The Yarthur Files

9/13

Thursday, September 13
10:32 PM CDT

Reflections on day no more significant than any other.

On This Day…

Francis of Assisi is afflicted with stigmata in 1224.
Dante Alighieri, Italian poet, died in 1321.
Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David in 1503.
Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner in 1814.
Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer, was born in 1819.
Milton S. Hershey, American confectioner, was born in 1857.
Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-born composer, was born in 1874.
Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident in 1899.
Roald Dahl, British writer, was born in 1916.
Canada enters World War II in 1939, eh.
Zoinks! The premiere episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! in 1969.
1 Up! Super Mario Bros., the best selling video game of all time, is released in 1985.
Tupac Shakur, aka 2Pac, American rapper and actor, died in 1996.

Something else happened about 27 years ago, but I can't remember what. Maybe I'll remember tomorrow.

(Historical info from Wikipedia.)

Before One Month Check-Up
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Of Actual Interest

Don’t Walk; Run. - Good advice for people working with or looking to work with a creative agency.
Still Life - Clay/ceramic figurines dropped and photographed on impact. Beautiful and ethereal. (my source)
15 Unfortunately Placed Ads - Some of them are cheeky, some are plain unfortunate. I admit I was amused by all. (my source)

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Who is this frood?

John Arthur in shot with Mt. Rushmore in the background. John is holding his index finger up to make it look as though he has stuck it in the nose of George Washington's bust.

The Yarthur Files is run by John Arthur. John's just this guy living in St. Paul, Minnesota. He painfully tries to eek out a living by pretending he can make Web sites, and collecting spare change from other people's couch cushions. While as of yet he's been too pathetic to work up a proper bio, you can learn a bit about him at his on-line portfolio site, not that you'd be interested in that sort of thing.

What about his hoopy site?

The Yarthur Files is John's foray into becoming the public celebrity no one really wants him to be. He thinks it will help him learn more about Web design, writing, himself, and life in general. In the end, the populace will most likely determine that it was simply another site they accidentally stumbled upon while trying to research entertaining kitchen experiments.

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