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If you've never seen the show, The Final Sacrifice is pretty great ("Are those TOTES? They are!"). All times Eastern. If you miss anything, it repeats over the holiday weekend. Which is good because I'm not getting up at 4 am even though I've never seen The Killer Shrews. Streams free on Shout TV and the MST3K YouTube channel.

5am: The Killer Shrews (1959; featured in MST3K Season 4) [introduced by Emily Marsh]
7am: Overdrawn at the Memory Bank (1984; featured in MST3K Season 8) [introduced by Kumail Nanjiani]
9am: Werewolf (1997; featured in MST3K Season 9) [introduced by Bryan Fuller]
11am: The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969; featured in MST3K Season 3) [introduced by Matthew Lillard]
1pm: Space Mutiny (1988; featured in MST3K Season 8) [introduced by Mary Jo Pehl]
3pm: Hobgoblins (1988; featured in MST3K Season 9) [Mike Flanagan]
5pm: Samson vs. the Vampire Women (1962; featured as the season finale of MST3K Season 6, which was the last episode as a series regular for Frank Coniff, aka “TV’s Frank”) [introduced by David Dastmalchian]
7pm: Gamera vs. Jiger (1970; featured in MST3K Season 13) [introduced by Mark Hamill]
9pm: The Final Sacrifice (1990; featured in MST3K Season 9) [introduced by Joel Hodgson]
11pm: Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966; featured in MST3K Season 4) [introduced by Felicia Day]

http://www.wellsjournal.co.uk/Hot-Fuzz-Movie-memorabilia-auction-flood-relief/story-20727149-detail/story.html

Want to support the Somerset Community Foundation Flood appeal and grab a unique piece of movie memorabilia?

Now’s your chance.

The letters from the old Somerfield store in Wells High Street, used in the hit movie Hot Fuzz, are to go under the hammer.

The letters, signed by one-time Wells Regal Cinema junior projectionist turned film director Edgar Wright and movie stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are to put up for sale by auction to aid the appeal.

The signs were saved by Wells Journal when the store’s owners, the Co-operative, rebranded the High Street supermarket in June 2010. The letters were signed then by Edgar, Simon and Nick with the intention of auctioning them off as movie memorabilia - but a suitable cause was never properly identified, and the letters have been sitting in a store room waiting for their final day in the spotlight.

Edgar donated £500 to a young film maker’s media centre for the letter S from the old Somerfield sign in the High Street, with one of the ‘e’s also snapped up for a charitable donation.

At the time Edgar said: “It means more to me than it could ever do to any movie geek,” he said and made this newspaper an offer we couldn’t refuse – £500 for the letter, to be donated to the Somerset Film at the Engine Room in Bridgwater, which nurtures Somerset’s emerging film-making talents.

The Somerfield store was a central part of Hot Fuzz being run by the villainous Simon Skinner, played by Timothy Dalton, and was the exterior location of the movie’s final shoot-out.

When the shop-fitters went to work and before it all went into a skip, and with the Co-operative’s approval, the Journal got its hands on the signs as a unique piece of movie memorabilia.

Would-be bidders looking for a piece of British cinema history should send an email to otheryvillagehall@hotmail.com with their maximum bid, or write to Othery Village Hall, Fore Street, Othery Somerset, TA7 OQU by Wednesday March 19. Ensure you give a name address and contact phone number.


Read more: http://www.wellsjournal.co.uk/Hot-Fuzz-Movie-memorabilia-auction-flood-relief/story-20727149-detail/story.html#ixzz2udCbEzwo

Plugged the TV back in (I unplugged it before I left town, because I read somewhere they can explode or you get ants or something DON'T QUESTION ME), removed the old...um...box thing that let the cable box and the DVDs and the TV all talk to each other, and finally got around to actually connecting the new antenna. Ran the program thing where the TV searches for channels and adds them in.

I can get one channel now.

It's FOX.

Watched 2 minutes of The X Factor, then put in A Hard Day's Night because I hate punching myself in the face.

Long story short: I didn't get to see Paul because a bicycle fell on my head while I was looking for my wallet. Schwinn Breeze. Vintage. It's tasted blood now.

Dear Gen-Xers:

Shut the fuck up about The Goonies. It sucks. Thank you.

Your pal,

Ann

ANIMATION MEME
- X what you saw
- O what you haven't finished/seen or saw sizable portions
- Bold what you loved
- Italicize what you disliked/hated
- Leave unchanged if neutral
( clickey )

Sorry for the saturation on this. I was trying to get the fluorescent green thread to show up -- it's bright yellow in the picture -- and it didn't wanna.

Anyway, this is a hack of a 99-cent Mickey punchneedle kit. The stitching isn't very good, but at least there's a lot of it.

AWESOME article on The Seventh Seal that will make you actually want to watch it:
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2009/07/09/seventh_seal/

Just watched Cloverfield. My God, those people were literally too stupid to live.

Now I want to make a sock Cloverfield monster.