Marbles:

Marbles

Daily grind got you down …

printer consistently ignoring you …

endured pointless meetings that could easily have been an email …

waiting for the coffee pot to brew?

Take a break and watch some marbles drop into a dish.

It won’t solve your problems, but it will give your brain a break for the duration of a tune.

Speeded up because time is short, but not too short for a humorous distraction.

Video by Jack Kost.

2025.

It’s That F****** Cat Again! Productions.

Music credit:

Rossini - William Tell Overture - Finale - Arranged for Strings
By Gregor Quendel
from Pixabay.

On this day in movie history - Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace (2019):

Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace

a documentary directed and written by April Wright,

was released in the United States on October 10, 2019.
Music by Chris Wormer.

Cast:

Richard L. Fosbrink, Bob Boin, Jerald Gray, Matt Lambros, Leonard Maltin, Ross Melnick, Craig Morrison, Escott O. Norton, Rosemary Novellino-Mearns, David Strohmaier, Barbara Twist, Charles Chaplin, Jack Cushing, Douglas Fairbanks, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, D.W. Griffith, Joseph Henabery, Al Jolson, Bruce Lee, Vivien Leigh, Mike Leonard, Mary Pickford, Theodore Roosevelt, S.L. Rothafel, Mack Sennett, Barbara Stanwyck.

On this day in movie history - The Thing (2011):

The Thing

directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.,

written by Eric Heisserer,

based on the novella Frozen Hell aka Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr.,

was released in the United States on October 10, 2011.
The prequel to The Thing (1982), directed by John Carpenter.
Music by Marco Beltrami.

Cast:

Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Paul Braunstein, Trond Espen Seim, Kim Bubbs, Jørgen Langhelle, Jan Gunnar Røise, Stig Henrik Hoff, Kristofer Hivju, Jo Adrian Haavind, Carsten Bjørnlund, Jonathan Lloyd Walker, Ole Martin Aune Nilsen, Michael Brown.

On this day in television history - Pushing Daisies (2007):

Pushing Daisies

Season 1. Episode 2.

Episode entitled: Dummy.

Released October 10, 2007.

Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld.

Written by Bryan Fuller.

Series created by Bryan Fuller.

Music by Jim Dooley.

Narrated by Jim Dale.

Cast:

Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Chi McBride, Jim Dale, Kristin Chenoweth, Ellen Greene, Swoosie Kurtz, Patrick Fabian, Riki Lindhome, Jonathan Mangum, Omar Avila, Matt Braunger, Field Cate, Taji Coleman, Alex Endeshaw, Wesley Harris, Jon Eric Price, Sy Richardson, Gregory George Frank, Samantha Hanratty.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987 & 1992)

Star Trek: Enterprise (2001)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 1. Episode 3.

Episode entitled: Code of Honor.

Released October 10, 1987.

Directed by Russ Mayberry, Les Landau.

Written by Katharyn Powers, Michael Baron, Johnny Dawkins.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Fred Steiner.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Jessie Lawrence Ferguson, Karole Selmon, James Louis Watkins, Michael Rider, James G. Becker, Darrell Burris, Dexter Clay, Jeffrey Deacon, Nora Leonhardt, Tim McCormack, Lorine Mendell, Bernie Pock, Richard Sarstedt, Ken Warfield.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 6. Episode 4.

Episode entitled: Relics.

Released October 10, 1992.

Directed by Alexander Singer.

Written by Ronald D. Moore, Brannon Braga, René Echevarria, Naren Shankar.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Lanei Chapman, Erick Weiss, James Doohan, Stacie Foster, Ernie Mirich, Majel Barrett, Joe Baumann, Michael Braveheart, Cullen G. Chambers, Tracee Cocco, John Copage, Debbie David, Hal Donahue, Gunnel Eriksson, Jack Gilroy, Grace Harrell, Melanie Hathorn, Christi Haydon, Mark Lentry, Christina Wegler Miles, Keith Rayve, Dee Giffin Scott, Victor Sein, John Alex Tampoya, Mikki Val, Guy Vardaman, Anne Woodberry.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Season 1. Episode 4.

Episode entitled: Strange New World.

Released October 10, 2001.

Directed by David Livingston.

Written by Michael/Mike Sussman, Phyllis Strong, Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, Stephen Beck, André Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, André Bormanis.

Created by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Opening theme song: Faith of the Heart, performed by Russell Watson.

Closing theme: Archer's Theme, by Dennis McCarthy.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Kellie Waymire, Henri Lubatti, Reynaldo/Rey Gallegos, Jef Ayres, Jane Bordeaux, Mark Correy, Evan English, Jack Guzman, Mark Major, Pablo Soriano, Gary Weeks.

On this day in television history - Space 1999 (1976):

Space 1999

Season 2. Episode 6.

Episode entitled: New Adam New Eve.

Released October 10, 1976.

Directed by Charles Crichton.

Written by Terence Feely.

Series created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson.

Music by Derek Wadsworth.

Cast:

Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt, Nick Tate, Guy Rolfe, Bernard Kay, Albin Pahernik, Annie Lambert, Barbara Wise, Yasuko Nagazumi, Glenda Allen, Robert Reeves, Terry Yorke.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958):

M Squad

Season 2. Episode 4.

Episode entitled: The Refugee.

Released October 10, 1958.

Directed by James Neilson.

Written by Barry Trivers.

Music by Herman Stein.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Judith Braun, Mark Neiman, Don Nagel, Jean Del Val, Ben Morris, Rush Williams, Allen Pinson.

Born on this day – Chris Penn:

Chris Penn

Actor

October 10, 1965 – January 24, 2006

Credits:

13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2007); AFP: American Fighter Pilot (2002); After the Sunset (2004); Aftermath (2013); All the Right Moves (1983); American Pie: Beneath the Crust Vol. 2 (2003); At Close Range (1986); Beethoven's 2nd (1993); Best of Chris Isaak / Segment: Somebody's Crying (2006); Best of the Best (1989); Best of the Best II (1993); Blvd. of Broken Dreams (2007); Bread and Roses (2000); Cannes Man (1996); CBS Cares (2000–2015); Cement (2000); Charlie and the Talking Buzzard (1979); Chicago Hope (1995); Chris Isaak: Somebody's Crying (1995); Close Up (1999); Corazón de... (2006); Corky Romano (2001); CSI: Miami (2003); Dead Man's Walk (1996); Deceiver (1997); E! True Hollywood Story (2010); Empire of the Censors (1995); Entourage (2005); Everwood (2005); Faerie Tale Theatre (1987); Family Attraction (1998); Fist of the North Star (1995); Flagpole Special (1998); Footloose (1984); Footloose: A Modern Musical (2004); From Bomont to the Big Apple: An Interview with Sarah Jessica Parker (2011); Future Kick (1991); Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004); Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition (2021); Holly (2006); Hollywood Lives (2009); Imaginary Crimes (1994); Jay-Z Feat. Ja Rule & Amil: Can I Get A... (1998); Josh and S.A.M. (1993); Juarez: Stages of Fear (2006); Jump! (2007); Kenny Loggins: Footloose (Version 2) (1984); King of Sorrow (2007); Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2001); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993–1996); Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2005); Le Hard Corner (2018); Leather Jackets (1991); Let's Dance! Kevin Bacon on 'Footloose' (2011); Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country (1993); Made in U.S.A. (1987); Madonna: Live to Tell (1986); Magnum, P.I. (1982); 'Masked & Anonymous' Exposed (2003); Masked and Anonymous (2003); Mobsters (1991); Moviewatch (1993); Mr. Devon Sawa (Aka Scott from Now and Then) (2006); Mulholland Falls (1996); Murder by Numbers (2002); Nobody's Heroes (1983); North Beach and Rawhide (1985); On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish' (2005); One Tough Cop (1998); Pale Rider (1985); Papertrail (1998); Redemption (2002); Remembering Willard (2011); Reservoir Dogs (1992); Reservoir Dogs: Deleted Scenes (1992); Reservoir Dogs: Original Interviews (2002); Return from the River Kwai (1989); Revealed with Jules Asner (2002); Rumble Fish (1983); Rush Hour (1998); Rush Hour 3 (2007); Sacred Cargo (1995); Shelter Island (2003); Short Cuts (1993); Starsky & Hutch (2004); Staunch T.V. (2018–2023); Stealing Harvard (2002); The 78th Annual Academy Awards (2006); The Boys Club (1996); The Boys Club: Placebo - The Bitter End (2010); The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire (2003); The Contender (2005); The Darwin Awards (2006); The Florentine (1999); The Funeral (1996); The Last Sentinel (2007); The Music of Chance (1993); The Pickle (1993); The Wild Life (1984); The Young Riders (1990); To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995); True Romance (1993); Under the Hula Moon (1995); VH1 Goes Inside (2004); Vice (2008); Who Do You Think You're Fooling? (1994); Will & Grace (2003).

Born on this day – Kirsty MacColl:

Kirsty MacColl

Singer

Songwriter

October 10, 1959 – December 18, 2000

Credits:

Albums:

30:30 The Essential Collection (2013); A New England: The Very Best of Kirsty MacColl (2013); All I Ever Wanted (2014); All I Ever Wanted: The Anthology (2014); Can’t Stop Killing You (1993); Days (1988 - 1991) (2018); Desperate Character (1981); Electric Landlady (1991); Electric Landlady (Deluxe Edition) (1991); From Croydon to Cuba: An Anthology (2005); Galore (1995); Kite (1989); Kite (Deluxe Edition) (1989); Live At The Jazz Café, London, 12 October 1999 (2023); Real (2023); See That Girl (2023); See That Girl 1979–2000 (2023); The Best of Kirsty MacColl (2005); The Essential Collection (1993); The One and Only (2001); The Real MacColl (1991); The Stiff Singles Collection (2006); The Stiff Years (2005); Titanic Days (1993); Tropical Brainstorm (2000); What Do Pretty Girls Do? (1998).

Songs:

All I Ever Wanted; Angel; Can't Stop Killing You; Caroline; Days; Dear John; Don't Come the Cowboy with Me Sonny Jim!; Fairytale of New York; Free World; He's on the Beach; I Want Out; In These Shoes?; Innocence; Keep Your Hands off My Baby; Mambo de la Luna; Miss Otis Regrets; My Affair; A New England; Perfect Day; See That Girl; Terry; There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis; They Don't Know; Walking Down Madison; You Caught Me Out.

Movies, television and video:

A Question of Pop (2000); Adore (2013); Angela and Friends (2009); Any Time Now (2002); Bargain Hunt (2018); BBC Music Live 2000 (2000); Beautiful People (1999); Billy Bragg: Sexuality (1991); Boomers (2015); Britain's Favourite Christmas Songs (2011); Cannonball (2017); Completely Pogued (1991); Cow (2021); Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan (2020); Cuck (2019); De verschrikkelijke jaren tachtig (2022); Dinner at Noon (1991); Doom Patrol (2019); Dream Stuffing (1984); EastEnders (2000–2022); EastEnders: Back to Ours (2015); F.C. De Kampioenen (1991); Folk Britannia (2006); Folk Hibernia (2007); French and Saunders (1990); Fresh Meat (2016); Get It Together (1981); Girls (2016); Good Morning Britain (2017–2019); Hittimittari (1984); Hotel Babylon (2007); I Want You (1998); If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story (2001); If It Ain't Stiff (2007); Kinky Boots (2005); Kirstie's Handmade Britain (2011); Kirstie's Handmade Christmas (2014); Kirsty MacColl: A New England (1984); Kirsty MacColl: Days (1989); Kirsty MacColl: Don't Come the Cowboy with Me, Sonny Jim! (1990); Kirsty MacColl: Freeworld (1989); Kirsty MacColl: He's on the Beach (1985); Kirsty MacColl: Terry (1983); Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl (2001); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993); Later... With Jools Holland (1992–2000); Live from Studio Five (2009); Mad Love (1995); Midsomer Murders (2013); Misfits (2009); Moving Story (1994–1995); MTV 80s - Top 100 Forgotten Gems of the 80s! (2024); MTV 80s - Top 100 Hits of 80s Wonder Women! (2024); Musikladen (1984); National Geographic Explorer (1985); Never Mind the Buzzcocks (1997 / 2000); Not Going Out (2017–2019); Our Nixon (2013); P.S. I Love You (2007); Peter Andre's Xmas Extravaganza Top 50 (2014); Picking up the Pieces (1998); Picture Perfect (1997); Rage (1994); Razzmatazz (1981); Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter (1990); Reeling in the Years (1999); Run All Night (2015); Sex and the City (2001); She's Having a Baby (1988); Sings the Great American Songbook (2010); Something Else (1981); Sounds of the 80s (2015); Talking Heads: (Nothing But) Flowers (1988); Tattoo Fixers (2017); Teachers (2002); Ted Lasso (2021); The 80s - Music's Greatest Decade? (2021); The Adventures of Mole (1995); The Catherine Tate Show (2004); The End of the Tour (2015); The Ghosts of Oxford Street (1991); The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022); The Jack Docherty Show (1997); The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl: Fairytale of New York (1987); The Pogues: Live at the Town and Country (1988); The Project (2023); The Roxy (1987); The Sara Cox Show (2019); The Story of Fairytale of New York (2005); The Vicar of Dibley (1996); Top of the Pops (1980–1991); Tracey Takes On... (1996–1999); Tracey Ullman: Terry (1985); Tracey Ullman: They Don't Know (1983); Tracy Beaker Returns (2012); Who Killed Kirsty MacColl? (2004); Wogan (1985–1991); Women in Rock (1986).

Born on this day – Daniel Massey:

Daniel Massey

Actor

October 10, 1933 – March 25, 1998

Born on this day – Dana Elcar:

Dana Elcar

Actor

October 10, 1927 – June 6, 2005

Born on this day – Richard Jaeckel:

Richard Jaeckel

Actor

October 10, 1926 – June 14, 1997

Born on this day – Ed Wood:

Ed Wood

Director

Actor

Writer

October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978

Born on this day – Janis Carter:

Janis Carter

Actress

October 10, 1913 – July 30, 1994

Credits:

A Thousand and One Nights (1945); A Woman of Distinction (1950); Addio Mimí! (1949); And Baby Makes Three (1949); Bud Boetticher: A Documentary (2020); Cadet Girl (1941); Center Stage (1954); Double Profile (1954); Feather Your Nest (1954); Flying Leathernecks (1951); Framed (1947); Girl in the Case (1944); Girl Trouble (1942); I Love Trouble (1948); I Married an Angel (1942); Just Off Broadway (1942); Lady of Burlesque (1943); Lights Out (1950); Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949); My Forbidden Past (1951); Night Editor (1946); One Mysterious Night (1944); One Way to Love (1946); Panama Hattie (1954); Santa Fe (1951); Secret Agent of Japan (1942); Slightly French (1949); Star of the Family (1950); Starlight Theatre (1950); Suspense (1953); Swing Out the Blues (1943); That Other Woman (1942); The Best of Broadway (1954); The Elgin Hour (1955); The Fighting Guardsman (1945); The Ghost That Walks Alone (1944); The Half-Breed (1952); The Mark of the Whistler (1944); The Missing Juror (1944); The Notorious Lone Wolf (1946); The Power of the Whistler (1945); The Sergeant and the Spy (1954); The Woman on Pier 13 (1949); Thunder Birds: Soldiers of the Air (1942); Together Again (1944); Who Is Hope Schuyler? (1942); Willys Theatre Presenting Ben Hecht's Tales of the City (1953).

Born on this day – Johnny Green:

Johnny Green

Composer

Songwriter

Musical arranger

Conductor

Pianist

October 10, 1908 – May 15, 1989

Born on this day – Jane Winton:

Jane Winton

Actress

Dancer

Opera soprano

Writer

Painter

October 10, 1905 – September 22, 1959

Credits:

Books:

Park Avenue Doctor; Passion Is the Gale.

Movies and television:

A Notorious Affair (1930); Across the Pacific (1926); Backstage (1937); Bare Knees (1928); Burning Daylight (1928); Captain Lash (1929); Don Juan (1926); Footloose Widows (1926); Hell's Angels (1930); Hired Wife (1934); His Supreme Moment (1925); Honeymoon Flats (1928); In the Next Room (1930); Lonesome Ladies (1927); Melody of Love (1928); Millionaires (1926); My Official Wife (1926); My Old Dutch (1926); Nothing to Wear (1928); Perch of the Devil (1927); Scandal (1929); Show Girl in Hollywood (1930); Sunrise (1927); The Beloved Rogue (1927); The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929); The Crane Poison Case (1932); The Crystal Cup (1927); The Fair Co-Ed (1927); The Furies (1930); The Gay Old Bird (1927); The Honeymoon Express (1926); The Light Fantastic (1935); The Love Toy (1926); The Monkey Talks (1927); The Passionate Quest (1926); The Patsy (1928); The Poor Nut (1927); The Week End Mystery (1931); Three Women (1924); Tomorrow's Love (1925); Upstream (1927); Why Girls Go Back Home (1926); Yellow Lily (1928).

Born on this day – Helen Hayes:

Helen Hayes

Actress

October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993

Credits:

Glitter (1985); Murder with Mirrors (1985); Highway to Heaven (1984); A Caribbean Mystery (1983); Love, Sidney (1982); Murder Is Easy (1982); The Love Boat (1980); A Family Upside Down (1978); Candleshoe (1977); Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (1976); Victory at Entebbe (1976); Hawaii Five-O (1975); One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975); The Snoop Sisters (1972–1974); Herbie Rides Again (1974); Circle of Fear (1972); Harvey (1972); Here's Lucy (1972); Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (1971); NET Playhouse (1964); Airport (1970); The Front Page (1970); Arsenic and Old Lace (1969); Tarzan (1967); The Ed Sullivan Show (1965); The Christophers (1963); The Bell Telephone Hour (1960); Play of the Week (1959–1960); Cradle Song (1960); Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (1960); Kraft Theatre (1954–1959); Third Man on the Mountain (1959); Ah, Wilderness! (1959); Omnibus (1952–1958); The Alcoa Hour (1957); The Eighty Yard Run (1957); Anastasia (1956); Producers' Showcase (1955); The Best of Broadway (1954–1955); The Motorola Television Hour (1954); Medallion Theatre (1953); Main Street to Broadway (1953); My Son John (1952); Schlitz Playhouse (1951); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950–1951); Robert Montgomery Presents (1951); The Prudential Family Playhouse (1950); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Vanessa, Her Love Story (1935); What Every Woman Knows (1934); Crime Without Passion (1934); Night Flight (1933); Another Language (1933); The White Sister (1933); The Son-Daughter (1932); A Farewell to Arms (1932); Arrowsmith (1931); The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931); The Dancing Town (1928); The Weavers of Life (1917); Jean and the Calico Doll (1910).

Born on this day – Carlo Campogalliani:

Carlo Campogalliani

Writer

Actor

Director

October 10, 1885 – August 10, 1974

Born on this day – Giuseppe Verdi:

Giuseppe Verdi

Composer

October 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901

Recommended reading – Frozen Hell (2019):

Frozen Hell

By John W. Campbell Jr.

Published 2019.

Published by Wildside Press.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1479442828

ISBN-13: 978-1479442829

Description:

In 1938, acclaimed science fiction author John W. Campbell published the novella Who Goes There?, about a team of scientists in Antarctica who discover and are terrorized by a monstrous, shape-shifting alien entity. The story would later be adapted into John Carpenter's iconic movie The Thing (following an earlier film adaptation in 1951). The published novella was actually an abridged version of Campbell's original story, called Frozen Hell, which had to be shortened for publication.

The Frozen Hell manuscript remained unknown and unpublished for decades, and it was only recently rediscovered. Frozen Hell expands the Thing story dramatically, giving vital backstory and context to an already incredible tale. We are pleased and honored to offer Frozen Hell to you now, as Campbell intended it. You will be among the first people to ever read this completed version of the story.