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Choosy Shoppers Choose Jif
Apr. 11th, 2006 11:58 pmThis morning I started to work on a long post about the immigration protests and the ramifications for several parties involved. It was all political and such.
By lunchtime I was focusing on work, and I became bored with the whole subject. Such is the fickleness of the American electorate.
Maybe I'll resurrect it sometime - but like the bill in the Senate, it just might be shelved indefinitely.
So, I'll tell you something else tonight. Last week I was out shopping a bit while Chris was working late, and i decided that I wanted to get a DVD copy of Brokeback Mountain - currently "the most important film of all time" that I still haven't seen. Still, there was something I wanted more - the 25th anniversary edition of 9to5, the movie that not only brought Dolly Parton's tits to the screen, but also showed the world what happens when you mistake rat poison for Skinny and Sweet.
So I first went to Best Buy, and they had plenty of copies of Brokeback, and many copies of Narnia, but they only had the icky full screen copy of 9to5. I'm sorry, if I wanted to see it in full screen pan and scan, I would watch it on TBS.
So then I got a notion - why not go to the new Super Wal*Mart in Plano and buy it there. Wal*Mart has built this new concept store in Plano to try to compete with Target, and sell to the upper crust in the tawny suburb. The store is supposed to have nicer, more expensive goods, a sushi bar (since, unlike the meatpackers, sushi chefs don't have a union, yet), and wider aisles.
Well, it's true that they have wider aisles, some of them even have laminate wood, but the merchandise selection, the layout of the store, and the shoppers still seem to be the same as the older Super Wal*Mart that is down the street from our house - and I won't take a step in that store again if I can help it.
So after looking a bit, there was Brokeback Mountain, displayed on the front aisle of the electronic section, there for sinners and the saved alike. Still, the only copy of 9to5 was the fullscreen edition. I so wasn't going to get my sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot fix here. i was tempted to by Brokeback here though, just to make some sort of statement, I thought. I would even take a picture of my purchase with the Wal*Mart receipt.
Luckily I thought about it again, and decided that I really didn't care to give Wal*Mart money, and I would still have to make a trip down to the Super Target down the street, so I left the nicer-appointed way station of hell, and got myself down to a real store. There I did find both Brokeback and the widescreen edition of 9to5. I haven't opened either of the packages, but I'm certainly happy.
Of course, i find out later that the American Family association is calling for Wal*Mart to throw out it's copies of Brokeback, as it of course shouldn't be seen as supporting the homosexual agenda. Wal*Mart has refused, since they want to get the gay, and other dollars just as much as any other enterprise does. Personally, I now wish I did buy the DVD there just to encourage Wal*Mart to be better, but I guess I couldn't be sure that Wal*Mart wouldn't give me a censored copy, like they censor some music CD's they sell. Still, I like sticking it to Donald Wildmon and the AFA.
The AFA hasn't had anything to say about Wal*Mart selling a pro-feminist movie like 9to5. As we all know, women in the workplace has lead to the destruction of the nuclear family, and the husband as the titular head of the household.
Still, as I placed my Target receipt in the pile that I'll eventually shred, when I go to Target and get a shredder, I noticed that the name of the movie was abbreviated. No, not 9to5, but the other one.
The receipt read: "Brokeback Mo." Target is such teh gay.
By lunchtime I was focusing on work, and I became bored with the whole subject. Such is the fickleness of the American electorate.
Maybe I'll resurrect it sometime - but like the bill in the Senate, it just might be shelved indefinitely.
So, I'll tell you something else tonight. Last week I was out shopping a bit while Chris was working late, and i decided that I wanted to get a DVD copy of Brokeback Mountain - currently "the most important film of all time" that I still haven't seen. Still, there was something I wanted more - the 25th anniversary edition of 9to5, the movie that not only brought Dolly Parton's tits to the screen, but also showed the world what happens when you mistake rat poison for Skinny and Sweet.
So I first went to Best Buy, and they had plenty of copies of Brokeback, and many copies of Narnia, but they only had the icky full screen copy of 9to5. I'm sorry, if I wanted to see it in full screen pan and scan, I would watch it on TBS.
So then I got a notion - why not go to the new Super Wal*Mart in Plano and buy it there. Wal*Mart has built this new concept store in Plano to try to compete with Target, and sell to the upper crust in the tawny suburb. The store is supposed to have nicer, more expensive goods, a sushi bar (since, unlike the meatpackers, sushi chefs don't have a union, yet), and wider aisles.
Well, it's true that they have wider aisles, some of them even have laminate wood, but the merchandise selection, the layout of the store, and the shoppers still seem to be the same as the older Super Wal*Mart that is down the street from our house - and I won't take a step in that store again if I can help it.
So after looking a bit, there was Brokeback Mountain, displayed on the front aisle of the electronic section, there for sinners and the saved alike. Still, the only copy of 9to5 was the fullscreen edition. I so wasn't going to get my sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot fix here. i was tempted to by Brokeback here though, just to make some sort of statement, I thought. I would even take a picture of my purchase with the Wal*Mart receipt.
Luckily I thought about it again, and decided that I really didn't care to give Wal*Mart money, and I would still have to make a trip down to the Super Target down the street, so I left the nicer-appointed way station of hell, and got myself down to a real store. There I did find both Brokeback and the widescreen edition of 9to5. I haven't opened either of the packages, but I'm certainly happy.
Of course, i find out later that the American Family association is calling for Wal*Mart to throw out it's copies of Brokeback, as it of course shouldn't be seen as supporting the homosexual agenda. Wal*Mart has refused, since they want to get the gay, and other dollars just as much as any other enterprise does. Personally, I now wish I did buy the DVD there just to encourage Wal*Mart to be better, but I guess I couldn't be sure that Wal*Mart wouldn't give me a censored copy, like they censor some music CD's they sell. Still, I like sticking it to Donald Wildmon and the AFA.
The AFA hasn't had anything to say about Wal*Mart selling a pro-feminist movie like 9to5. As we all know, women in the workplace has lead to the destruction of the nuclear family, and the husband as the titular head of the household.
Still, as I placed my Target receipt in the pile that I'll eventually shred, when I go to Target and get a shredder, I noticed that the name of the movie was abbreviated. No, not 9to5, but the other one.
The receipt read: "Brokeback Mo." Target is such teh gay.
