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Oh Cartoons … racism and fun…
The New York Post is being morally questioned for their printing of a political cartoon last Wednesday.
It all started when a chimpanzee in Connecticut attacked a woman.
The cartoon published two days after the attack and just one day after the signing of Obama’s stimulus bill features two police officers standing over the body of a chimpanzee. In the cartoon the officers said “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.”
It’s pretty obvious how that can be read the wrong way but according to the Post’s apology it “was most certainly not [their] intent” to express racism.
But some celebrities have chosen to boycott the post to express their outrage, including Spike Lee.
Bryan Hawkes, a twenty-five-year-old Radford resident stated,”That let’s you know what kind of people work for the Post. That’s dirty.”
Many other people agree with him.
On sort of the same subject … the Post had an interview with Matt Groening, best know for his show The Simpsons.
Here I will give you the best parts of that interview:
Groening, the original creator of The Simpsons and Futurama has been writing a cartoon called “Life is Hell” for 29 years. He has been doing lost of changes.
The new title is “Life is Swell”
There are changes to the opening scene of The Simpsons as well. More than just Bart’s chalkboard antics and Lisa’s saxophone solo, with the arrival of HD technology, the opening credits scene has been extended to almost a full 2 minutes.
The Simpson family has many new roles, and there are more characters of the show featured. The infamous couch has also become it’s own character and taken on a life of it’s own.
Groening is also putting out a new Futurama movie tomorrow (Tuesday) titled “Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder”.
Groening is one of the best known cartoon producers and creators and doesn’t seem to be slowing down or losing his creativity anytime soon.
I’m Starving, Literally
I don’t have an eating disorder and it was almost completely not my fault. Every single time I ordered food it was prepared wrong, the wrong temperature or simply too gross to eat. I understand that the fast food chains in this world are meant to be quick and inexpensive but does that give them the right to make inadequate food that a dog won’t eat? I think not.
First of all, McDonalds is my absolute favorite of all fast food places to eat, I love it and the supersize movie just made me want a Big Mac while I was watching it. The fries are cooked with beef flavoring and salted enough to give me (someone who is young and healthy) chest pains. Many of my friends joke that there is something addictive like crack in the food because we all know it’s bad for us and we still want it. Sounds like a cigarette to me, but I love those too.
Anyway, do not stop at the McDonalds in Fairfield, Va. I did and not only did I have to stand for a few minutes before the cashier came to the register to take my order but when he was finished he just left and started mopping floors. Once my sandwiches were ready they sat there on the warming rack for about a minute and a half and then the boy returned from his floors to bag my two double cheeseburgers.
He then sets them down and walks around talking to the sandwich maker-guy about the fries. He then starts the fryer and tells me it will be four minutes until my fries are ready. It has been at least four minutes since he took my order, why didn’t he start the fries then, instead of mopping floors? Don’t customers come first anymore? I should remind you that during this four minutes plus the two he wasted talking to the sandwich maker-guy my sandwiches are sitting in an open, unfolded bad, getting cold.
Finally, beep, beep, my fries are ready and then I hear the cashier yell to the drive-thru girl to get me a large fry. She s-l-o-w-l-y got them for me and then handed them to without saying anything. What no F-ing thank you for waiting here in the middle of the night 10 minutes for something that should’ve taken two? To top it all off I get back on I-81 and go to eat my food and as I mentioned my sandwiches were freezing.
Then I try the fries and they have 0 salt on them. So I put them in the backseat for the dog. No lie here, he didn’t even touch one of them and he eats everything. If a dog can’t eat it how do you expect me to?
By the time this article runs, the The Better Business Bureau will know of my next story. Exit 205 on I-81, better known to most of us as the Whites truck stop exit, we all know it. Well at that same exit is a Wilco truck stop and a Wendy’s combined. I went there for one sandwich, a single with cheese.
It starts the same as McDonalds with a long wait for someone to pay attention to me. That entire wait I spent staring at a large, sweaty man with long straggly hair( and no hair net), eating a sandwich on the make-line with gloves on. That’s weird and gross.
After I was rung up I watched that same man start to prepare my sandwich, I knew it was mine because I was the only one there and the drive-thru girl was just standing around. He laid the bun out and placed a piece of meat (?) on one side and then he reached over and took a bite of his sandwich.
The next move I made was to get my money back and not get anything from that place. The manager seemed concerned but not really.
It was raining so my fiancé was putting a tarp over the back of the truck. While he was doing this I was watching the Wendy’s from outside, and the manager did say something to the man, but he never changed gloves or washed his hands even after the manager said something to him. He should’ve been removed from his job permanently in my opinion and that of many employers. I guess Wendy’s is not one of those.
If you want me to flip out about something a little more close to home you put me in the same room or even the same building as the manager’s and owners of the Sonic here in Radford. I have NEVER once gotten what I ordered there. NEVER. I am not exaggerating and I am nice enough to give them a tip because I know how nice that is to get a tip randomly.
I met one of the owner’s once, and he gave me a free pass for two meals. He wrote on the paper, “Do not fuck up her order,” and then he signed it. Well ya know what? They f—– up my order!
So ya know what Wendy’s, McDonald’s, Sonic and all you other people that can’t do your jobs and give me what I pay for? I’m telling you now I’m going to find a way to make you do your jobs and give me what I want because I am tired of being screwed over all the freaking time. Your job is not that hard! I’ve done it.
I know a lot of you have worked in the food business, was it really that hard? Or do you have a similar story that you want to tell?
Kingdomality
I took the kingdomality test and ya know I think they hit me pretty right on the money. The kingdomality Website is just something I stumbled upon that helps lead you through becoming a great manager, I think. Anyway, here’s what they said about me in a nutshell:
our distinct personality, The White Knight, might be found in most of the thriving kingdoms of the time. Don Quixote was a White Knight as was Joan of Arc, the Lone Ranger and Crusader Rabbit. As a White Knight you expect nothing in return for your good deeds. You are one of the true “Givers” of the world. You are the anonymous philanthropist who shares your wealth, your time and your life with others. To give, is its own reward and as a White Knight you seek no other. On the positive side you are merciful, sympathetic, helpful, giving and heroic. On the negative side you may be impulsively decisive, sentimental and misdirected. Interestingly, your preference is just as applicable in today’s corporate kingdoms.
Christmas Eve
Gotta love Christmas Eve. Wal-Mart closes early and the only places to go are 7-11 and Sheetz. Nope. CVS saved my day today. It was around 6:30 p.m. and I really needed some Graham Crackers to complete my s’mores, after calling Sheetz and then going there to get my crackers I still had no help.
On my way home I realized CVS was open, went in and 3 minutes later was completely satisfied(I wish it only took 3 minutes every other time;). I hate this holiday and I wish it were over.
I’m a non-smoker now and the stress is making me want to eat,therefore I’m getting fat.
On a different topic: work is getting easier which is good in a way but the next phase is boredom and I don’t want to start that already. I like working at Papa John’s I just wish it had a future and a little higher pay. I guess I am lucky though, lots of others get paid less than I do. Which leads me to why I am a Grinch of sorts.
It started because I was/am very selfish, and I think that started from being an only child. Anyway, I hated Christmas because everyone always got really cool stuff and I only sometimes would get something pretty cool. Oh yea before I go any further, Cool=expensive.
Now I hate Christmas because I realized that there are so many people out there that are in such a horrible situation especially around this time of year. Knowing some of those things, you still want me to get dressed up, put on a fake smile and buy people who already have the basic necessities of life things to enhance their lifestyles? No I didn’t think so.
I would rather feed that little girl who hasn’t eaten in 3 days or buy the little boy on the street living out of his mothers Volvo, a G.I. Joe.
And if “I don’t have the money”, a.k.a. am way too lazy to do anything like that I am sure as hell not going to be buying you something Mr. I have enough money to give my daughter a car.(yea I’m talking to you Dad.)–I appreciate it, and I’m lucky to have that.
wish me luck
wish me luck as the rest of this week could really go downhill or just be as great as getting this month long vacay. I have two exams which im not worrying about because my theory is “if i don’t know it by now im not gonna”. But then I have all these damn bills and this fight with Nextel. Trust me bitches this is not over. Just in case I lose service for a while B’s number is 434 960 2015.–try to make those important i’m not trying to blow up his phone all the time.
I think i’m just going to not pay them and not use my phone and see what they charge me with next month.
I also have to learn to close at PJs not that it’s going to be that hard or anything.
I may have overdrawn my account today by .64
what a day.
Is it really that bad
Am I really that bad of a person? Do people look down on me because I don’t go to as prestigious a school as say … William and Mary? Or is it because I don’t walk around talking about Darwin’s theories and orchids all the time? Either way, I think it’s shitty that I am a much better learner, and I work entirely harder than any of you preppy bitches yet because your piece of paper says “My parents had enough money to send me here” you will go home every Friday with a substantially larger bank account.
That’s fucked up, and I hate you lucky bastards for it. Ya’ll know who you are … in high school you were my friends and then youfound out I was poor and couldn’t keep in touch anymore.
Well fuck you, your mother and your couch. Fuck every school you go to. UVA, William and Mary, Duke, Berkeley and whereever the hell that place that Mark Capansky goes. I hope I didn’t forget anything or anybody. Where do the Fitzsimmons go? I hate that place too.
Ya know some of you people have yet to have to work a single day at a real job and you are pushing 22 years old. 22 fucking years and getting everything handed to you. that’s a long fucking time to be riding the coattails of your parents but it’s okay you make good grades.
Well let me tell you something mr. if I didn’t work 40 hours a week my grades would be better than a B ave. But a B ave is still pretty fucking good so stop putting me down just becuase your piece of paper is going to say “big waste of money… but at least you have a job” whereas mine will say “aaahhh no debt… and shitty job. good luck”
i hate you
Hello life
Today has been a boring day. I sat around all day cleaning and smoking with Kristine. We did go to McDonalds and I do have to go to a meeting tonight for Whim. I guess I could write more later on that.
I did write an article this week and one for next week already. Check it out: Whim Vent section
