July 13, 2012 – Scribblings From The Public Restroom Stalls Of The Gods

Critters

Lucky Puck

By Earl
July 13, 2012
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Happy Friday the 13th from me and Puck.

Get to shelter, this one is rated F-U!

By Earl
July 13, 2012
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Twister Actually, that bit of tornado terminology is outdated: it should be EF-U. Residents of Cloverfield need to hit the deck pronto. A bit of movie news on Variety.com has me chuckling [LINK]…

Scribe Simon Beaufoy has rewritten New Line’s found-footage tornado project while Jeremy Sumpter has been cast alongside Arlen Escarpeta, Alycia Debnam-Carey and Nathan Kress.

Steven Quale — a longtime associate of James Cameron — signed on earlier this year to direct the tornado pic (formerly titled “Category Six”) […] Shooting will start July 23 in Michigan.

Story, presented through videocameras and cellphones, centers on high schoolers who try to survive a Category 6 tornado.

A “category six tornado”? Really? Really? Hollywood, you do realize, don’t you, that you permanently filled the “severe weather horror movie with shitty science” niche years ago with Twister? There’s really no need to try to top it.

Unless, of course, you don’t realize that “category” is a term exclusive to hurricane warnings and not tornado warnings. Then I guess it’s okay.

DOOFUSNADO WARNING

While you’re insulting everyone’s intelligence, please make sure to do the gala world premiere in Tuscaloosa or Joplin. That’ll go over well there.… Read more

Should We Talk About The Weather?

Give me some steam

By Earl
July 13, 2012
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An intersting and distinctly summer-ish southern sight…

Steam

…steam rising, no, billowing up from the recently-lightly-rained-upon road. It was thicker than the picture really makes it look. Zombie hordes could’ve walked out of it and I wouldn’t have been surprised. Well, okay, I wouldn’t have been any more surprised than I’d ususally be with the sudden appearance of zombie hordes. They normally only show up on odd-numbered Mondays.… Read more

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