Went out for dinner tonight with my wife. To a very odd restaurant; it used to be the town's jail, but now it is an eatery. You get to eat in a cell. How fun! Also, the jail restaurant is blues-themed. They have a lot of posters up about blues bands and have the blues playing on the sound system and sometimes they have blues bands. I hate the fucking blues.
Well, yuppie eatery blues, anyway.
But check this out. We get there and we have to wait 15 minutes for a table, so we go to the bar. I'm ordering drinks, and I see this:
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Click it. What it says is HOW ABOUT: Rooting for America for a change, you liberal scumbag?
How fun. I asked the bartender if the thing had been put up by the establishment or some stray patron; she said she didn't know, but the sense I got was that she was lying. It was the owners trying to be funny, I kinda think. She also told me that it probably didn't mean me personally. I replied that well, it kinda did -- and anyway, it's stupid.
I gave her a good tip anyway. But oy, what a drag to be going out to dinner and get called a scumbag who hates America just because you were right about a retarded war. But whatever.
The meal was OK but too busy; they did this wannabe-fancy restaurant thing where they just pile all sorts of shit on top of the entree, like onions and cheese and sun-dried tomatoes and vodka and parsnips and asparagus and peppercorns and owls and bouillon and capons and escutcheons and toasters. Also, the acoustics in jails suck ass (you may not know this) and so the cell (yes, cell) we were eating in was freaking loud. Especially given the noisy yahoos with the false-jolly office party not 15 feet away.
But I was out for the night with my best friend and so I had a great time.
Here is a video by my favorite all-time blues artist.