I've worked at this place before

Demand Euphoria!

The scent is just a little TOO strong

Demand Euphoria!

Random thoughts in the middle of the day

Demand Euphoria!

Siderophobia:

The fear of stars.





Demand Euphoria!

This was definitely not on the reading list at Columbia

Demand Euphoria!

The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (69)

Another page from the ACME Catalog -

Happy Memorial Day Bunkies!

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with a Road Runner/ Wile E. Coyote Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1956 Chuck Jones directed, Gee Whiz-z-z:



The scene with the canvas of a broken bridge reverses the series' usual gag - this time, the Road Runner cannot "jump into the painting", but Wile E. Coyote can.


Hopefully, you're out enjoying your Memorial Day weekend, doing something fun. In case your plans fell through (or have been rained out), we want to give you something to do. So join us in an old fashion creature feature double-feature today.



For your viewing entertainment today, the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour is proud to present - the 1953 3D classic, It Came From Outer Space (shown here in spectacular 2D classic ACMEVISION,) and the equally spine tingling 1954 thriller, Them!. So grab a bowl of popcorn, claim a spot on the sofa, and join us in watching this blast from the 50s.



Pretty scary boys and girls! This film was somewhat of a rarity among science-fiction films in that its alien visitors are neither benevolent nor malevolent but instead seem indifferent to anything with our level of intelligence. You guys probably need a potty break before our next feature, Them! (ACME does not encourage soiling the furniture, even if it has been treated with ACME Guard.) So go ahead and run out, we'll wait.



Welcome back this special Memorial Day episode of the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour. Tonight's second feature is the terrifying 1954 classic 'giant insect flick' Them!



So run into the kitchen and get yourself another snack, SAME SEATS PLEASE and enjoy the rest of the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour presentation.



The film was originally scheduled to be filmed in color. Two days before shooting began, a nervous studio cut the budget, and the film had to be made in black and white. However, in the opening credits, the title is shown in bright red against a black and white background. It was also supposed to be in shot in 3-D. Some elements of the 3-D effects, such as the ants having extreme close-ups and the flame throwers shooting straight into the camera, were used in the film.



Demand Euphoria!

It's tea time even on the set

Demand Euphoria!

Another childhood destroyed

Demand Euphoria!

No - it's just wrong

Demand Euphoria!

From the desk of Charles Brown

Demand Euphoria!

Wiccaphobia

The fear of witches or witchcraft.





Demand Euphoria!

I should read this right away

Demand Euphoria!

The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (68)

Another page from the ACME Catalog -

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with a Foghorn Leghorn Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1958 Robert McKimson directed, Feather Bluster:



The flashbacks between Foghorn and Dawg use footage from the following cartoons: Henhouse Henery, The High and the Flighty, and All Fowled Up.


Once again, we're running all over the place around here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour. So rather than bore you with what we're up to, (I'm working at a production job at night) why not listen to former Genesis lead vocalist, Peter Gabriel's fifth solo album, So - his first non-eponymous album. This album pushed Gabriel into superstar status and had the most music videos created from its cuts.



Don't forget the cut, In Your Eyes,(possibly Gabriel's greatest love song,) achieved genuine classic status after being featured in Cameron Crowe's classic Say Anything.



Demand Euphoria!

Keep pouring; I'll tell you when

Demand Euphoria!

Unhappy families are all alike

Demand Euphoria!

Comes with or without corn bits

Demand Euphoria!

The rantings of a feckless youth

Demand Euphoria!

Robophobia:

An irrational fear of robots.






Demand Euphoria!

For all you mums (or moms)

Demand Euphoria!

The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (67)

Another page from the ACME Catalog -

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with a Foghorn Leghorn Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1956 Robert McKimson directed, Raw, Raw, Rooster:



Although the melody of the song Freddy the Freshman is played in a number of other Looney Tunes shorts, Raw, Raw, Rooster is the only short besides the eponymously named Freddy the Freshman short, in which the lyrics of that song are sung.


For the next couple of weeks, we're running all over the place around here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour. So rather than bore you with what we're up to, why not listen to former Everything But the Girl's lead vocalist, Tracey Thorn's third solo album, Record - an funny yet thoughtful album with a definite beat, recorded by an adult.



Don't forget Mother's Day is tomorrow - CVS is open 24 hours.



Demand Euphoria!

It could be a life philosophy

Demand Euphoria!

The future home of -

The Trump Presidential Library.

Demand Euphoria!

This one needs a little bit of an explanation

This is a nose hair home waxing kit

Demand Euphoria!

Thank you Mr. Brown

Demand Euphoria!

Athazagoraphobia

The fear of being forgotten, ignored, or abandoned.



Our second dedication to Michael Cohen.



Demand Euphoria!

A cautionary tale for our times

Demand Euphoria!

The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (66)

Another page from the ACME Catalog -

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with a Claude the Cat Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1960 Chuck Jones directed, Mouse Warming:



The cartoon is the final appearance of Claude the Cat in a solo cartoon.


The staff at ACME always listens to a lot of music on Pandora in our offices. Across a bunch of people's channels, this artist, Melody Gardot, keeps popping up. So the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in listening to a 2012 concert of Melody Gardot, in Switzerland.



Melody has had a tough struggle after her 2003 accident, after she was struck by a car while riding her bike (she suffered head and spinal injuries, and her pelvis was broken in two places.) She has pushed through and has been performing all over the world since then.



Demand Euphoria!

A Quick Test

If the monkey is jumping - put the bottle down.

Demand Euphoria!

I Wonder About

I found myself, this past weekend, in a Pre-K Class in Connecticut (don't ask.)

This was on the wall in a classroom:

I Wonder About -

Niamh:  I like my mom.  I like her hugs.

Ryan:  A Fire Drill - It makes me nervous.

Joaquin:  My goldfish Goldie. He is lonely, he has no parents.

Emerson:  My mommy and brothers.  What are they doing?
And Lexington who died; what is she doing with Grandma's Kitty?

Ava:  The quiet of the nighttime.  Coyotes that I can hear in the night.

William:  My dog. He is camouflaged at night in the dark.

(I want to know about Lexington and I want to meet William's dog.)



Demand Euphoria!

Failed ACME product

Demand Euphoria!

A good salad may be the prologue to a bad supper

One of the benefits of eating salad is that you can eat tons of it and never be satisfied.

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!