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  1. On 9/29/2020 at 4:20 PM, Captainant said:

    Notre Dame football coach Brian Kelly ties coronavirus outbreak to pregame meal, vomiting player

    Notre Dame will resume team practices Wednesday after reporting 18 positive coronavirus tests on Monday, but the program has changed the way it will eat its pregame meals and will now have rapid antigen tests available on the sideline because of lessons learned from their outbreak, coach Brian Kelly told ESPN on Tuesday.

    Kelly said team doctors determined that the outbreak, which resulted in 25 players in isolation and 14 others in quarantine, stemmed from two events surrounding the Sept. 19 game against South Florida: eating their pregame meal together, and one player who threw up on the sideline during the game and was treated for dehydration.

    Kelly said the change in routine from summer camp to game week revealed new challenges that could have only been discovered with the start of the season.

    "Throughout our entire time together, we had not had one meal where we sat down together," Kelly said. "Everything was grab and go. We get into our game situation where we have pregame meal together, and that cost us. Big. We had somebody who was asymptomatic, and it spread like wildfire throughout our meeting area where we were eating and then it got guys in contact tracing."

    the dinesh patel special strikes again

  2. TCM Fright Favorites - Fridays in October

    https://www.tcm.com/articles/Programming Article/020752/fright-favorites-fridays-in-october

    Could 2020 feel more like a real-life horror movie? That's why TCM is bringing you the best classic, spine-tingling chills to escape into and shut out the real world for a few hours. TCM host Ben Mankiewicz is joined by David J. Skal, critic and author of TCM's horror anthology Fright Favorites: 31 Movies to Haunt Your Halloween and Beyond, in presenting a weekly evening featuring some of classic cinema's eeriest, creepiest and most terrifying films.
     

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    Skal is a cultural historian known for his research and analysis of horror literature and films. His published works include Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen (1990); The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror (1993); Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning, Hollywood's Master of the Macabre (1995); V is for Vampire: The A to Z Guide to Everything Undead (1996); Screams of Reason: Mad Science and Modern Culture (1998); Death Makes a Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween (2002); and Claude Rains: An Actor's Voice (2008).

    This scary festival leading up to All Hallows' Eve is divided into categories beginning with the David J. Skal Frightmare, which opens with the original Dracula (1931). This first sound adaptation of the Bram Stoker novel was released through Universal Pictures and stars Bela Lugosi as the definitive vampire who "never drinks...wine."

    Skal's creepfest also spotlights Cat People (1942), the first of a series of striking, low-budget horror films produced by Val Lewton at RKO and directed by Jacques Tourneur. This one concerns a Serbian-born woman (Simone Simon) who takes on the characteristics of a cat when her emotions are aroused. Also screening are House on Haunted Hill (1959) and The Haunting (1963).

    Back from the Grave features such visits with the undead as The Ghoul (1933), a British horror film starring Boris Karloff as an Egyptologist who rises from his tomb to wreak revenge on those who have violated his final resting place. The distinguished cast includes Cedric Hardwicke and Ralph Richardson.

    Night of the Living Dead (1968) is the independent zombie picture, directed, co-written and photographed by George A. Romero, that became a major cult classic and spawned a series of money-making sequels. This original is set in rural Pennsylvania, where an army of cannibalistic corpses attack a group of people seeking shelter in a farmhouse.

    Also screening: Mark of the Vampire (1935) and Black Sleep (1956).

    Horror Anthologies include Dead of Night (1945), a five-part British collection best remembered for the episode where Michael Redgrave plays a ventriloquist dealing with an evil dummy; Twice-Told Tales (1963), a three-part American movie based on stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, with each episode starring Vincent Price; and Black Sabbath (1963), a three-part production from Italian horror specialist Mario Bava dramatizing stories by Chekhov, Tolstoy and Guy de Maupassant, with Boris Karloff introducing each episode and playing a vampire in one of them.

    Among our Creature Features, all drawn from the 1950s, is RKO's The Thing from Another World (1951). An unrecognizable James Arness plays a murderous alien discovered in a block of ice at an Arctic outpost by scientists and Air Force officers. The renowned Howard Hawks produced this gripping film and reportedly made uncredited contributions to the writing and direction.

    Another of our terrifying beings is the Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), a prehistoric "gill-man" discovered by a geology expedition exploring along the Amazon River. This Universal production stars Richard Carlson as an ichthyologist and Julia Adams (before she became "Julie") as the beauty with whom the creature falls in love.

    Also screening: The Blob (1958) and The Tingler (1959).

    Deals with the Devil include the one struck in Eye of the Devil (1966) by a vineyard owner (David Niven) who resorts to pagan rituals to save the crops on his French estate. The cast of this MGM film includes Deborah Kerr as Niven's worried wife and Sharon Tate as a comely witch.

    The Wicker Man (1973) is a highly regarded British film that falls into the classification of "folk horror" with its story of a police sergeant (Edward Woodward) investigating the disappearance of a young girl on a Hebridean island, where he discovers that the citizens practice paganism. Robin Hardy directs a cast that includes Christopher Lee as the island's leader.

    Also screening: The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959) and The Devil Rides Out (1968).


     

     

    10/2 - David J. Skal Frightmare
    Dracula (1931) 
    Cat People (1942) 
    House on Haunted Hill (1959) 
    The Haunting (1963)

    10/9 - Back from the Grave
    The Ghoul (1933) 
    The Black Sleep (1956) 
    Mark of the Vampire (1935) 
    Night of the Living Dead (1968)

    10/16 - Horror Anthologies
    Dead of Night (1944) 
    Twice-Told Tales (1963) 
    Black Sabbath (1963)

    10/23 - Creature Features
    Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) 
    The Blob (1958) 
    The Tingler (1959) 
    The Thing from Another World (1951)

    10/30 - Deals with the Devil
    The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959) 
    Eye of the Devil (1966) 
    The Devil Rides Out (1968) 
    The Wicker Man (1974)

  3. On 4/16/2019 at 3:15 PM, Horn_Spanker said:

    My biggest concern is giving up my austin.rr.com address that I've used for twenty years.

    fuck no. you take that damn thing with you to your death bed. even when the petabit interwebs are free.

  4. 3 hours ago, hornian said:

    What’d he use to fix it? His nose?

    he had nubs at the ends of his radius/ulna before the wrists but was able to use a powered screwdriver without much effort. guy also had a very think russian accent, so i decided to keep my curiosity to myself.

  5. 11 hours ago, kevwun said:

    I called TCL on a whim and it looks like they may repair it under warranty.  Supposed to take a pic of it and email it to them with my proof of purchase.  They said they will do an onsite repair because of it's size.

    back in 2004(?) i had a panasonic plasma that started freaking out after only a month. guy that services for panasonic comes over and fixes it. takes him ~15 minutes. oh yeah, he didn't have hands. 

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  6. On 9/13/2020 at 7:42 PM, Horny04 said:

    I have it... But it's not 65 anymore. It's 85. And I think HBO max was just a promo, no? I've had the go big plan since directv now came out and the plan was 35/month.

    hbo (max) has always been +$5 for me.

    initially (aug 2017) the service was $35+$5, and then in aug 2018 they raised it to $40+$5. raised again in apr 2019 to $50+$5, and then $60+$5 in dec 2019.

  7. On 9/5/2020 at 3:25 PM, dogbreath said:

    Decline of Western Civilization is on later tonight as well as Part 2: Heavy Metal.  Never thought, I'd see these on TCM.   A doc on Mance Lipscomb was recently on--recorded but have not watched.  The Kids are Alright is on tonight as well.  Recorded the Abba movie from 1979 as Lasse Hallstrom directed and I want to see if there are any My Life as a Dog parallels. 

    yeah, you won't typically see shows like decline of western civilization unless it's a late weekend night. there were a lot of music-related shows on recently due to tcm's end of summer tour. "jimi plays monterey" was on as well, which i had never seen before. 

  8. this shit really works. fyi, you may end up in a northeast austin warehouse, but that's just an artifact of the transcendental sukshmal worm hole. the shackles are for your protection and will disintegrate upon the final internal mandala emission. it doesn't hurt that neikea has some rats.

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