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Album of the Day: Wednesday July 9, 2025

"Mamma mia! This Tom Zé guy, he-a take music, break it into-a little puzzle pieces, then put it back together all crazy-like—but it still-a works! It’s like jumping through a level where the pipes sing, the Goombas play banjos, and the fireballs are made of poetry—very strange... but very fun!" - Mario Mario, NYC plumber

Today in history; 1981 Donkey Kong, the iconic video game, was released by Nintendo. 

*Quotes by living, dead, or fictional people have been generated through the use of A.I.

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Feature Presentation: Wednesday July 9, 2025

WarGames

1983

It all started with a routine mission to a distant planet. Then a robot offered someone a martini, a scientist had the brain of a supercomputer, and someone’s subconscious started vaporizing people - space stuff. But as things progressed the crew of starship C-57D who landed on Altair IV, expecting a few fossils and maybe a nice tan, instead finds Dr. Morbius—part-time linguist, full-time Krell groupie—and his daughter Alta, who was allergic to pants and personal boundaries. The crew soon discovers this Dr. has accessed  ancient alien tech so advanced, it made microwave popcorn seem like witchcraft. And that’s when things started to go wrong. Badly. As people begin to disappear, lasers fly. Meanwhile, I tried not to trip over Robby the Robot, who makes a mean Manhattan but can’t catch a suspect.

In the end, will we learn two most important things about space travel?

1. Never trust a man who calls himself “the sole survivor.”

2. The scariest monsters are either the ones in your head or pants - especially if your head has a degree in philology and unresolved daddy issues and his daughter doesn’t wear pants.

Directed by John Badham

Written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes

Staring

Matthew Broderick as David

Ally Sheedy as Jennifer

John Wood as Falken

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…

Builds and Refurbishes