Why your friends suck.

And mine don't.

11 years now, we've celebrated Thankstaking.  Not a "Friends Thanksgiving" or some kind of other warmed over festival.  11 years ago we got together and said, "Fuck it.  We like to eat well, we're not in the habit of sharing, we'll make a delicious meal all for ourselves." And so Thankstaking was born.

I was there and that's how it started.  Here we are, still celebrating delicious goodness, fisting birds and the Bears still make the meal unpalatable.  Not that we need an excuse to tie one on in the middle of the Fall, but we'll take what we can get.

So, I implore all of you out there, if you're getting together with your friends, trying some kind of yearly thing, whatever it is you're doing.... Brand it.  Put a name on it, label it something fun and meaningful, then stand behind it and don't shy away from it.  Wish people a Happy Thankstaking and when they look at you funny, make them feel like they're the ones that should know what you're talking about.  Own it. 

MotD: Destination: Mars!

There have been a bit of a slew of movies like this in the last decade or so.  Homage films paying tribute to the Ed Wood style 1950's "classic" but awful sci fi films.  I love those movies as much as the next guy, and totally for the camp.  Which makes movies like this and Skeleton of Cadavra and, shit there was another that's escaping me right now, so tough to review.  Are they bad because they're bad intentionally or are they bad because they're doing such a great job of emulating a horrible genre?  Honestly I don't know.  This one opens the film with a modern day documentary on the "unearthing" of the lost film, it adds a bit to the movie, but it in itself isn't really funny or game changing.  Like the film itself, is it trying to be funny mocking or funny because it's bad.  I really don't know.  There were some genuinely fun things in the movie, but few and far between.  They did a fantastic job of emulating the Ed Woodian type Sci-Fi films, I'm just not sure if that's a good thing or not?