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killer


sightseeing

Mr. Glass gifted Burnout 3 for Kevin’s birthday which Chad and Kevin spent most of the morning playing while our house-guest and I pecked at our computers and did work-type-things.

Made brunch – followed by the requisite egg-comma and then off downtown early to bop around Laclede’s Landing until the concert.

The Landing was all there was to this city back in the days when beaver pelts were considered currency. It’s since turned into a tourist trappy environment of wax museums, heterosexual meat markets and restaurants. It’s also the home of the best place to catch a band.

Mississippi Nights. A low-slung dark smokey dive where there isn’t a bad seat in the house and a great place to catch acts that are on the “way up”.

The opener was out of NYC called “Ambulance Unlimited” (or Limited) – they were good… so good actually that we picked up their album at the t-shirt stand.

The Killers – well… What’s not to love. They sound like Duran Duran and The Cure had a lovechild…

Their stage presence was a little ho-hum – but they sounded great.

En-route home Glass requested Jack in the Box for the after-the-show dinner. He didn’t have to twist our arm.

As always it was too soon before we had to exchange hugs and send him on his way this morning.

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Mom went back in for the gal bladder surgery so I’m behind. It was pretty screwed up according to the Surgeon and stuck to some adjacent organs. (ewwww).. Nontheless, she did fine – but in a lot of pain so I’ve been camping at the hospital where I can’t connect… Even tried sneaking an ethernet cable into the jack where the registration terminals are – but I can’t seem to get out to the “World” via that…. Not like I’m making excuses or anything for not-not doing something – what am I talking about? (packs up laptop and heads back to Barnes West).
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where’s the beef?

crack for fatties in denial

Out working at clients all day… There’s been a surge in projects which means next month will be nice, but in the meantime I’m sitting on a pile of bills and my hands. I hate living hand to mouth.

I seem to have picked up the annoying habit of forgetting my power book’s power adapter.

Did our normal happy hour at JJ’s… The odd weather had even odder folks out – some of which we haven’t seen in a while. Afterward while dropping dvd rentals off I spied from across the street a huge sign in the Jack in the Box window:

“CHICKEN MONSTER TACOS – 99 Cents”

Well then… Considering all the hoopla from the left-coast Monkeytiers about Chicken Monster Tacos, (in response to a a previous non-blog praise of JITB tacos), I insisted we drive through and pick up dinner.

The verdict?………… why bother?

I’d draw a parallel to going to Starbuckos and ordering a double-decalf-skim-frapo-fuck-me-outa-four-dollars,… but…. I’m quite certain that Chicken Monster Tacos have damn near similar fat and calories to their bovine counterparts.

The only difference I could really observe was the shell of CMTs are more orange-red and the meat-paste filling is a taupey-gray rather than the brown-gray. Blindfolded, I’d challenge anyone to discern between the two.

So what’s the motivation? – (*monkeybear squelches urge to light-heartedly poke fun at the “Californian mindset”)

I didn’t take notice to see if there was a price difference between the two… so I don’t think it’s a “Status Thing”.

I suppose while woofing this deep-fried thing down some folks will say… “Hey- but it’s Chicken right?”

Pish..

So I’ll pass on the poultry – bring me the beef…. and no… I’m not blogging.

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taco-esque

crack for fatties

Thanks to some Australian commercial and a few other distractions, I didn’t get nearly as much done as I would have liked.

cubpower came by the office at the end of the day to pick up some of the residual stuff he left behind when he moved his business to his home last August. We figured since he was in the city, we may as well head down to JJ’s to hit happy hour.

We weren’t there terribly long before hunger overtook us and Chad announced his day-long craving for Jack-in-The-Box.

JITB, is not all over the US as I had assumed. Missouri is one of their furthest east regions. I grew up on the stuff. One of my mom’s and my favorite “treats” was to run out and get a bag of their tacos when I was a kid.

These aren’t like Taco Bell tacos.. No sir. They shipped to the restaurant as pre-meat-stuffed shells which are dropped into the fry bin and cooked till they’re crispy and then removed, a slice of american cheese is added, a smattering a iceberg and a squirt of taco sauce.

The greasy creation is slipped into a paper envelope and served to you still molten on the inside… Simply fucking brilliant.

I woofed down four of them and suddenly had to take a nap. I awoke an hour and a half later with heartburn and completely grossed out because my pores wreaked of Taco.

I was compelled to scrub myself with SOS pads and bleach but a hot shower and Irish Spring sufficed.

Upon emerging from the shower I realized I hadn’t put any fast food in my mouth since the guys were gone over Christmas. Perhaps my body is finally loosing its tolerance for fast food.

Assumptions withstanding – you think I’ll run back out and grab another bag of them the next time the craving hits? You’re damn right!

Think I’d blog about it? – Absolutely not.