Hot Tub Time Machine is a 2010 American science-fiction comedy film directed by Steve Pink and starring John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Crispin Glover, Lizzy Caplan, and Chevy Chase.  The film was released on March 26, 2010.  It follows four men who travel back in time to 1986 via a hot tub, and must find a way to return to 2010.  A sequel, Hot Tub Time Machine 2, was released on February 20, 2015.  Find plot and cast at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Tub_Time_Machine  

If you have observed water sloshing back and forth in a swimming pool, bathtub, or cup of water, you may have witnessed a small-scale seiche (pronounced saysh). On a much grander scale, the same phenomenon occurs in large bodies of water such as bays and lakes.  A seiche may occur in any semi- or fully-enclosed body of water.  Seiches are typically caused when strong winds and rapid changes in atmospheric pressure push water from one end of a body of water to the other. When the wind stops, the water rebounds to the other side of the enclosed area. The water then continues to oscillate back and forth for hours or even days.  In a similar fashion, earthquakes, tsunamis, or severe storm fronts may also cause seiches along ocean shelves and ocean harbors.  Lake Erie is known for seiches, especially when strong winds blow from southwest to northeast.  In 1844, a 22-foot seiche breached a 14-foot-high sea wall killing 78 people and damming the ice to the extent that Niagara Falls temporarily stopped flowing.  As recently as 2008, strong winds created waves 12 to 16 feet high in Lake Erie, leading to flooding near Buffalo, New York.  Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, is also known to routinely form small seiches after the passage of afternoon squall lines during summer months.  https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/seiche.html  

Carl Andre (1935–January 24, 2024) was an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear and grid format sculptures and for the suspected murder of contemporary artist and third wife, Ana Mendieta.  His sculptures range from large public artworks (such as Stone Field Sculpture, 1977 in Hartford, Connecticut, and Lament for the Children, 1976 in Long Island City, New York), to large interior works exhibited on the floor (such as 144 Magnesium Square, 1969, to small intimate works (such as Satier: Zinc on Steel, 1989, and 7 Alnico Pole, 2011).   Andre married earth-body artist Ana Mendieta.  In 1985, she fell from their apartment window and died after an argument with him.  Police officials guarding the crime scene allowed Andre's lawyer to enter where it is suspected that he removed critical evidence prior to investigation.  He was acquitted of a second-degree murder charge in a 1988 bench trial, and supporters of Mendieta have protested at his subsequent exhibitions.  Andre died in Manhattan on January 24, 2024, at the age of 88.  Andre was born on September 16, 1935, in Quincy, Massachusetts.  He completed primary and secondary schooling in the Quincy public school system and studied art at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1951 to 1953.  While at Phillips Academy, he became friends with Hollis Frampton, who would later influence Andre's radical approach to sculpture through their conversations about art and through introductions to other artists.  Andre served in the U.S. Army in North Carolina from 1955 to 1956, and moved to New York City in 1956. While in New York, Frampton introduced Andre to Constantin Brâncuși, through whom Andre became re-acquainted with a former classmate from Phillips Academy, Frank Stella, in 1958.  Andre shared studio space with Stella from 1958 through 1960.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Andre  

January 25 is  Burns night, which is held in celebration of the Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns (born 265 years ago on 25 January 1759), and usually involves Scottish foods and recitals of his poetry.  Wiktionary 

“Some hae meat and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it;
But we hae meat, and we can eat,
Sae let the Lord be thankit.”  https://www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/literary/robert-burns-poems-scottish-auld-lang-syne  

See 1:03 video of Wolf Moon, the First Full Moon of 2024 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utb2U0Vzdp8  

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