The Protesters

Have you been following these protesters who are attending the health care town hall meetings? They had one of the guys on MSNBC this morning...on Dylan Ratigan's Morning Meeting show. Craig Miller was his name. He was completely incapable of forming a sentence or answering any of the questions that were asked of him. It was not only embarrassing it was completely ridiculous. His complaint was that the President has "violated his oath of office".....never mind that he wouldn't be able to recite the oath of office if he had a gun to his head, nor could he give any example of how or why he thought the President violated his oath. This whole thing is getting insane folks. People carrying guns to town hall meetings? Protesting a bill that doesn't exist, and making proclamations about that bill that are completely untrue? We need to get our heads right!

DC's "GREAT" Restuarant designers....

I read something today that said if you want to really be a blogger you need to do more than 1 post a day...who has time for that??? Anyway, I'm going to try to do a little better. And now I have an idea how. I'm going to blend one of my favorite activities, eating out, with something I know a lot about, restaurant design. I'm going to start an informal design critique column of Washington restaurants. OK, first, I want to apologize yo all of my friends in the business who DO know what they're doing and say I'm sorry for the heat you'll probably get for know me after this series gets going. (KR, SP, FB...just tell people that you don't really know me and we weren't really Friends..)

OK, so I was reading Capital File or some such nonsense this week....No wait, It was DC / Modern Luxury Magazine. And they had an article about some guy they named "Peter The Great". A guy from CORE no less who now thinks he's a restaurant designer. These guys must have great PR machines but I'm gonna try to put an end to the party. The party where people who have no idea about how to design a restaurant are lauded as GREAT restaurant designers. They do places that look great, and bartenders, servers and busboys hate because they are so impossible to work. Impossible because 99% of these Great designers have never worked a single shift in a joint so they have no idea how to make things work. They show the owners...who mostly have also long forgotten what its like to work a shift... a bunch of pretty pictures, the owners give them enough money so that a trained monkey could make the place look good...(I'm not saying that Peter or A&D are trained monkeys....really....I'm not....seriously you guys I'm not saying that) and then they proceed to waste that money on stuff that mostly doesn't help the place be successful and often gets in the way. Now I'm not saying design isn't important, you know I think it is, but so is function!!! So anyway, stay tuned. I won't be able to do this everyday of course since I'm mostly in NY now but I'll have my note pad with me on my next DC trip and I'll expose all these emperor's and their new clothes.