Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for May 17th: https://ko-fi.com/post/May-17-Beauty-and-the-Beast-T6T11FR3LW
Bummer May 17th
May 17, 1946: William Jefferson Blythe Jr., the father of future 42nd U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton, is driving from Chicago toward his home in Hope, Arkansas when his Buick’s tire blows out. Blythe loses control of car, which crashes, throwing him into a ditch. Blythe survives being thrown from the vehicle but is unable to pull himself out of the water in the ditch before he drowns. The future president is born three months after his father’s death.
May 17, 1995: A 35-year-old man in San Diego steals a 56-ton M60A3 tank from the National Guard. The Army veteran, who’s dealing with substance abuse issues and their consequences, destroys an estimated $149,000 worth of property as the tank crushes vehicles and infrastructure including utility poles, fire hydrants, and traffic lights. No one else is hurt, but when the tank becomes disabled, San Diego police force the hatch open and shoot the tank thief, killing him.
Bonus: Spotify is turning 20 and celebrating by telling us all of our favorite songs. I don't remember, but apparently I started using Spotify on March 31, 2017. Right around this time. (God, I love Colin Dickey's books.)
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"Joyride" by Kesha Rose Sebert - an obsession since August 2024.
"Hymn to Virgil" was a 2025 obsession. I feel like Lady Gaga's "Disease" came in between the "Joyride" days and the winter of "Hymn to Virgil." My tag for Hozier on Tumblr is "our lord and savior Andrew Hozier Byrne," and I'm only a little bit being ironic.
I need to read If Not For My Baby, the romance novel based on a Hozier rpf.
That Rihanna song? Reminiscent of JohnLock, to me. This is a meme I made in 2017.
"Cruel Summer" was my #24 most-listened song of 2025, when I wrote, "24. Cruel Summer - Taylor Swift: My #4 song last year and probably the Taylor Swift song that brings me the purest joy. But I can only listen to it in the summer. I abandon it when autumn comes. I forgot that I started listened to it because of Good Omens.
"I have to admit, the revelation that Neil Gaiman is a garbage heap of a human being really dulled my enthusiasm for Ineffable Spouses. David Tennant and Michael Sheen, it's not your fault."
But now, in May 2026, Good Omens 3 is out and I will be watching it soon.
"Joke's on You?" Harley Quinn-related.
"Already Gone?" For me, it's part of the soundtrack to a podfic I really need to finish recording.
That '80s bop by Tiffany, of course, besides having been part of my 1980s childhood, was also on the Umbrella Academy soundtrack.
I've been listening to Nirvana since the '90s, but what rekindled my love for "Come As You Are" specifically was its appearance in the Captain Marvel movie.
"I Drove All Night?" Destial playlist. "Boom Clap?" I'll always associate that with the film version of The Fault In Our Stars. And then there's this, with Danila Kozlovsky from the Vampire Academy movie.
We'll look at the second half tomorrow.
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