Anti-Hipster Interseption Program (Anti-HIP)

The Burns Administration will put a zero-tolerance anti-hipster policy at the center of its agenda. Charles Montgomery Burns understands that New Yorkers live under constant intimidation from this public nuisance. Hipsters threaten the cultural fabric of our great city with indiscriminate cynicism and irony. They are apathetic and use their bottomless trust funds to drive up rent for real New Yorkers.


Monty Burns says No More! With a multi-pronged approach his administration will put an end to this public menace.



Identifying hipsterism as a quality of life crime, the New York Police Department will finally have the means to protect ordinary New Yorkers from these undesirables. Only through a surge of force can we eradicate the poison of our society.

The proposed state-of-the-art Williamsburg Nuclear Power Plant is strategically planned for the epicenter of the hipster infestation and promises to eject them from this neighborhood once thought abandoned forever.

Monty Burns will change the sullied image of New York from a hipster haven to a place of law and order in order to invite outside investment, keep rents affordable for real New Yorkers and usher in a new era of stylistic accountability.

Vote C. Montgomery Burns for mayor of New York City. Help Mr. Burns rid the city of hipsters, because they hate you.


Today's Word: STURIONIC: Adjective, pertaining to the sturgeon. Mort had feasted on some much sturionic treats that he had begun smelling like a sturgeon.

October 7, 1950 -
First appearance of Granny in a Looney Tunes Cartoon, Canary Row premiered on this date.



Drink Friz! 6 Delicious Flavours.


October 7, 1960 -
Ok kids, Kirk Douglas dons his leather jockstrap for Spartacus which had it's US premiere on this date.



During the arduous, long shoot, Tony Curtis allegedly asked Jean Simmons, "Who do I have to screw to get off this film?" Some versions of the interaction include Simmons shouting back, "When you find out, let me know."



"I am Spartacus!"


October 7, 2972 -
William Friedkin's taut policier, The French Connection, opened in NYC on this date.



The real-life detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso, on whom the characters of Doyle and Russo are based, appear in the movie as the detectives' supervisors.


Today in History:
October 7, 1849 -
On this date, Edgar Allen Poe was found in a delirious state (Maryland) outside a Baltimore voting place (saloon).


Mr. Poe was often found delirious, especially outside voting places,



but this time his delirium was serious and he died.


October 7, 1952-
American Bandstand premieres on this date.


It premiered locally as a live show, Bandstand, on Philadelphia television station WFIL-TV (Channel 6, now WPVI-TV) on this date in "Studio 'B'", which was located in their just-completed addition to the original 1947 building (4548 Market Street) and was hosted by Bob Horn, with Lee Stewart as co-host. Dick Clark did not become associated with the show until 1956.


October 7, 1855 -
It was on this day in San Francisco at the Six Gallery, the poet Allen Ginsberg read his poem "Howl" for the first time.


The poem begins, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness." His friend Jack Kerouac sat on the edge of the stage and when Ginsberg was done, the audience exploded in applause.



When Lawrence Ferlinghetti published the poem "Howl" out of his City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, he was arrested and tried for obscenity, but he was found not guilty.


October 7, 1952 -
It's Vladimir Putin's birthday.



Do you think that he looks out his bathroom window looking for Sarah Palin?


October 7, 1960
"Route 66" premiered on this date.



The series is best remembered for its iconic Corvette convertible and its instrumental theme song, which became a major pop hit.


October 7, 1964 -
Walter W. Jenkins, chief White House aide and longtime friend of President Lyndon B. Johnson, is arrested for disorderly conduct two blocks from the White House. Jenkins was discovered in a YMCA pay toilet with another man.


Ultimately, Jenkins is forced to resign, so as not to jeopardize Johnson's re-election campaign. Jenkins stated that during his arrest, his mind had been "befuddled by fatigue, alcohol, physical illness, and lack of food."

Yeah, that's it, befuddled by fatigue... Nothing is new under the sun, or in a men's public restroom.



And so it goes

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!

The Save the Words site seems to be back up.

So, today's word is Aquabib:
noun, water drinker. Hello my name is Joe - aquabib by day, tobacco chawer by night.

The Four Borough Economic Recovery Plan

Charles Montgomery Burns proposes a simple and effective plan to turn New York's current deficit into a hefty surplus.

New Yorkers dont usually see eye to eye but if there is one thing the residents of Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx can agree on is that they can do without Staten Island.

Real New Yorkers know that Staten Island is the dead weight of the city, more akin to New Jersey than to the Empire State.


It takes the great vision of Charles Montgomery Burns to turn this self evident truth into hard cash for real New Yorkers. Staten Island has been appraised at over $10 billion.

That's enough to plug up the current budget deficit, with plenty left to spend on schools, affordable housing, and construction of the proposed state-of the-art Wlliamsburg Nuclear Power Plant.



Burns. There to fix our problems.


Today is Armed Forces Day in Egypt and Ivy Day in Ireland. (Ivy Day is not a horticultural celebration. The date marks the anniversary of the 1891 death of Irish nationalist Charles Stewart Parnell;


Irish favoring home rule traditionally pin a bit of ivy to their lapels in his honor. Ivy Day should not be confused with I.V. Day,


celebrated only by drips.)


Here's your Today in History -

October 6, 1014 -
Czar Samuil of Bulgaria dies of a heart attach after an army of 15,000 of his men is returned, blinded by his enemy Emperor Basil of the Byzantine Empire. One out of every hundred of his men was permitted to keep one eye, such that they were able to return home.


For this victory Basil earned the title Bulgaroctonus, slayer of Bulgars. I guess we shouldn't complain.


October 6 is the anniversary of one of the greatest moments in the history of literary criticism. It was on that date in 1536 that William Tyndale was recognized for his important contribution to world literature—the first translation of the New Testament into English—by being tied to the stake, strangled, and his dead body then burnt.



Ah, when men were men, women were women, and critics were murderous, torch-wielding fanatics!


October 6, 1976 -
During a televised debate, President and candidate Gerald Ford asserts that there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.



Ford loses the election. (I wonder if He and Dan Quayle ever had lunch.)


October 6, 1927 -
Good, bad or indifferent to it, The Jazz Singer (the first feature-length movie with audible dialogue), premiered in NYC on this date (you know Monty Burns was there.)



The movie's line "Wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet!" was voted as the #57 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007.


October 6, 1963 -
The wonderful adaption of the classic 18th Century novel, Tom Jones premieres in NYC on this date.



It's interesting to note that three of the films actresses, Edith Evans, Diane Cilento & Joyce Redman were nominated for Best Supporting Actress for the film. Margaret Rutherford won the award for her performance in the film The V.I.P.s.


October 6, 1981 -
During a commemoration of the Yom Kippur War, armed gunmen leap from a truck and begin shooting into the reviewing stand at Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.



Along with Sadat, the assassins kill eight others.


And so it goes.

Williamsburg Nuclear Power Plant

Everyone is talking about Green Energy these days. Will solar power satisfy our city's energy needs? Will wind? What about hydroelectric or geothermal? New York needs a bright new future and nothing shines brighter than nuclear energy!



Charles Montgomery Burns has decades of experience in safe, reliable and reusable fission technology. New York City needs the dedicated vision of a leader who can steer us to energy independence.


A Burns Administration will prioritize the construction of the state-of-the-art Williamsburg Nuclear Power Plant With a 400 MWe capacity, the medium-sized reactor will be able to provide New York City with 90% of our energy needs, saving New Yorkers up to 30% on their energy bills.

Burns. For a brighter New York future!


Today in History -
On October 5, 1877, Chief Joseph, exhausted and disheartened, surrendered in the Bears Paw Mountains of Montana, forty miles south of Canada ending the Nez Percé war. Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain was born in 1840 in the Wallowa Valley of what is now northeastern Oregon. He took the name of his father, (Old) Chief Joseph, or Joseph the Elder. When his father died in 1871, Joseph, or Joseph the Younger, was elected his father's successor. He continued his father's efforts to secure the Nez Percé claim to their land while remaining peaceful towards the whites.


" I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed; Looking-glass is dead. Too-hul-hul-suit is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men, now, who say ’yes’ or ’no’[that is, vote in council]. He who led on the young men [Joseph’s brother, Ollicut] is dead. It is cold, and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people--some of them--have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are---perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children, and see how many of them I can find;maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever!"


Ray Kroc was born on October 5, 1902.


Mr Kroc invented McDonalds, which caused the collapse of the Soviet Union and made us all fat, allowing us to sue them, which will therefore someday make us all rich.


The huge, hulking, biblical spectacular, The Ten Commandments (the last film directed by the master showman, Cecil B Demille) opened on this date.



According to Hollywood lore, while filming the orgy sequence which precedes Moses' descent from Mount Horab with the Commandments, Cecil B. DeMille was perched on top of a ladder delivering his customarily long-winded directions. After droning on to the extras for several minutes, DeMille was distracted by one young woman who was persistently talking to the woman standing next to her. DeMille stopped his speech and addressed everyone's attention to the young woman. "Here," DeMille said, "We have a young woman whose conversation with her friend is apparently more important than listening to her instructions from her director while we are all engaged in making motion picture history. Perhaps the young woman would care to enlighten us all, and tell us what the devil is so important that it cannot wait until after we make this shot." After a moment of awkward silence, the young woman spoke up and boldly confessed, "I was just saying to my friend, 'I wonder when that bald-headed old fart is gonna call 'Lunch!'" DeMille stared at the woman for a moment, paused, then lifted his megaphone and shouted, "Lunch!"



Where's your Moses, now!


October 5, 1969 -
'Monty Python's Flying Circus' made its debut on BBC-TV.



Some of the names the BBC had rejected for the group before begrudging settling on Monty Python included "Whither Canada?" (the title of the first episode), "Ow! It's Colin Plint", "A Horse, a Spoon and a Bucket", "The Toad Elevating Moment" and "Owl Stretching Time".


October 5, 1969 -
PBS becomes a network.



Unlike the model of America's commercial television networks, in which affiliates give up portions of their local advertising airtime in exchange for network programming, PBS member stations pay substantial fees for the shows acquired and distributed by the national organization.


October 5, 1989 -
Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso), was named the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for nonviolent efforts to free his homeland from China.


The Committee’s citation read, “The Committee wants to emphasize the fact that the Dalai Lama in his struggle for the liberation of Tibet consistently has opposed the use of violence. He has instead advocated peaceful solutions based upon tolerance and mutual respect in order to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of his people.”

Oh great, here goes my chance of being read in China.


And so it goes.

Monty Burns is our man

More from Burnsformayor.com



Give an older plutocrat a chance.


October 4, 1957 -
Leave It To Beaver premiered on CBS-TV on this date.



Once again, another show from the 50's where the lead actor was a raging alcoholic.


Today in History -
October 4, 1822-
Rutherford Hayes was born on this date , in Delaware, Ohio.


That's not especially interesting in itself. Presidents, after all, must be born somewhere - and President Hayes was not the only one to have chosen Ohio. But consider: Jimmy Carter was born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, and Chester Arthur was born on October 5, 1830, in Fairfield, Vermont. That's three presidential birthdays in a four-day period, a glut of presidential timber not to be found anywhere else on the calendar. Hayes came into office by one electoral vote, accomplished nothing, and did not run for a second term.


Arthur came into office as James Garfield's vice-president and was promoted eight months later, upon Garfield's assassination. He accomplished nothing, and wasn't even nominated for a second term (although he does look a lot like Captain Kangaroo.)


Through no fault of his own, Carter was elected president in 1976 (and must therefore bear his share of responsibility for my own difficult misspent youth). He sought but was denied a second term.

Significance? Zero.


October 4, 1957 -
Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite, was launched on this date, beginning the "space race."


The satellite, built by Valentin Glushko, weighed 184 pounds and was launched by a converted Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). Sputnik orbited the earth every 96 minutes at a maximum height of 584 miles.



In 1958, it reentered the earth's atmosphere and burned up


October 4, 1969 -
A despondent Diane Linkletter jumps out the kitchen window of her tenth-story apartment in West Hollywood, California. Even before an autopsy can be performed, television personality Art Linkletter blames his daughter's death on a bad LSD trip. Even though the toxicology report disputes Art's assertion, the LSD story persists.


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If you have never seen the "Diane Linkletter Story" starring Divine, watch it now.


October 4, 1970 -
Janis Joplin accidentally overdoses on an unusually-pure dose of heroin at the Landmark Motor Hotel in Los Angeles.





October 4, 1976 -
Earl Butz, President Ford's Secretary of Agriculture, is forced to resign after newspapers print a comment he made regarding race relations


(and I will paraphrase for those with weak constitutions) : "I'll tell you what the coloreds want. It's three things: first, a tight female reproductive organ; second, loose shoes; and third, a warm place to go to the bathroom."


October 4, 1986 -
Network news anchorman Dan Rather is mugged in New York City. The attacker, one William Tager, shouts the question "What's the frequency, Kenneth?" during the beating.



While the "frequency" refers to the wavelength of the transmissions that CBS was beaming into Tager's head, history is still unclear on exactly who "Kenneth" is or why R.E.M. would record a song about it. It is rumored that the attack occurred because of Rather's uncanny resemblance to underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger.


October 4, 1989 -
Secretariat, 1973 triple crown winner and one of the greatest athletes of all time, is euthanized in Paris, Kentucky. He was 19.


Not surprisingly, horse appeared on the menu of several Parisian Bistros that night.


And so it goes.

C Montgomery Burns for Mayor

Want to see Staten Island sold to Jersey? A new nuclear power plant in Williamsburg? A "Final Solution" to the hipster infestation?


This is change we can believe in.



If you have to vote for a bachelor Billionaire, at least vote for the one over 104 years old and who possible ate the last dodo bird.


October 3, 1941 -
John Huston's first directorial effort, The Maltese Falcon, premiered in NYC on this date.



Dashell Hammitt's novel had already been filmed twice before but the third time seems to have been the charm.


October 3, 1953 -
The final installment of the "Hunting Trilogy", Duck! Rabbit, Duck!, premiered on this date.



It's fiddler crab season!


Today in History:
October 3, 1283 -
Dafydd ap Gruffudd was having a bad day. Besides having an unpronounceable name, he had gotten on the wrong side of King Edward I of England, for wanting to gain Welsh independence. On 30 September Dafydd ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales, was condemned to death, the first person known to have been tried and executed for what from this time onwards would be described as high treason against the King. Edward ensured that Dafydd's death was to be slow and agonizing, and also historic; he became the first person in recorded history to have been hanged, drawn and quartered.


Dafydd was dragged through the streets of Shrewsbury at a horse's tail then hanged alive, revived, then disemboweled and his entrails burned before him for 'his sacrilege in committing his crimes in the week of Christ's passion,' and then his body cut into four quarters 'for plotting the king's death'.

Apparently, Edward was quite pissed off.


October 3, 1899 -
Lonely bachelors and housewives everywhere rejoiced,


the motor-driven vacuum cleaner was patented.


October 3, 1955 -
Hey kids, remember Captain Kangaroo. Well he premiered on this date.



And no, Frank Zappa was not Mr. Green Jeans son.


October 3, 1955 -

Original Mickey Mouse Club Intro with Commercial!
Uploaded by tvnut.

If today wasn't special enough, The Mickey Mouse Club also premiered on this date. And just think of all the special people this program has brought the world.




October 3, 1960 -
Let grab down our fishin' poles and head down to the fishin' hole.



The Andy Griffith show premiered on this date.


October 3, 1961 -
The Dick Van Dyke Show premiered on this date. The show wasn't an immediate success but became a hit.



This was one of the first shows revolving around the goings-on at a TV series.


On October 3, 1990, East and West Germany were officially reunited. The reunification of this once great nation was recognized as a clear sign that the Cold War was coming to an end, and was therefore celebrated not only in Germany, but throughout the world



- excepting certain corridors of France, Poland, and the Czech Republic, where the exuberance was strangely muted.


On October 3, 1992, Sinead O'Connor was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live. At the end of her a capella performance of the Bob Marley song War, Sinead produced a copy of a photograph of Pope John Paul II, which she ripped into pieces.


She was attempting to boost her standing with other bald headed, pope hating Irish singers.


And so it goes.

Who knew Dave was a playa?

I've been reading some of the comments about this situation on some sites and the hatred and vitriol just blow my mind. Other than Regina Lasko, this really shouldn't make anyone break stride.



If he is in the doghouse, maybe President Clinton will let him sleep on his couch.


And yet another "Pre Made Trailer" with Jimmy Stewart



The Save our words site seems to have gone down - I'm investigating.

Here's your Today in History:
Three of the past century's finest comedians were born on October 2: Groucho Marx (1890),



Bud Abbot (1895),



and Mahatma Gandhi (1869).



Groucho and Abbot were funny enough, but they pale beside the towering comic greatness of Gandhi. "Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind," he once quipped: "It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man."

That a humorist capable of such scathing sarcastic wit should have sullied himself with politics is regrettable, but not much worse than Jesus having gotten into religion.

It should also be remembered that for most of Gandhi's life the Indian subcontinent was occupied by the British, and that for the first few formative decades of his existence the British were ruled by a queen who was famously unamused. Gandhi went to extraordinary lengths to amuse Queen Victoria. It was only decades after her death that his genius came to full flower, however, and one can only hope she was amused posthumously.

(Eventually the British realized they didn't get Gandhi's jokes and withdrew from India to develop Monty Python.)


October 2, 1950 -
The comic strip Peanuts, created by Charles Schulz, debuted in nine newspapers with the characters of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Patty and Sherman. It is now the most-read comic strip in the world.


And yet, Charlie still hasn't kicked that damn football.


October 2, 1967 -
Shocking news - Narcs raid the Haight-Ashbury residence of the Grateful Dead, busting all six bandmates for possession of marijuana and hashish.



What - members of a rock band had drugs in their possession!!!


October 2, 1955 -
"Revenge", the very first story on the Alfred Hitchcock Presents show premieres on this date.



Hitchcock directed this story about a man taking the law into his own hands when his mentally unstable wife claims she has been attacked by a mysterious man in a gray suit.


October 2, 1959 -
"Where is Everybody?" the first episode of the anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on this date.




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...This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area that might be called The Twilight Zone


And so it goes

It's Winterfylleth again.

October is the tenth month of the year and its name is therefore derived from octo, the Latin word for eight (as Nadya Suleman well knows.) October is often preceded by September and sometimes followed by November.

There are 31 days in October, many of which are Wednesdays. (Wednesday is the fourth day of the week and its name is therefore derived from wednes, the Latin word for hump.)

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, National Car Care Month, National Helmet Safety Month, National Energy Awareness Month, National Stamp Collecting Month, National Roller Skating Month, and National Rodent Prevention Month. It also International Dinosaur Month.

As a result of U.N. resolutions passed two years ago, October is no longer Soiled Linens Month (September) or International Smegma Appreciation Month (February).



There are thirty shopping days left until Halloween.


Here's another one of those 'Pre Made Trailers'. Enjoy






Today in History -
October 1, 1847 -
Maria Mitchell, a distant relative of Benjamin Franklin, using a telescope, discovered "Miss Mitchell's Comet" (Comet 1847 VI, modern designation is C/1847 T1) on this date. Some years previously, King Frederick VI of Denmark had established gold medal prizes to each discoverer of a "telescopic comet" (too faint to be seen with the naked eye). The prize was to be awarded to the "first discoverer" of each such comet (note that comets are often independently discovered by more than one person). She duly won one of these prizes, and this gave her worldwide fame, since the only previous woman to discover a comet had been Caroline Herschel. She was also asked by her Nantucket neighbors to stop peeking into their bedrooms at night.


There was a temporary question of priority because Francesco de Vico had independently discovered the same comet two days later, but had reported it first; however, this was resolved in Mitchell's favor. The prize was awarded in 1848 by the new king Frederick VII.


She was the first professional woman astronomer in the United States, noted for her discovery that sunspots are whirling vertical cavities and not, as previously thought, clouds.


October 1, 1890 -
The Yosemite National Park and the Yellowstone National Park are established by the U.S. Congress.



Picnic baskets have never been safe since then.


October 1, 1903 -

The Boston Americans (the Red Soxes) beat the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.


October 1, 1908 -
Rabid Anti-semite and American Isolationist Henry Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of $825.


Ford sold over 10,000 cars in the first year of production.


October 1, 1920 -
Walter John Matthau, award-winning actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with fellow Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon, was born on this date.




October 1, 1935 -
Julie Andrews, award-winning English actress, singer an author, was born on this date.



October 1, 1949 -
The People's Republic of China was formed with Mao Zedong as its head with its capital at Beiping (Peiping), which was renamed Beijing (Peking).





I will make no other comment other than Happy National Day. I would prefer not to piss off a large segment of the world at the moment.


October 1, 1955 -

The Honeymooners half hour episodes premiere.



Come on, admit it, if you are of a certain age, you can remember coming home at night drunk (or stoned) and turning on WPIX and watching The Honeymooners to chill out.


October 1, 1962 -
Johnny Carson hosts his first Tonight Show with Joan Crawford as his guest. On his first show, Carson was introduced by Groucho Marx; Johnny's first words, reacting to applause as he walked onstage for the first time: "Boy, you would think it was Vice President Nixon."

Although no footage is known to remain of Carson's first broadcast as host of The Tonight Show on 1 October 1962, photographs taken that night do survive, as does an audio recording of Carson's first monologue. One of his first jokes upon starting the show was to pretend to panic and say, "I want my Na-Na!"


October 1,1968 -
'Night of the Living Dead' premieres in Pittsburgh on this date.



Horror movies are never the same again.


October 1,1971 -
Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens on this date.



Epicot Center opens on this date in 1982.



Once again, Disney, the Happiest Place on Earth - Pedophiles all over the East Coast celebrate.


And so it goes

Also - on a personal note, Happy Anniversary Cara and Matt.

Here's a TV show I could get behind.

The only story I'm going to be interested in concerning Kate and Jon is when TLC broadcasts Plus Eight hack their self absorbed parents to death LIVE on TV.


I read about the series of these 'Pre Made trailers' - they're very clever.



I'll post another one tomorrow.

Here's another laugh for your morning




Today in History:
September 30, 1452 -
It's the anniversary of the printing of the Gutenberg Bible in Mainz, Germany on this date. It was the first book ever printed with movable type. What made Gutenberg's invention revolutionary was not that it allowed you to print letters on paper, but that you could print an infinite number of different pages from a small number of letter blocks simply by rearranging them.


The first section of the Bible came out on this day. He printed 180 copies on expensive Italian paper. It was designed to be used for public reading in the dining halls of monasteries. But within three decades there were print shops all over Europe, and Gutenberg's invention launched a revolution in education.

Today about four dozen copies of the Gutenberg Bible survive. One of the most recent copies to come on the market was auctioned in New York in 1987 and sold for more than $5 million.


September 30, 1630 -
Pilgrim John Billington, who arrived on the Mayflower, is hanged at Plymouth for killing John Newcomen with a musket. Billington is the first Englishman executed in New England.


September 30, 1927 -
Babe Ruth hit his 60th home run of the season,on this day.



(Mark McGwire was born on October 1, 1963, however, so this no longer matters. Although, the Bambino was only hopped up on booze.)


September 30, 1938 -
The Germans occupied the Sudetenland in late summer of 1938. This enraged the British and the English, who both feared for the loss of the Sudetenland's celebrated pea crops.


British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flew to Germany to meet Hitler at Bertesgaden to discuss the situation, on this date.



Hitler assured him that there would be plenty of peas to go around, and Chamberlain returned to England with the famous proclamation of Peas in Our Time. World War II was therefore avoided and did not break out until some time later.


September 30, 1955 -
Teen idol James Dean was killed in a car accident that probably could have been avoided if he had had his car inspected and tuned up regularly, obeyed all posted highway signs, and driven only when alert and sober



(Remember kids, if you are going to drink til you drop, drop where you drink), on this date.



On the other hand, if he had survived, today James Dean would probably be tottering aimlessly around celebrity golf tournaments, pimping life insurance or antacids, and writing tell-all memoirs.



September 30, 1960 -
The first prime-time animated series aimed at adults, The Flintstones, premiered on ABC-TV on this date.



The Flintstones was the first American animated show to depict two people of the opposite sex sleeping together in one bed. You can no longer even mention in polite society, the cartoon from the 50's that showed two characters of the same sex sharing a bed (vegetable shortening, farm animals and marital aids were involved.)


September 30, 1982 -
Cheers, the comedy television series that ran eleven seasons from 1982 to 1993, premiered on this date. It was produced by Charles-Burrows-Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television for NBC, having been created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles. It was nearly canceled during its first season when it ranked dead last in ratings.



However, Cheers eventually became a highly rated television show in the United States, earning a top-ten rating during eight of its eleven seasons, including one season at #1, and spending the bulk of its run on NBC's "Must See Thursday" lineup.



And so it goes.

This gave me a laugh this morning

Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking getting down



Never let it be said that death got in the way, their album will be coming out soon : )


Today's word of the day - Medioxumate: adjective, of gods of intermediate rank between those of heaven and of hell. Todd never aimed high. He even prayed to a medioxumate deity - Corzu, god of untenured professors.


Today in History -
September 29, 1399 -
Richard II was deposed, on this date,which only served him right for having posed in the first place. He was succeeded by Henry IV part I.



So, for God's sake, let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings...


September 29, 1513 -
Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean, on this date.


How something that covers roughly a third of the earth's surface could have been lost for so long is a question that stumps historians to this day.


It's Miguel de Cervantes's birthday. Born in 1547, Cervantes is best known as the author of Don Quixote, a cunning satire on mental illness. The work is an epic treatment of the perennial question, "wouldn't the world be better off if we were all crazy?"


The answer from the novel is a qualified yes: the story supports the premise, but its length and lucidity suggest that the author himself was not crazy, which contradicts the premise.

Ever since the publication of Don Quixote, the idea of improving through world through mental illness has taken root in the popular culture of the west. From the good soldier Svjek and Prince Myshkin to Chauncy Gardener, Elwood P. Dowd, and Forrest Gump, western readers and filmgoers have a galaxy of benevolent lunatics to show them the way to a better, purer existence. Grand mal seizures, delirium tremens, and hallucinations are merely the price of admission to their wistful world of blissful ignorance.



The sane and hard-working do not come off nearly so well in film or literature. In fact, sane and hard-working people seldom even appear in film or literature. No one wants to read about them, or spend good money to watch them go about their plodding lives, because most of us are surrounded by sane and hard-working people already and know what they're like—they're just like us, only less so.



Early to bed and early to rise may make a man healthy, and wealthy, and wise, but it won't do a goddam thing for his Nielsens. In fact, if you're healthy, wealthy, wise, and well-rested, you're only going to piss the rest of us off. Lighten up, slack off, drink up, and spend plenty of quality time with imaginary friends.

Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy
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That's the real road to happiness—or at least our acceptance, without which you have no right to be happy.


September 29, 1955 -
The only film Charles Laughton directed, The Night of the Hunter opened in New York City on this date.



Charles Laughton had no great love for children and so despised directing them in this film that Robert Mitchum found himself directing the children in several scenes.


September 29, 1957 -
An explosion at the Chelyabinsk-40 complex, a Soviet nuclear fuel processing plant, irradiates the nearby city of Kyshtym with strontium-90, cesium-137, and plutonium.


This accident releases twice the radioactivity of the Chernobyl incident.


September 29, 1976 -
At his birthday party, musician Jerry Lee Lewis accidentally shoots his bass player Norman Owens twice in the chest, trying to open a soft drink bottle with a .357 magnum. Owens survives and files a lawsuit.



Now don't you wish you were at that party !!!


September 29, 1989 -
Zsa Zsa Gabor, a person famous for no apparent reason and with no visible means of support (It's too weird to think that Zsa Zsa was once Paris Hilton's step-grandmother), is convicted of slapping a Beverly Hills police officer.



Gabor later complains that she was denied a jury of her peers, saying "It was not my class of people, There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor."



And so it goes.

Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?

I know you've seen this clip over and over again, literally but it's gotten me to think - does Mr. Delay have no loved ones? Was there no one to beg him not to do this or it would force them to take the gas pipe?



Or perhaps this was a complicated plea deal with the government to inflict the maximum amount of humiliation upon him allowing his to escape jail time?


Today's word of the day is Deartuate: verb, to dismember. Vito could not pay his vig. The Scungelli brothers deartuated his body and then disposed of body parts at various animal crematoriums around Greater Philadelphia.


Today in History -
British history began on September 28, 1066, with the Norman invasion of England. The Normans were a group of Franks who'd grown weary of being so Frank. Their decision to become Normans cost them their Frankness, so they joined together and invaded England under the leadership of William (or, in Norman, "Norman") the Conqueror.



Prior to this invasion, Britain had been occupied mostly by Angles, Saxons, and large stones, who had never properly appreciated cricket, fog, or Kipling and had therefore been unable to invent England. William (Norman) the Conqueror realized that, if it was ever going to amount to anything, what England really needed was a Great King, preferably someone very much like himself.

Appropriate arrangements were made.


September 28, 1850 -
The United States Navy abolishes the practice of flogging. Among the crimes for which this was the penalty are: stealing poultry from the coop (12 lashes), being lousy (6), stealing a wig (12), and being naked on the spar deck (9).



This reform is perhaps the signature moment in Millard Filmore's presidency.


It's the birthday of Ed Sullivan, born in New York City (1902). He was writing a gossip column for the New York Daily News called "Little Old New York," moonlighting now and then as a master of ceremonies at variety shows and benefits. He was emceeing a dance contest when somebody asked him if he'd like to try hosting a show on this new thing called television.



The Ed Sullivan Show premiered live on CBS in 1948, and within a few years about 50 million people watched it every Sunday night. It was like vaudeville. It had opera singers, ventriloquists and magicians and pandas on roller skates and big stars. Ed Sullivan said, "Open big, have a good comedy act, put in something for children, and keep the show clean."



He was a shy, awkward man, but he loved performers. He personally chose every guest for his show. He was one of the first hosts to invite black performers, including Jackie Robinson, Duke Ellington, Richard Pryor, and James Brown.



Ed Sullivan: the last television host who tried to appeal to everyone in America.


September 28, 1920 -
A Cook County grand jury indicts the Black Sox 8 -- the White Sox players paid to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds.


Even though they are found not guilty, Commissioner Landis bans them all from professional baseball for life.


September 28, 1978 -
A nun at the Vatican discovers the lifeless body of Pope John Paul I, formerly Albino Luciani, in bed. The pontiff had been on the job only 33 days before unexpectedly dying in his sleep, after having taken some sort of pills with dinner.


The church refuses to grant an autopsy.

See Godfather III for further explanations.


September 28, 1989 -
Former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos dies in Waikiki, Hawaii, after three years in exile. He was in ill health, and awaiting US charges on looting funds from his country.


His wife keeps the cadaver in a refrigerated coffin for years.



And so it goes

Seriously,

Don’t trust anyone you meet online.


Educate your child about Cthulhu today.

Today's word is Vacivity: noun, emptiness. The vacivity of Glenn Beck's skull is impression. Small children could crawl in and take a cozy nap in his head.

September 27, 1975 -
The documentary film by Albert and David Maysles, Grey Gardens, premiered in the New York Film Festival on this date.



You'll never think about that old lady apartment smell the same way after seeing this movie.


Today in History:
September 27, 1951 -
Marvin Lee Aday, singer songwriter was born on this date.







Today is the 104 year anniversary of the publication of Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=MC2.



Before this E equaled just about anything you wanted it to equal. Just think what the atomic bomb would have been like if E = banana peels or dog turds.


September 27, 1854 -
The wooden steamship Arctic sinks in foggy weather after colliding with the iron bow of the Vesta. When Captain Luce orders women and children into the lifeboats, the crewmen rebel and take the boats for themselves.


Of 435 on board, only 85 survive -- and none of them women or children. It is the first major ocean liner disaster in the Atlantic. The "Artic" disaster shattered high Victorian notions of how men were supposed to respond under duress.


September 27, 1972 -
Gwyneth Paltrow, actress and enema enthusiast was born on this date.



Huzzah!


September 27, 1954 -
The nationwide debut of Tonight! (The Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.



Bedtime was never the same.



September 27, 1959 -
Typhoon Vera, otherwise known as the Isewan Typhoon, kills 4,464 people on the Japanese island of Honshu and injures 40,000 more. 1.5 million are made homeless.

September 27, 1964 -

The Warren Commission issued its final report,


concluding that president Kennedy had been assassinated and was probably dead.


And so it goes.

What I've learned.

I guess I watch too much TV and read too many newspaper (and surf the web way too much.)

So far I've learned:

How to make crack cocaine.
How to correctly ventilate my home meth lab
How to make a trigger for a Thermo-nuclear device (don't ask, I'm in enough trouble at home over this.)
How to make backpack bombs (thanks to the New York Post yesterday.)

It has been suggested (screamed at me) that I could better spend my time finding out how to get a higher paying job.

Today's word is Molrowing: noun, carousing with prostitutes. Let's see if we can combined the words we have saved so far -

Gov. Spitzer decided to visit a local oporopolist while in Washington DC to supplement his intake of natural Vitamin C. While on his way there, he remembered he had an assignation with Ashley Dupré for a bit of molrowing with involved the lambitions of her thighs, which, of course, was an extra charge.


Today in History
September 26, 1895 -
George Raft was an American film actor who was most closely identified with his portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s, was born on this date. George may have achieved an unenviable place in Hollywood folklore as the actor who turned down some of the best roles in screen history, most notably High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca and Double Indemnity.



What a dummy.


September 26, 1580 -
Francis Drake returned to Plymouth, England, ending a three-and-a-half year journey around the world,on this date.


It was nearly four more centuries, however, before "The Beverly Hillbillies" premiered on CBS (on this day in 1962).



The lengthy lapse between these watershed events has never been explained.


September 26, 1687 -
Troops laying siege to Athens led by Venetian general Francesco Morosini rain cannon fire down on the Acropolis and the Turkish soldiers garrisoned inside. One cannonball penetrates the Parthenon, which happened to serve as the Turks' gunpowder magazine.



The roof, walls, and 16 columns are blown off by the resulting explosion.

Oops, sh*t happens.


September 26, 1937 -
The Empress of the Blues, Bessie Smith, sustains grave injuries in a traffic accident on US Highway 61. She is taken to a colored hospital in Clarksdale, Mississippi and her arm amputated. Smith dies later that day from blood loss.



According to legend, Bessie had been refused treatment by a closer, whites-only hospital.


September 26, 1960 -
Kennedy and Nixon face off in the first televised presidential debate. Nixon had been recuperating from illness yet refused to wear makeup for the camera, looking haggard and gray.



Radio viewers gave positive opinions for Nixon's performance but so many people saw the debate televised that Kennedy gained the lead in the polls, ultimately winning the election.

Remember what I said about Checkers, his kids' dog.


September 26, 1969 -
Beatles release the Abbey Road album in London, on this date.





Though work on Abbey Road began in April 1969, making it the final album recorded by the band, Let It Be was the last album released before the Beatles' dissolution in 1970.


September 26, 1969 -
An unsuspecting American public is forced to deal with the vaguely incestuous family comedy series 'The Brady Bunch' which premiered on ABC-TV on this date.





I don't even want to talk about the relationship between Alice, Sam the butcher and Tiger.



And so it goes