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October 31, 1963 –The Beatles returned to London today in 1963 from a short tour of Sweden, their first outside England. They were greeted at Heathrow airport by photographers, journalists, and hundreds of screaming fans, adding to the growing evidence that Beatlemania was going to be around for more than a few weeks. Ed SullivanContinue reading “Beatlemania was here to stay”

Before you steal all of your kid sister’s Halloween candy, that Thanksgiving is in 24 days. Keep checking those store flyers for sales on turkey – apparently they are going to be very expensive this year. There are 48 days until Hanukkah and that Christmas is in 55 days! Demand Euphoria!

ACME Eagle Hand Soap’s brief history of All Hallow’s Eve: Ancient Romans celebrated a holiday called Feralia on February 21. At first it was a simple day off to recover from the holiday of February 20 (Salvia Divinorum), and to take care of last minute shopping before the holiday of February 22 (Salta Boca). ItContinue reading “We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones”

October 31, 1945 –René Clair’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery And Then There Were None was released in the US on this date. In recent years it has come to light that much of Agatha Christie’s plot appears to have been inspired by a little-known 1930 play by Owen Davis titled The NinthContinue reading “And Then There Were None premiered”

ACME Eagle Hand Soap’s brief history of All Hallow’s Eve: Ancient Romans celebrated a holiday called Feralia on February 21. At first it was a simple day off to recover from the holiday of February 20 (Salvia Divinorum), and to take care of last minute shopping before the holiday of February 22 (Salta Boca). ItContinue reading “A mask tells us more than a face”

October 30, 1937 – A good early Looney Tunes Halloween treat, The Case of the Stuttering Pig, was released on this date. When the picture of Uncle Solomon is shown, it’s a drawing of Oliver Hardy as a pig.

Surprise, surprise, it’s National Candy Corn Day today. The famous candy is said to have been invented in the United States by George Renninger a candymaker at the Wunderlee Candy Company in Philadelphia, in the 1880s and it was originally made by hand. Nowadays, it’s mass produced by Jelly Belly® using a recipe unchanged sinceContinue reading “Please don’t remind Lewis Black about this”

October 30, 1938 – The War of the Worlds was the Halloween episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. Directed by the wunderkind Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells’ classic novel The War of the Worlds (1898). Welles’s adaptation is arguably the most well-knownContinue reading “The War of the Worlds’ broadcast”

October 30, 1943 –A very funny war-time Bugs Bunny Cartoon, Falling Hare, was released on this date. In the early 1940s, Walt Disney was developing a feature film based on Roald Dahl’s book Gremlin Lore, and asked the other studios to refrain from producing gremlin films. While most of the studios complied, Warner Bros. alreadyContinue reading “Falling Hare premiered”

October 30, 2002 –Warren Zevon was featured on the Late Show with David Letterman as the only guest for the entire hour, on this date. Zevon performing several songs and spoke about being diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. Kids, “…enjoy every sandwich.”