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It’s a time to appreciate and support poets and poetry around the world. It is held on March 21 each year and is an initiative of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The Hollow Men – T.S. Elliot Demand Euphoria!

The Russian Royal family was having a really bad day, in a month that was particularly bad. On March 21, 1917, Nicholas II and his family were official arrested. It was a confused and confusing period, and the situation would only continue to deteriorate until the October Revolution (in November). The eventual triumph of theContinue reading “Today’s episode of Oh, that Wacky Russian Revolution:”

March 21, 1947 –In honor of the start of Spring, let us seriously consider spring cleaning and the unhappy ending of the Collyer brothers. Homer and Langley Collyer were well-to-do New Yorkers who grew up in a fashionable brownstone in Harlem with their mother and father, just before the turn of the previous century. UnfortunatelyContinue reading “For Goodness Sake – Clean Up After Yourself”

March 21, 1995 –We all get to spend Dave Nelson’s first day at WNYX when NewsRadio, starring Dave Foley, Phil Hartman, Maura Tierney and Andy Dick premiered on NBC-TV, on this date. Maura Tierney was added to the cast the day before they shot the pilot.

March 20, 1900 –Nikola Tesla received a patent (US 645576 A) for the wireless transmission of electric power on this date. Early radio antennas and telegraphy used the invention, but variations of the coil can also do things that are just plain cool – like shoot lightning bolts, send electric currents through the body andContinue reading “Another patent for Tesla”

March 20, 1982 –Joan Jett and the Blackhearts’ single I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll begins a seven week run at #1 on this date. Jett was touring England as a member of an all teenage girl group called The Runaways when she discovered this song, originally recorded by a British group called The Arrows inContinue reading “I Love Rock and Roll hit No. 1”

March 20, 1828 –Let’s drink a toast of Aquavit to the playwright Henrik Ibsen, born in Skien, Norway on this date. He was a small time cherry herring bootlegger and an assistant stage manager for a new theater, where it was his job to produce a new drama each year based on Norway’s glorious past.Continue reading “A forest bird never wants a cage.”

Bunkies, believe it or not, Winter appears to be officially over. While you are attempting to balance those eggs and brooms today, remember that the Vernal Equinox occurred at 11:33 AM (EDT) this morning. That means it’s spring. This year, please don’t take off your clothes. Cautionly venture outside, come back in and wash yourContinue reading “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”

March 19, 1977 –It was the end of the road at WJM-TV when the final episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Last Show, aired on CBS TV on this date. In an interview years later Mary Tyler Moore said that the scene where they embraced and then huddled to the tissues was notContinue reading “The last The Mary Tyler Moore Show episode”

Spring starts tomorrow in Northern Hemisphere at 11:33 A.M. EDT, with partially cloudy, forecast highs in the upper 50s. We’ll discuss it all tomorrow. Demand Euphoria!