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[wednes]

In Consumer Product Watch news, it is the holiday season. And that means the return of many of our favorite seasonal items.
McDonalds brings back egg nog flavored partially gelatinized non-dairy gum based beverage. Mmmmm...
Canada Dry (eh) brings back Cranberry Ginger Ale, which is a Wednes fave. Delicious, sparkly, and totally free of that mind scrambling drug: caffienne.
Terry's Chocolate Orange can be found many places where it usually is not.
What, pray tell, is your favorite seasonal, wintertime product?

And here's another Consumer Product Watch question for you. Why do people, why does anyone, why do I...own a copy of A Christmas Story when it is literally played upwards of 30 times (12 of which being right in a row) during the holiday season? Answer: I don't know.

Undead. So bad, it's good? Or just kinda bad? Only being about halfway through ti, I haven't decided. But the fact that I'm posting while it's on is not a good sign. Lots of blood though. Me likee the blood. Hitting many of the main zombie plot points: farm houses; meteors; pickup trucks; brain eating; gunfire; acid rain; pregnant chicks; basements; looting; and of course, useless, panicking women. The fx were pretty funny, looks like somebody got Final Cut Pro for their birthday. It was very "student film".

After watching King Kong (1933) with the esteemed lickingtoad, I began my holiday baking with a double batch of banana bread with splenda, walnuts, and raisins. I got a new pan this year that does six bakery sized muffins instead of those little cupcake ones. So far, so good. Tomorrow will be butterscotch oatmeal cookies. Mmmmmm.

By the by, does anyone know if Aeon Flux sucks as badly as Rotten Tomatoes says?

Comments

[jere7my.livejournal.com]

What, pray tell, is your favorite seasonal, wintertime product?

Right now, Hershey's mint kisses. Ooh lordy.

[brettsyboy.livejournal.com]

so im not the only one!

[kindofblue328.livejournal.com]

A Christmas Story rocks and must be bought for times like Christmas in July or any other time of the year, when for some odd reason people like myself must see such ridiculousness. Plus, I like the DVD's where are they now extras, hahahah

My favorite seasonal product is probably Silk Nog... I am a sucker for non-edible things though, like Christmas trees lit in chaser lights and musical rum pum pum pums...all the noise, noise, noise...I love it! I love the childish aspect to holidays, but I hate what adults do to it, ya know?

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I try not to be too commercial about Christmas. A lot of homeade gifts and such. But I also love saving up to give special gifts to some people. H is getting a lot of cool stuff, which he totally deserves.

[stranger-tales.livejournal.com]

I saw A Christmas Story at the theater. I have watched TNT's 24hr A Christmas Story marathon every year since they started airing it. And that means leaving it on from the second it starts til the end credits roll on the last presentation. I also own the Special Edition DVD so I can watch it whenever the hell I take a notion to. It comes in handy for screencaps as well.

Do you remember the first couple years or so of the marathon? Specifically the promos and spots they ran during commercial breaks and such? The old "Raaaaaalphie!" and "Twelve Times. Twelve Times. Twelve Tiiiiimes." bits? They don't do those anymore or at least they haven't for the last two or three years. I really miss them too.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I do indeed remember the old TV trailers. Some hilarious shit. I have the clamshell case DVD of that movie, and bust it out in the summertime.
Although I am just as likely to watch Miracle on 34th Street or even It's a Wonderful Life. Both of those movies have their wonderfully weepy moments.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Actually, I mistyped that. I have the clamshell VHS of it.

[yshaloo]

What, pray tell, is your favorite seasonal, wintertime product?

graeter's cinnamon ice cream *rolls eyes and drools*

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Oh, good call.

[groovesinorbit]

I believe the chocolate orange would have to be at the top of my list.
Mmmm ...

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I do see these around all year; but around xmas they are everywhere!!

[rivetkitten.livejournal.com]

Flavored candy canes are probably somewhere near the top of my list. Egg nog, definitely- non-spiked, though. (One more year!) And something that always reminds me of Christmas, because of family tradition, is tangerines. Yummeh.

My family's big on the whole traditional aspect, but family traditions rather than societal traditions. I doubt many other families have a Nerf disk shooter fight on Christmas morning, complete with not enough ammo to go around. :D

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I also prefer my nog non-boozy.

[madush69.livejournal.com]

I love the egg nog they carry in the dairy section at Kroger...although it is so thick and creamy that I have to thin it a bit with some milk.
I also love those little hard candy things that are supposed to be like raspberries.

A guy I work with liked Aeon Flux. I didn't want to risk seeing it until it's free.

[skryche.livejournal.com]

I will not have a word said against McDonald milkshakes. They are delicious. I wish they were entirely synthetic. Sadly, they do contain dairy products.

Metacritic seems to think Aeon Flux is pretty dire. I'd love to see the original cartoons, though.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

The cartoons are great. She dies in every ep of the second season. H is getting the set for Xmas.

I worked at McD's for many moons, so I have drunk many a shake. I love the pina colada myself!!

[thehula.livejournal.com]

And here's another Consumer Product Watch question for you. Why do people, why does anyone, why do I...own a copy of A Christmas Story when it is literally played upwards of 30 times (12 of which being right in a row) during the holiday season?

Because if you didn't have your own copy you wouldn't be able to watch it IN JULY and also, you couldn't put it in the freezer and dare people to stick their tongues to it!

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Hahahahaa!

I do watch Xmas movies in the summer.

[sleazeanna.livejournal.com]

I saw A Christmas Story in the theatre when I was little, and it scared me. At the time, I guess I was too young to see the humor or something. I was scared when he got his tongue stuck to the pole, and also when they saw Santa...

Have you ever seen "Redneck Zombies?" I think that's what it's called...I saw part of it years ago, and it was a pretty messed-up flick, and no-budget. But I never saw the whole thing. But I don't think it was very good, just disturbing. Not that that's bad. I just remember people tripping on acid and eating people or something.

Hooray for Hershey's mint kisses. mmmmm.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Oh man...Redneck Zombies?!? That's right up there with Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things. I have seen both, and they both have their plusses and minuses...mostly minuses. ;0}

With very few exceptions*, as far as zombie movies go: if it aint Romero, it might as well be Italian.

*Shaun of the Dead, 28 Days Later, Pet Sematary, Serpent & the Rainbow, and the remake of Dawn.

[anathon.livejournal.com]

Have to agree with teh cran ginger ale. That stuff is awesome.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I'm always so bummed when I go to get more and the store is out. I sigh and remember that I have to wait until next year.

[spun-lepton.livejournal.com]

Well, the reason the effects in Undead look like they were done on a home computer is because they WERE done on a set of home computers. The directors did all the special effects themselves. Given that fact, I would say the special effects look absolutely astonishing. The movie's budget was pretty miniscule, too.

I thought it was goofy enough to enjoy. It didn't knock me over, but it was entertaining enough.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Are you familiar with Final Cut Pro? Once you learn the program basics, I am told it's pretty easy to do cool looking fx.

The plot was more original than I expected, and there were plenty of things to like. But I was yanked out of the movie so many times that it was hard to enjoy the mood. Plus the zombies had a kind of cartoonish quality to them. And if I'm not afraid of the zombies, then they are not very scary.

[near-dark.livejournal.com]

Undead was pretty solid up until the ending.

It wasn't a High Tension type of ending but it was still pretty fucking stupid.

And I own A Christmas Story on VHS AND DVD. My sister owns her own copy, as does my mom.

And I'll go with flavored candy canes.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just got a set of cherry canes to put with the packages I'm mailing this year.

I didn't mind the end of High Tension. I just decided that the movie changed genres from a slasher to a farce at that point. I found it most amusing.