pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET on sun 5 nov 06
topic - even more off topic now...
Hi Craig, all...
Well, maybe some are better than others.
Tried the one here, comeing home after long hot
Summer dusty day looking at old Car parts in a 134
degree metal shed out past the edge of town,
driving
with a friend in his car, hungry, passing a
'Hooters' my pal said lets try it, so we did.
Totally fatuous and ridiculous place...very
limited menu, food was stale, meager portions
and low quality, smelled bad even. I just pushed
the plate away...other patrons looked like
baby-pink college
imbesciles fresh from jock class guffaws and
shoveing matches.
Some cute babes working there, not far from
normally clad, our waitress comes
over, sits down in the chair next to me, asks me
whats the matter ( not that I was pouting or
anything, or maybe I was? ) and I say "This food
not only looks bad, it smells bad...surely,
something is very not-happy here...I think Helen
Keller could have cooked a better Supper just
working with what she could find in a vacant
lot..."
...she laughs, says, "Yea...the food is not very
good here..."
I say, "What do you eat when you eat here?"
She says, "I do not eat here..."
I say, "Ohhhhhhhh..."
She says " Well, sometimes I get a little thing of
Celery sticks..."
I say, " I probably should have ordered that, do
they soak 'em in 'Veg-White' do you know?...
She says, "Hmmm...I will
find out...but
really, I do not need to eat much anyway...so I
usually wait till I get home..."
I say, "Well, you know, it is not difficult to
have really good food, AND cute-wiggley
babe-waitresses, asaide from whatever ambience,
all at the same time. It is not
as if they are mutually exclusive, at least not in
my own cultural up-bringing, unless it is some
sort of 'post-modern' corporate-policy kinda
thing. Say, do you ever see any Hooter's
Stockholders in here, eating, I mean? IF they
could
find their mouth with-a-spoon, and if so, do they
say anything about the food, or do they ever check
up on their investment?"
...she says "No...never seen any that I know
of....uhhhhh, are you some sort of
Scientist or something?"
I say, "Maybe, whats it to you?"
Anyway, we had a nice little conversation
thing...visited for maybe twenty minutes. I really
liked her. She was born here in Las Vegas, was
pretty bright, looked like the original ' I Dream
of
Genii ' gal only better, was married, 30
something, had kids, liked waitressing night-shift
cause it
payed better than whatever her school degrees had
gotten
her otherwise, left her days free, and it was an
easy gig that let her
be socialble or not as she saw fit...even if it
was absurd...and she had decided that the broader
workplace and culture were absurd ( or worse)
anyway, so...
...the food WAS horrible and neither me or my
friend ate any of it, the atmosphere was
average-suburban-bar-stupid. I told her to give
the plate of food and the bill back to the cook
with my compliments, but I left her a nice-enough
tip to
acknowledge she had done a nice job walking it
over to the table and so on...
Went back a week later...on a Wednesday, by
myself, the place is
dead-as-a-door-nail...different waitress this time
but I remember she'd been near bye the last time,
comes over, I sit outside on a little quiet area,
said "I think I will have a nice
Glass of Water please, no Ice..."
...she said, " Would you like something to eat
also?"
I said, "Uh-uh, I tried that here last time and I
will never make that mistake again..."
She said, with a look of somehow indicating she
could totally understand that, "How about a Beer
then?"
I said, "Well, thats mighty nice of you,
sure...since you put it that way..." ( I was
thinking of getting a Beer anyway...)
She brings the bottle of Beer, on-a-napkin, and
leaves, guess
her shift ended or something, and I read a book
for an hour, R.D.Laing I think or maybe Otto
Rank or something...never saw a bill, so maybe she
meant it. I
leave a sensible semi-George tip, and go home...
Oh well...whatchagunnado?
Moral of the story?
Not sure...
Seemed like a nice place to read on the
off-nights when there were no customers otherwise,
where the outside seating was, where you could at
least get away from the perennial canned music
blareing 'inside', if in nice evening Weather, if
you did not mind really limited beer selections of
the most mediocre brands...and are allright with
absurdity.
Phil
el v
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Clark"
> Well, "Captain Kiln" (I truly loved the
outfit as did Ruth), Hooters
> is a place that one ought experience once. I
kinda think it's a bit of a
> waste, it can't make up it's mind about what it
is, but go for the wings
> while you are there. If ya go with someone who
is a bit modest, then the
> blush factor alone will be worth the price of
admission. That "greatest
> show on dirt" sounds like it musta been an
experience unto itself as
> well......once you've seen something like that
the Vegas Strip is just a
> buncha bright lights and preachers tryin to save
the heathens.
> Craig Dunn Clark
> 619 East 11 1/2 St
> Houston, Texas 77008
> (713)861-2083
> mudman@hal-pc.org
>
> David Hendley wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Elizabeth Priddy"
said:
> >> I think of you daily as I drive past the
Hooters. If
> >> you can get here for the June thing, I will
drive
> >> through with you and pick up some wings.
> >
> > .....just so the rest of Clayart knows, I have
never been to "Hooters".
> > I happened to mention to Elizabeth while
driving around at the South
> > Carolina Conference, looking for a place to
eat, that it is on my list of
> > things I have never done that I would like to
do one time. (Staying
> > at a hotel on the Las Vegas strip is also on
the list - I just can't get
> > enough low-brow culture where I live, but I
did make it to the stock
> > car track last year, "the greatest show on
dirt".
> > If I do make it to Hooters, however, I will
definitely not go through
> > the drive-through. I would most like to go
with Elizabeth and Tony,
> > so I could watch him blush as the waitress
sets his plate of wings
> > on the table.
> >
> > then she sez:
> >> If there were any way to make it happen, I
would
> >> dearly love to come to the extrusion regional
> >> conference. I think I would learn a lot from
that and
> >> i am going to try and get there, although the
date is
> >> hard for me as I will be affording NCECA
around that
> >> time and I have to keep a budget.
> >
> > Yes, we are just about ready to announce
EXTRDUIGNZA,
> > the Potters council Regional Conference,
February 2 & 3,
> > in Dallas-Ft.Worth.
> > I will formally announce it and send details
to Clayart in
> > a week or two.
> >
> > Extrude on, Garth. Extrude on, Wayne.
> >
> > David Hendley
> > Maydelle, Texas
> > david(at)farmpots(dot)com
> > http://www.farmpots.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Elizabeth Priddy"
> > To:
> > Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 12:02 AM
> > Subject: Re: making unique handle making tools
> >
> >
> >> I'll try the wiggle tomorrow!
> >>
> >> I am not quite picturing how the string
helps.
> >>
> >> The moldable epoxy resin is the trick for the
bump on
> >> the backside of it. You have a few minutes
to work it
> >> and I fill in the back to where it is flat
(and down
> >> into the ferrule hole). This makes the
backside glide
> >> through just right and it also is part of the
shaping.
> >>
> >> The wire is too round for me and doesn't make
as clean
> >> a cut.
> >>
> >> I find that the trench left behind is what
excites me
> >> the most and I am working with some forms
that use
> >> both the positive and the negative left in
the block.
> >> If I cut from a strip that is just deep
enough to work
> >> and just a little wider, I am left with a
perfect
> >> inverse. I am not sure where I am going with
it, but
> >> the road leads somewhere for sure.
> >>
> >> I have heard of Glick but am not familiar
with his
> >> work. I probably have seen it, but not
attached a
> >> name.
> >>
> >> i will google and see if it is who I think it
is.
> >>
> >> If there were any way to make it happen, I
would
> >> dearly love to come to the extrusion regional
> >> conference. I think I would learn a lot from
that and
> >> i am going to try and get there, although the
date is
> >> hard for me as I will be affording NCECA
around that
> >> time and I have to keep a budget.
> >>
> >> I really love my extruder but I do not enjoy
cleaning
> >> it. Even with all the tricks I learned here
from
> >> others and you about just that, it is still a
bit of
> >> work getting to it and getting it set up.
With the
> >> new studio I just added, I will leave the
extruder
> >> ready to go instead of having to keep it on
the wall
> >> behind a damp box when not in use.
> >>
> >> I think of you daily as I drive past the
Hooters. If
> >> you can get here for the June thing, I will
drive
> >> through with you and pick up some wings.
> >>
> >> E
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Elizabeth Priddy
> >>
> >> Beaufort, NC - USA
> >> http://www.elizabethpriddy.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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