I'm fucking furious today.
I work once a week as a sound guy and I go into work last night only to find this guy I dislike working in my place. The girl who hosts the monthly event there (who is not my boss, but whom the boss loves) complained that I wasn't doing a good enough job and so my boss replaced me! I haven't done this in two thousand years, but I took her aside and completely bitched her out. I'm still broiling over this one.
I work once a week as a sound guy and I go into work last night only to find this guy I dislike working in my place. The girl who hosts the monthly event there (who is not my boss, but whom the boss loves) complained that I wasn't doing a good enough job and so my boss replaced me! I haven't done this in two thousand years, but I took her aside and completely bitched her out. I'm still broiling over this one.
Today in 1901 is probably one of the most important days in American History: the day President William McKinley died from his assassination attempt at the hands of former factory worker and anarchist Leon Czolgosz. The Vice-President, one Teddy Roosevelt, took up the office. It was a dramatic change of leadership to say the least, as the two men couldn't have been more different. The tariff-minded McKinley was arguably not a bad president, just an unabashed imperialist who invaded Cuba and the Philippines in the Spanish-American War. He also allowed dreadful poverty and unfair factory conditions to remain unchecked on the home front. With Roosevelt, we got Progressive reform, muckraking, monopoly-busting, national parks and environmental policy. The Age of American Imperialism was over, for the moment.
Interesting facts:
-McKinley, after being shot twice by Czolgosz at the Pan-American Fair where he was shaking hands, shouted above the commotion to leave Czolgosz alone, as the police where promptly beating him near death.
-Czolgosz gave his name as "Fred Nieman" to the police. Nieman is Polish for No One.
-Lincoln's son Robert Todd arrived at the Fair moments after the shooting, making him the son of one assassinated president, a witness to the assassination of president Garfield, and in the same location of a third assassination
-legend has it that Thomas Edison filmed the execution of Czolgosz on the electric chair, but the footage he filmed is only a recreation
McKinley:
Czolgosz:
Interesting facts:
-McKinley, after being shot twice by Czolgosz at the Pan-American Fair where he was shaking hands, shouted above the commotion to leave Czolgosz alone, as the police where promptly beating him near death.
-Czolgosz gave his name as "Fred Nieman" to the police. Nieman is Polish for No One.
-Lincoln's son Robert Todd arrived at the Fair moments after the shooting, making him the son of one assassinated president, a witness to the assassination of president Garfield, and in the same location of a third assassination
-legend has it that Thomas Edison filmed the execution of Czolgosz on the electric chair, but the footage he filmed is only a recreation
McKinley:
Czolgosz:
Random research day: If you haven't learned this about me, I read wikipedia for fun. I like history the way you like seduko or however the hell you say it.
Anyway, was reading about the Dutch resistance in WWII. Damn these guys look like badasses.
shit, damn SG blog cut off the guy on the far right that is the most badass. Oh well.
Anyway, was reading about the Dutch resistance in WWII. Damn these guys look like badasses.
shit, damn SG blog cut off the guy on the far right that is the most badass. Oh well.
The fuck? I cancelled my razzafrackin account, and I'm still here somehow. WTF mate?
Oh well, check this out:
Oh well, check this out:
