This movie will not make any money. I know this. I enjoy this fact. Mallrats made $800,000 when it opened in 1995, this movie made just over 5 Million in it’s opening weekend. Critics hate it. Your mom will hate it.  But I love it. It will join CLerks, Mallrats, Harold and Kumar, Van Wilder, and a string of others that are much better after repeat viewings.
It’s not about the characters, it’s about the encironment. They get the little things right. They work at Shenanaginz, a bastard child of Ruby Tuesdays and Fridays. If you have ever worked as a Server or a Cook in a restaraunt you will LOVE this movie. They bitchy customers are a little over the top. But the things that Ebert dosen’t even see are the funniest. The interaction between the cooks and the servers, Watching the stupid training videos on your first day, Faking a good attitude in front of the tables, The hot hostesses, the hotter cocktail waitresses. The devil is really in the details for this movie. If you’ve never worked in food service you might not get the full effect of this movie. But if you have… you will see the glory!

WELCOME TO THUNDERDOME, BITCH!

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When I was at Giant on Tuesday (buying Coke Zero.. but that’s a different story) I saw that Pringles were on sale, 10 for 10 dollars. At this price how could I resist stocking my desk drawers with them? So I bought 3 kinds, Jalapeño, Fiery Hot, and the old standby Sour Cream and Onion. The problem with these little guys is that they aren’t chips, so much as they are little dusty crisps of Crack. Lays? Bet you can’t eat just one? That’s Bullshit! This is where the hot action is. I noticed that there are 6 servings in a can, at a cost to the love handles of 160 calories each. I guess it’s bad when you can imagine eating the entire can, or hell, I think I could eat all three cans in one sitting.

Eating Pringles isn’t so much about enjoying the flavor as it is an exercise in will power over addiction. I just sit there staring at the stack of chips getting smaller and smaller. Just trying to stop myself from pillaging the Pringles villages. It’s really a losing battle, just like safe sex, the only real solution is abstinence.

I think we need some kind of mascot to use in public service announcements. Like Smokey the bear, but more suited to fried potato eating. Maybe this would be a good job for Peter Griffin or possibly the “Sexual Harassment Panda” from South Park. We need to get a team on this, perhaps pass it on to a think tank.

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It’s actually more like a proof of concept thing right now. I mean it works and all… but only like half the time. The other times I have to take out the battery to get the phone to reboot. I’ve been searching online and it looks like I have to get this memory hack so that it’ll stop crashing. But I’m not going to pay 20 bucks for that. For real, who do they think they’re dealing with?

So I’ll have to use the Google-FU to find it somewhere. But not while I’m at work. I don’t think it would look good if I was going on “those parts” of the internet while I was at work. Maybe I’ll actually get around to fixing my computer sometime tonight, so that I can solve this enigma.

But I’ll probably go out to Rock Bottom for a little while and then back to my house to watch LOST. Ahh the bachelor’s life.

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A while back I made a list of movies that I either need to see again, or possibly buy on DVD. The list was ranked by the “desirability” of the movie versus the price of buying. If it was a movie that I thought I would watch more than once I would spend up to say… $15 on it. But if it was just something that I would watch once and just let sit on the shelf and be ridiculed by visitors looking over my DVD collection. *Ahem* Iron Eagle. Then I had this idea that I would subscribe to netflix and copy the less desirables with my DVD burner. Total cost of owning the movie, about $5-ish.But then on the horizon… what was that.. another great idea sailing in to the brain port. Arrr I don’t have to be a pirate… Arrr. It was as simple as a little link on Amazon.com. USED! I’ve always been a fan of cheap DVDs. Especially the cheap DVD bin at Wal-Mart. Unfortunately that selection is limited to hundreds of copies of Stroker Ace and Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey. Almost every movie on Amazon has used listing and most of them are at a 80% discount. So far I’ve ordered 5 movies I think, at a cost of about $5 per movie… and that includes shipping. While I have ordered some sub-par movies… *cough* BMX Bandits. Most were at least B movies. I eagerly await the arrival of “The Mothman Prophecies” for a low low price of $4.95.

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I don’t really blog that much any more. It’s not that I can’t think of anything to write, it’s just that I’m lazy. I think of all these witty and interesting things to write about when I’m driving home. But then I get home… welcome to Nubbinsville. Bubkis. And then I think of something to draw while I’m sitting there, but when I open the sketchbook. And Whammo! Nothin. I’m stuck in this never ending cycle of forgotten ideas.

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I’m Poor! I’m putting a hiatus on all eating out and drinking (mostly) until next month at least. I don’t know where all my money has gone, but it’s gone somewhere. And i don’t think it’s coming back. This month I got hit with a couple of bills that snuck up on me. Cartax, insurance, and Website Renewal. Not to mention that I waste money on stupid little things all the time. Not to mention the vastly over-budget beerpong table project. $40 for buttons now seems a little extravagant.

I’ll still be going out to rock bottom on Wednesdays, cause $1 pints still makes a cheap mid week night out. On the weekends I’ll have to switch to Bowmans Vodka instead of beer.

If anybody has an easy way to for me to make some more money I would be interested. Taking a second job is sort of not what I want to be doing. But Websites and painting Murals would be highly desired.