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June 12, 1987 –20th Century Fox releases the science fiction action film Predator, directed John McTiernan and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Elpidia Carrillo, Bill Duke, Jesse Ventura, and Kevin Peter Hall, in the U.S. on this date. Jesse Ventura was delighted to find out from the wardrobe department that his arms were one inchContinue reading “Predator premiered”

Just read a McSweeney’s article, What Your Favorite Classic Rock Band Says About You, and I’m laughing so hard, I’m crying – Steely Dan: You have snorted cocaine off a copy of Remembrance of Things Past.

It should NOT be National German Chocolate Cake Day today, but German’s Chocolate Cake Day. (German chocolate, and German chocolate cake – actually that is incorrect, the man who developed this chocolate was Samuel German – it has nothing to do with Germany, so it should be German’s Chocolate and German’s Chocolate cake). You mayContinue reading “Today’s correction”

June 11 is an important day for American football fans and seems almost inevitably slated to someday become a national holiday. It’s the birthdays of Vince Lombardi (1913) and Joe Montana (1956). Mr Lombardi played at Fordham University and was a Latin and chemistry teacher in New Jersey before becoming the head coach of theContinue reading “OTD in Sports History”

June 11, 1962 –The musical comedy/variety TV special starring Julie Andrews & Carol Burnett, Julie & Carol at Carnegie Hall, aired on CBS TV on this date. At one point Carol Burnett “accidentally” hit’s Julie Andrews’ in the stomach while taking a bow (this was scripted as part of the number they had just performed).Continue reading “The first Julie Andrews/ Carol Burnett special premiered”

June 11, 1986 –John Hughes’ comic masterpiece, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was released, on this date. To produce the desired drugged-out effect for his role as the drug addict in the police station, Charlie Sheen stayed awake for more than forty-eight hours before the scene was shot.

June 11, 1966 –The song Paint It Black by the Rolling Stones hit No. 1 on the charts, on this date. The Rolling Stones wrote this as a much slower, conventional soul song. When Bill Wyman began fooling around on the organ during the session doing a takeoff of their original as a spoof ofContinue reading “Paint It Black topped the charts”

OMG, I nearly forgot that today is the 14th World Gin Day, started by Neil Houston and Emma Stokes in 2009, always celebrated on the second Saturday in June, (National Martini Day is coming up on Monnday, June 19, the day after Father’s Day – I will just have to pace myself!). I wait patientlyContinue reading “Also known as Dutch Courage”

June 10, 1935 –God, grant me the serenity … It’s the anniversary of the establishment of A(lcoholics) A(nonymous), in Akron, Ohio. It was founded by a stockbroker named Bill Wilson and a surgeon, Bob Smith, who found that the best way to keep from drinking was to spend time with other people who were tryingContinue reading “The start of AA”

June 10, 1966 –The Beatles song Paperback Writer was released in UK, on this date. This claimed the top spot in the US for two non-consecutive weeks; it was interrupted for one week by Frank Sinatra’s Strangers in the Night.