I was out driving in East Tampa Tuesday. Sad thing is, I was hunting for the local Arizona Ice Tea distribution center, my addiction to their elusive diet energy drinks is that complete and unalterable. Alas, the wily bastards had moved from their previous warehouse to a yet undisclosed location, perhaps in anticipation [...]
My current job affords me the wonderful opportunity of getting home late and the subsequent post-coital-work-related bliss that takes something like 4 hours to come down from. All this is a mildly clever way of saying I watch a lot of late night TV. I have to have the TV on in the [...]
Couple of new and different things were witnessed (or at least witnessed by those around me) this past week:
I rang this woman up who was buying groceries with her kid in tow. She was white and acted somewhat typical of mothers I have seen from the demographic that shops my store; she [...]
This just in my friends; your roving commentator and observer of life near and far has been hard at work cataloging the various fashion statements and cutting edge outerwear worn by the urban public. I apologize for taking so long between posts but when you are deep under cover like myself you can’t always [...]
The newest trend among scientists (shouldn’t that be an oxymoron, trendy scientists?) is not Global Warming, no, that’s old hat my friends, no, the newest trend is.. Global Cooling! Yes, the feature of an early 70’s Time Magazine cover article as well as countless news articles of the day, the reason behind the [...]
Primacaucus, a word fabricated from someone in the news to describe Texas’s clusterfuck primary process. Basically in Texas the democrats wanted to have a primary voting system that invited the voter to get involved in the process. So they created this system where 2/3’s of your vote goes towards the general primary and [...]
So, after writing the previous post I went to work with a disposition somewhat south of cheerful. As I entered the store I looked for the soul crushing mass of humanity that would chain me to a register for the next 4+ hours of my life only to find a Saturday of normal [...]
Tomorrow a sales phenomenon will occur, an ‘event’ if you will, though not in the extra-ordinary sense of the word. No, this event occurs the first of every month and lasts roughly 10 days. What makes it an event is the scope and size of the impact that is caused. Sales will [...]