Evil Turducken

I have a friend on Facebook, Wheezy, who I like to accuse of inventing every weird food that I come across---it is her own fault really; after all, she posts pictures of food porn.

(Food porn is not as bad as it sounds---it is not like she is posting pictures of bacon wrapped deep fried twinkles...hmmm, I wonder if there is such a thing.)

Anyways, on Supernatural last week (7x09), Dean Winchester discovered an new favorite food---the Pepper Jack Turducken Slammer sandwich.

Given the time of year, it is just a few days until Thanksgiving; we have all came across Turducken mania, which I guess is the new favorite holiday meal of choice for some people. Basically a Turducken is a chicken stuffed into a duck stuffed into a turkey---or as Dean Winchester put it, "perfect storm of your top three eatable birds."

I will admit when I first heard of it, I react much like Bobby Singer does in the espisode, thinking that it sounded a little unnatural. I have yet to try one...and obviously with good reason.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! If you disappear, I am going to blame the Turducken.

And for the morbidly curious, Wheezy did find something more alarming on the internet---a recipe for a whole stuffed camel.

Spock learns to play a game

Even Spock (Zachary Quinto) learns something new every day. In this case, he learns to play Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock game, a rather nerdish game that is played by the nerds on "The Big Bang Theory."

Townish Fantasies

Last night, I was watching the first episode of The Secret Circle. The show seems to be another teen-angst clone along the lines of The Vampire Diaries. But that is not what I want to talk about.

What I want to talk about is the use of a small town.

Why is it that so many television shows have the supernatural showing up in small towns?

A short list of suspects:

Smallville (ok, it was mainly superheroes and supervillians, but there was some magic also)
Supernatural
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Vampire Diaries
True Blood (if I am not mistaken---I am guilty of not paying much attention to that show)
Roswell (ok, aliens, but it fits the theory I am about to expound upon)

I am quite sure that I missed some. Compare these shows with series that have the supernatural and unusual happening in big cities.

Another list:

New Amsterdam
Highlander the Series
Forever Knight
Moonlight
Angel

(I am not sure if Charmed happened in a small town or city.)

So from this information, we can make a guess. If you are a teenager and stumble across a secret that humanity is not meant to know, odds are that you are living in a small town where everyone knows everyone. And if you are an adult who just figured out that vampires and immortals are real, then odds are that you are living in a big city.

I am quite sure that there is a deeper literary theory to this...but I will be damned if I am going to come up with it given the fuzzy state of my mind tonight.

Is is just me? Doctor Who filler vs core arc stories

Last night, I watched the Doctor Who episodes Night Terrors and The Girl Who Waited. Maybe it is just me, but I think that the random filler stories are more entertaining than the episodes of the core story arc (Doctor's Death/River Song). But then again, I am an old fashioned type of Whovian.

Previous to the modern era (in my opinion), Doctor Who did long story arcs much better. Or at least, they were more entertaining.

I found Let's Kill Hitler pretty lame in places. I was not fooled for a second by the whole Mel ploy. The instant I saw the red car, I knew it was stolen and that there was only one person who regularly helps herself to other people's stuff in this particular season (Series 6 or 32 depending on how you want to count it).

Even the most under-rated long story arc of the previous era, Trial of a Time Lord, was more interesting. But that may just be me. After all, I am a Colin Baker fan.

(Note that I like Matt Smith; it is just that I can't help but compare the current episodes to Trial of a Time Lord which was the first long arc Doctor Who story I ever saw.)

Dont Blink Cat (Doctor Who)

Don't blink, don't look away from it, or the cat will get you.

MafiaWars has a TARDIS

Here is something that I stumbled across in MafiaWars (one of those silly Facebook games that I occasionally play)---a TARDIS. Ok, it is not a TARDIS; it is a chronobooth. It can be found in the Time Travel mystery crates. It is a rare (not sure what category it is in) with 109 attack and 133 defense. Gee, a chronobooth almost looks exactly like a TARDIS, doesn't it?

No clue what it all went wrong

Believe it or not, this picture originally started out as a picture of Sarah Palin for my ongoing Magic the Gathering NOT series. And it drifted away from the original concept to being...this.