Dancing naked at Halloween

It's Odin's day … Fall's full transition is under way here in TulseyTown. Moderate Southerlies will bring strong thunderstorms to the area tonight. Dawn tomorrow will greet us with Northerly chill, with a week’s worth of rains ahead.

Getting it right is more important than getting it fast. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse, 10.30.2024.

It's Fred Friendly's birth date. An outspoken advocate for fairness and ethics in journalism the pioneering broadcast journalist and former President of CBS News, he was born in 1915 New York City.

The poet Ezra Pound was born on this date in 1885 Hailey, Idaho, and grew up near Philadelphia.

Orson Welles' infamous "War of the Worlds" Halloween broadcast was aired by CBS Radio on the evening of today's date in 1938. The program caused great alarm—though reports of a nationwide panic were unfounded—as some listeners feared a genuine invasion from Mars . It was not the “mass hysteria” reaction later hyped by print media.

Fall

Trees are throwing all their clothes to the ground,

dancing Halloween naked in honor

of a new moon.

– jab