Right about now we can all start crossing our fingers

Yes, that little boy is dressed as Obama for Halloween.

Halloween used to be extra creepy

Next year for Halloween I'm going to go as someone in the early 1900s celebrating Halloween.





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Synecdoche, NY

I can't stop thinking about this movie. Anything I say about it is going to sound silly, so just go see it.

The Beatles' rooftop concert

I can't believe I hadn't seen this until today! In three parts, here:

What to do if you get lost

Sesame Street

Couple

Unexpected

Outer space smells of fried steak, scientists revealed yesterday. The universe also has an aroma of hot metal and motorbike welding, Nasa experts said.

Stayin' Alive

U.S. doctors have found the Bee Gees 1977 disco anthem "Stayin' Alive" provides an ideal beat to follow while performing chest compressions as part of CPR on a heart attack victim.

Duck-Billed Dinosaurs Emitted Low, Eerie Sounds

"Duck-billed dinosaur's bony head crests, which ranged in appearance from long and pointy to huge, Elvis-style pompadour shapes, likely sounded as unusual as they looked, suggests new evidence.

"The crests were used to produce low, bellowing calls, suggest the new findings which will be presented today at the annual meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology."

Cinema verite

Sorry about the lack of pictures today. Reading is just so good. This quote has stayed with me since I read it a few months ago but I never posted it. Werner Herzog was asked if there are moments of cinema verite in Grizzly Man. This is how he answered:

"Verité comes in at certain moments when [Treadwell] is in the Starsky & Hutch mode and he’s wearing his bandanna, the sexy camouflage bandanna. And he jumps away on the little path and disappears. And he disappears for twelve seconds, which is a long time in the film and footage. Disappears for twelve seconds and reappears. But what is in between—all of a sudden you see reed grass, long stems, and… wind bending the grass. Everybody overlooked it, and I had the feeling that this is verité. "