{"id":23790,"date":"2020-03-27T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=23790"},"modified":"2020-03-17T11:19:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T18:19:21","slug":"on-this-day-mar-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/03\/27\/on-this-day-mar-27\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Mar 27"},"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.<\/p>\n<p>There are <strong>25<\/strong> posts previously published on March 27th<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2024<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/03\/27\/year-50-day-330\/\">Year 50 Day 330<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">It's day zero of Norwescon! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/03\/27\/year-50-day-330\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/03\/27\/difficult-listening-hour-2023-03-26\/\">Difficult Listening Hour 2023.03.26<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Stuck pretty close to 130 BPM for this set, just pulling some of my particular favorite tracks out. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/03\/27\/difficult-listening-hour-2023-03-26\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2021<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/03\/27\/25261\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Birds of Prey: If all of DC\u2019s movies were more like this, I\u2019d have a higher opinion of the franchise. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/03\/27\/25261\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/03\/27\/on-this-day-mar-27\/\">On This Day: Mar 27<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from March 27 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/03\/27\/on-this-day-mar-27\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2019<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/03\/27\/13309\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The Moment The Matrix Changed Everything: I saw The Matrix in a theater, not the slapdash college presentation from this article, but the audience reactions weren\u2019t all that dissimilar. Seeing that film in the theater early in its run really was a singular experience. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/03\/27\/13309\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/03\/27\/21742\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Saw this on a whiteboard at work. Made me laugh. Can you interpret it? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/03\/27\/21742\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/03\/27\/19433\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sunday morning at #nwc39: time to get packed up and head back home. Another good con, but it&#8217;s going to be good to be back in my own bed. (87\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/03\/27\/19433\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/03\/27\/17577\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Quality&#8217;s not great, but it&#8217;s a crop of a scan of a photo taken in 1995. My first DJ gig, at City Lights in Anchorage. This was a top-40\/hip-hop club that I talked into doing a weekly &#8220;alternative night&#8221;. Only ran for a few weeks before it fell apart, but it was enough to kick ... <a title=\"\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/03\/27\/17577\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/03\/27\/17577\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2008<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/03\/27\/random-updates-2\/\">Random Updates<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">It's been a while since I've actually said anything on here, hasn't it? So it goes, sometimes. This past school quarter was a rather unpleasant one, and online babbling became a pretty low priority for me. So, some random updates on the world around me... <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/03\/27\/random-updates-2\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2006<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/03\/27\/saturday-mourning\/\">Saturday Mourning<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I've mentioned before that The Stranger has been consistently doing the best reporting on the Capitol Hill shooting. They continue with this feature story on the events of the night. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/03\/27\/saturday-mourning\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/03\/27\/weapons-of-mass-destruction-2\/\">Weapons of Mass Destruction<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">NRA members and 'right to bear arms' wingnuts, feel free to brand me as a gun-control nut. I'm fine with that. There is _NO good reason_ why this sort of weaponry needs to be openly available to the general public. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/03\/27\/weapons-of-mass-destruction-2\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2005<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/03\/27\/jello-uber-alles\/\">Jello \u00dcber Alles<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">This week's This American Life had a fascinating look at Michael Guarino, the prosecuting lawyer in the 1986 obscenity trial against Jello Biafra and the Dead Kennedys over their Frankenchrist album and the H. R. Giger print included with it. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/03\/27\/jello-uber-alles\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/03\/27\/how-many-times-were-you-a-minor\/\">How many times were you a minor?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">On a lighter note, while this news story isn't really something to laugh at, it has a wonderful example of bad writing that made me laugh... <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/03\/27\/how-many-times-were-you-a-minor\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/03\/27\/its-only-domestic-violence-if-youre-married\/\">It&#8217;s only domestic violence if you&#8217;re married<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Here's a jaw-dropping, 'holy shit' item: in Ohio, beating someone you live with is only domestic violence if you're married, and the justification used for this is Ohio's constitutional ban on same-sex marriages. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/03\/27\/its-only-domestic-violence-if-youre-married\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/03\/27\/marilyn-monroe\/\">Marilyn Monroe<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Up until last week sometime, I'd never actually seen a Marilyn Monroe film. I knew who she was, of course, and had seen the occasional brief clip from one film or another here and there, but I had yet to actually watch any of her work. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/03\/27\/marilyn-monroe\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/03\/27\/they-used-to-be-funny\/\">They used to be funny&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">When did Steve Martin stop being funny? It had to be sometime after 1991, when he wrote and starred in one of my personal favorite films, L.A. Story. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/03\/27\/they-used-to-be-funny\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/03\/27\/small-pets-allowed\/\">Small Pets Allowed<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">As Prairie and I are planning on getting a place together in a few months, we've started occasionally flipping through 'For Rent' listings to see what's available in our price range around town. Yesterday, one of the listings caught my eye. 'Hey -- 'small pets allowed, up to 20 pounds.' We could get forty hamsters!' <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/03\/27\/small-pets-allowed\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/27\/reasons-for-staying\/\">Reasons for staying<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">He never asked me to 'pull his finger' in bed. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/27\/reasons-for-staying\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/27\/it-all-makes-sense-now\/\">It all makes sense now<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Looks like some previously classified medical X-rays of Pres. Bush have been leaked. Somehow, the results aren't very surprising. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/27\/it-all-makes-sense-now\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/27\/cpt-obvious\/\">Cpt. Obvious<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Getting shot at wasn't really that bad. It was the getting shot part that sucked. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/27\/cpt-obvious\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/27\/unedited-video-from-basra\/\">Unedited video from Basra<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Noted independent journalist Robert Fisk got to see some unedited videotape shot by Al-Djazaira of Basra, which is supposedly captured and held by British forces. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/27\/unedited-video-from-basra\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/27\/dean-at-harvard\/\">Dean at Harvard<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Presidential candidate Howard Dean gave a talk at Harvard last night. He asked an interesting question. Next year, how will we feel when China invades Taiwan because they think they have weapons of mass destruction? Has the new Bush Doctrine, pre-emptive wars, unleashed a philosophy of world power that we may not be so comfortable with? <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/27\/dean-at-harvard\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/27\/chad-kicks-much-ass\/\">Chad kicks much ass<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">April 15<sup>th<\/sup> at the Catwalk Club: Pigface and My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult (along with two bands I've not heard of, Zeromancer and Bile)! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/27\/chad-kicks-much-ass\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/27\/this-cbdpta-bill-is-scary\/\">This CBDPTA bill is scary<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Just in case folks haven't figured out how sweeping the Hollings-Feinstein bill, aka CBDTPA is, well, keep reading. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/27\/this-cbdpta-bill-is-scary\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2001<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/03\/27\/so-im-curious\/\">So, I&#8217;m curious&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">What's up with all these DJ-friendly themed songs hitting the radio lately? 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