just a quickie ;)
Sometimes even growing up in the rural South we get blindsided by things one only thinks are part of stereotypes....
We went to Callaway Gardens (an actual nature place not an amusement park) today cuz well thats what we do periodically with season passes and all. Our grand plan this time was that since we had absolutely no portable food for picnicing that we'd order a pizza from fox's in Pine Mountain (thats a town not a land formation, although it sits a top one of the same name) right up the road from Callaway when we got hungry and then go pick it up. Well we went to get the pizza in Pine Mountain (as if the name doesn't say enough about the town) and we go in Fox's expecting it to be like, you know, a resturant. Well it turns out to be a pizza place/video rental/arcade/bar. Yes thats right, they take yr pizza order behind the very same counter where dvds and VHS are shelved, there are margarita and pina colada specials on wednesdays (according to the board), and off to the left of the "seating area" there are video and pin ball games. This explained the movie posters in the windows beside the bud and miller neons. I half expected that they were selling bait and tackle out the back but i didn't venture to ask. They should rename it Fox's Pizza Emporium...
On wholly different thought, i think the record of our lives is being reduced to sound bites and blurbs. Forget the hundreds of years before the internet- just considering the last ten years i've seen online friends move from journal to social networking to things like twitter and plurk. Each iteration slowly wittling down the amount of information we put out there, and i think possibly making the information we do put out (because its so prolific) of far less interest, value, relevance or importance. Thats not directed at anyone who uses any of these applications just a thought.
I must say though i do hate how people follow the newest online trend. I'm a child of the technology age, i love getting to know people online, i like keeping up with everyone, but i'm not going to follow my Flist around to every social networking and blog site in the world just because its the hottest thing going this month. For one lifes too short to have 50 profiles and passwords and two hours worth of stuff to check. IMO find a platform or forum (or two) u like and stick with it. (ok that may have been a little about someone:)
We went to Callaway Gardens (an actual nature place not an amusement park) today cuz well thats what we do periodically with season passes and all. Our grand plan this time was that since we had absolutely no portable food for picnicing that we'd order a pizza from fox's in Pine Mountain (thats a town not a land formation, although it sits a top one of the same name) right up the road from Callaway when we got hungry and then go pick it up. Well we went to get the pizza in Pine Mountain (as if the name doesn't say enough about the town) and we go in Fox's expecting it to be like, you know, a resturant. Well it turns out to be a pizza place/video rental/arcade/bar. Yes thats right, they take yr pizza order behind the very same counter where dvds and VHS are shelved, there are margarita and pina colada specials on wednesdays (according to the board), and off to the left of the "seating area" there are video and pin ball games. This explained the movie posters in the windows beside the bud and miller neons. I half expected that they were selling bait and tackle out the back but i didn't venture to ask. They should rename it Fox's Pizza Emporium...
On wholly different thought, i think the record of our lives is being reduced to sound bites and blurbs. Forget the hundreds of years before the internet- just considering the last ten years i've seen online friends move from journal to social networking to things like twitter and plurk. Each iteration slowly wittling down the amount of information we put out there, and i think possibly making the information we do put out (because its so prolific) of far less interest, value, relevance or importance. Thats not directed at anyone who uses any of these applications just a thought.
I must say though i do hate how people follow the newest online trend. I'm a child of the technology age, i love getting to know people online, i like keeping up with everyone, but i'm not going to follow my Flist around to every social networking and blog site in the world just because its the hottest thing going this month. For one lifes too short to have 50 profiles and passwords and two hours worth of stuff to check. IMO find a platform or forum (or two) u like and stick with it. (ok that may have been a little about someone:)