SILT -- March 26

Stuff I learned:

• Director John Carpenter also composed the scores to "The Thing," "Halloween," and "The Fog."
• That famous picture of the sailor kissing the girl in Times Square celebrated V-J Day, not V-E Day.
• No one knows which Johannes is the namesake of Johannesburg, South Africa.
• The chariot pulled in a harness race is called a "sulky."
• Emerial Lagasse is from the Boston area.
• Paul Prudhomme is the Pavlovian response for cajun chef.
• Irma Rombauer wrote The Joy of Cooking.
• Martin Yan wrote The Joy of Wokking.
• Italian chef Giacca de Laurentiis is the granddaughter of film producer Dino.
• "A Horse with No Name" was a hit by America.
• Brasil 66 sang "Mas Que Nada" and "One Note Samba."
• "No More Words" and "The Metro" were by Berlin.
• Asia sang "Heat of the Moment."
• A nebulizer turns asthma medicine into a mist.
• The bulb syringes we used to use on the girls' noses when the were babies are called "irrigation syringes."
• Abe Fortas resigned from the Supreme Court in 1969 because of a financial scandal.
• Jacob Riis was a socially-conscious photographer.
• Lillian Helman wrote Watch on the Rhine and The Children's Hour. I should really know that by now.

Look up:

• Pictures from V-E Day celebrations, especially in New York.
• The connection between Crosby, Stills & Nash and the city of Marrakesh.
• The movies of Dino de Laurentiis.
• Balfour's Declaration

Weakness exposed -- Pop Music, Famous Chefs. Look for a list of "Exposed" categories to appear here sometime soon.