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Horror movies burn calories
14:27 Oct 31 2012
Times Read: 556

Study shows that more calories are burned while watching horror films









October 29, 2012



Looking to lose weight this Halloween season? You might want to try watching your favourite scary movie.



UK newspaper The Telegraph reports that a new study conducted by the University of Westminster found that 90 minutes of horror movie watching can burn up almost as many calories as a half-hour walk.



In the study, ten different people watched a variety of classic spine-tinglers and had their heart rates, oxygen intake and carbon dioxide output measured. Researchers found the amount of calories being used by the participants went up by nearly a third during the frightening films.



Study participants who watched the 1980 Stanley Kubrick classic The Shining burned an average of 184 calories. Other films that were used in the study included Jaws (161 calories), The Exorcist (158 calories), Alien (152 calories) and Saw (133 calories).



"Each of the ten films tested set pulses racing, sparking an increase in the heart rate of the case studies," says Dr. Richard Mackenzie, senior lecturer and specialist in cell metabolism and physiology at the University of Westminster.



'As the pulse quickens and blood pumps around the body faster, the body experiences a surge in adrenaline."



A number of pounds were likely shed in theatres this past weekend, as Box Office Mojo reports that 4 of the flicks in the Top 10 were horrors, ranging from the cartoonish good fun of Hotel Transylvania to survival game-based Silent Hill: Revelation and the eerie terrors of Sinister.

New York is a disaster.....
01:09 Oct 31 2012
Times Read: 567

And we have had two more earthquakes up the coast, one was 6.2, the most recent 6.6. People down here are getting their own evac packs together just in case. I'm beginning to wonder if the end is nigh after all. The people who claim to know thesew kinds of things are predicting that the "Big One" is due any day now, and will most likely make a huge mess-



I keep telling everybody- Mother Nature gets enough, she just shrugs it off- know what I mean?

Wow.
02:19 Oct 30 2012
Times Read: 577

A super storm churning in to New York. Already shit is hitting the fan there.



Snow before Halloween in many parts of the country there - I'm sure the Rat is happily pressing her nose to the window, even with the cider and rum. and BC had it's first earthquake in 50 years. And no, we didn't feel a thing. The furthest in it was felt was Metro Vancouver. So we are fine.



Maybe the Mayans were on to something.......



I guess having our annual "Who gets snowed on first" is sorta a moot point now...lol

My own version...
03:46 Oct 29 2012
Times Read: 591

Of writing a movie review.



Anybody who knows me knows I would rather watch or read horror-movies, tv, books, whatever form it breathes into, I'm all over it.



Never really been a chick flick kinda girl- what can I say.



Scott has discovered this download site, and so I get to watch stuff I am interested in, but don't really want to buy in case it turns out to be a howler- and not in a good way.



See "Sabertooth"

See "Chill"

See "Dark House"



And I could go on. I have collections (you know the type "Get 8 movies for the one low price of $8.99!!!") that I found at various places like the Wal Mart throw away bin, ones you justify to yourself that it can't be that bad, it isn't like you're paying all that much per movie, right?



Um hum.....



So Scott found this site through his brother in law Tim, and we have used it to d/l the kinds of movies that sound good on paper, and some of them actiually turn out to be pretty good.



I actually watched "The Human Cetipede" part 1 and 2, just for the pure vicarious thrill of it. It did indeed gross me out, and not in a good way-now I know, and I won't waste money on it.



But the other night, Scott was ensconced on the couch, playing "Fallout New Vegas" for the umpteenth time (but I'm a different character this time!) which left me with limited opportinities for entertaining myself. Play endless games on MSN, or watch something we had d/led.



Now, I do not go into this lightly. I do my research (thank god for Imdb.com) I read reviews, I check things out, and then I go forth and find new and exotic ways to scare myself silly.



Yes, I have watched the entire "Paranormal Activity" franchise from it's inception. I saw the first one with Diane (a friend from Westwood) and Scott.



NONE of us could sleep for the rest of the week, and we each had our own ghoulies after that.



Scott couldn't sleep with any part of himself hanging outside the covers.



Diane couldn't walk through trhe house in the dark.



And I coulnd't get past the top of the stairs on my way to bed without turning on every light along the way.



That's a good horror movie.



"Sinister" recently did it for Diane and I again.



But while perusing the long list of hackneyed movies I had in my computer, I opted for one called "Deadgirl"



Here is the blip from Imdb.com:





Top 5000



Deadgirl (2008)



101 min - Horror | Thriller



5.7



Your rating:

-/10



Ratings: 5.7/10 from 8,623 users Metascore: 36/100

Reviews: 87 user |106 critic |5 from Metacritic.com







Two high school boys discover an imprisoned woman in an abandoned mental asylum who cannot die.







Directors:

Marcel Sarmiento, Gadi Harel



Writer:

Trent Haaga



Stars:

Shiloh Fernandez, Noah Segan and Candice Accola | See full cast and crew



It's not listed in the database that I can tell, and I'm not sure if it qualifies as a vampire movie.



What I can tell you is that it gave me the worst case of the eeeewwwwssss I have had in awhile. And the funny thing is, it wasn't the special effects, or the storyline, or anything like that.



It was the sheer vulgarity of the characters, and what they did, how they acted, etc.



If you get a chance to find this one, I highly recommend it. But I will tell you this right now, if you are sqeamish, walk away, cause it isn't nice and neat, or sparkly, or Louis handsome.



It's just gross.

It never ceases to amaze me....
18:35 Oct 28 2012
Times Read: 592

British Columbia can take a legitimate teacher's strike, where they desparately need more money, smaller class sizes, and better environments to teach children, and they get forced back to work. By law created specifically to end the strike.



Yet hockey players and owners etc........



yeah- kiss this year's season goodbye- god forbid owners should be forced to live up to contracts that they signed with players in good faith, and players should have to make less per year than what the average citizen up here will make in a lifetime...



Inequity, thy name is hockey.....

Now there's a twist...
16:11 Oct 27 2012
Times Read: 603

Ah, the trials and tribulations....
03:55 Oct 25 2012
Times Read: 618

Of a working goth girl. Boss needed a quart of black paint for stuff at work, and since walmart was on my way home, I offered to pick it and several other things up for her. So off I went, and at 6 pm I hit the doors at walmart, and headed straight for the paint department.



See, at this point, I have had to make paint runs so many times, I know the way by heart, and THEY know me on sight. Not always a good thing, but whatever...chickens....



So I get back there, and true to form, there is no one around. so the next blue vested lady that headed in my general direction, I asked her to call for someone to

help me, which she was nice enough to do. She no

sooner wandered away when this chubby guy rounds the corner of the next aisle, takes one look at me, and disappears.



WTF?



So I gave him a few minutes, figuring he had to finish what he was doing, and would be right back.



After ten minutes, I went hunting for him, only to find him in the same aisle he had come barreling out of to begin with.



"Scuse me" I said in my bestest southern drawl...

"Do you work in paint?"



Uh, yeah.



"Can I get some hayelp, please?"



Um sure.



thus insued one of the funniest phone conversations I have ever heard. He calls some lady who calls him back.



"There's a lady here who need help"

!@#%^%$!

"I can't help her, she wants paint."

!&$^#@*

"No one ever showed me HOW to mix paint"

@(^@%##$%&*(

"He's in electronics"

@(*%#^()

"He's the only one there, he can't come do it"

*#^(@$+

"I don't know nothing about working in electronics either." (I could practically hear Prissy filtering through on that one)

@#$^*& WTF$^%*&*&?

"What do I do if someone wants something?"

WTFDHKIYJJF

"I just call you and you'll come help?

SIGH

"Okay, fine."



"I'll have someone over here shortly......"



So now here comes Gump #2.



"What can I get for you?"



I need a quart of interior semi gloss in black.



"What shade would that be?"



Black. It don't get any shadier than that.



"Do you want Dark Secret, Midnight star, ....."



I want BLACK. Just black. No funky names, no shades or tints, just BLACK.



"I'm not sure if I can find the formula for that."



*Are you fucking kiddin' me? SERIOUSLY???*



Take your best shot. If Dark Secret is your code name for black, so be it.



He twiddles with the computer, flips around the screen, and asks me if this is the color I want.



Is that the blackest black you got?



"Yes, Ma'am"



You go boy- hit'er and run with it.



A few minutes later, and I had my quart of Dark Secret, everybody was back in their own department, and all was right with the world......



*sigh* Please tell me WHY I went to art school.....

I just couldn't resist....
04:26 Oct 23 2012
Times Read: 625

This is what happens when you get addicted to www.cooks.com...lol





HILLBILLY SOUP





1 (1 lb., 14 oz.) can pork n' beans

1 (16 oz.) can whole kernel corn with liquid

1 lb. pkg. hot dogs, sliced 1/4 inch thick

3 med. onions

1 lb. can tomatoes

1 c. tomato catsup

2 tbsp. prepared mustard

2 c. water

Salt and pepper to taste





Combine all ingredients in large saucepan. Bring to a boil. Simmer for 1 hour and serve.

Fertility service offers celeb sperm
06:07 Oct 21 2012
Times Read: 632




Want to have David Beckham’s babies? Thanks to a new sperm donor service, that might be possible.



The service, which sounds like a Saturday Night Live skit, but isn’t, will cater to people who want to have a baby with “a top-flight client list of celebrity donors from the worlds of sport, entertainment and finance,” according to the Fame Daddy website.



Apparently “most girls fantasize about dating their favourite boyband star, or having a fling with a Hollywood actor.”



And now they (sort of) can.



The donors’ identities won’t be revealed, according to the Globe and Mail, but women will be able to choose from a list of accomplishments and characteristics.



For example, I discovered my “dream Fame Daddy,” using their handy quiz, and my result was Bono, who (surprise!) is not in any way connected with the Fame Daddy service.



If I really did want to have a baby with Bono, who they helpfully describe is interested in “politics, religion and tinted glasses,” all I would have to do is search for those characteristics.



Of course, I might not (read: wouldn’t) end up with Bono’s baby, but there’s a chance I could end up with a humanitarian baby, or an Irish baby.



According to the Globe and Mail, chief executive officer Dan Richards told the Telegraph that they have about 40 interested donors already—including retired athletes and multi-platinum musicians—they just don’t have any real sperm samples yet.



What they lack in sperm samples though, they make up for in really cute photos of babies dressed up as rock stars and actors.



So if you’re not interested in “celebrity” sperm, it’s worth checking out the website for adorable baby outfit ideas.



-Katharine Watts, Associate Web Editor

I'm surprised it took this long...lol
17:29 Oct 20 2012
Times Read: 639

First adult film star Sylvia Kristel dies at 60
02:03 Oct 19 2012
Times Read: 646




Sylvia Kristel, 1952 - 2012



Sylvia Kristel, arguably the first adult film star, has died at the age of 60 after suffering a long battle with cancer.



"She died during the night during her sleep," her agent told the AFP. She was admitted to a hospital in July after suffering a stroke, though she was first diagnosed with throat and lung cancer roughly ten years ago.



The Dutch actress, born in Utrecht, Holland, made waves around the world as the star of 1974 erotic French film "Emmanuelle." In the controversial film she played the woman after which it was named -- a young model Emmanuelle, married to a much older man. The plot revolves around the couple as they move to Bangkok. Kristel's character then engages in a number of extramarital affairs as her husband doesn't seem to mind.



The film garnered a major following, played for 11 years in a theater on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, and remains one of the most successful French films of all time. "Emmanuelle" also inspired a number of sequels in which Kristel also starred.



Kristel's performance in the "soft core" film even drew critical praise from Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert. He wrote in 1975: What makes the film work is the performance of Sylvia Kristel... [who] projects a certain vulnerability that makes several of the scenes work... The performers in most skin flicks seem so impervious to ordinary mortal failings, so blase in the face of the most outrageous sexual invention, that finally they just become cartoon characters. Kristel actually seems to be present in the film, and as absorbed in its revelations as we are. [via the BBC]





Kristel appeared in nearly 60 titles over the years, including television movies. She admitted to drug and alcohol addiction and experienced her share of bad relationships, later saying if she had it to do over again, she would have never entered those relationships -- with the exception of early boyfriend, Belgian author Hugo Claus.



Having won a few notable beauty pageants by the time she was 21, Claus is the one who initially encouraged Kristel to become an actress. The couple had a son, Arthur, in 1975.



Somewhat ironically, Kristel was educated in a convent and had a strict, religious upbringing -- something she fled from as a teenager when she moved to Amsterdam.



A private funeral will be held for Kristel, according to her agent.

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Yup...
02:08 Oct 13 2012
Times Read: 661

And as an ending to the previous...



Carisa Didoshak 6:58pm Oct 11

That's awesome! Good to hear I wish u the best!!!!!

Seriously....
02:34 Oct 12 2012
Times Read: 676

These people are talking to me more now that I am gone than when I fucking worked there....



See the following, via facebook:



11:29pm



Carisa Didoshak



Hey Luanne!

I never got a chance to say goodbye so I thought I'd send u a msg. I wish you the best with everything in your future and it was a pleasure working with you the last few years!!!!!



...

Sunday



9:19am



Luanne Askew Kendall



Thank you very much Carissa- I hope to be very happy in my new job. Thanks for all your best wishes!



...

Today



8:27am



Carisa Didoshak



Ohh where r u working?!?

Good luck with everything



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Today



6:32pm



Luanne Askew Kendall



I'm putting my art degree to work, and I got a job working for a paint your own pottery and make your own glassware place. Since we haven't opened yet, I have been helping out painting the walls, putting things together, etc. It's considerably more relaxing, and I'm having fun.



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Too snippy?



Fuck 'em