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Mom Says
“If you get hot sauce in your eye, use long hair to rub it out.”
The Beauty of Yelp
Do you use Yelp? 'Cause you should. Reasons?
- Everyone goes out to eat.
- Your opinions matter (but only when they're passionate).
Seems simple enough, doesn't it? Personally, I love Yelp 'cause I wholly encourage overly negative or positive reviews of anything. I used to be the kind of Yelper to give two, three and four stars - but lately I'll only ever give a place either one star or five. There really should be no middle ground. And if the place you're reviewing IS a regular, basic kind of place, then that really isn't the type of restaurant that requires a Yelp review in the first place.
I can't stand it when someone reviews something with phrases like "It was all right" or "The food was adequate." What the hell?! WHO CARES?! How boring of a person are you to think that this average experience you had MATTERS TO ANYONE ELSE? It makes me so mad. Especially when I get tricked into reading those types of reviews. I've learned that the greatly written posts are usually in the one star or five star category, too. And that makes sense! One star/five star reviews elicit passion and/or rage! And that's what everyone wants.
Conclusion? I want you to Yelp. But only when you have an experience that you must inform society about.
“There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s mind and alter one’s whole attitude to life.”
The Heathers
My parents had their 40th anniversary last month and I did NOTHING! Why? Not because I'm a terrible daughter (in my opinion), but moreso because I don't believe in celebrating other people's anniversaries. Am I only one who finds it weird? It's their day, let them celebrate it their way, without interference from anyone else. Maybe I'm abnormal, but it also seems like such an intimate and personal thing to celebrate, so why on earth would anyone ever be expected to horn in on that? I'm not opposed to expressing a simple "Happy Anniversary, guys" - but anything more than that I find odd.
In any case, 40 years is a crazy amazing amount of time to be with someone. And since I stayed out of their celebration, I thought I'd post some of my favourite photos of them here as a way of saying, "Yeah! Good work."
Lastly, my parents are the kind of parents everyone should be envious of. I know how lucky I am to be in this family and I'll forever understand that. Maybe I should apologize for how often I talk about my family, but, yeah, that ain't never gonna happen.
(Also, if you haven't called your parents in the last few days, maybe give them a ring. You kind of owe them everything you have, so it bodes well to say a small "What's going on?" every now and then.)
Marta in NYC
This restaurant opened last fall inside the Martha Washington hotel and it's basically an upper-scale pizza place. The sole reason I wanted to eat here? Mainly because anything that Danny Meyer touches turns to gold - and this place was no exception.
Marta is now officially in my top five pizza places existing in this fine town. (If you're wondering what the others are I would say they're Patsy's/Angelo's, Milkflower, Prince Street Pizza and Juliana's.) I beg you to go and see for yourself. The pizza was thin and the toppings were thick - is there really anything else you need in a slice? No. I'm telling you, no.
Cheapskate Tip: If there's a wait for your table, you should go to the bar next door (instead of the Marta bar) if you want to save some money.
McBain
Someone pieced together the entire McBain movie from The Simpsons AND IT’S GREAT.
Cat Sees A Spider
Me when I see a spider.
“Go re-watch Frasier. It’s on Netflix.”
Reasons To Stay Alive
An excerpt from Reasons To Stay Alive by Matt Haig.