So the last of the old McDonald's restaurants in the area has been demolished and a gray cube McDonald's will be built in it's place.
What is this type of architecture called? Commercial brutalist-lite? Ultra resellable gray cube architecture? Death of imagination and joy?
Yes, it's a McDonald's, a now long standing symbol of corporate American fast food product, but it had colors. It had characters. Starbucks had colors, it had character. Hell, they got rid of the Donut from Dunkin Donuts, and I've even seen one simply branded DD. Why?
"Why do you care about mediocre chain establishments?"
Because I have to see them. They aren't going away. And if I have to see them in towns and cities, I want to see color and something relatively pleasing to the eye, not a sea of cold gray and cubes.
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Facebook Chat Dialogue:
Me: Remember y’all, if no one feeding you Feed Yourself.
Me: (drawing WIP)
Me: Every time I had an ounce of hesitation or doubt, I remind myself, “At least this ain’t that AI bullshit”
Birdboy: NOT BOSTONIAN ACE
Me: LMAO honestly I was thinking more of our side of Massachusetts 😂😂😂
Birdboy: You… You do see how that’s worse, right?
Me: Absolutely. I want this man to be (censored) MA trash, baby.
Me: He ain’t a refined Boston man, this is a man drinking monsters, wearing Cookie Monster PJs, and eating 12 dozen Dunkin’ Donuts donuts.
Birdboy: Smash
Me: Thank you for understanding my vision Eddie (Birdboy)
Catmom: (to Birdboy’s comment “Smash”) Agreed
I really don’t like DD coffee tbh. But it’s hard to find a local coffee chain in the birth state of this cursed coffee franchise.
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THOUGHTS WHILE WATCHING GILMORE GIRLS: S3/EP6: TAKE THE DEVILED EGGS (Pt 2) (This One's Gonna Be a Real Rage Inducer) (Lots Of Interesting Development Though) (So many things happening) (Salty Rambles about Jess Mariano's Birthday)
There is something to be said about Luke (on multiple occasions) readily admitting he pays Jess in ketchup packets to toil in the Coffee Mines more or less against his will. I get that it's just a part time job after school...before school..while he's cutting school..always working...never stopping...never reicieving any tips from Lorelai and Rory... Rory needs a job... Rory and Lorelai need to pay for their food...
Anyway these comments shed a light on the shaky economies of small businesses in small towns which is interesting to me. Gilmore Girls is really, at it's core, a show about class. One day he could wake up to find his diner has been turned into a Dunkin Donuts (this is Not-Quite-But-Almost-New England after all, where DD is king).
Hahahahaha!! Jess stole money to buy a car and he committs attempted murder! Hahahahaaha! You're SO FUNNY LORELAI GILMORE. Your daughter stole a boat.
Yeah.
And maybe back home, he did had to steal to survive sometimes. How about them apples, Lorelai Gilmore. God, do I loathe her.
Don't say that around Lorelai, I think she'd believe you were being serious.
A couple of the moots and I recently decided that in the recent past, Liz managed to land and then lose a halfway decent boyfriend/ father figure to Jess who had a car and taught Jess to drive and do repairs and some other light adulting. I honestly feel like this is the only thing that makes sense.
HE LOOKS SO GOOD IN THIS SCENE!!! Fuck meeee. Look at that li'l curl...
LOOK AT IT!!!!
You know what, I'm calling it. I'm putting my foot down. This is the hottest Milo had ever looked in the entirety of seasons 2 and 3. It's that perfectly gelled hair, the jean jacket, the cool tshirt. Very James Dean. Woof.
Let's see, what would I choose for second place? I have to go with the party scene in KegMax, another episode with impeccably jelled hair and a jean jacket (and even while he was apparently sick shooting that episode too). He just progresses in hotness the further season 3 marches on.
These four words "I'm still a minor" are a point of contention for me in the ongoing debate about his birth month.
My beliefs: Jess is a Virgo. He was born in August or early September. This would make him just older than Rory by just a smidge. Since well over a year has passed in the show since the episode he arrived in Stars Hollow as a 17 year old (when he arrived, it was early September as Rory had just started school in that episode), he had just celebrated his birthday before arriving and so he has to have already turned 18 by this episode.
However, I will consider the theory that Luke was clueless or misinformed about his age at the time he arrived (because it's not like LIz is in any way reliable with information) and he was actually 16 going on 17 when he hopped off the bus last year, and maybe he has an October or November birthday making him slightly younger than Rory. It would make sense that both missed the kindergarten cut off dates in 1989 at their respective schools (which is rock solid canon already for Rory, as she was born in October 84 but graduated in 03 instead of 02), putting them in the same grade.
Salty has put a pathetic amount of thought into this.
So, how can I accept this statemen? I attribute it to the same brand of biting sarcasm that gave us "I mugged an old lady" moments ago and also because this scene doesn't make a whole lot of sense to begin with. He's still a minor, but he got his own insurance all by himself under his own name, which is not really a thing, but not his own car registration? Committing insurance fraud perhaps? Sketchy insurance company that didn't ask too many questions? He knows a guy who knows a guy who can print up some fake documents? At that point why not go all the way with the white collar crimes and forge Luke's signature on the registration too?
See, Lorelai thinks Jess is a thief and murderer when he's really a white collar criminal like Taylor Doose.
My memory was certain that he produced a cigarrette and not a pen in this scene. I had to edit this post to remove a line about him smoking. I guess I confused it with the Then She Appears/ Cmurrh kissing scene, where he's also wearing a jean jacket with a popped collar. Damn. I can't wait for that scene...
Just some light fraud.
If the car belonged to someone in Stars Hollow, whoever's registration he stole probably deserved it anyway. This is how I approach all "Crimes" Jess commits in Stars Hollow. There are only a few people who don't deserve it. Your honor, my client is innocent.
Oh no, the couch of doom. No good conversations ever happens between Rory and Lorelai on the couch, especially after one of them comes home at night and finds the other one on the couch.
The Gilmores recieve an invitation to Sherry's baby shower.
The moots and I have determined that Doula and Gigi will eventually band together to form the most powerful duo of neglected half sisters the world has ever seen. For the record, today Doula would be 17 and Gigi would be 21. Since Jess eventually comes to adopt and raises Doula she has a somewhat decent chance of coming out a well adjusted adult. At the very least, if she was stuck with TJ and Liz, Jess would still be a positive influence on her life, visit her and look out for her and make sure she didn't get sucked into any cults.
The odds are a lot more grim for Gigi with Crusty and Sherry as her forever "parents" and let's face it, very likely her relationship with big sister Rory or any of the other Gilmores is non existent.
And things were so peaceful. Especially since Dean hasn't reared his ugly head in the last two episodes, either.
You flip flop with Crusty so much how can anyone possibly keep track of whether you're on the outs with him or banging him at any given time?
And by saying that out loud you're gonna tip the balance of the universe and he's going to show up.
I looked ahead and although this is sadly still a Crusty-Focused episode, he doesn't actually make an appearance. Small blessings.
To Lorelai's surprise, Rory admits that she's been in contact with Crusty and Lorelai is okay with it but upset that Rory was hiding it from her. God, he's such a parasite.
Emails. How quaint.
Highly debatable.
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went out today to check if may available phone unit na gusto ko sa mall pero wala daw, so nagkape na lang ako sa dunkin. istg comfort place ko ang dunkin hahaha it reminds me of college days, iced coffee ng dd takbuhan ko. also, ang ganda talaga ng caballero tree! medyo ubos na lang dahon nung nakita ko kanina pero ganda talaga sa mata ng orange lately.
ngayon na lang ulit ako nakalabas at nakipag interact sa tao. wala lang, happy lang ako.
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I put an order in at our local Dunkin Donuts on NYD because my youngest son loves their breakfast sandwiches and it was his birthday. I put the order on the app, it's a mobile app, go to the store to pick it up and the fucking lights are off, no one's there. Doors locked. I'm pissed but I decided to go to a different DD to get the food. After now spending $44 on breakfast (part of which I didn't even receive) I request to get the order refunded through the app. There is no way to "cancel" the order, either. They say someone will call me. Don't believe it for a second and of course, it's now the 3rd and no one has called me. So I have to call them to get my money back? I just spoke to someone and he has to "escalate it".
They shouldn't be able to debit money from your account until it's been confirmed that it's been picked up. I hate the way this app is set up. I've decided I'm not using it in the future just for this inconvenience alone. Honestly, fuck most mobile apps. They're garbage.
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