11/24/25 - Wicked Is Good, Slow Weekends, and Cute(er) Raccoons
- bribriny
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Monday 11/24/25
Celebrate:
Brownielocks Day
Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day
National Sardines Day
National Use Even If Seas is Broken Day (maybe not)
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“Wicked: For Good” is flying high at the box office.
The movie musical has collected $150 million in North America and $76 million overseas for a dazzling $226 million global tally.
Biggest global opening for a Broadway musical adaptation of all-time ahead of “Wicked” ($164.2 million)
Biggest domestic debut for a stage-to-screen adaptation above 2024’s “Wicked” ($112.5 million)
Second-highest grossing opening weekend of 2025, ahead of “Lilo & Stitch” ($146 million) and behind “A Minecraft Movie” ($162 million)
Second-largest start for Universal Pictures behind only 2015’s “Jurassic World” ($208.8 million)
Second-highest debut prior to Thanksgiving after “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” ($158 million)
Third-best launch for any musical behind 2019’s “The Lion King” ($191 million) and 2017’s “Beauty and the Beast” ($174 million)
2. Now You See Me: Now You Don’t $9.1 million
3. Predator: Badlands $6.5 million
4. The Running Man $56.1 million
5. Rental Family with Brendan Fraser $3.3 million
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Did you race around doing all the errands this weekend? Maybe this is a bad time of year to tell you about The Slow Weekend.
You deserve to recharge, relax, and enjoy a little serenity before you have to go back to your Monday grind.
A slow weekend can include,
-Coffee but savoring every sip,in a comfy chair.
-Read a book. You know you have one that you've wanted to read.
-Plan a walk. Visit that park, get out in nature, soak up some sun
-Practice Yoga. There are many YouTube videos you can watch
-Cook. Take the time to make new dishes, make your comfort foods, even make food for the week.
-Nap
-Get creative. A hobby, paining, knitting, writing.
-Plan a movie marathon. Favorites, mixed with new ones.
-Pamper yourself. Salon, home face masks..anything for you!
-Visit a local museum or place of interest. Be a tourist in your own town!
-Disconnect from technology! Put the phone down and relax.
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Minneapolis music legend Jellybean Johnson dies at the age of 69.
"Jellybean was an innovator of what became known across the world as the Minneapolis Sound.
"The only drummer the Time ever had from inception to the current day. Jellybean loved his family his friends and the city of Minneapolis."
When the time was falling apart, Jellybean turned to producing. He went to work for Flyte Time records and his old friends Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, who at the time were working with Janet Jackson.
"We were doing 'Rhythm Nation' and we got to the end of 'Rhythm Nation' and Janet came with this song. It was this little bar phrase on a cassette you know. But it was on a piano, you know," said Jellybean. "So Janet brought that to me and I was like, wow you know, and I told her I said you know your brother has 'Beat It' and 'Dirty Diana' and all that stuff I said it'd be really cool if you had like a hard rock anthem."
So Jellybean turned the piano into an electric guitar and that little bar phrase became the number one hit, 'Black Cat'.
"I told Janet I said I want you to sound like a rock and roll queen on that," he said. "Now I wasn't sure that she knew what the hell I was talking about. It turned out she did.
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If you live in a North American city and you notice that your local raccoons are looking cuter than usual, you're not imagining things. New research suggests that raccoons who reside in urban areas are evolving to live more comfortably around large populations of people.
One key aspect of this is the animals' changing appearance, which includes shorter snouts, smaller heads, and floppier ears than their rural counterparts. Scientists believe that city raccoons are domesticating themselves primarily so they can take advantage of all the trash in urban centers. But in the process, they're starting to behave more calmly and less aggressively, almost like "proto pets." Though they're still considered wild creatures for now, one researcher remarked, "It would be fitting and funny if our next domesticated species was raccoons."
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In Neuville-sur-Saône, France, a man building a pool unearthed ~$800,000 in gold coins and bars. Authorities confirmed the stash wasn’t stolen, so the homeowner can keep it.
Now, where can I rent something to dig up my backyard?
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Watching Shark Week is good....for a shark!
Colleen Dunn was walking her dogs on the beach in Manzanita, Oregon when she came upon a beached shark. Rather than steering clear or calling the authorities, Dunn told KGW-TV, "I just made the quick decision to get him back into the deep Pacific Ocean." A veteran viewer of "Shark Week," Dunn knew that if she dragged the shark by its tail, it wouldn't be able to bite her; with some effort, she was able to wrangle the shark first to shallow water, then push it into water deep enough for it to swim away. Shark expert Taylor Chapple of Oregon University identified the shark as a juvenile salmon shark and said it is not uncommon for the creatures to experience shock while swimming in colder waters and end up beached.
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There's a new trend in schools. The Lost and Found fashion show.
A fun way to clear out the lost and found. If any of these are yours, please claim them at the front desk. One site I saw said to auction them off for something fun or charity.
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - While many other languages include written accents throughout their alphabets, English only has two letters that include a “diacritic dot,” according to Dictionary.com. That small mark you make over a lowercase “i” and a lowercase “j” is called a “tittle.” It’s likely a combination of the words “tiny” and “little” since it is an itty-bitty dot.
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