6/1/26 - Happy June!! Graduation Caps

Monday 6/1/26

Celebrate:

Dare Day

Dinosaur Day

Don't Give Up The Ship Day

Flip a Coin 

Global Day of Parents

Heimlich Maneuver Day

International Children's Day

National Thank God It's Monday Day

National Go Barefoot Day

National Hazelnut Cake Day

National Nail Polish Day

National Olive Day

National Pen Pal Day

New Year's Resolution Recommitment Day

Oscar the Grouch Day

Say Something Nice Day

Stand For Children Day

Wear a Dress Day

World Milk Day

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Rabbit Rabbit!!!!!

June is Busting out all over!!!

In any standard calendar year, no other month begins on the same day of the week as June. It stands completely alone in its weekly alignment.

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Weekend Box Office

1. Backrooms $81.5M

It set several box office benchmarks: It delivered the largest opening weekend ever for A24, crushing the record set by Alex Garland’s 2024 thriller “Civil War” with $25.5 million. It also ranked as the biggest debut in history for original horror, as well as the best start for a first-time filmmaker on a non-franchise film. Parsons is the youngest director, by far, to have the No. 1 film at the box office. 

2. Obsession $26.4M

3. Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu  $25.0M

4. Michael  $11.7M

5. The Breadwinner $7.5M

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We are around Graduation Time and most people never stop to ask why graduation caps look like that in the first place. All square and stuff!!!

History.com traces the modern mortarboard to 16th-century Italy. Back then, it evolved from a Catholic clerical hat called the biretta, which priests and academics had been wearing since the 14th century. But the original versions looked nothing like the cap we know today. They had three peaks and a fluffy tuft on top, looking far more like a fancy bishop’s hat than a graduation accessory.

Things got squarer in 1660, when King Charles II was restored to the English throne. To show their allegiance to the new king, clergy started enlarging the tops of their caps, according to academic historian Stephen Wolgast. Those bigger tops needed reinforcement to stay in shape, and just like that, the stiff, flat mortarboard was born.

Anyone decorating them now? That dates back to during the Vietnam War when peace signs started showing up. 

]Fast forward a few decades, and the once-formal cap has become a full-blown art piece, with rhinestones, glitter pens and Etsy sellers along for the ride.

Those art pieces tend to fall into a few familiar buckets:

The “thanks, Mom” tribute: Family photos or messages honoring whoever got them through

The cost-of-college roast: “Game of Loans. Interest is coming.” or “This hat: $95,990”

The pop culture nod: Taylor Swift lyrics, Marvel logos, beloved pet portraits or a Bluey shout-out

The job hunt flex: “Hire me!” splashed in glitter, complete with an email or QR code linking to a LinkedIn profile

The identity celebration: First-generation tributes, cultural heritage or LGBTQ+ pride

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