Update XIX: Melancholy and the Infinite Napping

[memphis]

I ordered a Frito Chili Pizza (like 6 weeks ago, come guys...) and it was pretty good. Probably won't order it again, and I'm not sure it should legally be called "pizza," but as a food item, I enjoyed it.

They don't have it anymore. It was a limited time only promotion anyway, but it sold horribly, and lost the company a lot of money. I've alluded to my pizza days many times. It was PJ's and I still know a ton of people who work/manage their stores. I started working there in 2006, they do several special limited time only promotions per year, and this is the greatest flop in all those years.  That particular special pizza was gross, but there is such a thing as food genre fusion. The pearl clutching by the uber-conservative wanna foodies is sheer foolishness. Food like everything else about life is dynamic. Deal with it.

[memphis]

Memphis, I'm not going to apologize for rightfully calling you out as a piece of garbage for liking trash "food." Deal with it.

I was agreeing that the Frito sucked... Harry and I are not the same person.

[memphis]

Bushie hasn't given us an Update since Saturday. Any news from the facialbook? RIP Bushie?

[memphis]

So is season xix officially on hiatus due to a writer's strike?

[memphis]

Oh God. I figured Braum's was like an Arby's. Instead, it's much, much worse. I guess the silver lining is that they didn't try to pass it off offensively by calling it "Alfredo's" or "Mama DiRosa's" or something.

It's not an Italian place.

Is this a question?

The joint is called a spaghetti "warehouse," is it not? Then again, I guess I should have known that in most places in our great country, that doesn't mean Italian.

Braum's and Spaghetti Warehouse are two different chains. We have a Spaghetti Warehouse in Memphis. Sadly, we do not have a Braum's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_Warehouse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braum%27s

[memphis]

I still don't understand why a restaurant would call itself a warehouse?? Food should not be cooked and served in a warehouse! This is why the terrorists hate us.

Presumably for the same reason that people will pay $1,000,000 to live in a drafty loft space in a converted old warehouse. It's quirky.

[memphis]

I thought that just the name Spaghetti Warehouse sounded hilarious for a restaurant, but then I looked it up and their main attraction is a completely random trolley that they place in the middle of the restaurant lol. This place spells Bushie all over it! It befuddles me that he hasn't gone here yet!

It's too exotic for Bushie. They don't even have bacon cheeseburgers.

[memphis]

There are lots of jobs that people with mild to moderate cognitive disabilities can do. It's a shame Bushie is too proud to do them.

[memphis]

How is bushie not dead yet.

The injun docs keep him full of blood pressure and cholesterol pills. He could easily make it to 40 due to their generosity.

[memphis]

This is, without a doubt, a very odd quirk, but it's also fairly benign. I'd rather encourage him to change his more destructive behaviors.

[memphis]

At least it's not going to cost Papa Bushie any more money.

[memphis]

New Years is definitely a holy holiday for Bushie. It means we only have 6-9 years left before the rapture instead of 7-10.

Eh, more like 7-9.  There is one specific event I'm looking for to start the final 7 years.  That is, an interim Mideast peace deal between the Palestinians and the Israelis.  John Kerry was trying to get one done last Christmas, but came away empty in late April.  We can't cautiously tick underneath 7 years until that happens.  I think it will happen soon, although I have no idea when.  That's why I'm cautiously thinking between 7-10 years.

A temporary peace deal? We had that 20 years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Accords
If the End Times come seven years after that, then the world ended right around the time Bush Jr became president. Makes sense to me

[memphis]

I feel like if he's going to celebrate the New Year for each and every time zone, he should at least make it interesting. Have a drink from each zone when they hit 2015.  A shot of sake when Japan comes though. A glass of Tsingtao for China. Etc. Otherwise, it's going to get awfully dull watching tv all day long. At least when he watches football all day, there is a bit of suspense as to who will win.

[memphis]

Could you elaborate upon what, specifically, the Pope has said that leads you to believe that he is a false prophet? I'm also not familiar with the idiom you used. What does it mean to itch someone's ears?

[memphis]

End Times Bushie is even better than Sassy Bushie. Love it!

[memphis]

Ah, I remeber the Left Behind books. My super religious aunt and uncle made me read them when I was a little kid. I always ignored all the God stuff (which was a big chunk of the book) and skipped ahead to find out which character got killed off and how.

If I'm remebering correctly, the antichrist from the series was the Russian Prime Minister or something. I remeber he came from Eastern Europe.

I was working at a bookstore when they were popular. They actually had a kid's version, so that the little ones could enjoy them too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Behind:_The_Kids

[memphis]

Does Bushie hate his grandma so much that he wants to leaver her all alone for New Years so he can witness Vorkuta ringing in 2015 live from his bachelor pad in Tulsa?

Also, how does one watch Kiribati's New Year's celebrations (which, presumably, are nothing extraordinary)? Does any normal TV channel in America still cover that kind of stuff? Does Bushie's cable package include Kiribati national TV?

She will be in bed by 1830 or 1900 regardless if I'm there or not.

My "celebration" of Kiritimati (and every other time zone until New York) will be simply watching their clock turn to midnight on the World Clock at www.timeanddate.com.  I can also see the map traverse across the world from east to west all day on New Year's Eve.

Although, I would enjoy seeing all the civilized places and see how each individual culture ring in the New Year starting with New Zealand at 0500 Oklahoma time, then going to Sydney, Guam, Tokyo, Beijing, Bangkok, India, Abu Dhabi, our troops in Afghanistan, my Kenya kids, Israel, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, London, Rio, the peach drop in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver/Albuquerque, Las Vegas, Eskimos, and Maui.

"All the civilised places"

How is he supposed to watch the Dark Continent ring in the new year when they don't even have television cameras with which to broadcast their heathen voodoo dances? Thank goodness his missionary friends are taking on the White Man's Burden so that one day people in Oklahoma may, from the comfort of their trailers, watch Africans ring in the New Year as Jesus intended.

[memphis]

Ah, I remeber the Left Behind books. My super religious aunt and uncle made me read them when I was a little kid. I always ignored all the God stuff (which was a big chunk of the book) and skipped ahead to find out which character got killed off and how.

If I'm remebering correctly, the antichrist from the series was the Russian Prime Minister or something. I remeber he came from Eastern Europe.

I was working at a bookstore when they were popular. They actually had a kid's version, so that the little ones could enjoy them too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Behind:_The_Kids

I was made (well, encouraged) to read those when I was a kid...like when I was 11 or 12 years old. It really ed me up. The basic plot is that a group of kids are the only person in their family "left behind" to experience seven years of hell on earth, all because they didn't buy into their parents theology. That really scared me, so I went and asked to be baptized (my family is Southern Baptist, of course) and spent the next three years or so trying to be a super Christian (and becoming that weird kid in the process).

Moral of the story; don't let your kid read these books.

It's always heartbreaking to hear about the damage that religion does to children. You have my sincerest sympathy, and I thank you for your story of survival.

[memphis]

I don't know what pistachio pudding is, but it sounds intriguing. Also sort of sounds like something my people would make, but with a shit ton of rose water mixed in.

[memphis]

Not to hate on Pacific Islanders, but by what metric is Kiribati "civilized?" It's a very poor, remote nation. If I wanted to exclude those people I would start with New Zealand. It's the easternmost developed nation. Or does "civilized" merely mean majority Christian? Will ODF be abstaining from celebrating the New Year with the Japanese because they are destined to spend eternity in an agonizing lake of fire?

[memphis]

I doubt very much he uses a real tree. He puts it upin September, long before anybody sells the real ones. No, his tree shaped piece of plastic is probably already collecting dust in a closet though.

[memphis]

There really is a wikipedia article for every topic.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_Pacific

[memphis]

'Reverend' Bushie, would you/have you tried this sandwich?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmxnJPqud7c

From the same channel, I'd imagine that Bushie has Grandmama whip him up one of these at the crack of every dawn to take with him for lunch along with a few celery sticks. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9al9hzPG7CM

Those recipes are too complicated for Bushie's family. They like instant food.

[memphis]

Bushie's church's interpretation of most biblical and historical events is at odds and nontraditional.

This is because, traditionally, the Baptists were one of the most radical denominations. They purposely discarded just about everything from the Church of England. The quasi-Catholic rituals and clothes. The beautiful old churches. The idea of an established religion, with government intertanglements. Even the idea that one must believe just about any specific doctrine.The Baptists are nontraditional by design. That's the whole point.

[memphis]

The Onion mole strikes again.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/defense-needs-to-be-more-physical-reports-man-slum,34922/