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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