Monthly Archive for March, 2008

Signs ‘o’ the times #3: OK Chinese Restaurant/Wateria - Highland Park, CA

That Explains it

I think I know where they got the wateria from.

Johnny’s Cafe - Omaha, NE

More Sexy Atmosphere

For even the layperson, Omaha has a reputation for its great steaks (a reputation that is more subconsciously based as the frozen mail order steaks of Omaha Steaks are probably laying somewhere in your cerebral cortex). When you are an asshole who thought he could get some sleep on a flight from LA to Omaha that left at 12:50 am and arrived at 11:30 am with connections – you hope that the meal you have been starving for after attempting to gorge yourself with pretzels, will be one that will satisfy that starvation and make you forget a sleepless flight of refusing to watch Alvin and the Chipmunks.

That being said, I went straight from the airport to Johnny’s Café. The only thing I knew about Johnny’s was that it was the “oldest steakhouse in Omaha” , Established in 1922, but what I didn’t know is that I was about to be blown the fuck away.
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Sleeping States - London, UK

Sleeping States

February came and went without really noticing I wasn’t updating – for those that care – I promise to not let a month pass by like that again. I will attempt, as I had in the past, to have at least 4 new post a month. That is a promise to me, for you the reader, which you can hold me accountable for from this point on. That being said, I am extremely picky about the content I am choosing for this site, if anything I am trying to write almost specifically about things that aren’t readily found on the internet (or anywhere for that matter), curiosities that only have small mentions or blurbs on other websites – which you can find a certain amount of depth on here and here only.

Despite that fact – it’s time, mainly because I am currently at a loss in terms of what to write, to deviate from the regular type of content and write about a record that has snuck up on me and what I now view as the best and most overlooked record of 2007; The Sleeping States – There the Open Spaces. Continue reading ‘Sleeping States - London, UK’