Saturday 6/19/21
Celebrate National Garfield the Cat, and Watch Day.
Garfield launched on June 19, 1978. Jim Davis created the comic strip Garfield and the title’s protagonist, a tabby cat by the same name.
The strip chronicled the life of the lead character, the cat Garfield (named after Jim Davis ’s grandfather). It also introduced Garfield’s owner, Jon Arbuckle and Jon’s dog, Odie. The publication became syndicated in 2013 in roughly 2,580 newspapers and journals and holds the Guinness World Record for being the world’s most widely syndicated comic strip.
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Today, Americans celebrate Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the day news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas, with block parties, cookouts and educational events.
While Juneteenth celebrates the Emancipation Proclamation, which only freed slaves in the South, the 13th Amendment is what officially ended slavery in the U.S.
(Federal Holiday was yesterday.)
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How to make the weekend feel longer? The key is to seek out newness — new settings, new activities. “When you go and experience something novel, it seems to have lasted longer,” he says, because you’re more focused on collecting the unfamiliar information into a memory.
https://www.thecut.com/article/how-to-make-the-weekend-last-longer.html
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Wanna do something nice for your dad this Father's Day? Don't offer to help him with the grill. That's his job.
A new poll found 74% of dads don't want anyone else manning the grill this Sunday. They'd rather do it themselves.
It also found Father's Day is one of the most popular holidays to barbecue. The Fourth of July is the top holiday to barbecue on, according to the poll. But Father's Day, Memorial Day, and Labor Day also made the list.
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Despite the focus on streaming, the majority of time people spend watching TV is still the old fashioned way -- cable and the broadcast networks -- according to a new ratings metric revealed by Nielsen. The research company says it can now directly measure how many households are streaming content to their TVs versus watching through a cable box or antenna. Streaming is dominated by Netflix and YouTube -- together they make up half of all streaming minutes -- but still only accounts for a little more than a quarter of the time TVs are in use.
How are you watching TV these days?
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