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C.C. Baxter
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There's a yellow version — made with corn and yellow tomatoes/peppers — that is tasty and really very beautiful.

I'm a fan of Skyscanner, where you can put "everywhere" as the location and just search by lowest price. It's fun because sometimes you can find really cheap prices to places you may not necessarily have thought to go.

I feel like most every major airline has multiple flights going into multiple European locations, particularly the big ones like London and Paris. Presumably that means a wide range of prices. If your aim is to go to Europe, not somewhere specific, you could always start there and take trains around.

You don't win friends with salad.

Sigh.
Um…. googily….. oogily.

Do you want to change your name to Homer, Jr? The kids can call you HoJu!

The scene in the book where she wakes up and realize someone is in the room with her is one of the most terrifying things I've ever read. Naturally, I only ever remember it when I'm trying to fall asleep.

I think you nailed it. I was surprised by how good the book was, especially since these kinds of cult movies aren't really my thing, but I'm not sure how to make a movie that captures what worked about the book for an audience that doesn't just want to mock Wiseau. Not sure the specifics of the guy lean can result in

Yeah, this is why I love this feature. I was very happy to assume, based on the name Skeet and his skeevy Scream character, that he was just a total douchebag bro idiot. But him studying marine biology, learning about the Civil War…. good for him.

How do you mean that? I see it as a counterpoint to Allen's other murder movies, like Match Point, but not sure I see the connection to Hannah.

All the Goosebumps premises are great, and he's really good at setting the scene. The only issue is that they're all resolved really quickly. I bet that if he wrote 6 a year instead of 12 they'd all be a lot better, with more developed second acts. That's really what they're missing.

Yeah, the right age for Goosebumps is probably 7. Any younger and they're probably too hard to read, much older and they're kinda lame, or at least run no risk of being scary.

The covers were fantastic… better than the books themselves at getting kids into horror. I kind of credit this to why I"m always interested in atmospheric horror movies but am less into the idea of horror books, though I'll read them if the reviews are good.

There are at least 20 shots in Spectre that could have a brand name imposed on them and be used as fashion ads. The framing and such is pretty pretentious, if somewhat effective.

Does anyone else dislike the whole son subplot of History of Violence? I get the point it makes, but so much of it seems so poorly done— the bully who is mad because the son caught a baseball, the actual staging of the violence, where he's evidently inherited technique and training like they were genetic. A less-dumb

Which one is supposed to be the idiot in this case?

I dunno, an A-list IT and Dark Tower are things to cheer— finally his most ambitious books are getting treated seriously, rather than crappy made-for-TV BS. I actually just finished reading the Stand and was thinking how great that'd be as a miniseries or pair of movies with the right director.

Right, and that at least had one flesh-and-blood actor who actually appeared as himself. What separates lion king from animation? Body capture?

It's a no win situation*. Change it and people complain, but do it the same and what's the point?

Well, just going by the title, What We Lose sounds like it would be a nonfiction/autobiographical work. I know that when I'm scouting out my next book to read, whether the title is fiction or not makes a difference, even if I read both at different times.