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Tomás F. Summers Sandoval Jr.

Associate Professor • Chicanx-Latinx Histories • Pomona College

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February 7. In 1961 on this day the Beatles played their first gig at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, where they’d go on to play a total of 292 times in less than two years. They’d meet Brian Epstein, they’d change drummers, and they’d become famous. Today is also the anniversary of the Beatles arrival in the US in 1964. They’d appear on Ed Sullivan two days later and then appear twice more on the show over the rest of the month. From playing a small club to being the biggest cultural phenomenon in the so-called Western world, all in less than three years.

If you drop a rag on the floor she will sit on it because you must have put it there just for her.

We made a visit to the “Natural History of Horror: The Science of Spooky” exhibit at the Natural History Museum today. It was small but it was fun to learn a little something about Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy and this guy.

I’m many people. One of them is happy to remind you a decade is 10 years, which means the decade doesn’t end for another year. Another likes to point out all calendaring is really just a construct, so who really cares. Then there’s the one that’s happy to support you looking back and taking stock of where you’ve arrived at this very moment, whether that falls on a new year or not. But all of me hopes you have a happy and healthy 2020!

She defines the challenge: put all 40 scrunches on. She defeats the challenge. Victory.