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The Dog Days of Summer are officially over today. Mark your calendar for the upcoming ‘Crazy Political Campaign Season of Autumn‘.

There are 136 days until Christmas Secure your position on the naughty/ nice list accordingly

August 10, 1963 –Stevie Wonder’s single Fingertips (Part 2) becomes the first live recording to hit #1 in the US on this date. Wonder’s first two albums were The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie and Tribute to Uncle Ray, both released in 1962 and intended to frame Stevie as a young Ray Charles. They didn’tContinue reading “Fingertips (Part 2) topped the charts”

August 10, 1968 –According to the strip below, Snoopy’s birthday is August 10. There had, however, been no reference to this in previous years and it did not become an annual feature of the strip, (in fact, there are some references to Snoopy’s birthday being August 28.)

August 10, 1962 –While not the worst film ever made – it is the sickest. The Brain That Wouldn’t Die, opened on this date. (Watch it now.) This was the first movie watched by Michael J. Nelson after Joel Hodgson had left in the previous episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

August 10, 1948 –Candid Camera, considered by many to be the first reality tv show, debuted on ABC-TV on this date. The series was previously known on the radio. Its name: Candid Microphone. For a period in 1958, the show appeared as a regular segment of Jack Paar’s The Tonight Show, airing on NBC. InContinue reading “When you least expect it …”

Happy National S’mores Day. S’mores – the most popular campfire treat is recognized each year on August 10th. In 1927, Girl Scouts troop leader Loretta Scott Crew wrote a recipe for “Some Mores,” and published it in Tramping and Trailing With the Girl Scouts, an official Girl Scouts publication, though the exact origin of S’moresContinue reading “Life is better with s’mores and the ones you love.”

August 9, 1945 –Just three days after Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima, a second atomic bomb (a 22 kiloton Atomic Bomb) called Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, population 270,000, by the U.S. B-29 bomber Bockscar. Though the amount of energy generated by the bomb was significantly larger than that of the LittleContinue reading “They thought it so nice, they did it twice”

August 9, 1974 –After President Richard M. Nixon resigned from office, his successor, Gerald Ford, assures the American people that their “long national nightmare is over.“ Ford was the only person to hold the office of US Vice President and US President without being elected to either office. He also served on the Warren Commission.Continue reading “The Tragedy of Richard M. Nixon”

August 9, 1975 –The Bee Gees single, Jive Talkin‘, reached No. #1 on the Billboard charts on this date. The rhythm was inspired by the chunka-chunka-chunka sound of a car rolling over a bridge crossing Biscayne Bay near Miami; the Bee Gees went over it on their way to Criteria Studios, where they were recordingContinue reading “Jive Talkin topped the charts”