Comment Archives: Last 30 Days
Re: “Meet the World's Worst Visitor to Nashville”
The funny part of the story is the writer is from Atlanta
Re: “Meet the World's Worst Visitor to Nashville”
OMG...I just wasted 5 minutes of my life reading the comments on that article. What a steaming pile of racism, ethnocentrism, class resentment, and impotent old man grumbling.
Re: “Meet the World's Worst Visitor to Nashville”
A useless turd of an article by a bitter old white guy, who laments that he wasn't surrounded by more bitter old white guys, wearing overalls & settin' on hay bales in E Nashville. That's a racist magazine, right? Some conservative outpost, trying to appear with it on the series of tubes known as the internet? I noticed an article by Patrick Buchanan, and I figured I didn't need to read much further. Goad = Choad.
Re: “Meet the World's Worst Visitor to Nashville”
As Sarcastro mentioned on Twitter, hating everything and being a general misanthrope is this guy's schtick. But if you're going to have a schtick, you better be funny and this guy isn't funny. He wants to be Joe Queenan and he just falls flat on his wife-beating face.
Re: “The Weekly Open Thread: Give Us Your Top 5 Restaurants”
From Open Table's website:
"Restaurants pay a $199 monthly subscription fee, which includes our software, unlimited upgrades, the touch-screen computer system, and customer support. In addition, there’s a one-time installation fee, which covers on-site installation and training and custom configuration of the system.
For online reservations, we charge a pay-for-performance fee of $1.00 per seated diner booked on OpenTable.com or $0.25 per seated diner booked via the restaurant’s website. And for the typical restaurant, it takes only three incremental reservations to break even on the complete monthly OpenTable cost."
I've been known to use Open Table to find a restaurant and to check to see when a table is available. Then I'll call to make the reservation in person to save them the money. I know, I know, that's a bad thing coming from someone who writes for an online food blog that has its own revenue model. But I figure if I'm going to lunch at Etch where my bill might only be $10-15 and they are valet parking my car for me for free, the least I can do is make a phone call to save them a buck.
Re: “The Southern Baptist Convention Walks a Fine Line”
It takes years to earn the rank of Eagle, Zoombah.
You can't just show up enough times and claim it. You obviously don't know what you're talking about. Now that you disagree with the BSA's new policy on gay youth, you're trying to smear them.
It's a pathetic dodge.
Re: “The Weekly Open Thread: Give Us Your Top 5 Restaurants”
1. The Catbird Seat
2. City House
3. Flyte World Dining & Wine Bar
4. Rolf N' Daughters
5. Arnold's Country Kitchen
Re: “Meet the World's Worst Visitor to Nashville”
Good heavens! What an ignorant/arrogant fuck! Probably he never ventured more than a block from his skanky motel at the foot of the Jefferson Street bridge or Trinity Lane. God forbid he read anything about Nashville or East Nashville before coming here. Of course, this should be posted in that Hollywood Reporter story's comment section. And there are weeds, bbq wagons at the Kroger and tire stores. We think they give EV its ineffable charm.
Re: “Bill O'Reilly and Dennis Miller Coming, Boldly and Freshly, to the Ryman”
"So why have you never called bobs out on his attempts at racial division?"
HA! and HAHA! (Never call out a fellow Clansman in public, that's the first rule of Race Baiting 101.)
Re: “Bill O'Reilly and Dennis Miller Coming, Boldly and Freshly, to the Ryman”
"Gravitational fields are created by mass, not rotation."
Bill's gigantic fleshy head fill the bill.
Re: “The Southern Baptist Convention Walks a Fine Line”
"Anybody that says it's easy to earn the rank of Eagle Scout doesn't know wtf he's talking about."
Well, you certainly seem to be an expert on not knowing wtf you're talking about.
Re: “Bill O'Reilly and Dennis Miller Coming, Boldly and Freshly, to the Ryman”
@xray: AnglRdr: "I rant against criminals of all elements "
Actually, I have never ever seen you rant against any criminals, except black ones. Ever.
Naturally, you'll have proof that you have.
Re: “The Weekly Open Thread: Give Us Your Top 5 Restaurants”
By the way, my top 5, in no particular order:
City House (my fav place in town)
12South Taproom
Marche
Calypso Cafe (certainly I'm not the only one that has this in top 5, right?)
Porto Via
Re: “The Weekly Open Thread: Give Us Your Top 5 Restaurants”
I wasn't thrilled that I had to call LT for res either, but it turned out ok. I left a message on machine, they called back that night to confirm, then called back day before (or day of?) my reservation to confirm again. Wasn't horrible.
My guess - only a guess - is that when it's super easy to make reservations you end up with more no shows. I'd be happy to hear from others with biz experience on that, though. And I'd imagine that no-shows can kill a smaller place like LT.
Re: “Bill O'Reilly and Dennis Miller Coming, Boldly and Freshly, to the Ryman”
WOW, xray, it sounds like someone of color took your lunch money and ran your skivvies up the flagpole! Well, let's quote your ol' partner of obtuseness, Gilbert: "Prove it - with unequivocal and absolute definitiveness". Otherwise you will violate HIS rules!
Re: “Bill O'Reilly and Dennis Miller Coming, Boldly and Freshly, to the Ryman”
"Prove it - with unequivocal and absolute definitiveness"
Really, Gilbert, really????
You just don't get it do you?
Re: “The Weekly Open Thread: Give Us Your Top 5 Restaurants”
That's good intel about OT. I had no idea it was that high, though I figured there was some kind of fee. For those who don't want OT, I'd be happy with the option to email or text for a reservation instead of call. I'll not complain either way, though.
Re: “Opening Today: Vik Muniz — Garbage Matters at The Frist”
I saw the 99-minute film at the Frist in Nashville, along with the large framed photos of the works produced by Vik Muniz, his staff, and the garbage workers. It was moving because of the humanity of the project, because of getting to "know" some of the garbage workers who helped make the artworks (and, incidentally, who themselves learned what contemporary art can be and do), and because of (my) having to rethink the famous paintings (including the Death of Marat) that the garbage pictures were based on. The film is about the making of the art and is at least as interesting as the art itself. -M. Price, Orlando, FL
Re: “The Weekly Open Thread: Give Us Your Top 5 Restaurants”
To be fair to LT (and others), OpenTable isn't exactly free. OT says average restaurant pays about $7500 a year to them for software and reservations. Maybe some love for LT for trying to keep costs down a bit and/or preserving some margin for the folks that actually prepare the food?
Just like Groupon is not necessarily great for your favorite restaurant, OpenTable is not a no brainer. Would LT get enough out of it to justify what could be a $10,000 annual fee, when they are already pretty heavily booked? And we don't know what the other downsides to using OT might be - maybe no shows are higher (which could be a real killer) when booked through OT.
Re: “Meet the World's Worst Visitor to Nashville”
Why bother traveling if your entire thing is to stay in the crappiest part of every city you go to and write about how much it sucks? As he alludes to, any city in America is going to look exactly the same from that perspective.