• Month: June 2019

    I’ll have a cup of Bacon without the Carly Rae Jepsen, please

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    I’ll have a cup of Bacon without the Carly Rae Jepsen, please

    I love the sport of baseball, even though I kinda gave up on the Braves after 40 years of loving them when they abandoned a perfectly good ballpark for a taxpayer fleecing in Cobb County. I tried to replace them with the Chicago Cubs, but it didn’t work. I like the Cubs. I just don’t love them. I grew up with about 13 channels, one of them TBS that showed the Braves all the time, and the other WGN that showed the Cubs. I mistakenly thought that commonality would allow me to make a seamless transition, but no. Maybe the […]

    I came for lunch, not a staring contest

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    I came for lunch, not a staring contest

    I have many pet peeves when it comes to restaurants. I don’t like to eat in a place so dark that you have to use a flashlight to read the menu. I don’t like loud restaurants with bad music or acoustics that carry every conversation through the whole place. I loathe a restaurant telling me what sides come with an entree instead of letting me choose. And I especially hate paying more to get less. I have a theory that the more exclusive and pricey a place it, the less food they put on your plate. It becomes mostly parsley […]