10/13/25 - Diane Keaton, Costumes, and Porch Pirates
- bribriny
- 4 hours ago
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Monday 10/13/25
Columbus Day - I guess it's back, not surprising with who is in charge.
Or celebrate Italian-American Day
or Indigenous Peoples' Day/Native American Day
English Language Day
Good Samaritan Day
International Day for Disaster Rick Reduction
International Day for Failure
International Plain Language Day
International Suit Up Day
Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day
National Kick-Butt Day
National M&M Day
National No Bra Day
International Online Banking Day
National Train Your Brain Day
National Yorkshire Pudding Day
Silly Sayings Day
US Navy's Birthday
Treat Yo' Self Day
Canada Thanksgiving
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The Weekend Box Office
1. Tron: Ares $33.5M
2. Roofman $8.0M
3. One Battle After Another $6.7M
4. Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie $3.4M
5. Soul on Fire $3.0M
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Diane Keaton has died. She was 79.
Keaton rose to fame in the 1970s thanks to her role in The Godfather films and her collaborations with director Woody Allen. She won an Oscar for Best Actress for 1977’s Annie Hall. Her long career included movies like The First Wives Club, multiple collaborations with director Nancy Meyers,wise and the Book Club franchise.
Read more about her carreer here from People.com
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Google released a list of the top-trending Halloween costumes, and it's DOMINATED by characters from the movie "Kpop Demon Hunters".
They've got the entire Top 5, in this order: Rumi, Zoey, Mira, Jinu, and Baby Saja.
Another character from the movie, Derpy the Tiger, came in at #8. Chicken Jockey from "Minecraft" came in 6th, followed by Labubu at #7. Rounding out the Top 10 are Elphaba from "Wicked" and the Lorax.
The #1 DUO costume is Astrid and Hiccup from "How to Train Your Dragon".
The #1 trend in Halloween makeup is KISS, and the top-trending decoration is Floating Candles.
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According to new research, Americans lost an estimated $15.7 BILLION to porch pirates last year alone. That's from 241 MILLION stolen packages.
The average loss isn't huge. It's $65 per package, and 85% are under $100 . . . but that doesn't make the inconvenience any less infuriating. And in some cases the loss of MONEY as well.
The most commonly stolen packages were from Amazon (72%) . . . followed by UPS (31%) . . . FedEx (30%) . . . and USPS (29%).
States like New York, Hawaii, and Wisconsin report the most porch pirates . . . while Alabama, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Maine report the fewest thefts.
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A couple in Florida is facing charges, after they left their 16-year-old son by himself on the side of the interstate . . . and told him to fend for himself.
They only left him with some cash, and a "bag of handguns."
It sounds like a sad story. The teen got home from school, and walked the dog. He came back to his parents frantically packing . . . saying that they were going on a trip . . . "either to Guam or Idaho."
A little while into the drive, they kicked the boy out of the car with the cash and guns. When the police found him, they took him home, where the front door and garage door were left wide open . . . but no one was home.
It sure sounds like they could've benn running away from something . . . or involved in something bad . . . but there's no word what that may be.
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - Nachos are called nachos after their inventor, Ignacio "Nacho" Anaya, who was the host at a Mexican restaurant called the Victory Club.
One night in 1943, some U.S. Army wives came in late, but the chef had already left. So Nacho went into the kitchen to throw something together for them. It was, essentially, nachos as we know them. The dish was so popular with the women and other guests, that it was eventually put on the menu.
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