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Novembering…

Daylight Savings Time Ends

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Clocks turn back an hour at 2 a.m. on Sunday, marking the beginning of standard time for the next few months.

This means that this weekend will be an hour longer than normal, but it will get dark an hour earlier in the evenings.

Standard time will be used through spring, when clocks will “spring” forward an hour to begin Daylight Saving Time.

Ironically, standard time is no longer the norm. About two-thirds of the days during the year now operate on Daylight Saving Time.

Daylight Saving Time now begins on the second Sunday of March each year and ends on the first Sunday of November.

DST has roots tracing to 1918 in the United States, though not all places always observed it. Currently, it is not used in Hawaii and most of Arizona.

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Happy Halloween

November 1st

Anniversary of War of the Worlds

This day In Radio History, Oct 30, 1938 – Panic Over War of the Worlds

A radio broadcast of H. G. Wells “The War of the Worlds”, narrated by Orson Welles, allegedly causes a mass panic.


“The War of the Worlds” was a Halloween episode of the radio series The Mercury Theatre on the Air directed and narrated by Orson Welles as an adaptation of H. G. Wells’s novel The War of the Worlds (1898) that was performed and broadcast live at 8 pm ET on October 30, 1938 over the CBS Radio Network. The episode is famous for inciting a panic by convincing some members of the listening audience that a Martian invasion was taking place, though the scale of panic is disputed, as the program had relatively few listeners.

RIP Patrick Stewart

Sir Patrick Stewart (13 July 1940 – 28 October 2026) was an English actor. With a career spanning over 60 years on stage and screen, he received various accolades, including two Laurence Olivier Awards and a Grammy Award, as well as nominations for a Tony Award, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to drama in 2010.

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Halloween Humor – a little later…

Another great day…

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Area 51 Stray Cat

After 38 years… Spaceballs 2!

That about covers it!

60th Anniversary of “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”

On this day, October 27, in 1966, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown debuted on CBS television.

It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a 1966 American animated Halloween television special based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. The third Peanuts special, and the second holiday-themed special, to be created, it was written by Schulz along with director/animator Bill Melendez and producer Lee Mendelson. The cast included Peter Robbins as Charlie Brown, Christopher Shea as Linus Van Pelt, Sally Dryer as Lucy Van Pelt, and Melendez as Snoopy. The special features music composed by jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi, whose contributions include the theme song “Linus and Lucy”. It aired on broadcast television every year from its debut in 1966 until 2020 when it became an Apple TV+ exclusive.

RIP Donnie Iris

Dominic Ierace (February 28, 1943 – October 26, 2026)

Donnie Iris, was an American rock musician known for his work with the Jaggerz and Wild Cherry during the 1970s and for his solo career beginning in the 1980s with his band, the Cruisers. He wrote the No. 2 Billboard hit, “The Rapper“, with the Jaggerz in 1970 and was a member of Wild Cherry. He also achieved fame as a solo artist in the early 1980s with the No. 29 hit “Ah! Leah!” and the No. 37 hit “Love Is Like a Rock.”

In addition to performing on the first three Jaggerz albums and the fourth and final Wild Cherry album, Iris with his solo band has released eleven studio albums, one EP, two live albums and two compilations. He continued to intermittently release new material and tour throughout the Youngstown, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio and greater Pittsburgh areas.

And Hey! I am from Western New York, I we all knew and loved him!

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Gone but not forgotten – Star Trek

RIP Walter Koenig

Walter Marvin Koenig
(September 14, 1936 – October 25, 2026)

Walter Koenig (/ˈkeɪnɪɡ/;) was an American actor and screenwriter. He began acting professionally in the mid-1960s and quickly rose to prominence for his supporting role as Ensign Pavel Chekov in Star Trek (1967–1969). He went on to reprise this role in all six original-cast Star Trek films, and Star Trek: Generations (1994). He also acted in several other series and films including Goodbye, Raggedy Ann (1971), The Questor Tapes (1974), and Babylon 5 (1993). As a screenwriter, Koenig worked on Land of the Lost (1974), Family (1976), What Really Happened to the Class of ’65? (1977) and The Powers of Matthew Star (1982), and wrote several books.

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The folks at Sid & Marty Krofft posted:

Krofft is saddened by the passing of Walter Koenig. He was more than just Ensign Pavel Andreievich Chekov on Star Trek but was one of the Sci Fi writers Marty Krofft hired after Star Trek was cancelled. He wrote the sixth “Land of the Lost” classic episode “The Stranger” where we met Enik, the Altrusan who thought the sleestak were his backward ancesters that he had evolved from, but instead found they had devolved into the primitive monsters the Marshalls were plagued by.
We will truly miss Mr. Koenig! May you rest in peace.

Enik

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