Nov
7
Ok, it’s the last one I swear.
news & booze
random observations from a [chicago] media-type.
i write here, too:
chicago sun-times
after ellen
girlfriend is a homo
faves:
ali/alicia/anni rossi/at:chicago/becky/breeder's digest/chi reader/chicagoist/ gapers block/ huffington post/jamie/ jeff/ jim/maybe slander/one sweet song/on style, for moderns/this recording/trish/tyler/web diversions
so,
I just joined Yelp to defend a coworker from some awful bitch who felt the need to criticize her by name in a review of the bar where we both work. Just having a profile on Yelp honestly makes me feel like a huge piece of shit. Ok, I know it can be useful, but as someone who has been in the food/beverage industry for years—it’s probably the most infuriating site ever.
A bunch of morons who know nothing about a city stumble into a neighborhood pub, a grimy but amazing dive or a pizza place that has been adored by the community for generations. They have no concept of community, not idea what it’s like to wait tables or prepare a meal for someone, no patience and some absurd idea that they are better than everyone else. Obviously, I’m not talking about everyone. I’m talking about those people who come in when a restaurant is slammed and get all huffy if they are asked to wait a few minutes. The people who fail to recognize that dated/tacky decor is what some people love about certain places. Sorry, lady, we don’t have your 64-calorie beer. Why are you even drinking beer if you are that concerned?
In one review, the woman who hated on my BFF said a waiter at another restaurant “should have realized” that the chicken in her salad “wasn’t fresh.” She apparently thinks everything is a server’s fault. Despite the fact that he put in a new order for her and BOUGHT HER DINNER, she still felt the need to slight him in the review. Bitch, make your own chicken at home. We would rather not have your 10% (or less) tip than have to deal with your diva ass.
People pretty much suck.
Nov
6
"Industrial-sized Tidy Cats were buy one, get one free at Target. And I found this cool crew neck sweater for $12.99!" NO LESBO!
amazing per usual.
(I may or may not have just left Target with a giant bag of Tidy Cats. Didn’t pick up a sweater…yet.)
suburban police blotter
Investigation
Occurred 11:15am on 11/5
151 Dundee Road – AF Hair Studio
A wheel chair bound customer became angry at personnel for failing to provide adequate handicap access. The customer then refused to have his hair cut, and the customer was advised to leave the premises. As the customer departed, he struck an employee on the arm with a towel.
Nov
4
“
I am heart-broken tonight by Maine, and I’d be lying if I said otherwise.
Somehow losing by this tiny margin is brutalizing. And because this is a vote on my dignity as a human being, it is hard not to take it personally or emotionally. But I also know that the history of civil rights movements has many steps backward as forward, and some of those reversals actually catalyze the convictions that lead to victories. A decade ago, the marriage issue was toxic. Now it divides evenly.
Soon, it will win everywhere.
” Andrew Sullivan (via warrennotg) (via notthatkindagay)
“I think we have to seriously consider whether there is some sort of a Bradley Effect in the polling on gay rights issues, although one of the pollsters (PPP, which had a very bad night in NY-23) got it exactly right. As for the model, I think I’ll need to look whether the urban-rural divide is a significant factor in a state in addition to its religiosity: Maine is secular, but rural. At the end of the day, it may have been too much to ask of a state to vote to approve gay marriage in an election where gay marriage itself was the headline issue on the ballot. Although the enthusiasm gap is very probably narrowing, feelings about gay marriage have traditionally been much stronger on the right than the left, and that’s what gets people up off the couch in off-year elections.”
Nate Silver on Maine via (via brooklynmutt) (via newsweek)
“NOM raised a zillion dollars or so from hateful bigots across the nation whose names they refuse to disclose, which is, of course, a violation of state campaign finance law. But if it works, who gives a shit?”
Alex Pareene, Whoops, Barack Obama Forgot to Care About the Gays Again
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