Oh, and…

30 10 2007

The newest thing that pisses me off about work and, ensuingly, about our nonstop comparisons to Chipotle, is that our “cold table” starts with cheese and ends with sour cream (or guacamole, but that’s extra). That means that when I say “Would you like cheese?” and you say “Yeah, cheese and sour cream” you’re skipping the salsas. I don’t care that their dairy shit is all in the same place–ours isn’t. Yes, we can go back and do salsas, but by then, you’ve fucked up the process sufficiently that I can’t tell you what kinds of salsas we have, and you’re left doing the reach-over. Sticking your hand, which is just dripping with dead skin flakes and parasites, dangling inches over our salsas so that I know exactly which one you’re pointing at when you say “what’s that one there?” It isn’t like we tilt the glass covering our germ-free salsas towards us in a manner to dissuade you from infecting our food with poo particles and flesh-eating bacteria. Oh, wait, we do. But you aren’t deterred. You want cheese, but you also want sour cream. And while I’m spreading out the sour cream, you want to point at salsas.

You not-paying-attention motherfucker.

And while I’m at it, we have four fucking kinds of salsa. Don’t come up and say “Yeah, I want cheese, sour cream, and salsa.” We have four kinds of salsa, and some fuckers want to look at our pico de gallo and call that salsa, and some of you want to look at the mild ancho and call it salsa (no one’s confused by the roasted corn salsa, though. You say “corn” and I know exactly what you’re talking about. Even though there’s onions, green bell peppers, jalapenos, and cilantro in it, too, making it more of a salsa. But not a relish. Stop fucking saying “corn relish”). I’m perfectly fine with people saying “tomatoes” in stead of “pico” at this point, because people say “tomatoes” and I’ve accepted that. But when you say “salsa” I want to stick our dehydrated hot peppers up your nose.

Oh, and I got promoted to “shift supervisor”. Woo woo.





I’ve been busy, okay?

30 10 2007

Lots of DVD purchases of late. Wow. I got a job and lifted my trade embargo with Best Buy. I’ve also been working on projects. But first things first.

I bought many seasons of TV. This is what I’ve been doing while not blogging–watching episodes on top of episodes. I watched the last season of the Sopranos in a day. I just love TV as a medium. Thank god for The Sopranos. I really think that show made people think differently about TV, more than any other. And the world owes a debt of gratitude for showing what a TV series can do. I mean, yes, there have been series before that blew apart boundaries and did some crazy different things, but it was the first show that was really popular in that vein, and it made TV studios pay attention. I don’t think TV would have half the quality it does if it hadn’t been for the risks taken there. It used to be that TV actors rarely made the jump to the more revered silver screen, and that TV writers and producers were nameless, faceless figures. Now, you’ve got screen actors jumping to TV, JJ Abrams directing Mission Impossible III on the strength of Alias. It makes me really happy. And I’ve bought, like, ten series on DVD. I’m very happy.

Which reminds me, the secret project begins execution this weekend. I still won’t talk about it on here. Yet. But it’s going. And it’s going well. And that’s the other thing I’ve been working on. I should be able to talk about it in about a month. Then, I’ll be talking a lot about it.





Brilliant

14 10 2007




Gondryesque Gondry

3 10 2007

Yesssssss!!!!!!!

I’ve been looking forward to this movie ever since I first heard of it. Woo to the hoo.

Apparently, when shooting the remakes, Jack Black, Mos Def, Gondry himself, and everyone else involved in the production were not allowed to have watched the movie prior to shooting so that the movies would exist as they exist in our memories.

That is so Gondry.