Posted on October 29th, 2009 by brunodante
USA | 1978 | Directed by John Carpenter
Logline: An escaped psychopath returns to his childhood neighbourhood, terrorising and killing several people whilst his doctor desperately tries to warn the local sheriff of the killer’s intent.
“Black Cats and Goblins and Broomsticks and Ghosts
Covens of Witches with All of Their Hopes,
You May Think They Scare Me, You’re Probably Right,
Black Cats and Goblins on Halloween (more. . .)
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Posted on October 27th, 2009 by brunodante
Brazil | 2005 | Directed by Andrucha Waddington
Logline: The plight of a woman, and her feisty daughter, over the span of nearly sixty years, as she tries in vain to adapt to a life in a desolate landscape of shifting sand dunes.
This is a stunningly realised character study of mother and daughter, juxtaposed against a harsh, unforgiving, yet beautiful geography that (more. . .)
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Filed under: Drama & Thriller, Movies
Posted on October 24th, 2009 by natalina
For today’s installment of Extraordinary Videos, I’m posting an interview that took place between Evangelical Preacher/Exorcist/Charismatic Televangelist Pastor Bob Larson and the children of Anton Lavey.
As you likely know, Anton Szandor LaVey was the American founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan. He was also a writer, a musician, and a provocateur.
His daughter, Zeena LaVey and her husband Nikolas Schreck, agreed to appear with Pastor (more. . .)
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Posted on October 20th, 2009 by jimstillman
A neighborhood success in North Tampa, Marchello’s is a treat
It is only fitting that Marchello’s Pizzeria and Restaurant, at the corner of North Dale Mabry and Van Dyke Road, is in the same strip center as the gym to which Joan and I had belonged and had visited nearly every day before I fell and fractured my kneecap.. Our first visit to this restaurant was just after they had (more. . .)
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Posted on October 20th, 2009 by jimstillman
The search for the best breakfast continues.
I think my favorite meal of the day, whenever I’m away from home or when I feel like treating myself to an inexpensive but luxurious meal is breakfast. There are in Tampa a number of places that serve elegant brunches; Oystercatchers springs to mind. But that is for, on my budget, a very special occasion.
I had been urged by my granddaughter, Jessica, (more. . .)
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Posted on October 20th, 2009 by cheryl
On October 17 The Spike TV’s Scream 2009 Awards were held and some of our favourite vampires took home the big prizes. The awards show honors the best in sci-fi, horror, fantasy and comic-inspired movies and TV shows.
The star-studded event is scheduled to air as a two-hour special on Spike TV on October 27.
The winners were as follows:
Best Horror Movie – Drag Me to Hell
Best (more. . .)
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Posted on October 19th, 2009 by brunodante
UK | 2009 | Directed by Duncan Jones
Logline: A harvesting contractor who is working alone on the moon, and keen to return to his wife and baby daughter, is badly injured, so the earth-based company tries to rectify the situation, but a glitch has occurred with alarming results.
Moon joins the ranks of District 9; an intelligent, superbly made movie set in a (more. . .)
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Posted on October 18th, 2009 by cheryl
Archaeologists have found a cellar in the town of Pécs in southern Hungary, believed to have belonged to Wallachian Duke Vlad III, more commonly known as Vlad the Impaler or Dracula.
Tamás Fedeles, a tutor of medieval and early modern history at Pécs University said his research showed that Vlad III Tepes lived in a two-story town house on what is now the city’s central square.
Wallachia, which is (more. . .)
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Posted on October 16th, 2009 by jimstillman
Those familiar with my restaurant comments are aware of several basics. I truly love Italian food, am a sucker for a bowl of pasta and personally prefer a small independent “Mom and Pop” establishment over a chain, the latter often scaling down taste and variety in order to appeal to a larger number of patrons. Apparently, no one has bothered to tell that to the corporate owners of the (more. . .)
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Posted on October 16th, 2009 by jimstillman
Let me tell you about a Republican whose positions are diametrically opposed to those in which I believe. For example, my subject
has been a military prosecutor and has little sympathy for persons accused of a crime and, indeed, often considers accusation and conviction as a unit;
is a proponent of the death penalty and limits on appeals by convicted criminals;
has voted for and advocated wiretaps without prior judicial (more. . .)
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Posted on October 15th, 2009 by kristinw
Nightmare disorder occurs when a person has an anxiety attack in his or her sleep. This happens mostly to children, but it can affect adults as well, especially victims of trauma. The onset of these nightmares usually occurs before the age of 20, which accounts for more than 2/3 of cases. When the onset is during childhood, many children will outgrow the disorder. However, when the onset is after the (more. . .)
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Posted on October 15th, 2009 by janee
Left out of superannuation discussions almost entirely are the dwindling accounts of the nation’s casual workers. This group, while being almost entirely ignored when it comes to the subject of superannuation, is far from insignificant. Even modest estimates claim casual workers represent more than a quarter of the entire workforce.
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Posted on October 14th, 2009 by brunodante
USA | 1982 | Directed by John Carpenter
Logline: A scientific research station in the Antarctic is infiltrated by a xenomorphic alien life-form that steadily consumes and imitates each member.
John Carpenter’s brilliant remake of Howard Hawk’s B-movie The Thing From Another World (1951) is without a doubt one of the greatest modern horrors ever made. Up with Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Day of the Dead, (more. . .)
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Posted on October 13th, 2009 by natalina
This week in Extraordinary News!
Yeaaahhh, I know. I know. The news has been neglected y’all. My bad. But I’m back on track now! And as for the major stories that you’ve likely been reading everywhere else… I’m gonna skip them. I like my news to be like my undies… FRESH! *groan*
Hypno Kitty…closet corpse…sorry blasphemers!…something in the Ayr…robomonkey…crying Mary…junkfood violence…dyed donkeys…glowing shrooms…frozen head fiasco
This Week’s Extraordinary Top (more. . .)
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Posted on October 12th, 2009 by cheryl
It’s almost that time of year again where the dead rise and walk amongst us.
Here are some videos and links for costumes to help you achieve the perfect look. We all want to look our vampy best don’t we? There will be makeup tips, a how-to for applying realistic fangs and bite marks.
First, here is an instructional video on some pretty extreme female vamp face. It’s worth (more. . .)
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Posted on October 11th, 2009 by jimstillman
But they cannot be totally ignored!
If I have, finally, learned anything by writing political blogs it is that it is impossible to engage in rational discussions with those on the rabid right fringe. Fortunately, all the evidence seems to point to the impotency of their rants. Glenn and Rush and the stalwarts at Fox News spew irrational and inconsistent garbage, but garner only a miniscule proportion of voters and (more. . .)
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Filed under: Cultures and Lifestyles, Politics, health care reform
Posted on October 8th, 2009 by jimstillman
Formaggio’s in Lithia, a disappointment
Very often, The Lovely Joan [TLJ] and I will pass a sign advising that a new restaurant will be arriving in the neighborhood or we hear of a restaurant that sounds like it might be interesting. On many occasions, we plan on trying the place out but, due to the high mortality rate among new businesses, especially restaurants, the establishment closes before we have (more. . .)
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Posted on October 7th, 2009 by janee
The statistics may have caught many senior economists by surprise, many of whom had predicted total employment to decline by 10,000 in September, but it means little to those who have found themselves out on the scrap heap and into the long haul of searching for work
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Filed under: Politics
Posted on October 6th, 2009 by jimstillman
Tampa is the site of two large major universities, one public, the University of South Florida, the other private, the University of Tampa. The latter school prides itself for having undergraduate students from over 100 foreign countries; USF, one of the largest public universities in Florida, has well over 1600 students and research scholars from nearly 150 foreign countries. It is not surprising; therefore, that Tampa has a plethora (more. . .)
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Posted on October 5th, 2009 by jimstillman
I have become reconciled that some on the far right fringe have lost all sense of reality. I realize that many are addicted to Fox News and its prime time assemblage of provocateurs. The addiction has cause otherwise (I assume) rational human beings to, as one contributor to Orble continues to do, refer to President Barack Obama as “B.O. (B.S.)” on the ground that the president was alleged to have (more. . .)
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