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Originally Posted: Saturday, 1. July 2006, 10:52:01

So LiL’ MiNx and I stopped by a local Wendy’s fast food restaurant yesterday, and on the way out I noticed a sign on the outside door…

It reads “Sorry Due to lack Of staff we will be closing the dining room @ 8:00pm”

So I grab the trusty Camera phone, take a photo. I WAS going to email the pic with the location in Calgary (Macleod Trail S. at 71 Street) but I go to the http://www.wendys.com/contact.jsp and lo and behold, absolutley no email address to complain, send an kudos… nothing.

It would have been better if they displayed a sign saying “Please be patient with us, we are currently understaffed. We apologize for any inconvienence” and leave the restaurant open.

Love the food… cannot believe how crappy the management is at that location!

Directed by Andy Garcia
Starring: (You guessed it) Andy Garcia, Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray

Andy Garcia made a movie to appeal to Cuban exiles, not Hollywood or anyone else. Instead of showing the social inequality that led to Batista (he’d been elected after his coup d’etat on President Prio), and then to Castro, he chose to concentrate on banal characters, sloganism and a fashion cavalgade.

There’s a wonderful story in there — he just didn’t get it.
As to his acting ability — guess he figured he could get away with close-ups and the most pathetic attempts at crying. I could barely stay in my seat except for the music. The music was pretty good — performed mostly by blacks.

The only blacks in Garcia’s Cuba were, apparently, entertainers — and they were excellent.

For the most part people… the heart of the film is truely in the right place, but what starts as a promising exercise devolves in an overlong, unevenly directed total disappointment.

LiL MiNx and I left at the hour and a 1/2 mark… with very numb ass cheeks.
(Total waste of time)

The bottom 3 on Wednesday night’s results show was truly shocking. Not that anyone was exceptional the night before, but Bucky, who should have been gone weeks ago, was not even in the bottom 3.
Yet somehow, my favorite Katharine McPhee, who’s rendition of Christina’s “The Voice Within”, was fantastic (in my opinion) but still good and better than Bucky on his best day — somehow ended up in not only the bottom 3, but the bottom 2.

How Ace managed to get more votes than Katharine with his nearly horrid rendition of Train’s “Drops of Jupiter” I’m not quite sure (though I have an inkling it was the scar).

But all is well in the world now, as when Lisa Tucker and Katharine McPhee stood side by side and Ryan Seacrest read off who was going home, the Goddess had some mercy on the human race and the name he read was Lisa Tucker’s. Which was highly exciting and a big relief at first.

Then she began to sing “Because of You” again. (I thankfully missed the first one)
And of course it was apparentley just as horrid as it was the night before.

So there lies a little relief in the fact that I won’t have to hear Lisa Tucker’s lazy Doris Day vibrato anymore, but I do have to, unfortunately, watch Bucky toss the microphone from hand to hand and sport a cowboy hat for another week, murdering yet another great song. (Lisa was heads above Buck-Tooth)

Speaking of this Bucky guy? Can someone bring me the hair clippers and a razor?
Bucky needs some shampoo and someone to show him how to shave the pubescent facial hair he is attempting to grow.
While we’re at it, will someone please boot-stomp this redneck idiot and the whole population of Arkansas… PLEASE? I swear, this knob must have half the southern states voting for this pin-head. If I wanted to hear more from this knob, I’d travel down to the local trash bar (Ranchmans) and listen to someone who sounds JUST LIKE HIM, probably better.

Here’s to hoping the contestants pick better songs next week and that Ace doesn’t try to slip in any more strip shows.

My next rant is going to be on that Grey Haired knob (Taylor Hicks)