This is a song that changed history. Written by a pair of 19 year-old city boys named Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller, it had been Big Mama Thornton’s biggest hit, spending 14 weeks on the R&B charts in 1953, but the world-changing part came in 1956, when a young singer from Tennessee named Elvis Presley […]
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This is not just for chefs and foodies, today is for anyone who cooks, which means all of us on NATIONAL CULINARY DAY! In America, we’re all about the food. Big country, big appetite. Until the 20th Century, most of us made food, before we discovered big cities and jazz. The Industrial Revolution had already
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Who says they don’t get any holidays? Hell, they even have their own logo, just like the crosses, stars and crescents symbolizing other religions. Today our most fervent preachers and avid seekers of converts get their only holiday all year, one that most of them will spend furiously not celebrating, NATIONAL ATHEIST DAY! Steadfast believers in
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Once upon a time there was a lonely little holiday, until one day it came upon a big sign on the side of the road saying, in big red letters; NATIONAL STORYTELLING DAY! Storytelling is the great oral tradition of every human society, dating back before alphabets. Before writing, storytellers were our scholars, and our
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Here’s a holiday to remember. Vaguely, anyway. NATIONAL VODKA DAY! What else says revelry like Pink Martinis? Well, plenty of things do, but this is, after all, Vodka Day. This clear liquid is the most versatile of whiskeys, so let’s mix up a Bloody Mary, Cosmopolitan, Screwdriver, Cape Cod, Sea Breeze, Vodka Sour, White Russian,
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You know them, you don’t especially love them, but you have to deal with them sooner or later, so we might as well celebrate their special day and get it over with. Yes, today is NATIONAL TECHIE DAY! They answer our anguished calls for tech support and give us phony names (what else will they lie about?),
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Finally, a day worth fighting for! It’s Mohandas K. Gandhi’s 156th birthday, and all over the world, people are not kicking ass and taking names on INTERNATIONAL DAY OF NONVIOLENCE! Any idiot can get violent and, as a quick peek at the bloody mess we politely call “history” tells us, they usually do, but it
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Making its debut on October 1, 1908, there were more than 15 million of them made by the time it was replaced by the Model A in 1927, and was the first car built for the masses. The Ford Model T, called “The Tin Lizzie” and honored as The Car Of The 20th Century, claims
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Who can deny that Chinese proverbs demand acquiescence by beginning with “who can deny?” None can deny that no one wrote more Chinese proverbs than Confucius, the reason we celebrate INTERNATIONAL CONFUCIUS DAY! Born Kong Qiu in 551 BC in Zou, the renowned teacher Confucius is known among philosophers as The King of One Liners.
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Some say there are no stupid questions. Those would be stupid people, because there are a lot of stupid questions. Besides, without stupid questions, we couldn’t celebrate NATIONAL ASK A STUPID QUESTION DAY! This is America, dammit, where everybody gets a National Day, and today it’s that guy who asks wet people if it’s raining. Don’t be
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