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Album of the Day: Wednesday August 27, 2025
Morbid Angel
Covenant (1993)
Covenant is the third studio album by American death metal band Morbid Angel, released on June 1, 1993.
Rapture
Pain Divine
World of Shit (The Promised Land)
Vengeance Is Mine
Lions Den
Blood on My Hands
Angel of Disease
Sworn to the Black
Nar Mattaru
God of Emptiness I: The Accuser II: The Tempter
Feature Presentation: Wednesday August 27, 2025
Ghost World
(2001)
Ghost World is the story of two teenage girls, Enid and Rebecca, who graduate high school and find out that the real world is a lot scarier than cafeteria food. Instead of going off to college like normal kids, they spend their time mocking strangers, loitering in diners, and befriending a lonely record collector named Seymour - who, frankly, has more vinyl than sense. Things start to get complicated when Rebecca tries to move on with her life, while Enid stumbles through jobs, art classes, and one disastrous personal ad prank that lands Seymour in a relationship stranger than most of the evidence lockers. There’s no car chase, no bank robbery, and not a single shootout, unless you count Enid shooting her future in the foot. By the end, Enid disappears, maybe onto a bus, maybe into metaphor, while Rebecca’s left behind wondering how long a person can live off sarcasm and bad coffee. Ghost World is about growing up, drifting apart, and realizing that the scariest hauntings don’t come from ghosts at all, but from your own life choices… and maybe some very questionable fashion decisions.
Directed by Terry Zwigoff
Written by Daniel Clowes & Terry Zwigoff
Staring
Thora Birch as Enid
Scarlett Johansson as Rebecca
Steve Buscemi as Seymour
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
Drink me: Thursty Thursday August 21, 2025
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.
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!
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