A lot of you know know me also know of my father's restaurant, the River Road Pancake House.

Well, now there's a whole heaping pile more of you who know of it now that there's been a mention of it in the New York Times. Oh I kid you not.

On April 28th there was an article published called "36 Hours: Gatlinburg, TN". The following excerpt is from the article:

Saturday

7 a.m. | Stacked in Your Favor

If you're staying along the Little Pigeon River, you might rise to the sight of an angler trying to reel in a trout. An easier way to find breakfast is at one of Gatlinburg's pancake parlors, whose choices might leave you reeling yourself... At the tucked-away River Road Pacake House (831 River Road, 865-430-8991) you'll find locals and Appalachian Trail through-hikers (who are 200 miles, about 9 percent, of the way from Georgia to Maine) at the blue-and-white checked tables, plus cute Czech waiters serving short stacks with Tennessee blueberries ($5.75).

My dad and his legion of "cute Czech waiters". I couldn't be prouder.

I got this from a friend and thought it worthwhile to share:

WATER...... It has been scientifically proven that if we drink 1 litre of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli bacteria found in feces, in other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop!

However, we do not run that risk when drinking wine or rum, whiskey, vodka, beer or other liquors) because alcohol has to go through a distillation process of boiling, filtering and fermenting.

WATER = Poop

WINE = HEALTH

Free yourself of poop, drink WINE!!! It is better to drink wine and talk shit than to drink water and be full of shit.

There is no need to thank me for this valuable information, I am doing it as a public service.

[nod to Tim P. via Lauren]

This is the transcript of the ACTUAL radio conversation between the British and the Irish, off the coast of Kerry, Oct 98. Quite humorous.


IRISH: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the South, to avoid a collision.

BRITISH: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the North, to avoid a collision.

IRISH: Negative. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.

BRITISH: This is the Captain of a British navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.

IRISH: Negative. I say again. You will have to divert YOUR course.

BRITISH: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS BRITANNIA! THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN THE BRITISH ATLANTIC FLEET.WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS, AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH, I SAY AGAIN, THAT IS 15 DEGREES NORTH, OR COUNTER-MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP.

IRISH: We are a lighthouse. Your call.

I'm especially fond of this shot I took the other night... click for a larger version.

Forget the New York City transit strike, now we're really in for a doozie:

NY Immigrant Rally as Part of National Boycott.

I don't know about you, but I ordered a Burrito for lunch... just in case. And just think how much of a problem this country is in for when the Koreans decide to follow suit? Who in the world is going to do our dry cleaning?? Help!



Here's another article from CNN, just in case you need further explanation on how much of a royal uprising we're in for.

{image credits: WCBStv.com and CNN.com]

You're looking at a bad picture. You're looking at a bad picture not because it's overexposed and looks like complete crap. No, you're looking at a bad picture because that car sitting in that picture is costing me ~$400 a month to have it sit there in a garage, doing nothing but get dirty and cost $0.50 an hour. Let's not talk about the other costs like say... um, the car payment.

Well, by Forbes (or whoever they outsourced the work to) measurement I live in the 31st most expensive zip code in the United States. It's funny because the "average" salaries of the people that live here sure don't seem to reflect the ability to afford $1.4 million dollar homes (read: tiny apartments). Chock me up in that category. So, how am I living here? Oh I know, because my building is a gem. By the way, the map looks crazy-wrong.

[ edit: I live in zip code 10022. I obviously don't know where I live, in any case, it's the 164th most expensive zip cod :) ]

[on Friday] But not after coming across this little gem on the Upper West Side while picking up my friend. You might recognize it as that little place our four friends from Seinfeld spent their time gabbing.

And yes, you heard me - I went bloddy golfing (driving range) on Randall's Island before work. By 9am I wanted to take a siesta. By noon I wanted dinner. By 8pm I was delirious. By 1am when I finally passed out I was reciting Backstreet Boys songs.

Yes, Backstreet Boys songs.