Dental damn!

[Just Some Girl]

Oh, and my turn to thank you for the Hot Monkey disc, Jesse -- got it today. So, THANKS!!!!!!!! 

[Just Some Girl]

Is that subject change-y enough?


  

[Just Some Girl]

Here's more: Hey, Jeff, did I ever ask you if you want to contribute to my friend's site, Killer-Works.com? (That goes for anyone, actually.) They're "based" out of Chicago (much as anything online is really based anywhere), and they sometimes cover film fests, horror theatre, etc. in your fine city, but they're always looking for new contributors. Really, it can be any coverage from any place. (I've contributed previously -- one of my short stories in their "Flash Fiction" section, which I've bragged about before, and also a review of J.G. Ballard's "Running Wild" -- so you know they have impeccable taste. haha!) Anyway, thought it might be up one of your various alleys.


(cough)

[Just Some Girl]

Alright, time for a post-Pilates cigarette.

Yes. I know.



Toodles!

[Doctor Rock]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/DFkIwnEVdVg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/DFkIwnEVdVg</a>

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

There were a few months in 1987 when I didn't hear from John. I missed his letters and the strength and power and confidence they gave me and so I sent a letter to Ned Tanen who, by that time, was the President of Paramount Pictures (he died earlier this year). In my letter I asked Mr. Tanen if he knew what was up with John, why he hadn't been writing and if he could perhaps give him a poke on my behalf.

...Psycho behavior.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Random story:

Waiting tables once, I got the hiccups in the middle of the dinner rush. I got sat with a new table: four well-heeled black ladies out on a girls' night. I held in my hiccups fairly well, until while explaining the night's specials I mentioned "the b-b-BLACK grouper" and ended up looking insane. I made the backwaiter wait on them the rest of the night. I'm sure they thought I was some disturbed racist.

Actually, I kind of remember them just looking at me like I was some sad, pitiful, pathetic dog. Which is better than them being incensed, really.

was this an upscale place? i only ask because you mentioned a "backwaiter".  we have used a front/backwaiter system at jackson's since day one, and i feel it's the only way to ensure efficiency AND maintain a polished formal standard of service.  our new (partial) owner disagrees. apparently, some guests have complained that they don't know who their server is, or think that their server ditched them halfway through the meal.  i've argued that that wouldn't happen if, upon greeting the table, the front waiter simply introduces ALL members of the service team, including the busser.  also, if the front waiter makes regular checkbacks, is solely responsible for certain maintenance aspects, such as pouring wine, mise en place, dropping the check, etc.  there isn't any problem.  too many of our newer frontwaiters are lazy and make the backwaiter do too much of the legwork. if we would enforce policy, there would not be any confusion.   but no.  they've decided to scrap the front/backwaiter  system for a more traditional single server system.  which i've been fighting.  very soon, what has been placed in the top 25 restaurants in Florida for 8 years straight is going to become the equivilant of outback steakhouse with fancy lights and white tablecloths.  i need examples of other restaurants that use the front/back system to prove my point.  because obviously, the new bosses don't get it.

The place I used to work uses that system.  http://www.hydeparkrestaurants.com/  They have a restaurant in Sarasota now.

Uh...the place is kind of a Morton's or Ruth's Chris wannabe, so maybe those places use front/back too?