Friday 5/17/24
Celebrate:
Endangered Species Day
International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia
International Virtual Assistants Day
NASCAR Day
National Bike to Work Day
National Cherry Cobbler Day
National Defense Transportation Day
National Mushroom Hunting Day
National Pack Rat Day
National Pinot Grigio Day
National Pizza Party Day
National Walnut Day
O. Henry Pun-off Day
Shades Day
World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
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This weekend at the Movies
IF - From writer and director John Krasinski, IF is about a girl who discovers that she can see everyone’s imaginary friends.
Starring Ryan Reynolds, Fiona Shaw, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
Back to Black - The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black.
Starring Jack O'Connell, Lesley Manville, Eddie Marsan, and Marisa Abela.
The Strangers: Chapter 1 - The start of a Horror series - After their car breaks down in an eerie small town, a young couple (Madelaine Petsch and Froy Gutierrez) are forced to spend the night in a remote cabin.
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Football fans rejoice and get their calendars out...the schedules for the new season are out today!
The season starts Thursday, September 5th and in a controversial move, Netflix will stream two games on Christmas.
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Three-year-old Sage, a miniature poodle from Houston Texas, wins Best in Show at the 148th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show
"Mercedes," the German Shepherd, a 4-year-old from Bethesda, Maryland, was named the Reserve Best in Show.
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More upfronts this time from Netflix and Max
Netflix has Happy Gilmore 2..assuming it's Adam Sandler
Bridgerton's new season is out now
Max teased The Last of Us season 2 and the Dune: Prophecy series
I'm sure they also showed the House of Dragons' new season that is coming very soon, but there is another Game of Thrones spinoff A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms coming next year.
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May is American Cheese Month, celebrating ALL cheeses made in the U.S.A. So, not just the processed kind. But the timing here still seems mean: Mashed.com ranked the 10 unhealthiest cheeses, and American is #1.
They didn't just look at how fatty they are, since that's a given. They also looked at things like sodium and how nutritious they are in general.
1. American cheese. It's heavily processed, full of preservatives, and loaded with salt. It's only orange because of food coloring.
2. Mascarpone. A soft, spreadable cheese that's used in a lot of desserts. Keep using it. It's just really high in saturated fat.
3. Double Gloucester. (GLAW-ster) A semi-hard cheese from England. (It's the star of the annual "Cheese Roll" where people chase a wheel of it down a really steep hill. This year's event is later this month on May 27th.)
4. Brunost. A sweet Norwegian cheese that's got more sugar than most types.
5. Any cheese that comes in a can or jar. So, things like Cheez Whiz, Easy Cheese, and nacho cheese.
6. Brie. It's high in calories and loaded with saturated fat.
7. Stilton. A type of blue cheese from England. It's considered one of the world's BEST cheeses, but not one of the healthiest.
8. Pre-grated parmesan cheese. Fresh is better than the kind that comes in a plastic shaker. After American, it's the saltiest cheese you can buy.
9. Roquefort. A blue cheese that originated in France. Again, lots of calories and saturated fat.
10. Pre-packaged shredded cheese. It's loaded with additives and preservatives. That's why you're better off buying a block and shredding it yourself.
See their article here
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There's a town in Ohio called Marysville (outside of Columbus), which is getting some press for the money they put into their public restrooms. There's nothing special about the amenities . . . the money is LITERAL CASH.
A couple of weeks ago, more than $25,000 was found in a public bathroom at the Avalon Theatre, a performing arts venue in Marysville. Less than a week later, more than $12,000 was found in a public bathroom at a KFC, also in the same town.
The police say the cash was hidden in both cases . . . so it wasn't left there accidentally. In the theater, the bills were in multiple, individual stall trash cans, and in the KFC, the money was banded up inside the tanks of several toilets.
Both stashes of money were found by employees of those businesses.
Naturally, the cops believe the two cases are connected . . . but they don't know how, and they don't have any leads as far as we know.
It's also unclear if any other bathroom cash has been discovered . . . and of course, there's the possibility that there have been other cash drops that were taken by whoever was SUPPOSED to find them. If that was the intent.
So it's still a mystery . . . a VERY bizarre mystery.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - There are seven countries in Europe that are smaller than Rhode Island: Vatican City, Monaco, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Malta, Andorra, and Luxembourg.
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