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It’s celebrated on the birthday of John Montagu, Fourth Earl of Sandwich, creator of the sandwich. To celebrate, begin gambling heavily, don’t get up from the table for several hours and call for your manservant to bring you a slab of beef and two pieces of bread (and a piss pot.) Remember bunkies, Enjoy everyContinue reading “Happy National Sandwich Day”

November 3, 1993 –Fran traveled for the first time over the bridge from Flushing to the Sheffield’s door when, The Nanny, premiered on CBS-TV on this date. When the show was still being developed, the Sheffield family only consisted of two children: Brighton and Grace. The networked wanted there to be an older daughter, forContinue reading “The Nanny”

Other things to occupy your mind with other than COVID-19 – The Pentagon has its own private island off New York. Plum Island, owned in its entirety by the United States government, is an island in the Town of Southold in Suffolk County, New York. Operated by The Department of Homeland Security, it’s used toContinue reading “If we say anymore, we’ll have to kill you”

November 3, 1954 – Gojira premiered in Japan on this date 65 years ago (Godzilla: King of the Monsters debuted in America on April 26, 1956) : With the ashes of World War II only recently cooled, Japan is plagued by a sudden wave of maritime disasters: Without warning, ships are exploding into flame andContinue reading “I barely escaped … Nagasaki, and now this!”

November 2, 1944 –Thomas Midgley Jr., an American chemist who developed both leaded gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), was notoriously known as “the one human responsible for more deaths than any other in history“. As if it was nature’s idea to get revenge on him he was left disabled in his bed due to lead poisoningContinue reading “Talk about double irony”

So those of the dearly departed who didn’t make the cut yesterday for All Saint’s Day, take heart; remember today is All Souls Day (the second day of Día de los Muertos.) In the late tenth or early eleventh century, Saint Odilo of Cluny decided that All Souls’ Day would take place after All Saints’Continue reading “The past is dead; the future unborn”

If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children. – Coretta Scott King Don’t forget – if you’re in NY, there are 5 ballot measures you should vote on – go to the otherContinue reading “Just Vote – you have no excuse today.”

November 2, 1995 –Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders guest stars on the Friends episode The One with the Baby on the Bus, on this date. She sings Angel of the Morning and learns Smelly Cat from Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow).

In 1783, a volcanic eruption killed 80% of the Earth’s sheep. The Laki volcanic fissure in the South of Iceland erupted over an eight-month period back in 1783, releasing some straight-up nasty hydrogen fluoride into the atmosphere to shower down on the Earth’s inhabitants. Because of this, roughly 25% of the world’s human population died.Continue reading “Think of all the mint jelly gone to waste”

No matter who you’re going to vote for, even writing Cookies Monster as a write-in candidate – Remember that voting is one of the only civic responsibilities you have as a citizen. (a brief aside – Apparently on Election Day in 1758, George Washington used his campaign budget (50 pounds) to purchase 160 gallons ofContinue reading “Don’t forget to vote tomorrow”