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31 January 12020 is the
final day of the month. It is National
Backwards Day—celebrating doing whatever it amuses you to do in reverse
order. It is the birthday of Franz Schubert, Zane Grey, and Philip Glass. The
minimalist Middle East Peace Plan put out under the name of Donald Trump proves
to be something of a practical joke played on the Palestinian Arabs—they surrender
fertile land in return for desert, can have Jerusalem as their capital by
renaming some other location “Jerusalem,” can have a state with no real borders
and no way of defending them, and—generally speaking—can go fuck themselves.
(No member of the various Palestinian factions had anything to do with drafting
this plan nor have any of them signed onto it.)
On this day in history the Boston authorities freaked out over
illuminated signs promoting the Adult Swim cartoon Aqua Teen Hunger Force. The year was 2007, and similar signs
(depicting one of the villains of the cartoon) appeared in Los Angeles and
right here in Portland as well, but for some reason Boston officials decided
that they were bombs, and then used their own misapprehensions as a basis for
shaking down Turner Broadcasting Systems for a large sum of money. Talk about
backwards—I don’t know whether Boston ever apologized for their public
freak-out, but it was definitely a low point in the city’s history.
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