t worry Greenland. One more bottle of whiskey and Pete Hegseth will text you the complete invasion plans.

It’s disgusting that we live in a country where a homeless veteran who served his country can sleep in a cardboard box, while a draft dodger who works tirelessly to tear his country down can sleep in the White House.

Shout out to everyone who got through the day without taking a nap. Pulled an all-dayer today. 

How would someone cancel an appointment at a sperm bank? Do you just call them and say you can’t come?

I think it’s disgraceful that after 50 years, people don’t know who Neil Armstrong was … or even the type of trumpet he played!

I went for a run but came back home after 2 minutes because I forgot something. I forgot that I’m fat and can’t run for more than 2 minutes.

Must be miserable to go about life thinking scientists, historians and journalists spent their entire lives lying to you, but a reality TV celebrity with decades of documented fraud is telling you the truth.

Remember when I asked for your opinion? Neither do I.

Happy B-day to all celebrating it this month! I hope you’re celebrating the way you came into this world. Naked and screaming.

Subway sign… Our footlong subs are 12 inches even when it’s cold.

I would rather the USA not be Trump’s 7th bankruptcy.

If one of my jokes offended you, it’ll probably happen again. I’m a repeat offender.

If you find a snakeskin, it means the snake shed it so it could grow bigger. Same thing if you find my clothes at Goodwill.

Even on Gilligan’s island, they listened to the professor, not the millionaire.

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Here’s QUEEN! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO6D_BAuYCI