Goodfellas and Good Burger, two films with little in common, yet both share the word "good" in their respective titles. I chatted to a co-worker today about Martin Scorsese's upcoming The Departed, a film both of us have been eagerly awaiting since the first trailer was shown online. A brief retrospection of his earlier masterpieces began and, as we praised Goodfellas, another co-worker exclaimed that "Good Burger is the shit." Not just shit, but the shit. We sat stunned, looked at each other for a moment and then burst with laughter. I explained that one film was a violent, complex history of a particular mob crew while the other was a Nickelodeon family film.
Nevertheless the co-worker, a likeable though somewhat young and naïve man, continued to praise Good Burger. I asked him to write me a two-page essay articulating just what exactly he finds so compelling about Good Burger, so perhaps he can convince me with an impassioned and witty review.

I can picture Martin Scorsese being interviewed by this earnest young lad and asked about the parallels between Goodfellas and Good Burger: an interview that ends abruptly with an angry Scorsese spitting on the clueless interviewer, cursing him in Italian.

I'm constantly amazed at the wealth of material I cull from my daily experiences at work for my writing.