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let's hope the involvement of On Leong doesn't re-ignite the tong wars! :shoot: okay, I kid. apparently the google car didn't take any pictures there, but the address of the building is 2150 rockwell. and here is the website for happy buddha in flushing: http://www.happybuddha.com looks like yum to me. :clap:

wow, what sound reasoning. nashville is too broke to help finance the project, but it will get done because they are somehow less incompetent?! I am sure there is some hack writer in nashville who thinks the opposite is true, but okay sure, I will bite. typical. if we write it, it must be true.

the fence has gone up around the kahoots site, and a construction trailer has been dropped as well. is this horrible thing a go?

on my afternoon run yesterday I noticed construction/demo/crap all over the place in the former city buddha/obama campaign space. anyone know anything?

I made it inside the greenhouse for their opening night of open-ness. there were platters going about, but I managed to only eat a cookie and some kind of cracker thing. apparently it was gourmet, because I was still hungry. the space was beautiful, with much of the buildout of the "oh how clever, they used x to make a y," variety. I was immediately annoyed by all the little fences on the street. you can't actually stand inside the fenced areas and drink. apparently the fencing keeps the tables and chairs from running away. I did not know this was a problem.

it occurs to me, if one of the studios at tyler has a lathe, one could produce a record from start to finish in the same building. pretty amazing.

a bunch of the oakland restaurants offer half price dinner items after ten. mad mex and india garden are the two on the top of my list. if you eat hot dogs, you should eat a hot dog at the O. there's a few good pizza places too. when I was a kid we ordered from mineos.

I got really lucky on my credit cards, I payed my $7k card off two years ago with the excess of my student loans. I turned a $200 interest payment to the credit card company into an extra two years of subsidized loan debt. I am still years away from paying it. but at least I have no high interest debt. cutting up that credit card was the best thing I ever did for my bottom line.

as of yet my job is not in danger, and I have no kids or wife. so I am combating the recession by spending money in the same way I always have. I agree on the strategy of spending locally. if I am frugal about anything, it is that I am spending less on big ticket items because I have less money to do so. or really, never had money to do so.

I tend to agree. also, tremont has lacked this kind of rental, relying instead split up houses, and older apartment buildings. the higher rent brings expectations. if this building can deliver with nice finishes and nice in-building amenities, they deserve what they ask.

I absolutely love how they lengthen east fourth and west sixth to make the entertainment districts appear closer to the tc site.

five seconds on google: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2003/10/double-barreled-double-standards also, he impersonated a woman online and spoke glowingly of himself. http://www.whoismaryrosh.com/ but hey, I bet it's a good read.

and clearly you have one mind on this issue. my point is, I played my hand and you responded to that with faulty logic. if I am a little chippy about some nutbag author, what's it to you? I didn't call your stats into question, or even your pro-gun bravado. I questioned your logic on one point and questioned your reading recommendation. also there is a difference between an advocate on a topic and someone like lott, who has an agenda across the board.

what does this mean? there are also tons of situations that will never happen. what kind of logic are you trying to invoke? something might happen or might not happen at all. someday my car may burst into flames, I should wear a flame retardant suit while driving. really?! yea, because a book by a conservative who believes in gun rights is certainly going to present an unbiased view on the topic. an author who peer reviewed his own work! how fascinating a concept. quack nutbag writes inflamatory book to profit on gun toting nutbags. next!

I don't carry a gun. As a rule I don't get myself in situations where a gun is necessary. Or a knife. Or mace. Not to sound silly, but I just don't make myself a target. And certainly this is easy for me to say as a man. But it all seems like a false sense of security. I learned as a kid about firearms, but most of what I learned is that using them is an absolute last resort. If I am ever in a situation where having a gun for protection is my final line of defense, I have already lost everything I can lose.

funny how the older records by the smashing pumpkins have aged well, but the band hasn't. have you heard the horrible crap they put out these days?! ugh.

to be sure, I left tremont because the "tourists" took my parking and made it unpleasant to be in my neighborhood on the weekend. this was six years ago, so we are talking hummers and sports cars parked poorly across two spaces, up on my tree lawn etc. the idiot valets made it worse, eating up every bit of parking that was left. I also had repeated run-ins with the yahoos that frequent the less than upscale new bars, like south side and flying monkey butt, and decided perhaps it was best to move out. so I did. I am not generalizing, I am specifying.

the tourists are one of the reasons I moved out of tremont. there are times when ss is unbearable, and times when it is simply loud and obnoxious. meh. I never got a sense of the crowd being overly gay, unless we are talking happy and not capital G exclamation point Gay! surprising so many uo'ers would like the place, since as I understand it the owner had the cute brick house next door torn down.

I cannot disagree more with this statement. the southside has on the worst crowds in all of cleveland. douchey and full of meatnecks. two each his own surely. but I think for tremont, I would prefer something that catered a little less to the saturday night warehouse district crowd. that said, they are very successful, and I don't have to go there...rant over.

I just visited the rockometer website and kinda of lol'd on myself. at first I thought, maybe this is real. after watching the intro I am sure this must be a joke.

huh. am I weird for preferring the name hustler to the name kahoots?

I <3 when people spell business names wrong with a k. it's klassy and kountry!

February 12, 2009 Laid-Off Foreigners Flee as Dubai Spirals Down By ROBERT F. WORTH DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Sofia, a 34-year-old Frenchwoman, moved here a year ago to take a job in advertising, so confident about Dubai’s fast-growing economy that she bought an apartment for almost $300,000 with a 15-year mortgage. Now, like many of the foreign workers who make up 90 percent of the population here, she has been laid off and faces the prospect of being forced to leave this Persian Gulf city — or worse. “I’m really scared of what could happen, because I bought property here,” said Sofia, who asked that her last name be withheld because she is still hunting for a new job. “If I can’t pay it off, I was told I could end up in debtors’ prison.” http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/world/middleeast/12dubai.html

I wonder this because it is a cleveland restaurateur, and whether it is a new venue, or a move of another venue. I don't mean pulling people off the streets, I mean pulling establishments from one place to another. the two thoughts are not connected. one, that it is another restaurant. two, that this is a cleveland restaurateur.

my small qualm. another restaurant? I guess it is an entertainment district. I also wonder, at what point is the pull from one location going to effect other restaurant districts in cleveland. I am sure any tremonter wouldn't mind fewer cars in the neighborhood on a weekend. but still.