Bob Crespo

TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 1/17/21 – BENJAMIN FRANKLIN DAY!

On January 17th, 2021 / National Days / Leave a comment

It really is all about the Benjamins today, or at least one of them on NATIONAL BENJAMIN FRANKLIN DAY! We know him, we love him, we learned all about him in school, and we covet his portrait on the hundred dollar bill. The oldest Founding Founder was the one with […]

WEEK #208 OF THE TRUMP ERA IN REVIEW, FRIDAY 1/8/21, TO THURSDAY, 1/14/21

On January 16th, 2021 / General Interest, Politics, Trump Week in Review / Comments Off

The penultimate Week #208 of The Trump Era dawned on Friday to a shocked nation, no easy task in a country already stunned and reeling from 4 years of Trump’s toxic and destructive presidency and almost a full year of the deadliest pandemic in a century. Only […]

TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 1/16/21 – WOMEN IN BLUE JEANS DAY!

On January 16th, 2021 / National Days / Leave a comment

Okay, this holiday is mostly for men but, as with most things, could not be possible without women. Today is a special day indeed, fellas, NATIONAL WOMEN IN BLUE JEANS DAY! Sure, today is also Magnetic South Pole Day, the day in 1909 that Shackleton and his […]

TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 1/15/21 – HAT DAY!

On January 15th, 2021 / National Days / Leave a comment

“I’ve felt some good felt hats and felt some bad felt hats, but I’ve never felt a felt hat that felt quite like that felt hat felt.” Words to live by on NATIONAL HAT DAY! Wear ‘em if you got ‘em; Fedoras, Caps, Bonnets, Toques, Sombreros, Homburgs, Ten […]

TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 1/14/21 – MARK ANTONY DAY!

On January 14th, 2021 / National Days / Leave a comment

A bro looks after a bro’s old lady when he gets assassinated and deified, and when that lady is Cleopatra, then maybe a bro looks after a bro’s ex-old lady a little too carefully, making today NATIONAL MARK ANTONY DAY! Julius and Mark went way back, best […]

TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 1/13/21 – STEVEN FOSTER MEMORIAL DAY!

On January 13th, 2021 / National Days / Leave a comment

He wrote the soundtrack for the latter half of the 19th Century. Everyone reading this knows at least a few of his compositions by heart. Before Tin Pan Alley, before the Brill Building, before Bacharach/David and before Holland/Dozier/Holland, there was the Great American Songwriter Steven Foster. Being […]

TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 1/12/21 – CRYOGENICS DAY!

On January 12th, 2021 / National Days / Leave a comment

Maybe you never heard of James Hiram Bedford, but someday you just might. It seems that Jim became the first man to have himself frozen when he died, hoping to get thawed out and cured of what killed him, making today NATIONAL CRYOGENICS DAY! Bedford was no […]

TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 1/11/21 – ALEXANDER HAMILTON DAY!

On January 11th, 2021 / National Days / Leave a comment

He was born January 11, 1755, in Charlestown, capital of the Caribbean Island of Nevis, which remains in British hands to this day. He sought his education in the North American colonies, which do not remain in British hands, thanks to him and his fellow Founders, so […]

TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 1/10/21 – PECULIAR PEOPLE DAY!

On January 10th, 2021 / National Days / Leave a comment

Face it, we’re not rich enough to be called eccentric, or dangerous enough to be madmen, so we settle for celebrating NATIONAL PECULIAR PEOPLE DAY! That’s right, I’m talking to you. You are not only marching to the beat of a different drummer, you’re wearing swim fins with […]

TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 1/9/21 – BALLOON ASCENSION DAY!

On January 9th, 2021 / National Days / Leave a comment

Jean Pierre Blanchard was a household name. In the Blanchard household, anyway. Born in France in 1750, he was the first to fly in the Americas, more than a century before the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, making today NATIONAL BALLOON ASCENSION DAY! On January 9, […]