Ayuh! Good ol' paraskevidekatriaphobia (fear of Friday the 13th for you laypeople). I never understood it, myself; I've never had anything happen to me on that day, and in fact some very good things have happened in my life on those particular Fridays. But apparently the tradition of fearing Friday the 13th goes back a good ways; Friday's bad reputation goes back to the 14th century, and 13's bad rep goes back to a very old superstition based on the incident of the Last Supper: there were 13 at the table (Judas included) at that last Passover Seder with Jesus and his disciples, and look how that ended up! So I guess the two teamed up are supposed to combine to create some really bad mojo.One of my favorite lines from a movie: In Apollo 13 Tom Hanks' Jim Lovell comes home early to tell the wife and kids that his team has been moved up to the Apollo 13 mission due to illness on the original crew. Marilyn Lovell, played by Kathleen Quinlan, has some problems with the number of the mission.
Marilyn Lovell: Naturally, it's 13. Why 13?Heh, heh! Good old scientific, level-headed thinking wins the day! Except, of course, something went very wrong indeed on that mission, and NASA has never numbered another mission 13 since.
Jim Lovell: It comes after 12, hon.
Nah! I still don't buy it! But that doesn't mean we can't have some fun. When it comes to superstition, thanks to Stevie Wonder we can get funky widdit! How 'bout some live "Superstition"? Yeah!
Happy Friday the 13th!
Black cat photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, with some Photoshop fiddlin' from me.
Love that song! I don't believe in the bad mojo either!
ReplyDeletejeez i made it through the day without realizing it was the 13th - course i was holed up almost ithe entire day in the studio snipping and stitching away!
ReplyDeletelove, love, love this song and what a fun concert that looked like - hawe a great weekend!!
13 doesn't bother me. Friedays either.
ReplyDeleteFriday the 13th has always been a lucky day for me.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason it's Wednesdays that tend to suck.
Love the kitty - looks like my naughty Dinah.
i had a very good friday 13th thanks. hope you did too
ReplyDeleteGreat post. And Friday the 13th was my son's birthday. Thanks also for the Stevie Wonder video.
ReplyDeleteNup doesn't bother me either but I believe there won't be another for a couple of years!
ReplyDelete...love you little Black Cat photo. (You know I have an affinity for black cats.) My grandpa was born on Friday the 13th, and he and my grandma were married on Friday the 13th, so in our house, it's a Good Luck day!
ReplyDeleteHope you had great Friday the 13th! I often see how some airlines don't have row 13 either :)
ReplyDeleteHey, Roy, just in case you don't pop back over to the conversation at WM, thanks for the interesting stuff about the Main Street series.
ReplyDeleteTake a look at a photo of the real Nan Wood Graham. She looks quite a bit different in real life, than the way he painted her in the Gothic. It's possible!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13967214@N00/74135551/