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It’s horror classic “Night of the Living Dead” in your hed gif today, a little upstart movie that changed horror movies forever. Read more about why and how in your daily gif info link: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/night-of-the-living-dead

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"Jellied clam salad?" Is that what the young folks are calling it these days?

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That was hilarious! 😂 A few years ago we used a home projector to display the movie on our garage door. We were in a very active Trick or Treat neighborhood and it was a huge hit. Maybe a little much for the young’uns but the volume was off, music mix instead, and no one complained

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That film is a masterpiece and the ending was just devastating.

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The guy is Duane Jones, was just looking up how awesome he was. Died at 51, dammit.

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Kudos, Martini! You outdid yourself!

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Bravo! Next stop, Cannes.

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Okay, so this one made me laugh. Pretty good considering what a lousy day it's been so far.

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As a Parkinson's-American, I can revel in the hosts apparently inviting a bunch of my fellow sufferers to their soiree. Pick up some extra Sinemet at the drug store!

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A masterpiece (for the film director and the TABS director).

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Aw shucks! 😊

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LOL! This one took some real brains!

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ISWYDT 😄

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George was a great director. No one else could have kept me from snacking on my fellow cast members.

Rest in power, George.

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I face planted yesterday because of a loop of cable half buried in the ground at a salvage yard where I was searching for parts for a car project. Last night I felt like the living dead, and I am still aching this morning. Fortunately, a nice lady has taken pity on me and is coming over this morning to help me ease my suffering, if you know what I mean?

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Good one, Tini!

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WHAR JELLIED CLAM SALAD RECIPE?

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They're coming for you, Barbara.

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The late great George Romero is a yinzer legend. IIRC he doesn't have a bridge named for him, like Clemente, Warhol and David McCullough; he has something far better. By public vote, the chapel and graveyard where Johnny and Barbara first encounter a ghoul was immortalized last year in the miniature railroad village displayed every winter at Carnegie Science Center.

https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/chapel-night-living-dead-added-miniature-railroad-carnegie-science-center/7PBSJGPRZREBFA4XP6K3VSG5GM/

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Flayed Man Cheese Ball! OMG!

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I recently saw someone describe the Christian Nationalist Bible as "Leviticus and Revelation wrapped around the entire Left Behind series"

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Oh dear. It's taken me nearly two years to learn to live in a world with an "Amplified Bible" and now THIS?

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> We are not going to any sex orgy islands

Any island can be a sex orgy island with a little prep work and creativity! (My rejected article for "Martha Stewart Living".)

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This Saturday is our Zombie Double Feature for Wonkette Movie Night.

First we watch Day Of The Dead(1985) then take a 15 minute intermission and follow up with Train To Busan (2016.)

All are welcome! Cue the movie up on your preferred viewing device, open up Wonkette in another place so you can chat, quote, answer trivia, share memories and have fun with friends as we all watch a movie at the same time even as we are scattered geographically.

Both movies have free streaming options.

https://substack.com/@ziggywiggy/note/c-42595636?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2knfuc

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Thanks Geoff, hope you have a wonderful day my friend!

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Gee - I wonder how many of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rulings that are to be reviewed by SCOTUS actually originated in the fevered mind of Judge Kacsmaryk:

[gift WaPo link]:https://wapo.st/473T6Q5

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭’𝐬 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭

𝑇ℎ𝑒 5𝑡ℎ 𝐶𝑖𝑟𝑐𝑢𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑡

"...In the new term that began this month, the justices already have said they will review eight decisions from the New Orleans-based court. Twice in the past week, the Supreme Court agreed with emergency requests from the Biden administration to block 5th Circuit directives.

Again, a pattern: Of the 13 emergency requests for relief that President Biden’s solicitor general, Elizabeth B. Prelogar, has brought to the high court, 10 have arisen from the 5th Circuit, according to a list of “shadow docket” actions maintained by University of Texas law professor Steve Vladeck..."

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strict scrutiny did a whole segment on this (last week i think?).

strict scrutiny always makes my blood boil. but i guess i'd rather know than not...

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You'd think SCOTUS would be grateful an underling was taking the heat off Thomas and his new revelations with something so quaint as abject incompetence.

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Jellied clam salad? Barf!

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Thanks, as always, a bunch of good stuff there. I especially liked The Nation article.

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I saw this flick when I was about 10 at the drive-in.

Scared the shit out of me.

I've never watched it again...

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15 Easy Halloween Appetizers That Always Wow! — All Recipes

#7? Oh hell no. Nope nope nope. Not in my house.

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I didn't realize until yesterday, hearing It's a Man's World for maybe the hundredth time, that James Brown was an early proponent of Brawndo: Man made the electrolytes . . .

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The false flag claims were as predictable as the sun rising in the East. Fuck you, Muskrat.

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"New false flag just dropped"

I love/hate that their argument is "and this just happened after Biden spoke out against assault weapons PRETTY FISHY YUH HUH" when it it's not exactly an unlikely coincidence because we had shootings almost every day now

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Well, my attempt to go to bed at a reasonable hour (midnight) didn’t work so well. Have been awake since 4:30 AM. Finally just fed the kittehs their breakfast, which they’d been demanding for hours, because I was awake.

Let’s see if I can get a few more hours of sleeping before doing something - anything - productive today.

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Fin.

--30--

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Me too. Got a big day at work today and I suppose I need to start that.

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