Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Magazine Cover of the Week

TV Guide 
March 9, 1963 

(Donna Douglass and Buddy Ebsen of the Beverly Hillbillies)

The Beverly Hillbillies was the #1 show in prime time network programming for the 1962-63 season and aired at 9pm on Wednesday nights on CBS.


Your Calvin and Hobbes of the Day (03/09/2016)


Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Old Time Radio Show of the Week

The Mysterious Traveler
"Death is the Visitor"
August 25th 1946

We're going to pay a visit to the home of Albert and Louise Jordan, the nicest couple you could hope to meet. The story begins at the Jordan home on a late summer night. Albert Jordan is asleep and is having a nightmare in which his mother-in-law torments and taunts him. Louise awakens him to ease his nightmare and warns him to please be quiet because his mother-in-law needs a good night's sleep for her trip tomorrow.

1964 NBA MVP


Oscar Robertson 
(Cincinnati Royals)
1964 NBA MVP

31.4 points per game
840 field goals made
868 Assists
85%  Free throw pct.
9 rebounds per game

Led the Royals to the Eastern Conference Finals against the Boston Celtics.

Sunday, March 6, 2016

NY Times Bestseller List (03/06/2016)

New York Times Bestseller List
Hard Back Fiction
Top 10
Week Ending March 6th 2016



10 - Rogue Lawyer - John Grisham
(18 weeks on list)

9  -  Go Set A Watchman - Harper Lee
(30 weeks on list)

8  -  My Name Is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout
(6 weeks on list)

7  -  Find Her - Lisa Gardner
(2 weeks on list)

6  -  NYPD Red 4 - James Patterson and Marshall Karp
(4 weeks on list)

5  -  Brotherhood In Death - J.D. Robb
(3 weeks on list)

4  -  The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
(51 weeks on list)

3  -  The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
(58 weeks on list)

2  -  All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(94 weeks on list)

1  -  Cometh The Hour - Jeffrey Archer
(Debut)
The sixth and penultimate book of the Clifton Chronicles brings the Cliftons and the Barringtons into the 1970s.


Top 25 of Japan Billboard Hot 100 (2016/03/07)


Top 25 
Week Ending March 7th 2016

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Magazine Cover of the Week

TIME Magazine 
Person of the Year 2003
The American Soldier



NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) 02/28/2016

New York Times Bestseller List
Hardback Fiction
Top 10
Week Ending February 28th 2016


10 - Breakdown - Johnathan Kellerman
(2 weeks on list)
The psychologist Alex Delaware and the L.A.P.D. Lt. Milo Sturgis search for the missing son of a troubled actress.

9  -  Blue - Danielle Steel
(4 weeks on list)

8  -  The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah 
(50 weeks on list)

7  -  My Name is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout
(5 weeks on list)

6  -  The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
(57 weeks on list)

5  -  All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(93 weeks on list)

4  -  Find Her - Lisa Gardner
(Debut)
The Boston detective D. D. Warren hunts for a missing woman who was kidnapped and abused as a college student and may have become a vigilante.

3  -  NYPD Red 4 - James Patterson and Marshall Karp
(3 weeks on list)

2  -  Brotherhood in Death - J.D. Robb
(2 weeks on list)  (#1 last week)
Lt. Eve Dallas of the NYPD helps a friend and her husband solve a mystery involving politics and real estate.

1  -  Morning Star - Pierce Brown
(Debut)
In Book 3 of the Red Rising trilogy, set in a dystopian future, Darrow incites a rebellion.