Review Tuesday: Chopping Mall (1986)

 

  

Chopping Mall

1986 

A group of youngsters are locked in a mall when the new robot security system goes berserk. 

Do you remember the great 80s horror movies? They were bad, in a good way that made them fun. That's what my BFF was looking for. 

 

For security purposes a mall goes on full lock-down nightly and additionally deploys robots to patrol the shared spaces. Of course on the very first night of the robot patrol, their control center gets an overload from a lightening bolt which fries their safety directive. Of course, a bunch of young mall employees decide to have a sex party at the furniture store that same night. It's up to the kids to avoid the sentries and survive the night. 

 

This movie is approximately what you would expect. There are some good looking women who show their boobs. The dudes are douche-bags. The robots aren't scary. The story is predictable. The writing is cheesy. Not really worth watching unless you're looking for that sort of thing.  

  

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

disambiguate \ dis-am-BIG-yoo-eyt \ , verb; 

• to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence "She lectured on the famous passenger ship," you'll have to write either "lectured on board" or "lectured about."

Origin: Disambiguate entered English in the 1960s as the negative verbal equivalent to ambiguous . Interestingly, there is no verb form of ambiguous in English. 
 
grown man, verb;

• to dress formally. Originating from the Bay Area.

"You ain't gettin' into the club with a white tee or a jersey, you got to get yer grown man on. Kangols, button ups, a cuff and a crease an' that shit."

History

• St. Augustine: the oldest permanent European settlement in the US was founded (1565)
• Galveston Hurricane: made landfall; it was the deadliest natural disaster to strike the US to date (1900)
  

  
• Miss America: the annual pageant was first held in Atlantic City; 16-year-old Margaret Gorman of Washington DC was the first to be crowned (1921)
• Siege of Leningrad: nearly 2.5-year blockade of the city by the Germans in WWII began (1941)
• Star Trek: TV series recounting the adventures of the starship Enterprise premiered (1966)
• John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: opened in Washington, DC, with the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass (1971)
• Watergate: US president Gerald Ford granted his predecessor, Richard Nixon, a full pardon for "crimes he committed or may have committed" (1974)

Birthdays

• Richard the Lionhearted (England) 1157
• Antonin Dvorak 1841
• Jimmie Rodgers 1897
• Claude Pepper 1900
  
• Hillary Brooke 1914
• Sid Caesar 1922
• Peter Sellers 1925
• Harlan Howard 1927
• Patsy Cline 1932
• Willie Tyler 1940
• Alan Feinstein 1941
• Christopher Connelly 1941
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  Dante Drowty (Dante and The Evergreens) 1941
• Brian Cole (The Association) 1942
• Ron McKernan (Grateful Dead) 1945
• Ben Orr (Benjamin Orzechowski) (The Cars) 1947
• Ann Beattie 1947
• Will Lee 1952
• Heather Thomas 1957
• Michael Lardie (Great White) 1958
• David Steele (English Beat, Fine Young Cannibals) 1960
• 
  Marc Gordon (Levert) 1964
• Brooke Burke 1971
• David Arquette 1971
• Larenz Tate 1975
• P!nk (Alecia Beth Moore Hart) 1979 - Singer
• Jonathan Taylor Thomas 1981
     
  
   
  
  
  
  

A funny story. During the 80s I had several Heather Thomas posters in my bedroom. I had a friend who insisted that he had the issue of Playboy in which she was nude. I asked to see it a couple times but he never produced it. Now with t3h interw3b I have found NO EVIDENCE that she ever did such a spread. Moral of the story? Never lie. You never know when the truth might come out.

          

   

These are some of my fav pics of her.

 

  

 

 

 

 

  

Look Forward to Fall

one Pic

one awesome pic.

so long summer!

Monday, September 7, 2026

gibbosity \ gi-BOS-i-tee \ , noun; 

1. a protuberance or swelling. 
2. the state of being gibbous. 

Origin: Gibbosity is related to the word gibbous , which comes from the Latin gibbōsus meaning "humped." 

Song Binging

• To binge on a song or artist. The act of repeatedly and obsessively listening to a particular song or artist over a relatively short period of time. Periods of song binging are followed by extended periods of skipping the certain track or artist, leaving them unplayed.

girl: omg, im so bloody obsessed with fall out boy's new song!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ive played it 84 times in the last 24hrs!!!

guy: stop song binging and go listen to other shit for once.

  

Holiday

• Labor Day: Holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada on the first Monday in September to honor the laborer. It was inaugurated by the Knights of Labor in 1882 and made a national holiday by the U.S. Congress in 1894. In most other countries—and among the leftists in the United States and Canada—May Day (May 1) is celebrated instead.

 

History

• Brazil: the largest country in South America declared its independence from Portugal (1822)
• Peking Protocol: ended the Boxer Rebellion in China (1901)
• Miss America: the first competition began, as a two-day beauty contest, in Atlantic City, New Jersey (1921)
• Tasmanian wolf: the last known thylacine, Benjamin, died in Hobart Zoo, though there may be survivors in the wild (1936)
• London Blitz: heavy bombing of the UK by the Nazi Luftwaffe began during WWII (1940)
• ESPN: the popular all-sports network made its debut on cable TV (1979)
  Astroland: After decades of amazing visitors, the Brooklyn amusement park closed for the last time ever. (2008)

Birthdays

• Elizabeth I (England) 1533
• Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses) 1860
• J.J. Morgan 1867
• Taylor Caldwell 1900
• Michael DeBakey 1908
• Elia Kazan 1909
• David Packard 1912
• Sir Anthony Quayle 1913
• Al Caiola 1920
• Arthur Ferrante 1921
• Louise Suggs 1923
• Peter Lawford 1923
• Al McGuire 1928
• Sonny Rollins 1930
• Little Milton 1934
• Buddy Holly 1936
• John Phillip Law 1937
• Richard Roundtree 1942
• (Chic) Alfa Anderson 1946
• Alfa Anderson (Brown Sugar) 1946
• Gloria Gaynor 1949
• Susan Blakely 1950
• Julie Kavner 1951
• Chrissie Hynde (Pretenders) 1951
• Corbin Bernsen 1954
• Doug Bradley 1954 - Actor (Hellraiser)
  
• Michael Emerson 1954 - Actor ("Lost", "Saw") 
• Benmont Tench (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) 1954
• Michael Feinstein 1956
• Margot Chapman 1957
• Chad Sexton (311) 1970
• Shannon Elizabeth 1973
• Devon Sawa 1978

 

 

       

         

          

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

  

Ready for the football?

The 26/27 season opens this week

Sunday, September 6, 2026

favonian \ fuh-VOH-nee-uhn \ , adjective; 

1. of or pertaining to the west wind. 
2. mild or favorable; propitious. 

Origin: Favonian comes from Favonius , the ancient Roman personification of the west wind. The word entered English in the mid-1600s. 

Bus Surfing

• The act of attempting to ride a bus by standing in the aisle like a surfer. The goal is to stand for as long as possible without touching anything (seats, poles, people) for support. Often a competition between two people to see who can stand the longest..

''On the way home last night I was bus surfing for a full 3 minutes!''

History

• 
  William McKinley: US president was shot by an anarchist; he died eight days later (1901)
• Piggly Wiggly: the first self-service supermarket opened in Memphis, Tennessee (1916)
• Queen Juliana: popular monarch assumed the throne of the Netherlands, which she retained until 1980 (1948)
• Hendrik Verwoerd: South African prime minister was stabbed to death by a deranged parliamentary messenger in parliament in Cape Town (1966)
• Saint Petersburg: the original name was restored after the Russian city had been Leningrad since 1924 (1991)
• Cal Ripken Jr.: played in his 2,131st consecutive game and broke Lou Gehrig's "unbreakable" record (1995); his streak ended at 2,632 games on September 20, 1998

Birthdays

• Marquis de Lafayette 1757
• Jane Addams 1860
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• Max Schreck 1879 
• Otto Kruger 1885
• Joseph P. Kennedy 1888 - bootlegger
• Billy Rose 1899
• Morgan Beatty 1902
• Maxie ‘Slapsie’ Rosenbloom 1904
• Vince DiMaggio 1912
• Jimmy Reed (Matthew James Reed Leland) 1925
• JoAnne Worley 1937
• David Allen Coe 1939
• Brian Smith 1940
• Mel McDaniel 1942
• Swoosie Kurtz 1944

• Roger Waters 1944 - Musician (Pink Floyd) 
• Ron Boone 1946
• Jane Curtin 1947
• Claydes Smith 1948 - Musician (Kool & the Gang)
• Banner Thomas 1954 - Musician (Molly Hatchet)
• Joe Smyth 1957 - Musician (Sawyer Brown)
• Jeff Foxworthy 1958
• Michael Winslow 1960
• Perry Bamonte 1960 - Musician (The Cure)
• Paul Waaktaar 1961 - Musician (a-ha)
• Mark Chestnut 1963
• Rosie Perez 1964
• William DuVall 1967 - Musician (Alice in Chains, Comes With The Fall)
• CeCe Peniston 1969
• Darryl Anthony 1969 - Musician (Az Yet)
• Dolores O'Riordan (The Cranberries) 1971
• Justin Whalen 1974
• Nina Persson 1974 - Musician (The Cardigans)
• Foxy Brown 1979