The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (61)

Another page from the ACME Catalog -

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with a Bugs Bunny/ Marvin the Martian Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1963 Chuck Jones directed, Mad As A Mars Hare:



This is the last appearance of Marvin the Martian in the original theatrical shorts, though the character would later re-appear in the 1980 short, Spaced Out Bunny.


The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to say May your Pesach overflow with happiness...May you always be blessed with peace, prosperity and togetherness! Wishing you a Happy Passover! (to those observing.)



This is your second night of Passover. You're probably quite full from sitting around with the mishpocha after another Seder dinner. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching Moses, a 1995 film starring Ben Kingley:



Christopher Lee has played a Pharaoh twice. Besides this film, in which he played Ramses the First, in the film, In the Beginning, he plays Ramses the Second who is the grandson of Ramses the First.

So now you know.



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Along some people's Via Dolorosa

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The Langley Schools Music Project: Innocence & Despair

Langley School Music Project




The Langley Schools Music Project - Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft





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Just in time for Easter

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Another sure sign of Spring

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Cynophobia -

Fear or abnormal dislike of dogs



(Dedicated to Mr. Bolton)



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Never saw this in the kids section of my library

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The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (60)

Another page from the ACME Catalog -

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with a Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1956 Chuck Jones directed, Bugs Bonnets:

This is one of the only cartoons that you see Bugs smoking. When Bugs acts like a mobster (after a mobster's fedora falls on his head,) he blows cigar smoke in Elmer's face.


On March 24, 1990, Sinead O'Connor went to No.1 on the UK album chart with her sophomore album and the follow up to 1987's The Lion and the Cobra, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, featuring the single Nothing Compares To You. The album also went No.1 in 13 other countries and spent six weeks at No.1 in the US. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour is asking you to join them in listening to I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got:



The album got a lot of play on college radio, earning her a small, but devoted fan base. The song, Nothing Compares To You (written by Prince) thrust her into the spotlight, and the attention had some deleterious effects on the singer. O'Connor claimed she hated the fame the song brought her, and that she struggled with the commercialization of her music. Nothing Compares 2 U earned her a Grammy for Best Alternative Performance, but she refused to appear on the awards show in protest of materialism in the music industry.



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I know how you feel bud.

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From our Moscow Bureau

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Eat a Poem

Today is World Poetry Day -

Don't You Wonder Sometimes - Tracy K. Smith

1.
After dark, stars glisten like ice, and the distance they span
Hides something elemental. Not God, exactly. More like
Some thin-hipped glittering Bowie-being - a Starman
Or cosmic ace hovering, swaying, aching to make us see.
And what would we do, you and I, if we could know for sure

That someone was there squinting through the dust,
Saying nothing is lost, that everything lives on waiting only
To be wanted back badly enough? Would you go then,
Even for a few nights, into that other life where you
And that first she loved, blind to the future once, and happy?

Would I put on coat and return to the kitchen where my
Mother and father sit waiting, dinner keeping warm on the stove?
Bowie will never die. Nothing will come for him in his sleep
Or charging through his veins. And he'll never grow old,
Just like the woman you lost, who will always be dark-haired

And flush-faced, running toward an electronic screen
That clocks the minutes, the miles left to go. Just like the life
In which I'm forever a child looking out my window at the night sky
Thinking one day I'll touch the world with bare hands
Even if it burns.

2.
He leaves no tracks. Slips past, quick as a cat. That's Bowie
For you: the Pope of Pop, coy as Christ. Like a play
Within a play, he's trademarked twice. The hours

Plink past like water from a window A/C. We sweat it out,
Teach ourselves to wait. Silently, lazily, collapse happens.
But not for Bowie. He cocks his head, grins that wicked grin.

Time never stops, but does it end? And how many lives
Before take-off, before we find ourselves
Beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?

The future isn't what it used to be. Even Bowie thirsts
Fro something good and cold. Jets blink across the sky
Like migratory souls.

3.
Bowie is among us. Right here
In New York City. In a baseball cap
And expensive jeans. Ducking into
A deli. Flashing all those teeth
At the doorman on his way back up.
Or he's hailing a taxi on Lafayette
As the sky clouds over at dusk.
he's in no rush. Doesn't feel
The way you'd think he feels.
Doesn't strut or gloat. Tells jokes.

I've lived here all these years
And never seen him. Like not knowing
A comet from a shooting star.
But I'll bet he burns bright,
Dragging a tail of white-hot matter
The way some of us track tissue
Back from the toilet stall. He's got
The whole world under his foot,
And we are small alongside,
Though there are occasions
When a man his size can meet
You eyes for just a blip of time
And send a thought like SHINE
SHINE SHINE SHINE SHINE
Straight to your mind. Bowie,
I want to believe you. Want to feel
Your will like the wind before the rain.
The kind everything simply obeys,
Swept up in that hypnotic dance
As if something with the power to do so
Had looked its way and said:
                                                Go ahead.


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It's a living

 Luanne Epidermoid had a successful career of assisting couples whose marriage had hit a snag.

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Polkamania -

Extreme enthusiasm for the polka dance





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This was what was playing at my local Trader Joe's

Be Thankful For What You Got -




Sex Machine -




Nutbush City Limits -




Superfly -





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The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (59)

Another page from the ACME Catalog -

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the famous Michigan J. Frog Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1955 Chuck Jones directed, One Froggy Evening:



Some believe that the story of this frog was at least partly inspired by a real amphibian. In Eastland, Texas they tell the story of one horned toad named Old Rip. He was placed in the cornerstone of the courthouse there in 1897. In 1928 the courthouse was demolished and the story is that they pulled Old Rip out and he was still alive (he did not get up and dance however). Eleven months later, Old Rip finally "croaked" and the citizens made him a fancy velvet-lined casket and put him on permanent display, where you can still see him today.


St. Patrick's Day is once again upon us and here at ACME, we can want to wish everyone a happy and very healthy green Erin Go Braugh! We can think of no better way to celebrate the holidays than listening to a 1986 concert of the English band, The Smiths. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching the October 26, 1986 concert from the Palladium in London of The Smiths, in support of their album, The Queen is Dead.



In the three decades since its release, The Smiths' The Queen Is Dead has been called as the band's greatest album, and is usually features in lists of the greatest albums ever made. But most of us have grown out of our insufferable teenage angst (I was already in my mid 20s.) But channel your inner teenager and enjoy the evening.



The great British director, Derek Jarman created this beautiful 13-minute collage film, The Queen is Dead with the background of these three Smiths' songs: The Queen Is Dead, There Is a Light That Never Goes Out, and Panic.



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Oh, so that's what it's for

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Thursday, in another part of town

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... till death sighs

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Inside the Peeps factory

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Stygiophobia -

an irrational fear of hell



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Another book I haven't read

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The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (58)

Another page from the ACME Catalog -

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with a Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1939 Robert Clampett directed, Pied Piper Porky:


This is the first of two outing that Porky would play the Pied Piper. Ten years later, Porky would once again play the Piper in Bob McKinson's Paying the Piper.


There are moments when a rock bands career can go from zero to 60 in a heart beat. On March 9, 1987, Island Records released U2's fifth studio album, The Joshua Tree. The album became the group's first No. 1 album and spawned their first chart-topping singles with With Or Without You and I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, both hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in listening to the album that’s credited with turning U2 “from heroes to superstars” according to Rolling Stone.



Its U2’s biggest selling album to date with over 10 million copies sold in the U.S. alone.


Before we watch a documentary about the making of The Joshua Tree Album, ACME would like to continue the evening with another Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1940 Robert Clampett directed, The Sour Puss:



After Porky tells his cat about their fishing excursion, the cat goes bouncing around the room happily, a display that catches the attention of a canary who proclaims, "Now I've seen everything!" and shoots himself with a gun.


The documentary series Classic Albums covers the making of the U2 album, The Joshua Tree. The program shows the making of the album with interviews of the band and archival film footage.



The Joshua Tree was the first major release to come out on CD at the same time as cassette and vinyl. It was common practice to release the CD a few weeks later. It was the first million-selling CD.



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Barkeep, I'll say when.

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At odd intervals on a Thursday afternoon,

Mr. Bertram Osgood-Schlatter decided to activate his wife's vibrating egg. Hilarity ensued.

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Nothing to see here

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The scales had fallen from her eyes

At 5:37 pm on March 6, 1959, in Sharpsburg, PA, Mrs. Enid Snipf realized that she would never achieve enlightenment by staring at the neighbor's new flocked wallpaper, being filled with blinding rage and bottomless envy. She later took the gas pipe that evening.



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You probably weren't at my Oscar party

FoMO - a pervasive apprehension that others might be having rewarding experiences from which one is absent.





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For God sakes, it's not what you think!

• Protect against broken things

• Installation and removal made easy

• Lubricates against moisture and corrosion

• Especially helpful when up on ladders or working in crawl spaces



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The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (57)

Another page from the ACME Catalog -

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with a Bugs Bunny/ Wile E. Coyote Looney Tunes cartoon (the last official pairing of the group,) the 1963 Chuck Jones directed, Hare-Breadth Hurry:



In this cartoon, Bugs says that the Road Runner has sprained a giblet, but that's not possible - a bird's giblets are its internal organs.


The Lunar New Year celebrations are finally behind us and we're sure you need a break. Here at ACME, we can think of no better way to relax than watch a movie filled with sex, love and madness. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching the 1991 visual sumptuous, international hit, Raise the Red Lantern. Once again, if you can't watch this today, please put it on a list of films you much watch.



While the movie was lauded as an instant classic throughout the rest of the world, the film was banned in China (because it was seen as a commentary about the authoritarian nature of Chinese society) and never officially screened there; once the ban was lifted, it was only shown on television.



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There is such a thing as too much shaking

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That kid wants a lot

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