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.

The Space Age: 51 Years and Counting

It didn't feel right to not have a special post just to mark the dawn of the Space Age, 51 years ago. It is amazing to me that there is no holiday or celebration to mark this day, at least not that I am aware of. Why? Well, yeah, the Russians got there first, whipped the pants off of us, but do the Russians have a holiday to mark the launch of Sputnik I? I'm not sure that they do. Weird, man.

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A Day That Will Bring Out the Animal in You!

Yes, today is World Animal Day, and who knows what that kid looks like at Holiday Island High. Any guesses?

What else happened . . . the Space Age is officially 51 years old today, thanks to the Russians. (Is there a Holiday Island High teen called Sputnik Day?)

Alicia Silverstone was born 32 years ago today, she who helped get Braceface off the ground. (You knew there had to be an animated-show twist somewhere.) To date, no Daria/ Braceface fanfic has been written, that I know of, though there was one guy who tried.

Oh, and today is the anniversary air date of a special Beavis and Butt-head episode, but more on that later.