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November 1, 1967 –Warner Brothers released one of Paul Newman’s signature films, Cool Hand Luke on this date. While passing by the prison camp set, a San Joaquin County building inspector thought it was a recently constructed migrant workers’ complex, and posted “condemned” notices on the buildings for not being up to code.

November 1, 1994 –The first Nirvana album released following the death of Kurt Cobain, MTV Unplugged in New York was released on this date. The following week, it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and sold 310,500 copies, which was the highest first-week sales of Nirvana’s career.

October 31, 1963 –The Beatles returned to London today in 1963 from a short tour of Sweden, their first outside England. They were greeted at Heathrow airport by photographers, journalists, and hundreds of screaming fans, adding to the growing evidence that Beatlemania was going to be around for more than a few weeks. Ed SullivanContinue reading “Beatlemania proved more than a fad”

October 31, 1970 –Led Zeppelin started a four week run, on this date, at No.1 on the Billboard album chart with Led Zeppelin III, the bands second US chart topper. Although critics were typically confused over the change in musical style and gave the album a mixed response, Led Zeppelin III has since been acknowledgedContinue reading “We come from the land of the ice and snow …”

October 31, 1912 –D.W. Griffith’s film The Musketeers of Pig Alley, starring Elmer Booth, Lillian Gish, Clara T. Bracy and Walter Miller, first aired in the US on this date. The film is thought to be the first film about organized crime. In a street sequence, a young girl can be seen staring at theContinue reading “The Musketeers of Pig Alley premiered”

October 31, 1945 –René Clair’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery And Then There Were None was released in the US on this date. In recent years it has come to light that much of Agatha Christie’s plot appears to have been inspired by a little-known 1930 play by Owen Davis titled The NinthContinue reading “And Then There Were None premiered”

Happy Halloween But remember, Halloween: it’s a large secret East Coast syndicate backed primarily by Big Sugar and Dental Schools. This year I will suggest you go as – the speakers at the MSG rally last Sunday – some of them appear to be far scarier that brain eating zombies. I’d have written more butContinue reading “Today is an opportunity to be really creative.”

Your friends at ACME would like to bring you a brief history of All Hallow’s Eve: Ancient Romans celebrated a holiday called Feralia on February 21. At first it was a simple day off to recover from the holiday of February 20 (Salvia Divinorum), and to take care of last minute shopping before the holidayContinue reading “If people had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year”

Surprise, surprise, it’s National Candy Corn Day today. The famous candy is said to have been invented in the United States by George Renninger a candymaker at the Wunderlee Candy Company in Philadelphia, in the 1880s and it was originally made by hand. Nowadays, it’s mass produced by Jelly Belly® using a recipe unchanged sinceContinue reading “I believe big sugar is behind this –”

October 30, 1971 –Pink Floyd released their sixth studio album Meddle in the US, on this date. The album features One Of These Days and the 23-minute track Echoes which took up all of side 2 on the vinyl record. The cover image was photographed by Bob Dowling. The image represents an ear, underwater, collectingContinue reading “Meddle went on sale”