Links seem like this today.
I have a lot going on today…yes, that is me making an excuse. And since I have no theme inspiring me, you get store-brand links.
You will have to scratch up music on your own.
The comments are all yours.
Monday Afternoon Generic Links
About The Author
Swiss Servator
Currently serving at the pleasure of a Swiss multinational.
Previously a Soldier, rugby player, lawyer, bouncer, bartender, substitute teacher, risk manager, and cubicle mushroom. Will work for raclette.
Thank you.
I’m afraid I have to get some sleep though. Be back later.
Excellent first, one of the best I’ve ever seen.
We need to put to bed the first.
Put it to bed, or to sleep?
What I am trying to say is, we all dream about no more firsting.
I actually dozed off.
This firsting thing is getting tired.
Go to sleep,
Go to sleep,
Put your firsting behind youâŚ
I have a lot more day ahead of me before sleep time. Which sucks because I was up late at hockey practice, and now it’s cold and overcast and we have a winter storm advisory (damn climate change, what can’t it do?).
I’m sorry, That was terribly rude of me.
My only defense is that I was (and sorta still am) sleep-deprived.
‘cubicle mushroom’
Has that always been there? I feel like one of those right now. What a waste of time.
Me too. Isnât Swiss a cubicle raclette?
It’s more annoying because I have plenty of productive things to do, just not here, where I’m required to be.
I am in the same boat.
They are awfully plain today.
Better than plainly awful.
That was Saturday wasn’t it?
Iâm on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWa-6g-TbgI
…it never ends. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7lTjsU-iJyM
It doesn’t change.
Nope, the obvious.
In honor of the first post: Insomnicide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XNugFRC2N4
A federal judge in Santa Ana denied the motion, ruling that the drivers were exempt from arbitration because they were involved in interstate commerce.
The 9th Circuit last year upheld the judge’s decision, finding that the drivers were integral in getting products that came from outside California to their final destinations.
That sort of logic-torturing should qualify as a war crime.
Agreed.
Wickard waves hello!
Sebelius waves back.
The Domino’s case is interesting. What isn’t interstate commerce? That said, the government reads the rules as broadly as possible when it is in their favor, why not for pizza drivers too?
After arbitration, can the parties still go to court?
It is a bee-yoo-tee-ful day.
I hate that kid. I’m going to hell.
So somebody just put up a 1988 anime of RAH’s “Starship Troopers” from Laser Disk. Japanese, Eng subtitles and Russian fan dub.
Appears to be 6 episodes of 25 minutes. Oddly the opening music is English form some unknown band. Reverb cranked to 11.
Is there a sound sample to identify the band?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ4wXosbIC4
Oh man. The sound effects are on 11, makes it hard to pick out. Working on it. There are songs in the credits which may help.
I stopped it. “Believe” “We Can Make it”
From the katakana writer was Linda (henrikku) Henrik
Tsunoda Hiro
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=46499
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HaP5meMY4M
That awesome 80’s music in the pre open should have been in the movie. I would totally get a bowl of Sugar Smacks and watch the shit out of that when I was 7 years old based on that opening alone.
You will have to scratch up music on your own.
Music to scratch by
Knew it.
I didn’t was expecting this or one of the many cover versions.
So I had a couple of beers with a colleague from the Cetology department yesterday. He related that he’d been called on an emergency consult at SeaWorld Orlando a few months ago. A melon-headed whale had been brought in from the Gulf with a large abdominal wall tear — likely a large shark or pygmy killer whale was feeling fiesty — and my buddy was part of the team brainstorming the rehab. To keep the beast’s insides from falling outside, my pal devised a set of neoprene “pants” that would do until the tissue could heal itself.
Which was all well and good, until a couple weeks later, when the whale, gaining weight and evidently feeling better, decided to start jumping out of the water, as they are wont to do (melon-headed whales are quite playful and gregarious), tearing the pants to shreds and sending everything back to the drawing board.
This is what happens when you get too big for your breaches.
That was quite the tail.
Thanks, I hate it.
Stop blubbering. I didn’t do it on porpoise.
I’ve been floundering around, just for the halibut
Gut check.
Most of these stories are pretty funny, this one was kind of a fluke.
It’s a whale of a story.
a colleague from the Cetology department yesterday
Nothing fishy about that.
That story really had me hooked.
When Swissy deploys the narrowed gaze, we’ll all be baleen out of here.
With a picture from Faster Pussycat — Krill, Krill, Krill?
Will his gaze be set to krill?
Youâre krilling us with these.
That guy needs a sturgeon!
*narrows gaze*
…Ishmael?
Thanks for spouting this news.
If anyone is interested, the below opinion piece from the India Tribune provides an interesting 3rd party angle on the NATO/Ukraine/Russia war. I don’t( know who the author is but he at least provides some actual numbers and names names without the “anonymous sources” deflection.
No big Ah Ha’s or anything like that from this article. Just an interesting outsider nation/media perspective. Since I can’t add two links, I’ll reply below with a recent opinion article printed in the WSJ. What a contrast between the two.
A war Russia set to win
The Europeans have been nicely played by the Americans
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/comment/a-war-russia-set-to-win-441926
English media out of India has been killing it as of late. Plus they find anchors up to western standards of attractiveness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFHp-EtqUac
Just donât expect them to report on anything Indo-Pak related.
Sheâs not as good as the old one though. This one made me want to get yelled at by a journalist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzgPJeYZaOU
She does kind of have that hawt dominatrix thing going.
I have the sound off and I can still hear her voice.
Ooof. She can bindi me over!
It’s an odd discovery to realize a place like India has more honest reporting than a country with free speech built into the constitution.
I’d get yelled at by her too.
Europe is threatened by years of recession caused by the blowback from sanctions against Russia, where the US insisted on the cut off of energy ties with Moscow
The EU didn’t need pressure from us to sanction Russia, which predictably cut off energy production in response.
Noted Russian military expert Vladislav Shurygin told Izvestia that if this tempo was kept up for a week or so, it âwill disrupt the entire logistics of the Ukrainian military â system for transporting personnel, military equipment, ammunition, related cargo, as well as the functioning of military and repair plants.â
Extremely unlikely. If this was really the case, they wouldn’t have waited to do it. The purpose is to shore up support at home.
In the real world, though, Ivan Tertel, KGB chief in Belarus, who has an insider view of Moscow, said last Tuesday that with Russia boosting its troop strength in the war zone â 3 lakh troops who have been mobilised plus 70,000 volunteers â and the deployment of advanced weaponry,
We’ll see, but from what we’ve been able to see so far, it looks like the mobilization has been executed similarly to the rest of the war by Russia – poorly.
The EU didnât need pressure from us to sanction Russia, which predictably cut off energy production in response.
But the US has heavily interfered in pressuring the EU. I mean you have videos of Biden and Nuland point blank stating with no equivocation that we’ll take out the Nordstream if needed. Putin has publicly offered to restore energy several times and it seems like Germany was seriously enough considering dropping sanctions that US followed through on their own threat of taking out the Nordstream. Why would the US pressure the EU if it wasn’t needed? Just for fun?
Weâll see, but from what weâve been able to see so far, it looks like the mobilization has been executed similarly to the rest of the war by Russia â poorly.
I have read ad nauseum from Western sources that the mobilization for Russia going poorly. That Russians are fleeing to Alaska to escape (2 Russians total). The shootings by Muslims (reminiscent of Fort Hood). And that Russia simultaneously supplying their soldiers with Viagra to better rape Ukrainians while simultaneously not providing other supplies (I recall having to ship toilet paper, toothpaste, etc to a buddy in Iraq but didn’t see all the failure to supply troops articles about the US military at the time). I have not seen any actual numbers from any source that plainly shows Russia is having serious difficulty mobilizing (without using anonymous sources state, etc). Would be glad to read any articles though if you have some.
One of the bigger problems is that there is no good source for information about any aspect of Russia/Ukraine at this time. And with any info black hole, bullshit arises to take the truths place.
I agree that there is no good source for information about wider aspects of Russia/Ukraine. Mobilization may be going well or poorly for Russia, but damned if I can find anything legitimate about it from any source.
There are good sources though on the ground in Ukraine providing first hand accounts. I thought the whole “denazification” thing was propaganda until I watched the walkthrough video of the Azov headquarters. Yeah maybe Putin doesn’t really care and is just it for an excuse. But at least now I know it is real and our Western media is lying about the Nazi presence in Ukraine. I think many of us in the US have been jaded by all the false flag swastikas at universities. Or Patrick Lancaster’s work in talking to Ukrainian villagers in the Donbas, with shells hitting all around them, who discussed Ukraine’s military murdering them for several years.
That doesn’t really provide details on the larger war. But these first-hand accounts and video evidence is helpful for giving me perspective as those on the ground are experiencing it versus those sitting behind a politician’s or journalist’s desk. That’s shifted my perspective quite a bit since February.
“The Crimean Bridge attack of October 8 is much more serious. Zelenskyy has crossed a red line that Moscow had repeatedly warned him against. Putin has disclosed that there have also been three terrorist attacks against the Kursk NPP.”
Sure, we invaded your country, but don’t you dare blow a hole in our bridge. That’s terrorism.
Fuck Ukraine, Russia, Europe and everyone else.
Y’all really give a fuck anymore? Is this all worth risking the big one?
The more I read about the history of this mess, the less I want to be involved.
Biggest money-laundering operation in history.
I’d say Massie’s tweet shows why we should care. Not caring in terms of winning/losing for Russia vs. Ukraine but the impact on us as American taxpayers. If we weren’t heavily involved, this conflict wouldn’t even be happening or at least would have been no more than minor a blip in the news cycle.
I’m seeing election fraud, vaccine mandates, and the Russia/Ukraine conflict all as symptoms of the same cause. That cause being out of control elites who are looting American taxpayers.
Here’s what the Western media is running, courtesy of the WSJ. I would have guessed the below to be satire in the Bee pretending to be the New Yorker.
The Man Who Said Ukraine Would Win
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-man-who-said-ukraine-would-win-bernard-henri-levy-russia-putin-west-front-lines-america-strategy-paris-11665752884
So he’s nuts.
And we’re treating him like an authority.
The impeccable Sri Lankan butler is a nice touch, LOL.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0525574/mediaviewer/rm3939622912
I thought so too. That line is what would’ve convinced me this was satire.
Often implies that someone else pays for some of those vacations. Who would that be?
Does he also drink Dos Equis beer, when he drinks beer?
Hope nobody posted this one yet today – compare gun companies with restaurants.
https://twitter.com/dustyddunaway/status/1582020212538634242?t=KpIqCYi60cDeZk1C_hC5XA&s=19
I’m gonna have to peruse this in a little more detail later, but it seems accurate at a glance.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11325239/Biden-calls-Republicans-hypocrites-trying-block-massive-student-loan-bailout.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11324415/Fauci-says-school-closures-pandemic-deleterious-collateral-consequences.html
Who is a bigger asshole?
Quien es culo mas grande?
These are the Top. Men. we’ve been hearing about for years. Infuriating.
Fuck you all cut spending?
With Fauci unable to get himself in the news so much lately, I’m going to have to go with Biden.
“The Smallest Catch: Mystery of the disappearing Alaskan snow crabs deepens as it’s revealed SEVEN BILLION have disappeared from the Bering Straits in the last four years – and entire industry faces ruin”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11324259/Third-generation-Alaskan-fishermen-face-ruin-seven-billion-snow-crabs-mysteriously-disappear.html
They just returned to their home planet.
No, they just defected to Russia.
+1 Thanks for all the fish.
An independent review of London’s Metropolitan Police has found rampant allegations of racism, fraud and sexual assaults among the ranks, adding that departmental leadership continues to turn a blind eye to criminal conduct.
I’m going out on a limb here, but I think this is like saying water is wet.
Ah… so nothing, then.
He leads a magnificent life and has no need to risk his neck in Ukraine or elsewhere. Yet he does. He is a wealthy manâheir to his fatherâs timber fortune and the author of several best-selling booksâand he often pays his own way to these combat zones, setting himself the task of highlighting the plight and the needs of the people at war. âI have the means,â he says, âand the time.â He also feels âa duty, as an intellectual whose voice is heard, to ring the bell and warn the world.â He confesses to a kinship with the Ukrainian people. Ever since he visited Kyiv during Ukraineâs democratic Maidan Revolution in 2014, heâs regarded them as âthe sentinels of the West,â on the front line with Russia.
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What a tongue bath. That reporter must have needed a splint for his tongue after all that slurping.
Stupid fingers.
Stiff Little Fingers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuMHY-nZo8E
Where did the money come from?
An analysis published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on September 26 examined the rapid rise in housing prices and whether remote work, or other factors like fiscal stimulus, led to the increase. The authors â Augustus Kmetz, John Mondragon, and Johannes Wieland â wrote that as more people started working remotely, they sought out additional space at home. That resulted in a spike in housing demand and helped lead to a surge in prices.
The researchers estimated that remote work resulted in house prices rising by about 15 percent from November 2019 to November 2021, which accounts for more than 60 percent of the overall increase in house prices.
âIt means we canât blame the stimulus. Clearly that added to it,â Baker said. âBut the main story there is this big switch to working from home.â
Pay no attention to the interest rate policy behind the curtain.
WTF?
Former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics Monday, along with economists Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig, for their research on bank runs and measures to prevent them.
The three will share the prize money of 10 million Swedish kronor, or $886,000.
Bernanke, who’s now at the Brookings Institution, was recognized for his research on the role of bank failures in deepening and prolonging the Great Depression in the 1930s. He put many of those lessons to work as Fed chairman, pioneering the emergency lending programs that the central bank used to address the financial crisis of 2008-9.
Arsonist hailed as top notch fire fighter.
QE caused narcotics to slip out the posterior.
Brooksie, that Volvo sold for almost 30K. Would have made a nice camper project.
that Volvo sold for almost 30K.
Gadzooks!
It could be quite the work-from-the-road HQ, with some hardening and a machine gun turret on the roof.
Thanks, Edit Faerie!
You’re welcome. đ
I blame the Harvard Business Review
Data now shows that the U.S. workforce is not as productive as just a year ago â it seems people are not producing as much in the hours between clocking in and clocking out each day. In the end, this could have a profound effect on the country’s well-being, according to economists.
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Pollak said there are likely a number of factors contributing to the drop in productivity, but she believes burnout, frustration and, yes, ennui are part of it. And if this continues, the consequences could be very serious.
Pollak said there are likely a number of factors contributing to the drop in productivity, but she believes burnout, frustration and, yes, ennui are part of it. And if this continues, the consequences could be very serious.
That article strikes me as a giant steaming pile of non sequiturs and misplaced blame, but the fact remains. Productivity is falling.
I’m surprised it took this long to show up.
We just need some more consultants to tell us what to do.
âSo many people are working from home its driving up housing pricesâ
âProductivity is dropping. Itâs a total mystery.â
“To understand China you need to understand whiteness, yet it’s missing from the conversation
It is not possible to understand China without understanding race and racism. Specifically, without understanding whiteness…
The Chinese Communist Party has a deep racial consciousness. It is there in the reminder to its people never to forget the hundred years of humiliation at the hands of foreign powers â of white powers.
Yes, that humiliation was at the hands of the Japanese, too, but the Japanese themselves cannot be separated from the project of whiteness.
In his book, Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking, scholar Michael Keevak traces how the Chinese stopped being white.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-16/race-and-whiteness-key-to-understanding-xi-jinpings-china/101536024
That sounds like a very short book: “They were born Chinese.”
“n some ways, Xi’s China may represent the end of whiteness. Except that the Chinese Communist Party itself mirrors whiteness.
The irony is Xi has also become what he opposes. He is a Han nationalist â his idea of Chinese power is ethnic Han superiority â persecuting non-Han, non-white people in his own country.
If whiteness is power, Xi Jinping is its champion.
The continuation of white power, in darker skin.”
You are making me whip out the cockney urine link.
Just set that book over there on the tableâŚ.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z11pQzzEYUU
Sorry, I don’t do YT on this machine.
Sad. It is a fine clip of the Mighty Boosh âcockney urine all over your faceâ bit.
The movie this week is Ghost Stories, as long as I have your attention
https://link.tubi.tv/VWxO1z9wJtb
Hope that link works.
It sent me to the Tubi main page. It is this one: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5516328/ ?
Yes. Itâs been absolutely brutal finding quality content for Halloween that hasnât been seen a million times. I talk about it in the post. I went through about 9 films to find that one. Now I really want a new slasher film. But all the new ones on streaming suck. Suck badly. Recommendations would be accepted at this point. Either that or itâs that damn Terrifier movie.
“Either that or itâs that damn Terrifier movie.”
There is a sequel. It even has it’s own barf bags.
I know a bunch of slashers. I just don’t know what is on streaming. Let me try to check Tubi.
Thanks. Everything new feels like trash. I did find another new scary Bigfoot film but I played too many of those recently.
Looks like there are a bunch of classics on Tubi. For a Thursday night movie I would go with Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2011) (or Rec (2009) if you want a foreign film).
“Everything new feels like trash.”
X (2022) is great, but A24 is probably too classy for Thursday night đ
Genghis Khan was white too. It is known.
He kinda looked like John Wayne.
Sorry, I have reached derp overload for today.
*taps out*
The world is just getting started! Câmon, man!
Let’s just ignore the fact that the Han chinese are the most racist ethnic group on the planet.
Because they are white! Do you understand nothing of what this asshole wrote?!!??
No. In order to understand something, that thing must first make sense.
Check your /sarc meter. Should be on 10 right now.
The midplane is throwing errors.
I’m not awake, and people are expecting me to do computer and supervisory work.
đ
I am sorry. Personally I am ready to exhale in the quicksand and let it all end. Hence my excessive sarcasm.
Thatâs because *checks wristband* âthe Han are actually whiteâ
Or, you know, what R.J. wrote
See! He gets it!
âTruly, you have a dizzying intellect.â
I can’t wait for Larry Elder to become General Secretary of the CCP.
Yes, that humiliation was at the hands of the Japanese, too, but the Japanese themselves cannot be separated from the project of whiteness.
*imagines Godzilla trampling the writer of this nonsensical excretion*
In its way, it is structurally the same antiisemitism. Every bad thing, everywhere, is due to the pernicious influence of the Jew/the White. They donât start with white people and say what they donât like about them. They look at everything they donât like, and blame it on white people.
Just what a white guy would say.
This true. I read an article how more Hispanics voting Republican is white supremacy.
Tell me more
But there are also signs that Thiel is thinking around and beyond the former president. The lionâs share of his largesse â $28m and counting â has been directed towards two business proteges who, with his help, have established themselves as gadfly rightwing darlings: JD Vance, the best-selling author of the blue-collar memoir Hillbilly Elegy, who is running for Senate in Ohio, and Blake Masters, a self-styled âanti-progressiveâ and anti-globalist who is running for Senate in Arizona.
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Masters, who has campaigned on the notion that âpsychopaths are running the country right nowâ and spoken approvingly of the anti-establishment philosophy of the 1990s Unabomber, and Vance, a frequent speaker on the university circuit during his book tour days who now says âuniversities are the enemyâ, fit the same mould. They and Thiel all have ties to a branch of the New Right known as NatCon, whose adherents believe, broadly, that the establishment needs to be torn down, much as Thiel and his fellow Silicon Valley disrupters believed two decades ago that the future lay in destroying longstanding business models and practices.
Thiel himself opined as far back as 2009 that he no longer believed democracy to be compatible with freedom and expressed âlittle hope that voting will make things betterâ. While a member of Trumpâs presidential transition team in 2016, he flashed his institution-busting instincts by proposing that a leading climate change skeptic, William Happer, be appointed as White House science adviser. He also pushed for a libertarian bitcoin entrepreneur who did not believe in drug trials to head up the Food and Drug Administration.
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Such reckless thinking. Responsible politicians offer up sane policy proposals, like crushing the domestic energy industry while begging unsavory governments to produce more oil, spurring an inflation spiral by printing mountains of money, and dicking around in foreign conflicts.
Kellyâs ads have just about convinced me to vote after all.
For Masters.
I’m unfamiliar with the race. What about the ads are driving you away?
The only two ads I have seen is Betoâs âThree menâ commercial, which sucks and contains nothing, and Governor Abbottâs âBeto cheats on taxesâ ad. WTF? Just quote Beto saying âhell yes we want your guns!â Over and over. Thatâs a much stronger message. I miss Jimmy J.J. Walker at this point.
Every GOP candidate should be running Joe promising to “end fossil fuels” on a loop.
Why they are not doing this – and similar – is baffling to me.
As has been mentioned before, the GOP is the stupid party. Sometimes those guys make me facepalm so hard an eye pops out.
New batch of commercials for the 2022 season.
Joe Namath seems to have aged a decade since last year’s commercial.
Even Shatner is looking grizzled.
No sign of JJ yet.
JJ played a villain in some Japanese monster movies in the 90s. I need to hunt those up.
Fortunately, I’ve been able to avoid most of the Ohio U.S, Senate campaign TV ads by staying in the “Discovery family of channels” tier, though I fully expect that sanctuary to be desecrated in the remaining three weeks until E-Day.
Or maybe I’m just blacking out when those spots come on. Not that this would be a bad thing. Probably better for my blood pressure and overall mental health,
Thiel sat out the 2020 election but appears to have been re-energized by the Covid-19 pandemic, Trumpâs claims of a stolen presidential election and the January 6 insurrection. Addressing a NatCon convention this time last year, he denounced the âincredible derangement of various forms of thought, political life, scientific life and the sense-making machinery generally in this countryâ.
Liberal democracy, in his view, had turned the United States government into a dissent-squashing Ministry of Truth working toward a âhomogenizing, brain-dead, one-world stateâ â a problem to which only rightwing nationalism could provide an âall-important correctiveâ.
Those guys from the Guardian really know how to boil an idea down to its essence.
You know who else…
OFFS.
The Grauniad’s AI needs a tune-up.
Dig for buried treasure between Mammary Monday’s mammoth cleavage.
https://archive.ph/Vepuh
David Sacks said on the radio today with respect to Ukraine (paraphrasing and this could probably apply to basically anything): Biden does what his staff says, his staff does what the media says, the media does what Twitter says, Twitter says what keyboard warriors insulated from the effects of their virtue signaling say. And their virtue signaling has no feedback mechanism that will stop them from claiming moral high ground all the way into nuclear war.
That why the king crabs left.
They succumbed to white supremacy?
They were the smart ones.
See, I thought they moved across the international date line, and we couldn’t find them on Tindr this year.
I have to believe there are moneyed and powerful interests at play as well.
Thatâs at least a little more reassuring than the insanity youâre proposing there.
Thus guy is running for the Libertarian party for Gov. In Nevada
https://electbrandondavis.com/
Seems decent and therefore will never grace the halls of government.
Damn. Thatâs a nice ad. Sadly you are correct. I wish it werenât true.
LP is on most of thr ballots too. Trying to tap into the 37% of voters that have no party affiliation
Yep, you guys are right, he’s got no chance. I might throw him a few dollar anyway, you know, for the effort.
Let’s go Brandon!
RJ- what about ’70s titillating Dracula movies I think there are few on Tubi.
What’s the one with the “Playboy bunnies” doing a photo shoot at Vlad’s castle?
I was aiming for new (like post 2010 at least) movies. I just wrote down The Countâs suggestions. Tucker and Dale is a strong proposition. Very entertaining. I was decided, but was not sold on, âDude Bros Party Massacre.â That thing ran out of steam 15 minutes in. I know of what you speak and I will look it up.
Since we’re reliving the worst of the ’70s (::prays “Please don’t bring back disco!!”::) Brooksie’s suggestion seems apropos.
I might just go ahead and do that and give up on new films for Halloween.
I think the issue is very few movies are both new and free streaming.
Trick r Treat? Don’t know if it’s available for streaming, but I highly recommend.
RJ, if you are still here, how about Afro Samurai? Nice humor, grisly storyline, Big Hair…
Tucker and Dale is a good one.
Terror Train