Patriot(s) Day, Ylvis and Elvis

Yesterday was 9/11, which is the anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks (and probably the defining American moment in my lifetime, possibly along with the first Obama election). Subsequently, it as been established as Patriot Day. My labmate mentioned this to me, and i was utterly baffled, 'Wait, isn't that in April? The Boston Marathon is on Patriots' Day.' Turns out, this is a holiday where punctuation matters. Patriot Day (the singular) commemorates 9/11/01. Patriots' Day, celebrated on April 19 or thereabouts in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and as Patriot's Day in Maine, commemorates the first battles in the American Revolutionary war (those at Concorde and Lexington). The Boston Marathon is indeed always held on Patriots' Day. Sheesh, America. Also, more random information that i know because of running.

From the photography perspective; this guy's instagram account features pictures of his girlfriend dragging him around various exotic locations. As described here, Murad Osmann travels a lot for work, and sometimes is able to take in the locales with his girlfriend. Common to most photographers, who won't stop with the picture-taking already, his girl " became annoyed that Osmann was so occupied with his camera and started pulling him by the hand… but it didn’t stop Osmann from snagging a shot. That shot would spark a project ", and now we have a really interesting perspective of his travels. i can think of several fellow shutterbugs who's family and friends feel the same.

Finally, in the recent theme of foxes which my blog/brain has been plagued, there's a musical group, Ylvis (is this pronounced 'Elvis'?), who released a trippy musical video inquiring as to the specifics of the vocalizations of Foxes. Shirt.woot had a supercute tribute shirt today. Also, listening to the song a second time, i realized that the drop-beat sounds a lot like that of LMFAO's Party Rock Anthem (somewhere around 2 minutes in), enough to have a strange overlap in my brain's playlist. The group Ylvis also released another song inquiring as to the origins of Stonehenge (not entirely safe-for-work), also worth a watch (and an article from Slate has hand-picked even more songs). They're very inquisitive.

 me:  also, you think it's pronounced 'Elvis'?

 Ryan:  yes

it is

 me:  nice.

in honor of the man or the race?

and was Elvis so named in honor of the race?

(and perhaps that's why he did so well for himself, he had the blessing of the elves?)

(also, i should stop reading so much fiction)

Short answer, the group's name is a truncation of their last name, Ylvisåker and i don't speak Norwegian. Google translations are also not helping here. Anyway, interesting coincidence. On the topic of the name Elvis, wikipedia reports that it is an Anglicization of the name of Saint Ailbe of Emly, a 6th century Irish Bishop. Hmm.