What deep dark hole is this? Well, it’s the same hole where I found:
- Bigfoot vs Krampus: “From the depths of Hell, the Lord of Darkness summons the demon Christmas spirit Krampus to wreak havoc on the living and only Bigfoot can stop him.” You know, this almost sounded good. I was up for it. And it was another one of those films done entirely by AI and CGI. So, so bad.
- Bong of the Living Dead: “The relationships of five stoner friends are pushed to their limits when the zombie apocalypse they’ve all been dreaming about becomes a reality.” Too close to home.
- Killer Witches from Outer Space: “When alien witches and creatures invade their sleepy town, three youngsters team up to overthrow the beings before chaos spreads around the world.” I really resent the raycist insinuation that aliens from outer space are “witches” bent on world domination. It’s even more insulting to think that kids could stop aliens.
Of all of these choices, Raw Force was the best! Just look at the movie poster! Zombies with swords! Kung Fu! Women in cages! Dudes in hooded cloaks! You just cannot go wrong tonight, unless you hate all those things. Even the description on IMDB was good:
Martial arts students visit an island with ghosts of dishonored fighters. They encounter a Hitler lookalike running a female slavery operation, leading to encounters with cannibals, piranhas, zombies, and chaos. –IMDB
So did the students bring the ghosts of dishonored fighters with them, or were said ghosts encountered on the island? You will have to watch and see!
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! Next week, I am going to have a double feature: Curse of the Queerwolf and Queen Kong! Break out the popcorn and get ready for an extra long and sassy Glib Flicks!
” It’s even more insulting to think that kids could stop aliens.”
That’s mostly true. Mostly.
Every one knows from ET and Flight of the Navigator that kids befriend aliens.
Also, FotN end credits music:
https://youtu.be/gJWTO9qrHWQ?si=QRWXQMROGQN4eeNt
See also Explorers
“Martial arts students visit an island with ghosts of dishonored fighters. They encounter a Hitler lookalike running a female slavery operation, leading to encounters with cannibals, piranhas, zombies, and chaos.”
That does sound good. Unfortunately, there is a health concern with my mom. So I won’t have time to watch it tonight.
I remember last time. I hope everything smooths out.
Unfortunately, there is a health concern with my mom.
Best wishes.
Thanks. I spoke with her cardiologist. Hopefully, I just need to keep an eye on her.
That gif is awesome.
Thanks! I did a commercial making fun of Netflix too.
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/NetFlix-Can-Suck-It.gif
LOL
That gif is the best.
Also, best wishes to the Tater.
Damn funny, well-executed, perfectly-delivered. I shared it with Munchkin to encapsulate ‘our’ spirit. (Not our political ideas – she’s with all of that.) My quest to lure her into our world continues. I *just* got her to understand why reading and ‘talking’ online is fun and productive.
Any more you have, I will share. Sadly I gotta figure out how to embed gifs, cuz I’m an idiot. Any help? How do I embed this gif into Facebook?
I would start by clicking on ‘account’ and the ‘sign out’
The Sabres are sucking ass tonight so…
*presses play*
You made a good choice. Have you gotten to the creepy laughing Pilipino dude in a robe?
Um… probably?
Lots of butts and boobs.
Definitely.
LBFMs as far as the eye can see.
Ah well…AFL season starts next week.
Hm no schedule yet but looks like one match a week on a channel I get.
https://www.afl.com.au/fixture
Sorry, I mean the schedule for North Americans.
Raw Force was the best! Just look at the movie poster! Zombies with swords! Kung Fu! Women in cages! Dudes in hooded cloaks!
This looks like it is just up my alley.
But I won’t be able to watch tonight.
I’ll have it queued up for next week.
Thanks RJ!
It’s definitely up your alley. It has been a while since I played a freaky kung fu movie.
First OT post:
My libertarian streak feels uncomfortable with some of the implications. Under normal circumstances, any government intervention in pricing sounds nightmarish. What would Ayn Rand say? But hospitals and insurance companies aren’t free-market entities—they’re government-subsidized, government-protected monopolies.
More importantly, hospitals and insurance companies made their bed during covid. They refused to tell us how much covid treatment cost when that information was critically important. They built a bureaucratic system that locks out competition, exploits price secrecy, and relies on taxpayer money through Medicare and Medicaid. If they want to act like government entities, then they get to play by government rules.
Lie down with dogs, get up with orders forcing you to tell people how much your services actually cost.
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/trust-me-thursday-february-27-2025?r=d0r3d&utm_medium=ios
Also, heh, heh; libertarian “streak”
https://youtu.be/bkaiCPgQ6bg?si=ePLtnBcghyaBkpyJ
Pricing transparency was the unimplemented second phase of ObamaCare. It fixes nothing, especially since pricing is elastic. Medicare and indigent patients get one lower price, and people with “private” health insurance get a totally different and much higher price. Trump seems more dedicated to implementing the rest of ObamaCare than repealing all regulations and allowing insurance to evolve back into something simple and affordable, and for healthcare to follow.
Also that was the music link I wanted. Thanks!
Out of nowhere this week I remembered the 30min short film Kung Fury from 2015 (Iron Sky type project). I looked it up and they actually completed a feature length sequel, but it is in release limbo due to law suits between production companies.
The above link is the full short, here’s the trailer if you just want the gist.
Oh nice! I loved Kung Fury. I don’t know that it would scale up well though.
I don’t know either, but they got Michael Fassbender and Arnold to be in it along with the return of the Hoff, so I’d buy that for a dollar!
I will definitely watch it if it ever gets out of limbo.
It has an IMDB listing is Kung Fury 2: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5765844/
Kung Fury is awesome.
My favorite parts are the thugs who flip the police car in the air using a skateboard and then blow it up with machine guns, the arcade game that transforms into a robot and shoots everybody, Kung Fury jumping off the building and opening his car door by shooting it, Kung Fury holding his breath in space, the flashback of how Kung Fury lost his mentor but gained his powers, Hitler killing everybody at the police station by shooting through the phone, Hackerman, the most powerful hacker ever, hacking Kung Fury into the past, Laser raptors in the Viking Age, Thor showing off his epic pecs, Kung Fury defeating all the Nazis, Triceracop shooting all the Nazis in the groin, how heaven looks so real, and Kung Fury hassling the Hoff.
In addition, David Hasselhoff’s music video, and the Hackerman tutorial.
Boobies!
Yes. Lots of them.
Two is enough. Though that Total Recall chick was interesting.
Another musical OT
With that said, the most notable – and maybe even the coolest – part of the song is what it doesn’t do. What I mean here is that the entire premise of the song is based on the following sequence:
1. She looked good [to the singer].
2. Something happened.
3. [The Singer] finds her simply irresistible.
Or, more accurately:
3. [The Singer] finds her [boom-bap, boom-bap, boom-bap… whoosh!] simply irresistible.
But we never find out what happened to change the singer’s perception of the woman. Not even a hint. All we can decipher is that it is likely something physical, as it suggests that it is related to her appearance. The rest of the lyrics provide no help, as they just follow the format below.
https://open.substack.com/pub/brianhoward/p/unsolved-mysteries-simply-irresistible?r=d0r3d&utm_medium=ios
The song: https://youtu.be/SoHpSY3IoAI?si=uZ75VTut8B2uideE
I would say verse 2, line 1 would be the change, “Her lovin is so powerful”. So, she’s a decent looking woman who is great at sex. The change came with the sex.
I thought the Raw Force concept sounded familiar, and then I started it and saw Cameron Mitchell and skimmed through the timeline and thought it looked familiar. They covered it on Best of the Worst on the same episode as Bigfoot VS DB Cooper.
They have good taste.
Killer Witches from Outer Space?
Are they Star wars witches?
‘The power of maaaannyyyyyy’.
Not even that good. I was so insulted.
ChatGPT does a fairly good roast of [insert your hometown here] and [whatever year]
Too much fun at not a human giving you feedback
ChatGPT is getting saucy…
The bar I’ve been frequenting for the last two decades has suddenly become a hot spot for lesbians. They all seem like nice kids, and the hot girl on girl action is entertaining for a while but I’m concerned that my devilish good looks are going to be wasted there, and I may have to find some other dive to hang out in, and I’m far too old to make a change like that.
You could go trans and stay there.
“Its weird, but I also eat pussy”
Tres gets it.
I heard that lesbian bars are extinct.
“Martial arts students visit an island with ghosts of dishonored fighters. They encounter a Hitler lookalike running a female slavery operation, leading to encounters with cannibals, piranhas, zombies, and chaos. –IMDB”
Gold! I love the vaguery of ‘encountering chaos.’ Anything goes. Fuck it.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaaFHL7ew2I The “sexy undercover cop” (hot in a bikini on a ‘yacht’) has remarkably bad kung-fu ‘abilities.’
‘Acting:’ Not featured.
“Her deadliest weapon is…HER BODY!” RPGs are featured. A perfect 80s flick to MST3K with friends+, especially up my alley.
It was a great kung fu B film with lots of boobies! Kung Fu and titties, like Rudy Ray said. TUBI selected a film called “The Muthers” for me to watch next.
“B” might be pushing it.
When I went backwards one of the search results, Thanatomorphose (the only letters I had entered were R A W ?!), piqued my interest for maybe another day.
Proto Hitler eaten by piranhas was a nice touch.
When do we get some Weng Weng?
/just a suggestion
Next week.
Oh! Weng Weng. I thought you said Wang Wang.
I think Killer Witches From Outer Space was inspired by Killer Klowns From Outer Space.
Finished Daniel Everett’s book, Don’t Sleep There Are Snakes about his time in the Amazon with the Piraha tribe. Their language is alien, like a real-life version of Tamarian from Star Trek:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOnc74Vljx0
Everett gives a demo of linguistic fieldwork:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYpWp7g7XWU
Basically, point at stuff, repeat what you heard until you get it right, and write it down carefully.
It was a bit cloudy tonight, but the stars were brighter at the astronomy village on account of the new moon. About a dozen people came to camp with telescopes. I pretended to be an extrovert and went around chatting up people. I’ll be there again tomorrow to see if I can catch a glimpse of the planetary alignment.
Pretty sure I saw a few satellites with my naked eyes. They looked like really small blue dots that moved fast like a shooting star but don’t burn up.
” Killer Klowns From Outer Space”
The Dickies did the soundtrack.
Took my nephew to Spirit Halloween to get a costume last year, they had a 7 foot tall officially licensed Killer Klowns From Outer Space animatronic, If I lived somewhere where another living sole might ever see it I may have made that impulse buy.
I got the costumes and the gun. It’s enough if I can just look at it.
HOLY FUCK. I just found out how to cast this… (I’m really slow on tech advance.. *all* those skills went to Bro.)
We’re starting off..and I’m likin’ these girls and their nervous wriggling in their playful, bright sundresses… and Red Bandanna Man ruins my mood.
Oooh! It’s a co-Philippine production! And we got bush right quick! And much tits. Red Bandanna Man has nasty intentions. (Dammit. I gotta turn this off. Dad is limping around, soon needing help, and this would…perhaps inflame him. (I’m pissed he’s not taking all his pain meds.)
Semi-oddly, I never went to the Philippines. Never even through it. No desire or it just never came up. It’s like half-America. (Uh. Yuck?) Lived in Singapore for two years; the closest I see are my two trips to Bali, and as the crow-flies, I’d reckon Hanoi is the closest.
Fantastic selection.
McSpeghetti all around.
An ex took me to a Filipino restaurant in Queens once – it was awful. And I don’t mean awful as such things go but awful as in… ugh, you people eat this stuff?
But did they BBQ girls like in this movie?
That might have tasted better than the “beefsteak” I ordered.
Would eat several of them, in a way or two.
Semi-OT! Armin Meiwes is “a German former computer repair technician who received international attention for murdering and cannibalising Bernd Brandes, whom he had found via the Internet as a voluntary victim, in March 2001.”
Difficult libertarian+ case. The victim agreed to it all. Video and written consent. ‘Uh. Fuck. Um. We can’t let you go, cuz duh.’ Kinda like Ed Gein, who actually was treated well and loved the rest of his days in an insane asylum /institution, whatever. :Human! You go here now. Have fun! But dont’cha leave! Here’s a cookie! Go play!” We’re *such* strange creatures.
“Filipino beefsteak” definitely sounds like some super-dirty sexual act.
Sadly, no. Just a thin slab of tough and hideously oversalted meat.
I’m told there is indeed tasty Filipino food, just stay away from the balut 🤮
My exposure to Filipino food was a few lumpia and siapao. The restaurant had to close for an emergency, so I just asked for whatever they had that was ready to go.
*’“Filipino beefsteak” definitely sounds like some super-dirty sexual act.”
*”Sadly, no. Just a thin slab of tough and hideously oversalted meat.”
You’re kinda helping his case. My slab of meat would welcome some more salt. I suppose my slab can be ‘tough,’ tho thin, it ain’t.
My wife makes the best lumpia.
Good morning you wild and crazy folks.
😎✊🍍
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4n6D8lB0A9w
🎶🎶
Fun tune and video.
What about us staid and sane folks?
Assumes facts not in evidence.
Overruled, it is fully supported by the evidence.
I strenuously object.
On what grounds?
“You strenuously object”?
On coffee grounds.
Coffee sounds good.
https://www.nj.com/food/2025/02/this-nj-restaurant-adds-18-tip-to-all-its-bills-is-it-fair.html
They’ll be out of business soon enough.
Most restaurants are.
One thing I noticed during the lockdowns was how journalists only seemed to care about restaurants (well, businesses in general) that had the image of serving a trendier clientele. The sort of people who can afford to go out regularly as opposed to those for whom a step above fast casual is a big deal. The reporting in the article gave off that vibe in spades.
Can you really call a place without a Michelin star a restaurant?
Yes, RoaT, in fact, I’d say they have a greater claim to the title than places with, as Michelin stars are more often granted to places that sell frog food than to restaurants.
Well, at least they only add it on to parties of 1 or more. Sounds reasonable.
suh’ fam
yo whats goody
Good morning, homey, U, Roat, Ted’S., Sean, and slummy!
…and 4(20)!
Morning.
How goes? And are you running behind?
Not running behind – taking the day off again. I still need to keep from maxing out on vacation, as around the middle of March I start accruing hours at the 25-year rate, which is more than 9 hours per biweekly pay period. Also, things slow down at the end of the month.
One mission for today: get over to the box office of a nearby music venue and procure tickets for the local stop of this tour.
I thought GT had today off.
Goodness, that is more than I get. I accumulate vacation at 5.75 hours/biweekly pay period. (Top rate since I’ve been here long enough).
Well, I do hope you enjoy your day off. I’m hoping for a quiet day in the office. (Once again, the whole reason I picked Fridays as office days is because I knew other people would want to be remote for them, thus rendering it quiet more often than not).
That isn’t combined PTO, is it? Because I also have 3.75 of just sick leave per pay period, and I forget if your employer splits them or has one pool.
Good morning, GT.
One more day of morning dog walks (wife is traveling).
I am sleep deprived.
We do have a generous time-off benefit, since we probably don’t pay as well as banks in general. I tend to hoard vacation hours, given someone’s tendency to have (sometimes sudden)
emergencies“adventures.” And, of course, I was so busy all through January and into February that I couldn’t spare the time. I actually lost a few hours because by the time I realized how close I was to the cap, it was too late – our accrued time-off hours are credited when payroll is processed on a Thursday (before the Friday pay day,) but it’s backdated to the previous Monday (first day of the pay period.)😱
Don’t let them take your accruals. You earned that. And that’s a terrible way of doing things if you can retroactively lose it.
We went to “unlimited” time off a number of years back, so they didn’t have to keep millions on the books.
It’s very relaxing not to have to hoard them. In practice it’s mostly extra travel days – e.g., head out on Tuesday of Thanksgiving week.
My wife is more limited, especially since she started a new job, so I didn’t approach the “soft limit” of six weeks off.
And no, that’s not all of our PTO – we have vacation (the balance of which will usually be paid out if you leave,) sick time, and 8 hours of “Floating Holiday” time per year. Just to make it more confusing, we used to call sick time “PTO”, but when my boss took over the Big Chair last year, he “urged” that change in terminology to get in line with the rest of the known world.
Vacation is the only form of PTO that increases based on seniority, increasing at 5, 10, 20, and 25 years.
…and the vacation hours cap for everyone is 240 hours, after which you don’t accrue more until you take some and reduce your balance.
I do not think I would do well in an “unlimited” system. I prefer the reassurance of structure. I have a set of time that is part of my compensation, and there’s no hemming or hawing about whether I’m using too much or too little, it’s all in black and white.
We generally have two floating holidays per year, accrued at Lincoln’s birthday and Election Day, we might end up with more when a fixed date holiday lands on a particular weekend day (I forget if it was saturday or sunday, with the other being observed on the adjacent weekday instead)
Good morning, each and every Glibster.
May your morning commute be smooth and ice/snow free.
If you are already at work, please disregard the commute part
Morning.
It’s above freezing here in Eastern New York. The snow and ice is more or less melted (you have the few lingering snowbank cores and the like, but the bulk is runoff)
I went for a walk in one of the Catskill Park “wild forests” after work on Wednesday and was surprised at the extent to which the snow hadn’t melted.
Well, it melted and refroze, so some parts were icy….
https://mountain-hiking.com/onteora-lake/
I blame the elevation. Come closer to sea level, it’s melted down here.
If I end up with ice in my hallway, I have major problems. 😀
I appreciate the sentiment though, 4×20 — good morning to you and the rest of y’all as well. (And when I hit send, the Links post will be up and no one will see this, I’m sure…)
It’s not as if anyone reads the links either.
I took some sick days a few weeks ago, but someone put them in as vacation days, so now I have fewer vacation days and extra sick days.