Monday 7/19/21
Celebrate National Words With Friends, Daiquiri, and Get Out of the Dog House Day!
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By the way, The Dog Days of Summer are happening right now. The hot, sultry days of summer. They were historically the period following the heliacal rising of the star system Sirius (known colloquially as the "Dog Star"), which Hellenistic astrology connected with heat, drought, sudden thunderstorms, lethargy, fever, mad dogs, and bad luck. They are now taken to be the hottest, most uncomfortable part of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. They occur from July 3 - August 11.
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According to a new survey, kids are raiding their parents' closets for clothes.
Three in four kids between the ages of 5 and 18 say they think their parent's sense of style as a teenager was actually "cool."
And nearly 60% of kids admit to stealing one of their parents' old outfits to wear to school.
This might not come as a surprise to you. Four in five parents say they often see their kids wearing an outfit to school that's similar to one they would have worn when they were in school.
(saves on the Back to School shopping doesn't it?)
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Adele is reportedly back on the dating scene, but it's not with one of her music contemporaries Its basketball star LeBron James.
Meanwhile, LeBron James opens at #1 at the Box Office.
Space Jam: A New Legacy $31.7M
Black Widow $26.3M
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions $8.8M
F9: The Fast Saga$7.6M
The Boss Baby: Family Business $4.7M
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Biz Markie, the pioneering rapper, producer, and beatboxer whose jovial goofiness, boundless, off-kilter creativity and innovative music made him a singular presence in both hip-hop and pop culture at large, died Friday at the age of 57.
“It is with profound sadness that we announce, this evening, with his wife Tara by his side, hip hop pioneer Biz Markie peacefully passed away,” his rep Jenni Izumi said in a statement. “We are grateful for the many calls and prayers of support that we have received during this difficult time.
Over the course of five albums — most notably 1988’s Goin’ Off and 1989’s The Biz Never Sleeps — the producer-MC, whose real name was Marcel Hall, developed his own style unlike any other rapper at the time: a mix of half-sung (and intentionally off-key) choruses, riveting beatboxing, and silly humor that would earn him the nickname the “Clown Prince of Hip-Hop” and pave the way for gloriously bizarre rappers like Ol’ Dirty Bastard. Although deemed one of hip-hop’s biggest one-hit wonders — VH1 placed his 1989 classic “Just a Friend” at Number 81 on its 2000 list of the greatest one-hit wonders of all time — the rapper’s impact extended far beyond hip-hop’s greatest friend-zone lament.
This is his big one, #9 on the charts.
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