Burger King Faces Whopper Lawsuit As More Customers Challenge Fast Food Giants Over Portion Sizes—Including McDonald’s, Wendy’s – LINK
AI-Generated Books on Amazon Could Give Deadly Advice – LINK
Supermarket AI Gives Horrifying Recipes For Poison Sandwiches And Deadly Chlorine Gas – LINK
Circle K gas offering 30 cents off per gallon of gas Thursday afternoon at St. Louis locations – LINK
St. Charles City cracks down on expired temp tags; asks residents to help report them – LINK
LIVE: Idalia churns through Carolinas with life-threatening hazards – LINK
La Tomatina festival paints Spanish town red – LINK
American Airlines fined $4.1 million for dozens of long tarmac delays that trapped passengers – LINK
A European Airline Is Launching an “Adults Only” Section on Planes – LINK
Your student debt could win you up to 100,000 airline miles through Frontier Airlines – LINK
Do I need to walk 10,000 steps a day? No, authors say – LINK
Maynard James Keenan of Tool has expanded his wine-making operation. He’ll open the new Merkin Vineyards Hilltop Winery & Trattoria, Caduceus Cellars Hilltop Facility and VSC Ventura Room on October 6th in Cottonwood, Arizona. Check out a video preview: – VIDEO
Greta Van Fleet have released a video for “The Falling Sky” from Starcatcher. Check it out: – VIDEO
Alice Cooper’s radio show, Nights With Alice Cooper, is going bye-bye after close to 20 years. The final show will be on September 8th. It’s believed the end is a result of the sale of syndicator United Stations Radio Network to GeminiXIII. Cooper, who debuted the show in January 2004, is reportedly looking to continue it elsewhere – LINK
While Roger Waters gets ready to release his version of Pink Floyd‘s The Dark Side of the Moon — The Dark Side of the Moon Redux — on October 6th, his former band will follow a week later, October 13th, with a newly remastered version of the iconic 1973 album on CD, vinyl and Blu-ray. Released this past March as part of The Dark Side of the Moon 50th Anniversary box set, the new remaster will be available on its own for the first time – LINK
The streaming service Max is reportedly thinking about adding CNN news alerts, WHILE you’re watching content. According to “Variety”, for now, there aren’t any specifics about HOW this alert would come up . . . whether it’s in the bottom corner, or something REALLY intrusive like the old “Pop-Up Video” bubbles on VH1. People are already threatening to cancel subscriptions if this happens – LINK
“Jurassic Park” will get the animated Lego treatment in an upcoming special for Peacock. It’s called “Lego Jurassic Park: The Unofficial Retelling”, and it’ll be 22 minutes long. They say it’s coming out now in celebration of the movie’s 30th anniversary. (The movie hit theaters in June of 1993.) No word if the original cast is involved, but the poster does include a Lego Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) with grey hair, and the tagline, “That is one big pile of bricks” . . . which is a reference to a line of his in the original movie. It doesn’t have a release date yet, but it’ll be out sometime this fall – LINK
Hulu canceled “The Great” after three seasons – LINK
Jimmy Kimmel claims he was ready to RETIRE, but changed his mind when the writers strike started. He dropped this news casually on the STRIKE FORCE FIVE podcast he is doing with the other late night hosts – LINK
Gwyneth Paltrow participated in an Instagram Q&A Wednesday afternoon, addressing why she hasn’t appeared in a Marvel project since “Avengers: Endgame” in 2019. “I didn’t, I just, it just — we just stopped doing it because Iron Man died and why do you need Pepper Potts without Iron Man? I don’t know!” She also joked that concerned parties should take it up with Marvel instead of her. “Call Marvel and yell at them, not me I’m just sitting here.” – LINK
AND FINALLY
Movies and the music – we have talked about the best soundtracks of all time, but think about scenes in movies
1. Reservoir Dogs (1992) – Stuck In The Middle With You (Stealer’s Wheel)
2. Rocky III (1982) – Eye Of The Tiger (Survivor)
3. Apocalypse Now (1979) – The End (The Doors)
4. Fight Club (1999) – Where Is My Mind (The Pixies)
5. Easy Rider (1969) – Born To Be Wild (Steppenwolf)
6. Wayne’s World (1992) – Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Richard Strauss)
8. The Graduate (1967) – The Sound Of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel)
9. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) – Oh Yeah (Yello)
10. Goodfellas (1990) – Layla (Derek & The Dominoes)
11. The Exorcist (1973) – Tubular Bells (Mike Oldfield)
12. Shaun Of The Dead (2004) – Don’t Stop Me Now (Queen)
13. Trainspotting (1996) – Perfect Day (Lou Reed)
14. Full Metal Jacket (1987) – These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ (Nancy Sinatra)
15. Donnie Darko (2001) – Head Over Heels (Tears For Fears)
16. Boogie Nights (1997) – Sister Christian (Night Ranger), Jessie’s Girl (Rick Springfield), 99 Red Balloons (Nena)
17. The Big Lebowski (1998) – Just Dropped In (The First Edition)
18. Do The Right Thing (1989) – Fight The Power (Public Enemy)
19. Jackie Brown (1997) – Strawberry Letter 23 (Brothers Johnson)
20. Good Will Hunting (1997) – Baker Street (Gerry Rafferty) – LINK
Mona Lisa
Today’s birthday girl has been in 151 fine films, including:
– The Adventures of Seymore Butts
– Breast Wishes 5 & 8
– Buttwoman 3
– The Devil Made Her Do It
– Do The White Thing
– Drivin’ Miss Daisy Crazy Again
– Elvis Slept Here
– The Good The Bad And The Nasty
– Ladies Lovin’ Ladies Lovin’ Ladies 2
– Maliboobies
– White Men Can Hump
– And who can forget her role in 1991’s Edward Penishands 3
Mona Lisa is 53 years old
St. Louis CITY SC’s acquired two new faces in the summer window and it just so happened to be the two players that found the back of the net late in the game against FC Dallas to give CITY SC their 15th win of the season.
St. Louis CITY SC picked up their fourth consecutive home MLS victory with a 2-1 victory over FC Dallas. Following a scoreless first half, midfielder Rasmus Alm connected with defender Anthony Markanich, who netted his first MLS goal to give CITY SC the lead. Forward Nökkvi Thorisson doubled the advantage in the 85th minute, sending one into goal off a cross from midfielder Eduard Löwen. FC Dallas’ cut the lead by one in second-half stoppage time, but CITY SC held on to seal the victory.
Tommy Edman, who hit a walk-off RBI single in the 10th inning against the team he watched as a kid San Diego on Tuesday night, became the first Cardinals player with walk-off RBIs in consecutive games since Albert Pujols on June 4-5, 2011. Rookies Jordan Walker and Masyn Winn provided key performances to put the Cardinals within striking distance, and Tommy Edman delivered the most clutch hit of the day again in a 5-4 series-clinching win over the Padres in the finale of a three-game series at Busch Stadium. Walker went 4-for-4 with a double and a home run, his first four-hit game in the majors. Winn’s two-out double in the ninth inning made Edman’s game-altering at-bat possible. Tommy Edman put finishing touches on Cardinals win (stltoday.com)
Nebraska volleyball stands alone, and not just in the volleyball world, or the NCAA world.
The Cornhuskers set a world record for attendance at a women’s sporting event Wednesday, gathering 92,003 fans at Memorial Stadium for a match against Omaha to break the previous mark of 91,648 set by FC Barcelona Femení last year.
The number not only broke the women’s world record, it also set the attendance record for Memorial Stadium, where the Huskers play football. Nebraska volleyball sets world record for attendance at women’s sporting event – LINK