Remote Broadcast
October 26th, 2004 - 9:59 am
Today and for the rest of the week, I’m blogging – LIVE! – from a little sunglass store in downtown Colorado Springs. Why do something so useless and silly, you ask? It’s my cousin’s store, and he just took off for St. Louis for a little World Series action. And since his only employee is in high school, I agreed to keep an eye on the store.
This sucks.
Good news is, it’s quiet enough in here most days to keep up the blogging. Bad news is, I have to deal with actual members of the public.
Hang in there Stephen! I wish I was in CO today – except if I had cards tickets.
Meanwhile, Kerry’s “grimly entertaining and appallingly patronizing, pandering pastiche of a regular guy is likely to continue down to the wire.”
It’s reported that in Pike County, Ohio, the proprietors of the Buchanan Village Store were subjected to the “newly dumbed-down grammar of (“Can I get me a hunting license here?”) of the Yale intellectual who is fluent in French, but no longer, it seems, his native tongue.”
What will Kerry say if he goes on the campaign trail into deepest Appalachia?
“Squeal like a pig?”
(from Andrew at NRO)
You’re such a trooper!
Which sunglasses store are you at? You could start a little side business charging for 10 minutes of pithy chat.
What’s the work number?
Got any Oaklies? Roy-Ban’s? Check the back… I’ll wait. Willing to shell out $10.00 bucks. Keep up the good work. I miss COLO. Be in ZG for Xmas!!
Steve-
Here’s a good spin- if Kerry is elected, you could look forward to a wage hike. If your cousin could afford to continue to operate his store.
ed
‘Bad news is, I have to deal with actual members of the public.’
THK couldn’t have said it better.
Heh heh. He said “members.”
Bummer dealing with the public. What I like about cyberlife is that I stay behind my bunker in an undisclosed location within the borders of the lower 48.
Is it true, when you deal with the public, you can’t wear pajamas?
I’m looking for a pair of the red glasses that they used in Daredevil. Do you have any of those? What do they run?
Seriously.
Ewwww, the public. The public sucks.
Still, it’ll be a character building experience for you.
Ahhh… flashback…
“This job would be great if it wasn’t for the f-ing customers.”
Heck, I’ve been liveblogging for either months or years, depending on which way you look at it, from a little used bookstore in North Carolina.
I love working with the public, though. That is, except for that little old lady who came in yesterday who has a habit of unarranging entire shelves of my series romance section.