Something I Learned Today

Lockhart Steele at Schiller's Liquor Bar, the monstrous result of co-marketing efforts by Apple, Movable Type, and Thomas Pink.

Evil lurks in every corner, the right-angles (yet so very wrong) of the Lower East Side are no exception. I head over to Schiller's for lunch on Friday with La Depressionada (us non-working, rent-stabilized benefactor types have to stick together) and we see the special of the day on display: asshole-blogging. (Apparently if you spoon out the eyes, add liberal amounts of tartar sauce, and kick it back with a Corona Light it's not entirely terrible.) I got the cheese-steak sandwich.


"Television man is crazy saying we’re juvenile deliquent wrecks..."

More interesting than lunch is the launch of MNspeak.com by Rex Sorgatz and Chuck Olsen. Every city deserves a Gawker/Gothamist mash-up and now Young Minneapolites can mix with their own minus the "mean-ness" of the former and the staleness of the latter. (Jake, I jest. Love that interview feature.) Zen Arcade enthusiasts rejoice!