One day there you are circling the sun as usual, minding your own and keeping your appointed heavenly rounds, proudly bearing the honor of being the outermost planet in the Solar System, and the next day, Boom, you’re a nobody, a glorified asteroid, a planetoid! “Dwarf Planet” at best. Ouch. Let’s rally ’round our old […]
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Years before RCA and the His Master’s Voice dog, there was only Victor, as in Victor Talking Machine Company, which manufactured its first Victrola on this date in 1906, leaving us no option but celebrating NATIONAL VICTROLA DAY! The Victor Talking Machine Company was the baby of Eldridge R. Johnson, a sound recording pioneer and
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Roses are red, concrete is gray, let’s say “forsooth” ’cause it’s NATIONAL POET’S DAY! Shall we gyre and gimbal in the wabe, count the ways we love thee, quoth the raven, or just lose ourselves in one quixotic odyssey after another? Poetry doesn’t care about making sense or obeying your precious grammar laws, and don’t
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bedeepbedeepbedeepbedeep… this just in: It’s NATIONAL RADIO DAY! Drive time news, Top 40 hits, Oldies stations, NPR, Jazz, Classical, Grunge, Alternative, Blues, ballgames or angry guy talk shows, we’re still big radio people, no matter what else they invent. Before television, there was a Golden Age of Radio, with the popular dramas, comedies and variety
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We’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto. Even if you are in Kansas and your name’s not Toto, it’s still NATIONAL WIZARD OF OZ DAY! On August 18, 1939, one of the most iconic movies of all time made its Hollywood premier, “The Wizard of Oz.” We all know the story: “Young Kansas farm girl Dorothy
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Robert Fulton started thinking about powering ships with steam engines when he was a 12 year-old farmboy in Pennsylvania, so August 17, 1807 was a sweet day for him, NATIONAL FULTON’S FOLLY DAY! This was the day his North River Steamboat took its maiden voyage on the Hudson River, two weeks before beginning regular 36
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Hey, ho, let’s go! You knew them, you loved them, you miss them, and you know damned well that Sheena is a Punk Rocker. Let’s rock NATIONAL RAMONES DAY! On this date in 1974, The Ramones played their first show at the legendary nightclub CBGB’s on The Bowery in lower Manhattan. Jeff Hyman, John Cummings,
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Here’s an underwhelming holiday for the Dog Days: NATIONAL RELAXATION DAY! It’s the Ides of August, and Summer is starting to get on our nerves big time. Blank stares and lethargic gestures are all we can manage before sundown, and we’re subsisting on takeout slop, Cheetos and Dr. Pepper. Remember those ambitious plans we made
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