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04.18.05 - Terrence Marks:

Boy, it's been busy lately. APE left us both drained. It inspired this current arc, which should surprise nobody. If you're new, you should read Spare Parts Presents a Horror Flick and Deadly Symbol, both of which deal with the movie they'll be promoting. I'm working on a con essay. Hopefully, I'll get it finished next week. As a preview, well, here's a preview On the way to APE, we stopped at a Burger King. They had a display there for dulce de leche cheesecake, with the tagline "Easy to Eat. Hard to Say", and a pronunciation key for dulce de leche. This was southern California. Spanish was the language of preference for everybody in the restaurant except us, including the cashiers. I'm not sure how effective that campaign was here. It probably played better in areas that Spanish isn't spoken. Or areas where Spanish-speakers have bad pronunciation. I suggested that on the flipside, they run the same display in Spanish, but have the pronunciation key under the second line of "DULCE DE LECHE CHEESECAKE" instead of the first. Isabel didn't think other people would find the humor in it. I point this incident out not because it's particularly significant, but because it was the high point of our convention experience.