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Album of the Day: Monday August 11, 2025
Big Audio Dynamite
The Globe (1991)
The Globe is the sixth album by alternative dance group Big Audio Dynamite II, their second album credited under that name instead of Big Audio Dynamite.
Rush
Can't Wait/Live
I Don't Know
The Globe
nnocent Child
Green Grass
Kool-Aid
In My Dreams
When the Time Comes
The Tea Party
Feature Presentation: Monday August 11, 2025
One Crazy Summer
(1986)
A story that reminds us what happens when you combine teenage angst, nautical sabotage, and an unhealthy amount of chili. It all started innocently enough when a young man named Hoops, who, ironically, can’t play basketball, heads to Nantucket to find inspiration for his cartoon, but instead finds love, rivalry, and a very aggressive mechanical dolphin. He is joined by a ragtag crew that includes a rock singer, a pair of pyromaniac twins, Bobcat Goldthwait trapped inside a Godzilla suit in what I can only assume was a court-mandated performance, and a villainous land developer who hates fun and possibly puppies. The gang must win a regatta to save the girl’s house because in the '80s, yacht racing was somehow a legal substitute for zoning laws. There are fireworks, love confessions, a 2.9-liter V8 engine with Bosch K-Jetronic fuel injection and Magneti Marelli Digiplex electronic ignition powered boat, and enough absurdity to make Gilligan’s Island look like a documentary.
Directed by Savage Steve Holland
Written by Savage Steve Holland
Staring
John Cusack as Hoops McCann
Linda Warren as Mrs. McCann
Demi Moore as Cassandra Eldridge
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 7, 2025
Dr. Zomboss
A refreshing strawberry rhubarb basil smash
muddled strawberries and basil, rhubarb syrup, cognac, limoncello, and coca-cola
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