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A legendary screenwriter of science fiction and horror, Dan O’Bannon, best known for writing Alien, passed away today at the age of 63. Bannon broke out back in 1974 with the lo-budget sci-fi flick Dark Star, which was director John Carpenter’s first major film. O’Bannon not only wrote the script for Dark Star, he also edited, art designed, acted in, and handled the special effects on the film.
Then he wrote Alien, which would be his biggest film both critically and commercially. But oddly enough, O’Bannon’s most ardent fans, while they unabashedly love Alien, seem to support the guy more for his smaller cult movies like Dark Star, Dead & Buried, Blue Thunder, his segment “B-17″ in Heavy Metal, and for The Return of the Living Dead, a film he also directed.
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What is your favorite salty snack?
What's your favorite salty snack + sweet snack or drink combo? For example, pretzels and hot chocolate, or popcorn and ice cream.
What's your favorite salty snack + sweet snack or drink combo? For example, pretzels and hot chocolate, or popcorn and ice cream.
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So a few people have asked for my dairy and gluten free gingerbread recipe – I feel a bit guilty about posting this, because I’m pretty sure I don’t have the recipe right yet. It’s very much a work in progress. If you try it for yourself and add any tweaks that improve on it, please let me know! In particular I think the mix of flours could use work…
Gingerbread Personages (gluten and dairy free)
Dry Stuff:
1.5 cups potato flour
2 cups rice flour
1/2 tsp bicarb of soda
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1-2 tsp ground ginger
Wet Stuff:
1 egg
1 cup brown sugar (firmly packed)
2/3 cup treacle
140g pureed apple
1. Mix wet stuff in one bowl, and dry stuff in another bowl.
2. Mix contents of two bowls together; stir well, should end up a soft and sticky dough
3. Cover and refrigerate for at least an hour (overnight also good)
4. Pre-heat oven to 180?C (350?F)
5. Heavily flour (any gluten free option – rice, potato, corn) your cutting board & rolling pin. Carefully roll out gingerbread a small handful at a time to 1cm or so thick.
6. Cut out shapes with cookie cutters – gingerbread people, daleks, rabbits, whatever you have handy.
7. Place shapes on oven tray lined with baking paper. Leave a couple of cm between each but they shouldn’t spread that much.
8. Bake for 8-9 minutes.
9. DO NOT LEAVE IN HOT OVEN, COOL IN FRESH AIR ON WIRE TRAYS (sorry for shouting, just telling my future self)
10. Should make about 3 trays worth of biscuits.
You can decorate with icing made from pure icing sugar & water/eggwhite, bits of dried fruit, or any other dairy & gluten-free tidbit.
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i_leonardo !!!
i_leonardo !!!'Kay, so I really enjoy hiking. And I want to try rock climbing sometime, but not actually right now. But I'm really interested in finding a hike where it's at least steep enough or rocky enough that climbing is involved. Is there a word for this? I'm trying to find something like it but I don't know if it's considered "easy rock climbing" because it doesn't actually need special equipment...or "extreme hiking"...? I dunno, I dunno. Or if anyone knows any websites that would be helpful to this specific question, 'twould be appreciated.
I went to lay down because I had a headache and I ended up sleeping for six hours and now my sleep schedule is even more messed up.
Will you tell me a little story about your day?
- Music:Jeff Buckley - Yard Of Blonde Girls
I keep in touch with a teacher from high school - a "Mr. John Smith." I always addressed him as "Mr Smith" when I was in school, and since graduating several years ago I continue to refer to him as "Smith" when I talk about him. The thing is - I don't know what to call him to his face anymore. Though we're fairly close (in a mentor-favorite student way), I feel like it would be reeeeeally awkward to call him "John." But it is potentially embarrassing to address him as "Mr Smith" still, because it might look like I'm being too formal. Plus, he signs his emails "John"....
HALP. Do I go out on a limb and get used to calling him "John" (because srsly who in America cares about formalities anymore, amirite), or should I compromise and call him "Smith"? Or is that flippant? I honestly have not addressed him by any name for over a year because I am confused hardcore about this.
(Also: This is not the only teacher I've had this problem with, but it's definitely the most difficult circumstance. With my German teacher, for example, "Frau M" works just as well now as ever, even though she's only a few years older than I am.)
Maybe I should just give him an embarrassing nickname and be done with it.
DKDC: Tell me about your favorite or least favorite teacher!
HALP. Do I go out on a limb and get used to calling him "John" (because srsly who in America cares about formalities anymore, amirite), or should I compromise and call him "Smith"? Or is that flippant? I honestly have not addressed him by any name for over a year because I am confused hardcore about this.
(Also: This is not the only teacher I've had this problem with, but it's definitely the most difficult circumstance. With my German teacher, for example, "Frau M" works just as well now as ever, even though she's only a few years older than I am.)
Maybe I should just give him an embarrassing nickname and be done with it.
DKDC: Tell me about your favorite or least favorite teacher!
What religious holiday are you celebrating this month?
- 10:49 Hey @hotel_max, check out today's Seattlest Pic bit.ly/4oxUhB #
I just spent an hour peeling the skins off soaked almonds and putting them in a plastic bag, only to drop the bag on the floor where it burst and spilled everywhere on the way to the refrigerator.
- Mood:really, really pissed off
When playing a game on xbox, playstation, etc. do you enjoy winning on your own or do you search for cheats to win?
What are you feeling right now as you read this?
Will you post a picture of your face so other people can say what they like about it?
Thanks to the 97 people who have so far answered yesterday's scripts poll. The results are rather neatly bunched into four groups: 14 could be seen by at least 83 of the 97; there were a further 8 in the 47-62 range; there is a cluster of 3 which could be seen by 15-21 people; and one outlier which only I could see when logged in using Firefox.
( The top 14 )
( the next eight )
( three less popular scripts )
( the last one )
( The top 14 )
( the next eight )
( three less popular scripts )
( the last one )
Can you think of any songs with the same .. almost ethereal quality as Nancy Sinatra's version of Bang, Bang and Gary Jules' version of Mad World? Songs that make you feel like you're floating in space.. Thanks in advance..
Ughh my skin looks so bad these days.
I still haven't caught up with a world in which people post their wish lists online and actually get a meaningful response. But since nobody asked, I thought I'd give a rundown of my own special desires:
• A six-pack of Jever pilsener that hasn't gone skunky with ageNeedless to say, the list could go on longer than a Henry James sentence. But that will do for the moment. If you have any questions, drop me a line.
• A large bag full of real sour cherries
• The smell of a sugar-free Monster drink, the sort in the blue-and-black can, on a cold December night
• That Big Red Book of Carl Jung's, recently made available in English
• More friends who are up, literally and figuratively, for indulging my only-after-10-pm night life
• A good showing against Kansas on Tuesday
• A whiff of yatagan
• Credit where credit is due
• A DVD of Germany In Autumn
• The sound of a burbling stream
• A turntable that has both analog and USB outputs
• The discovery of previously suppressed Jean-Jacques Beineix films the equal of Diva
• A human touch
• The use of an apartment in Berlin for a month
• A case of A-Treat red cream soda
• A DSLR worthy of my photographic ability
• The Lego Hogwarts Express
• Coffee with Adam Phillips
• The chance to perform in an avant-garde staging of J.G. Ballard's Crash
• A complete set of the recordings, including outtakes, that Rainer Ptacek made in the last year of his life
• Dinner at the old Café Terra Cotta, at Campbell and River, circa 1997
• My Olympus portable digital recorder, together with its contents, inexplicably vanished sometime in 2008
• A weekend in Mendocino
• That enormously comforting sense of having begun in earnest
• A patron, individual or institutional, to pay me for my writing and editing
• Three hours at The Shelter
• A reason to get the Lox platter at Saul's, sometime in the late 1980s
• The Matchbox Pontiac GTO, #22, from the late 1960s and early 1970s, in purple and with the faux-metallic hubcaps on Superfast wheels
• A surefire regimen for improving one's vertical leap by about six inches
• That spot where the back of the neck becomes the side of the neck
• The strength to pursue my passions now, instead of deferring them to a future that may never come
• A hug
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Dear TQC,
What are you allergic to?
I'm allergic to lanolin, cephalosporin, adhesive, latex, and bacitracin. I don't have any food allergies but I am intolerant to pork products and milk products (though I do still consume those in copious amounts).
What are you allergic to?
I'm allergic to lanolin, cephalosporin, adhesive, latex, and bacitracin. I don't have any food allergies but I am intolerant to pork products and milk products (though I do still consume those in copious amounts).
I would appreciate it if somebody who has an Android-based phone or iThing or any other non-WebOS-based mobile device with a full browser would visit this site on their phone and computer and tell me if it's using an obviously stripped-down page layout on the phone.
Argh, I want to play my finger cymbals.
Is it weird that I'd rather have the maintenance guy come by when I'm not home?
Recently, Neil Gaiman said he began blogging to change the expectations people had of him when he showed up for a reading or a signing. It used to be an issue for him that people would be disappointed upon meeting him, having expected someone 6'5", dressed in black velvet and lace, who spoke in perfect iambic pentameter couplets. An artist. He then began blogging because "it's hard to romanticize someone who was just talking about cleaning up cat vomit at 3am."
It seems to have worked out alright for him. A lot of authors begin blogging because they're told it's good (and free) advertising, but aside from adding to their presence on the web, blogs can give the author a more personal voice and make readers feel like they "know" the writer.
Which of course leads me to ask: Have you ever had your perception of an author shifted by taking a peek into their blog? Whether they were funny when their books were not, or every single post complained about the weather and you wondered where they ever found the creativity to write an entire novel, let me know!
It seems to have worked out alright for him. A lot of authors begin blogging because they're told it's good (and free) advertising, but aside from adding to their presence on the web, blogs can give the author a more personal voice and make readers feel like they "know" the writer.
Which of course leads me to ask: Have you ever had your perception of an author shifted by taking a peek into their blog? Whether they were funny when their books were not, or every single post complained about the weather and you wondered where they ever found the creativity to write an entire novel, let me know!
a 1,000 word paper equals how many pages?
if you could do it on any of these topics, which would it be?
Racial Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Sexual Discrimination, Age Discrimination, American with Disabilities, Recruitment, Staffing, Unions, Benefit Packages, Award Programs, Ergonomics, Immigration Laws, Compensation, Training, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Harassment, Workplace Violence, Diversity, Terminations, Retirement Programs, Equal Opportunity Employment, Affirmative Action, Job Analysis, Glass Ceiling, Performance Appraisals, Employee Assistance Programs
if you could do it on any of these topics, which would it be?
Racial Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Sexual Discrimination, Age Discrimination, American with Disabilities, Recruitment, Staffing, Unions, Benefit Packages, Award Programs, Ergonomics, Immigration Laws, Compensation, Training, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Harassment, Workplace Violence, Diversity, Terminations, Retirement Programs, Equal Opportunity Employment, Affirmative Action, Job Analysis, Glass Ceiling, Performance Appraisals, Employee Assistance Programs
based on this entry do you tend to say Happy Holidays, Happy Hanukkah, Merry Xmas, etc when you are out...
do you try not to offend someone or do you not care?
do you try not to offend someone or do you not care?
I sent them out today...so if you didn't get one, here's my Christmas poem for 2009.
The earth has turned around the sun
A year has closed; a year’s begun
We ponder things we might have done
The measure of our days.
A child is born to us this night
To help us travel towards the Light
A distant dawn is shimmering bright
Lift every voice in praise!
We each possess an inner spark
To light the Way against the dark
Listen to the singing!
Hark! ‘Tis angel voices raised!
The earth has turned around the sun
A year has closed; a year’s begun
We ponder things we might have done
The measure of our days.
A child is born to us this night
To help us travel towards the Light
A distant dawn is shimmering bright
Lift every voice in praise!
We each possess an inner spark
To light the Way against the dark
Listen to the singing!
Hark! ‘Tis angel voices raised!
The decade is almost over, and we're feeling a bit nostalgic. What better thing to look back on than our favorite couples of the decade?
( Bope, Jolena, Jasam, Nuke, and MORE! )
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refreshed
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December 18 1832
After passing through the straight of Le Maire at Tierra del Fuego, the Beagle anchored at Good Success Bay. Here Darwin had his first encounter with savages [sic]. He was shocked by the primitive way of life they led but was also fascinated by them. A group of four male Fuegians met the landing party. After an attempt to communicate with the Feugians the party presented them with some bright red cloth and the Feugians immediately became friendly with them. The natives initiated a dialogue by patting the crewmen on their chests. Apparently they had the most amazing ability to mimic the crew's gestures and even the words they spoke, often repeating whole English sentences back to them. Darwin was bewildered by all this.
in this world of endless fantasy, she makes happen -- it's her reality.
- Music:Within Temptation - World of Make Believe | Powered by Last.fm
What did you have for dinner tonight?
Would you turn into a vampire if your SO was one too so you both could live together ~forever~?
Michael Lohan's ex-girlfriend -- the one who got him arrested Monday -- has now been busted herself ... for allegedly kicking him in the head with her shoe ... this according to a police report obtained by TMZ.
According to the doc, Michael Lohan and Erin Muller pulled into the driveway of his mom's home on November 14. Michael apparently thought she was too "drunk and high" to drive and that triggered an argument. Michael says he then got out of the car and tried to keep her from driving. Lindsay Lohan's dad says when he opened her door, Erin intentionally kicked him in the head.
Remember, Erin got Michael arrested Monday for violating a restraining order. Mr. Lohan -- who knows a thing or two about revenge and jail -- filed a criminal complaint of his own, and Erin turned herself in today.
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coldI should type up my notes, but I don't want to.
Conan O'Brien’s ratings have been slipping in recent months so badly that NBC is reportedly looking for a replacement! Popeater reports that network executives have begun informal talks to find a new late night funny man for the time slot.
A source says, "NBC just can't carry on like this. 'The Tonight Show' has lost 52 percent of its viewership in just one year. The November ratings will be the show's lowest in 15 years. They would be idiots to not be having the replacement conversation.”
Insiders say the one man on everyone’s wish list is Jerry Seinfeld. But getting him to commit is another thing. Jerry had a hit show on NBC for nine years, but has been off the network since 1998.
Conan’s people are vehemently denying the speculation. NBC spokesperson Drew Shane responded: "Completely false. There are no conversations happening. Conan is the host of the 'Tonight Show.'"
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who would you like to see replace Conan on the tonight show if it comes to this?
- Music:Girls Aloud - Here We Go
Riding the line between awww and ewww: here's a wee Cthulhoid from Sherya Shetty.As always, you can check out a host of tentacled beasts, and add your own, on the “Show us your tentacles” art post.
Drips & Drabs & Dribbles
09:42 Back at work today, and so incredibly tired. Did you know it's hard to fall asleep at night when you've been asleep most of the day? *yawn* #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitterWatching this documentary about art, underground art, is making me feel panic attacky.
How do you feel when people say things like, "you've really lost weight!" to you? Or just comment on your appearance in general. I've lost some weight recently and I can't help but being flattered by comments sometimes, but I have a friend who will fly into a rage and insist that any sort of comment about appearance is unacceptable. She is crazy y/n?
( and a gift question that i will cut because they're getting annoying i know. )
( and a gift question that i will cut because they're getting annoying i know. )
today i was answering phones at work (i work at target) and i got a call for another team member. the person asked for the TM by their full name, and misprounounced the first name. does this seem fishy to anyone else?
what do you think they wanted? srs/nonsrs.
what do you think they wanted? srs/nonsrs.
Young!Dean was in A Single Man and it sort of blew my mind.
- Music:Carla Bruni - You Belong To Me | Powered by Last.fm
Over the years, I've had various Christmas trees, both live and artificial. After the holidays, the live ones have been recycled into mulch. The artificial ones? They are stored in the garage.
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Without cheating*, do you know who Steve McQueen is?
*Googling this information will be punishable by turkeyslap.
For those unfamiliar with the term "turkeyslap", you're allowed to Google that.
*Googling this information will be punishable by turkeyslap.
For those unfamiliar with the term "turkeyslap", you're allowed to Google that.
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