Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
Made it to Hot Cakes today. I’ve driven by this bakery many times in the last three years and never stopped in. I actually never noticed Hot Cakes until fairly recently to be honest. The stretch of Centinela where this shop is at, is sort of slowly revitalizing. There’s a comics and collectibles place on the corner, and B&B, the hardware store institution is always busy. Walking in, you see people working hard baking. They’re making cakes of some sort, and of course what catches my eyes are the cupcakes. I’m not sure how hard it is to really mess up cupcakes, but then again, if you go to a market, they’re terrible. These are handmade and the many choices with thick frostings are nice. The painted chalkboard, and handwriting ads a nice touch. Even though this is big on the wall you hardly notice it since you’re busy looking into the glass case. These stare at you and it’s hard to get just one or even two, you tend to want to buy a bunch of give to people. That’s why cupcakes are cool. Of course, cupcakes are sort of like snacks you might buy on a whim, and they definitely bring you back into nostalgia, as least in my lifetime. When I was little, I remember cupcakes were cool. I think that’s where the idea of a Ding Dong and Twinkie came to be. The idea was the make small cakes. It’s great that cupcakes are in now, and I do hope they never leave. A slice of cake is essentially the same thing, but are they really? Is a cupcake, that’s handcrafted for one serving better? I actually think so. The care is worth supporting. Hot Cakes 10-7 mon-sat, 10-4 sun.4119 centinela near washington blvdla, ca 90066310-397-2324
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I don't know enough about plants, but when the "leaves" fall off of this plant, I don't know what to do with them. So I try just shoving them in the dirt to see what happens, will I get another entire plant? So I put it in thinking nothing will happen, but then look at that little green thing coming up! I had tried this once before and the same thing happened, I thought it was a fluke, but it's no...
I don’t know enough about plants, but when the “leaves” fall off of this plant, I don’t know what to do with them. So I try just shoving them in the dirt to see what happens, will I get another entire plant? So I put it in thinking nothing will happen, but then look at that little green thing coming up! I had tried this once before and the same thing happened, I thought it was a fluke, but it’s no joke. I’ll keep shoving these leaves in and I guess I’ll keep getting more plants. I must be doing something right. I guess it reminds me of that scene in The Blue Lagoon. Two kids, a guy and girl (girl played by Brooke Shields) are marooned on an island for years. One day, she’s in pain, her stomach hurts, she’s fat, and all that, then poof, a baby pops out. WHAT?! is what they were thinking. How did that happen? Well, basically, I shove in a leaf, and poof. WHAT?!
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So, sometimes, good deeds go sour when it's out of your control. Transcontinental printers, our people in Canada are good to us. No doubt. Issue 50 comes out they actually made us the above award, featuring the first issue and the 50th, framed. But somedays are just not waking up for (no, I don't really believe this). The mail comes, I see the package. I wonder what it is, so I open it and it's a...
So, sometimes, good deeds go sour when it’s out of your control. Transcontinental printers, our people in Canada are good to us. No doubt. Issue 50 comes out they actually made us the above award, featuring the first issue and the 50th, framed. But somedays are just not waking up for (no, I don’t really believe this). The mail comes, I see the package. I wonder what it is, so I open it and it’s a framed something. Neat, but the glass has chips, tiny ones, and I cut my thumb. To not risk injury to others much less myself, I decided the safest thing to do is to throw it away. All the packaging had to go too. I could have kept it, and replaced the glass with all of the free time that I have, maybe in 2010, but that also means housing this piece, broken glass with tiny shards around somewhere. It wasn’t going to happen. I felt like an ass breaking the news to the print shop that the item they carefully made and sent came broken and that I had to throw it away for safety’s sake. A few of you might be thinking that I should have just dealt with it better, but fuck it, right? I like it, I don’t love it, it’s broken, and I’ll never get to fixing it. What would you do with a broken trophy that caused a cut in your finger? The printer dude felt bad. He called his peoples who packed this and got this done. Their response which he relayed to me was that it’s never happened before, and it’s impossible that it happened. 1) They made me a special issue 33 – ten years type of award. It also showed up with broken glass. I sort of didn’t remember too clear, but Martin confirmed it. The frame is bent too. This one was much smaller, we eventually took it to get replaced. But the point is, the “never happened before” is a crock of shit. They are 2/2 in sending shit broken. Why is it that printers are so self righteous? It’s been a common theme since day one of doing GR. Printers screw up like everyone else, they just hate to admit it since it costs them money or credibility. 2) The employee who said, “no way it could happen.” That’s just stupid. What makes you think you can pack something that a delivery person won’t drop, kick, or even dropkick during transit? I told Mike to tell her to “Fuck Off”. He said he would, but I doubt it. Maybe the strong Canadian dollar is making the Canadians feel impenetrable or something, but logic still has to prevail. Delivery people will break shit. Next, our issue 51 that we need to have for the shops, etc, sat in a warehouse since last week. No note, no call, no nothing to tell us that they were ready to be delivered. Basically, they were supposed...
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