confessions of a foyer girl is a 1978 short film created by aardman animations .

it is part of the animated conversations series .

in this short , creators david sproxton and peter lord " applied the groundbreaking technique of using recorded conversations of real people as the basis for the script " .

confessions of a foyer girl

‘confessions of a foyer girl’ is the second film in aardman’s revolutionary ‘animated conversations’ series .
confessions of a family dog viewer :
call of the m . . .
viewers are treated to another
confessions
film , this time about the girl who actually works in the cinema .
the conversations were actual scripted conversations which were based on real - life conversations the creators overhead , and figures were animated to accompany them . these conversations tended to be confessional . for example , down and out was about a homeless man trying to get into a shelter for the night , or confessions of a foyer girl was about… well , the confessions of a foyer girl in a cinema . these were aardman’s first true shorts , which paved the way for their future projects and successes .
her confession image is unique in that the background does not change to a bubbly pattern variant seen in most other confessions .
bar au , where it takes louis no time at all to fall for a beautiful girl across the room .
in 1978 aardman produced a pair of short animations based around dialogue recorded from members of the general public . though the two films – down and out and confessions of a foyer girl – were disregarded by the bbc , they were seized upon a couple of years later by channel 4 . the new station commissioned a further five pieces in a similar style , paving the way for aardman’s oscar - winning creature comforts ( best remembered as part of a 1980s electricity ad campaign ) .
two usherettes in a cinema foyer talk about boys and boredom and what they are going to do when they get home from work .
luckily , there isn ' t really anyone here . a few elderly ladys in floral patterned swimsuits , a family with two small kids and - . oh . a very hot girl . long legs , tiny red shorts on her slim hips and a huge white shirt .
lifeguard
it says in big black letters across her shoulders . great . maybe louis should just go and fake - drown so hot girl must come and to save her .
series conceived by colin thomas and bill mather for bbc bristol in the late 1970s . in this instance , we hear a foyer girl who works at an adult film theatre reflecting upon a variety of subjects , from her own hectic lifestyle to the sexual orientation of a friend , to a gruesome murder case making the headlines . she ' s nearing the end of her shift and cannot wait to get off ( she ' s utterly exhausted , though hasn ' t ruled out the possibility of another night on the town ) , but still has plenty of words to share with her quieter colleague jane .
this is a list of awards and nominations of loves me , loves me not .
finds lord and sproxton in an unusually arty mode , juxtaposing the animated sequences with snippets of stock film footage , and regularly positioning the claymation girl in front of the live action images to give off the impression that she ' s talking before a screening in a darkened auditorium . the title of the short is an obvious nod to the raunchy british sex comedies that were popular throughout the decade , starting with
left - lucina equips a levin sword , performs a thrust into the opponent , then fires a bolt of lightning . she reequips her parallel falchion and performs a front flip slash .
: marth had become a legend by her time—the hero - king . so lucina took that name to bolster the morale of her own army . think of it as a symbol of hope in the depths of despair .
“oh i’m so sorry , i’m so sorry . i didn’t see you coming and then i threw all of this right in your path and now–“ the girl wipes her hand on her jeans and holds it out to louis . uncertain , louis takes it in her own . she shakes it vigorously . “i’m so sorry , ” she says again .
an illusory likeness of lucina can be summoned through the connection of a lucina amiibo with mila ' s turnwheel .
a princess and the daughter of chrom with a strong sense of justice . fights in similar garb to her beloved father . appears in fire emblem awakening .
if lucina is the daughter of the avatar , lucina will have the most amount of class options out of all characters in the game with a total of 35 ( 34 without bride ) .
like its predecessor , ‘ down & out ‘ , the film uses recorded dialogue . this time we hear two foyer girls chatting in a cinema . the dialogue is hard to understand and the lip - synch is not as good as in ‘down & out’ . moreover , the animation is associated with seemingly unrelated stock live action footage , which leads to a film , which is both experimental and vague . the result never quite works and the result must be called a failure .
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takes place inside the lobby of a salvation army hostel and follows the efforts of a homeless pensioner to communicate his predicament to the staff on duty . unlike the visually experimental
all dusted and complete , i need a new series of underrated animations to champion .
daughter of chrom . future exalt of ylisse . curious about the old festival traditions of ylisse . appears in fire emblem awakening .
david spent three years on the board of the uk film council . he is now chairman of encounters festivals ( bristol ' s celebration of the short film ) and a board member of the national film & television school .
war story received a rating of 6 . 3 / 10 from 172 users on imdb .
on probation received a rating of 5 . 1 / 10 from 55 users on imdb .
because of this , lucina is tied with female morgan for the most amount of skills learned in a single playthrough with 74 skills possible .
creature comforts was a huge hit for aardman , leading to a range of adverts and a tv programme based on the same premise but with a wider cast of animals . two series were made in total , and an american version was briefly aired before being canned for poor ratings .
a day or a lifetime - lou breeze ( r . i . p . jon polito )
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on imdb , al dente received a rating of 5 . 4 / 10 from 82 users .
is a reminder of just how wonderfully engrossing this lost and heavily underestimated aardman art was . unlike
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or : a supernatual au where louis is a hunter but spends more time with liam than hunting .
were disregarded by the bbc they were seen a couple of years later by jeremy isaacs who was creating the shape of the newly formed channel four .
on imdb , the pearce sisters received a rating of 7 . 1 / 10 from 199 users .
lucina appears in super mario maker as a special mystery mushroom character . she is unlocked either by completing a 100 mario challenge or scanning a lucina amiibo .
essentially lacked ; broadly , it consists of little more than a collection of anecdotes , with no particularly obvious cumulative effect . instead , lord and sproxton took it upon themselves to work in a narrative , re - envisioning the speakers as a rugged band of desert island castaways who ' ve been stranded for so long that they ' ve become wholly adjusted to the lifestyle , and remain oblivious to a potential source of rescue that surfaces throughout the course of the film .
a day or a lifetime - lou breeze ( r . i . p . jon polit . . .
i made a promise a short while back that i would take a closer look at carlton your doorman , the only fully animated production to come . . .
, revolved around audio recordings of real - life situations which were then reinterpreted using animated figures . outside of its aardman connections , the series as a whole remains something of an obscurity , so i do have
i ' m of the opinion that rugrats is a seriously underappreciated cartoon . it may seem odd to propose that a show that was once so . . .
lucina is a playable character and one of the three main protagonists ( tritagonist ) from fire emblem awakening .
lucina ' s sword , a memento of her father . it has the power to heal life force .
, by contrast , changes the context of its own recording quite significantly , adjusting the setting and using a variety of visual cues to infer a backstory that is not implicit in the characters ' dialogue , but which nevertheless radically alters our perception of their discussion . as with
or : louis spends the day at a pool , and harry is there to save her a bit mentally .
a mysterious swordsman who hides his face behind a mask . calls himself marth . appears in fire emblem awakening .
animation blog to thank for doing a considerable chunk of the research for me on this one . the series consisted of six short films ( according to derek hayes '
the process of viewing chicken eggs for quality is via a special machine , and is called
candling
.
a princess and daughter of chrom who traveled to her past to prevent apocalypse . appears in fire emblem awakening .
the wrong trousers broadened the reception of the duo , so a follow - up was quickly produced ( or as quickly as a stop - motion film could be made ! ) and released in 1995 . a close shave , of a similar length and team to the previous films , expanded the scope of the previous shorts by doubling down on cast featuring two quirky humans and two silent dogs . of course it won another academy award , but it also introduced the world to a certain sheep . . .
in both the drama cd and the manga , the mask was not her first choice for a disguise , as she initially intended to use a pair of massive glasses .
her strength of will is a great asset to her , though at times it manifests as pure stubbornness . she has a fierce devotion to refining her sword technique through daily practice , and like her father tends to wreak havoc on her surroundings in pursuit of this . she maintains a serious demeanor most of the time , yet on occasion the strangest things will prompt a laugh . she also has a fairly unique sense of fashion . while she views chrom as someone to protect , she also reveres him as her beloved father and acts as a dutiful daughter to him .
in order to collect conversations for the series , lord and sproxton hid microphones around a number of everyday locations , although sourcing usable material proved to be a challenge . in the book
, and that the film
doesn’t feature any backgrounds of notice , and the main character , a grumpy waiter who has to serve a vegetarian meal at a meat restaurant , looks primitive and unimaginative . the film is utterly mediocre and , like
work on chicken run begun in 1996 , though principal photography took around 20 months for a crew of 40 animators to complete . the total crew numbered 457 . due to the length of the production , aardman had to use a special blend of plasticine for the more expressive features of the film’s models . the
aardman mix
is harder and more durable than the newplast clay used on most aardman films . in total , 57 different colours of plasticine were used for the characters . to achieve the correct hue , the plasticine is mixed in a converted chewing gum machine . the first model of each character – the bodies of which comprised of foam latext constructed around a steel armature – cost around £10 , 000 . subsequent models cost
just
£2 , 000 . each of the chickens in the film had dozens of different mouths , shaped to vocalise each letter of the alphabet , as well as to convey emotion .
all human endeavours in all history is a . . . . . . it happened because modern humans had accumulated a subconscious collective
. revisiting the series , it struck me that a couple of the most shocking instances of onscreen violence from series 2 resulted merely in non - fatal injuries , and i thought it a shame that , owing to the nature of the retrospective , i wouldn ' t also be able to cover those . so in the end i decided to stick them on as a special bonus round . i will not be rating these , but i thought each of them quite worthy of their own miniature review .
like chrom , lucina as a great lord will give her a ranged option of javelins while boosting her high stat caps . she will also eventually learn rightful king to boost her activation of skills . also like chrom , lucina should remain a great lord once she has built the necessary skills . if lucina becomes the mother of morgan , she will always pass down aether to her .
: you can ' t tell by looking at her , but i hear she ' s got a great sense of humor .
including her parallel falchion , and both rapiers lucina can wield a total of 116 unique weapons provided the avatar is her mother .
david sproxton is the co - founder and executive chairman of aardman . together with co - founder peter lord , he has overseen the development of the company from a two - man partnership to one of the pre - eminent animation houses in the industry .
check out highlights from some of the best recent trailers including mandy , the predator , zoe , and the king of thieves .
chickens ovulate almost every day , and cockerel sperm can remain fertile inside a hen for up to 32 days . chickens can lay an egg approximately every 27 hours , and will ovulate 30 minutes after laying an egg . unless the egg is layed after 2pm , in which case a delay of 16 - 18 hours is normal . a hen will lay an average of 245 eggs a year .
was a five - part series of claymation shorts commissioned in the early 80s by jeremy isaacs of the newly - birthed channel 4 and directed and animated by peter lord and david sproxton of aardman animations ( still the only staff members of aardman at the time ) . these were ordered upon the strength of two very similar shorts which lord and sproxton had created for bbc bristol in 1978 ,
their third film , released in 2006 , didn’t do as well . the story of a high - class rat who gets brought into the world of sewage rats , flushed away was still liked and made a profit , but with aardman’s fantastic track record this feature fell flat . especially criticised was the relative absence of humour and the all - cgi production , a departure in style for the company .
it’s louis job to make her best friend’s birthday another memorable memory . with it comes a series of events louis couldn’t have anticipated .
lucina is the only child in awakening with a fixed hair color and cannot inherit the hair color of her non - determinate parent .
the curse of the were - rabbit was a huge success for aardman , yet for various reasons dreamworks refused to work with them further and so they were on their own to find a new project . this project was a return to roots for aardman , as on christmas day 2008 the bbc aired a matter of loaf and death , a wallace and gromit short themed around , obviously , baking . with a smaller scale than the feature film , aardman enjoyed the freedom of creativity that the bbc afforded them . whilst generally regarded as the worst wallace and gromit , it was still hugely popular and should only be considered inferior due to the merits of the initial shorts .
lou , who appears in three scenes throughout the film , is a deceptively subtle character , one who initially appears to be little more than a mumbling dogsbody to a much more powerful and imposing presence , so perhaps it ' s understandable that polito worried about the role not being challenging enough . by the end of the film , lou reveals himself to be a far shrewder and more manipulative figure than barton could ever have pegged him for . one of the recurring themes of
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a probationer wants to miss a meeting to go and see his brother , but must negotiate with his officer
.
in a medieval castle , a marauder tries to kidnap the twin infant sons of the lord . he makes off with only one , whom he drops about a mile away . a pig rescues this baby , so one brother grows up high on the hog , the other down with the swine ; one is lazy , his lost brother is industrious . years later , when a neighboring prince declares wa . . .
had with piling on one loopy sight gag after another , it nevertheless preserved the original context of the audio recording - fundamentally , it was always about a morning dj presenting at a regional radio station , give or take a random frog or an even more random taxidermic cat .
a shades of pink story where harry gets her first tattoo and realises that it turns her on more than she ever would have thought .
lucina appears in her base lord class wielding her parallel falchion . depending on the attack input , she uses a variety of different weapons .
inigo traveled the world , ever ready with a smile or a solution when trouble started to brew . lucina journeyed with him , and their home of the moment was always brimming with joy and laughter .
, written by andy lane and published by boxtree in 2003 ( p . 52 ) , lord recounts how attempts to record a conversation at a barber shop went awry when a customer caught sight of the microphone and took exception to their underhanded tactics . an ironmonger ' s shop was tried as another potential location , but nothing of any real interest happened .
code name : s . t . e . a . m . is compatible with the super smash bros . 4 amiibo figures of fire emblem characters . when scanned , a s . t . e . a . m . version of lucina will appear in - game . lucina wields her parallel falchion , leaping towards the enemy to strike them , and the nidhogg bow . her special is a rush charge , going through any enemies in her path until she runs out of steam to move .
thrived on upon the discrepancies created by a visibly weary disc jockey with a perky on - air persona , or the combination of mundane radio dialogue with the surreal happenings inside the studio . still , as much fun as
unfortunately a tour of aardman like this , looking at their franchises , misses some pretty important things . one of these is chicken run , their first feature - film , which precedes the curse of the were - rabbit by five years . the plot , an affectionate homage to the great escape , follows a group of chickens living on a farm waiting to be turned into pies , and their escape attempt helmed by new rooster ‘rocky’ , voiced by mel gibson . the film did well at the box office and is still a greatly beloved film , among both children and adults .
dvd released in 2000 , must have been one elusive beast indeed to get a hold of . shame that , because at this point in lord and sproxton ' s career it might just have been the weirdest , most wickedly inventive film they ' d devised so far . even today , it still holds up as one of the genuine oddities of aardman ' s output , and is an absolute must - see for fans of experimental animation , or those with a particular interest in the history of the studio .
the hand of god fashions adam out of the clay of earth and places him on a small and empty planet . each of adam ' s actions - at first he can ' t stand up , then he barks like a dog , then he sleeps - requires god ' s intervention . after adam discovers how small the planet is , how little there is to do , and god ' s unwillingness to let him leave . . .
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a young man is in love with an image in a picture frame . to find out if the love he feels is returned he picks a flower and starts picking the petals off it .
there are 24 individual poses per second of film in chicken run . the team managed to get 100 seconds of film in the can each week .
she’s standing in a corridor filled with clueless students , who’ve no idea about the real world . a world where the things they’re taught means nothing , where the one book she needs is the handwritten notebook her step - dad left for them , filled with every type of monsters he’s ever heard of .
let ' s begin our roundup of case studies on individual production logos with a love letter to possibly the most genteel and non - threat . . .
spectrum , with its straight approach to the source material and commitment to total realism , something which peter lord and david sproxton dabbled with a number of times in the early years of the studio . by the 1990s , aardman ' s naturalistic streak appeared to have all but faded - the last of their projects to pursue this degree of thorough - going realism was peter lord ' s
note : this entry is a tribute to jon polito , who passed away on 1st september 2016 at age 65 , leaving behind a rich and prolific legacy of character acting which includes appearances in five coen brothers films . among them was
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“warrior from a doomed future” —lucina ' s alias on punch - out stage .
according to the drama cd , her tiara was a gift from her mother .
one of the better - known shorts made by john and faith hubley is moonbird , from 1959 . this film came about when the hubleys made a secret …
a short vision , the work of hungarian - born animator peter foldes and his british spouse joan foldes , may just be the most most celebrate . . .
chrom ' s daughter and future princess of ylisse . when she arrives from a doomed future seeking to prevent it from ever happening , she goes by the name marth before her identity is revealed . she fights much like her adopted namesake , but her entire blade is equally powerful instead of having a more powerful tip .
it’s weird to be in a place where people care about such different things than she does . it’s a totally different world , and she’s not the one that’s foolish . no matter if her teachers find her annoying , and a hopeless case .
lucina does not make a direct appearance in the game . however , in a collaboration between monster hunter and fire emblem , a female armor set for both blademasters and gunners exists in the game that is based on lucina ' s lord outfit .
harry styles and louis tomlinson have been together for years now . they decide it’s time to add a third member to their family . louis brings home a puppy .
grants spd + 4 to an adjacent ally until the end of the turn .
something sets off lucina ' s peculiar sense of humor , boosting her tension .
overall ,
call of the mild
is a curious but ultimately not very satisfying attempt at creating an episode with minimal dialogue , one which basically takes its central scenario of the dog roaming with feral dogs and stretches it as far as it can go without any genuine feeling of structure or development . the result is one of the more
different
episodes of the series ' run , but also one of the most dull ( although with the binfords largely absent it ' s at least tolerable ) . the only especially striking elements are the city sequences which , while not as visually adventurous as they perhaps could have been , nevertheless do a decent job of showing the dog in unfamiliar territory in which he ' s even more dwarfed and overwhelmed than usual . the potential for a dark and arresting romp through the nocturnal world of the urban fleabag was definitely there , but
call of the mild
approaches the matter rather too mildly for its own good .
, remains grounded within the realism of the film ' s setting . humour tends to be subtle and is largely implemented through the mannerisms of the characters , which are charmingly rendered ( i particularly love the wife swerving to avoid her husband ' s elbow as he goes into a particularly impassioned speech about the kinds of household devices being advertised nowadays ) . there ' s an undeniable warmth to the film which resonates from just how
human
each of these plasticine creations are , with each minute character detail and expression enhancing our appreciation of the situation , and what it means to each of the figures involved . the background ambience adds immensely to the authenticity of the scenario , and in one instance the film makes particularly deft use of the sounds of an aircraft flying overhead by having the wife ' s gaze wander up in its direction to indicate her lack of interest in the salesman ' s anecdote about some american tourists who were particularly eager customers of his .
“i prayed to the hero - king for a small part of the strength he used to save the world . but i need this subterfuge no longer . i choose to fight as lucina now . the name that reminds me of the strength in the man and woman who chose it . ” —lucina in chapter 14 of awakening
or , the one where louis is a football playing creative writing major with an eye for detail ( when she isn ' t hitting people with her car ) , and harry is a clumsy cello prodigy with a passion for collage and expensive coats .
the dog ' s dream is suddenly interrupted by the nightmarish sight of a godzilla - sized buffy rising out of a canyon . sure enough , the repugnant little brat is standing beside his basket , and has woken him up purely so that she can drag him off to play some obnoxious game called
tv time
, which involves sticking a paper bag over the dog ' s head and parading him around inside a cardboard box before an audience of dolls and stuffed rabbits . billy then walks in , shoves buffy over and laughs that he can see her underpants and . . .
custom up special 1 : crescent slash : lucina propels herself with a diagonal trajectory .
chrom , who tends to break things a lot , crashes right through guarding foes .
in my review of when the wind blows , i made some reference to benji the hunted being the film that killed off what remained of my child . . .
when the series finale of st . elsewhere , fittingly entitled
the last one
, aired on may 25th 1988 , viewers were hit with a do . . .
weaving his way through a labyrinth of streets and alleys while trying to stay out of the dogcatcher ' s sight , our dog finds the ferals feeding out a dumpster and attempts to join them , but they still won ' t accept him as one of them and send him packing . confusingly , in the next sequence we see the dogs preparing to cross a freeway , and suddenly they appear to be fine with our dog , because he ' s standing right beside them and no one ' s objecting .
half a year later , lucina is now ylisse ' s new exalt and occasionally meets with the rest of
chrom ' s new shepherds
from time to time .
effective against dragon foes . restores 10 hp at the start of every second turn .
lucina ' s birthday is the same day that fire emblem : shadow dragon and the blade of light and fire emblem : path of radiance were first released in japan .
although only four speaking voices are heard in the audio , there is an additional , mostly silent figure who sits apart from the rest and whose key purpose ( other than to have a rat pop comically out of his beard ) is to provide a humorous but also downright harrowing contrast to their words of stoic contentment . toward the end of the short , he becomes aware of a ship on the distant waters but is so overwhelmed by shock and excitement that he immediately collapses , whereupon he attempts feebly to point out this potential means of escape to the others but fails to attract much notice . such is the extent of the others ' complacency that they have learned to tune out any foreign or external noises - the sound of the ship ' s horn bellowing out across the sea comes just as one character muses that he really appreciates life on the island because
aardman continued its association with tony hart throughout the 1970s . when hart presented teatime art show take hart , aardman teamed him with a desktop lump of plasticine called morph . the unintelligible morph spun - off into his own series of 26 episodes in 1981 , where he was teamed with chas , a gruffer - sounding unintelligible plasticine guy , and foily – a foil woman . just imagine munching on her bits with your fillings , lads !
, which also deals with the complexities of having to adjust to living arrangements that are isolating or alien ) . it ' s here that lord and sproxton ' s added - on narrative really comes into play , radically changing what we make of these character reflections . the story we get , communicated largely through the inventiveness of the visuals , is one of individuals formerly gripped by wanderlust , who ' ve now been confined a single spot for so long that they no longer entertain any thoughts of leaving . arguably , they have found serenity in the simplicity and solitude of their surroundings , but lord and sproxton throw in an additional , hilariously cruel twist , by having a prospective means of rescue finally show up long after they ' ve apparently made their peace with the situation .
i can still recall the initial shock i felt when i first saw this sequence back in 1994 ; the moment of severance happens in a blink of an eye , but it manages to seem stark and unsettling all , in no small part due to the small streaks of red which momentarily burst from adder ' s broken body . this is otherwise an entirely bloodless affair , but no less gruesome for it ; we see from the subsequent shots that scarface has bitten off quite a sizeable chunk of adder ' s tail , which makes the sight of him standing beside the discarded remains ( along with the images of adder ' s mutilated body from inside the hole ) seem utterly skin - crawling .
sumia : sumia boosts lucina ' s speed the most out of all of her mother candidates and gives her a good stat boost in luck , magic , and resistance . she will have a slight drop in defense caps and no boost to her strength , but lucina should be just fine as the daughter of sumia . sumia passes down pegasus knight , knight , and cleric . among the best skills for lucina to grab from her maternal inheritance are galeforce from the dark flier class to make her a better map clearing unit . as a general , she can learn pavise , which will compliment her rightful king and aegis , making her a very powerful defensive unit if she is swarmed . as a war cleric , she can learn renewal , which helps her restore lost health if she takes any .
( 1989 ) being about the closest thing to it ) . i wouldn ' t expect the film to enthrall many beyond the most rabid of aardman / experimental animation devotees , but for those who fall into that category it offers a multitude of pleasures - among them the opportunity to survey lord and sproxton ' s developing craft , and the utterly charming portrait they create of a strangely vulnerable individual attempting to burn the candle at both ends .
future learning and skills – giving everyone the opportunity to build a lifelong relationship with film .
louis never expected to be pregnant at 25 after a drunk one - night - stand . she also never expected to be keeping that fact a secret from her famous baby daddy . but with the blood thirsty media always circling for a story about the one and only harry styles , it ' s not going to be a secret that ' s easily kept .
: i ' ll try cracking a few jokes and see if that softens her up .
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, in that the family themselves are largely absent throughout , and instead the dog spends most of the episode running around with a pack of feral dogs who have taken up residence in a vacant lot close to the binfords ' house . he gets to experience what life would be like if he wasn ' t such a family - friendly mutt , in other words . i ' ve routinely stated that the binfords are by fair the weakest aspect of the show , so how does this episode fare by keeping them predominantly on the sidelines ?
“nah , babe , you can do so much better . ” harry was teasing now , louis was almost sure . she stopped laughing all of a sudden and took a step towards harry . she was so close now that louis could smell vodka tonic on her . “i can , can’t i ? ” louis said , her voice nearly a whisper . “that’s what i said . ” harry dropped her arms on her sides and let out a shaky breath .
custom down special 2 : iai counter lucina ' s counter starts off a bit slower and has a slightly longer recovery period . however , it deals more counter damage and has a much higher knockback . it sends the attacker in the opposite direction and puts lucina behind them .
when aardman was signed to produce chicken run for dreamworks , the park and lord insisted the company wouldn’t compromise its trademark britishness . by way of a compromise , mel gibson was cast as the anti - hero rocky . gibson , a big fan of wallace and gromit , was more than happy to sign . however , he was busy filming the patriot at the time the production required him , so he recorded many of his lines via digital phone lines .
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effective against dragons . at the start of every third turn , unit recovers 10 hp .
grants spd + 3 at start of turn if unit ' s hp < 50 % .
grants spd + 5 at start of turn if unit ' s hp < 50 % .
grants spd + 7 at start of turn if unit ' s hp < 50 % .
effective against dragons . at the start of every third turn , unit recovers 10 hp .
remains firmly grounded within the realism of the situation , the emphasis being on bringing the central figure to life in a manner that conveys the loneliness and quiet desperation implicit in the dialogue .
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au . harry and louis are roommates . girls ' night ends a little differently than usual .
a stationary chargeable attack . lucina thrusts her sword into her opponent like her standard attack animation in
a narrow blade , usable by chrom and lucina , that ' s best against armored foes .
, which strove to be as zany as possible in their interpretations of their source material , the aim here was to emphasise the drama in the mundane , the complete and utter ordinariness of the setting and situation being precisely the point . in this particular case , we follow a door - to - door salesman with a suitcase full of cleaning equipment as he spars off against an elderly couple and runs through what we suspect from the outset will be an unsuccessful sales pitch .
the pensioner states that he has come from the hostel across the road on the understanding that he requires a ticket from this particular hostel in order to get a meal in their cafeteria . as the man at the front desk attempts to make sense of what he is saying , it becomes apparent that the pensioner may have had the doors closed on him by the unseen hostel across the road - at one of the most illuminating points of the conversation , he asks the captain on duty ,
who did you ring ?
and insists that ,
i ' ve never done them no harm , none of them .
with each of his statements essentially amounting to a pitiful , disconcerted plea (
i ' m disabled , in a way
,
i can ' t cross the roads . . . bad nerves
) , he is in every respect an outcast , struggling desperately to articulate his despair and ultimately failing to make any kind of connection . the extent of his dislocation is emphasised in a particularly harrowing moment when the man at the desk consults the captain and the pensioner turns and wanders off on his own around the lobby , apparently unable to keep a firm footing in wherever he stands for long .
the film also expands upon the physical environment of its three speakers by adding in a couple of silent characters : a neighbouring woman who eavesdrops upon the conversation and the couple ' s dog , who comes sniffing around the salesman ' s briefcase as he gets deeper into his pitch . by twist of fate , both of these characters seem more interested in what the salesman has to offer than do his intended audience - particularly the latter , whose affection for a blue brush which was casually discarded during the course of the salesman ' s pitch provides the closing image of the film . in an ending which feels at once comical and poignant , we see the closest that the salesman ever comes ( albeit unwittingly ) to finding an appreciative consumer for his wares - somewhat ironically over an item that he himself wasn ' t so much as prepared to talk up .
chickens have cannibalistic tendencies . farmers will often
de - beak
them , in a process which removes the end of the beaks , in order to prevent them from eating one another .
. i ' d be lying if i said that
call of the mild
was automatically a better episode for the lack of binford - brand unpleasantness . oh sure , it ' s nice to have a solid eleven minutes in which we don ' t have to tolerate their ugly antics , but
call of the mild
still suffers from tedious , directionless plotting which fails to do anything particularly interesting with the change of setting . our dog simply runs away to live on the streets for a bit , the only really significant outcome being that , once we ' ve compiled enough footage to fill up an episode , he inevitably has to go back home .
lucina is a strong willed and driven woman who is determined to alter the dark future she came from . she values her comrades deeply and has a sense of justice . due to the countless deaths and horrific events of the future , she dislikes any form of death , even
noble
ones . her main motivations come from her love for her parents , especially chrom . lucina is willing to do whatever it takes to see that chrom stays alive , even if it means going against her wish for no needless deaths . nevertheless , she is obedient to chrom and puts her trust in her father ' s judgements , showing a strong bond of trust with her father .
these projects also saw aardman increase their manpower , hiring several new animators for the next project . this project turned out to be lip synch , a project similar to their previous one but which helped them really develop the facial animations of the characters . there were five in total , spread between different animators . one of these animators was named nick park , a name synonymous with aardman .
; we hear him talking about one vina who was seduced away from him . the ill - fated al / vina relationship actually does resurface a few times throughout the series as a running gag , although al ' s implied presence here as a hobo residing in a box car does raise a few questions with regards to continuity . for example , what ' s become of his dog katie ? and isn ' t he supposed to be running a doughnut shop in south dakota right now ? al ' s supposed to be a down on his luck guy , so you could infer that his business failed and that katie ditched him , although that doesn ' t fit with what ' s later shown in the tenth and final episode and - well , we ' ll get to that .
, where he played the role of lou breeze , the quiet and much - abused personal assistant of capitol pictures big cheese jack lipnick . the coens had written the part of lou breeze specifically for polito , but ironically polito was more interested in the role of lipnick , which he considered by far the juicer job , and initially turned down their offer . as recounted by polito in
harry blasts music in the early hours of the morning . louis brings her back to bed .
custom regular special 1 : storm thrust : lucina ' s thrusting animation creates a small whirlwind in front of her , giving her higher knockback . the sword itself deals less damage than the default .
one of the most striking changes to the established order of business at the final meeting is that lou , who ' d previously positioned himself at an almost uncomfortably close proximity to barton , now maintains a firm distance from him , except for at the very end when he gets to eject him in the usual manner . there are few more telling signals of barton ' s fall from grace than in this supposed dogsbody no longer having to maintain the illusion of being on a close or comparable footing to him , much less run back and forth fetching cups of coffee for this lowly and undesirable writer . it was lou , we also learn , who actually read barton ' s screenplay for
has to do with the falseness of hollywood ; the notion that no one whom barton encounters upon his increasingly disorientating journey is ever quite what they appear , and the more sordid realities which occasionally manage to seep their way through to the surface . the relationship between lipnick and lou is one of the more muted examples of these falsities in action , but also one of the most fascinating .
the animation has the rough , unpolished but lovingly crafted look which was characteristic of the early aardman shorts , with the attention to detail being absolutely splendid all round . the only slight chink occurs when day pours the aforementioned cereal box and we blatantly switch into live action footage of cornflakes filling up a bowl , which seems discordant with the overall flow of the stop - motion animation - and yet it also fits in perfectly with the sense of half - asleep , pre - caffeine delirium which
aardman animation .
early bird
an early
conversation piece
animating a radio west broadcast .
, it was thanks to a conversation with fellow coens regular frances mcdormand that he was persuaded otherwise .
from their previous successes , aardman had the world at their feet for the man and his dog , and so they moved on to… nothing . well , strictly speaking not ‘nothing’ , yet no real shorts or films . they had a few minor projects , such as a jubilee - themed project and a prom night , but aardman has so far declined to produce anything new on the wallace and gromit front . perhaps this is due to their transition to a few franchise , or the failing health of peter sallis , the voice of wallace , or maybe they’ve simply been working on another feature length epic .
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a punctilious waiter at the steak barn is taken aback when a diner orders the vegetarian option . regardless of how glistening and sharp the restaurant ' s knives , how large the type of the menu ' s meat dishes , how baleful the italian ' s eye when he takes the order , and how argumentative the cook , the customer steadfastly awaits crudités . who could this naif be ?
this is just a collection of louis - centirc , larry stylinson one - shots . please enjoy , i take request . the first page is all about the requirements to request please check it out .
a follow - up short , the wrong trousers , was produced and released in 1993 . broadening the cast to include the penguin feathers mcgraw , and weaving a more traditional plot than a grand day out , the thirty - minute comedy won the academy award that nick park stole from himself four years prior .
remember the sheep i mentioned ? everyone else did . his bumbling innocence proved popular with audiences , and so in 2007 cbbc began airing shaun the sheep , a children’s comedy about shaun’s antics around his farm . it was very successful , and is still being created now . a notable absence from the creation team was nick park , who released the directorial role in favour of a production credit and other projects .


cactus makes perfect is the 61st short subject released by columbia pictures in 1942 starring american slapstick comedy team the three stooges ( moe howard , larry fine and curly howard ) .

the comedians released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959 .

cactus makes perfect

cactus makes perfect ( 1942 ) starring moe howard , larry fine , curly howard , vernon dent synopsis of cactus makes perfect cactus makes perfect is an above - average western short film starring the three stooges – moe howard , larry fine and curly howard . after a hilarious “morning routine” , the stooges’ mother throws them out of the house to make their way in the world . the . . .
cactus makes perfect
is a fanon episode of htf . in this episode , howdy reels in the wrong catch with his lasso .
changed socks a stooge mentions that he cleaned his socks and he ' s very proud of himself . also used in : cactus makes perfect · three dark horses
hive mind : eating extract of peyote cactus makes you part of one , directed by the drug lord .
oh and btw , the
im going to change my socks
line is said by moe in this short , not curly . curly says that same line in
cactus makes perfect
not this short .
tate , joyce l . , cactus cookbook , succulent cookery international , cactus and succulent society of america , 1978 .
when a collectable block touches a cactus it will be destroyed . so sometimes when it auto - sheds itself the collectable cactus block will fall onto living cactus and destroy itself .
[ curly throws the dynamite on the floor , and it instantly makes a huge explosion .
after makes a loud dinging sound , he pulls out a long receipt from his mouth . ]
4 - level automatic cactus farm with water transport . this one yields only slightly more than the above at the collection point , because not all cactus blocks hit water .
if there is space available above a 1 or 2 block high cactus , but there is a block next to where the new cactus block will be , then the cactus will grow and immediately break off , dropping a cactus resource around its base . water flows can then be used to move the drops from many planted cacti to a single collection point . the trick is to place the
breaker
block along the same row as the cactus , so that it forces the dropped cactus block into the water . highly efficient cactus farms can be generated using tiered rows and waterfalls , as seen below .
cactus farming is the systematic planting and subsequent harvesting of cacti . cactus farms are useful for acquiring green dye , by smelting the cactus blocks . interesting , effective and large farming configurations can be achieved by using creative structuring of water source blocks and sand . cactus growth is achieved on blocks of sand and with an absence of adjacent blocks next to the plants .
the block adjacent to the top cactus can be a sign rather than a solid block .
you may also put a torch to prevent freezing in a snowy or freeze - prone biome . keep in mind that some of the cactus drops can be destroyed by the cactus block .
trippy struggles to free himself , but causes the enormous cactus to topple . as the cactus falls , howdy is pulled off his horse and into the cactus forest . somewhere on the other side , josh paints a picture of the cacti in the desert sunset . suddenly , the huge cactus crushes him . just when a wounded howdy crawls out of the cactus forest , a flock of vutures attack him . one of the vultures pulls the rope , still attached to trippy ' s neck . stuck to the cactus thorns , trippy ' s head soon gets ripped off .
a minecart with hopper that is in the sand block under the cactus will always be able to grab any item dropped onto the top of a cactus before the cactus can destroy it . ( a simple way to get a hopper minecart into sand is to get one into a 1 x 1 hole and drop sand on it ) . this allows one to create a loss - less cactus farm .
ashley , george , the punctured thumb , or cactus and other succulents , 101 productions . 1977 .
compensating for something : being an angel , samyazaz lacks genitals . that , for reasons he isn ' t exactly sure of himself , makes him feel bad . also for reasons he can ' t quite articulate , building really big , tall , pointy ziggurats makes him feel better .
mitich , larry . prickly peat cactus , botany department cooperative extension , university of california , davis , california 95616 .
using a design like this , you can create insanely large and space efficient cactus farms . also , with some water , hoppers , and a chest , you can make it fully autonomous leaving it , and collecting the cactus later .
murphy observes , “john is the greatest collaborator of all time . and i think that’s what makes him so successful . he is tirelessly collaborative . ”
when the thorn gets pulled out , moe ' s foot pushes curly forward and curly knocks larry back into the cactus . ]
hunter , mel , in defense of opuntias , cactus & succulent journal . vol . 57 , september - october . 1985 .
2 - level automatic cactus farm . the top blocks could be lowered to make the upper cacti be only one block high .
the timer read 4 : 33 , which is the length of john cages famous silent musical piece . 4 : 33 makes 273 seconds total . - 273 is absolute zero in celsius . john cages piece is perfect silence ; absolute zero is perfect stillness . in the year 273 ad , the two consuls of rome were named tacitus and placidianus ; tacitus is latin for silence and placidianus is latin for stillness . 273 is also the gematria of the greek word eremon , which means silent or still . none of this is a coincidence because nothing is ever a coincidence .
the concept behind this is done with the setup outlined above , except when constructing your building you need to place blocks two spaces above the sand , adjacent to ( but not touching ) the sand so that they float in the air . the reason behind this is that when cactus comes in contact with an adjacent block it will auto - shed the segment of cactus touching it . this way , when the cactus grows to its 3rd segment high , your floating block will be adjacent to the cactus , so the top piece will break and fall into the water .
this one makes for the perfect finishing touch of your last long weekend day . breeze into a cactus club cafe on august 1 , and enjoy a patio party and all - day happy hour specials . taking place at seven cactus restaurants in english bay , coal harbour , bentall , yaletown , robson , west broadway , along with broadway and ash , you can enjoy drinks like summer smash , passion fruit bellini , and grapefruit lager . they’ll be on special all day starting at $ 4 . select locations are also serving up djs to max out the summer vibes . even better – you could win a vip patio party experience for you and five friends . scroll to the end for all the details .
cactus makes perfect
gets some good laughs from some of the stooges ' standard material . when curly comes up with a crackpot invention that is supposed to find gold , the trio heads out west to find a mine . it starts off a little slowly , except for some good moments with ' ma stooge ' ( played by monte collins ) as she tries to motivate her boys , but then gets quite funny . most of the laughs come from standard stooges material , but their timing here is very good . stooges fans won ' t be disappointed by this one .
however , forbidding the spines , this cactus is definitely worth eating . the pads are
cladodes
or
nopales
when they ' re whole , and
nopalitos
when they ' re diced . they taste something like green beans . the fruits are called prickly pears , cactus pears , or
tunas .
with this method of cactus farming , you can harvest cacti without taking damage by using a platform and a water canal for the cactus blocks . first , look for a 12x12 square and begin with a line of 7 sand blocks . [ 1 ] after that , build a footing with cobblestone or any other block you like and surround the sand line . [ 2 ] then , build another layer with cobblestone so you can reach the second level of a grown cactus so you can hit them easily . [ 3 ] lastly , get a bucket with water and pour out the water in the middle of the sluice . [ 4 ] wait for the cactus to grow up and break the upper block while standing on the pedestal . with this method of farming you gain about 85 % of the cactus blocks .
you want to minimize the number of possible points of contact for a cactus block to make contact and fall back to the living cactus . using the dense checkerboard pattern , consider using iron bars or glass panes and placing them with the bars / panes separated by 3 spaces on the cardinal direction and 1 space on the ordinal direction . this ceiling pattern ensures that all cactus are only being touched on one side , and minimally so ( 2 pixels ) , giving the block plenty of room to escape .
try to experiment with wooden pressure plates at the collection point . set up a redstone torch which stops burning when the pressure plate is pressed down by a cactus block .
equal - opportunity evil : part of thamiel ' s pitch to the united nations is pointing out that unlike other nations , hell enjoys perfect equality of race , orientation , gender and creed . everyone gets horribly tortured for all eternity , without discrimination .
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lasseter says , “i always thought that bonnie would be a fantastic female lead in one of our films , and that she has what it takes to be the perfect voice actor for an animated film . she’s a great actor , and she has a wonderful voice quality that jumps off the screen . she also brings to her role the ability to ad lib . she makes the part her own , and makes it sound natural . i always encourage the actors to find that something that is unique to them , and bonnie would come up with things that you couldn’t script . she has the ability to make you weep . her performance has so much emotion and heart , in addition to all the humor . ”
greenwood’s talent for emotional inner conflict shines in the second book of the cactus creek cowboys series when a widow challenges her dead husband’s legacy and the expectations of the entire town . romantic times
remove the sand block that is supporting the two non - falling blocks . plant cacti on the sand adjacent to the column of blocks . when the cactus grows to a second column , it will snap off , bounce off of the blocks , and fall into the trench , which you can fill with water . if you wanted it to be more efficient , use fences rather than blocks so the cactus that grows has a little more room to fall into the water / collection area . blocks make the chances a lot lower of the cactus being collected .
another method is to setup pistons to push the middle cactus block , breaking the top two blocks . this allows the third , bottom block to remain so that replanting is not necessary .
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, available from the cactus and succulent society of america . recipes range from appetizers , soups , and salads through entrees , vegetable dishes , and breads to desserts , beverages , and candies .
“the photos are nothing short of brilliant , with stills from the columbia ranch , the warner brothers ranch , and various southern california locales . it’s all in this beautifully rendered and covered book and makes the best gift for any stooges fan . ” urltoken
it is revealed that the little calf was hiding behind a nearby rock the entire time . it and howdy ' s horse feast on a cactus leaf that fell off during the lasso tug - of - war .
his horse stops in front of a cactus forest , and howdy assumes the calf went through it . howdy pulls out his lasso and twirls it . the lasso gets tossed all the way over the cacti . on the road , trippy steps out of his car and takes a breath of fresh air . unfortunately , the lasso grabs his neck . howdy pulls the rope , unknowingly sending trippy through the prickly cacti . eventually , trippy gets his wings stuck to the thorns on a very large cactus .
literal metaphor : the drug lord is a supernatural entity that controls the hive mind that you join if you take peyote cactus extract , and the drug war was a literal war fought between the untied states of america and the drug lord - controlled mexico .
the genus opuntia includes the prickly pear , bunny ears , and beaver tail cacti . it is also called cactus pear and indian fig ( fico d ' india in italian ) . you may have been intrigued by the seemingly erratic growth of the prickly pear cactus , with its pads protruding at all angles ; or you may have avoided it because of its sharp , barbed spines and tiny stickers . everyone , however , can appreciate the prickly pear ' s large but delicate and colorful blooms and the sweet , succulent fruit .
it is also possible to make a transport system for the cactus if you place a single water source in the corner of the ' box ' you constructed for the farm . when placing the water block , you need to place it on the 2nd block above the ground to create a ' down fall ' of water which then produces the required force to allow the water to reach the farthest corner away from the source block . with this setup it is possible to have the newly harvested cactus blocks float to a single collection point .
5 stars is not enough to convey my true feelings for this book . the depth of the characters , the well - crafted plot , the emotion evoked by every perfect word . rarely do i find a book that i never want to end . if you like historical westerns with a perfectly crafted romance ( very low on the steamy scale ) go preorder this book ! - kame ' s review
the stickiness of the sap makes it useful in formulating various products . it can be extracted to make chewing gum and candles , and is used as a stiffening agent for cotton cloth . a common use in rural areas of mexico is to boil it down into a concentrate and mix it with whitewash and mortar to increase the durability of buildings .
this is a bona fide classic . i can ' t remember curly being any funnier . he makes some hilarious noises when his head is stuck in the mineshaft . curly must have super powers if he ' s able to poke vernon dent on the top of his hat and still hurt his eyes . a total laugh riot from start to finish .
lasseter observes , “i’m so proud of this character and thrilled that paul newman agreed to provide the voice . not only is he one of our greatest actors of all time , but his association with racing made him the perfect choice for this role . we were thrilled when he agreed to voice doc . paul was great to work with and was really excited to be providing the voice for a car character . ”
good short that does seem to have a slight anti - military slant to it . the curly pantomime bit is excellent ; curly dominates this frombeginning to end . the submarine parts drag a bit , but the fine endingwith the stooge angels makes up for it . 3 pokes - nick barker
i just changed my socks today , what an experience !
propagation from pads is simpler and faster , advises lorraine thomas of k & l cactus nursery in galt , california . from a growing cactus , cut a pad that is at least six months old , and allow it to form callous . this will take a week or two in warm weather but longer when the air is moist . be sure to allow more time rather than less , to avoid rot . sit the pad upright while it forms callous so that it will not curl . the cured pads may be dipped in a bordeaux mixture to further protect them from fungal infection .
adding to the authenticity of the desert location , modelers in the sets department were able to dot the landscape with thousands of pieces of vegetation , including cactus , sagebrush ( in brown , green , yellow and tan varieties ) , and grass . rocks of varying formations also added interest to the scenery .
god created the universe with evil in it because he wanted to create the best possible multiverse rather than just one perfect universe , and the best possible multiverse contains all the possible universes with more good than evil , not just the perfect ones with no evil at all . as it happens , this world does not contain more good than evil right now . however , god foresaw the entire history of the universe before creating it , and brought it into being specifically because he knew that it would have more good than bad in it in the end - whereas he refrained from creating a number of similar possible universes because he foresaw that they would end up being more evil than good . and sure enough , while the unsong universe has been a crapsack world up to now , by the end of the story it does look like things are about to take a cosmic turn for the better .
greenwood is a master at westerns ! his cowboys are the best ! the first book in the cactus creek cowboys series , it’s full of action , mad escapades , indian attacks , and dangerous secrets . it’s the story of two stubborn lovers who find passion and adventure in the wild , wild west . - romantic times
“john and i are real good buddies , ” he adds . “we’re both into anything that has to do with a track and cars . he makes ya real comfortable . he told me , ‘mater is your character . i want you to make it yours and do the lines however you wanna do it . ’ when i’d say a line and he’d start laughin’ i knew i was doin’ pretty good .
fresh pads provide a dependable source of food and drink for livestock and poultry . from 1906 to 1915 , burbank developed and promoted some 35 varieties of
spineless
cactus for this purpose . charles e . russell , of texas a & i university , has studied some of these and other varieties as animal fodder in arid regions of texas , mexico , and chile . russell points out that the pads , when supplemented with a portion of cottonseed meal , offer all the moisture and nutrition an animal needs . cantwell - de - trejo adds that while there is a maximum amount of cactus pads that animals can eat ( if pads make up over 50 % of their diet , they will develop diarrhea ) , the pads may be the only source of food and water for range animals during times of drought or hardship . a wide variety of other animals has been successfully raised on the cactus pads . these include sheep , pigs , horses , ostriches ( grown for their feather plumes ) , and at least one circus elephant .
the flavor of a ripe prickly pear cactus fruit depends on the variety but include strawberries , watermelons , honeydew melons , figs , bananas , and citrus . you can eat them raw , at room temperature or chilled , and alone or with lemon juice . they can be cooked into jams and preserves or cooked down into a syrup as a base for jelly and candy ( the
cactus candy
in some mexican food stores . this syrup can be reduced even further into a dark red or black paste that is fermented into a potent alcoholic drink called
coloncha .
the fruit pulp can be dried and ground into flour for baking into small sweet cakes , or stored for future use .
a hell of a time :
the broadcast
promises that the very worst sinners get less torture in hell , because thamiel wants to encourage people who think they ' re going to be damned anyway to sin even more in the hopes of getting better treatment , rather than sin less - and because knowing that people like hitler , beria , and delphine lalaurie get off relatively easily makes hell that much worse for everyone else .
malia : i am evil . and i am vindictive . and i find that of everyone i have worked with , and all the sob stories i have heard , yours makes me the most annoyed . i was born to do evil . i made peace with my nature and tried to save the world . you had every opportunity to do good , and you squandered it in childish games . i find i cannot forgive you .
the fruits ripen from early spring through late fall , depending on the variety . those that are best for eating fresh ripen from september through november . charlotte glenn of le marche seeds international in dixon , california , who works extensively with gourmet vegetables , says that the perfect stage of ripeness of each fruit lasts only about a week , and the maximum shelf life of a fruit is only eight or nine days . many of the fruits sold in california are imported from mexico to extend the market season .
whether you add sliced or cubed pads to omelettes or gently urge the fruit from its stickery skin and eat it fresh or cooked into jelly , this cactus has much to offer . even the seeds can be eaten in soups or dried and ground into flour . recipes and entertaining and informative tips on preparation can be found in joyce l . tate ' s
logan holstock , oldest of three brothers orphaned on the santa fe trail , has always been content knowing his brothers were alive and happy somewhere in the vast and brutal west—until he learns he may be dying . certain he has little time left , logan sets out to find them and end his days near a family he’s never known . . . and stumbles across a strong yet vulnerable widow who makes him yearn for what can never be his .
around the turn of the century , the plant scientist luther burbank researched many uses of the prickly pear cactus . bob hornback of santa rosa , california , has worked with the luther burbank collection for many years and done much to relocate and save specimens of these varieties . he has compiled a list of prickly pear uses from burbank ' s research notes , circa 1914 .
naomi kessling is certainly grateful to colby for saving her family and agreeing to lead their train to safer territory , but the man has an infuriating way of knowing just how to get under her skin . he asks too many question about a past she doesn ' t want to remember , and his touch makes her long for far more . yet the more time they spend together , the more naomi sees that perhaps it ' s colby who needs rescuing the most .
if it ' s a greenwood cowboy story , readers are guaranteed an emotional , rich , adventurous romance with strong heroes and courageous heroines - just like this one . this is a story about love , second chances and family . it ' s also book three of the cactus creek cowboys , but i hope it ' s not the last in this splendid series .
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the actor has spent the last few years as a regular in director christopher guest’s comedic stable , playing a ufo abductee in “waiting for guffman , ” the patriarch of the new main street singers in “a mighty wind , ” and will be seen in the upcoming “for your consideration . ” prior to that he was a regular with director robert altman and had featured roles in “a wedding , ” “a perfect couple , ” “health” and “popeye , ” in which he portrayed the hamburger loving wimpy . ( a role , dooley adds , he played with relish . )
according to russell , the pads are a highly - prized commodity in the dairy industry of mexico . when fed to dairy stock , the pads impart a distinctive flavor to the milk and butter , and these products are highly desired locally . a mutually beneficial barter system between cacti and dairy producers provides all the manure the cactus can use in return for all the pads the dairy stock can eat .
the legend of zelda : ocarina of time isn ' t the first game in the series to feature time travel , nor is it the last . with the bending of space and time , however , comes the opportunity for glaring plot holes—most of which the first nintendo 64 zelda title was able to avoid . however , there ' s one paradox that , when you think long and hard about it , makes your brain bleed . in kakariko village , there ' s a dude named guru guru—or , as many people probably know him , the windmill man . link ' s relationship with this minor character goes something like this : guru guru tells adult link that he once heard a song from a boy which has stuck in his head for years , then shares the song with adult link . later in the game , you go back in time and , as young link , play this song— which you first learned as an adult —in front of guru guru , causing it to get stuck in his head . are you seeing the problem here ? basically , guru guru teaches adult link , who teaches young link , who teaches guru guru , who teaches adult link—and so on and so forth , creating an infinite loop of sorts . now , we ' re not saying this whole thing is impossible . perhaps we just don ' t know enough about space - time theory , and this paradoxical plot hole actually makes perfect sense to the world ' s best physicists . but to us mere plebs , it sounds a lot like the chewbacca defense , in that it does not…make…sense .
this is a very simple design , with pistons below a pile of gravel blocks . when the cactus has fully grown , activating the pistons will then push the gravel blocks up , which will break all the adjacent cacti blocks . this is very effective when it comes to harvesting it as cacti yield is 100 % with no loss , though it requires you to replant them . this design is also very easily expandable .
other parts of the cactus also are useful . the pads can be pounded and dried , and the strong fibers woven into mats , baskets , fans , and fabrics . pressed fibers can be used in making paper . the large spines are used as toothpicks , needles , and pins . even the woody skeletons left after the fleshy tissues is dried can be used ( in the construction of houses , rustic furniture , and assorted trinkets .
russell and cantwell - de - trejo concur that the prickly pear cactus is an underappreciated plant species , and they optimistically anticipate the development of future economic uses for both the pads and the fruit . some possible uses , russell suggests , include adapting the natural mucilage in pads as a soup thickener similar to agar , using the fruit ' s juice in various flavorings , and fermenting the juice into vinegar and wine ( the distillate retains a wonderfully fruity aroma .
leigh greenwood gives the reader all the things expected in a westward trek to new lands . he involves the reader in actions that make the heart jump up into one’s throat at times . best of all he gives the reader a love that grows simply and steadily in every aspect of the hero and heroine—it reaches not only the emotional and physical but also the mental and spiritual—the forever kind of love that makes them strong and able to reach out to others with love and caring . to have and to hold is a keeper to be enjoyed more than once . - long and short reviews
i have read most of the books that leigh greenwood has written…some twice . i loved each book that i’ve read and so i was sure “to have and to hold” would be no different . i was right . it is the first book in his new series “cactus creek cowboys” that takes place along the santa fe trail in 1865 , just after the civil war ended . i recommend any novel by leigh greenwood . he is one of my favorite authors . - the night owl reviews team
rockstar san diego ' s open - world action - adventure red dead redemption is a master - class in game making , and easily the best western - themed video game ever made . that being said , it also illustrates the fact that no game is perfect , housing one significant plot hole which really makes us scratch our noggins in bewilderment . everyone was bummed out when john marston died . it was truly one of the most heartbreaking moments in gaming history . luckily , his son jack marston shows up to save the day three years later , doling out some revenge and being an all - around badass—just like his former outlaw father . the problem is , this turn of events poses one major question : how in tarnation did book - readin ' intellectual pubescent jack marston turn into a total badass , in only three years , with all the same dead - eye shootin ' skills as his legend - of - the - west father ? john marston surely cultivated that precision aim and those legendary gunslingin ' skills after a lifetime of being an outlaw , in addition to all the shenanigans we actually have control over . you mean to tell us , rockstar , that jack marston—presumably still in his late teens—acquires every one of his father ' s talents , without his father around to teach him , in one year short of a presidential term ? we ' re calling bullpucky .
“mater was definitely a popular character with the animators , and i think in a way he became the centerpiece of the movie , ” says sweetland . “animators loved to work on the character because he was so physical and provided a lot of juicy bits for them to sink their teeth into . the model provided a little more freedom because it had a separate cab and bed to the truck . and then you have the tow cable that you can incorporate as a tail , or even twirl like a helicopter . mater does all sorts of stuff with it . larry the cable guy gave us a lot to work with . he’s so funny and yet his performance has so much heart . to me , it’s one of those incredibly perfect voices like sterling holloway with winnie the pooh . ”
the sap from the pads can be used in first aid similar to the aloe vera plant . simply cutoff a portion of a pad , crush it , and squeeze the juice onto a cut , burn , or bruise . the sap will soothe the wound . ground or pureed young pads are used as a laxative and also as a remedy for diabetes . according to marita cantwellde - trejo , extension vegetable postharvest specialist at the university of california , davis , the mexican institute of nutrition in mexico city is researching the hypoglycemic effect of cactus consumed by humans .
while the prickly pear cactus is native to the united states , mexico , and south america , it grows well in many areas of the world , including africa , australia , and the mediterranean . in some areas of south africa and australia , it has become a notorious weed . it will grow at elevations ranging from sea level to 15 , 000 feet . large commercial plantations thrive in mediterranean areas , and the fruit is an important agricultural crop of sicily . in california , the d ' arrigo brothers plantation is located in gilroy , off heckler pass road .
individual taste preferences will dictate which varieties to choose for eating fresh and which for cooking . in mexico alone , there are over 100 species with edible fruits . sam williams , a cactus enthusiast in carmichael , california , says that while all the fleshy fruit kinds are edible and none are poisonous , only a few are palatable and even fewer taste really sweet . they range from juicy to dry and sweet to acid . cantwell - de - trejo says that the acidity and fibrousness of the fruits are called
xoconochtlis
and are used in certain traditional mexican stews and other dishes .
a film that celebrates our universal love affair with cars , and the joys of taking the road less traveled , called for the world’s best road trip soundtrack , and lasseter enlisted his longtime collaborator randy newman ( a 2002 oscar® - winner for his song , “if i didn’t have you” from “monsters , inc . ” ) and a host of top recording artists to add to the fun and excitement . taking pixar in whole new musical direction , the songs integrate with newman’s score ( and great new song performed by james taylor ) , and showcase a variety of styles and performances . the combination of newman’s musical genius with the contributions of these other great artists makes for a rousing musical experience and represents a first for pixar .
commenting on the characters themselves , bonnie hunt ( the voice of sally ) says , “when they write these movies at pixar , they start with the heart of the character first . and once the heart is there , it doesn’t matter what’s on the outside . even a car becomes a character and a personality . the heart and soul is what turns a steel car into a character and a person . it’s not only the script that makes these films special . john lasseter and the artists at pixar provide the imagination that is the gold mine of their storytelling process . their imaginations go to the fantasies of the heart , and of life , and of our values . anything that you can possibly visualize in your mind , they bring to life . ”
before commercial dependence on synthetic dyes , cactus plantations were planted for the production of red pigments . the red - colored fruit of opuntia streptacantha contain betacyanins ( similar to anthocyanins ) that are used for food coloring . carminic acid (
cochineal
( is produced by the cochineal insect that feeds on the pads and fruit , and is used in botanical stains and as a cloth dye . in the 16th century , the export of cochineal from mexico was second in importance and monetary value only to silver . according to cantwell - de - trejo , there is a resurgence of interest in these natural pigments . also , some indian groups dry the pads , flower buds , and fruits for later boiling and eating . young flower buds can be baked and eaten .
racing is about winning , and “the king” has proven he knows how to do just that , but it is giving back to the community and his fans that makes petty “the king” of auto racing . wearing his signature cowboy hat and sunglasses one can always see petty signing an autograph or giving a helping hand . in fact petty was instrumental in the development of the victory junction gang camp , a camp for chronically ill children , after donating acres of his land that the camp sits on today . there is no other person in nascar’s history to have made more of an impact on the sport , on and off the track , than richard petty . he has been elected to the national motorsports press association hall of fame , international motorsports hall of fame , north carolina auto racing hall of fame , and also the north carolina athletic hall of fame . he also serves as chairman of the north carolina motorsports association . in addition , he is the proud recipient of the medal of freedom , the highest civilian award , which he received in 1992 .
if you prefer more flowers and fruits , give the plants a no - nitrogen fertilizer such as 0 - 10 - 10 once a month , even through the winter . during this dormant period , the plants require a bright situation and enough water only to keep the pads from shriveling . the cactus will bloom and set fruit from early spring through the summer , depending on the variety . each pad can support numerous flowers , each yielding one fruit . up to 30 blooms have been counted on mature pads , but 8 to 16 is a good number to allow for development of good - sized fruits . the fruits are ripe enough to harvest when the glochids fall off . twist , rather than pull , the fruit from the pad to avoid tearing it . if the fruits are harvested unripe , the peel color will change some , but some of the sugar in the fruit will be lost .
the entire family packed up a motor home , and set out on a two - month trip with the goal of staying off the interstate highways , and dipping their toes in the pacific and atlantic oceans . “everybody thought we would be at each others throats the whole time , ” adds lasseter , “but it was the exact opposite . when i came back from the trip , i was closer to my family than ever and i reattached to what was important in life . and i suddenly realized that i knew what the film needed to be about . i discovered that the journey in life is the reward . it’s great to achieve things , but when you do you want to have your family and friends around to help celebrate . joe loved the idea and our story really took off from there . our lead car , lightning mcqueen , is focused on being the fastest . he doesn’t care about anything except winning the championship . he was the perfect character to be forced to slow down , the way i had on my motor home trip . for the first time in my professional career i had slowed down , and it was amazing . the unique thing about pixar films is that the stories come from our hearts . they come from things that are personal to us , and that move us . this gives special emotion and meaning to the films . ”
in the first crysis , north korea invades an island , which a bunch of aliens have basically turned into their own little private resort—scoring some rest and relaxation while planning the destruction of the human race . naturally , the only logical thing to do , as humans , is to nuke said island back to the stone age . unfortunately , it turns out the aliens actually absorb nuclear energy , making them more powerful than ever . who knew ? ( there were warnings , but… ) in crysis 2 , then , one can safely assume there will be no nuking of aliens . right ? defying all logic and common sense , the military in the crysis series ' second installment orders a nuclear strike on new york city , in an attempt at eradicating the alien threat . w…t…f ? essentially , crysis 2 pretends the first game never happened . this plot hole is more than significant , as the latter portion of the second game is based entirely around said new york city nuking . it literally makes no sense . none . zero . you ' d think a failed nuking of an energy - absorbing alien race wouldn ' t be something the military would forget—but apparently in crysis 2 , that file got lost somewhere .
ah , metroid . a classic nintendo franchise everyone seems to know about , but has never actually found mainstream success on the level of super mario or zelda . nevertheless , the game ' s premise is awesome : you ' re a woman in a badass robotic suit that kills aliens . what ' s not to like about that ? there is one problem , though—and it isn ' t that , throughout metroid ' s history , we ' ve apparently killed
the last metroid
a few too many times . rather , it ' s the fact that we ' ve killed space pirate / dinosaur - wannabe ridley a few too many times . even the most adept metroid scholars have a hard time explaining the recurrence of ridley , one of the series ' most notorious bosses . those who ' ve played every metroid may be forgiven for thinking that they ' ve killed ridley almost a dozen times in metroid , super metroid , metroid prime , metroid prime 3 , and metroid fusion . apparently , however , he didn ' t actually die in all of those cases , and has been cloned multiple times—at least that ' s how nintendo makes sense of it all . sounds like a copout to us . maybe it ' s past time for some genuinely new bosses in the metroid series , and to let poor ridley rest in peace .
it ' s safe to assume final fantasy vii is most fans ' favorite game in the series—hence the demand for a remake . however , one question has nagged even casual fans for ages : why didn ' t someone just use a phoenix down on aeris ? anyone who ' s played a final fantasy title knows phoenix downs are usable items which revive characters whose hit points are at zero . we ' ve used phoenix downs hundreds of times over the years…so how come we couldn ' t just throw one on the murdered aeris and bring her back to life ? some might argue that phoenix downs can only revive characters who are knocked out , as opposed to dead—but we ' re not sure we buy that logic . in final fantasy games , characters get blasted by lightning , burned with fire magic , sliced and shot in the face with gunblades , eradicated by giant guardian forces or mythical beings , hit in the nose with blitzballs—okay , maybe that last one isn ' t such a big deal , but you get the point . do you mean to tell us that getting stabbed by sephiroth ' s sword is any worse than getting sliced and shot by seifer almasy ' s gunblade in final fantasy viii , or wrecked by a giant sentient cactus ?
everyone remembers that controversial scene in call of duty : modern warfare 2 when you and a group of russians slaughter an airport full of people in a high - profile terrorist attack . questions surrounding the artistic merits aside , the level—which has the player doing little more than mowing down scores of innocent civilians with a machine gun—somehow manages to throw in a plot hole big enough to drive an armored swat tank through . at the end of the mission , you ' re betrayed by makarov and your terrorist colleagues , who cold - heartedly leave you behind . since you ' re american , this provokes a war between russia and the west . what makes no sense , however , is that nobody was able to identify makarov as the culprit in this extreme terrorist attack . it ' s already well - established that makarov is a high - profile target and internationally known terrorist leader , yet waltzing through an airport , without a mask , and blasting away dozens , if not hundreds , of innocent people isn ' t enough to identify the man behind the attack ? as shown in the loading screen scenes , makarov ' s terrorist threats have been published in newspapers , and the c . i . a . presumably has an extensive file on the most - wanted criminal—but he literally walks into an one of the most heavily - monitored public places you can possibly imagine , armed to the teeth , and the presumably hundreds of cctv cameras are unable to properly identify makarov ' s face ? c ' mon…if you see something , say something . storytelling might not be modern warfare 2 ' s strong suit—though recent installments in the long - running series are much better , in this regard—but seriously , if you ' re going to ask players to be a terrorist , at least have it make sense .
curly has invented a gold collar - button finder , and the stooges head for the hills to try their luck at prospecting . after running afoul of some grizzled , thieving prospectors , our heroes discover the treasure of the lost mine . taking refuge in a ghost town hotel , they lock themselves and the gold in the safe , where the villainous desert rats try to dynamite them out .
i ' m gonna change my socks . what an experience !
( curly )
dear mr . jack . . . look at the way he spells jack . . . j - e - r - k .
( curly )
hey , you ' re leavin ' the ends in ' im .
yeh , they don ' t show .
( moe & larry )
. . . for two pins i ' d bat your brains out !
i ain ' t got any pins .
you ain ' t got any brains , either !
( moe & curly )
boy , won ' t ma be happy !
yeah , we ' ll take her right out of the kitchen .
and move the stove into the dining room !
( moe , larry & curly )
this ain ' t gettin ' us no place ! we ' ll have to blast !
wait a minute . maybe we can pry him out !
it ' ll take longer , but go ahead .
( larry & moe )
bending crowbar when moe is trying to pry curly out of the mine shaft with a crowbar , you can tell that the crowbar is really made of a soft material because it bends on curly ' s face .
character breaking when curly says ã¢â‚¬å
what ' s all this fuss about ? ! ã¢â‚¬ at the end , you can see larry cracking up in the background .
left over chicken when the stooges are walking into the street and shouting ,
goodbye , ma
, you can see a chicken left over from the previous scene , at their house .
missed eyepoke when curly is supposed to eyepoke vernon dent ' s character , his hit was way off and he actually hit the top of dent ' s hat .
moe ' s hair moe ' s hair pattern suddenly changes several times during different camera angles of him during the digging scene .
revealing mistake you can tell that the stooges are standing in front of a screen projector when the truck behind them nearly knocks them over .
self - moving lever right before curly pulls down the gold lever on the wall , the lever moves up by itself .
tripping on the floor when the two claimjumpers ( vernon dent and ernie adams ) run after the stooges , ernie adams accidentally trips over something and falls off - screen .
visible padding when the arrow stabs vernon dent ' s character in the behind , you can tell there is padding in the seat of his pants .