{"id":16485,"date":"2020-01-21T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=16485"},"modified":"2020-01-21T10:25:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T18:25:55","slug":"on-this-day-jan-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/21\/on-this-day-jan-21\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Jan 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I&#8217;m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past. Here are my past posts for January 21\u2026<\/p>\n<p>There are <strong>25<\/strong> posts previously published on January 21st<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2025<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/01\/21\/johnny-english\/\">Johnny English<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">&#x1f3a5;: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: It's ridiculous and silly, and that's fine. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/01\/21\/johnny-english\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2024<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/01\/21\/year-50-day-264\/\">Year 50 Day 264<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Three and a half read so far! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/01\/21\/year-50-day-264\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2022<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/01\/21\/meatloaf-again\/\">Meatloaf Again?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Content warning: Morbid, dark humor. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/01\/21\/meatloaf-again\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/21\/23433\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Childhood me would have loved this Star Trek train set (on pp.130-131)\u2014aside from it being O-scale, where my train set was HO-scale. Adult me is amused, because on several levels, it doesn&#8217;t make much sense. But I like it anyway. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/21\/23433\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/21\/on-this-day-jan-21\/\">On This Day: Jan 21<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 21 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/21\/on-this-day-jan-21\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/21\/the-brother-always-dies-first\/\">The Brother Always Dies First<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Two cinematic theories: Black male sexuality puts a ceiling on possible earnings; and black men are expendable, while white characters are not. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/21\/the-brother-always-dies-first\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2017<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/21\/20907\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Got back to town and found the #Ellensburg rally in support of the #womensmarch events! We hit two protests in one day! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/21\/20907\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/21\/20880\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Signs! #womensmarch #yakima <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/21\/20880\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/21\/20883\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">So many people, even on this side of the state! We&#8217;ve heard others guessing around 2,000, which wouldn&#8217;t surprise us! #womensmarch #yakima <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/21\/20883\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/21\/20886\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Make vaginas great again! #womensmarch #yakima <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/21\/20886\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/21\/20889\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Gathering for the #womensmarch in #yakima! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/01\/21\/20889\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/01\/21\/19184\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Proof of life! ;) Some of my contacts have expressed concerns that my daily photo updates were a ruse, and asked my captors to include a newspaper in a photo as proof that these are being taken on the appropriate day. So here I am with this week&#8217;s issue of the CWU Observer (the only ... <a title=\"\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/01\/21\/19184\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/01\/21\/19184\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2015<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/01\/21\/republicans-anachronistic-cartoon-monsters\/\">Republicans: Anachronistic Cartoon Monsters<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">At last night's State of the Union, Republicans 'basically refused to cheer for anything but straight white Christian businessmen.' <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/01\/21\/republicans-anachronistic-cartoon-monsters\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/21\/17289\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Got the last of the P. K. Dick nominees in the mail today. Adding it to the to-read stack! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/01\/21\/17289\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2013<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/01\/21\/gigs-music-theater-1988\/\">Gigs Music Theater 1998<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Since I archived the Gigs Music Theatre website as it was when the club shut down, I still have the last 'top requests' list that I posted, back in 1998. Looking at it the other day, it struck me that it could make for an entertaining playlist.... <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/01\/21\/gigs-music-theater-1988\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2009<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/01\/21\/delicious-january-21st\/\">Links for January 21st from 08:43 to 17:23<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sometime between 08:43 and 17:23, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! \u2022\u00a0US Democracy Server: Patch Day \u2022 Gregg Nations&rsquo;s Job - Keeping &lsquo;Lost&rsquo; on Track \u2022 The Inauguration of President Barack Obama - The Big Picture \u2022 88 Lines about 44 Presidents \u2022\u00a0Obama inauguration stops traffic - web traffic, that is <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/01\/21\/delicious-january-21st\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/21\/gallimaufry-5\/\">Gallimaufry 5<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The weekly music meme: ten songs at random from my music collection, plus assorted rambling. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/21\/gallimaufry-5\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/21\/mars-dead-or-alive\/\">Mars Dead or Alive<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">If you've got an hour to kill and a broadband connection, the NOVA program 'Mars Dead or Alive' is freely available on the web! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/21\/mars-dead-or-alive\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/21\/pictures-from-mars\/\">Pictures from Mars<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Very cool webpage automatically collecting and displaying the newest images from Mars. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/21\/pictures-from-mars\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/21\/preliminary-birthday-wishlist\/\">Preliminary Birthday Wishlist<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This is really early (my birthday isn't until May 3rd), but I'm starting to put together a birthday wishlist. Admittedly, just about everything I've come up with so far is definitely on the 'wish' side (as in, triple-digit prices), but I can dream, right? ;) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/21\/preliminary-birthday-wishlist\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/21\/a-look-at-the-iowa-caucus-experience\/\">A look at the Iowa caucus experience<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Lane and Tina have both posted their impressions of the caucus session for their corner of Iowa, on Eat Your Vegetables and Kickass Sociology, respectively. Some interesting comments, especially as I'm planning on hitting the local precinct caucus for my area of Seattle in early February. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/21\/a-look-at-the-iowa-caucus-experience\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/21\/poke\/\">Poke<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Isn't a finger a digital poking mechanism? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/21\/poke\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/21\/dreamblogging\/\">Dreamblogging<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Where does the dream stop and the blog begin? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/21\/dreamblogging\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/21\/greeneyes-rocks-too\/\">Greeneyes rocks too!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Never let it be said that I won't whore myself out for attention. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/21\/greeneyes-rocks-too\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>1996<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1996\/01\/21\/from-the-archives-12196-0639\/\">[From the archives: 1.21.96 0639]<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I actually have been doing some occasional work on my pages lately, just haven't done much in the way of recording it here, just because few of them have been very major. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1996\/01\/21\/from-the-archives-12196-0639\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}