Stumblin' Along 6/16 '24
Stir It Up
Stir It Up
- US Open Round 3 Recap
- Origins of Father’s Day
- The Bronx Tales (Vol II)
- YouTube Rabbithole
Alright @YouTheReader,
Happy Fathers Day to all the dads. Today’s tune this Father’s Day is Stir It Up by Bob Marley. I’ll be honest, I was planning on going with Cat’s in the Cradle by Harry Chapin but then I had a few too many drinks with my old man last night. That feels like a song you gotta give your full, undivided attention to and my brain is mushed on Mars right now. Anyway, my dad is a massive fan of both Johnny Cash and Bob Marley, quite the contrast in styles, I think they call that duality of man or something.
Stir it up usually means to cause a bit of a problem or trouble. In this song Bob Marley seems to flip the meaning as his version of stir it up is relax. Marley and the Wailers made this song in 1967. It would go on to become Marley’s first hit outside of Jamaica when Johnny Nash covered the tune in 1972. When my dad was 6 years old, it peaked at the charts at #13 in Ireland, the UK, and #12 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
Stir It Up was also featured on in the background in Cool Runnings and I Am Legend.
On to the US Open…
Post Round 3
Bryson DeChambeau
Attention golfers, want to play dominate your Saturday Round at the US Open? Well, you can start your morning by liking the Week to Week Notes’ Story. Take it from Bryson DeChambeau, who enters Sunday with a 3 stroke lead. DeChambeau has now greatly moved up Week to Week Notes’ favorite golfer power rankings. Seems like a great guy who is completely misunderstood by the media. They are just jealous that he hits bombs and innovative with his 3D printed irons.
Rory McIlroy
It’s time for Rory McIlroy to actually win another major again. It’s been a decade from his last one at the PGA Championship in ‘14. Bryson DeChambeau hasn’t been the only golfer hitting bombs this tournament. On Saturday, McIlroy averaged an insane 358.9 yards per drive. He now leads the tournament in drive distance (338.4 yards) over DeChambeau (337.8) by about 2 feet. Prayers up for Rory McIlroy as he is paired up with Patrick Cantlay…he is in for a long day.
Patrick Cantlay
Bryson DeChambeau wasn’t the only US Open golfer to view the Story yesterday. Patrick Cantlay did too but he chose not to “like” it. Not a good sign for golfers as evidently it was the root cause for his so-so slow even day on Saturday. In the grand scheme of things, Cantlay may have won this round of our rivalry, but I will be back once the 6 brain cells in my head have a bit of Pedilyte.
Matthieu Pavon
Matthieu Pavon will be paired up with Bryson DeChambeau. At one point yesterday afternoon on his Front 9, Pavon was the sole leader while shooting 3 under par. Unfortunately for the Frenchman, his Back 9 was more of a struggle as he didn’t find any birds and was 2 over par. Pavon is one of only 2 golfers on Sunday who has multiple eagles at this tournament. On Thursday, Pavon eagled at the 5th and 10th Par 5s. Expect him to be aggressive there again.
Ludvig Aberg
After leading the pack entering the weekend, Ludvig Aberg had a rough Saturday. His triple bogey at the 13th hole may have spoiled his chances at winning the US Open. Aberg’s only hope is he continues to lead the field in Green In Regulation (42 of 54 holes) and starts sinking putts.
The origins of Father’s Day in the United States didn’t take off in the early 20th century like Mother’s Day. As one florist of the time put it, “fathers haven’t the same sentimental appeal that mothers have.” In fact, techinically the 1st Fathers Day celebration was a one time commemoratin of the worst coal mining accident in US History. It took place in Fairmont, West Virginia, on July 5, after 362 men died in December. One of the daughters of the coal miner who passed, Grace Golden Clayton, proposed a service for all the fathers but it was only a one time thing. Then, Sonora Smart Dodd came along…
Sonora Smart Dodd is credited for being the Mother of Father’s Day. SSD was from Spokane, Washington, and was inspired by Anna Jarvis’ concept of Mother’s Day. Her father, William Jackson Smart, was a widower who raised her and her 5 brothers by himself. After attending a Mother’s Day church service in 1909, Dodd convinced the Spokane Ministerial Association and the YMCA to celebrate dads. On June 19, 1910, Washington celebrated the nation’s first statewide Father’s Day. While the holiday wouldn’t popularize as quickly as Mother’s Day, Sonora Smart Dodd didn’t end up going loco and try to sabotage Father’s Day like how Anna Jarvis did with Mother’s Day.
In 1913, a bill for Father’s Day was voted on by Congress but it didn’t pass. President Calvin Coolidge tried to make Father’s Day cool in 1921 when he signed a resolution in favor of the holiday as way “to establish more intimate relations between fathers and their children and to impress upon fathers the full measure of their obligations.” The dads could care less so it wasn’t until 45 years later that the topic again came up, this time with Lyndon B Johnson. LBJ signed an executive order that the holiday be celebrated on the third Sunday in June, so for most of the 20th century it was just a dart throw on the June calendar. Then, finally, in 1972 under President Richard Nixon, Congress finally officially made Father’s Day a national holiday. Sonora Smart Dodd would pass away 6 years later at the age of 96, but she got to see her holiday for the dads come to fruition.
