Review: Pizza Hut roofs
Nature favors the indulgent.
I think that once, a long time ago, I created the vestigial slanting roofs of Pizza Hut.
I’ve always liked dumb things. It’s just like me to shuffle a dossier containing logos, business plans, ingredients, recipes, and contribute with a halflight panic, “Uh, yeah guys, but what if the roof was like, a hat?”
The worst thing you make is what outlives you. As an artist, you have to be right many more times than you are wrong, or else your legacy will be an orthodontist’s office with the ill-begotten vertices of a Pizza Hut franchise.
And if it is… Pizza Hut’s roofs weren’t made to wick rain or trap heat. They aren’t sensible, they were made in defiance of sense.
A creature that does exactly what it needs to do to survive and procreate exists at an evolutionary disadvantage to a creature that loves the means of survival — sleep and sex and water and pizza. It’s survival of the indulgent.
One day, all roofs will be Pizza Hut roofs.
Thanks for reading!
I wrote this piece for my local writers group based on a prompt about reincarnation. Whoops, probably should have told you that at the start. 10-minute free write, very minor edits. Probably should have said that too. But no preambles! (Except in my last review where I did a preamble.)
Anyway, wanted to share — I picked up the pace around here lately and it’s taken more steam than I traditionally have this time of year. Also I’m really proud of the last couple essays, so I may divert creative energy towards shopping around to some publications. My byline is sort of thin, though both pieces (about medieval supercomputers and the history of spoilers, both published by the incredible
) I’m also extremely proud of.Supernormal’s not going anywhere. But if you see more posts like this one in addition to the full essays, that’s why! Tyvm for reading, means the world.
DR