Just a guess but you're probably not the guy at the party with the lamp shade on his head.
Seriously all the real history is totally accessible in Salem and so is all this Halloween inspired fun.
Some of us think Halloween is the best celebration of the year.
Salem simply grabbed it with both hands and milked it year…

There isn't one?

Thanks for the tip!

or FUN!

Lighten up!
Both of ya.

Too soon?

and yet…

what bothers me most about all this is that the people who died weren't witches!

I think most of the country would be thrilled to earn the average annual salary found in the North Shore of Massachusetts.

I'll just settle for Universal Health Care, Gay Rights and the end of the Confederate Flag over public buildings.

Nice piece of writing.

Genius!

I'm just a fan of statues.
Too many people just walk by them without checking them out.
My favorite is the Ether Monument on Boston Common. It's a massive statue and fountain. Part of the inscription reads :
To commemorate that the inhaling of ether causes insensibility to pain. First proved to the world at the Mass.…

There's a 10 foot tall statue of Ford in his home town Portland Maine.
How many movie directors have a statue?

I stopped reading after the first paragraph because I thought the bit being described was very, very funny.

Yes.
It peaked at 40 on the Billboard album charts back in the day.
Compared to Saturday Night Fever (which still sells well) or some other pop and rock oriented soundtracks it was a relative dog.
It's the original Stillwater tracks that quite literally went nowhere and brought the movie down.
So not exactly A Hard Days…

If it was a movie about a shark in the water then I would agree with you but it was about a rock journalist covering a rock band and his rock critic mentor.
BTW Jaws has a better soundtrack than Almost Famous.

Let's call it mash-up.

It's Kathy Najimy's performance that makes that sketch.
She was very funny playing a person in abject grief.
The difficulty factor is off the charts if it was an olympic diving competition.

"There’s a point early on where cartoon birds fly near Amy as she sings about being a princess, and I think it’s a deliberate reference to Enchanted, which is one of those movies about princesses that plays with the traditional princess stereotype without actually dismantling them."