Category Archives: Uncategorized

It may be the birthday of Siddhartha Gautama, (if you’re reading this in Japan and I’m sure I have many readers there) ACME would like to wish you Namo Amituofo – Otherwise, just calculate the first full moon day of the sixth month of the Buddhist lunar calendar, which would be the fourth month ofContinue reading “One Buddha – Many Birthdays”

April 8, 1968 –The TV special Petula airs on NBC on this date. Most people would not remember this special except at one point in the show, host Petula Clark grabs hold of Harry Belafonte’s arm while they are singing a duet. As bizarre as this may seem, the show marked the first time aContinue reading “The past is a different country”

April 8, 1979 –The 204th and final episode of All in the Family, Too Good Edith, aired on this date. The series would come back in the fall in the less successful offering, Archie’s Place.

April 8, 1975 –Aerosmith released their third album Toys In The Attic, on this date. The album is their most commercially successful studio LP in the US, selling over eight million copies.

April 7, 1978 –The Police release Roxanne in the UK on this date. BBC Radio 1 refuses to play it, which tanks the song, but when the band tours America a year later it catches on in that country, becoming their first hit.

April 7, 1927 –An audience in New York saw an image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover in the first successful long-distance demonstration of television. Hoover’s image and voice were transmitted across telephone lines. Edna Mae Horner, an operator at the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, assisted the transmission and became the first woman on television.Continue reading “An important advancement in Television”

April 7, 1979 – With Richard Benjamin as the guest host, Rickie Lee Jones is the musical guest on Saturday Night Live, on this date. She performs her hits Chuck E.’s In Love and Coolsville. The episode is notable not only for Rickie Lee Jones performance but it is the first appearance of Rodney DangerfieldContinue reading “We found out what happened at the Pantages”

April 7, 1939 –That little old Italian wine maker, Francis Ford Coppola, (who is also a magazine publisher and hotelier) was born on this date. Like Martin Scorsese, Coppola was a sickly youth, a case of polio which allowed him time to indulge in puppet theater and home movies.

April 7, 1933 –Today is National Beer Day. While it is not actual a national holiday, in March of 1933, President Roosevelt signed the Cullen–Harrison Act allowing the sale of beer once again with the proviso, the beer remain no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, the first legal alcohol allowed since Prohibition began inContinue reading “Beer: Because adulting is hard.”

Today is National Caramel Popcorn Day – enjoy! It’s also Sorry Charlie Day. The day is dedicated to remind us that we have all been rejected, and yet somehow survived it. Celebrate this day by taking a minute to remember a past rejection. After doing this, be happy and realize the fact, that most ofContinue reading “Adding nuts is between you and your God”