Rude Breadmaking

This one isn't a task as such, more of an addendum to the breadmaking task. I felt I should be a bit more creative than simply slinging stuff into a breadmaker. And so, I created this charming piece of cookery.

Half an hour at 200 degrees celsius later...

The shaft was good, though the balls were a little doughy. Even so, I was able to enjoy a cheese and ham salad testicle for my lunch today.

Fame at Last

The video for the flashmob I attended is now online.

My ugly mug waltzes onto the screen at 0.48

Find the Pterodactyls in Citizen Kane

Everyone knows that Citizen Kane is one of the greatest movies of all time, but did you know that it contains pterodactyls?

Yes, pterodactyls.

Attending the Fortean Times Unconvention had put me in the mood for adding some fortean-themed tasks in the list. This month's FT contains an article on supposed monsters and UFOs in great movies, and there's a scene in Citizen Kane where supposedly pterodactyls were flying around in the background.

As with the Casablanca task, this also gave me an opportunity to see a classic movie that I've never got around to watching. After all, it's such a keystone in cinema that people talk about, say, The Wicker Man as "the Citizen Kane of horror movies" or The Room as "the Citizen Kane of bad movies". Might as well see the Citizen Kane of Citizen Kane.

Compared to Casablanca, I though that it was a more dated movie. Even so, the tale of Charles Foster Kane as a modern-day Ozymandias did grip and intrigue me, and it was particularly poignant finding out eventually what "Rosebud" meant. Nope, no spoilers for you lot.

Anyway, the pterodactyls. Here they are:

Okay, it's just badly-animated birdies whizzing around a soundstage mock-up of the Florida Everglades, but they do kind of look like pterodactyls.