Happy Chinese New Years Day - It's the Year of the Ox. The Ox is the sign of prosperity through fortitude and hard work. This powerful sign is a born leader, being quite dependable and possessing an innate ability to achieve great things. They tend, however, to be eccentric, and bigoted, and they anger easily. They have fierce tempers and although they speak little, when they do they are quite eloquent. That being said, such people are dependable, calm, and modest. Like their animal namesake, the Ox is unswervingly patient, tireless in their work, and capable of enduring any amount of hardship without complaint.
The first day of the New Year is for the welcoming of the deities of the heavens and earth. Many people, especially Buddhists, abstain from meat consumption on the first day because it is believed that this will ensure longevity for them. Some consider lighting fires and using knives to be bad luck on New Year's Day, so all food to be consumed is cooked the day before. Also, the first day of Chinese New Year is a time when families visit the oldest and most senior members of their extended family, usually their parents, grandparents or great-grandparents.
Kung Hei Fat Choi
January 26 is Republic Day (Poorna Swaraj) in India and dancers from all over the nation gather in New Delhi every year on this day to dance in the huge National Arena and all along a five mile parade route. On January 26, 1979, "Le Freak" was on the top of the American charts.
It's nice to think there's a connection.
Today in History:
January 26, 1955
Edward Lodewijk Van Halen, lead guitarist, co-founder of Van Halen and cancer survivor.
Even though he has lost 1/3 of his tongue to oral cancer, this jerk still smokes. Bad rock star.
January 26, 1958 -
Ellen DeGeneres, actress, comedian and Cover Girl spokesmodel, was born on this date.
January 26, 1962 -
Mafia boss Lucky Luciano dead of natural causes at the Naples airport. On the day of his fatal heart attack, Luciano had plans to sell the rights of his life's story to a movie maker. Luciano dropped dead as he was about to shake hands. The Mob disliked the idea and had tried unsuccessfully to change his mind. It has been hypothesized that Luciano's heart attack was a result of poisoning by the Mafia.
He was buried in St. John's Cemetery in Queens, New York after a federal court ruled his burial on United States soil could not be blocked on the grounds that a corpse is not a citizen of any country and is therefore not subject to immigration control or deportation laws.
January 26, 1979 -
Dukes of Hazzard premiere, titled "One Armed Bandits". A shipment of slot machines is hijacked.
High comedy indeed.
January 26,1979 -
70-year-old multibillionaire Nelson Rockefeller is stricken by a massive heart attack while "giving dictation" to his 27-year-old research assistant, Megan Marshak. Some time after that event, Marshack had called her friend, news reporter Ponchitta Pierce, to the townhouse and it was Pierce who phoned 911 approximately an hour after the heart attack. Much speculation went on in the press regarding a personal relationship between Rockefeller and Marshack. Rockefeller's will leaves Marshak $50,000 and the deed to a Manhattan townhouse.
January 26, 1984 -
Michael Jackson's hair is ignited by a magnesium flash bomb at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles during the filming of a Pepsi television commercial, causing third-degree scalp burns.
It is later reveals that unscrupulous doctors prescribe a full regiment of pedophilia to ease the singers wounds.
January 26, 1998 -
U.S. President Bill Clinton denies, on television, having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
And sometimes, a blowjob is just a blowjob.
January 26, 1996 -
Insane madman millionaire John E. du Pont shoots Olympic wrestler David Schultz three times, killing him. A two day police standoff follows at the Foxcatcher estate and wrestling compound, with SWAT teams biding their time under the assumption that du Pont, an expert marksman, possessed an arsenal at his disposal.
Nothing good every comes from greasing yourself up and rolling around a mat with another person in a unitard.
And so it goes.
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