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Heard he was in the ER yesterday and posted that on the KFM forum.

We crossed paths when I was just starting to compete at martial arts tournaments. That must’ve been the early 80s. He was a VIP guest at a large tournament in San Jose, I think. Honestly I only remember that he was a judge at the finals and a leading competitor - George Chung maybe - did his form in a way that he threw a flurry of punches at Chuck’s face. Chuck didn’t flinch.

I didn't look to see if anyone had already come up with this, but I think this could be huge:

STROLLER DERBY
Like a demolition derby, but with strollers. Little tikes in protective gear. Death Race 2000 style strollers, moms with Roller Derby-esque nicknames like: Bad Mamma Jamma

--tg

Love w/ Johnny Echols @ Crepe Place - https://folkyeah.com/#/love-santa-cruz-311

I’ve been listening to A History of Rock and Roll in 500 songs podcast and we covered the band Love a few episodes ago (that is to say, I got to that episode which is probably a couple years old by now…). I highly recommend the podcast: https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-161...#more-1607

Love was a 60’s LA psychedelic rock band, a precursor to garage and punk bands, with some songs similar to 5th Floor Elevators and the like, and hits you probably know like Alone Again, or… and their cover of Burt Bacharach’s Little Red Book which they opened with




They were one of the first integrated bands. Echols is the only original member in this line up…the main singer said he was the drummer for the Untouchables for 10 years. They band was very tight, even if playing garage-y sounding music. They played on the patio behind the restaurant to a crowd of probably less than 100 people. Super intimate. Tonight they play The Chapel in SF and then I hear they are off to Spain.

I can only hope to be playing and enjoying myself when I’m 79…



—tg

https://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFo...0#pid82680

3 separate story lines: a Neanderthal family getting by, a present-ish day anthropology grad student (Rashida Jones) getting by, the human caretaker (Kate McKinnon) of a spaceship delivering human embryos to a new world. I have nothing good to say. McKinnon and Jones are not bad, but not particularly great, IMHO, and don't help here. I think Neanderthal "Thorn" puts in the strongest performance. I fell asleep on the first attempt.

I can not recommend this.

--tg

I am cobbling a new thread out of the chatGPT and DALL-E thread because this is the next gen.

(01-28-2026, 03:06 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote:

Well damn

I fell down the rabbit hole of Lolita Cercel. I was digging her music on TikTok, subscribed to her YouTube, discovered thst if you search Lolita on IG, you get a stern warning about child porn and was trying to find out if she’s touring when I realized she’s AI. I was totally fooled.

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I got sucked into these Chinese religious statue factory YouTubes. They’re so hypnotic. But im thinking this is ai too now. I mean how may of these giant statues could you sell? Enough to support a factory like this?

(03-06-2026, 03:53 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: I just gotta say...

Jessica Foster was feckn hilarious.

https://www.instagram.com/jessicaa.foster/

(03-11-2026, 08:28 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: We need an AI video thread. It's slightly OT on this chatGPT and DALL-E thread.

If you haven't heard about Chinese AI-made micro-dramas, here's a taste (you've probably seen them and just not known). This video stitches together several episodes of a popular series that blew up with millions of views.

(02-11-2026, 11:26 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Scarpetta

https://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFo...7#pid80587

Seen at AMC Sunnyvale. From the trailer, I was thinking this was going to be more Bonnie & Clyde, but I think it's a little more Sid & Nancy (from what I can remember of that film). Less action and more outsiders struggling with their identities (bride more than Frank) and their relationship. 

The narrative is a bit scattered. It opens in b/w with a really tight closeup on Jesse Buckley as Mary Shelley explaining that she wrote Frankenstein on a a dare, but didn't get to tell the story she wanted to and is going to do that now (she's a little angry about that), but she's not sure how to do that and decides to possess someone...a party girl (Jesse Buckley) and it switches to color where Buckley becomes possessed and gets to show off her acting chops by switching between American party girl and angry Victorian British Mary Shelly mid-sentence. 

The chemistry between Buckley and Christian Bale is good, but the story tries to be about her coming to terms with her identity while also throwing in a #MeToo movement, Moulin Rouge, and more of this than is needed...(I think it detracts from what directory Maggie Gyllenhaal is trying to say)



Jake Gyllenhaal is the singing/dancing star of the era and Frankie constantly goes to the movie theater to watch him dance. 

It could have been better IMHO.

--tg

He was good friends with one o my psych mentors, Jack McCloskey, and popped up a lot in my early RM days. I think the last time I saw him was at Jack’s wake in 96. They were both staunch activists cor veterans rights and connected to Swords to Plowshares. 

Joe was kind of a one-hit wonder with his Fixing2Die protest song. Man, do we even categorize songs as protest anymore? But he had a humble stage presence and that song was anthemic. Still is. Just gotta swap Vietnam with Iran in the lyrics. I always enjoyed hearing him sing it.