Reading about Tumblr on Wikipedia and vice versa is like,,, oh these two are fucking
I’m creating a Wikipedia page chat. We deserve this. I panicked and now do not know what to write. Please help. I want this to be a fandom effort.
“Saint Patrick, Pray for Us!” #SaintoftheDay
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Feature LP (1963) / Beatles - Please Please Me / 4pm ET / 3-16-26
Please Please Me is the debut studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Produced by George Martin, it was released on EMI’s Parlophone label on March 22, 1963, in the United Kingdom, following the success of the band’s first two singles “Love Me Do”, which reached number 17 on the UK Singles Chart, and “Please Please Me” which reached number 1 on the NME and Melody Maker charts. The…
Feature LP (1963) / Beatles - Please Please Me / 4pm ET / 3-16-26
Slinky - Wikipedia
Been a while since I’ve posted a Wikipedia article here as a point of interest, but I just watched the episode of GameCenter CX featuring the bizarre TurboGrafx-16 game Somer Assault, in which the playable character is a Slinky, so I opened up the Wikipedia article for Slinkys. It starts off perfectly normal enough, until it gets to the “Subsequent developments” section and drops this doozy:
Although the Slinky had early success, sales peaked in the late 1950s, then began to decline. Richard’s interest in Slinky and the company waned, and he became deeply involved in a religious sect, reportedly giving it large amounts of company funds. In 1960, he told Betty that he was going to become an evangelical missionary in Bolivia with Wycliffe Bible Translators. Rather than going with him or selling the company, Betty decided to remain, divorce Richard, and take over the company. Richard relocated to Bolivia leaving Betty and their three children behind.
Look, we’ve all been there, right
Feature LP (1990) / Heart - Brigade / 3pm ET / 3-16-26
Brigade is the tenth studio album by American rock band Heart, released on March 26, 1990, by Capitol Records. The album reached number three on both the US Billboard 200 and the UK Albums Chart, while peaking at number two in Canada, Finland, and Sweden. The album’s lead single, “All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You”, reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100. Subsequent singles “I Didn’t Want…
Music and Events / March 16
March 16 is the 75th day of the year (76th in leap years)
BORN1881 – Fannie Charles Dillon, American composer (d. 1947)1885 – Giacomo Benvenuti, Italian composer and musicologist (d. 1943)1906 – Henny Youngman, English American violinist and comedian (d. 1998)1909 – Don Raye, American songwriter (d. 1985)1920 – John Addison, English American soldier and composer (d. 1998)1923 – Heinz Wallberg,…
John Kent (police officer)
John Kent (1805 – 20 July 1886) was a British police constable at Maryport, then with the Carlisle City Police, and is reported to be the first black police officer in Britain. He served seven years in the office of constable at Carlisle before being dismissed from his role in 1844. He then became a court bailiff, then a Parish Constable at Longtown. Until 2006, when a former officer of Cumbria Constabulary discovered Kent’s employment records, it was thought that Britain’s first black police officer was Norwell Roberts, who was an officer with the Metropolitan Police starting in 1966 (however Astley Lloyd Blair joined Gloucestershire Constabulary as a Special Constable in 1964). The discovery has been heralded by the UK National Black Police Association as having “huge significance” as well as being “totally unexpected”.
Feature LP (1979) / Journey - Evolution / 12pm ET / 3-16-26
Evolution is the fifth studio album by American rock band Journey. Released on March 23, 1979, on Columbia Records, it is their first album to feature drummer Steve Smith.
It was the band’s most successful album at that time, selling three million copies in the US and charting at No. 20 on the US Billboard 200 chart. They retained Roy Thomas Baker (best known for his work with Queen) as…
According to illustrator and New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck, sticking to a strict daily routine (one that includes jogging past a dog park) allows her to cultivate her wonderfully rich inner life. And it seems to work—the young artist has just published her third book, Excuse Me: Cartoons, Complaints, and Notes to Self, while keeping up with her wildly popular Instagram account (which has almost 400k followers).
In this video, Liana takes the Cut through a day in her life, and talks us through her inspirations, how she cultivated her famous “anti-style,” and her favorite drawing pen.