Cool Shit 11/20

Buffalo snow storm. This is insane. Remember: weather will always win. Have we learned nothing from the Avengers movie (the Fiennes/Thurman/Connery one)?

Get your Thanksgiving table ready - enjoy these 50 regional recipes from the 50 states of the US.

Football not your bag on Thanksgiving? Why not try a run of food-related documentaries with your turkey?

Paper airplanes...I love paper airplanes!



Yesterday we had to read about the stupid American Luther remake; today we at least get the good news that he'll be back in a miniseries for the British version.

Would you have liked The Shawshank Redemption had it ended like this?

A great primer for the movies you should see from 2014.

Horror stories about Uber. Two things I want to bring up before/after you read this. 1. I assume that while all of these incidents are reprehensible, traditional cabbies/companies have their share of horror stories that don't get the same reporting because they are not national companies; and 2. the person who put together this article seemingly  continues using the service, despite the stories she has collected about it.

Cool Shit 1/6

I've heard rumors of a Gladiator II script, but this summary of how it came to be is absurd. And to think there was any possibility of it being a success...

Lock picking made simple!

A sommelier offers his thoughts on the Charles Shaw line of wines, or probably more known as the Trader Joe's "Two Buck Chuck" vintage.

A list of movies based on books coming up in 2014.

An expose on white-collar prisons, begging us to believe they aren't so nice as told by...the guys who are in a white collar prison? Huh.

Survival as a fisherman who fell off a fishing boat. It might be my most frightening thought. Drowning with no land in sight; just the sparse, immense ocean.

With cold air routinely gripping parts of our nation here and there, it's never a bad idea to make sure your car can handle the dropping temperatures.