Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Expert Witness!
If you were to visit the MYL offices on Wacker Drive in Chicago, chances are you'd see a queue of taxis waiting to whisk busy workers about town. Many taxi drivers are creatures of habit, thus sometimes you see the same cab drivers waiting in line. Such was the case Friday when the Movie Editor (ME) left work a little early to go see the flick "Children of Men" (ME is a big fan of dystopian fiction). As "luck" would have it, he recognized his driver from a previous fare, and that said driver was a HUGE movie buff. Alas, he recognized that his driver is somewhat talkative and inquisitive too late, as he already had struck up a conversation. Had ME seen this? Had ME seen that? What are you seeing? Oh, Julianne Moore [blahblahblahblahblahbabble]. If only Monz had been there! Monz has seen these flicks, and could dispense with unpretentious yet cogently piercing advice the way James Brown could dispense "HUH!"'s. Of course, the driver got so into it that he abandoned his professional driving ways for some form of soccer mom driving style and the ME was late and had to sit in the second row and get a cramped neck ("Neck!" - Music Editor). And the flick? Well, let's just say it didn't suck.
You could say that Monz' lunch today was kind of a secret, as Monz used this year's Secret Admirer Christmas present (a Subway gift card, which Monz' sleuthing determined was purchased a mile (and several "Subways") away from the MYL office) to try something unusual from The Place: footlong turkey and ham on wheat, made by the good kid with the generous hot peppers.
If you were to visit the MYL offices on Wacker Drive in Chicago, chances are you'd see a queue of taxis waiting to whisk busy workers about town. Many taxi drivers are creatures of habit, thus sometimes you see the same cab drivers waiting in line. Such was the case Friday when the Movie Editor (ME) left work a little early to go see the flick "Children of Men" (ME is a big fan of dystopian fiction). As "luck" would have it, he recognized his driver from a previous fare, and that said driver was a HUGE movie buff. Alas, he recognized that his driver is somewhat talkative and inquisitive too late, as he already had struck up a conversation. Had ME seen this? Had ME seen that? What are you seeing? Oh, Julianne Moore [blahblahblahblahblahbabble]. If only Monz had been there! Monz has seen these flicks, and could dispense with unpretentious yet cogently piercing advice the way James Brown could dispense "HUH!"'s. Of course, the driver got so into it that he abandoned his professional driving ways for some form of soccer mom driving style and the ME was late and had to sit in the second row and get a cramped neck ("Neck!" - Music Editor). And the flick? Well, let's just say it didn't suck.
You could say that Monz' lunch today was kind of a secret, as Monz used this year's Secret Admirer Christmas present (a Subway gift card, which Monz' sleuthing determined was purchased a mile (and several "Subways") away from the MYL office) to try something unusual from The Place: footlong turkey and ham on wheat, made by the good kid with the generous hot peppers.
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Monz gets a Subway gift card from "The Secret"...I soooo think the EIC is "The Secret"
P.S. to EIC - Good work on casting all those "no" votes on your poll
P.S. to EIC - Good work on casting all those "no" votes on your poll
# posted by 
: 4:04 PM
: 4:04 PM
Just using intuition alone, if EIC needs a poll to determine whether he is the secret, then EIC is "The Secret."
# posted by : 4:46 PM
: 4:46 PM
The EIC remains, as always, prepared to submit to a lie detector test administered by a neutral authority. The poll was an act of faith in MYL's readership to help disabuse Monz of his Dubya-like reading of the available intelligence of who is The Secret.
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