It’s Saturday, May 21, and we’re in for a lovely weekend (weatherwise) in Chicago. On this day in history, Charles Lindburgh landed in Paris (1927), completing the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic by a solo pilot. And, according to Wikipedia, in 1936 “Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover’s severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan’s most notorious scandals.” She was sentenced to six years in prison and served four You may well have seen the movie based on this, “In the Realm of the Senses,” a mainstream film (and a pretty good one) with real sex scenes. Finally, on this day in 1992, Johnny Carson hosted his very last episode of The Tonight Show, with guests Bette Midler and Robin Williams.
Those born on this day include Mary Anning (1799), Henri Rousseau (1844), Andrei Sakharov (1921), and Al Franken (1951). Deaths on this day included Christopher Smart (1771), who wrote the best cat poem ever,Jane Addams (1935), and Twinkle (2015). Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili and Cyrus are squabbling like brother and sister:
Cyrus: Take your paw off my nose.Hili: First you take yours off mine.
Cyrus: Zabierz swoją łapkę z mojego nosa.
Hili: Ty zabierz najpierw swoją z mojego.L
Lagnaiappe 1: from George Takei’s FB page, courtesy of reader JSP, we get “the REAL Ceiling Cat.” (I’m not so sure.)
Lagnaippe 2: A cool cat from reader Merilee:
The British Museum has a feature on Mary Anning today
http://britishmuseum.tumblr.com/post/144594994902/mary-anning
The chair cat meant for that to happen.
I’m afraid Lindburgh is another one of those American classics who would have been more the hero if he had remand the quiet one. Once he started opening his mouth it was all down hill.
Similar to Benedict Arnold who, except for a few character flaws could have been a hero from an earlier era.
For anyone who has access to the NHK World TV channel, this month’s edition of Japan Railway Journal is devoted to Kishi train station, famous for having a cat as it’s Station Master. CNN had a feature about Tama, the original station master cat
http://travel.cnn.com/cat-saves-japanese-train-station-586471/
including the cat-themed station building
IIRC, The Tonight Show episode with Robin Williams & Bette Midler was the penultimate and the final show had no guests.
It’s Lindbergh. (Sorry, but he was son of a Swedish immigrant, so I’m keeping tabs.)
🙂