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‘Howdy Folks! You like blood, violence, freaks of nature? Well then come on down to Captain Spaulding’s Museum of Monsters and Madmen…’ Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses released today in 2003.

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Non-lethal traps: 3 Mice: 0 (We're getting good at this!)

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‘So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.’ The Great Gatsby published today in 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons of New York.

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Many Happy Returns to Charlie Hunnam, born today in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1980.

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How can a small house with two adult cats in it have a mouse problem? (Useless bloody fur-balls!)

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‘We will all go together when we go, all suffused with an incandescent glow…’ Many Happy Returns to Tom Lehrer, born today in Manhattan in 1928.

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‘Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.’ Malcolm McLaren died today in 2010, oddly on Vivienne Westwood’s birthday. #Punk #SexPistols #Fashion

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‘I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics.’ Vivienne Westwood born today in Hollingworth, Cheshire in 1941. #Punk #Fashion

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Margaret Thatcher died today in 2013. I never thought I could hate a politician as much as I hated her and everything she stood for. I was wrong. She was just another symptom, not the disease.

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Got this from the fam for my birthday. Marvellous soundtrack to write to. It's like having the radio on in the background, only you're in LA and it's 1969.

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Many Happy Returns to the irrepressible Jackie Chan, born today in Hong Kong in 1954. #Film

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‘I don't think acting is that difficult if you can put yourself aside and do what the writer wrote.’ James Garner born today in Denver in 1928. #Film

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‘If you find a tune and it’s got something to do with you, you don’t have to evolve anything. You just feel it, and when you sing it other people can feel something too.’ Billie Holiday born today in Philadelphia in 1915. #Jazz #Music #Singing

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‘Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.’ William Wordsworth born today in Cumbria in 1770. #Poetry

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This is something I wrote a few years ago which I thought I’d share today, rather morbidly I suppose, it being the anniversary of Dick Turpin's execution at Knavesmire in York in 1739… ainsworthandfriends.wordpress.com/2025/04/07/d...

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‘It's go go, not cry cry.’ Grindhouse released today in 2007.

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‘I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.’ Bette Davis born today in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1908.

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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union today in 1951 under the terms of the 1917 Espionage Act. Nowadays, they just make you President.

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‘I started as a writer and then I became a writer-producer. I produced two films and I watched what the directors were doing and I simply said: “I can do that”.’ Roger Corman born today in Detroit in 1926.

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Remembering Kurt Cobain, who finally lost his battle with addiction and chronic depression today in 1994.

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‘…they came to see what happened to their town… many of them also came to die.’ Stephen King’s Carrie published today by Doubleday in 1974.

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We have a gorgeously gory evening at Prytania Uptown tonight with RE-ANIMATOR in stunning 4K UHD restoration, presented by @fangoria.com with a conversation with Our Lady of Frights, @barbaracrampton.bsky.social! Tickets can be purchased at overlook2025.eventive.org/schedule/67c...

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Remembering Heath Ledger, who was born today in Perth, Western Australia in 1979.

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‘I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land.’ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee today in 1968.

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Today in 1885, Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for a light, high-speed, four-stroke engine, which he uses seven months later to create the world's first motorcycle, the Daimler Reitwagen. #motorcycle

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‘I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.’ Iconic singer, actor and animal activist Doris Day born today in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1922.

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‘I related to Johnny … There’s a line in the picture where he snarls, “Nobody tells me what to do.” That’s exactly how I’ve felt all my life.’ Marlon Brando born today in Omaha, Nebraska in 1924.

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‘There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.’ George MacDonald Fraser OBE FRSL born today in Carlisle in 1925. #Books #Reading

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‘If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.’ Émile Zola born today in Paris in 1840. #Literature

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‘All good ideas arrive by chance.’ Max Ernst born today in Brühl, Germany in 1891. #Art

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Many Happy Returns to Pedro Pascal, born today in Santiago, Chile in 1975. #PedroPascal #TheLastOfUs

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Remembering the great Mike Hailwood, who was born today in Great Milton in Oxfordshire in 1940. #motorcycle #motorcycles

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Vaya con dios, Val Kilmer, December 31, 1959 – April 1, 2025.

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‘We gladly feast on those who would subdue us.’ Barry Sonnenfeld born today in New York City in 1953.

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‘Yeoman Janice Rand’, Grace Lee Whitney born today in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1930. #StarTrek

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‘The Man of a Thousand Faces’ Lon Chaney born today in Colorado Springs in 1883. #Horror

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Many Happy Returns to Ewan McGregor, born today in Perth, Scotland in 1971.

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Born today in 1964: Me. Ha! Ha!

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Many Happy Returns to National Treasure Eric Idle born today in South Shields in 1943.

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‘It don’t matter where I’m coming from, it’s where I’m going to that counts.’ Robert Gordon born today in Bethesda, Maryland in 1947.

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AI is going to cost more jobs than the Industrial Revolution, only this time the Spinning Jennies will be trying to kill us.

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On this day in 1941, Virginia Woolf finally lost her lifelong battle with mental illness and committed suicide, writing to her husband: ‘I can't fight it any longer.’ #MentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters #SuicidePrevention #depression #Literature

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‘When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them, “No, I went to films”.’ Many Happy Returns to Quentin Tarantino, born today in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1963. #Film #OnThisDay #QuentinTarantino

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The late, great Nick Knox was born today in Cleveland, Ohio in 1953. #TheCramps #Punk #OnThisDay

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‘A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.’ Leonard Nimoy born today in Boston, Massachusetts in 1931 to Ukrainian immigrants Max and Dora. #StarTrek #LeonardNimoy #OnThisDay

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Teenage Cancer Trust benefit last night at the Royal Albert Hall: The Sex Pistols with Frank Carter. #Punk #Music #SexPistols #TeenageCancerTrust

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‘A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician.’ Harry Houdini born today in Budapest in 1874.

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‘A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.’ Akira Kurosawa born today in Tokyo in 1910. #Film #Japan #OnThisDay #Quotes

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I really should clean this thing! #Motorcycle #bikers #HarleyDavidson #Riders

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Many Happy Returns to William Shatner, born today in Montreal in 1931. @williamshatner.bsky.social

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