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October 11, 1961 –The oldest of the Marx Brothers, Leonard ‘Chico‘ Marx, died on this date. Chico was a compulsive womanizer and had a lifelong gambling habit. His addiction cost him millions of dollars by his own account. His brother, Gummo Marx, in an interview years after Chico’s death, said, “Chico’s favorite people were actorsContinue reading “Chico Marx”

In case you’re not keeping track Our neighbors to the north will be celebrating Canadian Thanksgiving this coming Monday while we’ll be celebrating Columbus Never Met an Indigenous Person He Didn’t Kill or Enslave Day, but more on that later. there are 20 days until Halloween. there are 24 more days until the general election.Continue reading “Start making plans”

Today is Hug a Drummer Day. Without drummers, we would soon notice how different and even weak music can be, so hail a day to celebrate such percussionists! And I’m lucky, (when allowed,) I get to hug a drummer all the time

October 10, 1964 –The Shangri-Las released their operatic hit, Leader of the Pack, on this date. This was written by Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry and producer Shadow Morton. Morton was looking for a follow-up to the first Shangri-Las‘ hit, Remember (Walking in the Sand). He had a motorcycle and was part of a motorcycle gangContinue reading “Is she really going out with him?”

October 10, 1966 – The lumbering epic, based on the eponymous 1959 novel by James A. Michener, Hawaii. directed by George Roy Hill, and starring Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris, Gene Hackman, and Carroll O’Connor debuted on this date. (If you don’t blink, you can see Bette Midler, in her first screen appearanceContinue reading “Hawaii, the film, not the state (or nation) premiered”

October 10, 2000 –The short-lived comedy series The Geena Davis Show, starring Geena Davis (of course), Peter Horton, Mimi Rogers, and Kim Coles, premiered on ABC-TV, on this date. Geena Davis had tried out for archery in the 2000 Olympics but fell short of qualifying for the team, ranking 24th place, which increased her obsessionContinue reading “The Geena Davis show premiered”

October 10, 1985 – … Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash – the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A factContinue reading “How strange the co-incidences in life are”

The celebrations of Cephalopod Awareness Days keep rolling along – Today we celebrate Nautilus Night, highlighting all the lesser-known extant cephalopods – Hopefully the fact that you’ve probably never seen a living nautilus isn’t preventing you from celebrating the holiday.

October 9, 1984 –The popular children’s show Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends begins its run on BBC-TV, featuring a narrator by the name of Ringo Starr on this date. Thomas, Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, Toby, Annie, Clarabel, Henrietta, Bertie, and The Fat Controller (known in the American dubs as “Sir Topham Hatt“) areContinue reading “I bet there’s a lot of little kids out there that know this”

October 9, 1986 –The FOX network debuted Joan Rivers’ new The Late Show on this date. At first, Tribune Entertainment was supposed to hire Nell Carter as a talk show hostess for her own show, when it didn’t work, consequently, the job was given to Joan Rivers, and the show was retooled.