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cordcuttersnews_feed) wrote2025-08-24 01:22 pmNeed a new charger for your phone and more? The UGREEN 65W USB C Charger Block – Nexode 4-Port GaN Charger Type C hits an all-time low price of $23.99, down from its usual $42.99 retail tag. Spotted today across major online platforms like Amazon and the UGREEN official store, this steep discount slashes over […]
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mdlbear) wrote2025-08-24 03:15 pmOn the whole it's been a pretty good week -- busy and productive. (You can identify the busy and productive days in the log -- they're the ones with the fewest links. Most of the productivity was in band practice -- we're working on scratch tracks for the new album, and rehearsing for our upcoming concert gig at MillCon 4, which is a week from yesterday. There is a lot of overlap between the setlist and the tracklist -- there will only be one song in the set that isn't on the album. (The reverse is not true, because the concert set's only half an hour.)
Yesterday's rehearsal went particularly well, and I realized that my guitar-playing is back pretty close to pre-COVID levels. My singing is better, thanks almost entirely to m's warm-up exercises and associated coaching. There's a reason why they're our music director. "Riverheart", in particular, was a real high.
We're planning to release the album, to be called Winds of Time, early next year.
There were also a couple of st/rolls with m -- there are a coffee shop and an ice cream stand in Wateringen -- it's about 2.5km round trip, which is double my current walking range, and almost too far for m. Taking turns on (folding scooter)Lizzy, they're possible, and fun.
Down in the links, you can find Robert-van-Engelen/tinylisp: Lisp in 99 lines of C and Build an Emergency Food Supply List, both on Wednesday.
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cordcuttersnews_feed) wrote2025-08-24 12:41 pmFathom Entertainment’s 35th anniversary rerelease of New Line Cinema’s 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles back into theaters has proven the enduring appeal of the pizza-loving, crime-fighting reptiles. The Steve Barron-directed film, which introduced the world to Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello in live-action glory, grossed an impressive $3.3 million in its first week back in […]
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kimnewmanalucard_feed) wrote2025-08-24 12:00 pm
FrightFest review – The Mannequin (2025)
Writer-director John Berardo made Init!ation, a solid campus slasher film with a #metoo theme. Here, he spins a ghost story around the Pieces/Residencia gambit of the serial killer who collects body parts to assemble an ideal woman – in this case, the murderer was a pin-up photographer who selected limbs and organs over the years from different decades’ notion of female beauty. They never found the bits and pieces, but his abandoned studio space is home to a mannequin which sometimes seems possessed.
In a complicated set-up, a fashion designer (Gabriella Rivera) rents the ‘historic’ Los Angeles building as a workspace – it’s a big, empty room with windows – and succumbs to the curse, though her death is put down to suicide. Her sister Liana (Isabella Gomez), with whom she had a complex relationship, moves into the scene of the crime and becomes convinced that it’s haunted. Berardo, who plays the sinister real estate agent himself, stages a few black and white flashbacks with a William Castle touch – and composer Alexander Arntzen gets creative with a theremin, giving the whole thing a pleasingly retro feel.
The story is basic, but Berardo continues to be interested in female friendships under stress – Lindsay LaVanchy, who was in Init!ation, has an unusual role as a best friend who is also a bit of a pain.
Here’s the FrightFest listing.
cordcuttersnews_feed) wrote2025-08-24 12:11 pmAccoridng to reports Major League Baseball appears poised to overhaul its digital streaming strategy. Reports indicate that MLB is in advanced discussions to sell the rights to stream out-of-market games to ESPN, potentially dismantling the league’s longstanding free MLB.TV service. This shift has sparked widespread speculation about the future of a popular perk offered by […]
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cordcuttersnews_feed) wrote2025-08-24 11:31 amIn a move that’s shaking up the streaming world, Amazon has announced the impending shutdown of its ad-supported streaming service, Freevee, with all its content set to be folded into the company’s flagship Prime Video platform. Amazon has announced that in September Amazon’s Freevee will stop working However, the decision has sparked widespread complaints from […]
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gizmodo2_feed) wrote2025-08-24 12:00 pm
kimnewmanalucard_feed) wrote2025-08-24 11:38 am
FrightFest review – 213 Bones
Forensic anthropology lecturer Kelly (Colin Egglesfield) sets his class a practical test involving stacks of fake bones – only real human remains turn up in the mix … and a masked slasher is killing off the cast of Breakfast Clubby student types.
Directed by Jeffrey Primm, who also co-wrote with Dominic Arcelin, 213 Bones is a retro slasher with an unstressed late 1980s/early 1990s setting, decent characterisations (all the kids are just off-centre enough not to be complete stereotypes) and distinctively-staged and -cut kill scenes (this slasher stabs fast and precisely, which might or might not be a clue). The long-faced, straggle-haired mask is memorable, too. There are plentiful red herrings and suspects and the bickering classmates are all kind of fun to hang out with until the knife sticks in them.
In the end, there’s not a lot to 213 Bones beyond perfectly aping, say, Cutting Class or cry_wolf … but it delivers enough entertainment value for audiences not to mind. With Dean Cameron (Rockula) as the token mature student. The young cast aren’t too familiar, but are bright enough to suggest some of them will soon be names – Luna Fujimoto, Liam Woodrum, Mason Kennerly (class bad boy), Sarah Brooks, Simone Lockhart, Tony Weiss, Allegra Sweeney, Hunter Nance and Elizabeth O’Brien all register as pleasing presences. With Scott Peat and Ted Dowling as slobbering, leering suspects and Francesca Barker McCormick as the snippy coroner.
spikedluv) wrote2025-08-24 07:50 ammorbane) wrote in crossworks2025-08-24 11:49 pmsiderea) wrote2025-08-24 07:02 am磁気テープを竹に張って演奏する民族楽器「磁楽弓（じがっきゅう）」三重奏による調べですThis is a trio performance on the “JIGAKKYU,” a traditional folk instrument made by stretching magnetic tape across bamboo.
haebin) wrote2025-08-24 01:00 pmtcpip) wrote2025-08-24 09:00 pmmentalfloss_feed) wrote2025-08-24 10:01 am
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