Ritzy’s Fresh American Diner is the kind of place where George Jetson would feel right at home. It’s that kind of future vision from the 1950s that so many of us grew up with that makes the place feel a bit homey. Lots of chrome and plastic and satellite dishes hanging from the ceilings. This is another overly cute place, but here it works. They hand out little toys instead of numbers for you to sit on your table while you wait for your food to be prepared. The condiments are housed in little wire frame shopping carts. I had…
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The Sun in 3D
You don’t know what it’s like to be black
I was talking to a co-worker not too long ago and she started a standard rank about how hard it is to be black in America. She is twenty-one years old and in my humble opinion, she doesn’t know what it is like to be black in America either. She was born at least thrity years too late. I am a mostly white guy, a mixed breed with a father that looked like Juan Valdez of Colombian Coffee fame and a mother that looked a bit Irish. Dear old mom would tell stories of not being served in restaurants when…
Gilmore Girls-say it ain’t so
The Gilmore Girls has been on for 7 years, or is it 8? This highly erudite show about two coffee guzzling, fast talking women dealing with the general problems of life, the universe and everything–is history.At the end of last night’s show, they said come back next week for the series finale. What?!? Just like that, it’s over? You bastards bring back 7th Heaven and can the Gilmore Girls?Well, such is life I suppose.Just wanted to put my two cents worth in, this is one of the best shows on TV, even if it is on the worthless CW Network.…
Spiderman 3-Rent Spidy 2 instead
In the modern blockbuster fashion there is a lot of CGI magic going on and not a lot of story. They have run back to the well of our tormented hero and the death of the his uncle once too often. The three villains are a bit over the top, but then, they are comic book villains, so I guess that is ok. Sandman is the neatest bad guy as he is made with Vue 6 or the Hollywood equivalent, in that he is a pile of sand and rock that is shaped like a man. He is the most…
Success is a habit
We are what we do everyday. Good bloggers blog. Good dancers dance. A clean house is always a work in progress, just as a messy house is always a work in progress. We add to these things everyday. Fat people do a lot of eating in order to be fat. Wealth is made one day at a time, if not one dollar at a time. OK, I guess I could go on with that line of thought, but really, what’s the point? I tend to start things and then go on to other things. One of my all time favorite…
Killer Thoughts
Saucy Jack is credited with killing five people in 1888. Five. Two of which happened at almost the same time and it is unlikely that they were both committed by the same killer and the last was most likely what we call a copy cat killing these days. So in this famous little spree, Jack most likely killed three people. Since was not caught, or at leas not caught and kept, the odds are very good that he went right on killing for the rest of his life. But he was the first great killer of the industrial age, and…
Taking Portraits
The main kind of portraits that I take are the standard old fashioned styles of a woman seated in front of seated man, their bodies overlapped halfway and the man half a head height taller than the woman. If the woman is standing, she is about half a head height taller, standing halfway behind the seated man. These are the same poses and rules of composition that Leonard da Vinci used a few hundred years ago when they were sitting around writing rules for everything. Nothing wrong with it, in fact a lot of people like it.I also like to…
I wonder why
I spend a lot of time thinking, and not so much time acting on those thoughts. My current job is so, just a job. I am not sure what I expected, or if I expected much of anything. I went in with the hope of making more than I had made at my last job, which is always a nice simple goal to have. So I am making more than my last job, which is really no mean feat. But there are days when I don’t make more than the last job, where I make about a third of the…
The Perfect Employee
Agent Smith loves his job. He sees his job as a mission. He was made for his job. He’s pretty good at what he does. And yet, he doesn’t seem all that happy in his work.I have been thinking rather a lot about work, as I have been doing little else the past few weeks. I am one of those people that look at what we do and wonder why we don’t do it better. The big wigs that run the show want to know why we don’t do it better as well. But they are also clueless. We take…