People love being in control. I’ve been thinking about this a lot and I got to see it in action the other day. I was at the bar and I watched someone order a flatbread. They wanted pepper on their pizza and asked the food runner for fresh pepper. The food runner handed the person… Continue reading Control Freaks
Tag: pizza
Dismantling a Pizza Zax
Before I started this blog I never realized how much I thought about pizza, but here I am critiquing a pizza box. So, the other night my friends and I ordered pizza from our usual place, Inbound Pizza. They have a generic looking pizza box that I’ve seen at other places before: I have several issues… Continue reading Dismantling a Pizza Zax
Chicken Zax
It’s too bad this pizza place couldn’t find an actual pepperoni pizza to take a photo of and instead had to draw on their own, rather unhealthy looking, dots: I’d call this a “Photoshop fail,” but there’s little evidence pointing at anything more sophisticated than using Microsoft Paint on Windows 95 here.
Robots Makin’ Za
There is no doubt that commercials have been getting weirder and weirder the past few years, I imagine trying to catch the “youth demographic” or something like that. I have no problem with this, in fact if a commercial seems truly clever or original then I’ll give credit where credit is due. I caught this… Continue reading Robots Makin’ Za
Words That Lose Friends
I’m an avid player of Words with Friends, a Scrabble-like game for smartphones and Facebook. The trick to the game is not really having a big vocabulary, but more so to have absolute understanding of all the world’s short and somewhat cheap words (I’m looking at you, “qi.”) Recently I stumbled across the word “za,”… Continue reading Words That Lose Friends