July 25, 2020

R.I.P. John Saxon, B-movie stalwart

From AVClub: "John Saxon has died. A veteran actor, whose battles alongside Bruce Lee, and against Freddy Krueger, were just two major highlights of a 60-plus year career, Saxon appeared in nearly 200 films and TV shows. He played killers, teen heartthrobs, cops—a lot of cops—and many other parts during his long tenure in Hollywood and abroad, exploring pretty much every angle on genre cinema in the process. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Saxon died of pneumonia earlier today. He was 83."
posted by valkane at 9:10 PM PST - 45 comments

This Was Not Me. It Would Never Be Me. I Am Not Ashamed.

Many expected my rise in the adult world, including many in the adult world itself, to be a flash in the pan. It was a stunt. I wasn’t serious. No one from mainstream ever is—like mainstream is a place you go and can never look back. But that’s what makes this story different: my genuine love for adult performance and for colorful cinema. My story is a journey rather than a cautionary tale. And I was ready to prove the naysayers wrong. How Porn Saved Me From Hollywood by Maitland Ward [Article is SFW, but it's about the porn industry]
posted by chavenet at 12:34 PM PST - 33 comments

Sqirl in a Jam

Beyond Moldy Jam: The Inside Story of What Went Wrong at Sqirl. A story of gentrification, stolen recipes, a derailed jam empire, and the making and breaking of a burgeoning celebrity chef: perennial LA hotspot Sqirl's "Genius of Jam" Jessica Koslow. [more inside]
posted by joechip at 12:29 PM PST - 44 comments

Peter Green (1946 - 2020)

Peter Green, the founder of Fleetwood Mac has died. Back in the day, there was graffiti in London claiming that "Clapton is God". They were wrong.
posted by epo at 11:15 AM PST - 43 comments

Median US Income is Three Metres a Year

Tom Scott visualises a million dollars vs a billion dollars in a one-dimensional way. (SLYT) [more inside]
posted by lucidium at 11:10 AM PST - 25 comments

Four years is 47 months, or 1,460 days, or 35,040 hours

Experimental Blood Test Detects Cancer up to Four Years before Symptoms Appear [more inside]
posted by Iris Gambol at 10:32 AM PST - 33 comments

The poet had just not considered that there are amputee readers.

Poet Jillian Weise on living as a Common Cyborg. "Maybe this feeling of trial-and-error, repetition and glitch, is part of the cyborg condition and, by extension, the disabled condition." Included in the fantastic new anthology Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the 21st Century edited by Alice Wong. Weise's satirical persona Tipsy Tullivan, a "nondisabled Southern writer who has really good intentions," was created out of exasperation and frustration after her complaints to a writer’s conference about access were repeatedly ignored. [more inside]
posted by spamandkimchi at 8:48 AM PST - 9 comments

GCU Fate Amenable To Change

Microsoft's Xbox Games Showcase unveiled trailers this week for Forza Motorsport, Tell Me Why, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, Avowed, The Medium, Psychonauts 2, Fable, and more. Their flagship, Halo Infinite, was met with decidedly cool reactions – and while some lauded Microsoft for including every game in its Xbox Game Pass subscription bundle, others suggested Microsoft still hasn't made the case for Xbox Series X.
posted by adrianhon at 6:47 AM PST - 32 comments

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