Sergio

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXPe1B6nY_8
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Miles_and_Runnin%27_(song)

The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy is the subject of today's "monsterdon" viewing over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching Sunday, Dec 8, 2024 at 9pm ET / 8PM CT, which is 2am Monday UTC
• then follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary

How to watch:

• youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNQWSJ570rg
• someone claims they'll be streaming it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• also "tubi"? I think tubi is some platform with ads tho
• is on archive.org though I try to give their servers a break: https://archive.org/details/TheRobotVs.TheAztecMummylaMomiaAztecaControElRobotHumano1958-

The evil Dr. Krupp (Luis Aceves Castañeda), a mad scientist also known as "the Bat", managed to escape the snake pit into which he was thrown by Popoca the Aztec Mummy (Ángel di Stefani) in the previous film and continues his efforts to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from Popoca's tomb. Krupp builds a robot with a human head and brain in it (which is thus, technically, a cyborg), planning to use it to destroy the mummy should he return to thwart his plans. Krupp's former colleague and original finder of the mummy, Dr. Eduardo Almada (Ramón Gay), his wife Flora, and his associate Pinacate, all work to stop the mad scientist from completing his plans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robot_vs._the_Aztec_Mummy

You may recall that I recently used my whiteboard. Well yesterday I wiped my whiteboard clean, in case I need to use it again! I started by just using a paper napkin, but that was smearing. Luckily, I have some hand sanitizer nearby, so I used a couple drops of that to get it really clean.

I was going to take a picture but then I was worried that some crafty person will be able to read the scratches and bumps, or maybe the reflection. So instead here is a computer-generated image of what my whiteboard looks like now:

Bonus story in comments.

I have a calendar where I write appointments.

I have a doctor's appointment that I had to write on the calendar.

I have a physical whiteboard where I write a "to do" list.

A couple days ago, I wrote on my whiteboard: "put doctor's appointment on the calendar".

Today I put the doctor's appointment on the calendar.

I have not yet erased "put doctor's appointment on the calendar" from the whiteboard. I look at it and feel a little proud that I accomplished something today.

Maybe tomorrow I'll erase my whiteboard.

This movie was covered a couple months ago. I'm re-posting because it is the subject of tomorrow's "monsterdon" viewing over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching Sunday, Dec 1, 2024 at 9pm ET / 8PM CT, which is 2am Monday UTC
• then follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary that is both witty and wise.

How to watch:

• youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTkOud2MBso
• wikimedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Phantom_Planet.webm
• someone claim's they'll streaming it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• also "tubi"? not sure what tubi is.
• I'm pretty sure it's on archive.org as well, but I try to give their servers a break

It is 1980, and the United States Air Force's Space Exploration Wing has bases on the Moon and on the eve of a mission to Mars. When another of its two-member crewed Pegasus spacecraft mysteriously disappears, rumors begin circulating of space monsters and phantom planets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Planet

A college freshman who trains in martial arts is beaten up at work by a racist gang. His co-worker, a Chinese cook, beats the gang up and trains the young man in kung fu. When a tournament is to be held, the teacher tells the student that he will not teach him for money. However, when the gang beats up the student's best friend, the student now must make the choice of entering the tournament or keeping the promise to his teacher.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146571/

You know this movie. You've seen it a million times before a million different ways. But this one is campy in its very own way, which makes it special.

link from above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9XAwQHIEIA

Fantasy/Cyberpunk anime currently ongoing in Japan and the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Lord_2099#Anime

A fictionalized account of a true story, it centers on the controversial 60 Minutes segment about Jeffrey Wigand, a whistleblower in the tobacco industry,[3] covering his and CBS producer Lowell Bergman's struggles as they defend his testimony against efforts to discredit and suppress it by CBS and Wigand's former employer.

Though not a box office success, The Insider received acclaim from critics, who praised Crowe's portrayal of Wigand and Mann's direction. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor in a Leading Role (for Russell Crowe).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Insider_(film)

Jonathan Shale is a Vietnam War veteran and mercenary. After a botched covert operation in Cuba in which three men from his platoon were killed, he returns home to Miami. He surprises his girlfriend, Jane Hetzko, at her apartment; she welcomes him warmly. Hetzko is a schoolteacher at inner-city Columbus High School, an institution with a considerable gang problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Substitute

• This movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35VTbozkY-o
• The sequel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhrlXhyH21o

There are a couple of cuss words blanked out the in the first couple minutes, but whoever was doing that got bored and quit doing it after a while. Also, the youtube comments say some of the violence was edited down.

Keep in mind this was over 30 years ago. The very first Doom was was still a year away, there were no cell phones, and the internet was still something that only geeks knew anything about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lawnmower_Man_(film)

Was uploaded yesterday, aspect ratio is a little weird, might be removed in a day or two. UPDATE: yep, it' gone.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHzdY9EAB6Y
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Wish_(2018_film)

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a 1969 British drama film directed by Ronald Neame from a screenplay written by Jay Presson Allen, adapted from her own stage play, which was in turn based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Muriel Spark. The film stars Maggie Smith in the title role as an unrestrained teacher at a girls' school in Edinburgh.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prime_of_Miss_Jean_Brodie_(film)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGfuDRmC5qA

I think this might have region-blocking, but I'm not sure of the regions.