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  1. Michael Landrum
    It will not be televised.
  2. Michael Landrum
    Strangely enough, both President Obama and President Medvedev, through an interpreter, had just one thing to say to me: "Your wine splits suck."
  3. Michael Landrum
    What a shame that not everyone gets to have this level of dignity brought to bear on his life's work. The recent promos for this season really seem to signal a drastic departure from last season's talented, serious, admirable bunch.
  4. Michael Landrum
    Culprits captured on tape. Sorry about the rough day. They get better. If it's any consolation, A/C is the bane of my existence too. A/C to restaurateurs is like gravity to drunks...always out there just waiting to fuck up your day. Keep up the good work!
  5. Michael Landrum
    I, for one, can not imagine anything controversial whatsoever about Mr. Dean. In fact, when he visited Ray's: The Steaks several times recently in quick succession back in November and December it quickly became obvious to me that I was in the presence of a Mastermind and Master Chef. I can not wait, in between airings of Top Chef, to sit back and watch how he "re-invents the steakhouse." It sounds to me, at least from the website, that he has a few ideas that I could really use. I know the wine menu is really going to light a fire under Mark Slater for him to try to play catch up.
  6. Michael Landrum
    I just have to say how disappointed I am with my most recent experience at Vidalia. I arrived at 2:50, only a mere 20 minutes after they finished their lunch service. Imagine my surprise when RJ refused to serve me his much-touted 24 menu, despite my feverish demands, at lunch just for me. If that is not bad enough, he even had the gall to refuse to deliver each course, one at a time and personally himself, as I asked, to where I had my office set up that day, like most days, at the corner table at Camelot. Is it really too much to have that be a part of their stated delivery zone, even if the chef has to bring it over personally himself? If that is not bad enough, the ice in my so-called "Iced Tea" was regrettably less than square. I am just so sick of these celebrity TV chefs who refuse to give me the attention I deserve. And I hate that RJ's burger is better than mine. Damn you.
  7. Michael Landrum
    If it's the same Martin Gardner I'm thinking of, his annotated Alice is one of the most mind-stretching and illuminating insights into, and unlocking of, the creative mind, more revealing by his gentlemanly restraint in hinting at its underlying darkness and the madness to be found in logic. Best read in a kingdom by the sea.
  8. Michael Landrum
    All these years of exploiting the site for my own personal agenda, shameless self-promotion, out-of-control branding, and pushing the limits of the site (as well as Don's buttons) have all been to lead up to and culminate in this one last post: Ray's: The Steaks is seeking a Director or Coordinator of an after school meals program. The position is initially part-time with hopes of expanding to a full-time position. The position involves organizing community outreach to identify those most in need and coordinating the mechanisms, logistics and legalities of participation. The program aims to expand into a comprehensive tutoring/mentoring/educational (both scholastic and nutritional) program for children at-risk and in-need, while stopping short providing day care services. The financial structure is already in place, so non-profit experience is not necessary nor necessarily relevant. A background in education, however, is useful but not necessary. Certified Food Handler desirable. Possible entry-level position for exceptionally motivated recent graduate with community service experience. Please do not reply to this posting or PM me. Rather, bring resume in person to 3905 Dix Street, NE. Please feel free to forward this posting to interested candidates. With this, my work here is done.
  9. Michael Landrum
    It is not about publicity. It is about simple, human dignity in death versus preying upon and exploiting private pain for profit.
  10. Michael Landrum
    Salacious, gruesome, provocative, prejudicial, leering details? Check. Santeria? Check. Aging single woman whose desperate search for love and unconventional lifestyle somehow invited her own murder? Check. Sensational "Halloween Murder" (WTF?) headline? Check. The obvious anguished breakdown and wish to be left alone by the brother at the end of the story? Check. The complete disregard for his implied plea for privacy? Check. Complete absence of investigative progress or any other plausible pretext at newsworthiness to justify exposing and re-exposing the family's obvious pain? Check. Is there something I missed?
  11. Michael Landrum
    New low in journalism? The new direction? Or is this just the new standard? Just what is the point to these open-ended, base insinuations given the total lack of anything new to say? Why exactly is it necessary to prey on one family's pain for profit and even worse purposely and purposefully cause that poor man a whole new round of pain and obviously-felt shame just to be able to report on it? Whoever doesn't take the next round of buy-outs should really check his moral compass. Let's all show some support by making our next night out be at Coppi's. Maybe an "On a Whim"?
  12. Michael Landrum
    So does Michael Landrum, somewhere up-thread.
  13. Michael Landrum
    Just gotta brag a little. We did over 150 at lunch today at East River. Sing it.
  14. Michael Landrum
    Fuck May 5th. May 1st is International Socialist Worker's Day. And anyone who doesn't wear red and publicly sing L'Internationale has no business even being on this site. Get some history, please. A kerchief will do. May Day is the holiday, or did the liberal arts BA somehow miss that? Let us group together, and tomorrow L'Internationale will be the human race...
  15. Michael Landrum
    There's only one thing that I could think of that would make it even more absurd: If someone were to have called ahead on a Saturday night and asked how long the line would be when they got there and then gotten all mad when he was told that they have no way of knowing, or even speculating on, such an unknowable thing. Winky emoticon.
  16. Michael Landrum
    I guess this means that it is up to me to point out that the glowing review of the book written by this crusading champion of independent, professional criticism was written by, wait, could that be? Why yes, the Washington Post! Good thing I am only a blogger, because a real journalist would find evidence of self-serving hypocrisy.
  17. Michael Landrum
    Also interesting how the masterfully boring and poorly selling champion of one outstripped media (radio, well, a certain type of activist radio) would fail to see the parallels between the subject of his bemoaned loss and the rise of a new, empowering populist media. (In case any one thinks I am being too obtuse, Mr. Fisher wrote a tremendously boring book about what should have been a very exciting, grippingly revelatory subject--one that stands in stark contrast to his currently espoused views, so much so, in fact, that one would tend to believe that the views espoused in that book were a mere pose).
  18. Michael Landrum
    Interesting how those decrying the illegitimacy of bloggers tend to fall almost exclusively into the category of print journalists. Luckily for Mr. Fisher, No Child Left Behind will fund a most comfortable retirement, even if it is on the back of the children left behind. (In case anyone thinks I am being too obtuse, check out the many stories written by real journalists decrying Kaplan's takeover of inner city and other impoverished communities schools' curricula).
  19. Michael Landrum
    Mark, I am glad to see you are beginning to expand your dating range upwards.
  20. Michael Landrum
    My nephew. Age 19. 12/31/09. Loved and missed more than I'll ever know. In such short time. Copas por copas... They always get the wrong one, don't they?
  21. Michael Landrum
    The point being that I need a chaste, virtuous Au Pair about as much as Mr. Monis needs an out-going, gregarious publicist. Or as much as <Blank> needs a <blank>, <blank> <blank>.
  22. Michael Landrum
    I have recently opened a new restaurant and I am looking for a reliable, trustworthy, morally upright, devoutly religious, modestly attired and all around virtuous Au Pair. Requirements: --Proficiency in knitting, darning, laundry and packing healthy lunches. --Swedish Location: --My apartment, unless I call, hang up after two rings, call again, hanging up after the third ring this time. In this case, go spend the night with your friend Inge. Reply directly via PM. Do not apply unless you are prepared to pass a vigorous, er, rigorous, screening process.
  23. Michael Landrum
    While out strolling tonight I saw the most unimaginable, improbable, reason-defying and thoroughly wrong, just wrong, sight--La Perla with 30-35, maybe more, diners. If that is not a sign of how much we need Fabio back here, I don't know what is.
  24. Michael Landrum
    I inexplicably found myself suffering severe, physical pangs of loss for the Roy Rogers next to the Key Theater tonight while stocking up on this season's supply of Rod Lavers.
  25. Michael Landrum
    Don, Don, Don...you disappoint me. No mention of the love and squalor? Or whether you left with your facult-, faculti-, your f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s intact?
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