You're nothing but an unstable short-chain molecule!

Farewell, Harold Ramis. 

il timpano

Timpano scenes, Big Night

I'm going to make timpano some day. Maybe not today, maybe not next month, but some day. 

“It's so fucking good, I should kill you.” 

And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder. One of the four beasts saying, “Come and see.”

The introduction of this song scares me so much and they (asshole genius filmmakers) are constantly using it in horror movies. I've been watching a lot of Sleepy Hollow before bed and it was in the pilot episode, right before Moloch the demon flash-lunges at the camera. 

A. I don't know if there's a proper term for what I mean. Flash lunge? The thing where it's a split second and all of a sudden they're closer than they were. Come on, that scene in The Ring where Samara comes out the television. Yes. That. 

B.  I kept typing lunch for lunge. One track mind, you know how it is. 

C. It doesn't really help my argument that this song is terrifying when the thumbnail for the Soundcloud widget is a happy-ass dandelion. Thanks for detracting from my statement entirely, Soundcloud. 

and I won't have my sister, who was once the Queen of the Mardi Gras, sit at a table with a pickle-shooting train!

I tried to explain Nothing But Trouble, one of my favorite movies, to someone today. It did not go well. 

“Oh! It's this great movie with John Candy, Dan Akroyd, Chevy Chase, Demi Moore, even one of the Baldwin brothers, 2PAC IS IN IT! Chevy Chase and Demi Moore go on some road trip and they end up at this crazy jail/courthouse/funhouse situation. Dan Akroyd is this super crazy-ass old judge, some druggies get chomped in this wild can-crusher thing, there are these twins, Bobo and Lil Debil. YOU JUST GOTTA WATCH IT OK!!”

I don't care if Nothing But Trouble won a bunch of awards for being the worst movie ever. I love and quote it all the time, especially that pickle-shooting train line. Ah, that gets me every time. 

The Billows Feeding Machine

Peter Lee: What are you reading?
me: Oh, that's a dvd. It's Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times, one of my favorites.
Peter Lee: Man, even when you namedrop it's nerdy.

Side note, beef stroganoff is one of my comfort foods. I have it about twice a year — that gave me pause, why don't I make it more often? Oh wait, I know how much butter went into making it. — and it always brings me back to childhood, though I don't remember having it often. Must be a winter comfort food thing. I also wanted to caption the photo with a nice stroganoff pun, but yeah, they were all very inappropriate. 

The Billows Feeding Machine, also known as why this movie is wonderful.