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Album of the Day: Thursday August 14, 2025

Shellac

1000 Hurts (2000)

1000 Hurts is the third studio album by American rock band Shellac, released on August 8, 2000.

  1. Prayer to God

  2. Squirrel Song

  3. Mama Gina

  4. QRJ

  5. Ghosts

  6. Song Against Itself

  7. Canaveral

  8. New Number Order

  9. Shoe Song

  10. Watch Song

Feature Presentation: Thursday August 14, 2025

Clue

(1985)

In this prequel to Monopoly, a drafty mansion full of secrets, suspiciously-themed aliases, and more murder weapons than a group of traveling ninjas on safari, dinner party guests attempt to solve a tale of murder, mystery, and high society mischief, where no one can be trusted, everyone has a motive, and the only thing sharper than the knives are the one-liners. The evening begins innocently enough: a dinner party. As six guests, each named after Mr. Sketch markers - Colonel Mustard, Mrs. Peacock, Professor Plum, Miss Scarlet, Mr. Green, and Mrs. White realize that this isn’t like any of the awkward dinner parties before, like a vegan barbecue, when their blackmailing host winds up dead. As the guest attempt to uncover the perpetrator of this party foul, they scramble through secret passages, accuse each other in British accents, and wield everything from a candlestick to a lead pipe, they begin dropping like flies at a Raid convention. Will they solve the mystery before it’s too late? Find the murderer and get dessert? Or only their just dessert?

Directed by Jonathan Lynn

Written by John Landis, Jonathan Lynn, Anthony E. Pratt

Staring

Eileen Brennan as Mrs. Peacock

Tim Curry as Wadsworth

Madeline Kahn as Mrs. White

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 14, 2025

Mister Fantastic

An effervescent orange flower martini

champagne, london dry gin, dry curaçao, elder flower liquor, and orange blossom water

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