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What I'm Noodling:
In No Particular Order:
--I got this new lemon toothpaste. It's gross and tastes like I should be polishing furniture with it.
--I could live to be 200 years old and still not understand Eraserhead.
--Yule is coming soon and I have a ton of baking to do. This year, 2 cookies, 2 breads, and 2 kinds of granola.
--Night of the Living Dead is the best horror movie ever made in America.
--Cashews are the most expensive nut.
--I wrote 2K today. I needed to after scraping my previous ending to Kitten Claws.
--Tod Browning is an utter genius.
--I'm going to start submitting short stories to get published. I'm sick of not being published.
--A total stranger complimented my ring today.
And Now, Here's the Friday Five:
1. If you could, would you be a movie star or a rock star? Which one, and why?
Probably a movie star since I don't play an instrument. I do have a good voice though.
2. Have you ever been in the media (TV, radio, papers)?
Yes, I've written for radio and print, and have done lots of radio, I've been on TV a few times (regular and smallish cable), oddly, I don't think my pic has ever been run in the paper. It will be soon though, because I'm doing engagement announcements.
3. Do you know anyone who's been on a reality TV show?
Yes. I went to high school with Andre from the first The Real World.
4. Have you ever met anyone famous?
Yes. Davy Jones, Rosa Parks, Jesse Jackson, Gil Hill, Timo Kurvi, Lloyd Kaufmann, Evan Dorkin, I think that's it.
5. Who would play you in a movie?
Camryn Manheim or Kathy Bates. Or me.
and last but not least,
'Zombie Chickens' Causing Debate Over Fate of Older Chickens in California
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
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PETALUMA, Calif. — In this rich agricultural region of Northern California, ranchers have been turning chickens too old to lay eggs into compost at a rate of a half-million hens a year.
But some chickens not properly euthanized have been seen crawling out of the compost piles, earning them the name "zombie chickens" — and hatching a debate over what else might be done with them and other "spent hens."
A food bank proposed making sausage to feed the poor. A reptile enthusiast suggested using them as food for large exotic pets like pythons and alligators. And an industry group said in the future they could be used as fuel for power plants.
But for now, according to egg farmers in Sonoma County, composting is the only affordable option. The last California rendering plant stopped taking the hens in May.
"If there was something that could be done, it would be done," said Petaluma egg farmer Arnie Reibli.
The egg-laying birds have only a pound of usable meat, compared to the 5-pound chickens typically raised for eating. Slaughtering the chickens, even to transport them unprocessed and frozen whole, would likely cost more than composting them, Reibli said.
"Unfortunately, it's less expensive to go out and buy the birds than process them," said David Goodman, executive director of the Redwood Empire Food Bank in Santa Rosa, which had considered the sausage-making plan.
To kill the chickens, farmers suffocate them in sealed boxes filled with carbon dioxide, a practice that has drawn the ire of animal rights groups. Afterward, the hens are layered in mounds of sawdust.
A new European technology that turns dead cows into fuel to generate electricity — and that could be the fate of spent hens someday, said Rich Matteis, head of the Pacific Egg and Poultry Association.
But "that's not something that's going to be available anytime soon," he said.
That's right, I said Zombie Chickens!!!
--I got this new lemon toothpaste. It's gross and tastes like I should be polishing furniture with it.
--I could live to be 200 years old and still not understand Eraserhead.
--Yule is coming soon and I have a ton of baking to do. This year, 2 cookies, 2 breads, and 2 kinds of granola.
--Night of the Living Dead is the best horror movie ever made in America.
--Cashews are the most expensive nut.
--I wrote 2K today. I needed to after scraping my previous ending to Kitten Claws.
--Tod Browning is an utter genius.
--I'm going to start submitting short stories to get published. I'm sick of not being published.
--A total stranger complimented my ring today.
And Now, Here's the Friday Five:
1. If you could, would you be a movie star or a rock star? Which one, and why?
Probably a movie star since I don't play an instrument. I do have a good voice though.
2. Have you ever been in the media (TV, radio, papers)?
Yes, I've written for radio and print, and have done lots of radio, I've been on TV a few times (regular and smallish cable), oddly, I don't think my pic has ever been run in the paper. It will be soon though, because I'm doing engagement announcements.
3. Do you know anyone who's been on a reality TV show?
Yes. I went to high school with Andre from the first The Real World.
4. Have you ever met anyone famous?
Yes. Davy Jones, Rosa Parks, Jesse Jackson, Gil Hill, Timo Kurvi, Lloyd Kaufmann, Evan Dorkin, I think that's it.
5. Who would play you in a movie?
Camryn Manheim or Kathy Bates. Or me.
and last but not least,
'Zombie Chickens' Causing Debate Over Fate of Older Chickens in California
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
E-MAIL STORY
PRINTER FRIENDLY VERSION
PETALUMA, Calif. — In this rich agricultural region of Northern California, ranchers have been turning chickens too old to lay eggs into compost at a rate of a half-million hens a year.
But some chickens not properly euthanized have been seen crawling out of the compost piles, earning them the name "zombie chickens" — and hatching a debate over what else might be done with them and other "spent hens."
A food bank proposed making sausage to feed the poor. A reptile enthusiast suggested using them as food for large exotic pets like pythons and alligators. And an industry group said in the future they could be used as fuel for power plants.
But for now, according to egg farmers in Sonoma County, composting is the only affordable option. The last California rendering plant stopped taking the hens in May.
"If there was something that could be done, it would be done," said Petaluma egg farmer Arnie Reibli.
The egg-laying birds have only a pound of usable meat, compared to the 5-pound chickens typically raised for eating. Slaughtering the chickens, even to transport them unprocessed and frozen whole, would likely cost more than composting them, Reibli said.
"Unfortunately, it's less expensive to go out and buy the birds than process them," said David Goodman, executive director of the Redwood Empire Food Bank in Santa Rosa, which had considered the sausage-making plan.
To kill the chickens, farmers suffocate them in sealed boxes filled with carbon dioxide, a practice that has drawn the ire of animal rights groups. Afterward, the hens are layered in mounds of sawdust.
A new European technology that turns dead cows into fuel to generate electricity — and that could be the fate of spent hens someday, said Rich Matteis, head of the Pacific Egg and Poultry Association.
But "that's not something that's going to be available anytime soon," he said.
That's right, I said Zombie Chickens!!!
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And Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the best American horror film. Everyone knows that. Even those who choose not to admit it.
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But It lacks the underlying commentary that makes NotLD not just a horror classic, but a powerful statement about conformity, McCarthyism, and why cellars are deathtraps.
Myself, I take issue with the Ed Gein tie in to TCM when that link is spurious at best. Of course, this is more the fault of marketing. In all frankness, my favorite Tobe Hooper movie is 'Salem's Lot.
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As for the Gein factor, that should no more be held against TCM than Rex Reed's infamously inaccurate review. While marketing may've milked the "true story" element, the Gein association is more a product of authors, historians and the general public.
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It also demonstrates why so few people in wheelchairs appear in horror films. They just can't partake in the gripping chase scenes we've come to love. ;-] And yeah, between TCM and the Hitcher, I can't imagine I'd ever pick up a hitchhiker ever. And House of 1KC reminds us of this yet again.
I just can't think of anythign more frightening than the undead rising to eat us. I mean, Leatherface is a badass, but he's still basically just a man.
Ironically, Norman Bates (another fave of mine) is closer to the Gein story than Leatherface, as is Buffalo Bill as he was written in the Thomas Harris novel. Most accurate though, would be the Raisback pic from a few years ago that is now called By the Light of the Moon.
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If not, there's always that News Guy from WAAM.
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I see your point about NoLD, but I vote for Alien or The Exorcist as my favorite (and therefore best ; ) horror movie.
Totally agree on Tod Browning, though. : )
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And actually, my favorite allaround horror movie? The original The Haunting.
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We went to Kimball HS in Royal Oak.
We were in Fiddler on the Roof together, in fact.
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Hi there...
Here's a link to the entry if your interested in a quick refresher...http://red-apples.livejournal.com/91481.html
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Re: Hi there...
Happy to be on board! =)
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Freelance stuff
:)
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Always good to have another source.
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I hear that.