Tag Archives: Fast food

Either/Or.

Posted by Marco Sparks on

Mad linkage:

The important new dynamic in modern human communication.

The first image (fucking finally) from Joss Whedon/Drew Goddard’s Cabin In The Woods.

Are wide male faces a predictor for unethical behavior?

James Spader is joining The Office, but not as the boss, not for long.

Zadie Smith turning to speculative fiction and sci fi.

Infidelity might just keep us together.

Spike Lee to direct the American remake of Oldboy?

Above: Katie West summer print sale.

An oral history of Explosions In The Sky.

Antonia Fraser and Harold Pinter.

The paradox that was G. K. Chesteron.

Don’t let them cut off your balls, boys.

At least Glenn Beck is gone from the airwaves.

An oral history of Michael Fucking Bay.

9 steps to foolproof outdoor sex.

“In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant…. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known—no wonder, then, that I return the love. “

-Søren Kierkegaard

Harry Potter’s favorite magic potion is booze.

Speaking of which, some of your favorite fast food chains are now serving alcohol.

Also, the “experts” are now saying that some “light drinking” may be “safe” while you’re pregnant.

And: An oral history of the Harry Potter film series.

The evils of “like” culture.

“All I want is to have incredibly violent sex.”

from here.

Massive amounts of cheating discovered in Atlanta public schools.

Topless sunbathing in the bit city.

How Charlotte’s Web was conceived.

The perfect penis.

Alfred Hitchcock recalls working with Salvador Dali.

“You are a computer salesman – I am fucking JAMES BOND.”

Ours might not be a holographic universe after all :(

Trash Talk.

Posted by Marco Sparks on

Is it weird that whenever I end up in a fast food place, which I’m finding increasingly hard to do with an alarming frequency, I always see the sign on the trash can…

And think of this:

…which, of course, is from Michelangelo’s Creation Of Adam, the 1511 fresco that is one of the many images adorning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and illustrates the Book of Genesis.

Or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, whatever your brand of religion is.

Either way: It’s the hand of God touching the trash of the world. Or, rather, throwing it away. The Garden of Eden wasn’t a paradise, it was a compose pile! It was a recylcing bin! The refuse of humanity!

from here.

I know, I know, I need to get out more. Maybe not spend as much time with just myself and my thoughts. Believe me, you’re not the first to mention it. This is where all my thoughts tend to go:

And, only semi-related, the Burger King character still freaks me out…

I mean, right? Look at this guy.

After cars and cash, the next thing fly honeys dig in a guy is his Henry VIII apparel. This I know be truth.

Look at that. First he’s rubbing sun tan lotion on your girlfriend at the beach while you’re at work and then next thing you know…

You’re waking up to a big bad mistake. And he’s got his own cologne. Ugh. But I digress…

…to celebrity trash, it is! No, no, just kidding.

I’m fascinated by the idea of trash as art, such as the sculpture of Tim Noble and Sue Webster immediately above here, or Yuken Teruya’s trash art tree seen a little higher up, the refuse of humanity turned back into something of use or importance. The recycling of that which we used and no longer want into something that we not only want, but cherish. Who knows, maybe Michelangelo would be proud. Especially if it was all done in the name and glory of God. Or, at least of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

I don’t want to sound like the Wes Bentley character in American Beauty, but it almost makes you want to look at trash slightly differently, right?

Well… maybe not. But food for thought, I hope.

Foods Filled With Shame

Posted by mariamargarita on

Uncrustables

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Virgin America offers Uncrustables on their in flight food menu. If you sit in first class or Main Cabin Select, which is a bootleg first class (no massage chairs), you can order as much food as you want for free. You could have dozens of Uncrustables! An Uncrustable is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with no crust, packaged together. It sticks to the roof of your mouth just like a normal Pb&j sandwich, but makes you feel exciting, unlike a normal pb&j.

2 out of 5 shame stars

Spam

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A highly misunderstood food. I know people who would shove hundreds of dollars worth of blow up their noses who would refuse to eat this nitrite filled pink packet of delicsiouness. The best place in the world to eat spam is at Lucky Chances Casino in Colma, California. The 24 hour diner attached to the 24 hour card room serves up Spam with eggs and garlic fried rice. It is one of the most perfect food combinations you’ve ever seen. The card room is full of old Chinese people gambling away their SSI checks and the diner is full of people who use Xanga as a blogging platform. It’s worth it.

5 out of 5 stars (people really hate Spam)

Anything off a fast food dollar menu

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We’ve all been there. We’ll all go back there again.

3 out of 5 stars

Celeste Pizza For One

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Not only is it a frozen pizza, it’s a frozen pizza for ONE. It’s a frozen pizza of sadness that will likely be covered in tears and followed by a Nyquil chaser. However, the salt content is so high it will kill any possibility of a hang over and possibly your biological ability to have children.

2.5 out of 5 stars (their cheapness could override any guilt you feel for eating this)

A sandwich purchased at a drugstore

A far better investment would be diet pills.

4 out of 5 (walgreen’s is for buying plan b, not for sandwiches)

Foie gras

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High end self loathing. A vulgar display of wealth and callousness. Foie gras is made by ducks being force fed grain so their livers can expand and a pate can be made of it, to be spread on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (as I’ve had it served to me once), stuffed between giant pieces of steak and smothered on baguette sandwiches. It’s not much worse than the harsh reality of factory farming in the US, but something about foie gras takes the creepiness of meat eating to an entirely other level.

5 out of 5 stars (prepare for any ethical people you know to despise you)