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March 29, 1979 –The group, Supertramp release their sixth album Breakfast in America on this date, which goes on to sell six million copies in the U.S. and win two Grammy Awards. Like the Lennon/McCartney partnership, most of Supertramp’s songs are credited to their lead singers Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies, although in many casesContinue reading “They served Breakfast in America for the first time”

March 29, 1943 –You initially become funny as a kid because you’re looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that’s all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam’s the same. All of us together make one completely insane person. Eric Idle, comedian and composer, made his firstContinue reading “Eric Idle”

March 29, 1959 – Billy Wilder’s film, Some Like It Hot, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, opened ln New York, on this date. Jack Lemmon wrote that the first sneak preview had a bad reaction with many audience walkouts. Many studio personnel and agents offered advice to Billy Wilder on what scenesContinue reading “Some Like It Hot premiered”

March 29, 1978 –After 11 seasons, CBS aired the last episode of The Carol Burnett Show on this date. The show won 25 Emmy Awards during it’s run. The Carol Burnett Show was one of the longest-running variety shows in television history; its conclusion marked the closing of another chapter in television as Burnett wasContinue reading “One last time to have a laugh and sing a song”

Today is Good Friday, (also know as, Great Friday, Holy Friday or Long Friday.) On Good Friday, parishioners (the old ladies who populate church in the middle of most days) follow the officiant and observe the Stations of the Cross. And so it goes

March 28, 1981 –Blondie’s venture into rap, the song Rapture hit no. #1 on the Billboard charts, on this date. Harry’s rap is so goofy that it sounds like she could be mocking the genre, but this was very early in the evolution of hip-hop, and many of the rhymes that came out of theContinue reading “Fab Five Freddy told me everybody’s fly”

March 28, 1930 –Istanbul was ConstantinopleNow it’s Istanbul, not ConstantinopleBeen a long time gone, ConstantinopleWhy did Constantinople get the works?That’s nobody’s business but the Turks. Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara on this date.

March 28, 1974 – Writer and comedian, Pat McCormick, carrying a cocktail streaked nude across the set of The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, forcing NBC censors to black out the lower half of the screen. the streaker was arrested and later released, said Carson, for “lack of evidence.”

March 28, 1975 –The final episode of the short-lived series Kolchak – The Night Stalker, The Sentry, starring Darren McGaven, aired on ABC TV, on this date. Kolchak is smuggled into the Merrymount Archive storage facility in a large wooden crate stamped ‘FRAGILE‘ in capital letters. In A Christmas Story, also starring Darren McGavin, hisContinue reading “The Finale of The Night Stalker”

It’s sometimes called Holy Thursday, also known as Sheer Thursday (as in to purge yourself of sin), Covenant Thursday, Great and Holy Thursday, and Thursday of Mysteries. Remember to wash your feet or the feet of someone else, if you are so inclined. Among the other things going on remember: don’t go to a dinnerContinue reading “Today is Maundy Thursday.”