Does the name Richard Berry ring a bell? No? Well it is his birthday on April 11, 1938 that we celebrate today on INTERNATIONAL LOUIE LOUIE DAY! Me gotta go now! The version most of us remember was the Kingsmen’s smash hit in April of 1963, where Jack Ely’s garbled vocals set off a shitstorm …
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 4/11/23 – INTERNATIONAL LOUIE LOUIE DAY! Read More »
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 the youngest mind. In his long life, Ben …
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 1/17/23 – BENJAMIN FRANKLIN DAY! Read More »
Dear sir or madam won’t you take a look? Dime Novels, they called them. Cheap, mass-produced instant fiction for Everyman, introduced to America in 1860 by publishers Erastus and Irwin Beadle as “Beadle’s Dime Novels,” paperback books became an instant sensation with the public, and before you could say Pluck and Luck Stories of Adventure, …
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/30/22 – PAPERBACK BOOK DAY! Read More »
