Pop Culture Frenzy, Round 72

Welcome once again to Pop Culture Frenzy.  It's that time of year for scary movies.  One of this year's recently released Halloween movies is a remake of Pet Sematary.

Here's the Pet Sematary movie trailer.  Our question.  Why did they do this movie?

 Due to an appalling lack of imagination.

Hostmaster:  correct.

This is reminiscent of that pathetic Psycho remake

twenty years ago.  They practically did the whole movie over frame by frame.

  Bryan is right.  Can't these creative people come up with a new idea?

Wait.  Pet Cemetery?  I don't like the sound of that.

Horror movies are toxic entertainment.

Toxic like Erin Brockovich and Silkwood?

No.  Those are important movies that raise awareness.

I'm aware that I don't know what you guys are talking about.

Molly, it's for the best that you are not a movie buff. 

 Believe me, you wouldn't like the Pet Semetary 

movie regardless of which version. 

OK.  I'll just sit here and think about something else.

  Squirrels maybe...

Horror movies are toxic because they make 

believe fear is fun.  

This encourages violence.

Poppycock.  Scary movies are simply escapism entertainment.

  We don't decide to hurt someone because we're scared

 by ghosts or psycho killers on a movie screen.

Yes we do!

Look at all the violence in the world!

 I got proof that what you say is utter nonsense. 

I don't believe you.

Oh yeah?  Notice that you

 have yet to be harmed.  

You two still living together?

I watched the three Omen movies the other day.  

She freaked out.  You'd think Satan popped 

out of the TV and slipped into her closet. 

Let's pack this round in and go see a movie.  

Jamie Lee Curtis is back in Halloween 

and is hell-bent on killing what's his name.

Round 72
Fluff/Molly      35
Bryan/Cyndi    34

There's Dog Hair in the Bird Seeds!

Sharing your home with dogs and birds is great fun, until it's time to vacuum.  Trouble is, it becomes time to vacuum a lot. 

Surely it is a fact that there has never been a house bird of any kind that didn't fling seeds on the floor.  Anyway, birds don't wear bibs.  That's a fact.

It may or may not be a fact that a dog running from a vacuum cleaner stirs the dog hair from the carpet into the air thus reducing the amount of hair the vacuum is able to pick up.

A few weeks ago the Oreck upright that has valiantly done years of hard labor here at the Bad Dog Ranch sucked it's last.

An old Rainbow that has been on the bench awaiting just such an event was brought into active duty.  (For those who don't know about Rainbows, instead of a bag, the dirt goes into a container filled with water.  This water container is housed in a R2-D2 shaped unit on wheels.  The nozzle that you push on the floor is attached to the unit by a hose.  It works fine but is cumbersome to use.  This is why it was relegated to back-up.)

Alas, the veteran Rainbow was not up to the task.  The rolling brush thing was paralyzed by Lily the Great Pyrenees hair causing the belt to snap.  Of course the belt didn't break immediately after the roller stopped rolling.  It got there gradually while smelling like a burning tire.

The search was on for a replacement.  Clearly, vacuum technology/vacuum marketing has responded to the needs of customers seeking to remove hair and seeds from their dwellings.  There are a whole bunch of vacuums with the words PET in their names.  STRONG SUCTION is another popular selling point, as is DOG HAIR.

Such a dizzying array of options... Bissel, Kenmore, Hoover, Kirby...  After narrowing it down to three that were pretty much the same by way of desired features, the Dirt Devil Razor Pet Steerable Bagless Upright won out.  Why?  One of the reviewers remarked that this vacuum did a wonderful job on the hair of a Great Pyrenees and the seeds of a cantankerous parrot.

Look! Squirrel!

It is a curious thing.  When we left suburbia and settled here at the rural homestead, we noticed that there weren't a whole lot of squirrels around.

Sure, there was an occasional sighting but nothing approaching the volume of activity we'd observed at the old house.

Fours years in, here at the homestead, squirrel sightings have increased significantly.

Did they follow us here?