Photo: Patrick Michels
There are, essentially, two rules to Thanksgiving—well, three if you include football: turkey and lots of it.
Of course, not everyone makes it to the big family gathering. Police and firefighters must remain on duty, truck drivers and…um…others, may find themselves stuck with a TV dinner and a bottle of, well, whatever goes with microwave turkey.
The top story in today's Hollywood Reporter billboards the cast of the new Sci Fi Channel series Stargate Universe, third in the Stargate franchise. Starring opposite Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty, Trainspotting) is Brian J. Smith, a young actor we've been writing about (OK, gushing over) since he wowed critics and audiences in A Clockwork Orange at Collin County Community College's Quad C Theatre in 2002.Smith, pictured here, is one of the four leads on the show. He'll play Lt. Matthew Scott,
Patrick Michels/nugunWho eats these things anymore? Hell, you can hardly find anchovies on a Caesar salad. And tins of smoked oysters seemed passe decades ago.But someone must appreciate the metallic, acrid mush of the latter and hairy blast of salt that characterize the preserved fish--although likely with a few brewskis...while sitting in some Milwaukee ranch house...after a Sunday drive in the station wagon...Storing seafood in oil or brine was a necessity in the days before refrigerated ship
