R.J. MacReady's Drinking Glass

When you've seen John Carpenter's THE THING a thousand times, you notice little things.  Oddly, one of those things was MacReady's scotch glass when he was playing a game of computer chess (before destroying the fictional chess computer by pouring his drink into a convenient panel for sore losers).  That glass became something of a thrift store Holy Grail and I'd find myself walking the shelves of old glassware hoping to stumble upon something similar, if not the actual style and design.  

Last weekend we visited a large Salvation Army store, and as I did the usual stroll, I stopped in front of four glasses.  Were they the ones?  At $0.99 a piece, they became the ones.  We even ran out and got some "rare" bottom shelf scotch to celebrate.  

Cheers, MacReady!

The Thing

I know I'm human. And if you were all these things, then you'd just attack me right now, so some of you are still human. This thing doesn't want to show itself, it wants to hide inside an imitation. It'll fight if it has to, but it's vulnerable out in the open. If it takes us over, then it has no more enemies, nobody left to kill it. And then it's won.



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