What A Dish

No!  Not In The Sense Of An Attractive Person
Because that would be shockingly shallow, although Conrad always did have a pash for Annette Peacock, whom I can confidently state is also a talented musician, as well as having cheekbones sharp enough to shave with -

Grrrr!

     Nor am I referring to that implement used to contain and serve food, although a Google search did bring up this curiosity.  Art?

Behold the bowl

     Curious as ever, your humble scribe did a bit of digging and discovered that this particular dish contains three tons of tabbouleh, a Lebanese dish - that word again! - constituting tomato, mint, onion, parsley and bulgur wheat.  Which would be a tasty dish to make if I hadn't needed to chuck out the rest of my pitta bread, it having gone mouldy overnight.
     No, what I really wanted to harp on about was the Arecibo Radio Telescope.  I pretty much guarantee that you'll have seen this already, and just to confirm it - Art?

Presto

     A marvel of modern scientific endeavour and quite an inspired idea - carve a parabolic dish out of a mountain top, then haul up a ton - actually a whole lot of tons - of telemetry and support girders into position.  Given the sheer size of the gear in question, and perhaps Art can give us a sense of scale -

Person at upper right

     - assembling this must have been quite a process.  It looks as if the three support towers were built first, then the telemetry assembled in suspension from them.  Once again, Art?

Good head for heights essential!

     One wonders what, exactly, the job description for this construction contained.
     "You'll be bowled over and starry-eyed at our heavenly opportunities  - " (cont. Page 96 of big book of bad puns)

    Right, back to terra firma for the rest of this post.  Plus, I must remember to get more pitta bread.  And apples.  Plus, where did all the strawberries disappear to*?  Damn those fridge gremlins!

BOOJUM! Reviews Films!
Except not in the usual way, because these were trailers I personally sat through at the beginning of the "Only God Forgives" DVD.   So instead of a facile generalisation based on the title alone, you will get a facile generalisation based on a short trailer.
     "Easy Money":  What is this film about?  Hard to tell, although they shoehorn in Martin Scorsese's name at the beginning.  There's lots of shots of the Beautiful People running around being glamourous, yachts, sports cars, diamonds - all the stuff you'd see at the beginning of "The Persuaders".  Then there's a lot of things exploding and shooting.  Nobody's hugging each other so it doesn't seem to be about the Mafia.  Ah, I could care less.

Greasy money. Close enough

     "Hummingbird":  What an hilariously ironic title!  This is a vehicle for The Stath - I can get away with that, you have to call him Jason Statham.  He's a hard man!  He punches people!  He punches more people!  I could watch this stuff all day long.  A hummingbird made out of neutronium and death.

Even his reflection is scared ....

     "You're Next":  I am?  How poli - oh, I see.  Well, maybe not.  Looked like a typical Stalk 'n' Slash fodder to your humble scribe, even if IMDB rates it as more than average.  Killers find that one of their victims is a killer themselves kinda thing.  Happens to me a lot never happened to me at all.

     There you go.  Your appetite may be whetted**, or not, but at least you are informed.

"Whetting"
I suddenly realised that the younger whippersnappers present may not know what this means, as I strongly suspect none of them have ever silently killed an enemy sentry shaved with a cut-throat razor.  Art?

Art, you bumbletuck - I'm getting my Tazer -

     <sound of elephant-rated Tazer being charged-up>

A razor

     Here is the article.  Doubtless you've seen these being used in films dating from the Thirties backwards; although the blade is metal, it dulls over time, even when only shaving puny human hair.  So it is sharpened again, either on a strop or a stone.
     Thus we come to the word "Whet", which has it's roots in - German!  <breathes sigh of relief that it isn't Greek or Latin>.  The German original is "Wetzen", meaning "sharp" transmuting into the Old English "Hwettan" and thus to "Whet".

A blade being whetted.  And strawberries!

*  This unusual involvement with fruit is due to the Not Dying Horribly From Diabetes diet
**  Yes, "Whetted" not "Wetted"