Tuesday is a cumquat. How about that? I honestly cannot think of anything to write about today. It is cold out there isn’t it? Rotten cold weather. I’ve had quite enough of that. Yeah. Ummm.....
Well, let’s see what happened on this day in history brought to us by our friends at the History Channel. (You’ve come this far, you might as well go a little further, Jessica. I know as soon as you saw the word History you lost interest. But take a chance hmm…?)
In musical history and something I didn’t know about, sadly on this day Del Shannon committed suicide in 1990. Dell Shannon is best known for his song “Runaway” from 1961. It’s unclear as to why he may have killed himself; there was some talk it was due to some early uses of Prozac. I had no idea he killed himself. How sad. Way to go Tuesday. Let’s see if there’s something a little brighter from this day in history.
In 1587 Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded for her involvement in the plot to murder Queen Elizabeth I. No, that seems a little too dark as well. What else happened? 1725 Peter the Great died. Although his friends just called him Peter the Meh (accompanied by a wavering hand gesture and a shrug).
In America the D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation opened and was our first feature length motion picture in 1915. While being the first of its kind it was also one of the most racist and offensive movies ever made. Its contribution to movie making can’t be denied but its content is morally questionable. So that’s kind of a draw on the good news/bad news scale.
Did anything positive happen on this day in history? Spud Webb won the dunk contest in 1986. That seems to be one of the only positives in history for February 8th. Bummer. Well, what about the current news, anything going on today that’s not such a total let down? No, CNN has nothing worth noting I would consider positive. So it would seem that Tuesday is kind of a jerk and it’s in our collective best interest to ignore it and just get on to Wednesday.
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