For All You Clinton Hill Bitches

Just visited Rustik in BK tonight, and couldn’t have been said better:

“2) I’ve been into Rustik two times and on both occasions I’ve had a feeling that I’d imagine would be similar to walking into a random person’s home unannounced. Meaning both times I’ve gone in there the bartender and owner(s) are hanging out at the bar with their friends laughing and carrying on with music blasting (all things I don’t mind) and when I step in the door everyone looks at me like “who the fuck is this? oh GREAT a customer, fun’s over” and the music gets turned down and everyone goes quiet and awkward looks are exchanged etc. etc. What the hell is that? Maybe I’m not familiar with the proper customer service techniques to apply when opening a bar/restaurant but if I had to take a guess I’d say alienating first time customers isn’t going to win you return visits. Either be a loud music bar with a kinetic feel or a quiet music bar with a relaxing feel. Don’t change the tone of your bar based on what YOU think the person who just walked in is like! That’s the same uncomfortable flip floppy shit that lost Kerry the last election and look how good that turned out. Do you want 4 more years of George Bush, Rustik Tavern? I think not.”

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La Vie en Rose

Or, Edith Piaf in Photo:

A One Line Review of The Simpsons Movie

Don’t expect too much depth, the majority of the humor is on the surface and superficial, as is the style of the time.

FIRST EVER PBH AWARD FOR VALOR IN THE FACE OF COURAGE

Congratulations to the winner of the first ever Prose Before Hos Award for Valor in the Face of Courage, Greg StiflyStiferson. Let us recount the story of Greg’s story before we lubricate his body with praise and store-brand massage oil.

It was a fine Spring day working as an Americorp volunteer as Greg trudged through hours of thankless work in post-Katrina New Orleans. As a white European colonizer in this foreign land, Greg expected booty and treasure, including but not limited to access to local colored women and raiding the medicine cabinets of abandoned houses.

But alas, he was wrong, as his politically correct overlords demanded he respect local customs and transform the once majestic city into a chocolate utopia. Finally, he decided to speak up against his oppression in what truly became an act of dignity and courage.

While painting a barn that would later serve as a halfway house for Sudanese war criminals, Greg became splattered with red paint. In a triumphant political move, Greg announced to the group ‘Look at me! I’m like an abortion doctor!’

With that act, he had risen against his liberal oppressors, an act which was quickly met with public reprimand and an order to complete a ten page paper on women’s rights. This award is for you, Stifly McGreg, a true public servant and hero from all of us at Prose Before Hos:

For your hard work and decency, we have donated 10 live chickens and 50 yards of barbed wire to a Chinese sweatshop. Thank you, dear sir, you are a hero to all of us (and everyone at the Nike factory).

MacWorld 2006 & The Side Notes

A lot has happened today in the Macintosh universe, as Steve Job’s delivered his keynote address and announced lots of new things, including Intel-based iMacs and MacBooks. This ushers in a new era at Apple, making the era of PPC computing with G4’s & G5’s not quite irrelevant, but certainly in the rear view mirror.

One thing that has not been extensively addressed is the promise from Microsoft to provide Macintosh support for the next five years. This means most likely new versions of Windows Media Player and Office (though Internet Explorer development was halted recently.

The other non-technical issue that seems to dominate the Mac forum sites is the name ‘MacBook’, which at first struck me as quite dumb. However, this was the original name Steve Jobs wanted to use for Apple’s laptop, and was struck down. Further, as the laptops are no longer running on ‘Power’ PPC chips, they are no longer ‘Powerbooks’.

This MacWorld was a success for Apple, and it doesn’t hurt that their already soaring stock shot up over 6 percent today.