So I am all by my lonesome at the moment and not quite in the mood to write, and it has been a very strange day, so rather than writing anything of consequence, I will make a list of some bits of information that exist in my head which I happen to know are true. Ready?
- Carson McCullers was known for hosting dinner parties that got out of control and at one she danced on a table with Marilyn Monroe.
- Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar.
- George W. Bush was a cheerleader.
- Evangeline Lily used to do Live Links commercials.
- If you could fold a piece of paper 33 times it would reach from here to the moon (Malcolm Gladwell told me that).
- Jack London drank a quart of whiskey every day. He also had a fish pond in his living room from which he would fish every morning.
- Mark Twain had to move out of his fancy house in Connecticut (which was built to sorta look like a steamboat) because he didn’t have the money to keep it up.
- Alexander Hamilton was George Washington’s illegitimate son.
- Alexander the Great (who conquered the entire known world) was totally gay (how do you like them apples, Republicans!).
- Martin Luther had colon problems.
- For most of modern history, the water in Europe was so dirty that it was safer to drink beer and wine and liquor than water. So for most of European history, everybody was drunk (they should really preface European history classes with that information).
- Jon Stewart is really very bald if you see him from behind.
- You can not take a public tour of the Chrysler Building in Manhattan.
- The reason that Atlantic City has never made as much money as Las Vegas is because Las Vegas is in the middle of no where and so people have to get a hotel, but Atlantic City is close enough to high density population centers that people can make it a daytrip.
- Tom Robbins does not revise his writing. At all. Ever.
- Brandon Flowers of The Killers is a very talented douche bag from Las Vegas.
- The classic film “Casablanca” was loosely based on a play called “Everybody Comes to Rick’s”.
- The not so classic film “Barbed Wire”, staring Pamela Anderson, was loosely based on the movie “Casablanca”.
- Agatha Christie lived next door to the KGB spy who recruited the Cambridge Five (I plan to one day write musical about that KGB spy).
- A couple decades after having them executed, the FBI was able to prove that the Rosenbergs were spies.
- While he was out of the country, the Nazis confiscated Einstein’s little sail boat. Also, his house.
- Einstein married his cousin.
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