Free for All Friday 12
This Friday, let us be as free as the weather here in the Heart of Dixie. It was lushly low 70s and breezy yesterday. Today it’s dark and stormy and raining and getting colder and we’re supposed to have some heavy thunderstorms with something like 60 mph winds. Then, when those are over, we might get snow! Who knows what we will have become by Monday.
Double super bonus points for digging and naming the secret references.
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Marry, sir: Bacon stupidity. Mike J. Nelson, of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax fame has spent the entire month of February eating nothing but bacon.
Now for the fine print: “Bacon” shall hereafter refer to the cured and smoked fatty cuts of pork, either back, side or belly. In other words “American bacon”. No “Canadian bacon”, which is really just lunchmeat. No pork chops. No turkey bacon. No “tofacon” or any such horror. Just bacon.
No condiments allowed. No syrups, or hot sauces, or pureed vegetables in the form of ketchup. No sauces at all. Just nature’s finest bacon, all by its dignified self.
I am making allowances for the following beverages: beer, wine, martinis and water. No juices, no V8, nothing that could be construed as “healthy”. This is somewhat arbitrary, I grant you, but one bit of madness at a time, is my reasoning.
Discussion questions:
- Do you think the martinis have olives? Do you suppose he eats them or are they just for looks?
- For those of you who are Joel fans, and not generally inclined to enjoy Mike, does this help you have more respect for him?
- What food would you eat exclusively for a whole month?
- Moreover, everybody say “Hiiiii, Kira!” Y’all, if you get the opportunity to hang out with Kira, do so. It is awesome.
- Secondarily, 1001 things to do with bacon. What? Like you can ever have too much bacon? That’s just crazy talk.
- Sixth and lastly, EA and Spicy Horse are making a sequel to American McGee’s Alice, one of the most fun shooters ever. They’ve been claiming it will become a movie for awhile now, too (with Sarah Michelle Gellar as Alice), but I’m not sure that will ever happen.
- Thirdly, Alan Tudyk will play Alpha in Whedon’s Dollhouse. Subsequent rumors for which I don’t have links have led me to believe that this might be a one-shot. Which would suck. But it’s better than a no-shot. Am I right? Did I mention you all need to watch Dollhouse so that I can see Alan Tudyk? I love him. I’m counting on you. I have no problem hunting you down to personally, actively count on you so as to prove my love. Thanks!
Also, I really wish I were able to actually link to the news page there at Alan Tudyk Dot Net. What is up with that? Are they using frames!?
- And, to conclude: Primroses (Primula acaulis) grow in Alabama, or so several websites tell me. I am in search of the name of a big flowering bush/shrub that grows in the parks along Highland Avenue. I start to bloom about two weeks before the Forsythias did. It’s tall, but wide and sort of rounded. It has little white flowers, slightly rounded, with pretty little pistils sticking out. The leaves are slightly rounded, too. Most importantly: THEY SMELL LIKE FROOT LOOPS. I AM NOT KIDDING. Are these just some huge-ass primroses or is it something else?
From what I’ve seen, it looks like Tudyk/Alpha will be a one shot. Apparently, (spoiler)we’re not supposed to actually meet him until the final episode of the season. If that’s the case, it’s just another bowling ball Whedon has dropped on his foot with this thing. Seriously, his toes must look a mess at this point.
It’s like I keep hearing that from episode 6 on, the show gets really good. Here’s Eliza Dushku saying it again. “…six through 13 are just extraordinary.” Really? They are just realizing that now. Logic kind of dictates that this means they now think one through five are something less than extraordinary. So, why wasn’t something done about that before they shot five lesser episodes? Because, really, counting on the fickle TV audience to hang around through your five iffy episodes to get to the good stuff is a stunningly bad plan.
It’s also interesting, if you read the AV Club interview, that she’s already setting the stage for blaming the network for the show’s failure.
Comment by doc on February 27, 2009 at 10:40 am
Dang, tried to hide the spoilery bit with a font tag, but it appears etc. doesn’t cotton to that manner of html shenanigans.
Comment by doc on February 27, 2009 at 10:42 am
Free for all!
I started rereading it Monday.
And can’t you just get your Alan Tudyk fix from those DishTV commercials?
Comment by skillzy on February 27, 2009 at 11:33 am
Man now I want bacon more than I normally want bacon. While I prefer Joel to Mike as the host of MST3K I’ve always had hella respect for Mike and I enjoy his tomfooleries. RiffTrax, for instance, is filthy fucking genius. I wish they could get Joel in on that mad action, too. That would rule.
Comment by Apollo on February 27, 2009 at 11:50 am
I’m completely revised about spoilers regarding Alan Tudyk at this point in my life. The more info, the fewer hysterics!
It’s also interesting, if you read the AV Club interview, that she’s already setting the stage for blaming the network for the show’s failure.
It’s just so lame and disappointing.
Comment by Sarah, etc. on February 27, 2009 at 1:51 pm
WHERE CAN I SEE THESE COMMERCIALS?
How is the reread coming? How long has it been?
Comment by Sarah, etc. on February 27, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Go get you some bacon. I’m also going to appropriate your modifier “filthy fucking” as in “filthy fucking genius” because Christopher refuses to believe that Mike could even hold a candle to Joel and I think it’s causing him some emotional trauma. He needs a bacon bloody mary and some rifftrax.
Comment by Sarah, etc. on February 27, 2009 at 1:53 pm
I’m less than a quarter into it, it’s a huge book! Last read it in 1979.
Comment by skillzy on February 27, 2009 at 1:58 pm
I bought it to read late last year but haven’t gotten to it yet. Funny, I should have read it long before now given my political and philosophical leanings. Looking forward to it though.
Comment by Shadowhelm on February 27, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Hmmmm… maybe that could be what I picked as my bookclub book for next month. Somehow I think they’d kill me, though.
Comment by Ladyglutter on February 27, 2009 at 5:45 pm
I’d say “Hi Kira” but I live with her.
I would eat Willy’s tofu burrito’s every day for a month. Maybe if I did that, I would stop craving them all the damn time. (I seriously think I’m going to have to get a job there just to learn the tofu marinade secret recipe.)
Kira and I have been so flip flopped on our schedules this week that we still haven’t watched episode two. I am a terrible fangirl. On the upside, I’ll get to watch two episodes in a row when we do get around to it.
On an aside, have you read any sci-fi by Alistair Reynolds? It’s good stuff. I’m not even 50 pages in to Revelation Space, for that matter, and I’ve already got six words that I don’t know underlined.
Comment by Poptart on February 27, 2009 at 6:01 pm
And then they’d love you! It’s large, yeah, but IMPORTANT.
Comment by Sarah, etc. on February 27, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Google says that yellow primroses can smell like fruit loops (and it would be theoretically possible - I think - for their white cousins to smell the same), there is also a type of magnolia (the Judy Zuk) which is supposed to smell like fruit loops - but those are yellow too, there is another flower called White Rhino with the same reported smell (but it doesn’t look to me like what you’re describing, also it sounds a bit exotic. =P), last but not least we have the Sinningia tubiflora (again with the not really looking correct and being potentially too exotic). I didn’t check to see if any of them grow in Alabama.
On a whim, I also looked up honey suckle, and winter honey suckle (Lonicera fragrantissima) apparently blooms in Jan/Feb (depending on the weather/location) and smells to some people like fruit loops.
That is all I’ve been able to glean from google… Good luck on your search. ^_^
Also, there is not a single food I can think of that I would willingly eat exclusively for a month. I’ve been known to eat an orange (or two, and sometimes three) every day for months, but not exclusively!
Comment by Kira on March 2, 2009 at 12:01 am
Has no one mentioned the references?
I loved Michael Keaton as Dogberry in the Kenneth Branagh movie. I also enjoyed your appropriation of his adverbial introductions.
Were there more references?
Comment by Philosaur on March 2, 2009 at 8:22 am
You’re the winner, Philosaur! What would you like as a prize?
I love the pretty much every part of that movie. Even Denzel Washington, who I find really really really hard to like.
Comment by Sarah, etc. on March 2, 2009 at 8:56 am
I’m pretty sure it is. It’s just so much bigger than the ones Google has shown me.
Comment by Sarah, etc. on March 2, 2009 at 8:57 am
So awesome! Words!
Comment by Sarah, etc. on March 2, 2009 at 8:57 am
I love Alistair Reynolds’ books!
Comment by marciepooh on March 2, 2009 at 10:52 am
I’m guessing the snow has melted to the point that a snow monument to my greatness is out of the question.
How about you make and consume a bacon-vodka bloody mary for me?
Comment by Philosaur on March 2, 2009 at 12:23 pm
At this point, yes, no snow monument. Sorry! I wish I’d known yesterday.
So I’ll go with bacon-vodka bloody mary. It’ll take some time, I think, to achieve bacon vodka. I’ll try to chronicle the process. Woo!
Comment by Sarah, etc. on March 2, 2009 at 1:17 pm
I have a morbid curiosity about what bacon looks like after sitting in vodka for two weeks. Get photographic evidence, if you can.
Comment by Philosaur on March 3, 2009 at 7:36 am