New York City:

"Sean's whip-smart and rebellious teenage son" ... and I'm out.

That's no moon.

Cream of Tatar is a byproduct of fermenting grapes to make wine. It's one of the sediments formed during the fermentation process. It's initial form is a substance called argol or beeswing, and you can often see it on the underside of a cork pulled from a wine bottle.

I started making my baking powder about a year ago. Baking Powder starts to lose potency once exposed to the air (mostly the Baking Soda component).

The sodium aluminum sulfate helps the powder's shelf life (by helping the second bit of puffing once the Baking Soda loses potency). It also affects the taste and can…

Baking powder itself came about as a labor of love. Literally.

How awesome would this movie be if she just carries David's head around the whole time like a jar of pickles?

YES THAT TOO NOW I AM IN ALL CAPS AGAIN BECAUSE THE TRUTH IS SO LOUD.

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Have you ever read Greek mythology and thought "This stuff would really be elevated if it involved disco music and rollerskating"? Then Xanadu is the movie for you!

The Last Starfighter

Terrible acting AND terribly unbelievable CG. Every time a dino was on screen it looked like an escapee from a bad video game. The whole production looked exceptionally green-screeny and cheap. I mean, hey - more accurate dinosaurs are a great step forward (despite the unnecessarily colorful feather palette) but for…

If feathers were restricted to birds, then they would be restricted to avian dinosaurs, the group of dinosaurs which are ... birds, to use the easiest common terminology.

Nor wear proper footwear in the winter. Damn they are HARD!

Is this taking into account reading level of the book? I've read both LotR and all of Twilight (laugh away), and there is no way it took me longer to read Twilight. I motored through those. Twilight has got to be at the 6th grade reading level or something, whereas Tolkien requires some actual concentration.

My big project this year was re-reading Harry Potter, one chapter a night before bed. It took 199 days to finish the entire series. I started January 1st and ended on July 18th.

Farmers don't replant seed anyway because of heterosis, and 100% of human-cultivated crops have been "genetically modified". Most of what you think of as individual grains or vegetables wouldn't exist without substantial genetic overhaul. Broccoli? Cabbage? You wouldn't even recognize the wild mustard they were…