There is a baseball team in Boston, Massachusetts called The Red Sox that won 5 of the first 18 World Series ever played and were poised to dominate the 1920s with the emergence of the best athlete ever to play the game, a charismatic delinquent from Baltimore […]
Read more →You’ve felt the visceral compulsion many times, like Lon Chaney with an itchy beard. When the night is clear and the moon is full, filling the night sky with its translucent glow, it touches the core of your soul. Which brings us to NATIONAL HOWL AT THE MOON […]
Read more →You just know Sheena is down with this one, and not just for one day. Like Joey Ramone said, Sheena is a punk rocker. But for us wannabes, today is NATIONAL PUNK FOR A DAY DAY! Why just for one day? Seems like an awful lot of […]
Read more →There was Johnny Carson and there was everyone else. He took over the Tonight Show when the very popular Jack Paar unexpectedly retired in 1962, a semi-obscure WW2 Navy Ensign, comedian, magician and game show host from Nebraska. It seemed to many an odd choice for NBC’s successful late night […]
Read more →We’re all aware of them, and frankly, they freak some of us out, especially those of the slimy, scaly and limbless variety, whose name need not be invoked. Be that as it may, we’ll just have to suck it up and celebrate NATIONAL REPTILE AWARENESS DAY! Notice […]
Read more →It is said he was the best natural athlete ever to play the game, and the fastest ever running from home to first base. In spite of suffering from osteomyelitis and a series of crippling leg injuries and chronic conditions that required his legs to be wrapped […]
Read more →Well, this one is mainly celebrated by bungee jumpers in West Virginia, where they still marvel at the innovation of steel bridges, but today it goes mainstream on NATIONAL BRIDGE DAY! There are an estimated 600,000 bridges in the United States, one for every 550 people, crossing […]
Read more →It’s the old squeeze play today, when we celebrate breast health, and there’s no better way to ensure breast health than NATIONAL MAMMOGRAPHY DAY! You’ve all been there, ladies, with those ice cold metal plates getting tightened just a little more, so the machines can check every square inch […]
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