Friday 7/12/24
Celebrate:
Collector Car Appreciation Day
Different Colored Eyes Day
Etch A Sketch Day
National Eat Your Jell-O Day
National Michelada Day - a Mexican drink made with beer, tomato juice, lime juice, assorted sauces, spices, and chili peppers. It is served in a chilled, salt-rimmed glass. (sounds like something created in a bar mat!)
National Pecan Pie Day
New Conversations Day
Paper Bag Day
Simplicity Day
World Kebab Day
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Part 2 of Kevin Costner's "Horizon: An American Saga", has been pulled from its release date, because the first one BOMBED.
It was supposed to hit theaters on August 16th, but now it's off indefinitely.
The plan is still to release it in theaters, but Kevin and the other producers are trying to give the first movie more time to catch on with audiences. It hits streaming platforms next week.
Part 1 of "Horizon" cost about $100 million to make . . . including $38 million of Costner's own money. It's only made about $22 million over its first week and a half.
New this weekend -
Fly Me to the Moon - Starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, it's a sharp, stylish comedy-drama set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic Apollo 11 moon landing.
Long Legs - Horror film with Long Legs - Horror film with Maika Monroe and Nicholas Cage.
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Barbenheimer is SO last year. This is 2024 . . . and it's the year of "Glicked".
On Friday, November 22nd, both "Gladiator 2" and "Wicked" hit theaters. And "Gladiator" star Paul Mescal hopes people turn out for both.
Quote, "It would be amazing 'cause I think the films couldn't be more polar opposites and it worked in that context previously. So fingers crossed people come out and see both films on opening weekend."
FYI, Paul is going with "Glicked" because, quote, "'Wickdiator' doesn't really roll off the tongue, does it?"
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Shelley Duvall, the saucer-eyed, rail-thin waif who starred in seven films directed by her mentor, Robert Altman, and avoided the ax wielded by an unhinged Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, died Thursday. She was 75.
Roger Ebert wrote in 1980 that Duvall “looks and sounds like almost nobody else … and has possibly played more really different kinds of characters than almost any other young actress of the 1970s.
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The Corning Leader and Elmira Star-Gazette recently polled readers on who has the best French fries in the Elmira and Corning areas.
Readers selected the fries on the menu at Woodhouse Stadium Grill on Columbia St. in Corning.
Runners up are ILL Eagle, Mooney's, Rye, and Patrick's.
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Starting next week, the price of a "Forever" stamp will increase by a nickel to 73 cents, the second time the United States Postal Service has raised the cost of postage this year.
The price of a Forever stamp has steadily climbed since they cost 41 cents when the USPS introduced them in 2007, most recently in January when the agency raised the price from 66 cents to 68 cents.
Other postage rates are also set to jump. Mailing a postcard domestically will cost 56 cents, a 3-cent increase, while the price of mailing postcards and letters internationally are both rising by a dime to $1.65. Overall, postage costs are rising 7.8% increase, USPS said in a statement in April.
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A driverless ride-hailing car in China hit a pedestrian, and people on social media are taking the carmaker’s side, because the person was reportedly crossing against the light.
The operator of the vehicle, Chinese tech giant Baidu, said in a statement to Chinese media that the car began moving when the light turned green and had minor contact with the pedestrian. The person was taken to a hospital where an examination found no obvious external injuries, Baidu said.
So remember, follow all traffic laws and lights when in China.
That would never work here. We take stop lights..both in cars and walking..as a suggestion, not a law.
Also, the company would be sued and it would have to shut down because of the damages it would have to pay..remember...we ate tide pods..so we need all the help we can get!
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"Who touched the thermostat" fights are getting more interesting with this trend: Oregon's biggest power company is rolling out a new "Smart Thermostat" program, where THEY get to change the temperature in your home.
Other cities have been adding similar programs over the last few years. Basically, you install a smart thermostat and pay a little less each month in exchange for letting them control your thermostat remotely.
During peak hours, they up the temperature by a few degrees to reduce strain on the grid. It usually happens between 3:00 and 9:00 PM.
The new Oregon version limits it to three degrees. So if your thermostat is set to 71, they might up it to 74.
Some cities set the max even higher, like a program in L.A. that lets them to increase it by four degrees. But you can override it by changing the temperature manually.
So is it worth it to save a few bucks and help the environment? Or are YOU the only one who gets to mess with your thermostat?
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Say hello to the latest grocery store addition: bullets right out of a vending machine. In a…bold move that's… causing quite the stir, American Rounds has rolled out computerized vending machines packed with ammo in select grocery stores across Alabama, Oklahoma, and Texas. With built-in ID scanners and facial recognition software, these high-tech vendors claim to verify a buyer's age faster than you can say "cheese."
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The other day we talked about the fact that Target will stop accepting checks on Monday. They aren't the first! Whole Foods and Aldi have previously done so.
Americans penned roughly 3.4 billion checks in 2022, a steep fall from the nearly 19 billion checks written in 1990. While the average amount per check has increased, the volume has diminished, prompting the Federal Reserve to consolidate its check-processing infrastructure dramatically from 45 locations in 2003 to just one since 2010.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Americans throw away approximately $68 million in change each year.
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