i have no testing this weekend, and it's left me bereft

Today I got my notice regarding preordering a free range local turkey, and I don't want to brag here, but this level of preparation for the future is pretty unprecedented in me, so it was exciting. As I was pricing my turkey, I looked at the website of heartwarming turkey scenes (what a stupid thing to do) with a bio of the farm talking about the humane conditions and here's where everything went wrong, and really, there is no way it wasn't going to anyway, but: All of their livestock are in large open areas/pastures and are free to interact with each other. That's a quote.

So my turkey has friends, I thought, still holding my credit card for the down payment. Because staring at this picture of happy white turkeys, I wondered which one of them I was effectively putting out a contract on, full payment due when I got to see the denuded and gutted corpse. I have seen this on TV; people who do that are the bad guys, and no one likes them. Except I planned to get rid of the evidence via brine and roasting paired with stuffing, which dude, even the Godfather didn't stoop to eating his rivals (I think).

I've learned a valuable lesson, but it seems to imply foresight is bad and I have an alternate universe career ruthlessly running a cannibalistic cartel. And also, if the world ended and it was run down my own food or die, there is no scenario that doesn't end with me sobbing hopelessly while trying to will rocks to become nutritious, surrounded by scornful Disney animals who wonder how I failed at circle of life so dramatically.

I'm on a Trailer Kick

Red Dawn - yes, they're remaking Red Dawn. I don't know what that's called when you may or may not be completely missing the point of something that is not necessarily able to be universally themed when you look at the title with an eye for symbolism and the entire goddamn time period, but. Yeah, someone green lighted this. In case you're curious how they're handling that, yeah. I'm not even sure how to process this.

Wuthering Heights - I do not apologize for my endless kink for period drama, especially that which involves melodrama and epic love and well, revenge. And Heathcliffe, because Christ, it's fucking Heathcliffe. There are some epic characters that well, apparently canonically have killed puppies, and I just do not care. Heathcliffe.

Taken 2 - okay, who knew you could do more with this than before? Honestly, it was on the strength of the instruction scene to Kim and the possibility of seeing Apprentice!Kim doing awesome things. Okay, I hope for that, it just would be the most awesome father/daughter bonding in history.

The Lone Ranger - in the spirit of being a completionist, I--okay, what the hell? I'm hoping that's just a really bad trailer. A lot.

Comments

[concinnity]

I'm trying hard not to say "this is why I became a vegetarian," but as it turns out I can't stop myself. ...And I can't believe they're re-making Red Dawn. Red Dawn!

[seperis]

I'm trying hard not to say "this is why I became a vegetarian," but as it turns out I can't stop myself.

Dude, I can see why.

...And I can't believe they're re-making Red Dawn. Red Dawn!

I'm still boggling.

[everbright]

I thought the orig. Red Dawn was a giant allegory for whatever round of Afghanistan vs. Russia was the last one, and propaganda as to why we should give the Afghans guns. It sort of misses the point if the antagonists are North Koreans, they aren't invading anyone. Like, properly the Iranians ought to be making this movie with the US as the baddies and Iraq as the protagonists. Maybe?

HEATHCLIFF NEEDS TO TAKE A LONG WALK OFF A SHORT PIER.

The Lone Ranger looks like a screaming pile of racist fail, and the depressing thing is that the director/producer team that's putting it together are the same dudes that did the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie (i.e. the only good one.) JOHNNY, I knwo your long time GF just left you, but don't drown your sorrows in western movie nostalgia!

[seperis]

I thought the orig. Red Dawn was a giant allegory for whatever round of Afghanistan vs. Russia was the last one, and propaganda as to why we should give the Afghans guns. It sort of misses the point if the antagonists are North Koreans, they aren't invading anyone. Like, properly the Iranians ought to be making this movie with the US as the baddies and Iraq as the protagonists. Maybe?

*hands* I have no idea what they were doing.

The Lone Ranger looks like a screaming pile of racist fail, and the depressing thing is that the director/producer team that's putting it together are the same dudes that did the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie (i.e. the only good one.) JOHNNY, I knwo your long time GF just left you, but don't drown your sorrows in western movie nostalgia!

There was nothing about that trailer that didn't freak me out.

[abbylee]

(Possibly interesting fact:) In Canada, all poultry "are in large open areas/pastures and are free to interact with each other." The fancy ones have more outdoor access, but all farms are required to let them roam free even if they're inside. Also, hormones and steriods have been illegal for over 30 years and I think something about no medicine allowed in the feed.

(I had to read a turkey website for something for work and now it is STUCK IN MY BRAIN.)

[seperis]

Huh. I didn't know that.

[majoline]

*pets you* I don't have any compunction toward poultry because I grew up with all of my family owning some. And if you have a bunch of heirloom chickens and turkeys and the like? They act exactly like velociraptors.

They are evil and terrifying and hunt in packs by dive-bombing off roofs. I always figured humans domesticated them so they wouldn't eat us, honestly.

I was completely unsurprised when it turned out that chickens and hawks were once scary dinosaurs. It shows.

[seperis]

I lived in the country and we had chickens and pigs, but the chickens were for eggs--and possibly because we felt obligated to at least give the appearance of being country people--and the pigs vanished one day never to be seen again while no one metnined why we suddenly had a lot of pork.

[azurelunatic]

*nod* This.

That turkey might have friends. That turkey also might be the farmyard bully, pecking the shit out of his flockmates.

I had chickens growing up, and a few were special pets, but some were just bad eggs.

[seperis]

*snickers*

[azurelunatic]

(Also, hi! I'm Azz. I'm one of the other people who spends a rather large chunk of time in communication with Nora, and you seem pretty nifty.)

[ratcreature]

I'm vegetarian partly for this reason (though it's more for the overall environmental impact than the single animal), and I indirectly still kill cows and chickens by not being vegan, so it's not like I'm guilt-free. But that line of thinking expands, like I noticed that I sometimes feel bad even for eating plants when they are clearly still alive, like sprouting and such. However I'm not cut out to become fruitarian any more than vegan, and eat only things that leave the plant alive, but yeah.

[seperis]

I so could not do frutarian. I can't even imagine it.

[ratcreature]

yeah, me neither. I think you'd need to be very careful with nutrtion. I guess I could imagine it with the variants that count legumes as "fruit" for botanical reasons, and some vegetables, and allow eating seeds like nuts. Though not eating grains would be hard. And tbh I don't feel very bad about killing grain plants in harvest, because most grains are annual grasses and would die soon after anyway, and I don't feel bad about depriving their seeds of the chance to grow, because I'm not that pro-life. I mean, the reason I feel guilty about eggs is not because some fertilized ones might have had the potential to become chickens (I've honestly seem a vegan pamphlet once that argued against eggs from a "protect the embryo" position), but because so many actual chickens get killed with egg production, even if you buy organic free range eggs to have them suffer less, like the male ones and then hens once they aren't productive any more don't live out their life on some pasture either.

[azurehart]

I like eating chicken and turkey. I've been a life long carnivore. That being said I'd be stuck eating veggies if I was forced into a situation where I'd have to kill my own food.

I suppose I could theoretically raise chickens for the eggs. Then again that would probably make me some sort of poultry abortionist and I'm back to living on twigs and tubers.

[out_there]

I saw Taken2 yesterday. Best father-daughter driving lesson ever.

[nekare.livejournal.com]

That version of Wuthering Heights is really good - it's very stark and spare and viceral. There's no music, so it's all wind through the moors and stuff all the time, and the kids give some fantastic performances.

Red Dawn's trailer made me go a bit 'wat'. It doesn't help that I've never seen the original and that the never ending patriotism just makes me cringe. Ugh.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

That version of Wuthering Heights is really good - it's very stark and spare and viceral. There's no music, so it's all wind through the moors and stuff all the time, and the kids give some fantastic performances.

I was really attracted to the trailer just on the strength of the gorgeous shots. The echoing between the kids and adults was incredibly powerful.

[lunefin.livejournal.com]

Think of it as helping a business that lets turkeys lead happier lives. Also modern turkeys are as close to mindless protein as you can get without being tofu?

[lunefin.livejournal.com]

I have a friend that saw a turkey move its eggs by stabbing holes through them and carrying them on its beak. I mean it is kind of horrific, but by now I think farmed turkeys only live because people are breeding them for food.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

...I do like knowing that, yes.

[bathsweaver.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, the trailer for Wuthering Heights is gorgeous.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

I knowww. I was swept up in the gorgeousness.

[devin-chain.livejournal.com]

On the remake of Red Dawn:
Oh dear God. NOT a good idea.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

...seriously. Did they not understand the entire basis of the idea?

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Re that Lone Ranger. Um... yeah.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

Only minutes of trailer = years of flinching.