Simon Bar Sinister

Rest in peace, Roger Corman. You were and will always be the King of B-movies. 😭😭😭😭😭 https://variety.com/2024/film/news/roger-corman-dead-producer-independent-b-movie-1235999591/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2u5xZyME87iGzU0Yi25dx4DYMhrkRfaYDe7JYod71hxNReJaUsxNvByRI_aem_AcWZ1ag0wyKzKNCAAqVuoZAgpkI-0rNPdottMnUbCtTAauc_aV6I5EMM3U4QqVBslOdMX3MnWf722NqiNgN1IY18

https://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/2024/05/gothic-invasion-coming-to-michigans-adventure-this-summer.html?utm_campaign=mlivedotcom_sf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3VbegOm2MQTxW9N2M7foB6VBXZFQgu9hQUgmRzWKcS2cckNt6m545Nh1I_aem_AQUOEm_z1UxtbprTeWswRtUS_wF25r0jt3VhAfnUvAkDX9DVtRoFPPtkP_OJs-FN_1iy5wuzR3dnRDmHoeYlOu1- MUSKEGON, MI - A swarm of people dressed in their gothic best will be making their way to Michigan’s Adventure next month. The Darkness Underground, an Illinois-based gothic event group, is inviting people to participate in the inaugural Gothic Invasion at Michigan’s largest amusement park on Sunday, June 30.

post scenes from movies, TV shows, etc. This is from a Russian movie that came out a couple of years back:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/us-government-auctions-5-34-petaflop-cheyenne-supercomputer/?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=ars&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=Ars_Daily_050124&utm_medium=email&bxid=5d89243d3f92a4636c93c27a&cndid=75602866&hasha=0a74f0cdaee2b90a465b52c559d76de6&hashb=1b57e0e9c2a06b2cf9e475bd0d3635a51a236074&hashc=56377dcf64a3cd7e205aa0fa079b88ee402b349ac7166ab346ad9ef01848cfe7&esrc=OTnewsletterpromo&utm_content=Final&utm_term=ARS_DailyDigest excerpt: On Tuesday, the US General Services Administration began an auction for the decommissioned Cheyenne supercomputer, located in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The 5.34-petaflop supercomputer ranked as the 20th most powerful in the world at the time of its installation in 2016. Bidding started at $2,500, but it's price is currently $27,643 with the reserve not yet met.

looks like it might be coming back

This is gonna suck... https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/health/birdflu-marine-mammals.html

thanks

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/new-girl-groups-to-shake-up-k-pop-scene/ar-BB1jfeuG?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=5dd3fd0bd8ef46deb35188f0d1f004b2&ei=80

💖💖💖💖💖

Never heard of this band until about 20 minutes ago. To me, they sound like the early Beatles gone shoegaze, and that's a great thing. On my 4th time through.

for at least an hour now:

...well, it's been winter for about 45 minutes now, so why not?

https://consequence.net/2023/12/2023-k-pop-year-in-review/

a local fave

The crew at Darque Productions have this for us:

Video games of the past disappearing: https://gamehistory.org/87percent/ excerpt: The Video Game History Foundation, in partnership with the Software Preservation Network, has conducted the first ever study on the commercial availability of classic video games, and the results are bleak. 87% of classic video games released in the United States are critically endangered. Imagine if the only way to watch Titanic was to find a used VHS tape, and maintain your own vintage equipment so that you could still watch it. And what if no library, not even the Library of Congress, could do any better — they could keep and digitize that VHS of Titanic, but you’d have to go all the way there to watch it. It sounds crazy, but that’s the reality we live in with video games, a $180 billion industry, while the games and their history disappear.

now that's a sendoff!