Space", where the old man finds the circus tent, and The Stuff, where a pile of goo is also found, only this time he tastes it!

The Blob was filmed here in Chester County Pennsylvania. I used to live at the property where the studio was. The blob ate the Phoenixville "Colonial" theater, and the Downingtown Diner, both still standing. The studio also was a producer of religious films.

The Blob is one of my all time favorites. The second one paid homage to the first when the young male lead said, "I think I killed the strawberry jam!" Young Stephen McQueen, if he had called her "Janie Girl" one more time, wouldn't have had the Blob to worry about. I loved that mischievous but lovable gang of young youthCelebrate Human Rights Day by helping pass the International Violence Against Women Act

In honor of Human Rights Day, what follows below is part of a post by Human Rights Watch Researcher Amanda Klasing that appears on the HRW website and was also published on The Huffington Post. It concerns legislation now in Congress which would direct the State Department to make ending violence against women around the world a key part of its mission. The bill is known as the International Violence Against Women Act.

On November 21, appropriately in anticipation of these 16 days, US lawmakers re-introduced the International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA). This piece of legislation plays an important role in raising the profile of violence against women globally, and it commits the US to do