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By: Im Voraus » Blog Archive » Heartwarming tales of pizza delivery

Im Voraus » Blog Archive » Heartwarming tales of pizza delivery — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:42:38 +0000

[...] all the coins out of my wallet and toss them up in the air, laughing like a child running through a field of strawberries, stomping and picking and gobbling with joyful abandon. Again, I hope he still tips me well next [...]

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:41:33 +0000

I vote with the pretty one! You should be in geek heaven. A significant percentage of those 8K people are programmers and techies!! Certainly you could find SOMEONE to socialize with!

I do have to agree that places such as Disney (or Las Vegas) where EVERYONE’S raison d’être is to take your money are more than a little depressing. Strawberry Fields FOREVER!

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:35:34 +0000

My confession is that my manipulation of your emotions was entirely planned.

By: Conor

Conor — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:16:16 +0000

I, too, am subject to the condition where every even remotely moving passage is narrated inside my head by Morgan Freeman.

The man could read Mein Kampf and I would still be spellbound.

By: Brady

Brady — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:13:57 +0000

I have to agree that, even though you pretty much hate being anywhere outside of the five mile radius of your apartment, this was a nice little bit of travel writing.

The line about strawberry fields and theme parks was indeed strikingly poetic. The melancholy sort of echoed through me after I read it. I felt as though it should have been spoken by Morgan Freeman at the end of a documentary of some sort.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:41:46 +0000

A nicer compliment was never spoken. Although perhaps the only inhibition to violence in this case was my lack of readily-available weaponry.

I should note that Anaheim has violent crime levels far below the national average. And, generally speaking, no one here has been particularly rude or annoying. And yet it feels entirely foreign; California really does manage to be its own little world.

By: Conor

Conor — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:43:15 +0000

You, good sir, are a freaking geek. Glad to hear you’re powering through the surest signs of American commercialism waxing apocalyptic, and with nary a gunshot to the head. (It’s totally tinfoil hat-type stuff to think that the second Fujishige brother’s coma was more than an accident, isn’t it?)

Line about strawberry fields and theme parks was epic.

By: Allison

Allison — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:34:55 +0000

Being sociable and going to Disneyland (with me, of course) are two very important things.