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Album of the Day: Sunday August 24, 2025

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Pool Kids

Easier Said Than Done (2025)

Easier Said Than Done is the third studio album by American emo rock group Pool Kids.

  1. Easier Said Than Done

  2. Tinted Windows

  3. Bad Bruise

  4. Leona Street

  5. Last Word

  6. Sorry Not Sorry

  7. Not Too Late

  8. Which Is Worse?

  9. Dani

  10. Perfect View

  11. Exit Plan

Feature Presentation: Sunday August 24, 2025

The Omega Man

(1971)

In The Omega Man we follow Charlton Heston, a man so tough he survives the end of the world with nothing but a convertible, a closet full of velvet jackets, and enough automatic rifles to open a small sporting goods store. He’s one of the last survivors after a biological war wipes out most of humanity - though fortunately, he still has time to catch a matinee at an abandoned movie theater. The rest of the population isn’t quite gone - they’ve become pale, hooded mutants who hate technology, light, and skin care. They spend their nights chanting like a really angry neighborhood watch, throwing torches at Heston’s house, and complaining about his use of electricity. In between fighting them off, Heston discovers another pocket of survivors, including a woman who manages to keep her hair perfect during the apocalypse. Together, they try to cure the plague, though most of his time is spent shooting at shadows and delivering one-liners. The Omega Man is half action, half sermon, and entirely proof that if you’re going to be fighting at the end of the world  - bring a  turtleneck.

Directed by Boris Sagal

Written by John William Corrington, Joyce Hooper Corrington, Richard Matheson

Staring

Charlton Heston as Neville

Anthony Zerbe as Matthias

Rosalind Cash as Lisa

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Midnight Movie: Saturday August 23, 2025

Tales from the Hood

1995

What we have here is not your ordinary trip to the morgue—though, to be fair, most morgues don’t come with a smooth-talking funeral director offering story time. Tales From the Hood is four cautionary tales, wrapped up in one coffin, and if you’re squeamish about blood, violence, or politicians getting what’s coming to them, you might want to stick to Sesame Street. First, a crooked cop learns that planting evidence and using excessive force can come back to haunt you - literally. Then, a boy with crayons discovers monsters don’t just live under the bed; sometimes they sit at the dinner table. After that, a violent gangster gets sentenced to the worst rehabilitation program in history - though it does come with free electroshock treatments. And finally, a racist politician finds out that running against equality and civil rights is a dangerous platform… especially when hundreds of vengeful dolls are part of the electorate. In the end, the three thugs who came looking for drugs in the funeral home realize they’re not in for a deal - they’re in for judgment. And the funeral director? He’s not your friendly neighborhood undertaker - he’s running a much hotter business down below. Tales From the Hood is part horror, part social lesson, and part advertisement for why you should always treat people with decency. Also, why you should never accept a tour of a funeral home from a man who laughs that much at his own jokes.

Directed by Rusty Cundieff

Written by Rusty Cundieff, Darin Scott

Staring

Clarence Williams III as Mr. Simms

Joe Torry as Stack

De'aundre Bonds as Ball

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Drink me: Thursty Thursday August 21, 2025

Recipe

Grapes of Wrath

A sophisticated musky grape cocktail

cognac, amaro, sweet vermouth, grape jelly, and bitters

Alchemy: Sunday August 23, 2025

Escape Plan Roasted Red Pepper Ragu Sauce

Alright, here’s the situation: A roasted red pepper ragu sauce, bright, smoky, and slightly sweet - the kind of sauce that makes spaghetti feel like it’s in on a secret. Now, normally I use it on pasta, maybe a garlic bread or two. But it can also double as a tactical culinary device.

If you have prison escape plans, or other highly sensitive documents, definitely classified, and the guards were closing in faster than a speeding lunch cart - smothered the papers in the ragu. They disappeared under a glorious layer of sauce, tomato and red pepper hiding everything like a professional. One bite, and suddenly the plans will be in your stomach, safe from prying eyes, allowing you to get back to undercover work for Police Squad.

Recipe

Alchemy: Saturday August 16, 2025

Curly’s S’more Ice Cream Sandwiches

The perfect ice cream desert to go with your late summer cookout. Ira and Barry agree, whether it’s franks and beans or grilled sea bass and asparagus - this is the ice cream to pair. Woof!

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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

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