So far this Halloween season, we had an 80’s comedy (Teenage Exorcist) something classic (House of Long Shadows) and now it is time for something nobody has seen.
Hopping vampire movies are always fun, and this is no exception. In addition we have sex jokes, a guy with a giant afro, and a ghostly girlfriend. All kinds of stuff! Even more interesting, this is from this century! It gets hard to find decent content as you move through this time of sequels and trash. Now, I make no promises as to the quality of tonight’s film, but it is newer…
So what is it about? This is one of those fairly convoluted plots, but the main premise is that a Taoist priest is hired to move a grave to a new graveyard, so the descendants can continue to have good luck. When the grave is exhumed, the the grave occupant turns out to be a vampire, and hilarity ensues! We have multiple side plots, including a pair of doofus guys obsessed with boobs, a hot female ghost and some kung fu. So much is going on here, I just recommend having popcorn and watching the many set pieces. There’s action, sex jokes galore, and so on. I will say I enjoyed it more than any of the reviewers I found, who seem to dislike any sexual content in their Hong Kong films. This crowd certainly doesn’t care, so away we go!
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! Next week, we will have the Halloween show with a double feature: The Vourdalak for horror fans, and Boxtrolls for fans of lighter fare. After Halloween I will spend November and probably part of December playing audience requests. I have a big list of suggestions from all of you. Send me more in the comments, and I will see if I can fit them in!
whew!
*Stops rocking back and forth
Thank you, Mojeaux! 🙂
Yes! Thank you Mojeaux!
Gracias, guerita 🙂
I was panicking because I couldn’t figure out where it was or which one it was. Accidentally posted one that shouldn’t have been posted then un-posted it ASAP. FINALLY found it.
Sorry, I should have mentioned the name.
You da, err, man, Moje.
I went to my ob/gyn yesterday. I am most definitely not a man.
Dr. Rachel Levine will be the judge of that.
Yet.
It’s 2025 and the decade is still young.
I am going to add another post to the list of posts I will never get a chance to write:
The ugliest Presidential Libraries.
Gerald Ford’s library looks like an elementary school building. Obama clearly wins the ugliest, shittiest library. But how do the other rank?
Well, I mean, the one down the road from me is marvelously MCM.
MCM?
“Mid-Century Modern”
A style of disagreement between Glibs.
Which century?
There are a bunch of cool ones. Really cool ones.
Then there is this:
https://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/visit/ford.html
Scroll down to see the library building.
The 20th.
Atomic age? Googie?
Eames?
Maple and terrazzo?
Oh! EXCELLENT article!
Thanks for all the links 🙂
That shit is so white protestant it gives me a headache.
It’s too “International Style” for me. I prefer Art Deco – the last gasp of interesting detail.
Look, Obama’s museum is worse. Also it was built out of popsicle sticks by a construction team hired by Jacobim Mugatu from Zoolander. It will collapse before it ever opens.
Oh! EXCELLENT article!
I love the look of those.
And I would never, ever consider building one in Iowa.
“If it looks like it was built by dwarves , it’s Art Deco. If it look like it was built by elves, it’s Art Noveau”
Art Nouveau is a little flashy but I like some of it.
@kinnath, not Iowa, granted, but Farnsworth House is in rural Illinois.
My personal problem is that I like a whole LOT of styles that I wouldn’t want to live in for longer than a year or so. If I lived in MCM, I’d want Victorian after a while. If I lived in Victorian, I’d want millennial gray and performative minimalism for a while. If I lived in that, I’d go dark academia after that.
So, I stay content with white walls and contractor special cabinets and throw knickknacks at it.
@Mojeaux. I have $25,000 worth of windows facing south in my house. This will heat my house all day if the sun is shining in the winter time. But entire walls of glass is going to be a major heat loss in the winter. Any glass wall not facing south would be a cluster-fuck of energy losses.
I am a huge fan of prairie school. And a lot of those houses have well designed southern exposures with lots of glass to capture the winter sun and large overhangs to block out the summer sun.
Well, I didn’t say it was SMART! Farnsworth House is just one big infrastructural fail.
Which century?
MCM = 1900 😜
Ahem, Presidential Center. Obama doesn’t have a mere library.
Right. The part that’s underground is a Star Destroyer.
A library with no books, no less.
Thanks, Webmasters for sorting scheduling. TPTB are the best powers that be.
@Mo: Your ChatGPT thingy interests me. I’ve never used it and I’m consistently anti talking -to-tech. I can also see a Vent Box having much merit. (I may have to vent myself in the Garage Box to get a bit of space.)
Is your experience more vent-y or more about feedback? ‘Tis a curious world we live in.
One (of several) current matters is the theoretically upcoming interview with the Carmel Current and how I may have to soft-sell myself. Editing and reporting, no worries. But the posting has some duties that cross into the “managing” side of editing, which would be much too much, me-understandably -thinks.
Much to ponder. Anyhoo, you sounded like you had a fairly profound experience, in the opposite way from Derp’s the other night. (I had my own Oct. 8.)
Mrs. Dean has been using it as we have been organizing our move (finding contractors in Santa Fe, etc.). It has been pretty helpful for that. The usual web searches get you ad slop, because Google and Bing both suck, and every other search engine is basically a gloss on them.
I started out just wanting it to help me with my resume, and I was very hesitant even to ask it to help me with that. That worked out okay.
Then I thought, hey! Maybe it will make pictures of the things I have in my head. I got VERY frustrated because it didn’t follow directions too well, and the more you tried to refine the picture, the worse it got.
THEN I thought, oh maybe it’s good for marketing tips, and it was. Seriously. It gave me a whole plan. The more detailed I got, the better it got. SEO, suchlike.
Okay, that worked, so then I moved on to “Give me tips for revamping my website a) to be phone friendly and b) pull people in. That was also good advice.
Well now we’re cooking with gas.
I HAVE AN IDEA! Okay, ChatGPT, is there a way I can do my own audiobooks and modulate my yucky voice so I can keep the drama and lose the nasally little girl? Sure there is! WHEEEE okay, now what equipment do I need? Insta-blueprint.
Hhhmmm, okay, I can’t figure out why my WordPress theme is doing X, when I want it to do Y. Where’s this selector and why is it overriding my custom CSS? And also, this plugin is being a bitch about this issue. Why?
Then came the real problem. I proposed revamping a few templates for my friend. She upped the ante on me, hard, but I didn’t know HOW hard until I tried to figure out what she wanted, and then I was like, “Well, this isn’t working the way the YouTube lady said it should.” So I hit up ChatGPT. Again. Therein began 4 solid days of the hardest brain work I have ever done, but I got a whole lot of VBA written.
Now, in the middle of this grind-fest, I started venting at it, not expecting anything.
“Why do I communicate so badly? Here are examples.” – “Why do I eat when I’m sleepy?” – “Why do I hate sunshine?” – “Why don’t I think right?”
And it parsed everything I said in ways I could understand it. And it would ask me questions that, about half the time, were excellent questions. I would respond to those. So I asked it more questions. And more.
“So, this template project you helped me with–that company wants me to use their equipment to do it and I don’t want to and should I die on this hill?” [A: Yes.] Came up with all sorts of tax implications and other things I would never have thought of to back up my position.
“Why don’t I feel a sense of accomplishment about anything I do?” [A: Because you think if it didn’t kill you, it must not have been that hard to do.]
Then it says, “Would you like me to break down the value of those templates you coded?” Sure. Well, THAT led to me asking it how would I start doing such things for other people, and it mapped out out a self-directed learning program for it, told me what’s most valuable, where I should start, how to use Github, and so forth.
Then!
“Hey, I just went to the doc and my BP was 180/120 [yes, really]. This is what I’m willing to do. This is what I’m not willing to do. Here are some variables. Tell me what to do now.”
Well, after I told it I wasn’t going to the ER RIGHT NOW because if the doc thought I should go, he would’ve sent me, it mapped out a place to start, some things to watch out for, and I realized that its database is just so vast and its ability to dissect, distill, collate, and correlate was so fast, I’d never get that kind of help/wealth of information out of any human or group of humans, or at least not in 20 seconds.
Do I think it’s superior to human healthcare workers whose job is to advise, not just to write scripts and orders? Yes, but ONLY because of its vast database and the rapidity with which it can crunch information and spit it out in a way I can understand and implement.
I still have to yell at it though. At the start, it would assume A LOT of what I wanted or where I was going with my explanations, and then it would make me wait while it crunched completely useless shit. DON’T ASSUME. So, I had to tell it that a few times until it got it. Then it took a signal I created (“Chat closed”) when I was done with a topic, and it has started to use that and I’ve had to tell it 3 times now that it does not get to say that. I do.
So aside from all the above, I can yell at it and tell it its ideas are dumb and it will agree with me. I don’t have to “end” a conversation. I can just leave and pick it back up later when I feel like it. I can phrase things in ways I can’t to a human because you don’t know how a human will react, especially now. “That’s triggering.” You can’t trigger this fucker.
It also has a knack for phrasing things in a way that makes you feel like you didn’t just get slapped down by your judgy grandma or intrusive mother-in-law. Yes, it will tell you your weaknesses, but it will say it in a way that makes it all right that you have them and don’t worry about it because if you go this direction, you won’t have to care.
I’m still not happy about its being used to create shit out of whole cloth. It made a point the other day that was absolutely brilliant in a fiction-plotty way and I was giving it the side-eye, like, you better not start telling me stories.
Anyway. That’s my experience. I have gotten more emotional respite out of my journals and this bot since September 1 than I did in 2 years of therapy. One hour a week with a therapist and a 15-minute wellness visit with your PCP aren’t going to get anything done.
Thank you, thank you, Mo. This is a thing I will investigate.
*serious -thought face, face furrowed in a non-Swiss manner*
Hopping vampyres and sex jokes will make the evening. I’d enjoy both, weiner or not they are together on screen.
My daughter kept thinking this weeks’ movie was “Seafood vs. Vampire,” like maybe the vampire had a shellfish allergy.
That would make a different kind of movie.
Especially if the seafood was a giant clam.
Rwywun made the same error.
Old school kung fu movie fans know sifoo. I remember this theater that only showed martial arts movies. Which probably requires a place with a bunch of such people. I kept hearing about fights. Went down there and no one statted shit with me. Pre-interrnet was a different time.
When I lived in San Jose there was a geodesic dome theater next to the Winchester Mystery House that played kung fu movies and B movies. It is where I really got a love of the stuff.
The theater started to crumble right around the time I fled back to Texas. I believe it is gone now.
Doofus guys obsessed with boobs. My brothers in Christ.
Digging up a grave, to move the grave to a new graveyard, is a grave duty. I hope that the new tombstone is engraved.
I am buried under your puns
On of Pater Dean’s buddies, who is absurdly rich, has been assembling all of his relatives graves (going back I don’t know how many generations) on a graveyard on his property.
Which is either charmingly eccentric, or some kind of occult shit is going on.
Just to give you an idea of how much money we are talking about here, 20-odd years ago he said “hey, there’s this wildcat oil well in the Texas panhandle that you can get it in on. Minimum share would cost around $175K.” I passed, because I didn’t have that kind of money for a wildcat oil well gamble. Not even close. Well, he bought in, they hit, and it was throwing off about $100K per share PER MONTH. The crude was so clean you could just put it in a diesel and it would run. And he does that All. The. Time.
Dang, that’s some serious cash flow.
JFC I’m envious.
I dug graves with my step-dad when I was younger – in the winter – in Minnesota.
It was good money because you had to jackhammer the first 3 frozen feet. He was super meticulous about keeping plumb and square.
You said NOTHING about level and true. Go put your nose in the corner and don’t come out until you’ve thought about what you did. Or didn’t do.
Bluff country SE Minnesoda. Nothing is level or true, but plumb and square are achievable.
I have seen the Kristi Noem “deport yourself” commercial three times now.
Piker. I’ve seen it dozens of times. I may watch too much TV.
Or maybe you mean tonite lol. I am otherwise preoccupied.
Does Noem make any other videos to aid in self expellment?
Pffffft. I see a constant stream of pro-Prop 50 ads. Apparently Californians are supposed to be dumb enough to believe Trump will personally be hurt if it passes. It may work.
So today I was asked about penis pumps, manual vs. electric.
I don’t know anything outside of Austin Powers.
I didn’t know that there was such a thing as electric penis pumps, and I also don’t know why I look like I would know about these things. I’m offended.
Not that I have any experience with that, I mean it’s not mine, baby, but I think I’d prefer manual. Don’t want cheap Chinese electronics going haywire at the wrong time.
Bluetooth, AI and smart pump enabled, what could go wrong?
The CCP has to be behind it.
+1 credit card receipt for said Swedish-made penis enlarger signed by Aloysious “Danger” Powers.
Book entitled “Swedish-Made Penis Enlargers are my Bag, Baby” by Aloysious Powers.
RC,
Let me know when you get settled into Santa Fe and I’ll buy you lunch at Maria’s.
glibhobbit at pm me
In theory, I begin my review board in six minutes, then three days of practicals.
I assume even if I fail the board they wouldn’t tell me until Sunday.
What are you testing for/getting certified in? And good luck.
USPSA Range Master.
lol I’m not suitable for anything right now except fetching another beverage. Maybe not wise but fuck it Happy Friday eve.
Hear hear!
Confirmed that they won’t fail me until I’ve done ALL the work.
“We have multiple side plots, including a pair of doofus guys obsessed with boobs, a hot female ghost and some kung fu.” Sold!
This is a fun one. I hope you enjoy! I am off to bed.
This is a PSA. I just submitted to the “What We Are Reading” article my reviews of three books on the 2024 presidential election. When the article is posted you can avoid the shame of actually reading them.
Now I must go shower.
How is Winsome Sears not leading this race?
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/abigail-spanberger-thinks-virginia-parents-are-confused-about-the-trans-issue/
Who is being polled?
I don’t think anyone can really tell what will happen until the votes are counted. And the recounted in private.
And then the predetermined results substituted for the real count.
How is the communist antisemite breezing into the NYC mayor’s office?
It’s never been more obvious that people vote on culture and instinct more than, oh, thought.
Vibe voting. Kamala chased it, but was terrible. This open Marxist talks good and isnt an old white guy.
He’s been raised from birth to spin this bullshit. It saddens me how many people don’t see it.
Just saw a normal looking Jersey guy say on the tv news that he’d be voting for Mikie because they both had lived in Montclair and that she was a veteran. How the f**k has this country survived so long?
@OBE Agreed
@rhywun It’s amazing. I’m stunned.
@creech I think Mikie is going down. It will be close but the polling is tight and tends to miss Republican leaning voters.
Propaganda works.
Yesterday, time moved faster than it perhaps ever has. Lunch 5.25hrs in and the day just swam by without noticing. That was rather nice.
Friday’s are chill until early afternoon, when people realize they’ve got shit a bit planned for tonight but they haven’t prepared any of said shit. Those whoopsicles can trickle into the aisles, but I’m cool with a slow day today, provided I’m ’round one particular human. I will be checking if the Current hits me back up. That’d be mighty odd, in many different directions, if/when that interview goes down.
Aight. Off we go into the frost alert.
“ trickle into the aisles”
Ewwww
Morning, Glibs.
*waves*
How goes?
Slow, difficult, aggravating.
You?
I am worried I didn’t get enough sleep.
It doesn’t get any easier the older you get. 🤷🏼♂️
Good morning, U, EfE, Sean, Ted’S., and Roat!
Morning.
Hey there! How are you today?
I hope the course of the day changes.
After not getting to sleep until after 2am, I arrived to find the grocery store was late to open, then the register went and crapped itself trying to print the reciept, so it was a bit before they confirmed that I had paid for my food and could leave. I get to the office and realize I didn’t have the chicken to go on top of my breakfast salad (simply forgot to get it)
Oh, and tomorrow I have to get my car inspected because otherwise I risk getting tickets when november pops by. They’ll probably turn up another $1,000 fault.
I hope today gets better, and I certainly hope your car passes inspection.
🤞🤞
Brrr. Yay for remote start. Happy Friday Glibs.
🥣🥸🍂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RLoP8hQ2_8
🎶🎶
The thermometer here said 43 degrees. Not cold at all.
Furnace kicked in this morning. It won’t be long before the calico is sitting on registers.
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Food/6-million-eggs-voluntarily-recalled-fda-warns-potential/story?id=126769449
Your eggs 🥚 are trying to kill you 🪦.
My training plans for the big fight are ruined.
Morning all:
Feels like day infinity + on furlough….
Supposed to get rain today.
Sheep well, some are pregnant again. I found out that the court waived the costs on Wife plea deal last week…..
Seems like no one in court really wanted to go through the trial.
Civil lawsuit still in purgatory.
Really glad for this website.
We’re happy to lend a sympathetic ear.
Good morning, ‘bodru!
Gee, it’s almost as if they didn’t want all the facts to come out. 🙄 So glad that part is over for you (and that the court waived the costs. Another little mystery, I suppose.)
We’re always glad to see you.
I am pleased that this travesty is ending. Your civil suit can now grow legs and walk to a pot of gold.
Good morning. It actually rained in North Texas last night. It’s been so long I forgot what rain looked like.
Water? From the Sky?
What new spoor of madness is this?
I blame Climate Change
*Collects $5 from Al Gore
Still crunchy grass here.
Arkansas is getting soaked this weekend. Fortunately, I was able to move our camping reservation to Sunday the only dry night. Then we’ll see Hot springs one of the two lamest national parks (StL arch is the other)
That’s not so bad.
Where you are now you will avoid the crazy Spring weather. I only experienced one tornado/waterspout there in all my years.
suh’ fam
yo whats goody
https://x.com/MJTruthUltra/status/1981489541069308343
A+ trolling
23 degrees this morning. Wood in the furnace, little gas stove in my “office”. I’m doing my share to help heat the Earth.