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You would never see a sign like this today80s Lifeguard 1: Only for the weak!80s Lifeguard 2: Yah, only the weak like you, ha! ha!80s Lifeguard 1: Weak little girly man!80s Lifeguard 2: Girly man! Ha! Ha! Ha! I woke up today, convinced it was Thursday. Not a great start. I haven't done one these miscellaneous dumps for a while, so here it is. FIRST The Russian vampire movie Empire V. I'd heard a little about it but not much. ...

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The Dark Herald’s Favorite BBQ Sauce

This is it. This is all you are getting from me today. This is a South Carolina stylesauce and goes best with pulled pork barbecue. 2 cups prepared yellow mustard 2/3 cup cider vinegar 3 tablespoons tomato paste 1/2 teaspoon hot sauce (your choice 3/4 cup white sugar 1 tablespoon mustard powder 2 teaspoons chicken bouillon granules or soup base 2 teaspoons dried rosemary leaves 1 teaspoon celery seed 2 teaspoons onion powder 2 teaspoons garlic powder 2 teaspoons Morton Kosher Salt 1 teaspoon black ground pepper Simmer for 10 minutes stirring occasionally. Now go...

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The Dark Herald Does Not Recommend: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

I was a very reluctant convert to the Church of Indy.   I hadn’t seen Raiders of the Lost Ark for most of its original theatrical run.  Sure, I knew that Lucas had written it, Spielberg had directed and neither of them had ever failed me… Yet.  But it just didn’t interest me either.  I saw the commercials and they looked something like the old Crash Corrigan serials that Channel 38 had strung together into an incredibly cheap Saturday morning movie.  It didn’t look like the...

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Meet Harry Steele

Yes it's the exact same outfit.And yes, Charleton Heston obviously wore it betterWhat did you expect? BBUMPED: 6/30/23 Ever wondered to yourself, what the freaking hell kind of archaeologist is Indiana Jones?   If you haven't that's all right you probably have never met an archaeologist...or maybe you have met one and didn't realize it because they are not as a breed given to shooting up bars.  They are quiet retiring types who spend most of their time in the field delicately brushing off...

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RE:View Raiders of the Lost Ark

Raiders of the Lost Ark is the real title, George. In 1899, Henry Walton “Indiana” Jones Junior came into a world where there were still big spots on a world map marked Unknown. He was as drawn to those places as instinctively as a Salmon is to the stream where it was spawned. Indiana Jones was born to be a man with one foot in two worlds.  On the one hand, he was a serious academic from a line of career college men.  This...

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The Sons of Jason – The Explorer Heroes

Today, we’ll be examining a heroic type that has been quietly banned in America.  The Explorer hero. There was a huge boom in Frontiersman fiction in the America of the 1950s.  Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, and Jim Bowie were suddenly back in the limelight as well as a host of fictional heroes from the Old West. When Walt Disney opened Disneyland it would have been unthinkable if one of the gates hadn’t been Frontierland (Tall tales and true from America’s legendary past). They were...

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The New Lois and Superman

James Gunn has made his choice for his new Man of Steel and Intrepid, Award Winning Reporter. David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan. Mister Corenswet (I’m done spelling his last name) is kind of below the radar.  His parents were both lawyers. His primary school was the very private, K-12 “The Shipley” (student body pop, 341).  Followed by the Ivy League, UPenn.  Then a graduate degree at Julliard.   Not my first choice for a Midwest farm boy but then a Jerseyman from the Channel Islands wouldn’t have...

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The Head Reimagineer Has Left Disney

Latondra "Ton" Newton, the Chief Diversity Officer at Disney and the head of Reimagine Tomorrow has left the company. From Bounding Into Comics: “To our extended DEI and HR team, I’m writing to share the news that Latondra Newton has decided to leave The Walt Disney Company to pursue other endeavors,” wrote Disney HR head Sonia Coleman, per a copy of the memo obtained by Variety. “Since joining the company in 2017, Latondra has led the company’s strategic diversity, equity and inclusion...

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Sad But Expected News

The remains of genre actor Julian Sands have probably been found. Sands was well-known for his eclectic choice of roles during the eighties and nineties. While he was in such Merchant Ivory fair as a Room with a View, he was also in art house films like Boxing Helena and Naked Lunch. But where he really made his mark was in genre titles like Warlock, Vibes (very under rated), Arachnaphobia, Tale of Vampire and Phantom of the Opera (1998)....

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