3-D Movies & Cookie Dough

I love (and miss) 3-D movies. Granted, I wasn't around when it was first all the rage, but I was around, when it made it's comeback, in the early 80's. I remember seeing Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983), Jaws 3-D (1983), Friday The 13th Part 3-3-D (1982), Amityville 3-D (1983) and even that lame Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) with the brief 3-D installment.

I have to say that the old 3-D, with the black lensed glasses, was far superior to the "new" 3-D, with the red & blue lensed glasses. The depth with the black lenses was much better and so was the overall effect. I remember jumping out of my hide, during Jaws 3-D, and subsequently making a "yelp!" sound that everyone around me heard, making me sink down in my seat, from embarrassment.

There some 3-D system that you can buy now and attach to your television, similar to a cable box, that will enable you to watch specially designed 3-D DVDs in all their original 3 dimensional glory! They call the 3-D glasses "Field Sequential LCD" glasses. Unfortunately the system and the glasses are kinda pricey, as are the DVDs. I'd love to have one eventually, but as it is, I already have 2 boxes attached to the television and I dunno if I really wanna add ANOTHER one. And if I ever find a Nintendo that works, then that would be a FOURTH thing to stack. Ack!

There are some movies I would have LOVED to have seen in 3-D: House of Wax (1953), Silent Madness (1984) and Dial "M" For Murder (1954), which is being released to DVD on September 7th. I guess I'll have to settle for my Jaws 3-D bubblegum cards for now. Maybe Hollywood will revive the whole 3-D fad again sometime. And maybe, just maybe, they'll finally get the 3-D right.

Now, for my cookie dough revelation. For as long as I can remember, the idea that people actually LIKE to eat cookie dough raw, was a baffling concept to me. I remember trying raw sugar cookie dough once, out of curiosity, thinking it was gross. Later on, a cookie dough ice cream, candy bar and even milkshake came along, still baffled to its' appeal. Well, recently I saw the light (cue the choir of angels).

I recently bought some Ready to Bake/Big Deluxe Classics cookies from Pillsbury (the new peanut butter cups kind). I liked the idea that they came in a resealable Ziplock-style package, so I could make a few at a time + I didn't have to bother with slicing them. Well, as I was taking a few out of the package to put on the cookie sheet, one of them fell apart, so out of sheer necessity (yeah, whatever....) I ate the piece that fell. Raw. And you know what? Eureka! It was delicious! So I ate the rest of it, justifying my actions by telling myself this way, all the cookies would be uniform in size. That's it. Uniformity. So, now I can honestly say I came, I saw, I conquered the raw cookie dough's appeal. I don't think I'd want to eat that much of it, but I do appreciate it's yum factor now.