People Eat More Stale Popcorn If Served in a Big Bucket

Trenchant observation of the week: People Eat More Stale Popcorn If Served in a Big Bucket. I'll let you generalize your own larger, weary truths from the finding.

That's not a new report, but I hadn't heard of consumer decision researcher Brian Wansink till this week. He's got a rather middlebrow-looking book out on eating habits too, which could perhaps be interesting.

If the fact that People Eat More Stale Popcorn If Served in a Big Bucket does not thrill you with cynical frisson, perhaps you are in need of a stronger trenchant observation.

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Halloween movie reviews, extra-early for next Halloween:

Shaun of the Dead. Very entertaining zombie comedy. Hadn't seen it before. Snappy genre parody from the same guys who put out Hot Fuzz this year. Highly recommended.

Carrie. Hadn't seen this before either. That is some seriously fucked-up shit right there.

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Well, I'm off to the capital for the weekend to take in a William Bolcom opera and to hang out with Nate again. No doubt that beer will be quaffed, goat tacos will be eaten, and some or other Cartoon Network program will be watched on the DVD. Have a good weekend, everyone!