Looks good! I like using havarti, smoked gouda, and white american on mine. But as long as you have at least one cheese that's perfect for melting and one with good flavor, you're going to have a good time!

There's definitely going to be an investigation into this. Resigning was pretty much to avoid having the legislature vote to remove him from the office. Basically it's so he can say he stepped down rather than being fired.

They cover different ground. The first was published in 1999 and covers his childhood through the ups and downs of getting into the movie business and ends at the time it was published with him having a successful career. The second came out a few years ago and picks up where the first one left off, going over things like his career stalling in the early 2000s and then picking back up with stuff like Burn Notice, the Evil Dead remake, Ash vs Evil Dead, and more.

I didn't mind the bad guys being loosely-sketched cartoon villains because the story was told completely from Katniss' point of view, so that's all they would be to her. She has brief encounters with Snow, Coin, and a few others, but a lot of what we're told is speculation on her part and of course she's going to assume the worse in a way that might be over the top. I don't think the books are super amazing, but they're a solid read for the genre.

I graduated with my masters in international relations and had just spent years reading political biographies, history, and political theory. I even read that stuff for fun that was unrelated to my degree. Once I got the degree I needed to unwind from it all and decided to give Hunger Games a shot when I found the trilogy in hardback at Costco for like $15. Turns out, they were exactly what I needed. Way below the reading level I was used to but good page turners that kept me engaged with the story. That was 10 years ago and I might actually go back and give them another read!

One time I was at a restaurant with a friend and this guy was there with a girl he was very much trying to impress. He kept talking about his love of German beer but the one he kept gushing about was Beck's...that's what all the Battle Royale comparisons sounded like to me. I like Battle Royale, but it's not even an original concept on its own!

That makes me think of the musical of Reefer Madness where a running joke in songs between the leads was talking about being happy like Romeo & Juliet because they only just started reading it.

I'd actually give his two memoirs a read. It gets a little into his personal life but I learned so much about his productions. You also get to know exactly how close he is with Sam Raimi and Ted Raimi. The first goes up to the late 90s when they produced Hercules and Xena while the second picks up around the time Spider-Man started production. For memoirs, they're very entertaining without him being full of himself.

I don’t know, after all those stock buybacks they’ll probably be pinching pennies for a while!

We've seen some of Trump's lawyers be sanctioned and a few disbarments, so it is possible! I just wish the threshold for it were lower when it comes to this kind of stuff. The whole purpose is to undermine the the system, not to correct an actual wrong.

I’m surprised he only got a warning. I’ve seen tennis players be ejected for the doing the same thing to just one.

Glad I'm not the only one on a diet stupid enough to come to this sub! I had a very healthy and reasonable lunch...and then I see this!

Seriously! A cross section is needed on this kind of burger!

I’m not a football person either, but Denzel Washington and Will Patton is too good a combination to lead a movie.

Well I'll be darned...long pants.

One time a friend and I were standing around at a con away from the celebrities but not quite in with the vendors when Michael Cudlitz walks by. My friend just said, "hey, what's up?" and he stopped and just started chatting with us for a few minutes. We just asked how he was enjoying the con and what he was up to in our city, but didn't talk about his work. I think he appreciated that and was just able to have a normal conversation in the middle of the con.

I've met quite a few people at cons and for the most part the celebrities have been pretty good with only one or two negative experiences. But Cudlitz was definitely one of the nicest experiences.

I think they’re trying to focus on shelter adoption over targeted breeding.

You won’t regret it! My mom and I decided to skip the turkey this year and made sauerbraten instead, but when we got back to turkey I know we’ll be sticking with the bacon!

That’s the way to do it! My family always used bacon as the basting agent when we cooked a turkey. We’d cook the turkey for about 2 hours and then we’d start applying the bacon. The best part is, you can snack on the bacon through the cooking as you take the crispy stuff off and apply a new batch of bacon!

It was $117 million in the US. The $246 million in orange is the international.

I also dislike it. The book being one of my absolute favorites generally helps disliking the movie.

>Yeah they did differ but its still basically a sequel all but officially. Wasn't it that Romero wasn't allowed to use the 'of the Living Dead' fixture when he and Russo had differing ideas for the sequel and it's tone, Russo wanted more comedy and talking zombies so Russo kept that title fixture and created Return of the Living Dead, as in return of the zombies from Night, as his sequel, and Romero removed 'Living' from the title and went with just 'of the Dead' with how he wanted the zombies and series to go, and created Dawn as his sequel. Night is even mentioned in the original Return as a cheeky nod.

The zombies in Return of the Living Dead aren't Russo's, but Dan O'Bannon's. When Romero and Russo went their separate ways, Russo wrote a screenplay titled Return of the Living Dead. In that story, it is a direct sequel to Night and follows the sheriff seen at the end. From what I remember there was also a cult involved. Originally, Tobe Hooper was signed on to direct it. When he left the project, O'Bannon was brought in and he kept the title, but completely rewrote the story and created the talking, running, braining hungry zombies. Russo was able to adapt his screenplay into a novel, also called Return of the Living Dead.

Honestly, Russo's original story isn't that bad. I have the paperback of it and read it maybe 15 years ago. I remember thinking it actually would've made a decent movie, assuming it weren't made by Russo who, by all accounts, is a really nice guy but kind of a hack when it comes to filmmaking. I'm going to need to go back and give it another read, but it was definitely serious in tone and featured the same kind of zombies you saw in Night.

Growing up, my dad would buy a side of the mixed vegetables from Boston Market and some of their cornbread and put that into the meatloaf. The cornbread took the place of breadcrumbs and the the mixed vegetables were actually a nice little addition. I think we just had some leftovers one time and he just decided to put them in a meatloaf and see what happened. That ended up being the way be kept preparing it.

Well, that certainly has me interested! I guess I'll have to give it a try sometime soon!

As someone who's from a northern family but grew up in the south, I'll say meatloaf's meatloaf and I'll gladly take it either way. It's one of those comfort foods I'm such a sucker for.