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Album of the Day: Sunday July 6, 2025
"The melodies are often dissonant, the voices weary, and yet—there persists a noble persistence in the face of confusion. The lyrics speak not plainly, but in riddles, as if written amidst storm and shadow. It is a work of fracture and reflection, and I found in it a portrait of a nation wrestling with its own promise. It reminds me, in spirit if not in style, of those long nights during the winter at Valley Forge: uncertain, bitter, and yet filled with a silent kind of hope.” - George Washington Founding Father and First President of the United States**
*Quotes by living, dead, or fictional people have been generated through the use of A.I.
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Feature Presentation: Sunday July 6, 2025
I Know What You Did Last Summer
1997
When a man out on a summer night’s stroll is hit by four overprivileged brats with their car and decide to drown him instead of taking him to the hospital, he decides to take a year to recuperate and hatch his plan for revenge. But as the tide always comes back in, this summer…he’s reeling them in, one by one. As the attempted murderers return from college to attend pageants, parties, and pretending their consciences are clean, this fisherman starts working outside the law for justice. As our attractive and suspiciously well-groomed criminals find themselves being stalked by a raincoat-wearing lunatic with a hook for a hand and a serious grudge - he puts his plan into action! Will they survive? Will they stop making terrible decisions? And most importantly… will anyone ever figure out what, exactly, they did last summer?
Directed by Jim Gillespie
Written by Kevin Williamson and Lois Duncan
Staring
Jennifer Love Hewitt as Julie James
Sarah Michelle Gellar as Helen Shivers
Ryan Phillippe as Barry Cox
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.
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…