Secrets of the City

A new season? But we already have four!

Stupid Smarch.*

Think that Simpson’s movie is going to be any good? The show has actually picked up again in the last season, but it’s still nowhere near its prime.

I’m sort of dreading the Simpsons flick. I mean, I’ll def. see it but I think this season has been among their lamest.

That could be because all the good writers were working on the movie instead, I s’pose… Sure can’t wait to get me some 7-11 Kwik-E-Mart goods. Anybody know if a local 7-11 is doing that?

Now that I think about it… does anybody know of a local 7-11?

I do not believe there are any 7-11s in the state.

And today in history: Frida Kahlo was born today, 100 years ago today. The Walker celebrates by announcing its October Kahlo show.

The 7-11 locations in this market got acquired, around the early 1990s, by SuperAmerica, and became SuperAmerica locations.

That’s how come at 40th & Lyndale South, in Minneapolis, there ended up being, for quite a while, two SuperAmerica locations, on opposite corners.

Small correction: The Strib Walker article says Nortec Collective will be playing here for the first time, but they played 5 years ago at the 400 Bar and hardly anyone was there.

Wheeee! I’m going to see No Reservations on Tusday!

(Do food movies count as art?)

Just watched the No Reservations trailer.
I think I might be sick. Or hungry. I can’t tell yet.

I doubt it will top Ratatoullie.

There’s a movie called Ratatouille? I’ll have to google that.

I can’t watch the trailer because my audio is screwed up, so all I know about this flick is that it’s food-related. Hopefully it won’t suck. I’ll be judging it against the standards of Like Water for Chocolate and Chocolat, so we’ll see if it measures up.

I was hoping it would be an Anthony Bourdain movie.

Ratatouille is a Pixar film about a rat who learns to cook.

I can’t see it, because I really, really f-in hate rats. Let me know how that goes for you.

my wife skipped it for that very reason. she’s deathly afraid of rodents (yet she fell for me…go figure). I really don’t get into animated films, but it was fucking brilliant. My son and I saw it @ the Cinema Cafe, and he now not only wants to learn to cook, but he tells me that he might try to eat some vegetables. unbelieveable.

Ranty…Big Night is a must-see food movie, as well.

Even animated rats???

1,000s of animated rats running through kitchens looks very real when done by Pixar. Kinda gave me that crawling feeling.

Oh yeah, I had forgotten about Big Night. I did see that, and liked it too.

I don’t do well with rats since the time in Boston when I went to throw out the trash and a rat scurried right under my hand as I was reaching for the lid. Blech.

I hear ya. I don’t do well with toilets since a rat squirted out of mine one time…

Ew. I hate rodents. Even “cute and fluffy” ones like hamsters. They’re freaking vermin, people. At least now I’m okay with finding spiders and bugs inside, or at least, I am okay with them long enough to find something heavy to kill them with.

actually, this is my favorite movie cooking scene. Very sensual cinematography, and great knifework. NSFV (not safe for vegetarians)

One of the themes of Ratatoullie is the human prejudice against “vermin”.

Seriously, if you hate even the thought of like 100 rats scurrying out of your house, then there are a few scenes that will freak you out! For that alone, it is worth seeing…

i heard there’s a nationwide shortage of eggplant because of that movie

Rats aren’t only vermin, they’re filthy vermin. So are hamsters, ferrets, and bats (flying filthy vermin). I hate anything that scurries on the floor and has those beady little eyes…yuck!

Bats can eat as many as 1000 mosquitoes an hour… You can have the rest of them, but I’m keeping the bats!

“Rats aren’t only vermin, they’re filthy vermin. So are hamsters, ferrets, and bats (flying filthy vermin). “

Rats have probably been the smartest, most entertaining of all of my kids’ thousands of pets over the years. Had one that used to pick the cage-door latch in the middle of the night, run over to the food bag, grab a pile of the pellets, run back across the room, climb back in the cage and pull the door closed. (Yes, I watched this happen.) Another used to ride on son’s shoulders and neck while son rode his bike. The rat would be hanging on grimly with all four paws, leaning forward into the wind as the bike shot by us. If son went slow, rat would climb up on top of his head for the better view. And, very clean. Absolutely filthy pets? Cats.

“I hate anything that scurries on the floor and has those beady little eyes…yuck!“

Never have kids.

Ah yes, grote, that is indeed a great scene!

Dood, Bobby…you will never get me within 1000 feet of a rat…the tail is the other creepy thing about them…blargh!

Re: Bats…yes, I know they eat mosquitoes, but they’re still gross…

“Dood, Bobby…you will never get me within 1000 feet of a rat . . .“

Umm . . . you live in the city, right?

Okay, I hate to tell you this, but . . . .

uh . . . . I mean . . . oh, nevermind.

Mrs. Lungs and I saw Ratatouille on Thursday afternoon. I second grote’s review of the film — some of the “lighting effects” in this animated feature is jaw-droppingly good, as are the background illustrations.

Plus, it has Peter O’Toole, voicing an animated character right out of a Tim Burton feature. A lock for the year’s Oscar for best annimated feature.