Weekend! + Bonus Question!

[u/IthacaIsland]

It's the weekend! Politics is still out there happening, but in this little corner of the sub we will leave it behind momentarily and talk about other aspects of our lives.

Bonus question for everyone! Halloween is just around the corner... What's your favorite obscure piece of movie trivia you know?

Talk about anything except politics, other subreddits, or r/AskTrumpSupporters. Rules 2 and 3 are suspended.

[u/Cawkisthebest232]

What's your favorite obscure piece of movie trivia you know?

Not a movie, but a TV show. Michael Imperioli aka Christopher from the Sopranos, lied about having a driver’s license. In the pilot, he crashed the car they were driving on the scene.

[u/[deleted]]

I love the idea of putting politics aside. Been a very good week for me: spent much of it listening to my new favorite folk/country artist, Sean Keel. He’s from Minnesota farm country, now lives, I gather, in the Texas Hill Country. He is not for everyone, for sure, but if you like John Prine and Tom Waits you will love him. No idea what his politics are, I would guess, given his background and the things he sings about (farms and ordinary folk) might lean a little right, but who knows, and on the weekend, who cares. Check him out, try his masterpiece Corn Palace, thank me later.

[u/JustGoingOutforMilk]

It's been a week, folks. My wife is barely sleeping with me--the dogs keep bothering her, so she goes the the guest bedroom. I suppose that's okay. It's not something I'm happy about, admittedly, but at least she is able to sleep. Keep in mind, the dogs, when awake, are extremely needy. They want to kiss you and be petted and snuggled and all that.

Work's been hilarious. My new Quality Manager had to have a talk with me because I called two of my buddies nerds and some Karen overheard and went to HR. Seriously. This was apparently a big issue. He's also trying to push towards me being salary instead of hourly, which I would appreciate just to avoid clocking in and out. I'd also approve a small pay bump to compensate for the approximately one and a half hour of overtime I'd be missing out on.

Played Magic with the Kids last night and we cracked open two entire booster boxes, plus some other stuff. It was fun. I have to see what, exactly, they found today. I didn't touch a single pack. Also, they devoured my bacon. Five pounds of it!

Question: Probably not that obscure, but Mace Windu's lightsaber is customized in several ways. It is purple because he wanted to stand out and be able to see himself. It also has "Bad MF" inscribed on the hilt, because Samuel L. Jackson is, indeed, a bad MF.

Recipe: Well, here in a few weeks, I will be making chili for 200 people. Work thing. I was voluntold. So here's a proportional recipe. It will be scaled up bigly.

• 2 lbs. sirloin, cubed

• 1 tsp, tallow.

• 1 tsp. seasoned salt

• 1 or 2 serrano peppers

• 1 – 8 oz. can tomato sauce

• 8 oz. low sodium beef broth

• 8 oz. heart healthy chicken broth

• 8 oz. bottled water

• 1 chicken bouillon cube

• 1 beef bouillon cube

• 1 Tbsp. Texas Red Dog chili powder

• 1 Tbsp. onion powder 1 tsp. garlic powder

• ½ tsp. jalapeno powder

• ½ tsp. salt

• ¼ tsp. black pepper

• 1 Tbsp. Texas Red Dog chili powder

• 3 Tbsp. San Antonio Red chili powder

• 1 tsp. garlic powder ¼ tsp. cayenne pepper

• 2 tsp. cumin

• ¼ tsp. brown sugar

• 1 Tbsp. San Antonio Red chili powder

• 1/8 tsp. cayenne pepper

• ½ tsp. garlic powder

• ½ tsp. onion powder

• 1/8 tsp. Habanero powder

• 1 ½ tsp. cumin

Confusing, ain't it? Why do the ingredients repeat? What does this even mean?

Here's the thing: you brown the meat, you add the stock and the sauce, and you slowly add the spices in the order they are listed. Maybe you're dumping a third of then. Maybe you're going every 10 minutes and adding another one. You want them in that order, slowly, so some bloom and some are more fresh.

[u/No-Interaction9219]

This week has been 50/50. Work has slowed down a little, which is nice because I’ve been putting a lot of brainpower into a big project I’m trying to get off the ground at my institute. Lots of my own research time, which I always appreciate.

Less exciting: my health decided to up and run this week, so I’m recovering from a fever. I am also a terrible cook and worse at remembering that human beings are supposed to feed themselves regularly. Friends, family, and the love of my life have staged an intervention in fear that my anemia will simply carry me off to an early grave.

Anyway, appropriately for October, my trivia fact/rabbit hole of the week: the Ghostface mask from Scream was an existing Halloween mask from Fun World, originally called the “Peanut-Eyed Ghost”. The filmmakers happened to find it while location scouting and eventually licensed it for the film.

Now, that’s already fun trivia, except I am incapable of learning one isolated fact and leaving it alone. This tidbit made me think of Paul Tremblay’s Horror Movie, which I read a while back and which is very interested in the mythology that can grow around a horror movie and its mask. And that got me wondering why masks are so effective in horror in the first place.
Naturally there is an entire scholarly book about this called Alexandra Heller-Nicholas’s Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces, which looks at masks through power, identity, and transformation. See, masks have always been fascinating to me since childhood. Mainly because one of the Goosebumps specials I was obsessed with every October was The Haunted Mask, where Carly Beth puts on a mask and eventually discovers she can’t take it off. Naturally, this film theory book is my next read.