Thursday, May 12, 2005

Living on the trimmings of an upscale restaurant

Is there ever a day off in the restaurant business, like observing the Sabbath?
Ever?

Is the tooting of the horn at the back door to the kitchen really necessary at 8 o'clock in the morning?
Does one really have to deliver tomatoes and carrots?
Is there an absolute necessity of washing dishes for 18 hours a day? Haven't you heard of paper?
Do people really have to eat out?

Isn't there some law against putting a residential district side by side to a commercial establishment?
At what time should I start pulling my hair out?

Directions to keep sane:
Stuff index fingers into both ears and repeat "It's the sound of the city" fifty times.
And then lay down and go to sleep.

It'sthesoundofthecity, it'sthesoundofthecity, it'sthesoundofthecity....

..............................................................................

Bolton? Bolton? Bolton?
Can things be more obvious? I cannot watch the news now without asking myself about the political agendas of the news agency reporting the "news". CNN? Fox News? MSNBC?

I guess impartial is not the word, or never was as Walter Cronkite envisioned. And by the end of the day, they would have either hung, quartered, and disemboweled or lauded, glorified and venerated, depending on which channel you happen to pledge allegiance to.

Let's drag all the dirty, dirty laundry out in the public just because some Republican president wants him in a seat at the cesspool of humanity. What would anyone have said if the President was a Democrat? Probably just the opposite. Let's be forward and hear what one, just one, Democrat say something positive because he really felt this guy should sit in the cesspool of humanity and not because some group pressured him to think dirty, dirty thoughts about who someone on the other side nominated.

Truth? Whoever said anything about the truth?

What about the case of oil for food business down there in the "forward" thinking center of history and culture which is Europe? Sensationalism - the driving fuel for the media engine. Controversy - it's fuel additive, making whatever it is pistons do in an engine better. School children invented the smear campaign in playgrounds and sandpits the world over and the media legalized it. Isn't just obvious?

And what's most damning is how the media sways public opinion, like a pendulum swinging on its weight, rotating ever so slowly with the slow spin of the earth. The mindless mob willing to believe every single iota of "truth" as reported by the media, upon which the media feeds on. Without this mindless mob, there'd be no media. And so, humanity bored out of its wits, gets fed mayhem, destruction, scandal, murder, car bombs exploding, mangled bodies and the public hanging of Michael Jackson and they like it. It was not so long ago that the Lindberg kidnapper was condemned to die before he even went on trial.

It takes too much work to question. Way too much. So living on the trimmings of an upscale restaurant is the only way.

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