Tickets! Tickets please!
Before the horrific Frank McCourt era, I was part of a group that had season tickets to the Dodgers. The group had four seats in a great location, and a full share was 20 games with two seats at each. I had a 3/4ths share with a co-worker who only wanted to attend five games a season anyway.
We had an annual ritual. We would meet once the tickets had arrived from the Dodgers sales office, and pick out which games we wanted to attend. There was a process to make it very fair. Eight full shares, so the eight of us would pick the numbers 1 through 8 from a hat (or box or whatever). Then we'd move into those positions around a table. 1 picked first, and then everyone thereafter in numeric order. Once it was #8's turn, they would pick twice and then the turn would move backwards around the table again. When it got back to #1 they would pick twice and so on.
If you drew a number higher than 4, you could forget about either Opening Day or Fan Appreciation Day, as those always went first. In those days I'd buy anywhere from 5 to 15 additional tickets per season as going to Chavez Ravine was one of my favorite things to do.
Now that ritual is going to change, at least a little (assuming the group is still together. As it will for all who hold season seats for the Dodgers. They are going to get rid of the paper ticket. No more ticket stubs and that's not a good thing.
I used to save ticket stubs when I was a kid. I had my first stub from a Lakers game, lots of stubs from when I was young and my father was a season seat holder for the Kings. Section 7, Row P, seats 1 and 2 were a second home to me. When the "un-official" fan club known as the "white hats" (they wore painters hats) began circling the walkway around the Forum during the second intermission, I went out and bought a hat for myself. I joined in when they did the walk and as we stopped at random to lead sections of the Loge level in cheers.
Ticket stubs from a famous game are magical. A stub from game 1 of the 1963 World Series is listed on Ebay for $250 or best offer. Sandy Koufax pitched a complete game, gave up only two runs and struck out 15 Yankees (then a record). He began the game by whiffing the first five batters he faced. Holding that stub would bring that game back to life. I'd love to own it.
Holding a bar code brings nothing but the feel of worthless paper between your fingers. Getting rid of tickets may be eco-friendly, it may ultimately save time (it will do the opposite at first), but it is a big mistake.
* * *
Everyone in the Southern California area is all excited because the current owner of the St. Louis Rams just bought a big parking lot in Inglewood. The 60 acre lot sits between the Forum, which is owned by the Madison Square Garden Company. They've just spent $50 million renovating the property.
Hollywood Park's racetrack closed this past December. People have been trying to develop its 238 acres into housing, an entertainment center, parks and more, since 2009.
When there was a sporting event at the Forum (seating capacity for game of the Lakers and Kings was less than 20,000) and there were races scheduled at the track next door, traffic was a major headache. Even the addition of digital traffic lights that allowed the conversion of the major thoroughfares adjacent to the forum into one way streets to aid traffic flow didn't help all that much. A football stadium would seat two to three times what the Forum held.
Without careful planning, the development of these two large parcels at the same time will snarl traffic worse than it was before, and there won't be nearly enough parking in the area.
Let's temper the excitement with caution. Having pro football in SoCal would be good. Careful planning is required.
* * *
Is the path to citizenship going to be the deal-breaker when it comes to comprehensive immigration reform? If so, whoever is insisting it be part of the deal needs to back down. Reform that guarantees an end to the problem of illegal immigration in the U. S. doesn't have to include a path to citizenship for the current generation of people here illegally.
As long as they can live without fear of deportation, pay the appropriate taxes, have access to the same programs and benefits as do the citizens of the United States, the difference between being a permanent resident under whatever program is proposed, and the path to citizenship is minimal at best.
Illegal immigrants are exploited and victimized by unscrupulous employers and individuals. They are forced to commit fraud to gain employment, through the use of social security numbers that are not their own. There's no point to arguing the causation of the present population of these people who live here in the U. S. A solution must be found that removes any stigma from their existence, while bringing our nation into a situation where we no longer have a border that is so easy to cross illegally. If every other modern nation on Earth can have and enforce immigration laws, so can we.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
How many college coaches had a song like this done about/for them? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itx-n_VsxMo
The moment I heard the news that Congressman Waxman was retiring I wondered how long it would take Wendy Gruel to toss her hat into the ring. Didn't take very long. Doesn't matter. I'll make my endorsement now, assuming the candidate of my choice runs (and she should definitely do so). Vote Debra Bowen for 33rd Congressional District. She rocks.
It will take more than buying land to convince me the Rams are coming back to Los Angeles.
I'll bet there is never a new episode of the Jerry Springer show where the word "lesbian" isn't used at least once.
TMZ should set up a separate website for their Justin Bieber coverage, so it isn't overshadowing all their other celebrity gossip.
It's not really clear if the extradition treaty between Italy and the United States does or doesn't permit the extradition of Amanda Knox if her recent conviction is upheld.
A recent study shows the better your reaction times are, the less likely you are to die a premature death. I'm not sure if I should be comforted by my above-average reaction times or not.
Didn't Irwindale lobby Huy Fong Foods to build their Sriracha sauce plant in their city?
Steven Berkoff is a fine actor, but I'm much more inclined to believe William Friedkin in this flap over Berkoff leaving a play that Friedkin is directing. Friedkin is an extraordinary director.
Jesse Eisenberg would not have been my choice to portray Lex Luthor.
A Wall Street trader leaving the big bucks behind because he realized he was suffering from "wealth addiction?" Wow.
Tonight Show staffers are being laid off and apparently this is a major news story for some media outlets. Geez, production is moving to New York. Of course there are layoffs.
CA State Senator Roderick Wright was convicted of multiple felonies involving voter fraud and perjury (he was convicted of lying about living in the district he represents). Instead of resigning, he introduced a bill into the Senate to allow some non-violent felonies to be converted to misdemeanors. Now there's a politician with absolutely no shame.
* * *
January 31st in History:
314 – Silvester I begins his reign as Pope of the Catholic Church, succeeding Pope Miltiades.
1504 – France cedes Naples to Aragon.
1606 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for plotting against Parliament and King James.
1747 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
1801 – John Marshall is appointed the Chief Justice of the United States.
1814 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.
1846 – After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1848 – John C. Frémont is Court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.
1849 – Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom pursuant to legislation in 1846.
1862 – Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.
1865 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery and submits it to the states for ratification.
1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
1867 – Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria.
1891 – History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
1900 – Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
1915 – World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
1917 – World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
1918 – A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
1919 – The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
1929 – The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
1942 – World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore.
1943 – World War II: German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of the war's fiercest battles.
1944 – World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
1944 – World War II: During the Anzio campaign the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
1945 – US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
1945 – World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
1946 – Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling that of the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
1949 – These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.
1950 – President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
1953 – A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom
1957 – Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 1 – The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.
1958 – James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 – Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
1966 – The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
1968 – Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
1968 – Nauru gains independence from Australia.
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 – Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
1971 – The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit, Michigan.
1990 – The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow.
1995 – President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
1996 – An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
1996 – Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
2000 – Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
2001 – In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
2003 – The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.
2007 – Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
2009 – In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.
2010 – Avatar becomes the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide.
2011 – A winter storm hits North America for the second time in the same month, causing $1.8 billion in damage across the United States and Canada and killing 24 people.
2011 – Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the last two /8 IPv4 address blocks to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs).
2013 – An explosion at the Pemex Executive Tower in Mexico City kills at least 33 people and injures more than 100.
Famous Folk Born on January 31st:
Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
Louis de Montfort
Franz Schubert
Zane Grey
Eddie Cantor
Tallulah Bankhead
Don Hutson
Jackie Robinson (he had guts, to sit back and take the abuse he took)
Stewart Udall
Carol Channing
Mario Lanza (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o8SZng55T0)
Jersey Joe Walcott
Norman Mailer
Benjamin Hooks
Ernie Banks
James Franciscus
Phillip Glass
Suzanne Pleshette
Dick Gephardt
Daniela Bianchi
Terry Kath
Glynn Turman
Nolan Ryan
Harry Wayne Casey
Shirley Babashoff
Kelly Lynch
Chad Channing
Minnie Driver
Portia de Rossi
Kerry Washington
Justin Timberlake
Megan Ellison
In honor of Minnie Driver's birthday, "Sleepers" provides today's movie quotes:
Lorenzo: The temperature topped out at ninety-eight degrees the day our lives were forever altered.
#2
Father Bobby: I stopped off at Attica today on my way up here to see an old friend of mine.
Young Lorenzo 'Shakes' Carcaterra: You have any friends who aren't in jail?
Father Bobby: Not as many as I'd like.
#3
Lorenzo: Do you love him?
Carol: I don't think about it, Shakes. If I did, I'd say yes.
#4
Father Bobby: It was the Sistine Chapel he painted.
John Reilly: Sixteenth Chapel?
Father Bobby: Sistine Chapel.
John Reilly: Who painted the other fifteen?
We had an annual ritual. We would meet once the tickets had arrived from the Dodgers sales office, and pick out which games we wanted to attend. There was a process to make it very fair. Eight full shares, so the eight of us would pick the numbers 1 through 8 from a hat (or box or whatever). Then we'd move into those positions around a table. 1 picked first, and then everyone thereafter in numeric order. Once it was #8's turn, they would pick twice and then the turn would move backwards around the table again. When it got back to #1 they would pick twice and so on.
If you drew a number higher than 4, you could forget about either Opening Day or Fan Appreciation Day, as those always went first. In those days I'd buy anywhere from 5 to 15 additional tickets per season as going to Chavez Ravine was one of my favorite things to do.
Now that ritual is going to change, at least a little (assuming the group is still together. As it will for all who hold season seats for the Dodgers. They are going to get rid of the paper ticket. No more ticket stubs and that's not a good thing.
I used to save ticket stubs when I was a kid. I had my first stub from a Lakers game, lots of stubs from when I was young and my father was a season seat holder for the Kings. Section 7, Row P, seats 1 and 2 were a second home to me. When the "un-official" fan club known as the "white hats" (they wore painters hats) began circling the walkway around the Forum during the second intermission, I went out and bought a hat for myself. I joined in when they did the walk and as we stopped at random to lead sections of the Loge level in cheers.
Ticket stubs from a famous game are magical. A stub from game 1 of the 1963 World Series is listed on Ebay for $250 or best offer. Sandy Koufax pitched a complete game, gave up only two runs and struck out 15 Yankees (then a record). He began the game by whiffing the first five batters he faced. Holding that stub would bring that game back to life. I'd love to own it.
Holding a bar code brings nothing but the feel of worthless paper between your fingers. Getting rid of tickets may be eco-friendly, it may ultimately save time (it will do the opposite at first), but it is a big mistake.
* * *
Everyone in the Southern California area is all excited because the current owner of the St. Louis Rams just bought a big parking lot in Inglewood. The 60 acre lot sits between the Forum, which is owned by the Madison Square Garden Company. They've just spent $50 million renovating the property.
Hollywood Park's racetrack closed this past December. People have been trying to develop its 238 acres into housing, an entertainment center, parks and more, since 2009.
When there was a sporting event at the Forum (seating capacity for game of the Lakers and Kings was less than 20,000) and there were races scheduled at the track next door, traffic was a major headache. Even the addition of digital traffic lights that allowed the conversion of the major thoroughfares adjacent to the forum into one way streets to aid traffic flow didn't help all that much. A football stadium would seat two to three times what the Forum held.
Without careful planning, the development of these two large parcels at the same time will snarl traffic worse than it was before, and there won't be nearly enough parking in the area.
Let's temper the excitement with caution. Having pro football in SoCal would be good. Careful planning is required.
* * *
Is the path to citizenship going to be the deal-breaker when it comes to comprehensive immigration reform? If so, whoever is insisting it be part of the deal needs to back down. Reform that guarantees an end to the problem of illegal immigration in the U. S. doesn't have to include a path to citizenship for the current generation of people here illegally.
As long as they can live without fear of deportation, pay the appropriate taxes, have access to the same programs and benefits as do the citizens of the United States, the difference between being a permanent resident under whatever program is proposed, and the path to citizenship is minimal at best.
Illegal immigrants are exploited and victimized by unscrupulous employers and individuals. They are forced to commit fraud to gain employment, through the use of social security numbers that are not their own. There's no point to arguing the causation of the present population of these people who live here in the U. S. A solution must be found that removes any stigma from their existence, while bringing our nation into a situation where we no longer have a border that is so easy to cross illegally. If every other modern nation on Earth can have and enforce immigration laws, so can we.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
How many college coaches had a song like this done about/for them? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itx-n_VsxMo
The moment I heard the news that Congressman Waxman was retiring I wondered how long it would take Wendy Gruel to toss her hat into the ring. Didn't take very long. Doesn't matter. I'll make my endorsement now, assuming the candidate of my choice runs (and she should definitely do so). Vote Debra Bowen for 33rd Congressional District. She rocks.
It will take more than buying land to convince me the Rams are coming back to Los Angeles.
I'll bet there is never a new episode of the Jerry Springer show where the word "lesbian" isn't used at least once.
TMZ should set up a separate website for their Justin Bieber coverage, so it isn't overshadowing all their other celebrity gossip.
It's not really clear if the extradition treaty between Italy and the United States does or doesn't permit the extradition of Amanda Knox if her recent conviction is upheld.
A recent study shows the better your reaction times are, the less likely you are to die a premature death. I'm not sure if I should be comforted by my above-average reaction times or not.
Didn't Irwindale lobby Huy Fong Foods to build their Sriracha sauce plant in their city?
Steven Berkoff is a fine actor, but I'm much more inclined to believe William Friedkin in this flap over Berkoff leaving a play that Friedkin is directing. Friedkin is an extraordinary director.
Jesse Eisenberg would not have been my choice to portray Lex Luthor.
A Wall Street trader leaving the big bucks behind because he realized he was suffering from "wealth addiction?" Wow.
Tonight Show staffers are being laid off and apparently this is a major news story for some media outlets. Geez, production is moving to New York. Of course there are layoffs.
CA State Senator Roderick Wright was convicted of multiple felonies involving voter fraud and perjury (he was convicted of lying about living in the district he represents). Instead of resigning, he introduced a bill into the Senate to allow some non-violent felonies to be converted to misdemeanors. Now there's a politician with absolutely no shame.
* * *
January 31st in History:
314 – Silvester I begins his reign as Pope of the Catholic Church, succeeding Pope Miltiades.
1504 – France cedes Naples to Aragon.
1606 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for plotting against Parliament and King James.
1747 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
1801 – John Marshall is appointed the Chief Justice of the United States.
1814 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.
1846 – After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1848 – John C. Frémont is Court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.
1849 – Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom pursuant to legislation in 1846.
1862 – Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.
1865 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery and submits it to the states for ratification.
1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
1867 – Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria.
1891 – History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
1900 – Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
1915 – World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
1917 – World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
1918 – A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
1919 – The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
1929 – The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
1942 – World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore.
1943 – World War II: German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of the war's fiercest battles.
1944 – World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
1944 – World War II: During the Anzio campaign the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
1945 – US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
1945 – World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
1946 – Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling that of the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
1949 – These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.
1950 – President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
1953 – A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom
1957 – Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 1 – The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.
1958 – James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 – Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
1966 – The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
1968 – Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
1968 – Nauru gains independence from Australia.
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 – Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
1971 – The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit, Michigan.
1990 – The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow.
1995 – President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
1996 – An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
1996 – Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
2000 – Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
2001 – In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
2003 – The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.
2007 – Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
2009 – In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.
2010 – Avatar becomes the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide.
2011 – A winter storm hits North America for the second time in the same month, causing $1.8 billion in damage across the United States and Canada and killing 24 people.
2011 – Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the last two /8 IPv4 address blocks to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs).
2013 – An explosion at the Pemex Executive Tower in Mexico City kills at least 33 people and injures more than 100.
Famous Folk Born on January 31st:
Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
Louis de Montfort
Franz Schubert
Zane Grey
Eddie Cantor
Tallulah Bankhead
Don Hutson
Jackie Robinson (he had guts, to sit back and take the abuse he took)
Stewart Udall
Carol Channing
Mario Lanza (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o8SZng55T0)
Jersey Joe Walcott
Norman Mailer
Benjamin Hooks
Ernie Banks
James Franciscus
Phillip Glass
Suzanne Pleshette
Dick Gephardt
Daniela Bianchi
Terry Kath
Glynn Turman
Nolan Ryan
Harry Wayne Casey
Shirley Babashoff
Kelly Lynch
Chad Channing
Minnie Driver
Portia de Rossi
Kerry Washington
Justin Timberlake
Megan Ellison
In honor of Minnie Driver's birthday, "Sleepers" provides today's movie quotes:
Lorenzo: The temperature topped out at ninety-eight degrees the day our lives were forever altered.
#2
Father Bobby: I stopped off at Attica today on my way up here to see an old friend of mine.
Young Lorenzo 'Shakes' Carcaterra: You have any friends who aren't in jail?
Father Bobby: Not as many as I'd like.
#3
Lorenzo: Do you love him?
Carol: I don't think about it, Shakes. If I did, I'd say yes.
#4
Father Bobby: It was the Sistine Chapel he painted.
John Reilly: Sixteenth Chapel?
Father Bobby: Sistine Chapel.
John Reilly: Who painted the other fifteen?
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