For Future Reference

This is stuff that I need to remember for later.

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That terrible movie about the purgatory motel on Route 66 was Beneath the Dark, originally titled Wake.

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Disqus RSS Feeds

Fun Fact: Disqus never actually removed their RSS feeds. They just removed the links to the RSS feeds

So, here’s the structure of some of the Disqus RSS feeds, because I always forget and it’s hard to look them up.

Disqus Forum RSS Feed:

Structure: https://{FORUM NAME}.disqus.com/latest.rss

Example: https://laurelgreen.disqus.com/latest.rss

Disqus Single Discussion RSS Feed:

Structure: https://{FORUM NAME}.disqus.com/{DISCUSSION SLUG}/latest.rss

Example: https://laurelgreen.disqus.com/pusheen_in_an_airplane_video_laurel_green_tumblr_b/latest.rss

Note: It can be hard to guess what the auto-generated discussion slug will be, so I wrote a JQuery script to grab it for me. You’ll need an API key if you want to use the script yourself.

<a id="latestdisqus" href="https://placeholderurl.com">Discussion RSS</a>

<script> $.getJSON('https://disqus.com/api/3.0/threads/list.json?api_key={YOUR API KEY}&forum={FORUM NAME}&thread:link={URL OF THE DISCUSSION PAGE}', function(data) { document.getElementById("latestdisqus").href = (data.response[0].feed); }); </script>

(BLARGH! Tumblr changes plain quotation marks into fancy ones, so you’ll need to go through the code and fix that!)

If it’s a recent discussion, you can hit the Community tab and the discussion slug will be somewhere in the comment count URL.

Disqus Channel RSS Feed:

Structure: https://channel-{CHANNEL NAME}.disqus.com/latest.rss

Example: https://channel-starwars.disqus.com/latest.rss

Disqus User RSS Feed:

Structure: https://disqus.com/{USERNAME}/latest.rss

Example: https://disqus.com/Laurel_Green/latest.rss

Note: If a user has their activity set to private, this won’t work.

Those are the RSS feeds that I can remember for now, but I think that there’s more that I’m forgetting. I’ll update this post if I can remember.

(You know it’s a bit weird that the Disqus appends their feed URLs .rss, because Disqus RSS feeds are actually Disqus Atom feeds, which is a slightly different thing. Whoops.)

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That Movie Where the Woman Gets Thrown in the Trash Compactor

I have a memory of being at my grandma’s house watching a movie and hiding behind a couch because there was a scene where the main character’s girlfriend gets beaten to death by a gang and then he feeds her corpse into a trash compactor. I think I was traumatized.

Well, I’ve finally found the name of that movie: Deadbeat at Dawn!

I have no idea why my parents had us watch this. It was extremely inappropriate for children. And, if I recall correctly, we actually watched it several times when we went over to my grandma’s house.

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That Anime Based in Africa that I Can Never Remember the Name Of

The show was called The Bush Baby and it aired on TVO in 1993. It was based on a novel by Canadian author, William Stevenson.

It appears as though the English dub is lost forever, though. I can never relive watching it. I hear there’s a group that’s working on subtitles for it, so that’s good.

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This was that Public Service Announcement that made drinking look totally awesome.

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The Book Was Afternoon of the Elves

The book that I was trying to remember was Afternoon of the Elves. 

Mrs. Phelan read it to us in 3rd grade. I didn't understand why that one girl's mother was so tiny. 

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That Dry White Wine That I Liked in Tucson

That wine that I liked in Tucson was Sartarelli Tralivio. It was a very dry wine. I think that I’m starting to prefer dry wines to fruity ones, now.

I bought it at 99c Only of all places.

The stupid bottle was too tall to fit in the fridge properly, though.