If I Just Nod And Ring It Through, Will You Go Away?
Well, June is upon us, summer is definitely here, and already I'm feeling the heat. Mostly because when Mel gets overly hot, she rolls around a lot in bed and almost pushes me right off the edge. I hold very little doubt that when she discovers this particular bit of nowhere, she's going to squeak in embarrassment, and then hurt me in some fashion.
But onto other things!
In an "it's a small world after all" moment, yesterday I happened to meet another con-goer from last weekend's Anime North. How did I know? Well, let me tell you that my innate oktau senses are finely honed; I can detect other anime fans based simply on their walk or manner of speech. The
Naruto shirt she was wearing also helped out. (On an unrelated note, guess what series she Cosplayed as.) It's interesting to chance encounter other otaku outside of anything overtly anime-related. Then again, I'd probably enjoy my job a lot better if we also sold manga alongside our purses, or had
Fruits Basket backpaks to sell.
Another interesting customer anecdote from yesterday. Yes, I know, I see a lot of customers on a day to day basis, but somehow this woman stuck in my memory. Maybe it was the half-condescending, all-neurotic way she talked...and talked...and talked...and wouldn't shut up. Maybe it was how she waffled and debated for easily twenty minutes over which of these two backpaks on wheels she should get. Or maybe it had something to do with the giant, frilly, purple tutu she was wearing.
Yeah, I was desperately trying to keep a straight face the entire time too.
She told me that she was a clown for a living. My dear, after having to endure your neurotic banter/whining for near a half hour, all I can say is you have no idea the accuracy of that statement....
In other news, I have discovered that Weird Al has cameos in all three
Naked Gun movies. I'd known about the obvious "as himself" roles in the first and third movies, and was rather pleased to see they managed to squeeze him into the second one as a gun-wielding maniac who gets bested by Leslie Neilson and a well-placed door.
Today's Lesson: apparently, if you have a stone block for baking pizza in the oven, the best thing to do after each pizza is to scrape the contents off and leave the stone as is. This allows for the stone to...do something specific, though I forget the term used, but it's supposed to bake better pizza crusts as time goes on if you do this. The older and more used the stone, the better the crusts. (So there you have it: a valid reason to not have to wash pizza stones!)
posted by Phillip at 5:36 AM
