Its just 22 days before Rep. Ilhan Omar faces reelection.
"The timing is notable because DOJ’s own rules caution prosecutors and agents against actions that could affect an election — or even create the perception that they are doing so."
Tonight's movie is a classic adventure-romantic-comedy. Romancing the Stone (1984) is free to stream on Tubi.
"A mousy romance novelist sets off for Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure hunting for treasure with a mercenary rogue."
Stars Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Manuel Ojeda, Mary Ellen Trainor, & Alfonso Arau (El Guapo).
Directed by Robert Zemeckis, who also directed Back to the Future, Cast Away, and Forrest Gump.
Music by Alan Silvestri, who composed the music for those same movies and 140 more.
Movies released on October 12:
The Third Man (1949)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
The Artist (2011)
The Thing (2011)
Authors born on October 12:
George Washington Cable (1844)
Ann Petry (1908)
Alice Childress (1916)
Robert Coles (1929)
Andrew Crumey (1961)
Julie Kagawa (1982)
Today is:
Thanksgiving Day (Canada)
Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Columbus Day
International Moment Of Frustration Scream Day
National Freethought Day
National Bassoon Day
National Martin Day
National Gumbo Day
National Pet Obesity Awareness Day
Old Farmers Day
Hug A Bass Player Day
Women Pharmacist Day
Cookbook Launch Day
Our current Voting Bracket topic is Favorite Tim Curry Roles. We’re on to Round Two.
The closest votes from the first round were:
- Farley Claymore over Forte by 1 vote!
- Father Antoine over Palpatine/Darth Sidious by 1 vote!
- Nigel Thornberry over Gaal by 1 vote!
- Premier Anatoly Cherdenko over Caspar Pennington by 3 votes
Vote now in Round Two!
The deadline is Tuesday evening, October 13.
https://votingbrackets.com/favorite-tim-curry-roles-2026-round-two/
Tonight's movie is probably my all-time favorite movie! Hot Fuzz (2007) is now free to stream on PlutoTV!
"An overachieving London police sergeant is transferred to a village where the easygoing officers object to his fervor for regulations, all while a string of grisly murders strikes the town."
Stars Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Timothy Dalton, Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman, Paddy Considine, & Rafe Spall.
DIrected by Edgar Wright!
Music by David Arnold.
https://app-windows.pluto.tv/us/on-demand/movies/6a907d08da71d9a75fae2221
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is FREE to watch on YouTube (link below).
It may not stay there long, so watch it while you can.
Today is:
World Dulce De Leche Day
International Day Of The Girl
National Coming Out Day
National Day of National Days
National Kim Day
National Sausage Pizza Day
National Spoodle Day
It’s My Party Day
Movies released on October 11:
The Black Scorpion (1957)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Santo vs. the Vampire Women (1962)
From Russia with Love (1963)
After Hours (1985)
Better Off Dead… (1985)
Memento (2000)
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Argo (2012)
We Are the Best! (2013)
Authors born on October 11:
Steen Steensen Blicher (1782)
François Mauriac (1885)
Elmore Leonard (1925)
Russell Freedman (1929)
Louise Rennison (1951)
I just discovered that Shaun of the Dead (2004) is FREE on PlutoTV!! One of my favorite movies! And the first in the Cornetto Trilogy!
"The uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse."
Stars Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran, & Peter Serafinowicz.
Directed by Edgar Wright!
Music by Dan Mudford and Pete Woodhead.
https://pluto.tv/us/movies/6abfd39bda71d9a75fa5ebae/
#movies 🎬 #NowWatching #horror #comedy #SimonPegg #CornettoTrilogy
Authors born on October 10:
Aleksis Kivi (1834)
Shivaram Karanth (1902)
Claude Simon (1913)
Harold Pinter (1930)
Nora Roberts (1950)
Movies released on October 10:
The Elephant Man (1980)
Bubba Ho-Tep (2003)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Girl Haunts Boy (2024)
Today is:
World Mental Health Day
World Animal Road Accident Awareness Day
World Porridge Day
International Talk Like A Robot Day
National Chess Day
National Costume Swap Day
National Metric Day
National Trumpet Day
National Hug A Drummer Day
National Angel Food Cake Day
Tic Tac Day
Powers Of Ten Day
King Harold Day
I Love Yarn Day
I'm seeing commercials that talk about David Crowley raising sales taxes in Wisconsin and how "we can't afford that."
Here's what those sales taxes were raised for:
Pension Stabilization: The revenue is legally earmarked to pay down the county’s massive unfunded pension liabilities, a crisis stemming from the 2001 pension scandal that had left the county with a projected $100 million deficit.
Public Transit: It prevented drastic cuts to the Milwaukee County Transit System, which had faced a projected $26 million annual deficit and elimination of over half of its bus routes.
And the sales tax in Milwaukee is still relatively modest compared to other major Midwest cities.
City -- Combined Rate
Chicago -- 10.25%
Kansas City -- 9.98%
Memphis -- 9.75%
Minneapolis -- 9.03%
Cleveland -- 8.0%
Milwaukee -- 7.9%
Tonight's movie is The Woman in Black (2012), a gothic-style ghost story. It's set in the early 1900s and is dark and rather sad, but has good reviews as a ghost story and the music is amazing.
"A young solicitor travels to a remote village where he discovers that the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman is terrorizing the locals."
Stars Daniel Radcliffe, Janet McTeer, Ciarán Hinds, Liz White, & Roger Allam.
Directed by James Watkins
Music by Marco Beltrami, who composed the music for over 160 movies and shows including Hellboy, I Robot, Snowpiercer, and Velvet Buzzsaw.
https://app-windows.pluto.tv/us/on-demand/movies/624b25817936240013184b93/details
I've seen it listed as 1906, 1907, & 1908, but I think it's the first Haunted House movie ever made. It's 6 minutes long and is (obviously) silent.
Silent films generally had live music played to accompany them, but if you want a fixed medium, you have to record music over it. Someone set this up with Danse Macabre by Saint-Saëns.
I find this video entertaining and informative, and I'm impressed by the stop-motion work involved.
