Post by rorschalk on Apr 19, 2023 1:23:09 GMT
Dear Mr. VC
We got a side of 'No' on Flo's Diner. Here's Rox to flesh it out.
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Apr 14, 2023 at 8:32am Post by rockefeller on Apr 14, 2023 at 8:32am
Word from an ex-colleague in the ATM software biz, whom I still exchange emails with, is that the Rona's running rampant in their now fully and mandatorily vaccinated workplace. Guy who does our taxes said it's only the multi-jabbees calling in sick in his office. And yet... and yet... despite ample evidence the shots do zip except to weaken your immune system, e.g., induce "immune tolerance" according to one of the more recent studies I've seen, I hear the Walmart pharmacy advertise free Covid-19 vaccination on the PA this morning while grabbing stuff for the restaurant. Speaking of medical mistakes, I then read that, after letting medically mutilated, male-to-girly "transgender influencer" Dylan Mulvaney promote their product, Bud Light parent company Anheuser Busch Inbev is down more than $6 billion in market cap.
None of which has anything to do with this Flo's Diner cap, except maybe the word "cap," and that it all put me in a kind of head-shaking, who-needs-fiction-anymore frame of mind, in thinking about it, which I more or less (okay, less) read the other day and has been festering my clown-world subconscious. It struck me as the sort of long-ass piece that's been excerpted from a novel that never panned out. We have a diner, which my wife runs and I just do as I'm told. If she dies first, no way am I remotely trying to keep it going. So I can relate to this restaurant guy's problem re the loss of his Flo. But I had a hard time getting into it. It was all so banal. Even after the circus crew shows nothing much happens. The MC ends as he begins, sort of pathetically missing Flo. So, no.
It's all so subjective. I stress this a lot, and hope VCs appreciate how little my enjoyment of their work has to do with the quality of the writing. I don't even know how to suggest "fixing" it, except maybe to say, get to the point sooner, or even, make the point clearer. Like, what was the point? Grief is painful? Don't eat out? Join the circus? Here, as is often the case, I'm more interested in how the story came to be than the story itself. Still, no.
We got a side of 'No' on Flo's Diner. Here's Rox to flesh it out.
Posts: 236
Apr 14, 2023 at 8:32am Post by rockefeller on Apr 14, 2023 at 8:32am
Word from an ex-colleague in the ATM software biz, whom I still exchange emails with, is that the Rona's running rampant in their now fully and mandatorily vaccinated workplace. Guy who does our taxes said it's only the multi-jabbees calling in sick in his office. And yet... and yet... despite ample evidence the shots do zip except to weaken your immune system, e.g., induce "immune tolerance" according to one of the more recent studies I've seen, I hear the Walmart pharmacy advertise free Covid-19 vaccination on the PA this morning while grabbing stuff for the restaurant. Speaking of medical mistakes, I then read that, after letting medically mutilated, male-to-girly "transgender influencer" Dylan Mulvaney promote their product, Bud Light parent company Anheuser Busch Inbev is down more than $6 billion in market cap.
None of which has anything to do with this Flo's Diner cap, except maybe the word "cap," and that it all put me in a kind of head-shaking, who-needs-fiction-anymore frame of mind, in thinking about it, which I more or less (okay, less) read the other day and has been festering my clown-world subconscious. It struck me as the sort of long-ass piece that's been excerpted from a novel that never panned out. We have a diner, which my wife runs and I just do as I'm told. If she dies first, no way am I remotely trying to keep it going. So I can relate to this restaurant guy's problem re the loss of his Flo. But I had a hard time getting into it. It was all so banal. Even after the circus crew shows nothing much happens. The MC ends as he begins, sort of pathetically missing Flo. So, no.
It's all so subjective. I stress this a lot, and hope VCs appreciate how little my enjoyment of their work has to do with the quality of the writing. I don't even know how to suggest "fixing" it, except maybe to say, get to the point sooner, or even, make the point clearer. Like, what was the point? Grief is painful? Don't eat out? Join the circus? Here, as is often the case, I'm more interested in how the story came to be than the story itself. Still, no.