The McBournie Minute: My favorite movies are secretly creepy

Like most people, my DVD library has a pretty obvious beginning and end to its collection. Just from a cursory glance, you can tell that the golden age of my DVDs was around 2002 to 2005, with a few purchases before and after that period. This doesn’t mean that all of my movies are a decade old, some of them are even older, but they were just re-released as on DVD during the aforementioned golden age.

As a whole, my selection seems to hold up pretty well today. For every mainstay like Animal House, there is a somewhat obscure misstep in choice like Collateral. The simple reason for why I bought so many movies during this time is that I was in college and Netflix didn’t exist. Often, I’d watch them while getting drunk with Bryan Schools. (We once had a passionate debate about the space-time continuum while while watching Back to the Future.)

I’ve realized in the years hence that I missed some things during these drunken debates. Turns out, some of my favorite movies have some downright creepy plot points. Continue reading The McBournie Minute: My favorite movies are secretly creepy

It’s just your traditional eating competition

America! It’s awesome!

Where else can you have an eating competition that gets national attention? Where else can you have an eating competition involving hotdogs that can be aired on a national sports channel? Nowhere but America, that’s where!

And then there are the lesser known eating competitions … like the cupcake competition in Myrtle Beach, also known as the “Diabetes Induction Contest.”

The newest threat in your home

There could be something deadly in your refrigerator, and it’s not the moldy leftovers.

In England, a jar of homemade rhubarb chutney turned into a bomb. A 66-year-old woman was sleeping when an explosion in the kitchen awoke her. We’re not exactly sure how this works, but the exploding jar had enough force to blow the refrigerator door off and caused a crack in the ceiling.

This is why everyone makes fun of you for canning your food.