weekend open thread: home alone edition

You kids behave yourselves while mom’s away. Same commenting rules as always apply: Be smart, be kind, be passionate. Assume the best about other posters rather than the worst. Disagreements are fine as long as we act civilly about them. Imagine you’re at a party at my house, treat your fellow guests with respect, and … more…

screencap Friday: what the flick? #57

Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from one of the DVDs in my collection (and it’s definitely from a movie, not a TV show). Guess the movie for fun and, well, fun. No prizes, just bragging rights. But hey: one guess per comment — no fair hogging all the guesses.

trailer break: ‘Earth’

Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Ah god, I’m gonna be a basket case. Elephant families? Polar bears swimming for their lives? Oh man… Earth opens in the U.S. on April 22; it played in U.K. cinemas in 2007 (perhaps in a slightly different version?).

watch it: “1999 A.D. (Kitchen of the Future)”

Yesterday’s trip was so much fun, let’s go back to the future again: Best thing about the future: it’s not so labor-saving that it doesn’t keep women in the kitchen, where they belong. Seriously, would it kill Father to get off his ass just once and milk the cabinets?