The United Nations General Assembly designated this date, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this annual day of commemoration, the UN urges every member state to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism and to develop educationalContinue reading “It saddens me to have to say Never Again again”
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Remember to celebrate responsibly
It’s Punch the Clock day. I have no idea why anyone would want to celebrate the soul-numbing activity of having to punch into work. So instead, let’s listen to a deep cut from the Elvis Costello album Punch the Clock, Charm School.
Silkwood premiered
January 27, 1984 –The Mike Nichols’ drama, Silkwood, starring Meryl Streep, Cher, and Kurt Russell, opened in the US on this date. Cher was nervous about meeting Meryl Streep for the first time. “I thought it was going to be like having an audience with the Pope,” she said. Streep, however, immediately put her atContinue reading “Silkwood premiered”
Davis Rules debuted
January 27, 1991 –The little remembered TV series,Davis Rules, starring Randy Quaid and Jonathan Winters premiered on ABC TV on this date. (The series moved to CBS TV for its’ second and final season.) The show premiered right after the Super Bowl in 1991.
It located down at the end of Lonely Street
It located down at the end of Lonely StreetJanuary 27, 1956 –Elvis Presley released the first of his 14 records in a row that sold more than a million copies, Heartbreak Hotel, on this date. It climbed to the top of the pop chart reaching #1 in April and spending eight weeks at the top.Continue reading “It located down at the end of Lonely Street”
Toilets are the best place for awards.
Thomas Crapper died on January 27, 1910. In popular American folklore, the British Mr. Crapper was the man who invented – and lent his name to – the flush toilet. Unfortunately, there is little historical evidence to support Mr. Crapper as anything more than a friendly British plumber. I say “unfortunately” because the world isContinue reading “Toilets are the best place for awards.”
I can see the red taillights headin’ for Spain
January 26, 1973 –Elton John’s sixth studio album, Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player, was released on this date. It was his second straight No. 1 album in the US. According to Elton John: The Definitive Biography, here’s how the album got its title: While in Los Angeles, Elton was introduced to theContinue reading “I can see the red taillights headin’ for Spain”
High comedy indeed
January 26, 1979 – Dukes of Hazzard premiered on CBS television with One Armed Bandits – (A shipment of slot machines is hijacked.) When John Schneider showed up for his audition as Bo Duke, he did so in a dilapidated pick-up truck, with a week’s worth of beard growth and in a white T-shirt andContinue reading “High comedy indeed”
Turnabout debuted
January 26, 1979 –Turnabout, a sitcom developed by Steven Bochco and Michael Rhodes, and starring John Schuck and Sharon Gless, premiered on NBC TV, on this date. It lasted seven episodes, before being cancelled due to poor ratings. This was in part due to airing after the poorly rated Hello, Larry, and competing with theContinue reading “Turnabout debuted”
There’s a lot of partying going on
Today is the 77th (or 78th, I’ve seen it referred to both ways) annual Republic Day in India. Usually spectators line up to watch dancers from all over the nation gather in New Delhi every year on this day to dance in the huge National Arena and all along a five mile parade route, (notContinue reading “There’s a lot of partying going on”
The Haus of Dcaligari 