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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.
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Feature Presentation: Wednesday July 9, 2025
WarGames
1983
Have you tried restarting it? When the U.S. government starts managing their military strikes with an A.I. program named after a fast food hamburger, all hell breaks loose as a teenage kid (Matthew Broderick) on dial up is able to hack into the system. As the hacker continues to play what he believes is just a game of Global Thermonuclear War to impress a girl (Ally Sheedy), he nearly turns Colorado into a microwave burrito, generals begin shouting, scientists start pacing, and the vending machine stops working - making military morale lower than ever. Now the only way to stop the apocalypse is to teach the computer about tic-tac-toe, because nothing says “national security” like a game you outgrow in kindergarten. Will they get three in a row this time? Or just the end times?
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…