> Does no one else care that Squealy McGee really shouldn't be playing a game
> rated 17 years and up?

sorry, no

Does no one else care that Squealy McGee really shouldn't be playing a game rated 17 years and up?

ugh, people are dumb. and Chesty Mcgee is even dumber for shouting and flailing about.. while standing where someone with knowledge, skills and talent usually does.

i think i'd promptly chop her in the throat

Just to clarify, this was a fan made trailer.
http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2009/11/04/return-of-alice-video-madness/

Still cool though.
Trailer for the original game:
http://www.videosift.com/video/American-McGees-Alice-Cinematic-Trailer

Some of these turned out pretty good. Rules and regulations DO scare me, though Hey Ya! only makes me cry SOME of the time...



SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
Never You Mind

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Brain Crack

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Merry Happy/Little Red

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
I Should Have Known Better

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
City Traffic Puzzle

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Art Star

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
Bachelorette

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Australia

WHAT IS 2+2?
Broadway

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Bent

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Home

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Ultimate

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Hourglass

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Twisted

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Softer, Softest

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Heaven Beside You

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Julia

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Someone to Save You

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Beverly Hills

WHATS THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Sex & Candy [HA! There are FAR worse things...]

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Me and Bobby McGee

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Breakdown

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Viva La Vida

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Hey Ya!

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
Everything

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
Rules and Regulations

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
I Love You Golden Blue

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Moonchild

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
People as Places as People

Favourites

1) Season: Late spring and mid fall
2) Place in the world: Where ever I am at that time
3) Children's book: Where the Wild Things Are
4) TV Series: West Wing
5) Word: Bullocks
6) Film: Battle of Britian
7) Curse: Such gooood looks *wink
Creature: titmouse
9) Past time: playing with my hotwheels on my parents couch
10)Person:

Which one?

11) Dog or cat: one reeeeeally lazy cat... I think he was born with a marijuana gene that keeps him constantly chill
12) Sweet or savoury: savoury
13) Cereal or Toast: cereal
14) Tan or pale: pasty scotch irish, german, swedish boy
15) Shoes or barefoot: depends on where im a walkin
16) Desktop or laptop: lappy 2000
17) Drive or walk: prefer to walk
18) Drama or comedy: both
19) Sex or food: yes please
20) Futurama or Simpsons: SIMPSONS!

The Sift

21) Your fave personal submission: http://www.videosift.com/video/Fibber-McGee-and-Molly-1959-tv-pilot because I used to fall asleep to the radio program every night as a kid
22) A great comment on one of your vids: "It doesn't mention anything about needing to be nude in a Greco-Roman building. I guess that's up to personal preference."
23) Most off the wall member: ummm.... ill get back to you on that one
24) Favourite user name:
25) Your most used channel: not sure
26) Personal dumbass moment: this answer would be shorter if it was personal awesome achievement.
27) Best avatar: Crosswords
28) Partner in crime: mums the word
29) Do people offline know of your sift problem: only the ones that attend the sifters anonymous meetings with me
30) Idea for the site:

About you

31) Where do you live: St. Paul Minnesota
32) Smoker/non-smoker: non
33) Left or right handed: left
34) Hair colour: blo..brow...... yes
35) Relationship status: taken
36) How tall: 5'11"
37) Children: 43 that i know of
38) Ever had an operation: nope, but i have broken a couple things
39) Best feature: not good at that one
40) Use four words to describe yourself: well, i like to.... awww

If you could...what, who, when etc

41) Bring a famous person back from the dead: Churchill, seemed like a good honest man
42) Give 50 grand to any charity: Design for the other 90%
43) Send someone on a one way ticket to the moon: meee
44) Relive a moment in your life: "hey! HEY!!! get out of my stuff!!!!"
45) Have a superpower: I dont care how over used it is, i wanna fly!
46) Find out one thing you've always wanted to know: will my country make it another 50 years?
47) Have the opposite gender deal with something you have to:
48) Be president for one hour: I would rummage through the oval office for hidden treasure
49) Delete a period in history: bush bush bush bush bush
50) Achieve one thing: confidence.

^fissionchips
Thanks so much. I should hire you to do my advertising copy

^ dag
I'm sure that lucky760 has pictures of people. As I'm sure you can imagine, I was very fixated on the food. (for two whole 12 hour work days, actually)

^think247
I actually really hate liver... EXCEPT foie gras. It is such a dramatically different experience that just calling it goose liver does it a disservice. Harold McGee (famed author of the food science bible "On Food And Cooking") calls foie gras the "ultimate meat, the epitome of animal flesh and its essential appeal".

It was a coup that I was able to serve such a large slice of foie gras to those members of videosift that were able to attend. It is one of the 3 delicacies of the world and priced accordingly.

^ firefly
I don't know about shipping, but if you're ever in Vancouver, make sure to let me know...

^ K0MMIE
Thanks for the compliments. Our gay sex plans got ruined by the presence of girls, but you can still believe it if you want.

On the fourth of July, eighteen hundred and six,
We set sail from the sweet cove of Cork
We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks
For the grand City Hall in New York
'Twas a wonderful craft, she was rigged 'fore and aft
And how the wild winds drove her
She 'stood several blasts, she had twenty-three masts
And they called her the Irish Rover

We had one million bags of the best Sligo rags
We had two million barrels of stones
We had three million bales of old nanny goats' tails
We had four million barrels of bones
We had five million hogs and six million dogs
And seven million barrels of porter
We had eight million sides of old blind horses' hides
In the hold of the Irish Rover

There was awl Mickey Coote
Who played hard on his flute
When the ladies lined up for a set
He was tootin' with skill
For each sparkling quadrille
Though the dancers were fluther'd and bet
With his smart witty talk
He was cock of the walk
And he rolled the dames under and over
They all knew at a glance
When he took up his stance
That he sailed in The Irish Rover

(bridge)

There was Barney McGee from the banks of the Lee
There was Hogan from County Tyrone
There was Johnny McGurk who was scared stiff of work
And a man from Westmeath called Malone
There was Slugger O'Toole who was drunk as a rule
And fighting Bill Tracy from Dover
And your man Mick McCann, from the banks of the Bann
Was the skipper on the Irish Rover

For a sailor it's always a bother in life
It's so lonesome by night and day
That he longs for the shore
And a pretty young whore
Who will melt all his troubles away
Oh, the noise and the rout
Swillin' poitin and stout
For him soon the torment's over
Of the love of a maid
He is never afraid
An old salt from the Irish Rover

We had sailed seven years when the measles broke out
And our ship lost her way in the fog
And the whole of the crew was reduced down to two
'Twas meself and the captain's old dog
Then the ship struck a rock; oh Lord what a shock
The bulkhead was turned right over
We turned nine times around - then the poor old dog was drowned
I'm the last of the Irish Rover

um, I'm gonna take a shot and call *cinema

Love Polanski. Love McGee.

Spent some time recreating scenes from this film for a class on directing -- and consulted with none other than Robert Towne's granddaughter.

Beautiful tragic film.

Let's see... Choggie's stock question is definitely worth an entire article. The pros and cons of homemade stock, what to look for and what to avoid pre-made stock, and a discussion of the necessity or not of stocks in the home. Bottom line for me is that I hate canned stock, and I make homemade stocks very rarely.


Karaidl
Microwaving Turkey is a pretty dubious idea to say the least. It is certainly possible, but it is not as simple as just time*weight.

According to my McGee, the dynamics for oven roasting are weight to the 2/3rds power per time, or thickness squared per time.

There are a few things you have to appreciate about microwaving- cooking things properly in the microwave is a complicated and subtle process, and misunderstood by most chefs. Firstly, microwaving is neither moist heat nor dry heat cooking. The microwaves directly excite the all the molecules in the food that are approximately the size of water molecules. This is why the microwave is so efficient at reheating already cooked food.

For cooking things from raw, on the other hand, there are a number of reasons why a microwave oven is less than ideal. Because the energy is able to penetrate a few centimetres into the flesh, it is impossible to get a nice crispy skin. By the time the skin is at a correct temperature to render the fat properly, the meat beneath it has already lost so much moisture that it is impossible to remain crispy.

If your heart is really set on trying it, I wish you luck, and my best advice is to buy a meat thermometre and check the internal temperature every few minutes. And watch out for flaming turkey. You'll want around 175 degrees fahrenheit for your turkey.

Dag
The first thing you need for pro-chef like knife skillz is a sharp chef's knife. I prefer an 8 inch Henkel for most of my chopping, but the santoku knives seem to be gaining quite a lot of popularity in the kitchens where I've worked.

There was a terrible, terrible video about sharpening knives on the sift a while back- one of my first downvotes, actually, but in my rant about how much I hated it, I linked to this article about how to sharpen knives properly.

Knife Maintenance and Sharpening By Chad Ward is an absolutely fantastic resource, and actually is the place where I learned how to sharpen my knives.

Here's a big secret though- good quality knives aren't all that expensive! You can pick up a yellow handled Henkel at a kitchen supply store for less than $20. Your knife will be wicked sharp.

I think there was a video on the cooking channel that showed how to properly cut up an onion. Ah yes- Knife Skills 101 My feelings on that video are mixed, which is why I haven't upvoted it yet, but it's handy to know the right steps. For one thing, I think I remember disagreeing with him on what exactly constitutes a "small dice", but I'll have to watch it again to remember precisely.

After that, it's just like getting to carnegie hall- Practice, baby. Practice.

maatc
ooh, I got a bunch of tips like that. that is a fun article, which I definitely have some comments on.

OK! Good first round, I'll be posting my article about Stocks in the next day or so. Keep the questions coming!

This music video reminds me of American McGee's Alice game!

They were interesting shows. I’m not a big fan of these shows that make a derisive comment on the people they are interviewing and I think Louis Theroux (and Nick Broomfield in film) were the first sign of the nightmarish reality shows that were to come. However, compared to the sneering tone taken to contestants on The Apprentice, Survivor or Big Brother (whether they deserve to be sneered at for agreeing to go on such a show in the first place apart!), it is strange to be able to look back on Louis Theroux’s shows nostalgically – at least he was interviewing people the public were interested in knowing more about in the case of these When Louis Met… docs, or of cults, crazies and strange sub-cultures in his Weird Weekends programmes. I was interested by the way I was never sure whether I found Louis endearing in his curiosity or whether his naivete was an act, and I think his subjects felt the same way. I think a more important thing is to think that Louis gave his subjects ample rope with which to hang themselves!

He is a particularly good comparison to Nick Broomfield in the sense that their films are much more about their reaction to the people and places they visit than they are about the actual things they are supposedly documenting – not that their subjects are not important, but the presence of Theroux or Broomfield and their reactions are really the primary focus and makes them in a way an audience surrogate where we are exploring the situation with them (and in a more difficult way we are also being given clues of what reaction is expected of us as viewers by the way we see Broomfield and Theroux reacting). This is perhaps best shown in the Theroux documentary which follows him trying to get an interview with Michael Jackson, which he eventually doesn’t get – that infamously went to Martin Bashir – though Louis does get an outside view of the baby dangling incident.

The When Louis Met… programmes were full of pathos (the same pathos Ricky Gervais was tapping into when he had Les Dennis as a guest star in the first series of Extras), since most of the subjects were entertainers from a past television generation: the magician Paul Daniels and his assistant (and wife) Debbie McGee who had a high profile magic show in the 80s on the BBC which I remember watching. They were kind of shown up when David Copperfield became huge in America – somehow seeing the (relatively) ugly Daniels performing middling magic tricks seemed very old fashioned after seeing Copperfield walking through the Great Wall of China or making the Statue of Liberty disappear etc, and I think the BBC felt that too since they dropped the show soon afterwards despite his show still getting good ratings (and ratings the BBC would kill for today – in the tens of millions). Then the vogue for debunking magic tricks occurred which destroyed his act anyway.

I remember seeing Jimmy Savilles ‘Jim’ll Fix It’ show in the mid-80s, where kids would write with requests such as wanting to ride a monster truck or meet a celebrity etc which Jim then ‘fixed’. It is just difficult to watch the programme now in these more cynical times without a feeling of watching a dirty old man with an unhealthy interest in children which is probably why the show stopped. Not that Saville ever expressed any such interest, it is just the society has sadly become more distrustful of men and children, and there isn't the possibility of such a programme being shown now without those kind of thoughts popping into the audiences heads!

Chris Eubank, while ostensibly famous as a boxer, was only ever familiar to me from his comical television appearances, which had grown fewer over the years before this Louis documentary was made – probably as he realised that the audiences were laughing at him and his affectations rather than with him.

And I actually saw Keith Harris and Orville the Duck perform on stage in the late 80s – they were very well loved at the time, but again it was perhaps a more innocent gentle humour that didn’t really work as the world changed.

Neil and Christine Hamilton are the odd ones out from the group as they only became famous because of Neil’s accepting cash payments for asking question in Parliament in the early 90s and then being spectacularly defeated in 1997 when New Labour came to power. They were basically just opportunists hungry for publicity compared to the other participants who weren’t adverse to getting back in the limelight but had their limits. They were also minor figures by the early 2000s as well – it is just that they had much briefer fame and hadn’t done anything to be particularly proud of or to be fondly remembered for anyway! (Perhaps making them the earliest examples of people ‘famous for being famous’, ready to do anything to keep their profile in the media up)

ooh aah, the last marginally creative thing he's done in how many years. Seriously, if his name was John would any studio have given him a second look? A game by Bob McGee. No.

It's true. It's interesting, actually- just how far the scientific analysis of food has come in the past century, and how most of that advancement has been squarely in the services of EVIL. Pizza Pockets, TV Dinners, Instant Mashed Potatos, Chocolate Bars with fake chocolate, etc. It was in the early 80s, at the tail end of "Nouvelle Cuisine" that Harold McGee was doing a bit of research for a project and discovered this HUGE amount of literature that no chef had ever seen, that explained SO much about the food that we work on.

That is what prompted him to write the first edition of his book, which has launched a huge interest in the haute cuisine world in understanding the science behind what we do every day. Now he, Herve This from France, Heston Blumenthal (the chef of the Fat Duck in this clip), Ferran Adria of El Bulli, and a few others are learning what "mad science" has done to food in the past century, and finally starting to use it in the aid of culturally worthwhile cuisine.

According to The McGee, Egg whites begin to thicken at 145 degrees fahrenheit, but don't solidify until they reach 150. The egg yolk remains runny until it reaches 150, the same temperature at which the egg white solidifies.

I expect that the incubator was to raise the temperature of the egg to just 145 or maybe 148 degrees. Then they spin the egg, so the runny yolk flees to the outside, then they continue boiling.