Quote of the Day

From Stephanie Zacharek's review of Cold Creek Manor, at Salon.com:

The grand and ghoulish joke of "Cold Creek Manor" is that city folk really should know better than to move to the country. There, as we all know, the happy chirping of crickets is actually a secret code for mobilizing blood-sucking cultists who look like regular people but are all at least 200 years old, the ghosts of disgruntled old ladies burned for witchcraft in 1762, or, in the most disappointing scenario, your average garden-variety family of mass murderers.


To which I say, well obviously! I mean, why even have two-hundred-year-old relatives if you're not going to let them maim and murder city people? And everyone knows that crime is much more extreme in the country. Any old unhappy wife can shoot her husband; how banal. It takes an unhappy farmwife to stab him fifteen times with a pitchfork. City people's lives are that much poorer for the lack of pitchforks.

Nicked from carolinecrane, ( a CSI meme )