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In the City - The Rice Box Rule When living in the city, never buy rice from the corner store that comes packaged in a cardboard box. There is no liner in the box, and you can't see inside. The rice just sits in there, snug against the smooth, brown sidewalls, in an imperfect seal. After you pour out a cup into some boiling water and all sorts of brown stuff floats to the top, that's when you realize that at some point between harvesting, processing, packaging, and sitting on a shelf, your box of rice became infested with bugs. Rice in a plastic bag mitigates this problem. Look in the bag, check for bugs. No bugs? Buy the bag, and store in the freezer. 01.03.2009 Rover Image #30 
Bolt. 01.03.2009 Dave Sim, creator and writer of the cult comic "Cerebus", despite going completely around the bend in recent years, once wrote something very sensible. "Never fall in love with a bar." This is good advice. Hang around one place long enough, and that bar a person has come to spend so much time in will do the unthinkable. It will change. Favorite staff will leave, choosing to get on with their lives rather than spend their nights feeding the regulars drinks. (Who can blame them? Spending too much time in a bar is bad for a person's health. Working in one is just no way to live.) The owner will get it in his head to remodel this or that, making everything clean, polished, and prefab. Maybe they will even install windows in the front where there were none before (A truly seismic shift. Depending on how one feels, this is akin either to a facelift, or a horribly disfiguring car accident.). The point is, to a person in love with a bar, any small change can feel like a betrayal. Months or years have been spent acclimating to a bar's very specific atmosphere. It becomes the reason to go to that particular spot, and when it changes, the process has to begin again. Eventually, change accumulates to the point where a person has been abandoned by their bar, and they have to seek out someplace new. Read more... 12.31.2008 Rover Image #29 
The rover approached these creatures quietly, but was spotted. 12.31.2008 Shitty Movie Sundays: Prince of Darkness This is attempt number five. The fifth time I've begun a review of John Carpenter's "Prince of Darkness". Hopefully, I'll be able to finish this effort. Suppose I start with a declarative statement, then justify it with an argument? Sounds like a plan. Read more... 12.29.2008 |
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