Today’s post is brought to you by the number 23!
At HalfassBackwards.com we celebrate 23 Day every month, and we encourage you to do the same!
For information on the mystery surrounding the number 23 Enigma, click HERE.
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Here are a few interesting events that have taken place on April 23rd throughout history.
1616 – William Shakespeare(b. April 23rd 1564) died in Stratford-on-Avon, England.
1969 – Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death(later reduced to a life sentence) for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
1998 – James Earl Ray, convicted of assassinating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., died.
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Report back here with any synchronicities!
…Over and out…
-Ego
The minute I saw this, it was 11:23 as shown on my computer clock.
-In Jean Cocteau’s 1930 film Blood of a Poet (Le Sangre d’un Poete), the poet goes through a looking glass and peeks through the keyhole into Room 23, amidst very trippy/surreal scenes. “The desperate Hermaphrodite’s meetings meetings took place in Room 23.” This is all way before WSB met Captain Clark…
-”New Coke” premiered on April 23, 1985…and fizzed out famously.
-a mathematician Robert Anton Wilson admired, G. Spencer Brown, says he wrote a book called 23 Degrees of Paradise.
-From Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 (1965):
“Out at the airport Oedipa, feeling invisible, eavesdropped on a poker game whose steady loser entered each loss neat and conscientious in a little balance-book decorated inside with scrawled post horns. ‘I’m averaging a 99.375 return, fellas,’ she heard him say. The others, strangers, looked at him, some blank, some annoyed. ‘That’s averaging it out, over 23 years,’ he went on, trying to smile. ‘Always that little percent on the wrong side of breaking even. Twenty three years. I’ll never get ahead of that. Why don’t I quit?’ Nobody answering.” – p.122
I was reading the first comment about Neil B ☺, a the time, and then a looked at my own time. Fucked.up
in my timezone it says: 23.10, time in Denmark, hope it makes sence now.
fucked idiot dale, you DONT post my comments! you DELETE them! A A A A—SENSE… NICE GOING, PS: I AM YOUR FATHER DALE, GO SUCK YOURSELF. just kidding, you page rocks, post that, shitface, or delete them all!
The conspiracy has begun! Muhahaha! Be sure to check back! =)
-Ego