Rock Baker on Rondo Awards…
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Rock Baker on Rondo Awards…

From FoJ and contributor Rock Baker: "I thought I'd let you know the ballot is out for this year's Rondo Awards, and you might want to spread the word around the rest of the crowd. My personal connection to this year's ballot is that ATTACK OF THE OCTOPUS PEOPLE has been nominated, and I…
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Thursday the 22nd Houston Dinner?
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Thursday the 22nd Houston Dinner?

Anybody up for dinner with me and Kirk & Patty Draut in Houston next Thursday, before we leave for Dallas and T-Fest? We're currently looking at Bubba's Texas Burger Shack, a local Houston establishment that's getting a lot of buzz for both their beef and buffalo burgers. Anyway, if anyone is interested, leave a…
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Monster of the Day #442
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Monster of the Day #442

Meh, it was funnier when Eddie Murphy did it.* [*For any readers under the age of 30; yes, it's true, Eddie Murphy was once really funny. So was the comic strip Garfield. Believe it or not.]
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Monster of the Day #441
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Monster of the Day #441

Kind of obscure today, but popular enough in the black community that it was parodied in 1988's blaxploitation satire I'm Gonna Get You Sucka.
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Monster of the Day note…

Since Chris has been putting so much work into the site recently, I thought the least I could do is a little scut work. So all of the Monster of the Day entries now have thumbnails. Furthermore, I tracked down several MotD entries that hadn't been tagged. Now all of them have been, I…
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Monster of the Day #440
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Monster of the Day #440

Along with Lance Henriksen, one of the few guys who could have been a major horror star if we still had those. How has no one put this guy in an updated Blacula movie yet?
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Arsenic and Old Lace on TCM tonight…
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Arsenic and Old Lace on TCM tonight…

7:00 CST. A great movie, with Cary Grant at his muggingest, Raymond Massey quite convincing and menacing in a part Boris Karloff played on Broadway (as a character who looks like Boris Karloff), and featuring one of the great screen roles for one of my very, very favorite actors, Peter Lorre.
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