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Album of the Day: Saturday July 5, 2025
"Shotgun Willie is the voice of a man unbound—weathered by hardship, yet unwilling to yield his soul to conformity. Mr. Nelson’s songs ring with the plainspoken truth of a working man’s struggle and the quiet defiance of one who insists on living free, come what may.” - Frederick Douglass American abolitionist and orator*
*Quotes by living, dead, or fictional people have been generated through the use of A.I.
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Creature Double Feature: Saturday July 5, 2025
Creature from the Black Lagoon
(1954)
When a horny fish man finds a sexy primate woman (Julie Adams) swimming in his lagoon he will stop at nothing trying to woo her into staying. As two jealous scientists, Dr. David Reed (Richard Carlson) and Dr. Mark Williams (Richard Denning), seem willing to do anything to stop the romance and capture the beast with their zany schemes for their own glory, the fish man has other ideas in mind. Will the scientists get their glory? Or will love at first sight persevere for the two star-crossed lovers?
Directed by Jack Arnold
Written by Harry Essex, Arthur A. Ross, Maurice Zimm
Staring
Richard Carlson as Dr. David Reed
Julie Adams as Kay Lawrence
Richard Denning as Dr. Mark Williams
Lake Placid
(1999)
When city people lose their minds the second they see a big lizard with teeth, Mrs. Delores Bickerman (Betty White) needs to protect her wildlife friend from the outsiders. After a sarcastic guy, a lady from the museum who thinks she knows everything, and a nice sheriff start blowing up half the lake trying to catch the animal and getting half of Maine’s wildlife division involved - they realize this “friend” is a giant crocodile! Will these idiots they brought in be able to sedate and capture the beast? Or will Mrs. Bickerman be stuck with an emptiness in her heart she hasn’t felt since she fed her husband to the amphibious reptile? ("he was getting on my nerves anyway")
Directed by Steve Miner
Written by David E. Kelley
Staring
Bridget Fonda as Kelly Scott
Bill Pullman as Jack Wells
Oliver Platt as Hector Cyr
Drink me: Thursty Thursday July 3, 2025
The Thing’s Clobbering Time Punch Bowl
This is a drink that punches back.
pineapple rum, passion fruit liquer, dry curacoa, and tropical flavore
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.
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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…