10/8/26 - Star Wars Museum, Brunch is Dead, and Super Unhygienic!
Thursday 10/8/26
Celebrate:
American Touch Tag Day
International Lesbian Day
International Off-Road Day
National Depression Screening Day
National Fluffernutter Day
National Hero Day
National Pierogi Day
National Salmon Day
Ombuds Day
World Octopus Day
World Sight Day
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20-year-old musician is set to become the first student to graduate with a minor in mariachi from the University of Nevada Las Vegas, one of the only universities in the country to offer such a niche specialization.
In a city where Latinos comprise more than a third of the population, mariachi music is so popular in schools that there often aren’t enough teachers to meet demand. The minor was created to train students to become mariachi educators in the Clark County School District, which boasts of one of the largest mariachi programs in the U.S. with about 6,000 students taking part.
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The new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will serve “Star Wars” fans what they crave,.
The purpose of the palace that has become his life’s work since he sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012 is to take the work of populist painters, commercial illustrators, comic artists and paperback cover-creators and treat it with a reverence normally reserved for Rembrandts.
Visitors will be greeted by a bright yellow Naboo N-1 Starfighter from 1999’s “The Phantom Menace” that hangs in the lobby of the public research library. The opening exhibit, “Star Wars in Motion,” shows production versions of Luke Skywalker’s landspeeder from the original film and speeder bikes from 1983’s “Return of the Jedi.”
The museum has as much sci-fi and fantasy from Lucas’ collection as from his own work. The sword-and-sandal comic book and paperback art of artist Frank Frazetta has a dedicated space. Nearby are huge, heavy-metal-epic paintings of images from J.R.R. Tolkien by Paul Raymond Gregory, complete with skull-studded frames.
A children’s section includes a painting of Eloise of “Eloise at the Plaza” fame by illustrator Hilary Knight, a painting of Pikachu modeled on a Van Gogh self-portrait from Pokemon illustrator Naoyo Kimura, and rooms full of anime and manga images.
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Anyone doing brunch this weekend??
No..because it's dead!
Why?? One person said, “Maybe because I associate it with oversized portions, mediocre food and an entire afternoon disappearing.”
Turns out a lot of people have lost their appetite for the meal.
For some, it’s the food. For others, it’s the pressure to drink, the time commitment or the spectacle that brunch has become. “I’m sure you’ve seen all the TikToks where everyone wears a wig to brunch,” said Nate Jones, a 29-year-old advertising strategist in Chicago.
In “Kitchen Confidential,” Anthony Bourdain’s bestselling memoir from 2000, he called brunch “a dumping ground for the odd bits left over from Friday and Saturday nights.”
Going out mid-day isn't done; it's just now lunch.
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What’s something super unhygienic that people do anyway?
Flushing the toilet with the lid up
Biting Nails
Not washing hands
Wearing shoes inside the house
Cough or sneeze without covering their mouths
The five-second rule.
Never cleaning remote controllers
Handling money
Petting animals
Fingers in bowling ball holes
Shake hands
Touch your face
Spit in the street
Licking their fingers before touching paper
Double Dipping chips
ATM
Blowing out candles on a birthday cake
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Held Sept. 25-27 in Worcestershire, England, the 2026 National Giant Vegetables Championship attracted some 65,000 visitors. Seven world records were set this year!
Heaviest sweetcorn kernel, weighing in at 0.8 pounds.
Beetroot in at 57 pounds
Heaviest Sunflower head just over 17 pounds
Longest dandelion root just under 3.7 feet.
Tallest cucumber plat at nearly 25 feet
See pictures and the full article here.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - 1920: Frank Herbert was born. The visionary science fiction author whose masterwork Dune reshaped speculative fiction was born on this date.
He didn't initially set out to write a sprawling space opera when he started Dune; he originally traveled to Florence, Oregon, in 1957 to write a magazine article about government efforts to use beach grass to stabilize shifting sand dunes, which sparked the entire desert ecosystem concept.
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