For those who really DON'T need

to know what time it is.



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The musings of a feckless 6 year old

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Axinomancy

An ancient means of determining guilt, involving balancing an ax on a post, and reading a list of names aloud. If the ax moved at a particular name, that person was deemed guilty. In another (equally strange) version, a marble was placed on a red-hot ax; the motion of the marble signaled guilt.



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A perfect gift for so many I know

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The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (190)

Thank you for joining us today.

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon (featuring Marvin the Martian), the 1952 The Hasty Hare, directed by Chuck Jones.



This is the first short where Marvin the Martian has its familiar nasal voice which would continue to be used permanently in subsequent appearances (his familiar nasal voice is actually based on the voice from the unseen emcee who says this one line "Shall we give it to him, folks?" from What's Cookin' Doc?).


Before the start of our feature presentation, after an exhaustive investigation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap can finally tell you why so many are not wearing masks:

Space aliens are taking over our minds. Join the resistance - say NO to space aliens!


We hope you are doing well with your self quarantines - the programming department of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have been vigorously scrubbing themselves with ACME Eagle Hand Soap - If your eagle's hands are dirty, we'll wash them clean! and sanitizing themselves for your protection. We are also engaged in social distancing - we are communicating with each other via Docker containers and messages in a bottle.

We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider for today's feature. Today's choice - the 1948 film, Force of Evil from the blacklisted director Abraham Polonsky. Another in the list of seemly almost forgotten film noir movies, starring John Garfield (Jacob Julius Garfinkle). The film is an amazing and subversive critique of the American Capitalism system. So why not sit back and relax (find the most comfortable seat) get a snack (bar nuts anyone,) and a slug of scotch or two and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching Force of Evil -





During Congressional hearings in Hollywood in 1951 Polonsky was called the 'most dangerous man in America' by Rep. Harold Velde. During the time he was blacklisted, Polonsky often wrote screenplays using a 'front'. He finally began writing again under his own name with Tell Them Willie Boy is Here, a pro-American Indian film made in 1969.



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Seen on the street where you live

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In case this comes up in conversation

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No, nothing coming out of your body

should set an outhouse on fire

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Overheard at the drive-thru

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Spanghew

to throw violently into the air; especially, to throw (a frog) into the air from the end of a stick. (Please note, we here at ACME do not condone the practice of tossing frogs. Please do not be mean to frogs.)



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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, RIP

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The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (189)

Thank you for joining us today.

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon (featuring Gossamer, but named Rudolph in this cartoon), the 1952 Water, Water Every Hare, directed by Chuck Jones.



The mad scientist in this short is patterned after Boris Karloff right down to the heavy eyebrows and Dr. Frankenstein riffs that made Karloff a household name in the 40's and 50's.


Before the start of our feature presentation ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like to bring you another From a Certified Young Person -



So kids, take it from a 'real kid', wear a mask, it's cool!


We hope you are doing well with your self quarantines - the programming department of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have been vigorously scrubbing themselves with ACME Eagle Hand Soap - If your eagle's hands are dirty, we'll wash them clean! and sanitizing themselves for your protection. We are also engaged in social distancing - we are communicating with each other via esperanto and secret tap dancing codes.

While we were reseaching movies the week before last, we came across the 1946 Henry Hathaway film, The Dark Corner. An almost forgotten film noir classic, starring Clifton Webb, William Bendix, Mark Stevens, and Lucille Ball(?) as the loyal secretary who saves her boss. So why not sit back and relax (find the most comfortable seat) get a snack (popcorn anyone,) and a beer or two and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching The Dark Corner -



In later years, Lucille Ball was vocal about hating the experience of shooting The Dark Corner. The lion's share of her resentment was pointed at director Henry Hathaway, whose bullying reduced Ball to stuttering on set, at which point Hathaway accused her of being inebriated.



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Don't worry, it'll be there

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Wear a mask -

it's mathematical

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Amateurs, rank amateurs

(do not use, not even with ACME brand liquor.)

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The rantings of a feckless 6 year old

 

 

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Flahoolick

Free with money, generous, full of largesse, an exuberant spender.



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I feel so dirty drinking it

 

 

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The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (188)

Thank you for joining us today.

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon (featuring Yosemite Sam), the 1952 14 Carrot Rabbit, directed by Friz Freleng.



The assay clerk ("Pierre") is modeled after director Friz Freleng.


Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like to hear the opinions of a member of the older generation -



Hopefully Mr. Black has been put on some medication to help lower his blood pressure.


We hope you are doing well with your self quarantines - the programming department of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have been vigorously scrubbing themselves with ACME Eagle Hand Soap - If your eagle's hands are dirty, we'll wash them clean! and sanitizing themselves for your protection. We are also engaged in social distancing - we are communicating with each other via discreet movements of expensive handbags and gaudy brooches.

September 12, 1975 -
Wish You Were Here is the ninth studio album released by Pink Floyd, on this date. It is a moving tribute the their former bandmate Syd Barrett, who left the band several years earlier due to deteriorating mental health. Strange to believe, the album initially received mixed reviews; many critics found it not up-to-par with the band's previous release, Dark Side of the Moon. Today the album is generally agreed upon as one of the greatest albums ever released, having sold more than 15 million albums to date. But why not sit back and relax (find the most comfortable seat) get a snack (smoke 'em if you got 'em,) and a beer or two and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in listening to Wish You Were Here -



The title track was a rare case of the Pink Floyd primary songwriters Roger Waters and David Gilmour mutually collaborating on a song - they rarely wrote together. Gilmour had the opening riff written and was playing it in the studio at a fast pace when Roger Waters heard it and asked him to play it slower. The song built from there, with the pair writing the music for the chorus and verses together, and Waters adding the lyrics.



In 2012, director John Edginton released a documentary named Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here, featuring all four members of the band as well as other people who were involved in creating this masterpiece.



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Sky of love, sky of tears (a dream of life)

List of “Don’t Forgets” and “Remembers”

We were eight.

Before September 11th, we would wake up with a list of “Don’t Forgets”
Don’t forget to wash your face
Don’t forget to brush your teeth
Don’t forget to do your homework
Don’t forget to wear your jacket
Don’t forget to clean your room
Don’t forget to take a bath

After September 11th, we wake up with a list of “Remembers”
Remember to greet the sun each morning
Remember to enjoy every meal
Remember to thank your parents for their hard work
Remember to honor those who keep you safe
Remember to value each person you meet
Remember to respect other’s beliefs

Now we are nine.



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To the college students of America

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A little too close to home for some

 

 

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Warning Label

 

 

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Peppier

A waiter whose sole job is to offer diners ground pepper, usually from a large pepper mill.



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We'll be going this all weekend

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The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (187)

Thank you for joining us today.

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1952 Foxy by Proxy, directed by Friz Freleng.



This cartoon is considered a remake to Of Fox and Hounds from 1940


Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like to bring all of you college students a message that bears repeating. -



Bunkies, may we speak, while on campus, wear your mask, stop going to frat parties, and wash your damn hands.


We hope you are doing well with your self quarantines - the programming department of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have been vigorously scrubbing themselves with ACME Eagle Hand Soap - If your eagle's hands are dirty, we'll wash them clean! and sanitizing themselves for your protection. We are also engaged in social distancing - we are communicating with each other via encrypted Halloween greeting cards and sky writing.

We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider for today's feature. Today's choice - the 1948 film, Letter from an Unknown Woman from the brilliant director Max Ophüls . His camera work seems to dance around his characters. Actor James Mason, who worked with Ophüls on two films, wrote a short poem about the director’s love for tracking shots and elaborate camera movements:

A shot that does not call for tracks
Is agony for poor old Max,
Who, separated from his dolly,
Is wrapped in deepest melancholy.
Once, when they took away his crane,
I thought he’d never smile again.

Please join ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching the heartbreaking, A Letter from an Unknown Woman -



The film was adapted from the original Stefan Zweig novella by screenwriter Howard Koch. The film is mostly faithful to the book, though featuring minor divergences. The most noted divergence is a structural change: there is no duel in the original story, nor is there a character such as Johann. The "unknown woman" from the book never marries, but lives off a series of lovers who remain unnamed and mostly unintrusive.



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Word to the Wise

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Word on the Street

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You don't want to know where people were putting them

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From the Desk of C. Brown

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