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Album of the Day: Thursday July 11, 2025

"Look, I don’t usually pick favorites - except for this one. Whipped Cream & Other Delights? Smooth as an angel’s tush and hornier than a choir of goats. It’s the kind of album you play when you’re creating a new species… or just setting the mood in a shag-carpeted cloud den." - God

Today in history; 1955 The phrase "In God We Trust" was added to all US currency.

*Quotes by living, dead, or fictional people have been generated through the use of A.I.

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Feature Presentation: Thursday July 11, 2025

Pulp Fiction

1994

This film jumps around more than a caffeinated squirrel in a trampoline factory. One minute you’re watching Vincent (John Travolta) take his boss’s wife out for milkshakes and impromptu resuscitation, the next you’re in a basement watching a gimp and wondering where all your life choices went wrong. It’s the story of a hitman, a boxer, a briefcase, a foot massage, and several unfortunate misunderstandings involving bullets and upholstery, but I was on the edge of my seat like I accidentally sat on a loaded pistol. In the end, there's redemption, revenge, dancing, divine intervention, and Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) quoting the Bible with the intensity of a man who's just found out his church picnic was canceled. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll check your wallet… it will be gone.

Directed by Quentin Tarantino

Written by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary

Staring

John Travolta as Vincent Vega

Uma Thurman as Mia Wallace

Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield

Drink me: Thursty Thursday July 10, 2025

The Invisible Woman

An elegant, savory, spicy and botanical gin martini.

white peppercorn infused gin, blanco vermouth, orange bitters, and lemon juice coarse sea salt rim

Drink Me

Alchemy: Saturday July 5, 2025

Lum’s Chili Dogs

You’re going to love these chili dogs more than Jimmy Hoffa loved ice cream. It’s messy. It’s heavy. And it don’t pretend to be somethin’ it’s not. It’s meat, cheese, chili—done right. The secret? Left over dogs and burgers from the cookout the night before. The dogs revitalized and steamed with beer. The chili? Raised from the dead with spices and a day old burger patty, maybe it had cheese on it, it doesn’t matter. The tanginess of the cream cheese and parmesan mustard spread cuts through all that fat with sweet red pepper jelly to bring it all together in balance. It ain’t good for you, but that’s not the point. You don’t eat one of these because you’re watching your health—you eat it because sometimes, after everything, you need somethin’ warm and sloppy in your hands that reminds you you’re still here.

Recipes

Book of the Month: July 2025

Superman: The Red Son

by Mark Millar (Author) , Dave Johnson (Illustrator) , Kilian Plunkett (Contributor)

The Daily Planet, April 30, 2003 — Special Edition

"SUPERMAN: SOVIET SON?"
Global Icon Revealed to Be Champion of the U.S.S.R.

By Lois Lane, Senior Correspondent

Metropolis - The world was stunned today by the revelation that Superman, long thought to be a neutral force for good and protector of Earth, was revealed to be in fact a citizen of the Soviet Union and loyal defender of its regime.

The Man of Steel -previously a symbol of hope for all nations - first appeared publicly under the Soviet banner in Moscow, rescuing civilians from a nuclear mishap and receiving commendations from Premier Joseph Stalin himself. Dressed in a red-and-black iconic uniform, adorned with the hammer and sickle…

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