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The Texas Theatre was built in 1931 and is probably best known as the place of arrest for Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK's assassin, in 1963. It's undergone countless ownership changes, renovations, burnings, closings, and all sorts of zoning chaos. Thankfully, as a result of recent historical landmark status, its funding is fairly secure.

https://thetexastheatre.com/

I was thinking about this because last Tuesday I went to an event there called Tuesday Night Trash which is a free movie they show on Tuesday nights and saw Primal Rage, an insane 80s Italian killer monkey movie and it was so much fun. Seeing it with a full audience was a blast. And they do this stuff all the time. The theater is very involved in the local film scene, often holding film festivals featuring local filmmakers. They don't serve food except for popcorn and candy but they do have a full bar with movie themed drinks. They also host a VHS swap once a month where the locals come out to sell and trade tapes and cool merch.

Just a taste of the upcoming lineup (all movies shown except brand new releases are on film): Texas Chainsaw Massacre for the 50th anniversary, a double feature of Wiseau’s movies The Room and Big Shark and Q&A w/ Greg Sistero star of The Room and author of The Disaster Artist, Lady Snowblood, the original Django, Samurai Showdown, Time Masters (an awesome '82 French animated sci-fi), Cat Video festival, Altered States, Ed Wood with a live drag show afterwords, 50th anniversary showing of Phantom of the Paradise, a tribute to Roger Corman, and Near Dark.

Around Halloween is my favorite time as it's non-stop monster movies, including obscure shot on video stuff and classic B&W features.

Anyways, just wanted to brag a little bit about this local treasure. As I've gotten older, I dread the giant soulless multiplexes more and more, and I know Texas gets a lot of shit, much of it rightfully earned, but this theater it not part of that.

If you have a local treasure I'd love to hear about it.

[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 2 points 7 months ago

I love planted tanks. It's like gardening and fish keeping in one. I have been keeping them for 5 years now. It becomes an addiction and before you know it you have way too many tanks. I tell everyone that if you're going to get into freshwater aquariums, there's no reason not to plant your tank. The upsides are hard to beat. Clean water all the time, no water changes, and much healthier livestock.

[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm currently using it on v14, works fine.

[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

My cat Buster had 6 teeth removed 2 weeks ago due to something called feline tooth resorption. This is him the day I picked him up from surgery. He's doing better now and can eat his favorite hard food again.

[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

https://a.co/d/9J2fStU This seems pretty close, but kinda babyish. It would be cool to see a cross between something like this and the breadboard kits you mentioned.

[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That's true, there are, but I haven't seen anything pre-built and self-contained like this with easy spring terminals and color coded sections.

[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 2 points 7 months ago

I don't know anything about eduroam but if it's your uni's network then you'll have to settle for local access only through a personal router.

[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 5 points 7 months ago

Lemmy is great in Firefox mobile. It's how I use the site. The only reason I keep a Lemmy app installed is for quick shares.

[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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This is a nice bit of tech.

[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 1 points 8 months ago

Thanks for popping in. This is a really cool project.

[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 1 points 8 months ago

I saw this for the first time at the Texas Theatre here in Dallas. About a third of the audience were laughing, a third sat in puzzled silence, and a third got up and left before the halfway point.

[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 8 points 8 months ago

If you can get away with a non North American number, most countries will give you a SIM for free or next to nothing and you pay only once for pre-paid service, no monthly fee.

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