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Album of the Day: Friday August 15, 2025
Slits
Cut (1979)
Cut is the debut studio album by English punk band the Slits, released on 7 September 1979.
Instant Hit
So Tough
Spend, Spend, Spend
Shoplifting
FM
Newtown
Ping Pong Affair
Love und Romance
Typical Girls
Adventures Close to Home
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Liebe and Romanze
Feature Presentation: Friday August 15, 2025
Jennifer’s Body
(2009)
This is a story involving teenagers, unspeakable evil, eyeliner, and the worst school dance since junior high. The trouble starts in the sleepy town of Devil’s Kettle, which really should’ve been the first red flag, when Jennifer goes out with a rock band whose music is so bad that they think sacrificing a virgin would boost their careers. Unfortunately for them, Jennifer is as far from a virgin as Gandhi is to a cruise ship buffet, and literally opens a portal to hell. As her best friend, Needy - that’s really her name - starts to put the pieces together between pep rallies and English class after Jennifer starts levitating, vomiting black goo, and developing a taste for human flesh, she realizes it’s probably just a TikTok challenge everything comes to a head. Now Jennifer, your typical high school cheerleader: popular, stylish, and possessed by a flesh-eating demon, develops a taste for varsity quarterbacks and band geeks. Will these teens learn the lesson of the dangers of peer pressure, demonic possession, and indie bands with poor ritual planning?
Directed by Karyn Kusama
Written by Diablo Cody
Staring
Megan Fox as Jennifer
Amanda Seyfried as Needy
Adam Brody as Nikolai Wolf
Midnight Movie: Saturday August 9, 2025
The Toxic Avenger
1976
This story takes place in the quaint little town called Tromaville, a place with charm, character, and an unusually high number of trucks driving around with open steel drums marked HAZARDOUS WASTE. When a mild-mannered janitor, Melvin, becomes a victim of bullies’ prank and swan dives into an open barrel of toxic waste, he becomes - The Toxic Avenger! A vigilante with the body of Hulk Hogan with a skin condition, a tutu, and a desire to clean up crime in town faster than a Roomba with a vendetta. Corrupt cops, psycho thugs, even the mayor are all taken down by this mop-wielding mutant with a heart of gold and the skin texture of reheated oatmeal. Come and see justice just the way it’s meant to be: messy, radioactive, and mopped floor to ceiling.
Directed by Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman
Written by Joe Ritter, Lloyd Kaufman, Gay Partington Terry
Staring
Mitch Cohen as The Toxic Avenger
Jennifer Babtist as Wanda
Cindy Manion as Julie
Drink me: Thursty Thursday August 14, 2025
Mister Fantastic
An effervescent champagne orange blossom martini
champagne, london dry gin, dry curaçao, elder flower liquor, ginger liquor, and orange blossom water
Alchemy: Sunday August 10, 2025
Don Lino’s Shrimp and Strawberry Tacos
Shrimp and strawberry tacos, huh? Lemme tell ya somethin’, kid - on paper, it sounds like somethin’ you’d feed to the dolphins you don’t like. But you take that sweet, soft strawberry, you pair it with a nice, tender shrimp - lightly grilled, none of this rubbery garbage - and suddenly, it’s like a peace treaty between two flavors that were sworn enemies.
It’s risky, it’s bold, and yeah, it’s a little weird. But sometimes in this business, the food business, you gotta make alliances you never thought you’d make. Even if it means a fruit and a crustacean sharin’ the same tortilla.
Alchemy: Monday August 4, 2025
Pappas Beach Crack
Alright, so picture this, man - I'm off duty, the surf’s glassy, and I’m holding this insane snack. It's like catching a perfect wave made outta ice cream cones stuffed with sweet chaos. You’ve got milk chocolate melting into peanut butter cups, Twix breaking every rule of candy law, and then - boom! - Swedish Fish just swimming in outta nowhere. Honey roasted peanuts crunch like an unexpected drop-in, and Lucky Charms marshmallows? Pure, sugary stoke.
It’s reckless. It’s lawless. It shouldn’t work... but it totally does. Just like skydiving without a chute and hoping for the best. And somehow, it lands.
Book of the Month: August 2025
The Daily Bugle, November 5, 1982 — Special Edition
"MUTANTS IN THE CROSSHAIRS”
TRUTH BEHIND Stryker’s CRUSADE
By Eddie Brock, Daily Bugle Staff Writer
In a chilling display of zealotry masked as faith, Reverend William Stryker—former military man turned televangelist—stands at the center of a rising wave of anti-mutant violence. Under the banner of his so-called “ministry,” Stryker has unleashed a campaign that’s part sermon, part witch hunt, and entirely dangerous.
Sources confirm that Stryker’s private forces—armed, trained, and disturbingly devout—were behind a series of coordinated abductions and attacks on known mutant civilians. His goal? Nothing short of genocide, carried out under the guise of "divine cleansing." This isn't a fringe movement…
X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills
by Chris Claremont, Paul Smith, Brent Anderson, Frank Miller