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Its also known as national clean out the refrigerator day. With Thanksgiving just around the corner, today’s a good day to make some room in the frig (I should start looking through the freezer for a few ‘frozen corpse‘ meals in there for this week.). While the country may be torn apart by political divisions,Continue reading “Today is America Recycles Day.”

November 15, 1956 –Elvis Presley’s first movie, Love Me Tender, premiered at New York’s Paramount Theater on this date. Elvis Presley is credited as co-writer of the film’s four songs, but in fact had little to do with writing them; it was just for purposes of royalties. Elvis did reveal at a 1968 press conference,Continue reading “Love Me Tender Premiered”

November 15, 1935 –… Listen, Gottlieb, nix on the love making. Because, I saw Mrs. Claypool first. Of course, her mother really saw her first; but, there’s no point in bringing the Civil War into this. The Marx Brother’s first film made without Zeppo, A Night at the Opera, premiered on this date. In exasperationContinue reading “A Night at the Opera premiered”

November 14, 1851 –Harper and Brothers published Herman Melville’s most famous novel, on this date. Called Moby Dick, the tale is teeming with seamen, spermaceti, and rigid harpoons. Scholars continue to debate its symbolism. The British publisher accidentally left out the ending of the book, the epilogue. This confused a lot of British readers, becauseContinue reading “They definitely needed a bigger boat”

November 14, 1975 –Queen released its fourth album A Night at the Opera on this date (There actually were other songs on the album besides Bohemian Rhapsody you know.) As it appears on the album, the song Death on Two Legs had “Dedicated to…” written after it. It was dedicated to their ex-manager when heContinue reading “A Night at the Opera was dropped”

November 14, 1964 –The cult classic Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (the non-MST3K version), starring featuring the classically kitch Pia Zadora, premiered on this date. This film includes the first documented appearance of Mrs. Claus.

November 14, 1988 – The comedy series Murphy Brown, starring Candice Bergen premiered on CBS TV on this date. One of the running series jokes was Murphy Brown’s inability to get a good secretary or one that could work with her. During the show’s first ten seasons, Murphy had a total of ninety-three secretaries. TheyContinue reading “Murphy Brown premiered”

November 13, 1927 – The New York Holland Tunnel officially opened today, the first underwater tunnel built in the United States, providing access between New York City and New Jersey beneath the Hudson River, ushering in a massive wave of Dutch immigration (and more fools them – The tunnel was named after its chief engineer,Continue reading “The Holland Tunnel opened for traffic”

November 13, 1975 –Morris Albert’s song Feelings went gold on this date. In 1987, Morris Albert was found guilty of plagiarism, with a jury finding that this borrowed heavily from a French song from 1956 called Pour Toi. You can blame me later for this ear worm

November 13, 1954 – Looney Tunes first 3D cartoon, Lumber Jack Rabbit, starring Bugs Bunny, premiered on this date. Chuck Jones left Warner Brothers for four months over the production of this cartoon, which he felt was unsatisfactory. He went to Disney for those months, and worked on Sleeping Beauty, but eventually realized that, althoughContinue reading “Lumber Jack Rabbit premiered”