Geography aside, culturally, Ohio is definitely Midwest.

To this day, I still find myself sometimes yelling in a Spanish voice ‘Who, does not want to wear thee ribbon!”

I was about to say, “Wait, that’s not a Hitchcock film!”...

Vitamin C’s proven role is as a cofactor in collagen synthesis, and a lack of it causes scurvy because the skin and mucosa can’t repair their basal membranes.  So, in the sense that vitamin C prevents scurvy, it does help prevent infections, just not in the way most people seem to think.

“Traditional Chinese Medicine” is only a thing because Mao promised everyone health care but his purges and the Cultural Revolution decimated China’s medical community at the time.

Funny story, I knew nothing about this film when I first saw it on an army deployment to Kosovo, but one of my roommates was absolutely thrilled to have snagged a DVD copy (I think it had just come out on DVD at the time). So, I watched, and lo, it was a pretty compelling movie, but it didn’t seem like the type of…

Or at least the American bastardization of that celebration.

One out of three for the Barrytown Trilogy isn’t bad.

I’m a non-Irish descended American who went to a very heavily Irish-descended university (Notre Dame), and I was always shocked that as little as I knew about Ireland, I often knew far more than people who proudly proclaimed themselves as “Irish”.

OK, we’re missing one here. The Snapper!

I learned the hard way that a mandolin has reached the end of its useful life when the vegetables start catching on the blade.

Thanks, I forgot how unintentionally funny that drunk scene with him was.

“Then, in Giant, he was the central presence in this sweeping epic—no mean feat, considering his co-stars were big-screen heavyweights Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor.”

One omission I can think of... Massimo Troisi for Il Postino. It might have been his international break-through, but he died just after shooting finished.

If that’s a current picture, then he actually looks remarkably younger in real life than in the two shows I’ve seen him in (Bleak House and Sherlock).

There’s a Principal Skinner quote that comes to mind...

I really wanted to like Soul, but the film just never gelled emotionally.

Properly cured and maintained cast iron cookware takes almost no effort to clean.  Almost everything rinses right out, and the few bits of browned food left over come out with only a small amount of light scrubbing.

Incidentally, there’s apparently a sign at the beach Vierville-sur-Mer (aka Omaha Beach) asking tourists not to take any sand as a souvenir. It seems too many tourists were copying his character from the movie.  US Customs doesn’t allow the importation of sand or soil anyway, so it would be trashed at the airport upon…

Aneurysms are almost always silent, until they suddenly rupture.