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Just giving you a brief heads up – if in doubt, I’ll happily accept gold ingots Hey, if inmate number 67277-050 can accept them, who I’m I to turn them down. This one, not so much, thank you.

ACME would like to issue this public service announcement concerning Brain Freeze (also known as sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia) – Now to the point at hand – Why bring this up? The date today is 7/11 (at least in this country. Foreigners and other degenerates refer to the day as 11/7 but that’s another story…) T TheContinue reading “Oh, thank heaven”

It was great foresight on the part of our beloved city forefathers to lay out the city in such a way that this happens every year just around my birthday. Once again, the sun will be perfectly lined up with the east-west streets of New York. So get outside to catch the ‘Full Sun onContinue reading “Look to the skies”

July 10, 1972 –Harry Nilsson’s eighth album, Son of Schmilsson was released on this date. It featured George Harrison under the name George Harrysong and Ringo Starr, listed as Richie Snare, on some of the tracks. Peter Frampton also played guitar on most of the album.

July 10, 1958 –The first parking meter was installed in London, England, on this date in 1958 – along with the second through the 625th. It took nearly two dozen years for the parking meter to make its way across the Atlantic: the first American parking meter had been installed in Oklahoma City on JulyContinue reading “It’s probably easier to put a quarter in it”

July 10, 1947 – One of Jules Dassin’s post-war film-noir classics, Brute Force, starring Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth, and Charles Bickford, opened in Los Angeles on this date. The second of three films that Burt Lancaster made for Mark Hellinger, the writer-producer who discovered the former acrobat and turned himContinue reading “Brute Force premiered”

July 10, 1942 –Orson Welles‘ butchered masterpiece, The Magnificent Ambersons, was released by RKO Pictures, on this date. After a disastrous preview (which occurred a week after the Pearl Harbor attack,) it was clear to the execs at RKO that the film was too long, too dense and too somber. Orson Welles, however, had decampedContinue reading “Another unfortunate day for Orson”

Pops always taught us that family is the strongest unit in the world. If you stick with your family, nobody can break you, nobody can harm you. You’ll always have your family.. Happy Birthday to the gospel and blues singer Mavis Staples born in Chicago on this date. She started singing with her family’s bandContinue reading “Mavis Staples”

Today is Tesla Day – Inventor and electromechanical genius Nikola Tesla, the man who invented the 20th Century, was born to Serbian parents in what is now Croatia on July 10, 1856 . Remember, if we could only harness the free floating electricity, we could do away with the electric companies.

On the Fourth of July in 1850, President Zachary Taylor snacked on cherries and milk while attending a ceremony at the Washington Monument. It was a hot day, and the heat made him sick. He grew sicker and died on July 9. He remains the only U.S. president to have died from indigestion (with theContinue reading “Zachary Taylor”