March 27, 2008

Why did I buy Life Water?

Because some oaf at this table took the last lemon-lime Foxon Park, that’s why.

But where, where was I put into such a traumatic situation?

C & C PIZZA
A Taste of New Haven.

And now,
A warning to consumers:

Do not go to C & C PIZZA, A Taste of New Haven. It’s more like a taste of Florida or whatever part of England I was at in 1989 when I got that pizza with scrambled eggs on it. Even for Madison (the town of me) I regarded the pizza I consumed as unpleasant. Also, there’s one garbage can and it is behind the service counter. Evidently I’m the only person in this town who generates refuse I’d rather not make someone else handle. I stumbled about in the little square of space dividing the outside from the in and I see Guy behind counter reach a hand out to get at what I’m holding, which suggests to me that this happens a lot but nothing changes because whoever’s in charge likes it that way. I suppose what the man did was nicer than let me walk around in a circle and go back to my table twelve feet away, yet something still feels incredibly wrong to me about blowing my nose on a napkin and then giving the result to someone.


It looks safe, but it is actually quite dangerous. This time I was lucky. The other person present agreed to take home the four slices which remained at the end. Otherwise I probably would have forced myself to eat them, and combined with the Life Water it might have killed me. Or someone else.

This television set is airing “Showbiz Tonight.” I have several problems with that. The first: there is a television set on in a restaurant. Second, it is airing “Showbiz Tonight.” But let me be specific. Hey, I don’t need your permission! I shall be specific! The program is Showbiz Tonight, but now is not night at all! According to CAM-RA I took this picture at 10:30 am. CAM-RA is behind by an hour, but that would make the actual time 11:30 am, and nevermind that I should not be awake at such a time of day; even if I should, Showbiz Tonight ought not to be a part of that. I consider it nothing less than a criminal act to impose night showbiz on unsuspecting diurnalists.

Also problematic: there was a discernible boot-print on the cushionoid beneath this television set, which suggests whoever operates it has lost the remote control and is standing on a seating place while wearing dirt-acquainted boots to turn the device on and presumably off at some point. Or maybe this was meant to be a hint to me. Suggesting that I ought to stand up and turn the thing off myself. Ah, hem. It seems obvious now, but in the moment there was no time to think. It was kill or be killed. It was do or die. It was Glen or Glenda. You have to understand, it was dog eat dog out there in here. In my panicked state, eating C&C pizza seemed a step above cannibalism so I did that instead. Luckily, there are three other tables in the whole place so I doubt this will bother anyone.

I wouldn’t sit over there anyway, as the only thing worse than an unstoppable voice going on and on about Justin Timberlin “drop[ping] trow” because Madonna said so and then people asking Justin to tell them that is my not being able to see where the voice is coming from. Especially when it’s a three-way split screen hydra of voices debating the details. I need to know which animatronic bust I agree with and whose to look for on the cover of the insider tell-all book I will hide behind other tell-all books the next time I’m in what technically is a book section at Target. ORLANDO BLOOM IS NOT GAY! I WILL DESTROY YOUR LIFE!



Who even says showbiz? The only people who call movies and such “showbiz” are people who call circuses “the big top;” salaried hack writers and the occasional redemption-ticket arcade game designer who hate their lives. I remember seeing the phrase “big top” used in a shockingly not disgusted Nintendo Power review of Arrow the Acro-bah and not knowing what it meant. And then I went out to Tommy K’s video and rented it anyway (I never rented Big Top Pee-Wee, thankfully). And now you’re out of business, ha ha. Fourteen years later, because you couldn’t compete with the internet or whatever and I actually find it depressing. That’s showbiz.



Oddly enough, Tommy’s Tanning still 100% in operation.



By the wuh, Tommy K should not be confused with his fellow North Branford Hamburger Hill Tommy, of Tommy Gun Choppers, which, yes, still sells cigars. Presumably, whatever wonderfully pleasant things choppers are, as well.

Showbiz. People who say showbiz. They are the same sort of people who invented the terminology “baby-boomers” or just unprotestingly allow themselves to be called that. Humans should not ever say “boom” unless describing a loud noise, but even then it should not be done in such a way as to attempt imitation of the noise. I also have very specific rules pertaining to the use of “baby” but I’ll save that topic for the newsletter.



7 Responses
  1. 1
    12:00 am, March 28, 2008
    A butt-inski sez:

    At least they don’t call themselves a “pizza parlor”. That always makes me assume that the pizza sold is floppy in consistency, and possibly made of soft plastic.

    That said, I find pizza intrinsically amusing. The same holds for other pizza-like substances, and also words that are orthographically similar to “pizza”.

  2. 2
    4:40 am, March 29, 2008
    Rinslid sez:

    Plastic flop pizza is a good alternative to suffer.

    I used to be really disappointed when pizza could not be purchased in a plaza. By now I realize it is usually for the pizza’s own good, the less places it is available.

  3. 3
    4:53 am, April 9, 2008
    mariella ellaaaaaaaa sez:

    Really Brendanstein? I love C&C. I hate the TV in there, cause its always crappy local news. But actually as far as real italian food goes (sorry, im 100% sicilian…haha) the sauce on their pizza is pretty authentic.

    I also dislike the people that work there. And the environment is kinda crappy and depressing. One time that news channel had a segment on a dude who had a condition where his skin was completely blue. And when I say blue – I’m talking blueberry pie cerulean paint pallet blue. It was very strange.

    But Naples is better than C&C. Just go there next time!

  4. 4
    12:52 pm, April 9, 2008
    Rinslid sez:

    Ehhh, well, maybe mine had just spoiled. But then, I know nothing about what makes something authentically Italian, so that may just equate with me thinking it is spoiled. I do, at least, like Naples, so that much is good. I seem to recall there being a television set on there, too, but I do not remember hearing its lies.

  5. 5
    3:41 am, April 15, 2008
    mariella ellaaaaaaaa sez:

    Well either way – this calls for a pizza roadtrip when I get back from Cal-ee-for-nie-AYYY.

    peace Hogan,

    Randy “Macho Man” Savage

  6. 6
    2:53 am, April 23, 2008
    Bel een advocaat van onvermogen sez:

    I found this article by Craig Freeman, Vice President of Xerox Litigation Services, on the Big I, little t blog interesting. Titled,“ E- mail and E- discovery: A Q&A”

  7. 7
    3:32 am, April 23, 2008
    Splachtempf sez:

    My robots just get weirder and weirder. I appreciate it, I think.

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