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Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Truly, we're not worthy
Alice had his chicken served to him by the Colonel, personally.
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Monday, May 29, 2017
Sunday, May 28, 2017
Saturday, May 27, 2017
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (17)
Another page from the ACME Catalog -
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the 1955 Sam the Sheepdog Looney Tunes cartoon, Double Or Mutton:
This is the third short featuring Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf. This is the first episode where it is clearly established that Sam and Ralph are coworkers, as well as the first episode where their names are consistent.
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour is celebrating the anniversary of the first live performance of Declan MacManus as Elvis Costello, backed by The Rumour (without Graham Parker,) at London's Nashville Rooms, in West Kensington, on this date in 1977. Today we are listening to a live recording of a later concert on August 7th of that year, at the same venue.
The recording is from the first week of a month-long, Monday-night residency at the Nashville Rooms, West Kensington. By the final week, the show is threatened with police closure when crowds become too big for the tiny venue.
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Friday, May 26, 2017
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Monday, May 22, 2017
I love that it has 1969 pieces
The LEGO® NASA Apollo Saturn V,
The set also includes 3 stands to display the model horizontally, 3 new-for-June-2017 astronaut microfigures for role-play recreations of the Moon landings, plus a booklet about the manned Apollo missions
I might have to rethink my birthday wish this year.
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Sunday, May 21, 2017
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
May 21, 427BC (Obviously is date is merely a best guess; the classical Greeks, at the time, were too busy improving the practice of sodomy to bother with perfecting the calendar.)
The Greek philosopher Plato was born on this date.
Saturday, May 20, 2017
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (16)
Another page from the ACME Catalog -
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the 1955 Road Runner/ Wile E. Coyote Looney Tunes cartoon, Guided Muscle:
Look for Wile E. to pull the 'That's All, Folks!' tag onto the screen at the end of this cartoon.
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour is celebrating the anniversary of the release of Elton John's ninth studio album, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy on May 19th in 1975. Today we are listening to a live recording of his concert on June 21st 1975, where at Wembly Stadium, in London, Elton John performs the entire album.
The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, the first album to do so, and stayed top for seven weeks. For the first time since 1971’s Friends, only one single was issued from an Elton album: Someone Saved My Life Tonight. This was because of the immense success of his past two non-album 45s, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds and Philadelphia Freedom. Both were recorded during the Captain Fantastic sessions and each reached number one in America.
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Thursday, May 18, 2017
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Poem Posted at the 14th Street 'L' Station
A sky
like an enormous
Friedrich Nietzsche-looking
manhole cover
tries to explain your mind
to you.
You stand on the street,
holding an ineffective umbrella
over your head like a regurgitated
question mark,
missing the good ol' glory days
of depression
when all the sky
ever did
was rain on you.
by Homeless
Monday, May 15, 2017
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Saturday, May 13, 2017
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (15)
Another page from the ACME Catalog -
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the 1955 Road Runner/ Wile E. Coyote Looney Tunes cartoon, Ready.. Set.. Zoom!:
Look for the mine shaft sign, Selzer Mining Company. It's a reference to producer Edward Selzer.
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour is celebrating the anniversary of the release of Dire Straits' fifth studio album, Brothers In Arms on this date in 1985. The album won two Grammy Awards in 1986, and is one of the best selling albums ever.
In 2007, a new version of the track, Brothers In Arms, featuring Mark Knopfler was released to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Falklands War. Proceeds from the sale of the single went to a program that brought British veterans back to the site of the war in an effort to help them deal with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the 1955 Road Runner/ Wile E. Coyote Looney Tunes cartoon, Ready.. Set.. Zoom!:
Look for the mine shaft sign, Selzer Mining Company. It's a reference to producer Edward Selzer.
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour is celebrating the anniversary of the release of Dire Straits' fifth studio album, Brothers In Arms on this date in 1985. The album won two Grammy Awards in 1986, and is one of the best selling albums ever.
In 2007, a new version of the track, Brothers In Arms, featuring Mark Knopfler was released to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Falklands War. Proceeds from the sale of the single went to a program that brought British veterans back to the site of the war in an effort to help them deal with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Demand Euphoria!
Friday, May 12, 2017
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Monday, May 8, 2017
Sunday, May 7, 2017
Saturday, May 6, 2017
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (14)
Another page from the ACME Catalog -
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the 1955 Bugs Bunny/ Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, Beanstalk Bunny:
Look for the scene of Elmer sticking corks in his ears and trying to get Bugs and Daffy out of his head by smoking a cigarette (only for Bugs and Daffy to crawl through the cigarette to blow the match out); it's sometimes edited out when the cartoon is shown on TV.
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour is celebrating the anniversary of the recording Proud Mary, by Ike and Tina Turner getting a gold record on this date in 1971 by playing their import album Olympia 1971, recorded at the Olympia Theatre in Paris on January 30, 1971.
ACME recommends that you should definitely crank this one up.
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Friday, May 5, 2017
You may stand down sir
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Thursday, May 4, 2017
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Monday, May 1, 2017
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art
A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
You may not have known it, but in the United States, May is National Salad Month. By an astonishing coincidence, the
second full week of May is National Herb Week. It's a time to celebrate the verdure of the earth with verdure on a plate.
Or in a bowl—salad is just that versatile!
Salad has a long and noble history. The word itself comes from the Latin herba salta, which sounds like urban assault but actually means salted herbs. They called their salads salted herbs because that's what they were: bits of leafy herbs dressed with salty oils.
The Romans weren't the first people to enjoy salad. Though it's hard to imagine, people were eating herbs and vegetables long before the invention of salad forks. Many of our evolutionary forebears ate leaves and veggies right off the plants, vines, and trees on which they grew. In fact, scientists believe our ancient grazing tendencies may explain the popularity of salad bars and our willingness to overlook the inadequacy of most sneeze guards.
The salad was not perfected, however, until the develop of Bac-O Bits®, a genetically altered bacon substitute whose
artificial bacon flavor and resistance to radiation have made it a staple of American salads, to say nothing of its cult
popularity as driveway gravel.
According to the Association for Dressings and Sauces, the altruistic sponsors of National Salad Month, salad dressings and sauces have a history as rich and varied as salad itself. The Chinese have been using soy sauce for over five thousand years, the Babylonians used oil and vinegar, and Worcestershire was popular in Caesar's day. (Ironically, however, the Caesar salad was not invented by Julius Caesar. It wasn't even invented by Sid Caesar. It was invented by Caesar Cardini, a Mexican restauranteur, in 1924.)
The Egyptians favored oil and vinegar mixed with Oriental spices. Mayonnaise was invented by the Duke de Richelieu in 1756 after defeating the British at Port Mahon on Majorca (hence "Mahonnaise," later corrected to mayonnaise). The Duke was best known not for his military victories, however, but his all-nude dinner parties. I'm not going to speculate as to how a bunch of naked people got the idea of covering their salads in a creamy sauce.
In 1896, Joe Marzetti of Columbus, Ohio, opened a restaurant and served his customers a variety of dressings developed from old country recipes. His restaurant might have done better if he had served them actual meals, but his dressings became so popular that he started to bottle and sell them.
It was the birth of a market niche.
Half a century later, in 1950, Americans bought 6.3 million gallons of salad dressing. In 1997, they bought more than 60 million gallons. (This information is indisputable, because it appears on the Association of Dressings and Sauces' website.)
Since the United States had a population of about 260 million in 1997, it looks like the average American buys about 4.3 gallons of salad dressing each year. That's enough to drip a tablespoon per mile from New York to Chicago. I myself don't buy salad dressing, which means that some poor bastard has to buy 8.6 gallons each year to make up the difference. But it all comes out in the wash: I'm probably drinking his gin.
It's informative to note, however, that the Association of Dressings and Sauces measures salad dressing sold, not consumed. We've all seen salad dressing in the final stages of decomposition, the once creamy sauce crusting around the edges and congealing in the bottom of the bottle. Added up nationwide, that's got to be a few million gallons a year.
Demand Euphoria!
Before you go - a word from our sponsor -
ACME products all work, as long as you use them correctly.
Salad has a long and noble history. The word itself comes from the Latin herba salta, which sounds like urban assault but actually means salted herbs. They called their salads salted herbs because that's what they were: bits of leafy herbs dressed with salty oils.
The Romans weren't the first people to enjoy salad. Though it's hard to imagine, people were eating herbs and vegetables long before the invention of salad forks. Many of our evolutionary forebears ate leaves and veggies right off the plants, vines, and trees on which they grew. In fact, scientists believe our ancient grazing tendencies may explain the popularity of salad bars and our willingness to overlook the inadequacy of most sneeze guards.
According to the Association for Dressings and Sauces, the altruistic sponsors of National Salad Month, salad dressings and sauces have a history as rich and varied as salad itself. The Chinese have been using soy sauce for over five thousand years, the Babylonians used oil and vinegar, and Worcestershire was popular in Caesar's day. (Ironically, however, the Caesar salad was not invented by Julius Caesar. It wasn't even invented by Sid Caesar. It was invented by Caesar Cardini, a Mexican restauranteur, in 1924.)
In 1896, Joe Marzetti of Columbus, Ohio, opened a restaurant and served his customers a variety of dressings developed from old country recipes. His restaurant might have done better if he had served them actual meals, but his dressings became so popular that he started to bottle and sell them.
Half a century later, in 1950, Americans bought 6.3 million gallons of salad dressing. In 1997, they bought more than 60 million gallons. (This information is indisputable, because it appears on the Association of Dressings and Sauces' website.)
Since the United States had a population of about 260 million in 1997, it looks like the average American buys about 4.3 gallons of salad dressing each year. That's enough to drip a tablespoon per mile from New York to Chicago. I myself don't buy salad dressing, which means that some poor bastard has to buy 8.6 gallons each year to make up the difference. But it all comes out in the wash: I'm probably drinking his gin.
It's informative to note, however, that the Association of Dressings and Sauces measures salad dressing sold, not consumed. We've all seen salad dressing in the final stages of decomposition, the once creamy sauce crusting around the edges and congealing in the bottom of the bottle. Added up nationwide, that's got to be a few million gallons a year.
Demand Euphoria!
Before you go - a word from our sponsor -
ACME products all work, as long as you use them correctly.
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