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Jingle Bones, from an old Disney Xmas album I imported from vinyl. Halloween + Xmas long before Jack Skellington! http://djwudi.com/1d (mp3)
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Well, no, they don’t. However, they sure seem to be encouraging it, even if that’s not their intent.
This morning, Prairie and I went to see a matinee showing of The Princess and the Frog, Disney’s latest traditionally animated film. The film itself was a lot of fun, and we both loved being able to go out and see real animation on the big screen, something that happens all too rarely in these days of CGI and 3D gimmickry.
Unfortunately, as much as we enjoyed the film itself, we’re running out of reasons to bother with actual theaters, rather than waiting for video. The latest eye-rolling bit of obnoxiousness? It seems that AMC Theatres has discontinued all “small” sizes of drinks and candy.
When I went to the snack bar, planning on getting a small soda, the menu board had a blank spot under the “small” column for both drinks and candy. Scoping out the sales stations, I noticed that while they all had spaces for three sizes of cups by their soda fountains, only two were stocked. Asking the soda jockey behind the counter confirmed it: AMC is “reconfiguring” their snack bar options, and there are now only two sizes of drinks, medium and large.
While even the small drinks weren’t all that small before hand, it appears that now, the smallest size fountain soda you can get is a 32oz bucket, for $4.25. I have no real idea what they’ve done with their candy lineup, but I’m betting they just re-labeled all the “small” boxes to “mediums”, and knocked the larger “medium” boxes up to “large”.
Just one more reason (along with the barrage of ads euphemistically described as “pre-show entertainment,” the crappy customer service provided by the staff of most theaters, and the absolute lack of public decorum from the majority of other moviegoers) why my theater-going experience is going to be ever more rare. On those rare occasions when I do go — both Prairie and I are thinking that we want to see the 3D version of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, which will be our first modern theatrical 3D experience (no, I’m not planning on seeing Avatar in 3D…at this point, I’m not planning on seeing it until it’s out on DVD) — I’ll be taking advantage of Prairie’s largest purse and bringing in my own snacks and drinks.
She may look nothing more than your typical bag lady, but take another look at her head:
That is a bird. In fact, I believe it is a pigeon. It looks like a young one because when she would take off on her scooter it would flap its wings around trying to keep its balance and it looked like its feather hadn't all come in yet. I don't know if it was just gripping on to dear life staying on or if she had tied its feet down.
It was crazy. I wanted to get a closer picture but she wheeled away.
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I know this because I worked there and it's by far the most unprofessional place I've ever worked. The girls hired are based on how cute they are and in my opinion, the majority are rude and shouldn't be working customer service jobs.
Final Note, when I stopped working there they went about firing a bunch of their staff by telling them a week before that they weren't going to get hours anymore and slowing killing them off the island. As if, we don't have rent and alcohol to buy. Psh. RANT OVER.
Tell me your experiences at Molly Moon's and whether it's a NAY or WaNaY on this place.
It's winter (or will be in just a few days) and that means it is time to hide inside and keep warm with a good book! Just in case you're hard up for reading material we have interviews with four northwest authors this week, Harry Connolly, Ben Thompson, Ken McConnell and Caitlin Kittredge, all of whom have geeky books that deserve to be on your list.
As always we also have the weekly geek news, Seattle area geek events.
Just as a reminder, this is our final podcast episode for 2009! We're taking the next two weeks off but we will return on January 7 with our Best in Geek 2009 show.
Full show notes are up at Seattle-Geekly.com
if anyone can recommend one, i would be quite thankful. and i'll travel if i must, but for obvious reasons would prefer to stay on the eastside.
also, if anyone knows of any midwives willing to take a high-risk patient, that would be super as well.
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Importing a classic bit of holiday vinyl: John Denver and the Muppets, A Christmas Together (“Piggy pudding?!?!?”) http://djwudi.com/1c
The bottle of Sheherezade got here today!!!! GLEE!!!!!!
They also sent me imps of Black Rose, which I'm eager to try, and Casanova, which I would love if it didn't have patchouli in it. Would anyone like an imp of Casanova, on the condition that you never wear it near me lest the sneezing be epic?
No sir.
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