Sandwich Day!

Let's see what's on the Daria Calendar... today is All Souls Day, and it is Bean Day if you live in North Dakota. (Think about this kid in Holiday Island High. What's he best known for? Right.) It is the 66th birthday of 1988 presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, whose bumper sticker graces the refrigerator of the Morgendorffer home (per The Daria Database). And it is the 52nd anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 2, which put the first dog in space: Laika. Cute little thing.

And it is National Sandwich Day, celebrated because the man for whom the sandwich was named—John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich—was born this day 291 years ago. An episode of 30 Rock was named for Sandwich Day, and a scene from that show provoked a hunt for the most famous sandwich in that episode. People are weird. The image at upper left is a peanut-butter sandwich drawn by the MTV staff, the same sandwich Jane peeled from Daria's butt in "Road Worrier" (upper left). Those crazy kids.

Greetings from Lawndale's Internet Cafe!

We start off with another mini-pic (actual size shown) from Sick, Sad Life Planner. Wish this pic was bigger, but that's the best there is of it.

Fifty-one years ago today, the first living mammal to orbit the Earth took off for space. Laika has been mentioned here before. (Click on the label with her name for more.) Good dog.

This post-Halloween day is also important in one of Canadibrit's TLAS fics, "Children of the Scorn."

Moar to come!

First in Space, Forever

This is Cosmonautics Day in Russia, held each year in celebration of the flight of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to reach outer space and orbit the Earth. That was 47 years ago today. The Western counterpart of Cosmonautics Day is Yuri's Night. It is worth noting that Gagarin was 5'2" tall, exactly the height of Daria Morgendorffer, which was of great help in allowing him to fit inside the cramped pilot's cabin of Vostok I.

At left, in this same vein, is shown the courageous attempt to put the first quarterback into space: the launch of Kevin Thompson from Big Gun One in the main parking lot of Lawndale High School, just before his graduation ceremony in 2001. Donations in his memory may be sent to Cedars of Lawndale Hospital, the Runamok Ambulance Service, and the City of Lawndale Streetsweepers Union.

Note: A monument was just built to Laika, the first living being to orbit the earth. Laika was mentioned in "A Hard Days' Night." Had to tell you that. (Good dog.)