Thursday miscellanea #485

  • I am thankful the election is over. I am hoping for a truly forward-looking 2020 presidential campaign. (I’m saying this clears my no-politics Thursday miscellanea filter because it is in no way ideological. If it offends you, let me have it.)
  • Best I can tell, the Publix at Martin & Zierdt is laid out identically to the one at Providence (and the County Line one has been retrofitted as closely as possible, having a different location for only cheese, that I can recall). I would bet the new store on Hughes is the same. This is good business. In my regular stomping grounds, only 72 and Madison Boulevard remain outliers.
  • Are mainstreamish softcore magazines still a thing? Your Hustlers, your High Societys? I would guess the Internet has been pretty tough on those. Just before the rise of the web, the bookstore where I worked in college carried a dozen or so different ones. There were exactly two customer profiles for a stack of these. One sort acted like a house mouse on coke, scurrying quickly and never making eye contact. The other wanted to have a nice leisurely conversation with you. I didn’t care for either extreme.
  • Saw a post about a Dream Theater show in Nashville this April. I wish I wanted to go more than I do.
  • Folks, very simply, it’s the most terrifying Alabama team I can remember. Not only could they go 15-0, they could plausibly do so without ever playing a fourth quarter with the outcome in doubt.
  • If you really, truly didn’t care what I think, you wouldn’t bother to say “I don’t care what you think.”
  • If you’re local to me and you’ve successfully avoided firing the central heat up to this point as we have, we’re both going to surrender this weekend. (And frankly, I can’t wait. I’ve been fantasizing about Saturday soup all week.)

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3 thoughts on “Thursday miscellanea #485”

  1. This is funny. I have exclusively shopped only at the Madison Blvd and Hwy 72 Publix’s. So the other ones drive me crazy because they are different. Ha ha. I will be walking to the new Hughes location on a regular basis, so if it is significantly different, I will have to deal.

    Reply
    • exclusively = yes. So far I have just entered those other stores with someone else, and stood there paralyzed by confusion – no shopping.

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