Endless Ends

[Endless_Night]

Okay. So, There is this old movie. Not too old. It's color. A horror movie.

I remember little except the monster sucked the bones out of its victims, leaving the body, errr, sack(?) empty. As I recall, the action was set in a city and the monster looked sort of like a vacuum cleaner.

Ring any bells, anyone?

 

[hotwords229_A]

Okay. So, There is this old movie. Not too old. It's color. A horror movie.

I remember little except the monster sucked the bones out of its victims, leaving the body, errr, sack(?) empty. As I recall, the action was set in a city and the monster looked sort of like a vacuum cleaner.

Ring any bells, anyone?

It sounds like @Lord Pmann ‘s nightmare—getting his bone sucked out by a vacuum cleaner and just leaving his sack.

Or it could be Island of Terror, I’m not sure.

 

[investor2020]

Enny, I think you are carrying the horror element a bit too far when you include in your birthday month a martini that has leeches mixed in it !! Well, to each their own, I guess. Anyway, have a happy birthday when that day occurs this month!

You might even watch this as you enjoy another one of those martinis:

 

[Endless_Night]

Or it could be Island of Terror, I’m not sure.

I watched the trailer and I think this might be the one!

*squeal of excitement*

For some reason I thought it was in a city, but this is one of those things I saw on Saturday reruns as a child so my memory is hazy.

Scared the bejesus out of me though.


The vacuum was suspect for months!

 

[Endless_Night]

You might even watch this as you enjoy another one of those martinis:

Ooooh. I don't think I've seen this . . . .

 

[Endless_Night]

Oh, and a basket of gluten free treats arrived today. Mostly in the nature of dark chocolate.

My friends know me so well.

Next up, Island of Terror (1966).

I hope this is the right one!

*bounces*

 

[Apisto42]

Dark chocolate is the best.

 

[Endless_Night]

Island of Terror was -

Even better than expected!!~

1) Research gone wrong.
2) Hammer like production.
3) Bone-sucking vacuum creatures.
4) Reproduction by binary fission.
5) Peter Cushing!
6) Questionable science.

What more could one want?

Notes:

-Until panic set in the people were surprisingly open minded and willing to work together. That would never happen in real life.
-The female lead was remarkably helpless. Even more useless than usual. Honestly, I would have fed her to the silicates.

I mean, I, too, would be pretty useless, but it's a bad look for the feminine gender.

 

[hotwords229_A]

You had me at “bone-sucking vacuum creatures”!

 

[Endless_Night]

You had me at “bone-sucking vacuum creatures”!

If I understand you correctly - and it's entirely possible I do not as I never catch these things correctly the first time -

Not that kind of, errr, bone.

 

[Endless_Night]

What happened to beauty marks and hats? I feel like they went out about the same time. Like, the fifties? Sixties?

 

[investor2020]

Interesting background to that, Enny:

Beauty marks, historically called mouches (French for "flies"), were fashionable beauty patches used in European and Spanish colonial courts to hide blemishes or send secret flirtatious messages, with placement conveying meaning (cheek for flirt, near lip for discreet). Hats became popular during eras like the 18th century and Edwardian period, often featuring large styles to draw attention to the face, making these faux beauty spots (hearts, moons) part of a glamorous, sometimes coded, fashion statement, a trend seen today in unique hat designs and makeup.

Speaking for myself, I still have a hat . . . but never tried a beauty mark to send a flirtatious message.

 

[Endless_Night]

Beauty marks, historically called mouches (French for "flies")

First, gross.

- were fashionable beauty patches used in European and Spanish colonial courts to hide blemishes or send secret flirtatious messages, with placement conveying meaning (cheek for flirt, near lip for discreet).

Second, that is crazy interesting! I was thinking more Marilyn Monroe. I had no idea there was meaning to the placement.

- part of a glamorous, sometimes coded, fashion statement, a trend seen today in unique hat designs and makeup.

Meaning this is still a thing? Where? What?

You know, I bet you could do it with the stick on crystals that are currently popular in face and eye decor.

(Or, they were about a year ago. I'm usually way behind on fashion trends.)

Speaking for myself, I still have a hat . . . but never tried a beauty mark to send a flirtatious message.

Just as well. I don't picture you as being all that meta.

 

[Trekka]

First, gross.


Second, that is crazy interesting! I was thinking more Marilyn Monroe. I had no idea there was meaning to the placement.


Meaning this is still a thing? Where? What?

You know, I bet you could do it with the stick on crystals that are currently popular in face and eye decor.

(Or, they were about a year ago. I'm usually way behind on fashion trends.)


Just as well. I don't picture you as being all that meta.

this is suuuper cool.

i recently learned women have knitted and sewn coded messages into garments for epochs.

and, well, sewing has always been, for the most part, women’s work.

i mean, what kind of trouble could our pretty little heads even fathom getting into?

so now i’m thinking about making my own line of slightly subversive coded garments.

 

[Endless_Night]

i recently learned women have knitted and sewn coded messages into garments for epochs.

Me too! Phyllis Latour!

i mean, what kind of trouble could our pretty little heads even fathom getting into?

so now i’m thinking about making my own line of slightly subversive coded garments.

Oh, oh! Let me know what you come up with, pretty please!

 

[Trekka]

Me too! Phyllis Latour!





Oh, oh! Let me know what you come up with, pretty please!

isn’t that the coolest concept?!
im gonna hide a nude in the weave of a knit sweater. just wait.

 

[hotwords229_A]

im gonna hide a nude in the weave of a knit sweater

That’s my kind of subversion!

 

[Endless_Night]

Eating.

I was raised on southern fried food and canned vegetables. (Ick) As I moved into adulthood and traveled and engaged with other people groups my eating broadened. Like, this morning I've been looking up recipes to ferment my own amazake.

Some people's tastes and food styles don't change from childhood norms. I was reminded of this recently when The Bestie and I were making plans for Birthday Week. Restaurants are always a challenge. She is what I call a "Good Ol' Boy" eater. Meat and potatoes and salad as a vegetable.

I've coaxed her out of her comfort zone a little, but change is slooooooow.

She will now eat the cooked stuff at sushi.

Today I had another conversation with a self-styled All-American-Eater, where I was trying to explain kheer. And then cardamom. It was . . . uphill. For both of us.

I don't think of myself as a cosmopolitan eater, but I suppose I am, in my limited way.

Are the majority of Americans still meat-and-potato eaters?


*one of the many things Endless wonders about*

 

[LeSabreur]

I tend to see the meat and potatoes thing more in older people and/or those who are, in general, not well read or travelled. It's fairly common in younger people who are being raised by very culturally conservative families.

I am so fortunate to have grown up in a family that was decades ahead of the curve in America for being culturally curious with respect to cuisine.