Or the next year when Magic had minuscule odds but somehow won it again

Extreme Noise and its clientele charmingly refused to clean up for the occasion and, had I waited, sold the Sugar set for 20% less than Cheapo. They had one register, though, and a gnarly line.

Electric Fetus was clearly the party and insanely well organized (accurately tracked what remained outside, DJ inside), Cheapo just put their RSD releases on the endcaps with no fanfare (and a few releases that were already gone from Fetus, like the Van Halen one),

Successful Record Store Day 2026: 2/2 on my #RSD Release wishlist, with Gotan Project’s Greatest Hits from @electricfetusmpls.bsky.social and Sugar’s FUEL Singles from Cheapo, along with Tomb Mold’s Planetary Clairvoyance.

I wish they would make a 90-minute feature film that was continuous scenes of robots trying to do human behavior, then failing, then going haywire, then human handlers come to rescue it and calm the crowd.

Whether it’s failing dancing, serving in a restaurant or running, they are all hilarious.

Drop your crime-fighting Catholics

I repeat some version of these questions to myself every Record Store Day eve

At the end of each year, my wife and I list the top 10 films we have seen, and around 15 years ago we both listed Wages of Fear (the movie that Sorcerer is said to be a ‘remake’ of) as our favorite movie seen that year.

So Wages of Fear is also really really good.

Was loaded with a killer blood pack

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Sometimes Slayer and Weird Al are *both* right: the B-52s really do kick ass

My son’s friends also looked at me like an idiot when I asked them what drinks they wanted me to order at the counter (instead of getting it themselves at the soft drink dispenser, which I’m sure has been commonplace for many years in cinemas) if you’re wondering how often I buy treats at the movies

Took my son and his friends to the movies and their parents gave me $60 for just their kids and, at the time, I thought, “that’s too much money!” and that I should have declined”.

After buying tickets, popcorn and soda for three kids, I’m shocked I ever thought something so idiotic.

If you’re ever at a zoo with your child and you see an elephant’s massive swinging dong, and you wonder if they noticed, just listen to them talk to their friends later about that trip to the zoo and they give incessant details about the elephant’s weiner size to realize that, yes, they did notice.

View it like a dentist appointment: do it twice a year, dread it before, endure it during, reap the benefits afterwards.

Voyage of the Mimi? Oh hell yeah

I recently saw The Sandlot for the first time and the casting in that movie was insane: Karen Allen as the (underwritten and underused) mom, Denis Leary as the punchable jerk stepdad, and James Earl Jones as the final reveal.

The movie is about the kids and they casually nail every adult casting.

My roommates in college were a big fat party guy, and a good-looking ladies’ man.

He came here (to Earth) to do two things: win golf tournaments and drive under the influence, and he’s not gonna win any more golf tournaments

A Dem president trying to repair recently damaged alliances and strategic relationships, for the long-term safety and stability of the country = right-wing media sharpening their “apology tour” attacks

City Museum | Weirdly Wonderful | St. Louis, MO City Museum is an all-ages architectural playground in Downtown St. Louis, Missouri. Explore tunnels, caves, slides and rides — inside and out.

Shout out to the guy or gal running the setlist at this place, they are rad as hell

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At an attraction designed for kids 6-12 to play and climb and for their very cool adult parents to wait and the music setlist is exactly designed for those parents of a certain age:

“Unforgiven” Metallica
“Personal Jesus” Depeche Mode
“Boyz-n-the-Hood” (!) Eazy E
“Ace of Spades” Motorhead

With even a lower budget from a major studio, you know the kills would be jaw-dropping.

The Monkey's Paw from Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episode.

"I wish circumstances would lead to Bruce playing the Twin Cities a lot more often"

Dance off, Baby! If you see this, repost a dance or you’re eliminated…

Walking, biking, handing out water to Hot Dash Runners on this glorious day, passing 15k steps today and now feeling like my body totally overdid it on this glorious day.

New Hollywood blank check films that doomed them due to cost overruns are good, actually. Heaven’s Gate, Sorcerer, you’ll never see studios setting money on fire like that again.

Coppola probably should have fallen into that same trap, but Apocalypse Now was a hit, but it sits right along these.

I know people talk about how John Cazale could pick his roles, but Roy Scheider had a great 70s run. Didn’t bat 1.000, but Jaws, French Connection, Klute, Sorcerer, All that Jazz — he was really cooking for a while.

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Just watched Sorcerer, and it has supplanted Jaws as my most surprising PG film. Burning bodies and carrying subsequent corpses, gory car crashes, probably 10 people dying by gunfire; they would let *anything* go as PG for a while there.

Wait a minute the people running the country are morons