I’m stealing this from MeFi, but it’s awfully funny.
First, read Paula Dean’s recipe for English Peas. Then, click through at the bottom and read the comments.
That is all.
Stuff that’s cool
Apparently when you set an official World Record, as recognized by the fine folks at Guinness, you get a certificate. And the official World Record certificate, which is cool enough, has a fake beer-mug stain on it, ostensibly from the certificate being used as a coaster for one’s flagon of, say, Guinness Stout. That’s just neat.
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Dispatches from Popculturtopia
Some random stuff that I’ve seen around Teh Interweb:
:: Ridley Scott wants to make a couple of Alien prequels, apparently detailing the back story behind some visual thingie in the movie that fans have come to call the “Space Jockey”. I’m sure I won’t be queuing up for this when it comes out, as I’ve never been favorably impressed with the Alien movies, or, Attack of the Killer Space Vaginas, as I’ve come to think of them.
:: Ralph Macchio rules:
(Bad language alert!)
:: After a very long gestation process, Doug Adams’s book The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films is nearing publication! Huzzah!
:: Apropos of that, an interesting article on Richard Wagner and his legacy in film music. It’s kind of frustrating, though, to see a professor of music and a scholar of film music say something like this, referring to the leitmotif approach: “You can close your eyes and know who’s on screen.” No! No no no a thousand times NOOOO! A well-composed leitmotif-based film score is so much more than the composer simply saying, “Oh, Bob’s on the screen, so here’s Bob’s theme.” But it’s still an interesting article, nevertheless.
:: Ummmm…what the hell is this?!
OK, that’s enough of that, I suppose.
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Waiting for the ghosts
Apparently I fell for a joke on this one…alas!
A person sees a property marked with a “Keep Out” sign. It’s an abandoned hotel that’s been boarded up for a number of years.
As in, seventy-one years.
This is a haunting and beautiful post.
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The Duck
Ooog….
I have some lazy linkage to dispense with:
:: John Cole’s day is off to a pretty bad start:
Woke up, accidentally put ground red pepper in my coffee instead of cinnamon, did not notice until I took a swig. Tunch ate so much he threw up what can only be described as a cat food cud on the futon. Went to the kitchen to get a damp rag to clean it up, came back and it was gone and Lily was smacking her lips, and then the toilet overflowed.
Yeah, that’s all some pretty good signage that one’s proper place that day should be solidly beneath the blankets.
:: Sure, everybody was linking this a few weeks ago, but some folks may have missed it, so here it is: ever wonder how bats drink? Well, wonder no more, in some of the most stunning nature photography I’ve ever seen.
:: I suppose I’m fortunate that when I was in high school, I tended to make sure that the people who signed my yearbook were people with whom I got along. Not that I was afraid of this kind of thing, but you never know….
:: Thanks to whoever linked this: Insanewiches, insane sandwich fun!
:: I also saw this all over the place, but it’s a fun timewaster: The Eyeballing Game.
Enjoy. Or not.
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Ask HIM anything! (and some other lazy linkage)
Some things:
:: Roger is doing his own Ask Me Anything!. So go and ask him stuff. I’ve just done my duty (especially since he posed the majority of the questions in my own recently-completed Ask Me Anything!).
:: John McCain: a foreign policy disaster in the making.
:: Lynn links an interview with SF author John C. Wright, a guy who has the best ability to say things well despite being completely wrong since William F. Buckley. I finally lost it when Wright identified Apollo 13 as a “hard SF movie”. I guess being set in space makes it SF, despite the fact that it’s a true story? Huh?! Anyway, whenever I read Wright, I get the sense that he’s a more eloquent version of Orson Scott Card. (And I came to that comparison before I read this post of Wright’s. Note also this one, where he pontificates against movies for being anti-American or whatever, including at least one movie he didn’t even see.)
:: I really really really really wanna go to Norway. Here’s another reason why.