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The Oscars are on tonight on ABC-TV. Remember It’s just an honor to wins your Oscar pool – actual betting on the results of the Oscars is illegal in most states.

March 27, 1987 –U2 played a rooftop concert in Los Angeles to film their video for Where The Streets Have No Name, on this date. Producer Brian Eno estimated that the recording of this song absorbed over 40% of the time spent on The Joshua Tree. Eno became so frustrated trying to mix the trackContinue reading “Where The Streets Have No Name”

March 27, 1912 –Washington DC is in the middle of it’s annual celebration of National Cherry Blossom Festival (hopefully they are still practicing some sort of social distancing,) commemorating the gift of Japanese cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo City to the city of Washington on this date. The gift of 3,020 treesContinue reading “It’s all so pretty until the petals fall off”

March 27, 30 – A small time official in a backwater province of the Roman empire gains immortality for practicing good hygiene. Pontius Pilate washed his hands and sealed the fate of Jesus. And so it goes

Today is Earth Hour, a global event (organized by World Wildlife Fund) held usually on the last Saturday of March. Earth Hour is celebrated annually by asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change.Continue reading “Spend time with your loved ones (this is where alcohol comes in handy)”

Texting While Driving (or even Walking) is just wrong. Just don’t do this one. Don’t. 1 out of every 4 car accidents in the United States is caused by texting and driving. Texting while driving is 6x more likely to cause an accident than driving drunk. You’re risking yours and someone else’s life for aContinue reading “Things that should be common sense, but aren’t”

March 26, 1977 –Less Than Zero, the debut single from Elvis Costello, was released by the newly formed Stiff Records in London, England on this date. The song is a scathing attack on Oswald Mosley, a politician who was popular in England at the time. Mosley, who died in 1980, was the leader of theContinue reading “Less Than Zero was released”

March 26, 1199 –All seemed right with the Medieval world. Richard the Lionheart was taking an evening stroll around the castle perimeter without his chain mail, investigating the progress of soldiers trying to destroy the fortress in which he was seeking refuge. Arrows were occasionally fired from the castle walls, but these were given littleContinue reading “The Death of Richard the Lionheart”

March 26, 1931 –That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence. greater than any of us can understand – Leonard Nimoy was born four day after William Shatner.

It’s the Feast of the Annunciation, which is not a holy day of obligation, (now a days known as The Solemnity of the Annunciation), I’m not even going to try to explain this one to you. While you’re in church this afternoon, ask one of the old lady in the back saying her decades ofContinue reading “Kids, you’re off the hook”