Ridley's
Believe It Or Not—June 22, 2014: Second day of summer but a
veritable wasteland of holidays to enjoy. Hope you are in full summer enjoyment
mode and enjoy these holidays, factoids, and a quote by Paul Simon on
Kodachrome.
1. Yellow Brick Road Day—mourning the loss
of Judy Garland on this day in 1969 from a drug overdose, immortalized forever
as Dorothy in the Wizard of OZ.
2. Ask And
I Will Tell Day—mourning the loss of Ann Landers on this day in 2002;
she was an icon in skill of rendering advice to her readers submitting
questions.
3. Chocolate
Éclair Day—celebrating another great desert.
4. Onion
Rings Day—another unknown holiday until today celebrating another way to
harden the arteries with fat.
On this
day in:
a. 1870 the U.S. Department of Justice was created; given the partisan nature
of the current AG, perhaps a renaming to Department of Nonjustice might be
considered.
b. 1944 FDR signed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 (“The GI Bill”)
which sent thousands upon thousands of World War II Vets to colleges following
the end of World War II.
c. 2009 in another example of how
technological advances change our lives, the Eastman Kodak Company announced
that it was after 74 years discontinuing the sale of its Kodachrome film—a victim
of the digital cameras.
Still
a sunny day: “They give us those nice bright colors. They give us the
greens of summers. Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day.” Paul Simon
from his song Kodachrome
Please
enjoy the 140 character poems on events of interest on my twitter account below
(if you like them, retweet and join almost 140 growing followers
and please follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and
entertaining poems on my blogs--click on links below. www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for poems
to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy. Go to Rhymes On The Newsworthy Times for
comments on important and breaking news events that should be of interest.
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© June 22,
2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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