Waverly Place Cary Facelift

Last night we went to the preview party (aka Party on the Promenade) at Waverly Place in Cary. If you’ve been there before you will hardly recognize the place if you haven’t been there before it will likely be more difficult. From what I could tell they have a lot of cool fountains and not many stores. There was a crowd because of the playground (not pictured) and the free food from Whole Foods which must count as an anchor store in a mall these days.

Elvis, Bachman, and the Moose

Sometimes we count on people to give us the facts. Sometimes we should double-check the internet to verify before we say anything (at least get a best guess). I’m looking at you presidential candidates.

“Before we get started, let’s all say ‘Happy Birthday’ to Elvis Presley today,” Michele Bachmann told a crowd in Spartanburg, S.C. “We played you a little bit of ‘Promised Land’ when we pulled up. You can’t do better than Elvis Presley and we thought we would celebrate his birthday as we get started to celebrating Take Our Country Back tour.”

So – this one falls under pretty easy to verify – if you tried. Pretty stupid to mess up. And most importantly pretty tacky to tie Elvis to your political agenda. I asked the Elvis that lives in my office if this offended him and so far he has had no comment. Probably upset that someone could even confuse a birthday and the anniversary of a death. Then again I think he is on something. He just sits and stares at the moose on my white board all day. Maybe he is just wondering what “she” really said and whether it was true.

Fun da-middles of the Grocery Store

With some frequency Cara asks me if I would like to go with her to the grocery store. Why? I have no idea. Why do I go? Well… not to purchase food. Grocery stores are fascinating hubs of nonsense. Prime example – the photo to the right. Really Betty Crocker? You are selling bake at home Twinkies? No – these are important yet trivial – we’ll call them “fun da-middles.” If these don’t sell I imagine there will be seats to fill in the Betty Crocker marketing department – very wide seats.

And what about Baconnaise? Look closely – someone felt the need to let you know that this product is “REGULAR.” Will they be making a low-fat version of the product that tastes less bacony? This is frightening and intriguing at the same time. It sounds like a joke but you really can’t make it up.

Finally – settling an old score. Mincemeat – meat or no meat. We asked this question to several random people in Napper Tandy’s one evening. It had something to do with BobG eating a pie made of mincemeat or so random reason. The answers varied and while we have settled this a couple of times I always pick up a jar when it catches my eye to read the ingredients. Did you know the answer before you looked at the picture?

So yes – the grocery store is on the list of places I will visit. And no – I didn’t buy any of that stuff pictured. Of the grocery stores Kroger has the best shopping soundtrack. They have not as of yet answered my emails about starting “Krogeroke.” Give them time and they’ll come around.

Saving for a DeLorean…

I’m not sure what the owner of this car was thinking when they bought this plate. Wouldn’t “OUTATIME” be more appropriate?

Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn’t take Lorraine out that he’d melt my brain.

Either way – awesome movie – great plate and as you can see a catch while driving down South Saunders.

No, wait! Doc. Doc. The-the-the bruise – the bruise on your head. I know how that happened! You told me the whole story. You were standing on your toilet, and you were hanging a clock, and you fell, and you hit your head on the sink. And that’s when you came up with the idea for the Flux Capacitor…

I’ll stop before reminding you that this movie is more than a quarter century old. Or maybe I won’t. Another picture after the jump. If you find capture something unusual when you are out and about upload it to the user gallery or email it to me.

UPDATE: In the comments section post your favorite BAC2FUTR quotes.

ROAD HOUSE

I’m not entirely sure why I am posting this – or captioning it the way I have.  Maybe it is this.

Maybe it is just a cheap ploy to get more people to come to my site.

Or – maybe it is just because it is Monday and I need a good laugh and remembering this moment from Saturday night definitely makes me laugh.  No – I am not laughing at Nick – I am laughing near him.  All apologies to the nice hosts of the party who went inside and let us take over your yard and keg. I find you equally hospitable and responsible for events of the evening.

What can you say about that? Road House. That’s what.