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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!

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”