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November 21, 2025

Sledge Hammer!

David Rasche the 81 year old actor that starred in Sledge Hammer ⚒️ was on tonight's episode of Elsbeth

He looks really good for 81

November 20, 2025

Soul Man (1986)

Ronald Reagan really brought racism back out of the closet bigly in the 1980s.

It should be noted that 'Soul Man' had some very negative real life implications too..

As documented in the Wonkette and Vice pieces linked below ⬇️

https://x.com/Wonkette/status/1675964722116542465

https://x.com/Slate/status/1815532018760859714



https://www.vice.com/en/article/remembering-the-absurdly-racist-blackface-comedy-soul-man/
November 19, 2025

NCIS: Origins to cast young Scott Bakula

Not only will it be cool for Origins to cast a young version of Scott Bakula's character from NCIS New Orleans but think of the possibilities ..

That actor could also be used to reboot Star Trek Enterprise and Quantum Leap.

https://x.com/TVInsider/status/1990473774639054948

On Friday night Star Trek watch party we had a Scott Bakula night and watched an episode of Quantum Leap (Sam leaped into young Al's body and accidentally got him pinned for SA and murder and had to fix it "Oh boy...")
I still can't get the theme out of my head.
youtu.be/7WK71Z_ZLc0?...

Evelyn X (@evelynecks.bsky.social) 2025-06-23T20:04:55.436Z


It's hard enough for an actor to become legendary for just one TV role, but these individuals were able to do so for two characters on two separate shows.

TVLine (@tvline.com) 2025-11-19T01:11:30.532Z
November 3, 2025

Dad working out in daughter's room is a funny ad..

The daughter arrives home for the holidays only to find her dad has moved a treadmill into her room.

She finds him running on the treadmill in his short shorts as she throws up a little in her mouth

Dad: I'll be right there kiddo.


BTW the dad is played by Chris Farley's brother.
November 2, 2025

Judge orders arrest of ex-Green Beret part of 2020 Venezuelan Coup

There were quite a few threads about this coup attempt at the time on the forum here..

Judge orders arrest of ex-Green Beret accused of plotting to invade Venezuela after he fails to show up in court

Updated on: November 1, 2025 / 7:32 AM EDT

A federal judge in Tampa has ordered the arrest of a former Green Beret accused of plotting to invade Venezuela in 2020 after he failed to show up to court for a hearing on whether he should be taken back into custody for violating the conditions of his pre-trial release.

Jordan Goudreau, 49, was arrested last year on weapons smuggling charges tied to the failed coup attempt undertaken during the first Trump administration...

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/judge-orders-arrest-green-beret-jordan-goudreau-failed-venezuela-coup/

October 30, 2025

Counterpart

Finally got around to watching Counterpart. Pretty good..

Fringe meets Severance is how I would describe it. Take a major storyline from Fringe but with the dark ominous feel of Severance..

October 25, 2025

Perry Mason "Bay of Pigs"

With Trump and Hegseth stirring the shitstorm in the Caribbean it was interesting last night to see this episode of Perry Mason S8.E29 on MeTV 📺

While cross-examining Mrs. Norden, Mason obliquely mentions an operation "several years ago" in the Caribbean in which her husband participated. He apparently was referring to the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion on the coast of Cuba on April 17, 1961. This botched operation was an enormous embarrassment to the Kennedy Administration and indirectly led to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0673440/


The script has totally flipped from JFK to Trump. Back then you had right wing Generals hellbent on dragging US into a wider War ..

Now we have an Administration hellbent on killing...

👉 The missile strike by the Trump administration on suspected drug boats has implications for the wider regional nexus of politics, crime and state complicity. @jerrymcdermott explained on @dwnews.

InSight Crime (@insightcrime.org) 2025-10-24T20:31:08.033648Z


Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-10-23T20:27:05.043Z
October 25, 2025

Tron: Ares

The way the latest Tron movie flopped was fairly predictable.

You go from a franchise led by Jeff Bridges to Jared Leto..

I'm one of a handful of critics who loved this movie, but I continued to be bewildered that Jared Leto ever had any power in Hollywood as an actor, producer, or anything else. He has an Oscar win, but his name has never guaranteed box office, and apparently he's quite a skeezy character IRL.

Matt Zoller Seitz (@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social) 2025-10-16T12:52:46.698Z

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