oddities

1) This:



I think it's an anthropomorphic mushroom in a tie-dyed t-shirt riding a flying bicycle over the entryway of the Mellow Mushroom. Either that, or my pizza was laced with LSD and my camera could see it, too.

2) The all-meat pizza:



Angi, Mark, Brian, and I went to lunch at the Mellow Mushroom the other day. Angi and I split a pesto pizza, but Brian and Mark decided they wanted to get the all-meat pizza, a carnivorous delight smothered with pepperoni, sausage, ground hamburger, ham, and bacon. When they ordered, I expected some protestors to run out of the bathroom screaming, "Meat is murder!", but I was intrigued.

It sounded good on the menu. It looked good when it came out. It smelled like a thousand delicious meals at the same time. Eating it might have been a different story. I didn't taste it, but Brian only made it through about two pieces before he started holding his belly in pain.

3) My old school couldn't fill their meager football stadium for games:



My new school?



Bud Light makes us our own beer.

4) Eggshells look kind of cool close up:

special thursday

The SUV in front of me on my way home this afternoon had two “Fred Thompson 2008” bumper stickers on the back, one on either side of the red, white, and blue “Remember 9/11” magnet. How the hell did people get bumper stickers so fast? Didn’t he just decide to run yesterday or the day before?

I would have taken a picture, but my Thursday night pizza was on top of my bag, so I couldn’t get to my camera. I had a pizza because Thursday is, as Brian says, my “special day”, when I go to the comic store and then get a five dollar pepperoni pizza from the store next door. I take both of them home and read my comics while I eat half of my pizza.

With a knife and fork.

I don’t want my comics all greasy and smeary, you know?

Not that it would be all that tragic if “Omega Flight” got smeared all to crap. I’m sending my comic guy a note tomorrow to cancel that from my pull list before I forget, since I’m three issues in and can’t find a single good thing about it other than that Julia Carpenter is on the team, and I like her.

I hate her new codename, though.

And her redesigned costume.

Still, though, it’s a comic that’s so bad that this issue they actually used “your” instead of “you’re”. Not only does it look like they drew it with a half-melted crayon, but they can’t even take the trouble to proofread it.

I'd rather spend my comic budget on something like "Fables" or "The Plain Janes" instead. I liked that so much I ordered copies for two of my friends today.