Denny's - An Unexpected Journey

Denny's - An Unexpected Journey 

So with Thanksgiving out of the way, I'm guessing that the first thing on your mind is when the next meal comes... And hey, you're just in time for a Hobbit/Denny's cross por

Okay, I don't what to think.. other than, Where the fuck is my Lemba Bread?!? Huh, Denny's. Where's my Lemba bread at, yo. And what about the complimentary pipeweed?

Well, okay. I guess I can talk to the sketchy looking dude hanging out in the parking lot if I want that sort of thing. So what else is on the menu?  

Dishes include Gandalf's Gobble Melt and Radagast's Red Velvet Pancake Puppies...

You know, The Lonely Mountain Treasure and Radagast Pancake Bites do sound tasty.

Yeah, shut up. I know it's Denny's. So what.

Did You Use Proper Dining Etiquette For Thanksgiving?

Did You Use Proper Dining Etiquette For Thanksgiving?

Elbows off the table, you slob! So Thanksgiving just passed us by. And while I'm sure this could have been topical more so BEFORE it, It's still very funny after it. Besides, you could use this education and apply it towards Christmas dinner.



Now that was good.

Capitalism in America

Capitalism in America 

Well, now that we've gotten our choice of American oppressor out of the way, perhaps we should look at the real cause of our discontent.. Capitalism.

This video. This here is the summation of Capitalism.



God Bless America. God Bless... yeah.

Being Thankful - Stay off the Road, Drunkie

Being Thankful - Stay off the Road, Drunkie

Happy Thanksgiving, folks! I'm just going to half ass it on today's post mainly because I'm going to get my grub on, yo. So I decided to just leave this one really short and have a couple of random and interesting facts for you.

First off, you're not going to pass out because you ate too much Turkey. Yes, it does have tryptophan in it. But it's not because of what is in the meat that will get you tired, it's the amount of food you're eating.You just pile up tons and tons of stuffing, potatoes and various other turkey day dishes that you eventually have to pass out. So please, if someone mentions tryptophan, just fucking slap them.And hey, just so you know how your food is brought to your table, here's a little interesting table of contents




















And finally, I leave you with this little hint if you plan on going out on the town this weekend. Just remember to not drink. A piece of advice that I seldom ever give, but let's face it, the cops are out in full force this Holiday weekend as they know dealing with your family is a level of hell that no one should deal with sober. So with saying that, here's a simple list of check points in Los Angeles;

The LAPD has provided the following time and location information about checkpoints:
Sobriety & Driver’s License Checkpoint
Friday, November 23, 2012, 8 p.m. to Saturday, November 30, 2012, 2 a.m.
Manchester Avenue at Hoover Street

Sobriety & Driver’s License Checkpoint
Friday, November 23, 2012, 6 p.m. to Saturday, November 24, 2012, 12 a.m.
Western Avenue at Browning Boulevard

DUI Saturation Patrol
Friday, November 23, 2012, 2 to 8 p.m.
Hollenbeck Area

Sobriety & Driver’s License Checkpoint
Saturday, November 24, 2012, 7 p.m. to Sunday, November 25, 2012, 1 a.m.
Florence Avenue at Broadway

DUI Saturation Patrol
Saturday, November 24, 2012, 6 p.m. to Sunday, November 25, 2012, 2 a.m.
Hollywood Area

DUI Saturation Patrol
Saturday, November 24, 2012, 6 p.m. to Sunday, November 25, 2012, 2 a.m.
Southwest Area

A Black Friday

A Black Friday

It's not Friday yet. Hell, not even Thanksgiving has passed us by and yet people are already lining up to get a great deal on crap they really don't need in the festive act of being a capitalist and a corporate whore. Meanwhile, Walmart workers prepare for Black Friday, not by setting up tents, but by preparing to hit the picket lines...

Remember that scene from last year when a woman used pepper spray to clear out the shopping competition at a Walmart store in Los Angeles? Charges still haven`t been filed even though the woman turned herself in.

This year, Walmart is looking at problems from within as employees continue their strikes around the country, like the one over the weekend in Dallas. And the one in Mira Loma, Calif., where six warehouse employees blocked the streets and ended up in jail.

The United Food and Commercial Workers Union is calling for a massive walkout on Black Friday, even though very few Walmart employees belong to the union

The strikers and their supporters complain that Walmart doesn’t pay them a decent wage and retaliates whenever someone complains.

Walmart responded by filing a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, accusing the union of illegally organizing picket lines and other demonstrations.

The threatened Black-Friday walkout comes just days after striking union workers failed to come to terms with the maker of Twinkies and wonder bread.
Yeah, and we know how that turned out.

It's really shocking to think that people are actually jumping behind the narrative that these people are suddenly lazy or don't want to work Thanksgiving. This is exactly how America's big corporations want us to see this course of action. Opposed to the reality that it's not the fact that working on Thanksgiving that is offensive, it's that they're not properly compensating the workers for their work normally and this is the one time that it will hit them where it counts.

It's really sad that there is actually demand for these jobs, these god awful shitty jobs that people would gladly fill these positions because they are in a desperate situation that has been facilitated by our government and its wealthy corporate backers. Because that's the truth about it. America's big corporations want us to think this way. They want us to fight for these unfair, underpaying jobs that make you work while sick or injured, that book you for as many hours as they could legally do so all under part time so that they can avoid paying for your health benefits, then force you to work every shift they give you otherwise you face some sort of job loss.

What sort of world do we live in that we're so desperate to not only tolerate Walmart's unjust practices, but we will actually line up around the block to actually work there because there's no other such job opening.

Then you have those who blame the workers saying things like "well, they should have done better in high school" or "if they don't like it, they should quit."  While that is true to some degree, it doesn't factor in social economic differences. Not to mention the fact that we're openly accepting a company treating workers this way? Don't even get me started on the amount of hate addressed towards unions. 

So how about we all don't cheer for the corporate behemoths while they crush dissent and subject people and cities to obscene abuses in the working world. Let's not just stand idly by watching this race to the bottom and then cry about the disappearing middle class. As it stands, the current economic situation is as follows; in terms of adjusted dollars, the minimum wage hasn't been this low since the 1970's.

How about we, you know, pay the workers a wage they can actually live on.

Marvel, Why You So Cray Cray?

Marvel, Why You So Cray Cray?

While this news is a bit old since it was announced at NYCC last month, it may be a bit out dated, but considering comic book news and when it hits are month apart, who cares. It's well worth reminding you at how truly bad this idea is.

Do you recall Nick Spencer, the truly awful writer for Marvel and his horrible run at Secret Avengers? Well, he's back and the idea behind this new title relaunch is just a bad.They're bringing back the Secret Avengers... Only far more stupid this time.

At this weekend’s New York Comic-Con, Marvel is showing off one of the most intriguing titles of the companywide “Marvel NOW!” initiative: A relaunched Secret Avengers series coming in February 2013, which focuses on S.H.I.E.L.D., the semi-omniscient government agency. S.H.I.E.L.D. is having a bit of a moment right now: It’s the connective tissue for Marvel’s cinematic universe, and ABC is currently producing a Whedon-powered S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series. And Secret Avengers puts the agency front and center. “S.H.I.E.L.D. has decided that they want their own Avengers team,” says Nick Spencer, who is writing the series, with Luke Ross handling penciling duties. “But Avengers are loose cannons: They’re independent operators, they don’t have security clearance, they have a history of becoming bad guys.”



Hence, the key twist in Secret Avengers: Thanks to the memory implant technology first seen in the 2005 Brian Michael Bendis-scripted series Secret War, “Nobody on this team actually knows that they’re on this team.” For members of the team, a specific keyword activates their programming when it’s time for a mission; once the mission is done, the same keyword wipes their memory. “It’s a very different kind of book,” says Spencer, “A covert ops, black ops spy book.” (Spencer cites 24, James Bond, and the BBC series Spooks as influences, along with the work that Ed Brubaker has done with Marvel’s espionage world in the last decade.) Today, EW is excited to exclusively reveal the members of the team, with commentary from Spencer:

On a scale of one to ten in terms of bad ideas, this ranks in there as an 11. I mean, it just sounds incredibly stupid. So who's in the line up?  Hawkeye, Black Widow, Black Nick Fury, Mockingbird, Taskmaster, Iron Patriot, Hulk and pretty much anybody. You know, since they're all sleeper agents. They even said that Winter Soldier would be tossed in there as an important character.

I can't really even imagine the whole memory concept thing lasting long. The very notion of implanting a memory-wiping device in someone like Taskmaster is hilarious on so many levels. The dude's power is to mimic the actions of those who he fights.

The whole thing is just bad all around. Boy, did Secret Avengers never actually live up to what it felt like it was going to. The concept of the heroes as sleepers and Fury activating to do missions is shady as fuck and all sorts of fucked up. It's also really impossible for them to have any growth at any point of the story.

I re-read Secret War and everyone that participated in that did so of their own free will. Not because they were brainwashed into doing so. Fury recruited them and just went farther with the mission than most of them were comfortable with. Then he mind-wiped them. Wolverine was the angriest over this because he was really okay with Fury's fight-terrorism-with-terrorism plan, and there was no reason to mind-wipe him at all. Especially when Wolverine hates it when people do that to him.

Much the same, Winter Soldier has had his mind wiped and it has been a sore spot with him. So perhaps this isn't the best thing to do to characters like that. Besides, didn't they already learn from DC with Sue's rape and death that mind-wiping your characters is fucking stupid?

I guess it's the same ol' same ol' at Marvel.

Organic Isn't Healthier for You

Organic Isn't Healthier for You

Well all you farmers market folks can get off that soap box as a new study shows that there's very little health benefit to getting your produce at a farmers market.

You’re in the supermarket eyeing a basket of sweet, juicy plums. You reach for the conventionally grown stone fruit, then decide to spring the extra $1/pound for its organic cousin. You figure you’ve just made the healthier decision by choosing the organic product — but new findings from Stanford University cast some doubt on your thinking.
“There isn’t much difference between organic and conventional foods, if you’re an adult and making a decision based solely on your health,” said Dena Bravata, MD, MS, the senior author of a paper comparing the nutrition of organic and non-organic foods, published in the Sept. 4 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.

It basically goes on to state that organically-grown produce doesn't really contain any more nutrients or vitamins than its conventional counterpart. It puts into question if it's worth the cost to get the pesticide free stuff or even if the stuff grown with growth hormones is really worth it.

So while there's no health reasons to pick organic over regular, i do think that the article and study misses the more important point of buying organic or buying from a farmers market, even if it's a little more than the cost of the non-organic version.

The real thought behind buying the organic stuff is to know where exactly the things you are putting in your mouth come from. Seeing or talking to the producer and knowing what came from where. I know that when I get fruit, if I know the region it came from, I'll have a better understanding on how it will taste.

A lot of people are still into supporting local vendors and small time producers. So it's not really, nor has it ever really been something about the health levels of what you're buying - more to the point that it's about who you are buying it from.

While it may not be any more healthier for you, it sure as hell does taste a lot better when it's given more care in how it was raised and produced opposed to things generated for the thousand tons worth of it.