Jobbers Welcome
Jalen Rose? Wtf?
I went to a bar tonight for about an hour and a half. It was warm and dark and not too crowded. Large screen TV's were all around, but not in an oppressive, sports bar kinda way. The music played loud enough to hear but not so loud you had to shout over it. There were about 15 beers on tap and another 40 in bottles.
Were I to open a bar of my own, these would all be default settings. Well done.
Was the bar charming or cool? Nope. Did it have "character?" Not a shred. Did they play good music? Not really. Did they in fact commit the unforgivable bar sin of playing "Brown Eyed Girl?" Yes I'm afraid they did.
So they can work on all that. I doubt they'll get far. But I'm easy to please so it was more than adequate for my needs.
At one point I went outside to call the wife and I looked across the street at the meat-packing place. They had a big sign, a permanent sign, that said "Jobbers Welcome." A dude I work with came out and asked me what I thought that meant. I told him I thought it was a way of recruiting day laborers, freewheelin' folks who were just walking down the West Side Highway, gunny sacks over their shoulders, without a debt or a dime to speak of. The kind of folks who might be willing to pluck 500 dead chickens for thirty bucks. The kind of folks who'd get the thirty and go spend $14.95 on the Steak and Wine special at Tad's and then probably waste the rest.
But I wasn't sure, exactly. What's a jobber in this context? I tried to call cW on his cell, because he has cousins in the meat-packing biz, but he didn't answer.
Anybody know? Ten points for the first non-googled correct answer.
It's Oscar season, kids, and since I only saw TWO movies in 2005, I think I will forego a year-end "Best Of" selection. Instead I offer you this:
The Fourteen Best Films I Didn't See in 2005*:
(in no order)
-Brokeback Mountain
-A History of Violence
-Crash
-The 40 year-old Virgin
-The Wedding Crashers
-March of the Penguins
-Jarhead
-Syriana
-Good Night and Good Luck
-The Constant Gardener
-War of the Worlds
-Kung Fu Hustle
-Match Point
-Hustle and Flow
*Or, more accurately, Fourteen Films I Wish I Had Found the Time to See in 2005. I'm sure there are a bunch more I've forgotten. Especially little foreign films and whatnot. Them are good.
I went to a bar tonight for about an hour and a half. It was warm and dark and not too crowded. Large screen TV's were all around, but not in an oppressive, sports bar kinda way. The music played loud enough to hear but not so loud you had to shout over it. There were about 15 beers on tap and another 40 in bottles.
Were I to open a bar of my own, these would all be default settings. Well done.
Was the bar charming or cool? Nope. Did it have "character?" Not a shred. Did they play good music? Not really. Did they in fact commit the unforgivable bar sin of playing "Brown Eyed Girl?" Yes I'm afraid they did.
So they can work on all that. I doubt they'll get far. But I'm easy to please so it was more than adequate for my needs.
At one point I went outside to call the wife and I looked across the street at the meat-packing place. They had a big sign, a permanent sign, that said "Jobbers Welcome." A dude I work with came out and asked me what I thought that meant. I told him I thought it was a way of recruiting day laborers, freewheelin' folks who were just walking down the West Side Highway, gunny sacks over their shoulders, without a debt or a dime to speak of. The kind of folks who might be willing to pluck 500 dead chickens for thirty bucks. The kind of folks who'd get the thirty and go spend $14.95 on the Steak and Wine special at Tad's and then probably waste the rest.
But I wasn't sure, exactly. What's a jobber in this context? I tried to call cW on his cell, because he has cousins in the meat-packing biz, but he didn't answer.
Anybody know? Ten points for the first non-googled correct answer.
It's Oscar season, kids, and since I only saw TWO movies in 2005, I think I will forego a year-end "Best Of" selection. Instead I offer you this:
The Fourteen Best Films I Didn't See in 2005*:
(in no order)
-Brokeback Mountain
-A History of Violence
-Crash
-The 40 year-old Virgin
-The Wedding Crashers
-March of the Penguins
-Jarhead
-Syriana
-Good Night and Good Luck
-The Constant Gardener
-War of the Worlds
-Kung Fu Hustle
-Match Point
-Hustle and Flow
*Or, more accurately, Fourteen Films I Wish I Had Found the Time to See in 2005. I'm sure there are a bunch more I've forgotten. Especially little foreign films and whatnot. Them are good.
posted by hans q. bungle at 02:08
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