Whether you’re returning from summer camp in hopes of a glorious reunion with your friends, coming home after a vacation at the beach, or just happy to be “Together Again” with your EarBuds after a week of fun and fireworks, shazbazzar and JediShua are serving up seventy-seven minutes of GenX news and discussion and large bowls of tasty cereal for your tum-tums on this Monday morning!

In the NEWS…

• Goodbye, Willie.  Max Wright from ALF succumbs to cancer at age 75.
• Hello, Hamill.  Cast and characters of the upcoming Netflix series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance are revealed.

We Love Our Cereal…

…and the Roving Spoonster, Shane in GR does, too!

• Keto friendly cereals that will dent your wallet.
• MELK Diner & Cereal Bar closes its doors.
• Fire at the Battle Creek Kellogg’s facility.  What does burning cereal smell like?

Let’s Go to the Movies: The Muppets Take Manhattan

The summer of ’84 continues with cinematic hits like The Last Starfighter and The Muppets Take Manhattan.  But 1979 isn’t without a notable movie from this week — The Frisco Kid may have been the last movie starring Harrison Ford that doesn’t focus on the Han Solo/Indiana Jones icon in its trailer.

TechnoRetro Arcade: The Last Starfighter

JediShua asks which video games would make suitable trainers/testers for potential candidates to save the galaxy in an epic space battle as seen in The Last Starfighter. 

Science Lesson

Loads of cool, geeky stuff is going on in our world these days:

• NASA makes their entire media library publicly accessible and copyright free.
• NASA introduces Dragonfly, the quadcopter concept for a mission to Titan.
• LightSail 2 has begun its mission.

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