npr:

New claims for unemployment benefits climbed to 281,000 last week as the coronavirus pandemic shuttered businesses and left people out of work, the Labor Department said Thursday. It was the highest level since Sept. 2, 2017, when they totaled 299,000.

That latest number, for the week ended last Saturday, was an increase of 70,000 from the prior week. But the numbers are expected to jump even more this week as several states reported that their unemployment claims websites had crashed with so many people trying to file at the same time.

Oxford Economics said the report is “a small preview of what’s to come. … We expect the virus to cause significant job losses as the economy sinks into a deep recession.”

florencepugh:

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) dir. Tobe Hooper.

brokehorrorfan:

The H-Man and Battle in Outer Space will be released as a Blu-ray double feature on June 9 via Mill Creek Entertainment. Both Japanese films are produced by Toho.

The H-Man is a 1958 kaiju film directed by Ishirô Honda (Godzilla) and written by Takeshi Kimura (Destroy All Monsters). Yumi Shirakawa, Kenji Sahara, Akihiko Hirata, Koreya Senda, and Makoto Satō star.

Battle in Outer Space is a 1959 sci-fi/horror film directed by Ishirô Honda (Godzilla) and written by Shin'ichi Sekizawa (King Kong vs. Godzilla). Ryō Ikebe, Kyōko Anzai, Minoru Takada, Koreya Senda, and Leonard Stanford star.

The H-Man is presented in both its original Japanese cut and the American edit. No other special features are listed.

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thedeaditeslayer:

One of the most interesting scenes in the Mexican Evil Dead 2 TV edit was the workshed scene with Linda. This scene was heavily edited due to the complete removal of Linda’s headless corpse barging in with the chainsaw. The editing suggests that Ash just picks up the chainsaw in the workshed. While there was several other cuts in this scene, this was made up with the addition of Ash’s reaction after he saws Linda’s head. The scene is all red assuming that blood had covered the lightbulb in the workshed though this is never shown.

npr:

Spring begins today in America. Good.

Perhaps you are mildly surprised to learn that March 19 is the first day of spring. Perhaps you learned as a child that the spring equinox — when day and night are roughly the same length — occurs on either March 20 or March 21.

Indeed, the equinox has historically fallen on one of those dates. This is the first time in 124 years the first day of spring has occurred on March 19 nationwide, irrespective of time zone — even the graphics on the National Weather Service’s website have yet to catch up with the new reality.

So, how did we end up with an extra-early spring?

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John Beasley Greene, Ramesseum with the Head from a Colossus of Ramesses II, 1855

missolivialouise:

I really like the idea of using bamboo for vertical growing or hydroponics systems, as opposed to PVC pipes or house gutters.