- without interest, vigor, or determination; listless; lethargic
Demand Euphoria!
Monday, January 6, 2025
Sunday, January 5, 2025
Saturday, January 4, 2025
ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (417)
Thank you for joining us today
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1967 Go Away Stowaway, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales,) directed by Alex Lovy.
This was the last cartoon to use the original version of the "Abstract WB" titles that first appeared in Now Hear This and first came in to regular use in late 1964.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour another post from the wonderful folks at Letters Live -
Michael Palin is always funny even reading someone else's writing (that was not in Python.).
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1972 drama Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes), directed by Werner Herzog, and starring Klaus Kinski. The film opened to critical acclaim and is considered a masterpiece. Several critics have noted that Aguirre appears to have had a direct influence on Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now. So push away from the table, get settled in and join us in watching Aguirre, the Wrath of God.
According to Werner Herzog's commentary, he paid the men who were to provide the monkeys at the end of the film only half of what they asked for, thinking they would try to run off with the money. The dealers took the money, then sold the monkeys to someone else, and prepared to fly them to Florida. In desperation, Herzog pretended he was a veterinarian and said the monkeys didn't have their vaccination documents. After filming, he released the monkeys into the wild.
Demand Euphoria!
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1967 Go Away Stowaway, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales,) directed by Alex Lovy.
This was the last cartoon to use the original version of the "Abstract WB" titles that first appeared in Now Hear This and first came in to regular use in late 1964.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour another post from the wonderful folks at Letters Live -
Michael Palin is always funny even reading someone else's writing (that was not in Python.).
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1972 drama Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes), directed by Werner Herzog, and starring Klaus Kinski. The film opened to critical acclaim and is considered a masterpiece. Several critics have noted that Aguirre appears to have had a direct influence on Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now. So push away from the table, get settled in and join us in watching Aguirre, the Wrath of God.
According to Werner Herzog's commentary, he paid the men who were to provide the monkeys at the end of the film only half of what they asked for, thinking they would try to run off with the money. The dealers took the money, then sold the monkeys to someone else, and prepared to fly them to Florida. In desperation, Herzog pretended he was a veterinarian and said the monkeys didn't have their vaccination documents. After filming, he released the monkeys into the wild.
Demand Euphoria!
Friday, January 3, 2025
Thursday, January 2, 2025
While vacationing by the sea -
Good thing to remember -
The man is not waving; he's drowning.
Demand Euphoria!
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Hopefully you had some quality time with the family
A final reason Hanukkah feels better than Christmas -
Naked spin-the-dreidel games!
You've probably run out of gifts at this point, wrap your family's fresh laundry as the gift that shows you've done the laundry. At this point, look up a local oil recycler - it will do better for everyone as a biofuel.
And here, I promise, is the last set of songs celebrating Hanukkah -
Hanukkah With Veronica Monica -
Chanukah in Santa Monica GMCLA -
ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like to finish out Dave Grohl's Hanukkah offering with his final song of his set
It should be mandatory that we listen to Uncle Lou during the Hanukkah season.
In The Market For A Miracle A Christmas Story -
Kids, this is the essential 11 o'clock number.
Gal Gadot makes Jimmy Fallon eat holiday foods -
Jimmy would have eaten crap on a shingle for her.
SNL Celebrates Hanukkah -
Hey, somebody has to clean up all of that wax on the break front. And somebody's got to call the guys who pick up used cooking oil for bio-fuel.
Life has no remote, so wake up and change it.
Now that we have your attention -
Let us all welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
- from your friends at ACME, celebrating over 100 year in business.
Demand Euphoria!
You've probably run out of gifts at this point, wrap your family's fresh laundry as the gift that shows you've done the laundry. At this point, look up a local oil recycler - it will do better for everyone as a biofuel.
And here, I promise, is the last set of songs celebrating Hanukkah -
Hanukkah With Veronica Monica -
Chanukah in Santa Monica GMCLA -
ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like to finish out Dave Grohl's Hanukkah offering with his final song of his set
It should be mandatory that we listen to Uncle Lou during the Hanukkah season.
In The Market For A Miracle A Christmas Story -
Kids, this is the essential 11 o'clock number.
Gal Gadot makes Jimmy Fallon eat holiday foods -
Jimmy would have eaten crap on a shingle for her.
SNL Celebrates Hanukkah -
Hey, somebody has to clean up all of that wax on the break front. And somebody's got to call the guys who pick up used cooking oil for bio-fuel.
Life has no remote, so wake up and change it.
Let us all welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
Demand Euphoria!
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
You do not have to pretend happiness with your family - Cheer is optional
Tonight is the seventh night of Hanukkah.
Tonight is known as the Festival of the Daughters (Chag haBanot.)
In parts of Northern Africa countries, such as Algeria, Libya, Tunisia and Morocco, tonight is celebrated as commemoration of Judith's beheading of the General Holofernes (impress your friends with that fact.)
If you can stand it, more Hanukkah songs
The Hanukkah Sessions: Night Seven Kurstin X Grohl: -
A little My Shalom-a?
The Latke Song Debbie Friedman
Charlie Brown Hanukkah -
How The Kvetch Stole Chanukah -
Feliz Chanukah Six13 -
Eight Nights A Week Loudon Wainwright III -
Perhaps he converted?
Stop eating all the fried food - no one's looking
Here’s ACME's look into the world of New Years Celebrations
Although the new year has been celebrated since prehistoric times, it was celebrated on the vernal equinox rather than what we now consider the first of the year. The Romans were the first to recognize New Years Day on January first. Rather than tie the day to some significant astronomical or agricultural event, in 153 BC the Romans selected it for civil reasons. It was the day after elections in which the newly elected assumed their positions.
Years later, Julius Caesar wanted to change the date to a more logical date but that year, January 1, 45 BC was the date of a new moon. To change it would have been bad luck. He did, however, change the calendar system from the Egyptian solar calendar to the "Julian" calendar, named for Caesar. July, the month of Caesar's birth, was also named after him to recognize him for his calendar reform. And look what it got him.
Up unto 1582, Christian Europe continued to celebrate New Years Day on March 25. Pope Gregory XIII instituted additional calendar reforms bringing us the calendaring system of the day. The Gregorian calendar was adopted by Catholic countries immediately while the reformists, suspect of any papal policy, only adapted it after some time. Today most countries around the world have adopted this calendaring system.
From primitive man to today, it has been recognized as a day in which rites were done to abolished the past so there could be a rejuvenation for the new year. Rituals included purgations, purifications, exorcisms, extinguishing and rekindling fires, masked processions (masks representing the dead), and other similar activities. Often exorcisms and purgations were performed with much noise as if to scare away the evil spirits. In China, Ying, the forces of light fought Yang, the forces of darkness with cymbals, noisemakers, and firecrackers.
Early European-Americans adopted the New Year celebrations from their homelands. However, it was noted by early settlers that native Americans already honored News Years Day with their own customs. Their rituals coincided with those around the world including fires, explosions of evil spirits, and celebrations. Today many of the New Year celebrations actually begin with a countdown to the New Year on the evening prior. It is customary to kiss your sweetheart when the clock strikes midnight as one of the customs of these New Years Eve parties.
Around the world, different cultures have their own traditions for welcoming the new year. The Japanese hang a rope of straw across the front of their houses to keep out evil spirits and bring happiness and good luck. They also have a good laugh as the year begins to get things started on a lucky note. In Argentina, people wear brand-new pink underwear to attract love. While in Brazil, people wear none; that usually works better.
In Germany, every year on December 31st, TV networks broadcast an 18-minute-long skit in English called Dinner for One.
In 1963, Germany’s Norddeutscher Rundfunk television station recorded the sketch, performed by the British comics Freddie Frinton and May Warden. Since its initial recording, the clip has become a New Year’s Eve staple in Germany. The clip holds the Guinness World Record for Most Frequently Repeated TV Program, (although Dinner For One has never been broadcast in the U. S. or Canada.)
In Siberia, brave divers plant the New Year's Tree underneath frozen lakes — sort of like a polar plunge. Much like a Christmas tree, the Siberian New Year Tree (or yolka) is supposed to signify the coming of Father Frost, but its planting also symbolizes starting over. The jumping-into-a-frozen-lake challenge is just another addition to the year-end festivities.
In Italy, nothing says “Happy New Year” like red underpants. Red underwear is a staple of the New Year’s tradition in Italy. The color choice invokes centuries-old superstition that the color keeps bad luck and evil at bay, and encourages good luck. Now, even if you find yourself in Rome without a pair of rosy unmentionables, no worries. Shops and street vendors have plenty for sale.
In South Africa, people throw appliances out the window (watch out!!). In Denmark, you break a dish for a friend. They save their old dishes only to throw them by the dozen at the doorsteps of family friends on New Years. In theory, the bigger the pile of broken dishes you find on your door steps, the bigger pile of friends you have.
Good Riddance, But Now What? - Ogden Nash
Come, children, gather round my knee;
Something is about to be.
Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark! It’s midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year.
Demand Euphoria!.
Tonight is known as the Festival of the Daughters (Chag haBanot.)
If you can stand it, more Hanukkah songs
The Hanukkah Sessions: Night Seven Kurstin X Grohl: -
A little My Shalom-a?
The Latke Song Debbie Friedman
Charlie Brown Hanukkah -
How The Kvetch Stole Chanukah -
Feliz Chanukah Six13 -
Eight Nights A Week Loudon Wainwright III -
Perhaps he converted?
Stop eating all the fried food - no one's looking
Here’s ACME's look into the world of New Years Celebrations
Years later, Julius Caesar wanted to change the date to a more logical date but that year, January 1, 45 BC was the date of a new moon. To change it would have been bad luck. He did, however, change the calendar system from the Egyptian solar calendar to the "Julian" calendar, named for Caesar. July, the month of Caesar's birth, was also named after him to recognize him for his calendar reform. And look what it got him.
Up unto 1582, Christian Europe continued to celebrate New Years Day on March 25. Pope Gregory XIII instituted additional calendar reforms bringing us the calendaring system of the day. The Gregorian calendar was adopted by Catholic countries immediately while the reformists, suspect of any papal policy, only adapted it after some time. Today most countries around the world have adopted this calendaring system.
From primitive man to today, it has been recognized as a day in which rites were done to abolished the past so there could be a rejuvenation for the new year. Rituals included purgations, purifications, exorcisms, extinguishing and rekindling fires, masked processions (masks representing the dead), and other similar activities. Often exorcisms and purgations were performed with much noise as if to scare away the evil spirits. In China, Ying, the forces of light fought Yang, the forces of darkness with cymbals, noisemakers, and firecrackers.
Early European-Americans adopted the New Year celebrations from their homelands. However, it was noted by early settlers that native Americans already honored News Years Day with their own customs. Their rituals coincided with those around the world including fires, explosions of evil spirits, and celebrations. Today many of the New Year celebrations actually begin with a countdown to the New Year on the evening prior. It is customary to kiss your sweetheart when the clock strikes midnight as one of the customs of these New Years Eve parties.
Around the world, different cultures have their own traditions for welcoming the new year. The Japanese hang a rope of straw across the front of their houses to keep out evil spirits and bring happiness and good luck. They also have a good laugh as the year begins to get things started on a lucky note. In Argentina, people wear brand-new pink underwear to attract love. While in Brazil, people wear none; that usually works better.
In Germany, every year on December 31st, TV networks broadcast an 18-minute-long skit in English called Dinner for One.
In 1963, Germany’s Norddeutscher Rundfunk television station recorded the sketch, performed by the British comics Freddie Frinton and May Warden. Since its initial recording, the clip has become a New Year’s Eve staple in Germany. The clip holds the Guinness World Record for Most Frequently Repeated TV Program, (although Dinner For One has never been broadcast in the U. S. or Canada.)
In Siberia, brave divers plant the New Year's Tree underneath frozen lakes — sort of like a polar plunge. Much like a Christmas tree, the Siberian New Year Tree (or yolka) is supposed to signify the coming of Father Frost, but its planting also symbolizes starting over. The jumping-into-a-frozen-lake challenge is just another addition to the year-end festivities.
In Italy, nothing says “Happy New Year” like red underpants. Red underwear is a staple of the New Year’s tradition in Italy. The color choice invokes centuries-old superstition that the color keeps bad luck and evil at bay, and encourages good luck. Now, even if you find yourself in Rome without a pair of rosy unmentionables, no worries. Shops and street vendors have plenty for sale.
In South Africa, people throw appliances out the window (watch out!!). In Denmark, you break a dish for a friend. They save their old dishes only to throw them by the dozen at the doorsteps of family friends on New Years. In theory, the bigger the pile of broken dishes you find on your door steps, the bigger pile of friends you have.
Good Riddance, But Now What? - Ogden Nash
Come, children, gather round my knee;
Something is about to be.
Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark! It’s midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year.
Demand Euphoria!.
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