Bridezillas, Cereal, and…wait for it…Time Travel
Tonight is my last night working as an assistant editor on Bridezillas, and if I have learned one thing during my short stay it is that this show is produced and edited in the creepiest building to be alone in at night in the whole of Los Angeles. In the nine days I was here I heard multiple stories about how this building was once a hospital, how it once housed the screening room where Howard Hughes locked himself up and started peeing in milk jars, how there may or may not be a tunnel underneath of it built by bootleggers during prohibition, and how the woman who comes in at night to clean carries a bible to ward off mischievous spirits that would otherwise knock over her vacuum cleaner. I was here by myself between 2 and 4am a couple times and did not relish the experience.
So that’s probably the worst thing about my last two weeks. The BEST thing about where I’ve been working (aside from several very cool people, some of whom forced me to do karaoke, which is something I swore I would never do, and to a terrible song no less, but who were very supportive at least), the BEST thing, is this framed fucking cereal in the kitchen.
It displays 12 cereal pieces, their manufacturer, and the year they were introduced, and I would fight a dragon to have one of these in my kitchen, or oddly enough in my bathroom. Here’s a closer look.
Kix has been around since 1937. Who knew?
While I’m on the subject of cereal, I was breakfast shopping the other day and saw this incredibly dubious claim on a box of Lucky Charms.
I searched the box for some legalese that said something like “these marshmallows do not grant extrodinary access to the flow of time,” but didn’t find it.
I love time travel. LOVE IT. But have time travel stories become so mainstream that kids are thinking about it while they eat breakfast? Thanks, I suppose, is due to Heroes which features mostly entertaining but laughably inconsistent and nonsensical time travel story arcs and Lost which features time travel story arcs that are remarkably logical and consistent at the cost of staying true to the characters and draining the show of any dramatic tension. Someone needs to do righteous time travel fit for public consumption, or just let the nerds have it back.
Wow, I took it there didn’t I. Until next time.