Friday, March 18

Swedish Meatballs

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The  Seventies were a swinging time and no one swung with greater abandon than the bloody Swedes. The blond-haired, satin-panted dancing...
Thursday, March 17

Ain't Patrick's Day

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Celebrating a Deathday™ (March 17th, 1762): St. Patrick himself died on this day, or did you think those vomiting collegians and paradi...
Wednesday, March 16

These Snyder's of Hanover Pretzels are making Dee Snyder of Hanover thirsty

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C urlicued, hair-metal hermaphrodite and pretzel-making scion Derwood “Dee” Snyder of Hanover® is celebrating a birthday today. Born Ma...
Tuesday, March 15

Yours Truly O'Dooley & The Wearing O' The Green

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As is our tradition, Yours Truly O'Dooley™ and the station house squadron are officially paying no nevermind to the daft ole'...
Monday, March 14

Stand-Up Checks Out

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Celebrating a Deathday (March 14, 2014): Humorist-turned-authorist David Brenner penned his last sorta funny joke on this day, and then c...
Sunday, March 13

Lucky, Charmed

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'Tis Sunday the 13th calendar day of the month  and to no one’s surprise — least of all,  Yours Truly Dooley's — the deadbea...
Saturday, March 12

Girls Will Be Girl Scouts

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On  the wedge heels of last week's International Women's Wear Day™ comes a celebration of one of the gender's spring-bonnett...
Friday, March 11

Fine And Dandy

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Today we take a celebratory pull on the moonshine jug in honour of the quintessential southern rock front man, James “Jim Dandy” Mangrum o...
Thursday, March 10

Kansas Pity

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If Memory Swerves™, 'twas on this day in history (March 10, 1891), that an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas by the name of Almon Strowger...
Wednesday, March 9

Let Us Prey

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We begin this week with a prayer: Dear Lorde®, help me understand why you allow such reckless ineptitude to run rampant on your beloved ...
Tuesday, March 8

Brew Ha-Ha

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The man they called “Mr. Coffee,” restaurateur Giuseppe “Joe” DiMaggiano died on this day, March 8, 1999. Born in 1914, the son of “Eye-tali...
Monday, March 7

Onan The Barbarian

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As I Understand It™, the Catholocists are fully a "weak" into the Lenten season and with  Ash Wednesday® in the rear view and the...
Sunday, March 6

Bob's Yer Late Uncle: Remembering Bobby Sherman

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C elebrating a Deathday™: Oscar-winning songwriter Robert B. "Bobby" Sherman took his final curtain call on this day, March 6,...
Saturday, March 5

Blithering Heights

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Whoever said we’re all the same height lying down never laid down with Svetlana Pankratova of Russia. While technically not the tallest wo...
Friday, March 4

Adam Bombed

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England has Paul McCartney, John Lennon, John Bonham, John Paul Jones, John Lydon, John Deacon, Brian May, Brian Jones, Brian Eno, Brian ...
Thursday, March 3

Hells Bells We're Havin' a Birthday!

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A doff of the double-billed birthday brim to the “Twin Towers of Scottish Letters & Science,” brothers Alexander and Graham Bell. Bo...
Wednesday, March 2

The Horse Talkerer

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If Memory Swerves™, 'twas on this day in history — March 2, 1979 — that Mr. Ed died, which makes this a lousy damn day, indeed. A well...
Tuesday, March 1

Miss March

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I Have It On Good Authority™ — which is to say, a dog-eared, 1967 Farmer's Almanac® — that March will come in like a lion and go out l...
Monday, February 28

Hawkeye, Pierced

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If  Memory Swerves™, 'twas on this day in history (February 28, 1983) that the Korean War™ and the decades-spanning reality TV show th...
Sunday, February 27

Bundle of Joy

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When a young Louis Vuitton left his family’s broken home in Anchay, France to seek fame and fortune in Paris, he did so with the...
Saturday, February 26

Grand Delusion

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As I Understand™, 'twas on this day in history (February 26, 1919) that U.S. President Woodrow Wilson-Pickett detonated the explosive ...