Well, dear readers, my food travails continue. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, my food travails continue. Is Uranus in Vesuvius or something? Something is surely afoot here or perhaps ahand here. Everything I’ve ordered recently has been less than wonderful or just plain disgusting. It was two for two yesterday. First up was a small pizza from a jernt called Pizza Man, which had many five-star reviews on Yelp. They demand you choose thin or thick crust. My experience with thin crust is that it’s THIN, like a cracker. I like normal crusts. The other option is thick crust so thinking that would be like a normal crust, I got that. Well, it wasn’t like a normal crust, this crust was THICKER THAN THICK – talking about the heel. So thick that the pepperoni, cheese, and tomato sauce only took up two-thirds of the real estate and remember this was a SMALL personal pizza of four slices. The main pizza part was literally two bites. The crust, on the other hand, was doughy and like eating Play Dough. I could only eat two of those heels. Very unsatisfying, the sauce had something that didn’t agree with me and we argued about it the rest of the day. I need sauce that agrees with me, if you get my drift, and I know you do because you are dear readers, after all. So, about ninety minutes ago I felt I needed a nice salad or something, nothing too big. For the first time, Little Toni’s was available on DoorDash, and they had a small shrimp Louie, so that sounded good. It arrived and I opened the package, and you could smell the shrimp and the smell wasn’t good – more like sniffing the inside of a garbage pail. I smothered it all in thousand island dressing, hoping for the best. Well, the best is yet to come because two bites of these fetid shrimps and I almost gagged – thankfully, not big bites, about half of two shrimps. I tried eating the lettuce and cucumbers and tomatoes but it all tasted awful. This is three out of three for DoorDash orders I’ve had issues with, but this was the first food quality issue – I think in the three years I’ve been using them that’s only happened once before. I am quite nauseous right now and only pray it doesn’t escalate. The support staff at DoorDash takes food quality issues VERY seriously, so they reached out to me just now via e-mail and I laid out everything for them, so we’ll see if they throw a little extra credit in my direction. I would, if I were them, but I’m not them, I’m me, and me is nauseous as all get out and I think we all know how nauseous all get out is.
Earlier, I started a motion picture but wasn’t in the mood, so I searched Is It a Crime on the Tube of You so I could see that cut number as I have no clew where my Bells Are Ringing Blu-ray is. I found it easily and one can see why they cut it because it actually completely stops the flow of the story. She leaves to go to Jeffrey Moss’s apartment to wake him up and in the movie itself she arrives instantly. But if they’d left in the song, that’s five minutes before she gets there and it’s just a stage wait, as good as the song is and how wonderfully its performed. It’s also filmed statically, which doesn’t help it at all. I don’t think there was a single close-up in the entire thing, and it takes place in the rubble next door to Susanswerphone. The reason it was written for the play was to have an in-one number so they could change the set to the apartment. After that, I came upon a high school production (with a full orchestra), so I began watching that. No, it’s not very good, but the kids are committed, and it gets lots of laughs and hefty mitts from the audience, which I’m sure is comprised of friends and family. There are certain things the movie does better and if I were to do a production, I’d do what I did with Li’l Abner, and use the little changes from the film. I’m not sure I like Jeffrey Moss’s introductory number, Independent – not a great song to begin with, and it makes him out to be kind of a jerk. I think they realized that for the movie and took that party scene out, only leaving his failed attempts to put some words down on paper. In the stage show, he sings the line “You’ve got to do it, you’ve got to do it, got to do alone” and for the film they took those lines and wrote a song to follow them called Do It Alone. That, too, isn’t a great song, but it does work for the character and makes him more sympathetic than being a drinker at a party trying to fool himself into thinking he’s independent without his former writing partner. I’ve planted the seed about perhaps making this the first show of the new season late next year or January. We’ll see if it grows.
Yesterday was fine. I had a smaller modern major miracle that was very helpful, finally heard back from the helper, so everything’s fine there, had the not-so-great pizza, had a few telephonic conversations, but I only slept four hours so I was zonked for much of the day. But I did finally get back to writing and wrote about five pages and I think they came out pretty well, actually. I think I can finish up what I’m doing in five to seven more pages. I tried to get in bed and take a nap, but the pizza wasn’t digesting very well and while I do think I slept for about twenty minutes, it wasn’t helpful at all. The rest you know and here we are.
Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, I’ll do whatever needs doing, I’ll have an important telephonic call, I’ll write, I’ll eat (and that will be using my credit, but I’m going somewhere safe that I can trust), and then at some point I’ll watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow is more of the same, Thursday is Thanksgiving and I’ll be having an early supper with dear reader Jeanne, Friday we have a brush-up rehearsal, which I’ll attend so I can see how the new staging of Do We works with the music and clean up anything that seems off. Then I’ll probably join friends at Dino’s Pizza. We then play the entire weekend.
Let’s all put on our pointy party hats and our colored tights and pantaloons, let’s all break out the cheese slices and the ham chunks, let’s all dance the Hora or the rumba, for today is the birthday of dear reader KevinH. So, let’s give a big haineshisway.com birthday cheer to dear reader KevinH. On the count of three: One, two, three – A BIG HAINESHISWAY.COM BIRTHDAY CHEER TO DEAR READER KEVINH!!!
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up when I’m up, do whatever needs doing, have an important telephonic call, write, eat, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: Have you ever had a really bad run of food luck? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, hoping for some food, glorious food, rather than food, inglorious, food.