Scott Burns: The "Texas Premium" and the Foot and Wheel Vote (assetbuilder.com)
It has been said that people vote with their feet. They pick up and go to where the jobs and opportunities are. The hard part is that it costs more- a lot more- to move to where the jobs and opportunities are than to move to move to where jobs and opportunities are limited.
"Monster Mash" is a 1962 novelty song and the best-known song by Bobby "Boris" Pickett. The song was released as a single on Gary S. Paxton's Garpax Records label in October 1962 along with a full-length LP called The Original Monster Mash, which contained several other monster-themed tunes. The "Monster Mash" single reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on October 20 of that year, just in time for Halloween. It has been a perennial holiday favorite ever since.
The single was re-released twice, first in 1973 and again in 1990, the latter reissue peaking at #10 on the Billboard chart. The BBC had banned the record from airplay in 1962 on the grounds that the song was "too morbid". It was eventually released in the United Kingdom in 1973, where it peaked at #3 in early October. It re-entered the British Charts again on November 2, 2008 at #60.
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Marian the Teacher was first, but wrong, with:
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) I'm goning to be out of town for a couple of day and I'm sitll rooting for the Phillies
mj replied:
Wild guess
I'm going with Santa Claus is Coming to Town cause the idea of some old perv watching little kids 24/7 is just creepy.
Leo nailed it with:
It goes through my head around Halloween every year, it's Monster Mash by Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Cryptkicker 5
Charlie wrote:
"Monster Mash," which was initially released in 1962 and hit #1 in the US.
One wonders if the BBC programmers really believed the song was overly morbid, or whether they just thought it was a crappy song. Opinions vary widely to this day it seems. This article from the Christian Science Monitor suggests that the song is quite annoying and offers some alternatives. Many good songs there, but I never really had a problem with "Monster Mash," perhaps because I was quite young and impressionable in 1962.
Alan J answered:
I'll Be Home For Christmas
Sally (Go Yankees!!) said:
Is the song in question, "Monster's Holiday," recorded by Bobby "Boris" Pickett" and penned by the renowned novelty song composer, Paul Harrison perchance? (Harrison would later go on to write classics such as "Itsy Bitsy teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" of course...)
PS: Looks like we will end up having RAIN for Halloween! Though predicted to be light, it still puts a pall on my fun. I love to sit out side in the twilight and watch the kiddies while giving out the goodies... Bummer!
PPS: Even worse news for the Series - hope dem Philly's can take da rain... :)
Pretty light on the trick-or-treaters - somewhere around 70.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race 15', then a FRESH'Three Rivers', followed by a FRESH'Cold Case'.
NBC fills the night with the movie 'National Treasure'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a FRESH'Desperate Housewives', followed by a FRESH'Brothers & Sisters'.
The CW fills the night with the movie 'The Rage: Carrie 2'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'World Series - Game 4', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe some old 'Simpsons'.
MY has an old 'That 70s Shw', another old 'That 70s Show', an old 'House', and another old 'House'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'Criminal Minds', another 'Criminal Minds', and another 'Criminal Minds'.
AMC offers the movie 'Outbreak', followed by a FRESH'Mad Men'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Sue Perkins, Michael Buble
[1:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[2:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[3:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 6
[4:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 3
[5:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 7
[6:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 2
[7:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 8
[8:00 PM] The Last of the Mohicans
[10:30 PM] The Last of the Mohicans
[1:00 AM] Reversal Of Fortune
[3:30 AM] Britain's Biggest Spenders
[5:00 AM] BBC World News
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Scary Movie 3', followed by the movie 'Scary Movie', and 'The Jeff Dunham Show'.
FX has the movie 'Ghost Rider', followed by the movie 'Deja Vu'.
History has 'Nostradamus Effect', 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'Gangland', and another 'Gangland'.
IFC -
[6:05 AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:30 AM] Trauma
[8:15 AM] Face
[10:00 AM] Jab We Met
[12:30 PM] Welcome to the Family
[1:00 PM] Trauma
[2:35 PM] Face
[4:30 PM] Welcome to the Family
[5:00 PM] Quiet Cool
[6:30 PM] Shopping
[8:15 PM] China Moon
[10:00 PM] Arrested Development
[10:30 PM] Arrested Development
[11:00 PM] Mother Night
[1:00 AM] China Moon
[2:45 AM] Arrested Development
[3:15 AM] Arrested Development
[3:45 AM] Mother Night
[5:40 AM] Quiet Cool (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'V: The Final Battle', followed by the movie 'V: The Final Battle', again.
Singer Aretha Franklin performs with Annie Lennox (R) during the second of two 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame concerts in New York October 30, 2009.
Photo by Lucas Jackson
The cast of the quirky Fox TV show "Glee" will be presented with a Hollywood diversity award in November for their portrayal of a group of teen oddballs with a passion for song and dance.
The Diversity Awards committee said on Saturday that the "Glee" cast had won the favorite new diverse ensemble cast award for 2009.
The musical comedy series features an array of students in an uncool high school glee club, including a boy in a wheelchair, a geeky girl, a gay student, an Asian and an overweight African-American girl.
The Diversity Awards are presented annually by the Multicultural Motion Picture Association to promote story lines, characters and actors of all backgrounds in the Hollywood film and TV industry.
Actor Bill Murray arrives at the AFI Fest 2009 screening of his new film "Fantastic Mr. Fox" in Hollywood October 30, 2009. Murray provides the voice for character "Badger" in director Wes Anderson's first animated film.
Photo by Fred Prouser
On the big screen, the leader of the Dead Poets Society at an all-boys prep school was an inspirational teacher played by Robin Williams.
In real life, it's a balding amateur poet who drives around in his "Poemobile," visiting and documenting the graves of dead poets and calling attention to their works.
Walter Skold, founder of the Dead Poets Society of America, just finished a three-month road trip in which he visited the graves of 150 poets in 23 states. Skold boasts that he set a literary land speed record of 1.66 gpd (graves per day) over the course of his 15,000-mile journey.
While his graveside poetry readings - and occasional cemetery sleepovers - evoke the macabre, Skold insists his intentions are honorable.
Herbert Herbert Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl paid their respects to the ordinary people who were behind the peaceful revolution of 1989 that brought down the Berlin Wall at an emotional ceremony in Berlin on Saturday.
The three statesmen from the United States, Soviet Union and West Germany -- whose steady-handed leadership paved the way for the Wall's opening on November 9, 1989 -- recalled the heady events that led to the end of the Cold War at a ceremony attended by 1,800 people.
The reunion in Berlin of the three leaders at the center of the whirlwind of events kicked off a week of celebrations in the German capital marking the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9.
The three former leaders clearly enjoyed each other's company at their first reunion in many years -- even though Kohl was in a wheelchair and had difficulty speaking while Bush relied on the help of a cane to move about.
Lou Reed performs with Metallica at the 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame concert at Madison Square Garden, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009 in New York.
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Madonna has left Malawi after a nearly weeklong visit with her family, airport and charity officials said Saturday.
Officials said Madonna flew out of the southern African country on Friday. The 51-year-old celebrity arrived in the impoverished country on Sunday accompanied by her four children - daughters Lourdes and Mercy, and sons Rocco and David. Mercy and David were adopted from Malawi.
While in Malawi, she broke ground for her $15 million Raising Malawi Academy for Girls and visited the orphanage that cared for her son David before she adopted him.
Madonna's Raising Malawi, a charity founded in 2006 when she first visited the country, helps feed, educate and provide medical care for some of Malawi's orphans.
Former tennis star Andre Agassi has admitted the lion mane-style hairstyle he sported during the 1990s was actually a wig, in extracts from his autobiography published in British newspapers Saturday.
Agassi said he wore a hairpiece held together with pins in his first Grand Slam final, the 1990 French Open final, and blamed his concerns that it would fall apart for losing the match to Andres Gomez.
Before the match he prayed "not for victory, but that my hairpiece would not fall off", he writes in "Open".
He said he started to wear a wig to disguise hair loss.
Bette Midler along with David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills and Nash attend the annual Hulaween Gala supporting the New York Restoration Project at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, Friday, October 30, 2009.
Photo by Charles Sykes
It took 22 years, but U2 has broken its own attendance record for the best-attended single concert performance at a U.S. venue by one headliner.
The band's 360 Tour played the Pasadena, California, Rose Bowl on October 25 to a sellout crowd of 97,014 -- the highest attendance on record for one U.S. show by a single headliner based on box office totals reported to Billboard.
The old record was set on September 25, 1987, at the now-demolished John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia with a crowd of 86,145 in attendance for the band's Joshua Tree Tour.
Among the top five single-concert attendances on record in the U.S., the top three are all U2 performances. The third-highest attendance is also from the band's current tour, at its September 29 sellout at FedExField in Landover, Maryland, with 84,754.
Thousands of Icelanders lined up at McDonald's restaurants to order their last Big Macs before the U.S. fast-food chain abandons the crisis-hit island at midnight Saturday due to soaring costs.
The world's largest fast-food company said earlier this week that all three of its restaurants in Iceland, operated by franchisee Jon Ogmundsson, would shut down October 31.
The outlets have been packed since the announcement, with lines at one restaurant on the east side of the city backing up out the door and onto the street.
The fall of the banks sapped confidence in Iceland's economy and sent its currency, the crown, into freefall. McDonald's said the crown's weakness was part of the reason for its withdrawal, along with the high cost of importing food from abroad.
Japan's Ai Haruna, 37, is kissed by second runner-up Daniela Marques (L) of Brazil and first runner-up Kangsadal Wongdusadeekul of Thailand at the Miss International Queen 2009 transsexual beauty pageant in the Thai resort city of Pattaya, about 150 km (93 miles) southeast of Bangkok October 31, 2009.
Photo by Chaiwat Subprasom
A prosecutor has dropped a case connected to two Ohio police chiefs who were accused of snooping on the woman who bore twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick.
Special prosecutor Shawn Hervey said Friday he prefers to have Bruce Callarik testify in the other men's upcoming trials.
All three were charged with a scheme to steal items from the surrogate's eastern Ohio home and sell them to paparazzi.
Callarik had previously pleaded not guilty to complicity to receiving stolen property. His lawyer says he will testify truthfully but not necessarily for or against anyone.
The folks in Lantana, Fla. think the Postal Service would have to be nuts to close their post office and they're trying a coco-nutty way to prove it. Lantana's post office is one of more than 350 being studied for closure and residents have been mailing coconuts to Postmaster General John Potter along with requests that he spare their office.
It costs about $4 to mail a coconut, and postal officials said they have received a few hundred of the tropical nuts, which are being donated to a local food bank.
Officials had no comment Thursday on the future of the Lantana office.
A hand is seen through a slab of light transmitting concrete in Csongrad, 150 km (93 miles) east of Budapest October 28, 2009. Hungarian Aron Losonczi invented the light transmitting concrete in 2001 and will unveil the newest version of the product on Thursday.
Photo by Laszlo Balogh
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