How About We…
When I say I love chain unironically I mean it. At least I think I do. Then that How about we… advertising on Eater finally go to me and I clicked. Who are all these […]
Chains of Love
The Middle Ages: 32
In what might be the most egregious use of the elder-fying descriptor, USA Today calls Applebee's old and out of touch: Applebee's is changing everything. It's changing its food — with a focus on fresh […]
The Middle Ages: 50
This email come verbatim from a friend visiting Hawaii (yes, I'm a privacy violator): You know that Wendy's tv ad where the red headed middle aged daughter of the original Wendy's guy owner talks to […]
Working For the Weekend
On the AirBART shuttle from the Coliseum station to the Oakland airport I spied a Carrow’s and a Red Lion, two chains I thought had ceased to exist just because I hadn’t encountered one in […]
Shop Till You Drop Off the Face of the Earth
Oh my, I think I’ve seen my future. A mute, unidentifiable elderly woman with Alzheimer’s was found wandering around the Woodbridge Center mall in 1994 and had been institutionalized as a Jane Doe ever since. […]
Huddled Masses
Saturday, I went against my better judgment and decided to check out Taste of Chinatown. All my worst expectations were met and surpassed. Anything involving large groups of New Yorkers lining up gives me the […]
The Oh Gee
It would be impossible not to draw comparisons between the Belle and Sebastian show I attended Thurs. night and the last time I saw them in '98. I was sick and spaced out on cold […]