zaterdag 31 augustus 2024

zaterdag 31 augustus 2024 Midnight movie - the 2022 R-rated music comedy - Metal Lords with the talented Jaeden Martell (left in photo).

The radars show scattered showers south of me. Out for a little bike ride. It's still muggy (humidity: 82%) but not as hot as yesterday. The clouds are thick, but the sun is trying to peek through this portal.

Crank up the AC. Relax and watch 2002 spy comedy Goldmember. Goldmember (born Johann van der Smut), a gold-hungry Dutch supervillain: A shmoke und a pancake. You know, a flapjack und a shigarette? No? Shigar und a waffle? No? Pipe und a crêpe (élégant!)? No? Bong und a blintz? No? Well, then there ish no pleeeeashing you!!

vrijdag 30 augustus 2024

vrijdag 30 augustus 2024 Luke Beasley talks about Trump's rambling speech at a Town Hall event in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Trump is always spitballing on important issues. Trump looks foolish. Trump: I'm not weird. You're weird. HA! 😊 It's the Pee Wee Herman argument. I Know You Are, But What Am I? (Infinity!!) 😆  Where are the sexiest beach volleyball studs? In Chicago at Oak Street Beach. Thousands of fans are expected to flock to the beach to watch the action. WGN9: AVP Chicago Open Returns To Oak Street Beach. Abraxas: My box has VD, trust me. Mother: Your what? Abraxas: VD. Vibrational Detection. OH MY GOD! An alien "policeman" arrives on Earth to apprehend a renegade of his own race who impregnates a woman with a potentially destructive mutant embryo. Watch the RiffTrax version of Abraxas. Go back to your planet Sargacia, fools!

donderdag 29 augustus 2024

donderdag 29 augustus 2024 It's Throwback Thursday everybody! Enjoying the black and white episodes of Lost in Space. Michael Rennie plays an all-powerful alien zookeeper in The Keeper.

Looking at old videos of my days in Seattle. Soccer is very popular. Back in 2010, I caught these guys kicking the ball around Cal Anderson Park.  This song takes me back.  From English musician and DJ Fatboy Slim... Praise You. Video filmed at the Fox Bruin Theater in Westwood, LA. [Touches control and hears ominous sound] Dr. Zachary Smith: I think I may have done something wrong. Come along. All the cages open, letting all the Keeper's animals out. Watch The Keeper, Part 2.

#TeamGus! I'm still... always will be Team Gus 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 ☮️ 🌊 💙

woensdag 28 augustus 2024

woensdag 28 augustus 2024 Jodie, a twelve-year-old boy in Baja California, suddenly discovers he has Jesus-like powers. Watch the Netflix series The Chosen One (Spanish: El Elegido).

Some thunderstorms BOOM! ⚡️ BOOM! ⚡️ push through and rattle NE Ohio.  Then the sun pops out. The remainder of the day is hot and humid. High temps near 90.

David Pakman has an interesting interview with Fred Trump III - the nephew of former, failed President Donald Trump. He has written a memoir titled All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way. Fred's story is heart-breaking. A behind-the-scenes look at the Trump family tree... packed with juicy details of the family’s dysfunction.

dinsdag 27 augustus 2024

dinsdag 27 augustus 2024 Good morning, Ohio. HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING. Fluids?!?! Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors.

Muggy! With the heat out there... Take your shirt off, young man!

Watch MST3K: Monster A-Go Go. The Bots have constructed a cheese factory aboard the SOL. They use Joel's sneakers to add a bit of extra flavor. I'm making a peanutbutter and jelly sandwich.

maandag 26 augustus 2024

maandag 26 augustus 2024 Turn on ABC 7 Chicago. Timothée Chalamet has this evil focus on the News 7 team… You're semi-evil. You're quasi-evil. You're the margarine of evil. You're the Diet Coke of evil. Just one calorie, not evil enough. Putting Timmy in the place of Dr. Evil. He should do an Austin Powers movie. He has a sense for comedy.

Rude Pundit: Some Perspective After the DNC Hangover. I like Harris and Walz. I desperately want them to win, and I'll do more than write my little pissy posts. I'll phone bank and knock on doors to help make that happen. I just don't want caution and return to the previous normal to become the most we can hope for. Right on!

Blondieboyyyy in blue. Cool. Beautiful! And the car is nice, too. 💙

It's as hot as an oven! 88°F 🔥 Up to Central Park to rest in some shade.

Someone on Threads asked me WHAT MUSIC ALBUM IS A TRUE MASTERPIECE FROM START TO FINISH? My response: Supertramp - Breakfast in America. I've been playing The Logical Song lately (because in live in Ohio).

zondag 25 augustus 2024

zondag 25 augustus 2024 Finally, the quest is fulfilled! The Pogues find the gold in El Dorado. The fantastic, exciting conclusion of Season 3 of Outer Banks: Secret of the Gnomon.

Disney Plus Cancels Controversial Series After One Season. What a pity! The Acolyte was too controversial!?!? Cowards!

C'est pour l'amusement. Watch the 2001 American science-fiction parody film by Larry Blamire - The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra. It's LOL funny! Everyone is looking for the elusive element atmosphereum...  even two aliens from the planet Marva (who lost their pet mutant).

Ranger Brad: We take our horrible mutilations seriously up in these parts. Sunday is funday! Wind and hail risk today for NE Ohio, but the skies are blue with some clouds peacefully floating by.

zaterdag 24 augustus 2024

zaterdag 24 augustus 2024 Oh! Oh! I know! This is the one where Charleston Heston lives with Apes that took over the world and finds the Statue of Liberty in the sand and says You did it! You finally did it. 😬  Trump's planet 2025!

Do you know wdf the infinite universe has in store for us? SHHHT!

Hi, America! Honestly? Power to the sexy Pogues! We'll live forever!

Turn on Hal Sparks. They talk about JD Vance's cringy visit to a donut shop and Ukraine's Independence Day. День Незалежності України 🇺🇦

vrijdag 23 augustus 2024

vrijdag 23 augustus 2024 Joyful! Electric! Amazing! Turn on MSNBC for the grand finale of the DNC.  🇺🇸 Born in the USA! 🇺🇸

Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost speaks at DNC. YAY Florida man! 😄

Let's talk baseball. Better yet, let Stephen Colbert talk baseball. Better yet, let's just talk. Ah, ha! Baseball - the Great American Pastime. Stephen sings Take Me Out to the Ball Game at the 7th inning stretch. Go Cubs! Go Democracy!! Turn on Stephanie Miller. They're LIVE from Max and Benny's in beautiful suburban Northbrook, IL. It's hard to be patient with the technical glitches, but thanks for trying WCPT.

70% of Americans live in poverty?! Is Trump out of his mind? Last night, Kamala sez Yes! Wow, Luke! Be 100% well soon.

donderdag 22 augustus 2024

donderdag 22 augustus 2024 Gus Walz tearfully cheers on Tim Walz at DNC: That's my dad! Touching moment. I'm not crying! 😢 😭 A son's love for his father! I'm officially #TeamGus!

Turn on Stephanie Miller. Chris, Jojo from Jersey and Steph are hard at work at the DNC. Chris said that he has to walk past the Newsmax booth in the media center quite often. 🤮 Sorry for you, Chris.

Very overdue for a haircut. Buzz, buzz, buzz! It all goes! Bye hair!

They're huge Lovecraftian cosmic horrors! Giant eyes with tentacles! Watch MST3K: The Crawling Eye.

woensdag 21 augustus 2024

woensdag 21 augustus 2024 What is this Kamalanomenon? Stephen Colbert Figures Out Where Melania Trump Is Hiding. Lil Jon makes DNC cameo for Georgia delegates in convention roll call.

Give it up for DJ Cassidy! He turned the arena into a party, into a celebration, a celebration of our country in all its diversity and glory. He made the music to represent us all, represent all genres, all people, all generations. Brilliant!

dinsdag 20 augustus 2024

dinsdag 20 augustus 2024 Michigan Senator Mallory McMorrow!!! Democracy! You in danger, girl! Awesome! Mallory brought this up.

Something Lost, Something Gained... Is it okay if I cry? Stephen has this extraordinary interview with Hillary. Watch MST3K: Teen-Age Strangler. Spoiler alert: The strangler is not the whiney Mike. West Virginia? What's going on? YIKES!

Watch out, West Virginian white boys! There's trouble goin' on!

maandag 19 augustus 2024

maandag 19 augustus 2024 Why Chris Hemsworth Is Perfect As Dementus. Watch the 2024 post-apocalyptic action film Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Rated R. 2h 28m. Me: Use the bazooka!

Democratic National Convention held in Chicago, the city the GOP loves to hate. 😡 Shut the f--- up about Chicago!

Turn on Stephanie Miller. YAY! Steph and Chris are broadcasting LIVE in Chicago from Radio Row at the 2024 DNC.

Hold me back! Wanna a Kamala Harris manicure? YES! Chicago DNC organizers invite the public to visit McCormick Place for DemPalooza. Cool. Cool. Cool! Wish to be there. I 💙 Chicago! As far as we know... Black Holes, String Theory, Sparticles, Super Symetry, the Multiverse, the Big Bang, the Big Crunch, Gravity, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Warp Fields and the Brane Multiverse all converge in Chicago. Human eating insects... No! Please no!

zondag 18 augustus 2024

zondag 18 augustus 2024 Chicago was rockin' at the Vic Theatre with Sexy Liberal. Panel: Chair Jamie Harrison, Gov. J. B. Pritzker, Mark Hamill, Jill Wine-Banks and Rep. Jan Schakowsky.

Wahoo! Yippee! More Evenings and Weekends: A Novel.

Fedor: Up with the macines! Down with the people! Watch Lost in Space: Princess of Space. Fedor proves to be an evil computer in disguise as a human who plans to take over all of planet Beta.

zaterdag 17 augustus 2024

zaterdag 17 augustus 2024 The lovely and talented Johnny Million and Hal Sparks talk to each other at WCPT Chicago Megaworldwide!

Hal wants to eat at a Ukrainian restaurant while in Chicago. Phil Ittner suggests Tryzub Тризуб... Art-filled restaurant offering updated Ukrainian food in a stylish space with takeaway options. Has outdoor seating. Serves vegetarian dishes. Has Wi-Fi. Varenyky? Так! 🇺🇦

Can't believe the guys bring up the Star Wars skit on SNL... 1 to display, 1 to open, and 1 just in case. Mark Hamill is in Chicago, too.

vrijdag 16 augustus 2024

vrijdag 16 augustus 2024 The Truck Farmer or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Labor Exploitation. I WON AN ESSAY CONTEST! Watch MST3K: I Accuse My Parents.

Heard about the Trump school bus ad? Rep. Swalwell Ad Makes "Dictator Trump" A School Bus Driver: "Fire, Fury, Bloodbath, Now Get In"! A little wine and a little reading. Urban fiction, Psychological Fiction, LGBT literature all roll up in this cool book which takes place in London on a hot summer's weekend. Evenings and Weekends: A Novel.

donderdag 15 augustus 2024

donderdag 15 augustus 2024 Let's mingle. And make it well. Come together now. Yeah, let's GEL! Happy Throwback Thursday.

woensdag 14 augustus 2024

woensdag 14 augustus 2024 This story grosses me out! ABC 7 Chicago: Noon Whistle Brewing fined for selling cicada-infused shots of Malört. What's the deal with the suburban pub Noon Whistle Brewing? How odd! And Malört?!?! Eww yuck. No thank you.

dinsdag 13 augustus 2024

dinsdag 13 augustus 2024 Good morn', Ohio! Nice day in store for us.

Strange dream last night about playing 3D chess with Charlie X. B, but... I don't even play chess at all. Eeeek! Charlie will destroy me! 😑

Oh, it's just a V-2 rocket. He could've had a V-8. Don't you wish that robots finally took over the world? Watch MST3K: Robot Monster.

maandag 12 augustus 2024

maandag 12 augustus 2024 United Center - 1901 W Madison St, Chicago, IL. Capacity: 23,500. Take the Green Line to the Damen stop.

The Democratic National Convention begins in one week in Chicago. Here's what to expect. Parking restrictions and street closures near the United Center begin today. It's going to be awesome! Good luck to you, Chicago! Have fun, Dems!

Checking the weather in Seattle, my old home. Lovely mild temps. Morning clouds. Peeks of sunshine. August is the best month weather-wise in Seattle! But... When does the wildfire smoke haze clear out over Western Washington? An old vid of mine filmed 13 years ago. Charlie Evans: Some... the other ship, they didn't like me. I tried. I'm trying to make people like me. I want them to like me. Oh, Dr. McCoy. He's not really listening to Charlie. Watch Star Trek: Charlie X.

zondag 11 augustus 2024

zondag 11 augustus 2024 Dr. Smith: I dig man I dig. [His back creeks] Watch Lost in Space. My favorite episode: The Promised Planet. Seahawks beat Chargers 16-3. Yay! Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Howell (6) passes as Los Angeles Chargers linebacker Tre'Mon Morris-Brash (57) applies a little pressure. Good win! I'm impressed!

Get ready for a brand new Star Wars adventure! Star Wars: Skeleton Crew tells a coming-of-age story about four children who make a discovery on their home planet and get lost in the galaxy. THIS DECEMBER! Allen speculates on the potential success of this series. Watch allen's latest post: Will this be any good?

Rihanna, the Rolling Stones, Ozzy Osbourne, Queen, and the estate of George Harrison, among other musicians, have all previously objected to Donald Trump’s presidential campaigns using their music. Now, Celine Dion objects! CNN: Celine Dion criticizes Trump campaign for unauthorized use of her music. Keep it up, Trump. you're going to alienate EVERYONE! Love Dion's song. Is it appropriate for Trump?