Happy 16th birthday to Flash Pulp.

Have you really even used a notebook if you don’t accidentally get a little salsa on it?

Not wrong.

The Phantom of the Opera (1943)

Claude Rains is definitely the draw; I didn't miss Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Not as horror-flavoured as other Universal monster flicks, but the implied body count does beat Frankenstein (1931) - and the mask design wouldn't be out of place in a Gundam series.

U-571 (2000)

The exact median of a submarine movie.

Fortunately I live near Toronto, where the mosaic vs melting pot situation produces some fantastic culinary results.

I’ve only tried Canadian imitations of Chicago, and I think something was lost in translation.

Not going to lie: When I picture Buffalo Pizza it's as a NY-style pie ENTIRELY coated in wing sauce.

Ha!

I think that's a perfect summation, but also why I'm mad about it.

+/- 2 and it's either a decent film or a bad film, either of which I can get behind - but at 5/10 (and with a fairly high level of budget on display) it feels very much like 2 hours of wasted potential.

Supernova (2000)

I watched this movie 5 days ago and I'm still mad about it.

Desperado (1995)

The seams are so much more apparent 30 years later, but Buscemi/Banderas/Hayek are all just so damn watchable.

Gets very silly, but in all the right ways.

Lystrosaurus embryo within its partially preserved shell, photograph of the fossil (top).

Lystrosaurus embryo within its partially preserved shell, reconstruction of the animal.

Before modern mammals, there were mammal-like dicynodonts ("two dog tooths"). These beasties survived the Permian extinction & dominated the Triassic before the rise of dinosaurs.

Now we know they laid large eggs--a key insight into mammal origins. 🧪

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I enjoy a lot of Neil Diamond's '60s & '70s output, but I could happily spend two entire lifetimes without hearing Sweet Caroline again.

Snow White but the seven dwarves are Balin, Dwalin, Fíli, Kíli, Dori, Nori, Ori, Óin, Glóin, Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur.

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

An apparently outclassed Eowyn in mortal combat with Angmar, leader of the Nazgûl. The style is of a bold woodcut.

In a forest, the Hobbits Merry and Pippin sit on the “arms” of the Elk Treebeard while discussing matters with him.

The destruction of Mount Doom. Lightning bolts fire out from a mountain’s summit while a blast carries away its mid-section.

“The Grey Havens” - Three figures on a hill watch a lone ship sail out to sea. The trip ahead is shown to be sunny, leaving behind the rainy skies over the land being left behind.

Some of the small spot illustrations by Eric Fraser that accompanied the Radio Times magazine’s weekly listings for the BBC’s 1981 radio adaptation of Tolkein’s “The Lord Of The Rings”.

Do people still play craps in alleys?

I was under the impression that there'd be a floating game on every block when I grew up, but maybe that's just a sign of a child reared on exploitation films.

Yes, it is now safe to consume the entire unexpectedly extended arc. 🦝

(Thanks, @jarrak.bsky.social!)

It's interesting, but not surprising, to see every door that Dubyah cracked open is now being thrown wide.

Oh, the janky websites we used to visit to be told that a 9/11-centric reworking of executive power was only going to lead to future abuses.

You weren't wrong, Digby - you weren't wrong.

A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision.

Always a good time these days to repost this slide from an IBM internal presentation in 1979.

Lucy in the sky with ethically sourced, lab-grown diamonds.

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Been ruminating on having a lovely time playing Jackbox with fellow sasquatches last weekend. It makes me long for the old internet - a more trivial internet for a sillier age.

Still gotta face the horrors, but I need to make room for a bit of whiskey and a lot of laughter on a more regular basis.

Wild behaviour? Well, I've never been a get-tipsy-and-buy-things kind of person, but, after a few Manhattans, I HAVE been known to add some absolute nonsense to my Steam wish list.

Some fries, MFers: There's a new Flash Pulp episode up in the feed.

Rockford remains my favourite of the televised detectives.

Hollow Man (2000)

Kevin Bacon’s career would not have survived this horny invisible man movie if it were made today.

Maverick (1994)

I can suspend disbelief enough to stand pre-scandal Mel Gibson, but Jodie Foster as a lascivious damsel-in-distress? C’mon.

Still, James Garner is great and the cameos are constant.