In Roger Ebert’s world, the best movies of the decade include the retarded Bad Lieutenant remake, the Kill Bill movies, Spike Lee’s tepid The 25th Hour, Linklater’s experimental (and little else) Waking Life, and Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York (the best movie of the ’00s)!
I guess Herzog’s threat has done its job.
“I can’t stand to see a woman bleed from the mouth. It reminds me of that country and western music, which I cannot abide.”
- one genius line of many from In the Loop
Daily Virgo Horoscope – 24th December, 2009
T’was the night before Christmas and all through the land, there were Virgos who were realizing that they had two basic choices: they could continue to act like the weight of the world was on their shoulders or they could get with the new program and start to embrace the fact that the worst of the tough times are over. Virgo, you are actually in line for some happy times, intense maybe, but potentially very happy and also fun. Life is what we make of it – you don’t need to be a New Age hippy to get that.
Don’t want to tell you to much. Just give it a try.
Sometimes two press releases arrive at just the right time…
Well, we were wondering about that last night, so I figured I’d look it up… Wikipedia to the rescue.
Several different recipes of slime were used during the series’ decade-long run, some resulting in thin, watery slime and others in thick, chunky slime. In an interview with YCDTOTV.com, longtime YCDTOTV crew member Bill Buchanan explained the origin of the slime in 1979: “…one script called for this kinda disgusting slimy green stuff – but with no real indication of what it was going to be used for. … The description was that it was just something green and slimy and disgusting … Anyhow, [properties man Paul Copping] mixed up a whole green garbage can … with slime. I know he’d colored it with green latex paint. God knows what else was in it, but it was disgusting. And it was parked inside the studio door, and everyone was kinda avoiding it because it was really foul looking. I mean, he had like sausages floating in it.”
By the time it was actually used to be dumped on a child’s head, toxicity became a concern…
“We concocted some stuff made out of green Jell-o, or gelatin. We made it by the bucket. We bought hundreds of packages of lime Jell-o or gelatin over the years.”
For several years afterwards, the slime consisted of this mixture of lime green gelatin powder and flour; eventually, oatmeal was added to the recipe, as was baby shampoo so that it would wash out of the actors’ hair more easily.
Love this letter from J.D. Salinger…
As someone who used to fix computers part-time but stopped advertising his services over six years ago, I can attest to the veracity of this “guide to being the local PC repair dude.” Specifically:
Expect to be riddled with calls and requests for fixing computers for the rest of your natural life.
If this isn’t Snuggie weather I don’t know what is.
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Christopher Null is a technology, business, and entertainment journalist, the founder of Filmcritic.com, chief mixologist at Drinkhacker.com, and the author of the books Half Mast and Five Stars! Catch his daily commentary on the technology world at Yahoo! Tech.
