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Album of the Day: Friday July 5, 2025

"I speak to you not concerning matters of Congress or constitution, but rather of an Englishman—an artist, truly—who goes by the name David Bowie. His work, titled Young Americans, is a strange and soulful composition unlike any harpsichord ballad of our day. It is both declaration and confession—of youth adrift, of identity reimagined, of a nation struggling to recognize itself in its own reflection.” - John Hancock American Founding Father*

*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 17 vessels explode and sink near Odo Island, Professor Kyohei Yamane, his daughter Emiko and the Marine Hideto Ogata head to the island to investigate. Soon they witness a giant monster called Godzilla by the locals destroying the spot. Meanwhile Emiko meets her boyfriend, the secluded scientist Serizawa, and he makes she promise to keep a secret about his research with oxygen. She agrees and he discloses the lethal weapon the Oxygen Destroyer that he has developed. When Godzilla threatens Tokyo and other Japanese cities and the army and the navy are incapable to stop the monster, Emiko discloses Serizawa's secret to her lover Ogata. Now they have to convince Serizawa to use the Oxygen Destroyer to kill Godzilla.

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 Williamsoy

Lake Placid

(1999)

When 17 vessels explode and sink near Odo Island, Professor Kyohei Yamane, his daughter Emiko and the Marine Hideto Ogata head to the island to investigate. Soon they witness a giant monster called Godzilla by the locals destroying the spot. Meanwhile Emiko meets her boyfriend, the secluded scientist Serizawa, and he makes she promise to keep a secret about his research with oxygen. She agrees and he discloses the lethal weapon the Oxygen Destroyer that he has developed. When Godzilla threatens Tokyo and other Japanese cities and the army and the navy are incapable to stop the monster, Emiko discloses Serizawa's secret to her lover Ogata. Now they have to convince Serizawa to use the Oxygen Destroyer to kill Godzilla.

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

DYou’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…

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