The Bee’s Knees is a classic Prohibition-era cocktail made with gin, lemon and honey.  Honey doesn’t mix into cold liquids well.  It tends to clump and cause problems.  To remedy that, we make honey simple syrup from equal parts honey and water.  The syrup mixes easily into cold cocktails.  To make honey simple syrup, simply warm the two together in the microwave or on the stovetop until you can easily whisk them together.  That’s it!  Leftover honey syrup will keep well in the refrigerator, covered, for up to two weeks.  You can use classic dry gin for this cocktail (such as Beefeater’s).  For a more mellow, less juniper-y drink, try Hendrick’s, which has notes of cucumber and rose.  Kathryne Taylor  https://cookieandkate.com/bees-knees-cocktail-recipe/    

Evan Hunter, born Salvatore Albert Lombino, (1926–2005) was an American author and screenwriter best known for his 87th Precinct novels, written under his Ed McBain pen name, and the novel upon which the film Blackboard Jungle was based.  Hunter, who legally adopted that name in 1952, also used the pen names John Abbott, Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, Ezra Hannon, and Richard Marsten, among others.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Hunter   

The Birds film was partly inspired by the true events of a mass bird attack on the seaside town of Capitola in California on August 18, 1961, when "Capitola residents awoke to a scene that seemed straight out of a horror movie.  Hordes of seabirds were dive-bombing their homes, crashing into cars and spewing half-digested anchovies onto lawns".  Alfred Hitchcock heard of this event and used it as research material for this film which was then in progress.  The real cause of the birds' behavior was toxic algae, but that was not known back in the 1960s.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_(film)   

Evan Hunter talking about the famous scene of the birds gathering on the jungle gym outside the school in The Birds:  The crows are gathering behind her on the jungle gym.  And I have the kids singing a song.  And I asked my kids . . . "What's a song that you sing in school?" and they gave me "Rissle-dy Rossle-dy."  And I looked it up and it was public domain.  You know, it's an old folk tune that goes back forever.  And I used it.  And I gave them four or five stanzas, whatever, of the song, the actual song.  And I got a call, I think it was from Peggy Robertson, Hitch's assistant, and she said, "We need more lyrics for the song."  I said, "Why?" She said, "It won't cover the scene on the jungle gym."  So I wrote I don't know how many more stanzas— enough to cover the whole bird kingdom arriving on that jungle gym.  https://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/Evan_Hunter_-_quotes 

Bembo is a serif typeface created by the British branch of the Monotype Corporation in 1928–1929 and most commonly used for body text.  It is a member of the "old-style" of serif fonts, with its regular or roman style based on a design cut around 1495 by Francesco Griffo for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius, sometimes generically called the "Aldine roman".  Bembo is named for Manutius's first publication with it, a small 1496 book by the poet and cleric Pietro Bembo. The italic is based on work by Giovanni Antonio Tagliente, a calligrapher who worked as a printer in the 1520s, after the time of Manutius and Griffo.  Since its creation, Bembo has enjoyed continuing popularity as an attractive, legible book typeface.  Prominent users of Bembo have included Penguin Books, the Everyman's Library series, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, the National Gallery, Yale University Press and Edward Tufte.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bembo  

The atomic number of copper is 29.  Planet Saturn takes about 29 years to orbit the Sun.  The month of Feb in a leap year has 29 days.  The period between new moons is about 29 days. The  human head has 29 bones.  A.Word.A.Day   

Don't ask me who's influenced me.  A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. - Giorgos Seferis, writer, diplomat, Nobel laureate (13 Mar 1900-1971)   

March 13 events: 

1781 – William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus from the garden of his house in Bath, England, initially considering it to be a comet. 

1845 – German composer Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto was performed for the first time.   

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2643  March 13, 2023