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Album of the Day: Wednesday August 13, 2025
Dr. John
Desitively Bonnaroo (1974)
Desitively Bonnaroo is a 1974 album by the New Orleans rhythm and blues musician Dr. John. The album was produced by Allen Toussaint and features sizable musical support from The Meters.
Quitters Never Win
Stealin'
What Comes Around (Goes Around)
Me – You = Loneliness
Mos' Scocious
(Everybody Wanna Get Rich) Rite Away
Let's Make a Better World
R U 4 Real
Sing Along Song
Can't Git Enuff
Go Tell the People
Desitively Bonnaroo
Feature Presentation: Wednesday August 13, 2025
8 Mile
(2002)
Local factory worker moonlighting as an aspiring word salad chef Jimmy Smith Jr., or B-Rabbit (not to be confused with Bugs Bunny even though both wear gloves) fights poverty, self-doubt, and laundry upkeep in this rags to, well not riches, but something more than rags tale. Battling more than MCs by day, he navigates his dead end job, cheating girlfriend, mom dating a guy he went to high school with, Molotov cocktails - Detroit stuff. But who B-Rabbit freezes during his first big rap battle, which in this business is worse than not filing your TPS reports at Initech. He has seven days to come up with a lyrical plan to retort his rhythmical rhyming foes before he loses himself. And if you're heading into a rap battle, bring confidence, some self deprecating word vomit, maybe an extra clean hoodie, and eat a light dinner.
Directed by Curtis Hanson
Written by Scott Silver
Staring
Eminem as Jimmy
Kim Basinger as Stephanie
Mekhi Phifer as Future
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