America is Like the Movies?

If a half hour is too long for you, you can get the core idea from the woman at 23:24.

All people generally know about a place is what the media tells them. For years I've encountered the negative side of this as I've had English people on the internet telling me how Americans are all rednecks and it's a country of uncontrolled, non-stop crime. And so finding there's a flipside to that coin - the idea that movies have imbued the country with a feeling of magic - is pretty cathartic.

The Forecast Today

Pretty much everywhere it's gonna be hot.

E-HEH-HEH-HEH-HEH-HEH!

Popcorn in Bed - The Insider

It seems to me that "The Insider" is an underrated classic.

There's an interesting phenomenon here They say the movie makes them question the government and the News stories they're told, etc. - that's all well and good - but they believe the movie implicitly. Why is one form of storytelling more trustworthy than the other?

Happy 40th Anniversary of Hell Track Day

America's 250th Anniversary isn't the biggest and most important anniversary this year. 

Today (June 26) is the 40th Anniversary of Hell Track. For the background on that, see here.

I'm just assuming here that the year of Hell Track is the year that "Rad" came out. Given that the movie came out in March 1986, and if we assume the events of the movie didn't occur after the movie was released, that would place the first Hell Track Day in 1985, making this post 1 year late and thus, quite lame.

We still don't have a proper tradition for celebrating Hell Track Day. 

This sucks.

How the Lighsaber Sounds Were Made

Rating Foods from Buc-ee's

I've been going through the "World Cup Fans experience America" content and, for whatever reason, the #1 one thing people seem to be focusing on is Buc-ee's.

I have no opinion on the matter - I have never been to Buc-ee's in my life, though I have had one of their snacks: the Famous Beaver Nuggets.

In this video, Babish rates a variety of Buc-ee's offerings, and though the video is 47 minutes long and the title says "eating everything at...", he gets to less than 1 percent of the total number of foods available. Buc-ee's seems to be a wonderland of odd/unique food creations.