‘munchies’ first meeting

SCENE: A meeting room at Frito Lay headquarters

Frito Lay Exec 1: Alright, thank you all for coming. We’ve got a brand new product we want to sell, called Munchies. We think it’s going to be really amazing. See, the object of Munchies is to have three or four different snacks from the Frito Lay brand inside one bag!

[gasps]

FL Exec 2: Impossible!
FL Exec 3: Can’t be done!
FL Exec 4: You’re damning us all!
FL Exec 1: No, it can be done, and we’re going to do it tonight! All we need to do is determine which products will go into our flagship flavor, “Cheese Fix.”
FL Exec 2: Ooh, “Cheese Fix.” I like it.
FL Exec 3: It makes it sound like people are addicted … to cheese!
FL Exec 4: THAT IS A SERIOUS HEALTH CONCERN.
FL Exec 1: Gentlemen! I need ideas!
FL Exec 2: I know! We put a block of cheese in the bag!
FL Exec 3: I like it! I like cheese and I like that idea!
FL Exec 4: My stomach hurts!
FL Exec 1: Gentlemen, I mean, I need ideas of delicious Frito Lay products that we can put in our Cheese Fix flavored bag of Munchies.

[blank stares]

Okay, I’ll begin with a question: What is the most cheesiest brand we own?
FL Exec 2: That’s not a block of cheese?
FL Exec 1: No, we don’t produce cheese.
FL Exec 2: I’m stumped.
FL Exec 3: Do you mean “cheesiest” as in “a block of cheese,” or “cheesiest” as in “like that music you hear in elevators”?
FL Exec 1: Neither of those, actually.
FL Exec 4: What kind of bag are we talking about here?
FL Exec 1: … CHEETOS! Cheetos are our cheesiest brand to date.
FL Exec 2: Oh, yes! They are dangerously cheesy!
FL Exec 1: Exactly!
FL Exec 3: My grandpa loved Cheetos, and then he ate too many and had a cheese overdose and died!
FL Exec 1: What?
FL Exec 3: It was actually heart disease.
FL Exec 1: Okay, guys, please, let’s keep on track here–
FL Exec 4: Puffy Cheetos kind of look like penises.
FL Exec 1: Cheetos are like the anchor to our Cheese Fix brand, but we need a couple more snacks to put in the bag. So: what is another cheese brand we could use?
FL Exec 2: Tillamook!
FL Exec 1: Tillamook is not a Frito Lay brand.
FL Exec 2: Awww, man.
FL Exec 3 [points to FL Exec 4]: I think he’s bleeding.
FL Exec 4: It’s just ketchup.
FL Exec 3: It’s pumping out of your neck!
FL Exec 4: I HAVE A WEIRD CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
FL Exec 1: ALRIGHT, let’s just skip ahead. I wanted you to all look like you had a part in this creation process, but really I just came up with everything myself.
FL Exec 2: Brilliant!
FL Exec 1: So the Cheese Fix flavor of Munchies will have Cheetos, Doritos, and Sun Chips.
FL Exec 3: I love Sun Chips!
FL Exec 4: Did you know that Sun Chips are harvested using the power of the sun itself?
FL Exec 1: It’s true! Actually, it’s a funny–
FL Exec 4: Every month, a harvester ship is sent to the sun, where it sits in geosynchronous orbit for three days, sending specially made space buckets to gather the plasma from the surface–
FL Exec 1: That’s not true!
FL Exec 4: SHOW ME THE PROOF
FL Exec 1: Okay, skipping ahead, we have three brands to use in our Cheese Mix, but it just isn’t enough. We need one more.
FL Exec 2: Double the Cheetos?
FL Exec 1: That’s not what I mean.
FL Exec 3: What if we had a Cheetos-exclusive brand of Munchies?
FL Exec 4: Just Cheetos! I love it!
FL Exec 1: That’s just a bag of Cheetos!
FL Exec 3: No, but it has all the different kinds of Cheetos in one bag!
FL Exec 2: I really like what this guy is talking about over here.
FL Exec 1: That may be a great idea–
FL Exec 3: I’m on the phone with Chester Cheetah right now.
FL Exec 1: BUT we’re not in a Cheetos exclusive meeting! This is about Munchies! I need one more brand–
FL Exec 3: Hello, Chester? Yes! It’s Tad. Good to hear from you again.
FL Exec 4: I can’t believe he got on the phone with Chester Cheetah.
FL Exec 2: I know! I’m jealous.
FL Exec 1: You guys? Please? One more brand!
FL Exec 3: When? Right now? Emergency meeting?! We’re on our way! [to everyone] We’ve been called to an emergency Cheetos meeting with Chester himself!
FL Exec 1: What? That’s … he’s a CARTOON!
FL Exec 3: No time to debate that, we’ve got to jet!
FL Exec 2 [to Exec 1]: Thanks for the water!
FL Exec 4: CHEEEETOOOOOSSSSS!

[the other execs exit. beat. then, Rold Gold Guy meekly enters.]

Rold Gold Guy: Um, excuse me.
FL Exec 1: What? Who are you?
Rold Gold Guy: I’m the Rold Gold Guy.
FL Exec 1: Oh, Jesus Christ, not you. Don’t you have something better to do than interrupt my meeting?
Rold Gold Guy: Your meeting seems to be over…
FL Exec 1: What do you want?
Rold Gold Guy: Oh, I just overheard you talking about Munchies … great idea, by the way … and … well …
FL Exec 1: GET ON WITH IT!
Rold Gold Guy: I thought maybe … you could put some of my delicious pretzels in your bag of Munchies. Is all.
FL Exec 1:  But your pretzels aren’t cheesy.
Rold Gold Guy: …
FL Exec 1: Your pretzels aren’t cheesy–
Rold Gold Guy: They could be! They could be cheesy!
FL Exec 1: How?
Rold Gold Guy: Could we borrow some of your cheese-infusing equipment?
FL Exec 1: No you can’t borrow our equipment! Get out of here! I’m sick of you plodding around, asking people if they want a pretzel! Pretzels are disgusing!
Rold Gold Guy: What? How dare you!
FL Exec 1: The only people who like pretzels are drunks!
Rold Gold Guy: Not true!
FL Exec 1: It is! Get out of here!

[RGG pulls out a gun]

Rold Gold Guy: You shut your mouth! I’m sick of you Frito Lay bigwigs shitting on me and my delicious pretzels!
FL Exec 1: Whoa, hey–
Rold Gold Guy: Shut up! You shut up! Now, you’re gonna put my scrumptious pretzels in your Munchies mix, or I am going to SHOVE a bag of pretzels up your ass! Do you hear me?!
FL Exec 1: But … people don’t like pretzels…
Rold Gold Guy: PEOPLE LOVE PRETZELS! [cocks gun]
FL Exec 1: Fine! Fine! Pretzels in Munchies! Whatever you want! Just please don’t kill me!
Rold Gold Guy: Oh, I wasn’t going to kill you. This gun only shoots pretzels.
FL Exec 1: What?

[RGG shoots a pretzel at FL Exec]

FL Exec 1: Oh god!
Rold Gold Guy: Yeah. It’s made out of pretzels, too.

[RGG throws the gun at FL Exec]

Rold Gold Guy: Catch you later!

[FL Exec stands, holding the pretzel gun. He puts the gun to his temple and pulls the trigger. A pretzel bonks him in the head]

THE END

a response to “RED FRIDAY”

I received an event invite on my Facebook recently with the heading, “RED FRIDAY.” As with most Facebook invites these days, I promptly forgot about it, letting it fester in the depths of the abomination that is the Events page. But, occasionally I return to that page to purge all the various invites I receive, from people who live nowhere near me, or people who invite me to “awesoem keggars!” and such. Today I did such a thing, which is how I were I saw RED FRIDAY all over again.

The event page for RED FRIDAY has a long letter on it, but the gist is that on Friday, people will wear red to the airport to show their appreciation for the troops who return home from overseas. This I don’t have a problem with. What I do have a problem with is the letter in the event. So I am going to respond to said letter, right now. The letter is in block quotes, while my responses are not.

HERE WE GO!
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quake saga is up and ready for reading

The Quake Saga

It’s really difficult for me to withhold something.  I have 29 chapters of this story just sitting on my hard drive, ready to be unleashed to the world once again, but I am promising myself to post one chapter a week.  I know that that will help people get into the story, rather than being bombarded with 29 chapters to get caught up on.

I’m really interested to see if this even works.  Everyone is so in tune with video and image on the internet.  No one reads long passages of text anymore, do they?  Except for McSweeneys.  Will people want to read a story about two brothers who enter a fantasy land made out of a Quake modification?  Who the hell knows.  Really, while I am attempting to write for people, this is more a labor of love for myself.  I just want to finish something that I’ve started.  But you can’t do that until you’ve started it, right?

So check it out.

the quake saga, it is returning

Now, I’ve said this several times before: The Quake Saga, a serialized piece of fiction I used to write a few years ago (like, about seven or eight years ago), currently sits on my hard drive, mid-chapter 29. Unfinished. This is the bane of my life, having projects that I leave unfinished because, well, I can’t get the motivation to keep writing. But TQS was different; I started it in 2001 and wrote it for a couple of years, before becoming bogged down with college life. My fantasy- and computer game-loving self was becoming replaced by parties and theatre.

Well, I’ve been telling myself for the past year or so that I should start writing again, to start popularizing the online serialized format: despite the prevalence of video and images on the internet, there is a lot of promise, I think, in online serials. It’s like the serials of the 19th century, except instead of newspapers, it’s on blogs, websites, wherever they will give you text space.

And so, beginning Saturday, September 4th, I will begin reposting TQS, chapter by chapter, and also begin writing it again. By the time I get to chapter 29 (where I stopped), I should be well ahead, giving myself much needed editing time.

The website will be quake.zornog.net. I don’t know what I’ll use to post chapters. I might go the old school route and just write up some HTML code myself. We’ll have to see.

So if you’re an old school gamer who grabbed a mouse to play Quake or other games like that, or if you like the Matrix-esque idea of living in an electronic world, I think the Quake Saga will be enjoyable to you.

I’m also thinking about releasing an audio podcast of me reading each chapter, too. So you can listen on your way to work, or school, or something. Either way, this is gonna be great. Stay tuned.

Oh and yes, I am going to try to write more in general, especially on this blog. :)

formspring

This is a long one, but I liked it.  Plus it means my blog is updated. :P

What do you say to friends/family who equate the passage of health care reform with the decline of America? People who say “We the people need to take back the power that has been ripped from us” Especially ones that voted for Bush TWICE! WTF?

Well, part of me thinks THEY’RE the decline of America, so what can you do? I can seriously see some secessions or alterations of our country in the next 100 years. Maybe even a civil war. The trouble is that “they” are very militaristic and have guns, while “we” are pussy liberals who want peace and holding hands and such. All we have behind us is knowledge and science, and I don’t know of anyone who wanted to die for science. Continue reading