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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!

It’s the Feast of St. Joseph, stepdad to Jesus and patron saint of real estate closers (that’s why the pastries are for him – he’s a closer.) Remember to go out and have the very delicious Sicilian pastry that bears his name (but get the ones with canolli filling, not the custard.) It’s so good,Continue reading “It’s so good, it’s almost heavenly”

March 12, 1965 –Gene Sesky of Scranton lost control of the truck he was driving, hauling 30,000 pounds of bananas, barreling down Moosic Street toward central Scranton, unable to stop and crashes into cars, telephone poles, and houses on its way down the hill, injuring many people and killing Mr. Sesky. Harry Chapin sang aboutContinue reading “Check your brake fluids”

March 18, 1913 –(Once again kids follow along, it’s complex.)The late itinerant sailor and general layabout Philip Mountbatten’s (nee Philip Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg) grandfather, Christian Wilhelm Ferdinand Adolf Georg of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (sibling to a king and two queens) was out on an afternoon stroll. This, in and of itself, is not remarkable, except for the fact thatContinue reading “Remember to carry some change with you”

March 18, 1965 –Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov performed the first spacewalk on this day. He stayed outside his ship for 12 minutes, held to the ship by a tether. By the time his walk was over, his spacesuit had inflated so much in the vacuum of space that he could barely get back inside the ship.Continue reading “The first space walk”

March 18, 1981 –Stephen J. Cannell’s take on superheroes, The Greatest American Hero, starring William Katt, Robert Culp, and Connie Sellecca, premiered on ABC-TV, on this date. Two years after the show’s cancellation by ABC, NBC picked up the series, and aired its reruns in a Sunday night, post-primetime time slot. This led to speculationContinue reading “The Greatest American Hero premiered”

March 17, 1966 –The Walker Brothers had their second UK No.1 hit (their first being, Make It Easy on Yourself) with the song The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore, on this date. In the UK this is regarded as a death song, supposedly because of an incident in the mid 1960s concerning Ronnie Kray. TheContinue reading “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore premiered”

March 17, 1972 –John Water presented Divine to an unsuspecting world: Pink Flamingos, premiered in Baltimore on this date. (In 2021, this cult classic was inducted into the National Film Registery of important films that need to be preserved.) During filming, Divine was arrested for stealing; in her defense she said she was a methodContinue reading “Pink Flamingos premiered”

The Feast Day of St. Patrick is celebrated on March 17. St. Patrick is considered the father of Celtic Christianity. He founded more than three hundred churches, drove the snakes out of Ireland, invented green beer, and coined the popular slogan, Kiss me, I’m Irish (although, he himself was not.) This year, the Citizenry ofContinue reading “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”

Purim starts last night – The festival of Purim is celebrated every year on the 14th of the Hebrew month of Adar (late winter/early spring). It commemorates the salvation of the Jewish people in ancient Persia from Haman’s plot “to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews, young and old, infants and women, in aContinue reading “Chag Purim Sameach (again)”