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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.”

March 27, 1987 –U2 played a rooftop concert in Los Angeles to film their video for Where The Streets Have No Name, on this date. U2 played the song four times, and also played People Get Ready, In God’s Country, Sunday Bloody Sunday and Pride (In The Name Of Love). It won the Grammy forContinue reading “All the streets have names in L.A.”

March 27, 30 – A small time official in a backwater province of the Roman empire gains immortality for practicing good hygiene. Pontius Pilate washed his hands and sealed the fate of Jesus. And so it goes

March 27, 1973 –Marlon Brando declined the Academy Award for Best Actor for his career-reviving performance in The Godfather on this date. The Native American actress Sacheen Littlefeather attended the ceremony in Brando’s place, stating that the actor “very regretfully” could not accept the award, as he was protesting Hollywood’s portrayal of Native Americans inContinue reading “A simple ‘No Thank You’ would have sufficed”

March 27, 1952 – The apex of movie musicals, Singin’ in the Rain, starring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O’Connor, opened in New York on this date. Debbie Reynolds remarked many years later that making this movie and surviving childbirth were the two hardest things she’d ever had to do. The filming experience wasContinue reading “Singing in the Rain premiered”