This Day In History...

Ok I will be the first to admit that this month's segment "This Day In History" was a flop. It sounded good at the time but then again so did Monica Lewinsky to Bill. Both were bad and fat ideas. I will, however, be persevering cause I'm not a quitter damnit! I will however tell you that next month's segment is much cooler. Or at least it sounds cooler. But you will have to wait till next month for that. But as for the present it's time.

Today, July 27th, in 1940 Bugs Bunny made his official day debut the animated short "A Wild Hare". This is truly a milestone. I mean Bugs basically served as a pseudo parents for millions of neglected kids. And what would Michael Jordon's acting career had done without Bug's Oscar worth performance in the 1996 smash hit "Space Jam"?

Now here is a video featuring 50 years of Bugs Bunny in three minutes.

This Day In History...

So my segment "This Day In History" has fallen a little short lately but it (remarkably) is not because I am lazy (which one would think). Actually it is because e every time I research history the only things I can find are depressing like "French revolutionary Jean Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bath by royalist sympathizer Charlotte Corday."...Haha? Like really what am I suppose to say about that? Be glad that you aren't Jean Paul Marat? Honestly. But i do research it everyday.

Today however, I found a little gem that I can definitely make some light of. In 1977, A 25-hour blackout hit New York City, engendering widespread rioting and looting! OMG the same thing happened to us! Now I may not have mentioned it in the initial post but there was definitely a lot of crime that happened the night of our rolling, 25 hour blackout. Luckly, I am a photo journalist and documented the raw terror of our night:

This is one of the first effects of the blackout...I am not going to tell you what it is but it missed the pad.

There was graffiti everywhere!

Watch out it's a mugger!

















In the end, she got my wallet but not my pride.

So in conclusion I just want to say I know how they felt, because I too had a night of darkness...and terror.

This day in History...

Yesterday I didn't even bother with the "This Day In History" thing cause, come on, it was obvious, happy forth whatever. Today is different however. Today, July 5th, was a VERY important day in history. Sure yesterday was independence day. But today, in 1946........drum roll please....the bikini swimsuit made it's day bu in a Paris fashion show!

Can you imagine if we didn't have this invention?! If we hadn't broken ties with the British yesterday, whatever, we would probably have bad teeth and use weird slang like "snog" and "dust bin", but really how bad could it have been? But what if all the skanks in the world didn't have a ligit excuse to show off their ta-tas in public? What then?



Lets take a look at how ridiculous the first bikinis looked:





















I mean come on you can't even see her belly button or cleavage! And on top of that her ribs aren't protruding from underneath her skin...where is the beauty in that? And what's up with the ballet slippers. What not to wear much?

Now lets see the way we do it now:
















There we go. It took us 60 years but we finally have a fashionable and sensible suit for our lady friends. Look at how classy she looks as her nothings are barely covered by the sheer fabric. Classy! And I don't even have to say a thing about those ribs! The way you know your healthy/in style is if you can play your ribs like a xylophone. Trust me, I'm an expert. Just look at her, I think I can see the shape of her heart beating in her chest! Classic!

So in closing I'd like to thank the designers who have taken us leaps and bounds away from that ridiculousness that tipped onto the fashion scene back in 1946. I can't imagine if women covered up that way now a days. But when you think of it can you blame them though? WWII had just ended and they needed a good joke to get their minds off it. I'm just glad we have strayed from that notion these days. We have come so far...

This day in history...

Because it is July I have a festive energy flowing through me. In honor of that, this month I will be posting a new segment called "This day in history" where we will together explore the wonders or history.

Today, July 3rd, 1890, Idaho became the 43rd state in the United States of America. I know that I am so thankful for this glittering jewel in the crown that is our country. Without Idaho what would we have?