Local music store Empire Records is about to be sold to become yet another flavorless Music Town. Unless the quirky … More
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Max Skinner inherits a bad winery in Provence. (National Drink Wine Day: Feb 18)
Author Peter Mayle has a thing for southern France, and I can’t say I blame him. Several of his novels … More
Basement Week: Assistant Mayor Bellweather gives info to Officer Hopps and Nick Wilde. (Zootopia)
Powerful people are sent to basements. So to give hope to those us who live/work in them, we are featuring … More
Basement Week: Tina is demoted to the MACUSA Wand Permit Office. (Fantastic Beasts)
Powerful people are sent to basements. So to give hope to those us who live/work in them, we are featuring … More
Basement Week: Milton is sent to the basement without his red stapler. (Office Space)
Powerful people are sent to basements. So to give hope to those us who live/work in them, we are featuring … More
It’s not Christmas until Ebenezer buys a huge AF turkey.
What’s Christmas without your favorite version of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens? Death, humor, supernatural creatures, time travel–this story has everything! … More
Charlie goes to his first real party (Oct 28, 1991).
“Five minutes of a lifetime were truly spent, and we felt young in a good way. I have since bought … More
Phileas Fogg wagers that he can travel around the world in 80 days. (Oct 2, 1872)
It was an eventful day for the rigidly scheduled Mr. Fogg. I mean, it’s a wonder he was able to get … More
A Monet is stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (late Sept)
A group of bungling thieves-for-hire sneak into the museum by hiding in a statue of a horse and later pose … More
The First Week of August
“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the … More
Fictional Almanac 