Today in Rock History
June 5, 1986
The iconic “Twist and Shout” parade scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was set on June 5th and filmed during Chicago’s real Von Steuben Day parade. Director John Hughes cleverly integrated the scene into the actual annual German-American parade, using real participants and spectators. Matthew Broderick performed on a float while thousands joined in singing and dancing. The sequence remains one of the most joyful and memorable moments in 1980s cinema.
🚨 NEW: Fox’s @BritHume CALLS OUT fired CBS host Scott Pelley: “I’ve worked in this TV news business for more than half a century and I’ve worked for many different bosses, many I liked and admired, and a few I did not. But I’ve always found a way to work with every one of them as best I could.”
“I never thought myself as some great guardian of journalistic integrity who wasn’t open to the ideas of others who I might at first disagree. And I’ve never had a problem finding a way to do the work in a way to please me and whatever boss I had - or at least satisfy them.”
“These 60 Minutes correspondents, led by Scott Pelley, seem to think they are the guardians of journalistic integrity. But it’s worth remembering how that show works.”
“Like all these TV magazine shows, as prominent as the correspondents who narrate on cameras seem to be, these shows are producer driven and these correspondents become famous largely because of the good work of producers who do the interviews, writing, supervise the shooting and editing of the pieces. The correspondents get to become big stars that way on a show that has the best lead-in on TV - the NFL on Sundays.”
“So these people are a little self-important to say the least.”
Doug Ellin, creator of the hit show 'Entourage,' is disgusted by LA's decline in recent years and says he publicly supports Spencer Pratt in his campaign for LA mayor.
Ellin's Beverly Hills home was burglarized by masked intruders, and he shares that while 5 years ago he didn't have to lock his door, now he has "15 cameras," "2 German Shepherds," and "3 legal guns."
"I know they were animals because they invaded my house. I know I don't care what their excuses are, like a lot of you f*cking care. I know invaders of homes should get 20 years...Everyone in my neighborhood has got the same problem: they're f*cking all putting cameras and high-end security guards because we're all getting broken into. It's not made up, it's not false, and this city has collapsed in the last 5 years. There is no f*cking denying it unless you have an agenda, and I don't know what that is," Ellin says.
"But, you say, 'Oh, Spencer Pratt has no experience!'...What experience did Karen Bass have?...We want to fix this place because we don't want to be forced out. I'm one of the people who made this city look great! I did it for years. I glorified it. I meet people all the time that moved here because of the show that I f*cking created—and they hate it here now. HATE!"
Ellin's comments appear to be, at least in part, directed at the LA Times, who recently published an article, "L.A. is safer than it's been in decades, but crime is an issue dominating the mayor's race."
For his part, Pratt shared Ellin's video to his Instagram Story last week. Safety has been the central theme of Pratt's mayoral campaign.
San Antonio wins the series, 4-3!
▪️ Wemby's 41/24 and Harper's 24 in 2OT G1
▪️ Wemby scores 33, SAS evens up series in G4
▪️ A full-team effort at home in G6 forces G7
▪️ Wemby's 22 and Champagnie's 20 leads San Antonio back to the NBA Finals for the first time since 2014!
The Spurs will face the Knicks in the 2026 NBA Finals starting Wednesday, June 3 at 8:30pm/et on ABC!
"We have to be totally honest about this. Nobody wants to hear this in OKC: San Antonio's been the better team. Oklahoma City is looking up."
Despite winning game 2, @colincowherd thinks the Thunder could be in trouble
The American meatloaf was the Wednesday-night meal of every working- and middle-class family in the country for about ninety years.
The recipe: two pounds of 70/30 chuck, ground that morning by the butcher down the road. One onion, finely chopped. Two cloves of garlic. Two eggs. A cup of breadcrumbs from yesterday's loaf, torn up and dried in a low oven. A cup of whole milk. A spoonful of Worcestershire. Salt and black pepper. A handful of parsley from the back garden. A topping: half a cup of ketchup, two spoonfuls of brown sugar, a dash of cider vinegar.
The mother mixed it with her hands, because a wooden spoon would not get the breadcrumbs through the meat properly, and because her own mother had taught her that the mixing was where the meatloaf was decided. The mixture went into a loaf pan. The glaze went on top. Into the oven at 350°F for an hour.
By half past five the kitchen smelled of beef, onion, and caramelising ketchup, and the children, hearing it from upstairs, knew without being told that it was Wednesday.
A meatloaf served four for dinner and two for sandwiches the next day. Thirty-five minutes of work. The cheapest hot meal a family could put on a table.
A 2026 family of four, on a Wednesday at half past five, is more likely to be eating a Hello Fresh kit assembled from a cardboard box by a parent who got home at twenty past, or a frozen lasagne reheated in a microwave by a teenager who has not seen the rest of the household since breakfast.
The meatloaf is not dead. The 70/30 chuck is at any butcher who will grind it on request. The pan is in the cupboard.
The recipe is in the cookbook.
The Wednesday is still there.
Brinker International CEO Kevin Hochman, who owns Chili's, says they saw what other restaurants were doing with Shrinkflation
So they decided to do the opposite at Chili's
- They researched hundreds of chicken sandwiches
- Made theirs 80% bigger than the leading fast food's premium chicken sandwich
- Included it in their 3 for Me menu at $10.99
- Included unlimited chips and salsa
- Included bottomless drinks
- Included bottomless fries
“We're selling 161% more sandwiches today than we were pre the new platform. So we couldn't be more excited about fighting shrinkflation with Chili's. And it's working so far”
This is amazing. Finally a company who cares about the customer
Most downtown Seattle businesses are GONE because of leftist rule.
Starbucks
Old Navy
The Loft
And many more GONE.
They left because of crime and homelessness & now most of downtown Seattle is VACANT.
How SAD.
I don’t think people understand just how much of an existential crisis Democrats are in. If they don’t gain control of the House, Senate, Presidency, pack the Supreme Court, re-mandate racial gerrymandering, and give illegals mass amnesty by 2032, they will all but die as a nationally competitive political party.
With the VRA being overturned we will net at least 15 seats and the census will give us like a dozen more, as well as forcing democrats to redraw their seats being bolstered by illegals, making them more republican. This will make the house all but impossible to win for Dems.
Then the senate will become increasingly hard for them to win as states like Nevada keep shifting red and republicans slowly keep picking better candidates.
And the nail in the coffin? The census will make it all but impossible for dems to win the presidency unless they win the popular vote by at least 6 points.
We’re witnessing the last gasps of the satanic ideology known as leftism. We will win.
PLEASE READ THIS: The congressional redistricting in Tennessee has nothing to do with race. I live in Memphis. This is the reality of the situation:
Rep. Steven Cohen (D-TN) - a white dude - has represented Memphis in Congress for nearly 20 years.
During his tenure, Republicans nominated a BLACK WOMAN as their choice FIVE times.
Democrats could have elected a black woman but she was the wrong political persuasion. So, my question to the black Democrats - did you deny Charlotte Bergmann her seat in Congress because of her skin color or her gender?
Facts matter.
Memphis Democrats loathe black Republicans more than they do white Republicans.