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August 16, 2008 |
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Cheesecake Volleyball
FOUND by Mark Hoffman
in Santa Cruz, California
I found this resting on the top of a trash can at the beach just after I'd finished a volleyball tournament. Some of the words seem to go together, and some… delightfully random.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
First today? Whee!
Looks like someone is looking for inspiration for a haiku--or maybe playing a word game while watching the game. They're jealous of the cheescake out there taking part in the competition, which is tough, on the beach with friends, while the writer has a tougher job in a factory.
At first I thought 19255403137 was a phone number, but then I realised it couldn't be.
this is cool, it seems to tell a story, like one of their friends is going to L.A. to eat cheesecake and compete in a relaxing tournament and the person who wrote this is jealous. hahaha
HMMMMMMM....very random? That could be a phone #1-925-540-3137. That might be someone's #!
Probably what ORINOCO said, bored between sets, so they played a *word* game.
someone took a volleyball to the head a little to hard.
this was their attempt to remember their name and address afterwards. they hopped maybe writing it down would help their mind clear and remember.
"my name is.....cheesecake" "I live at...Beach, no wait that's where I am now. I live at....factory"
My phone # has a 925 prefix. That looks like a real number.
It's probably the phone number to the Cheesecake Factory!
I dare someone to dial that number and see who they get. I had forgotten 1 is the US/Canada contact code. I'd do it myself but living as I do in Europe it would be too costly, possibly in more ways than one.
I checked the number out at the Reverse Phone Directory web site, and it couldn't find a listing. So maybe it's not a phone number after all.
Weed. I swear, everyone in Santa Cruz is stoned.
925-540-3137 is a valid cell phone number. I tried addresses.com, search for cell number. Ended up at intelius.com and got a hit. They want $$ for more information (name etc) which I'm not willing to give them.
The found seems to be the random, bored doodles of a girlfriend who was watching the games with pen in hand.
Is there a Cheesecake Factory in Santa Cruz?
Nope. Just Googled it and that is a definite No.
The beach sounds really nice right now.
I am jealous, for sure.
I think it's a word association game.
Cheesecake-Factory
Tough-relaxing
competition-tournament
Santa Cruz-beach
LA-jealous
friends-phone number
I want to dial that number so bad.
AAHH!!!! i just got off of work (i'm a cashier) and i thought that # was a SKU #. i was about to type it in for a price check.
Cheesecake Factory is a restaurant. That makes sense.
I like Monkeys answer...it's like that movie, "Momento".
AH! Monkey, I just watched that movie for the first time! Trippy...Oliver Sacks mentions that movie in one of his books.
Dial it. Go ahead..
Jenny, I got your number,
I need to make you mine.
Jenny, don't change your number,
8-6-7-5-3-0-9 (8-6-7-5-3-0-9)
8-6-7-5-3-0-9 (8-6-7-5-3-0-9)
There has been WAY too much TV coverage of volleyball at the Beijing Olympics. Bor-r-ring.... No offense if you like volleyball, but I'd rather be watching Synchronized Swimming!
Tough chewy cheesecake was all the Beach Volley ball shop sold. Customers always claimed to be angry (going so far as to throw pieces of the cake at Mark and his lowlyassistant,Genevive.
They also ocassionaly threw up, but only once in a while.) but the counter clerk Mark knew better. They (he surmised) were using their anger to hide the fact that they were jealous of how innovative and fabulous the Cheesecake was. This Cheesecake had won almost one whole award for cheesecakes and other comestibles in the Santa Cruz area. Narrowly being beaten out by a combination haberdashery and pirate shop in L.A. who's cheesecake (Mark suspected) contained Elmer's glue and sawdust from a dirty horse stall somewhere in Canada. In fact Mark wouldn't have been surprised if it contained bits of actual horse, as well.
All of Mark's friends (all 19,255,403,137 of them)disagreed about why it was that people would pretend to hate what was obviously the best cake not filled with actual cheese but for some obscure reason was called "cheesecake". About 2,ooo,ooo thought it was a random sickness that hit some of the weaker of the species just as they entered the shop. Others, about 5,555,055, thought it was due to certain customers having a tapeworm or maybe a case of Montezuma's Revenge. Still others had no real opinion at all.
It was during a lull in one of many discussions Mark had with his friend's about this topic that someone (and we won't name that Someone, just in case they are reading this, as we all know just how paranoid and suspicious they are and how prone to fits of spastic coughing they are)mentioned the conundrum of cheesecake having no cheese in it at all. This caused a mighty uproar among the group and fistfights ensued.Before the fighting could degenerate into something the Green Man might admire and delightedly watch on a lonely Saturday night, someone( we think it might have been Genevieve)shouted: "Let's have a tournament!" It will be relaxing! At least a lot more relaxing than being punched in the face and kneed in the groin!"
A long bout of mumbling commenced, debating the relative merits and demerits of such a proposition. And at long last it was decided to have such as tournament on the next Tuesday hence.
But that is a story for another time.
Awesome, Smallbear. What do you do, aside from writing great literary works on Foundmagazine.com?
@smallbear
I want to use your entry as an example of deconstruction when I teach lit analysis.
Hey, did this find get anyone thinking of Olympic beach vollyball (NBC seems reluctant to admit there's any other summer event, except swimming)? How about our leader W's narrow miss with his chance to grab ass (could have been a real Clinton moment, but W decided to look after his legacy for once)?
@Sammy Davis very happy you liked it-though I wouldn't call anything I've written on Found 'great'. More like the scribblings of someone who is putting off doing 'serious' work. On the other hand, it's better to scribble than to do the nothing I had been doing for years. Oh, and as far as what I do in rl, that's classified I'm afraid, sorry. ;)
@Gorgon Wow, I'm flattered by what you wrote. If you are serious about using my scribbles please go right ahead. I would be honored. Thank you.
Being an former English Lit. major I know I should know what Deconstructionism is all about but unfortunately I had to look it up. (I love answers.com btw) I like their definition so I'll quote it here for those who never had to study the wonderful world of Lit. Crit.:
"...there is no meaning to be found in the actual text, but only in the various, often mutually irreconcilable 'virtual texts' constructed by the readers in their search for meaning."
Sounds like every piece I've written on Found,doesn't it?
Also sounds exactly like what we Foundians do on this site everyday.
I can't believe none of you'se guys called the #! I just called but got that lady who says in a vaguely stern voice, "We're sorry, your call cannot be completed as dialed. Please check the # & dial again." By the way, there's a good area-code search tool here: http://www22.verizon.com/areacodes/
Thank you Cathy. You restored my faith in human curiosity.
Did you or did you not call from work? LOL
@smallbear; "Oh, and as far as what I do in rl, that's classified I'm afraid, sorry"
we already know what you do for a living.
Bear stuff.
and fine job you do at it too.
It's just the...
Bear necessities,
the simple bare necessities,
forget about your worries and your strife,
i mean the bare necessities,
thats why a bear can rest at ease,
with just the bare necessities of life.
y'all got the number wrong. It's (925)570-3137
European Housecleaning in San Ramone: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/hss/793046962.html
Now THAT is an excellent way to get people interested in your European-style housecleaning business! ISHTOT!
I do things like this too, write random words on paper so I can remember something... also looks like my hand writing.
weird.
Nice job, Sadie. It's a cell number through Nextel/Sprint. My husband and I used to have 925-570-XXXX cell numbers through them too when we lived in San Ramon.
I wonder what makes the "European" housecleaners different from American housecleaners? :)
At first glance I thought the phone number was actually Hebrew.
You know (or maybe you don't), my older sister used to sit around and write down random words or snippets of conversation she was hearing, sometimes filling entire notebooks with non sequiturs and unrelated thoughts. The "notes" looked very much like this item.
I am the finder of this note and i wanted to thank everyone for thier comments. Keep finding and sending in quality notes to keep this project going!!
One more thing...when I sent an email to all my friends with the link to this find, one friend replied that she was author of the note. She was a friend who was at the same volleyball tournament the day I found it and said that she was taking a quiz in one of those magazines and that these were her answers, and that she was looking for this note because she needed the phone number from it; it was for a doctor in San Ramon she needed to call...she said.
Then she admitted she was lying and I was kinda pissed because it was such a credible story and I believed and thought it was such a COOL coincidence, but alas, not to be and the note origin is still a mystery.