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Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
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11:48a - Beware! Beware! Beware the mocking laughter of the Master Sword!
Okay, so everyone knows Flickr, right? Site whose main purpose is to give people a place to go "OMFG GUYZ LOOK AT MY PITURZ!" and whore for comments?
Well, the latest iteration of that is the development of these invited-pictures-only groups (groups being sort of like communities on LJ, but where the point is to win the "hey everyone, look at me!" game by spamming one's picture across the highest possible number of groups) that invite pictures by leaving a comment with a copy and pasted icon. Usually these icons have a cute little picture and some text to the effect of "I saw this picture first! Put it in my group!" Sometimes people leave further comments, sometimes they don't. This is mild example of what I'm talking about.
Flickr also has a certain subset of users who are mortally offended by the fact that not all of Flickr's users are photography students. They expect people to leave book-length comments analyzing every aspect of every pixel in a picture or not comment at all. They tend to leave comments containing "constructive" criticism that can come across harshly to people who are just messing around with cat pictures and things, and to spend a lot of time bitching to each other in their critique groups about getting lame comments or having someone get offended by their blunt comment. This type of user also tends to dislike the invite-only pools, because it leads to "pointless" comments.
( Put the two groups together, and you come up with some pretty awesome wank. )
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5:15p - He's got beef. Expensive beef. KOBE beef!
Meet Jeffrey Chodorow: financier, restauranteur, failed reality TV star, and convicted felon. If you've heard of him, it's probably because of his short but memorable run on the reality TV series "The Restaurant."
Chodorow's latest restaurant, Kobe, recently received a less-than-stellar review from critic Frank Bruni in the New York Times. Actually, it received a stunning zero stars.
Although Kobe Club does right by the fabled flesh for which it’s named, it presents too many insipid or insulting dishes at prices that draw blood from anyone without a trust fund or an expense account.
Le gasp! Chodorow cannot take this lying down! Does he write a letter to the editor? Quietly work to improve the soggy iceberg lettuce? Smack Bruni across the face with a white glove and demand satisfaction? Spit on his prime rib?
No. He takes out a $80,000 ad in the Times for his tl;dr response.
( My friends in the restaurant business have warned me that there will be further retaliation against me for speaking up. So be it. )
That's right, folks, a classic one-two punch! Chodorow's started a blog of his very own! Take that, New York Times!
Bruni, meanwhile, has been strangely silent about the whole sordid affair on his own blog, leaving folks wondering whether - and how - Bruni would respond.
The answer to that is more fabulously underhanded than anyone could have anticipated. In today's edition, Bruni gives another steakhouse a one-star review. All fine and dandy, except this one's in a strip club.
Or, as Anthony Bourdain puts it: "Even a freakin' strip club--where you get lap dances offered between courses is better than your soulless, overpriced meat-emporium. I'd rather spend time in a hot tub with Bob Guiccione than you!"
Folks continue to weigh in on the feud. It's sure to continue, but if displaying your persecution complex in an $80,000 ad isn't wanky, I don't know what is.
ETA: Eater notes that Bruni isn't the only target of Chodorow's letter. The response from Quality Meats is a thing of beauty.
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