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Album of the Day: Wednesday September 3, 2025
Fleetwood Mac
Rumours (1977)
Rumours is the eleventh studio album by the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on 4 February 1977, by Warner Bros. Records.
Second Hand News
Dreams
Never Going Back Again
Don't Stop
Go Your Own Way
Songbird
The Chain
You Make Loving Fun
I Don't Want to Know
Oh Daddy
Gold Dust Woman
Feature Presentation: Wednesday September 3, 2025
Looper
(2012)
Looper is the story of a young man named Joe, who makes a living in the future by shooting people from the even more future sent back to the past which is still our future. It’s kind of like a delivery service, except the packages are alive, tied up, and very surprised. Joe’s job is simple - stand in a cornfield, wait for someone to appear, shoot them, and then spend the rest of the day wondering if this counts as overtime.One day, Joe’s latest “delivery” turns out to be… Joe. Only older. And balder. And Bruce Willis. Instead of shooting himself like he’s supposed to, Joe hesitates, Future Joe escapes, and suddenly Present Joe is chasing Future Joe while Future Joe is trying to kill a child who may or may not grow up to be an evil telekinetic crime boss. It’s the kind of story that makes you wonder if you should’ve brought a chalkboard and a stiff drink. In between all the time paradoxes, there’s a farmhouse, a lot of running, and enough shotgun shells to make a sporting goods store jealous. In the end, Joe figures out the only way to stop the chaos is to take himself out of the equation entirely - which is just a fancy way of saying he shoots himself so that he doesn’t shoot himself later.
Directed by Rian Johnson
Written by Rian Johnson
Staring
Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Joe
Bruce Willis as Old Joe
Emily Blunt as Sara
Midnight Movie: Saturday August 30, 2025
Motel Hell
1980
Motel Hell is a heartwarming film about family, small business, a touching story of Farmer Vincent, a man who runs a roadside inn with his sister, and the importance of eating locally sourced food. Farmer Vincent and his sister run a quaint little motel on the side of the highway. To the untrained eye, it looks like any other roadside stop—clean rooms, reasonable rates, and a meat smoker out back. They make their own brand of smoked meats. The slogan is simple: ‘It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent’s fritters.’ What they don’t mention is that sometimes the critters are… people. The process is fairly straightforward. Vincent kidnaps travelers, buries them in his garden up to their necks, and treats them like crops until it’s time to harvest. Then he turns them into sausage. Not exactly farm-to-table—more like interstate-to-table. You’ve probably stayed at motels before where the breakfast was questionable, but never to this degree. Things get complicated when Vincent falls for a young woman he rescues after a motorcycle accident. Between the romance, the secret garden full of buried heads, and a showdown involving a chainsaw and a pig’s head mask, it’s safe to say Motel Hell isn’t listed on AAA’s most recommended lodging. In the end, Vincent admits on his deathbed that his real crime wasn’t cannibalism, kidnapping, or mass murder. No, it was using preservatives. A shocking revelation, and one that makes you think twice about reading the ingredients on a package of sausage.
Directed by Kevin Connor
Written by Robert Jaffe & Steven-Charles Jaffe
Staring
Rory Calhoun as Vincent Smith
Paul Linke as Bruce Smith
Nancy Parsons as Ida Smith
Drink me: Thursty Thursday August 28, 2025
They’re Coming To Get You Barbara
Muddled berries and blended whiskey
blended whiskey, sweet vermouth, muddled blackberries, cranberry juice, and bitters
Alchemy: Saturday August 30, 2025
Urban Legend Chocolate Covered Strawberry Pop Rocks
Give it to Mikey, he’ll eat anything. Is it fancy? Is it candy? It’s like dreaming about eating champaign and strawberries at Willy Wonka’s. But if Robert Englund shows up with a Pepsi go for a nice glass of milk instead before you turn into Violet Beauregarde.
Alchemy: Friday August 29, 2025
South Park Elementary Fish Sticks
Yo, yo, hold up, hold up. Everybody keeps talkin’ ‘bout this fish sticks thing like it’s funny, like it’s a joke. Nah, see, y’all don’t understand the vision. Fish sticks ain’t some late-night cafeteria food - fish sticks are art. Golden. Crispy. Dipped in the sauce of creation itself. When I bite into a fish stick, I’m biting into destiny, into genius.
But every time I walk into a room, somebody wanna say, ‘Hey Kanye, you like fish dicks?’ NO. No, I don’t like fish dicks. I don’t even know why y’all keep saying that! I’m a creative prophet, I’m the voice of a generation, and you think I don’t know the difference between sticks and-? Man, stop playin’ with me!
Book of the Month: September 2025
THE NEW FRONTIERSMAN, September 5, 1986 - Special Edition
Truth. Justice. The American Way.
By Seymour David, Staff Writer
THE TRUTH BEHIND THE SO-CALLED “END OF THE WORLD”
Fellow patriots, the mask has slipped. While the good, honest citizens of this nation are spoon-fed bedtime stories by the liberal press, we at the New Frontiersman have been sifting through the ashes-literally-of a plot so vile it makes Watergate look like a traffic violation.
On November 2nd, New York City was gutted in a catastrophe that the mainstream narrative calls an “alien incursion.” Squid tentacles, psychic shockwaves, and a death toll in the millions. Tragedy, yes. Accident? Absolutely not. My investigation, guided by truth and unclouded by government-approved lies, reveals the fingerprints of one man: Adrian Veidt, alias “Ozymandias.”
That’s right - the so-called “smartest man alive.” Billionaire playboy turned masked do-gooder, working behind the curtains to play God. He staged it all. His vast corporate empire, his ties to experimental genetics, his private retreats in the Antarctic - all pieces of a puzzle the mainstream hacks refuse to assemble.
Why? Simple. Power. Control. He wanted to scare the world into peace. And wouldn’t you know it-the so-called heroes, those “watchmen” …
The Watchmen
by Alan Moore (Author), Dave Gibbons (Illustrator)