Friday Fun Link: Does Today Suck?

Brian Doherty | April 13, 2007

A website for history buffs and general Internet time wasters: "Does Today Suck?" surveys every day as it arrives for significant or interesting or terrible events that happened that day in history, along with prominent births, and declares the day good, cool, or bad.

Today, thanks to the 1873 Colfax Massacre and 1975 Lebanese Civil War beginning, declared "bad." And who knew Thomas Jefferson, Guy Fawkes, and Christopher Hitchens (the only one of the three Reason has run a feature interview with) shared a birthday?

Comments

|4.13.07 @ 12:45PM|#

I was born today one year in the 1970s. It was also a Friday the 13th, full moon when I was born.

Today is awesome!

|4.13.07 @ 1:01PM|#

So I'm sitting in my cubicle today and I realized that ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So it means that every single day you see me, that's on the worse day of my life.

Peter Gibbons

Mike Kozlowski|4.13.07 @ 1:09PM|#

..."Does today suck?"

Beats me. Ask me tomorrow.

Mike

|4.13.07 @ 1:12PM|#

Today doesn't suck, it blows.

|4.13.07 @ 1:24PM|#

No, because I'm not sitting here at work getting nothing done because a one year old with the stomach flu is hungry and can't hold down his rice cereal so he's not super cranky.

Yeah, today is a great day.

|4.13.07 @ 1:29PM|#

yea, today sux. i didn't just get a 2k raise even tho i really was expecting one. it's not sunny outside, and i'm not going out to have drinks at a comedy club after work. and i probably won't even get laid by my fiance today. yea, today sux.

and ^# rox!

VM|4.13.07 @ 1:34PM|#

NoStar - turn the fan the other way...


d'oh. hands fell asleep while batin.

nothing to report here.

|4.13.07 @ 1:34PM|#

Today is the worst day since yesterday.

VM|4.13.07 @ 1:37PM|#

oh - sorry again for the gastroenterological distress a chez L'numbre 'igh

|4.13.07 @ 1:47PM|#

If you look at the entry for yesterday, April 12,they say the start of the American Civil War was "BAD"--what would that occasional dumbfuck Bill Maher make of that characterization?

Also, the same day, they find that a bunch of ChiComs getting killed in the 1920s was "BAD". If more had been killed then, millions of innocents might have lived.

|4.13.07 @ 2:00PM|#

i think you may be looking at it a bit too politically. the gist i get from the lists is that if a bunch of violence happened/people died then "bad".

just because people with bad intentions were killed doesn't make it good that they were killed. after all - people were still killed - and that's a shame.

|4.13.07 @ 2:04PM|#

If Osama bin Laden and his posse were killed, would you feel the same?

|4.13.07 @ 3:24PM|#

in a way, yes. it's a shame that sometimes people have to be killed to make the world safer.

executions aren't cause for celebrations - no matter how deserving the offenders.

|4.13.07 @ 5:29PM|#

The Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world on December 21, 2012. Now that would be a really bad day-Unequalled in suckatude...

But for now, it's time for the Friday Fun NEW WAVE LINK!!! It's... ! Blondie !
Love this one-Dig it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz-nGB6TPj4

Also, it's no ACCIDENT that I love this one as well...

threadhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsMzs5HKhj8&NR=1

And since our VM is on the scene, you can be quite assured that these two won't be the last examples from that most hyper-creative musical era.

|4.13.07 @ 5:38PM|#

downstater, this is VM. VM, meet downstater.

(VM is from Chicago and "downstater" is a term that refers to someone from central to southern Illinois.)

I'm so cosmo.

VM|4.13.07 @ 5:57PM|#

Hi Rick!

SLOW MOTION! great!

And "Accidents never happen" fantastic!

Rick - also note that Downstater is in Darkly territory, close to St. Louis! His baseball team also has terrific fans, a great atmosphere for a ball game (at least the old statidum), and unlike our team, an amazing history!

hier
is one where Rick and I agree on it's classic quality (Human League, "Fascination")

remake
of "Ball of Confusion"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmzPrAbWuJQ
(Echo and the Bunnymen, "The Game")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueJaFl3j4wg
(Wall of Voodoo, "Far Side of Crazy")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LedY9UHInlw
(Big Dipper, "Faith Healer")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7EpGVB7-kk
(The Feelies, "Away")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVY2uI_mQ3c
(Berlin, "Metro")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kO2sywny0Q
KRAPPY SOUND, but Pseudo Echo's "There's a Beat" is a cool song. or their rendition of "Living in a Dream" (not the LP version, tho)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEJGTXAJzmQ

A little old school punk to end it off
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRE79bxfMtY
(The Buzzcocks, "Ever Fall in Love"



Happy Friday!

weiters...|4.13.07 @ 6:19PM|#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O-pjgdVH4g
(The Jam, "That's Entertainment")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HRA_9MxO3k
(Soul Asylum, "Sometime to Return") from 1988

and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDwlqD--XOc
(Gullible's Travels)
Bummer that "Spinnin" "Bitter Pill" "Brand New Shine" and "All the King's Friends" are't on U-toob)
Those are from the "And the Horse They Rode In On" from 1990

There's nothing from their Loud and Fast sessions. Or from "Say what You Will, Clarence. Karl Sold the Truck", my favorite of their albums.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs2clKwAPWQ
(Lords of the New Church, "Russian Roulette")

(Stiv Baters (!) was the lead hollerer for the Dead Boys)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad86cSh_kao
(Man Called E, "Hello Cruel World")
that's a fun one with the lines:
Venus de Milo grew an arm
And old Macdonald bought the farm

highnumber|4.13.07 @ 6:29PM|#

The Feelies are the worst of all the big selling bands of the 80s. I can't believe they broke so big and a far more deserving band like R.E.M. disappeared with nary a trace.

und zum Schluss...|4.13.07 @ 6:34PM|#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pqC563bX_w
(Captain Sensible, "Wot")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7--QvyN0caM
(Sisters of Mercy, "Walk Away")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icLNmVxkQwg
(NICK CAVE!!!! "THE MERCY SEAT")

and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vktuytFj3Xw
("From Her to Eternity")
(seen in "Wings of Desire" awesome movie!)
and, finally,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOiUPl5GjTE
"Do You Love Me"


Enjoy!

|4.13.07 @ 10:44PM|#

I'm so cosmo

You crack me up, Rick. Thanks. Here's Cars by Gary Numan for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cdgTWitj_o

|4.14.07 @ 2:02AM|#

April 12 was also Yuri's night and the anniversary of the launch of the first space shuttle. April 12 is all right.

Today, however is the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the explosion on Apollo 13. That sucks.

|4.14.07 @ 11:07AM|#

The assassination of Lincoln was staged after he was introduced to peyote by Graham Parsons' great granddad. An old African gentleman gave him an herbal tincture that has him still alive and well in Burgdorf Idaho where he shares a cabin with Elvis and Jim Morrison.

It's a great day to be alive!

VM|4.14.07 @ 11:58AM|#

Thanks for the CARS!

Brotherben - amen.