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In other news, i posted a creative writing exercise about aliens and the existential horror of food service

#fiction #aliens #stories

http://blog.lmorchard.com/2025/09/20/burrito-chime/

First Contact at Burrito Chime

Lately, I’ve been trying to shake off some of the rust on my creative writing. Here’s something I wrote about aliens, burritos, and the existential horror of food service. I’m not sure if it’s funny, but I gave it a shot.

blog.lmorchard.com

Shout out to my local #Ypsilanti #foodcoop for continuing to grow and thrive: this graph from the 2024 annual report is super impressive, remembering the worrisome straits the coop was in a decade ago.

Not that "up and to the right" is _per se_ the goal of a cooperative, but the sales reflect offering a broader selection of food to more people while also increasing employee wages 22% faster than inflation, increasing local sourcing, and increasing on-site production, all of which are good.

(Hardly an original observation, just always entertained when, as just now, I walk out a door in downtown Detroit and am momentarily disoriented by catching a glimpse of the Stott and thinking it's the Guardian.)
Detroit's historic architecture goes so hard that it not only has a Guardian Building (left), but a spare Guardian Building (apologies to the David Stott Building, right).

I spent a large chunk of my early career in organizations that were very document-focused.

It was expected that you would write documents.

It was expected that you read the documents that others wrote.

It was expected that time be scheduled during meetings to ensure the document was read.

It was understood that in order to arrive at the intended understanding that you read all the words.

If a short summary could have conveyed the same information, the author would have written that instead.

I'm sorry what.
The national park service would like you to stop teaching the ground squirrels to gamble.

I have questions about the concept of "Formicoid Myrmicine Ants" and "Formicoid Myrmeciinae Ants" ... isn't that just "anty anty ants" ?

Then you have "Formicoid Pseudomyrmecinae Ants" (So ant-shaped fake-ant ants) and "Formicoid
Formicinae Ants" also "ant-shaped anty ants"

I need latin help. This is as bad as bears.

Ice hockey, field hockey, air hockey. Everything changed when the fire hockey players attacked.