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Album of the Day: Tuesday August 12, 2025
YHWH Nailgun
45 Pounds (2025)
45 Pounds is the debut studio album by American band YHWH Nailgun. It was released on March 21, 2025, on AD 93.
Penetrator
Castrato Raw (Fullback)
Pain Fountain
Animal Death Already Breathing
Ultra Shade (Beat My Blood Dog Down)
Iron Feet
Tear Pusher
Sickle Walk
Blackout
Changer
Feature Presentation: Tuesday August 12, 2025
Network
(1976)
This is a story where a respected news anchor named Howard Beale has a nervous breakdown on live television... and somehow gets better ratings than Fox. It all starts when Beale, a veteran newsman, announces on-air that he is going to blow his brains out on live television. Now, normally, that would get you an Emmy, or at least a stern memo from HR, but instead, the network gives him a new time slot. There’s corporate conspiracies, on-air rants, and a woman who produces the news like it’s televised anarchy. The victim? Public trust. The weapon? A news camera... and perhaps unchecked capitalism. This is a news broadcast where nobody’s watching the teleprompter, everyone’s mad as hell, and ethics left the studio during a commercial break. I give it four out of five emergency FCC violations.
Directed by Sidney Lumet
Written by Paddy Chayefsky
Staring
Faye Dunaway as Diana Christensen
William Holden as Max Schumacher
Peter Finch as Howard Beale
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 7, 2025
Dr. Zomboss
A refreshing strawberry rhubarb basil smash
muddled strawberries and basil, rhubarb syrup, cognac, limoncello, and coca-cola
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