rambling thoughts.

Jeff Goldstein has some great thoughts concerning post-modern media and the truth at www.proteinwisdom.com He's another must read writer. I don't agree with him all the time, but he always is thought provoking.

btw, I got "Interior Desecrations" for my g/f for Christmas and it is hilarious. Tears were streaming down my face. My mother, who bought her first house in the 70's was exclaiming that she had done some of the same things and wondering how she couldn't have been on drugs.

Super-smokers in St. Louis is shutting down. Classic case of a company trying to franchise too fast. When will people allow a company time to grow instead of rushing head long into placing one inside every Dierbergs in town? Another big problem for them was they completely neglected the entire city and the 40 belt within 270. Quite a few hungry people. Another thing, their resteraunts were kind of tacky. They never had the classy sit down joint in a classy area, or at least an interesting area like one finds in KC. All that being said, it's a terrible day for St. Louis BBQ. It really was awesome BBQ which did us proud. There are still great little places around town, (Richard's Ribs in Kirkwood is probably my favorite now), but now we dont' have a place that travels around the country and getting the word out that St. Louis is the equal of Memphis, KC and Texas when it comes to BBQ. Sigh.