Cold November Air + Hot Substack App

Newsletter + On This Day

“November Air” by Zach Bryan
Lyrics

Happy November. There’s definitely a chill in the air.

I woke up with a bit of a sore throat—from snoring one too many logs—wrapped snug-as-a-bug-in-a-rug like a burrito. I made myself a spot of tea to help soothe my throat and to help me warm up.

I might fire up the heater, but I’m in denial: How is it November already?

Also, how have I never heard of “November Air” or Zach Bryan before?

According to the Recording Industry Association of America, Bryan has sold 30M albums and singles since his 2019 debut, “DeAnn.”

Safe to say, I don’t keep up with popular music. But this country-folk song and its hunky, sailor-singer-songwriter have me feeling all warm and fuzzy this morning.

Zach Bryan = Hey, Sailor-Singer-Songwriter

From what I’ve read about Mr. Bryan, there’s a chance I wouldn’t like him in person, but from afar, his music—and looks—fit my November mood perfectly.

Something else fitting my mood: the Substack app (available for Android and iOS) is gaining traction and usability. Team Substack is working hard to add features and squash bugs to improve the user experience.

According to Substack’s co-founder Hamish McKenzie, the app is now “the most powerful growth machine for creators.” And based on my own experience, he’s not being hyperbolic.

To encourage more people to try the app, Substack is sending select free subscribers complimentary one-month gift subscriptions.

While I don’t have any say in who gets the offer, if you receive an email, please consider redeeming it. This offer is fully-funded by Substack and helps support independent creators like myself grow (and pay the heating bill).

Stay warm and fuzzy…thanks for reading and subscribing!
Clint

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ON THIS DAY

BIRTHDAYS

• 1849 = William Merritt Chase = American painter and educator and founder of Chase School (now Parsons School of Design)

• 1889 = Hannah Höch = German Dada artist an originator of photomontage

• 1942 = Larry Flynt = American publisher and Larry Flynt Publications founder

• 1944 = Kinky Friedman = American singer-songwriter and author

• 1949 = David Foster = Canadian singer-songwriter and producer

• 1957 = Lyle Lovett = American singer-songwriter

• 1960 = Fernando “El Toro” Valenzuela = Mexican-American baseball icon

• 1960 = Tim Cook = American businessman and Apple Inc. CEO

• 1962 = Anthony Kiedis = American singer-songwriter and founding member of Red Hot Chili Peppers

• 1964 = Sophie B. Hawkins = American singer-songwriter

• 1967 = Tina Arena = Australian singer-songwriter

• 1972 = Toni Collette = Australian actress

• 1986 = Penn Badgley = American actor

CELEBRATIONS

• Movember = ”Since 2003, Movember has funded more than 1,250 men’s health projects around the world, challenging the status quo, shaking up men’s health research and transforming the way health services reach and support men.”

• National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)

• Autistics Speaking Day

• National Calzone Day

EVENTS

• 1894 = Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.

• 1894 = Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Native Americans, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.

• 1941 = American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.

• 1968 = The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.

• 1971 = The Body Politic, Canada’s first gay rights magazine, hits newsstands.

• 1972 = That Certain Summer, a made-for-TV movie about a teenage son learning about his divorced father’s homosexuality, airs on ABC. It is watched by almost 2 million people. (Matt Baume on That Certain Summer 📺)

• 1982 = Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of its factory in Marysville, Ohio.

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PHOTO + QUOTE OF THE DAY

WILLIAM MERRITT CHASE WITH STUDENTS (1903)

“Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful awareness that other people, other races, other voices, other habits of mind have as much integrity of being, as much claim on the world as you do... And I urge you, amid all the differences present to the eye and mind, to reach out to create the bond that...will protect us all. We are all meant to be here together.”
William Merritt Chase

ON SUBSTACK = NEW + FEATURED

• Tim Cook (Queer Pioneers)

• Hannah Höch (Queer Pioneers)

• Let's Waltz Around (NSFW)

• Strike A Pose #2 (NSFW)

• More = NSFW + Queer Pioneers + Select Videos

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ON YOUTUBE = NEW + FEATURED

• Hims + Thems #2

• Hims + Thems #1

• More = Love Is Love + Popular Videos + That’s (LGBTQ) Entertainment!