I had guests in town this weekend and they talked me into going to Alice Cooper’s Town restaurant. Apparently, they read a positive review in Spin(?) magazine. I searched Spin’s website for the blurb, but couldn’t find the review. Anyway, we headed down for lunch on Sunday.

We arrived to a small crowd… mainly bikers there to watch whatever games were on the big screens. Got seated. Our waiter looked like that kid from Goth Talk on SNL, and acted like he was on a low dose of Thorazine. In fact, the entire staff seemed to be acting as though they just had their pay cut. We ordered drinks (2 Corona’s and a soda) and approximately 10 minutes later, the soda arrived. The Corona’s took another 5 minutes with no explanation. It was just… waiter takes order, 10 minutes later a soda appeares and 5 minutes after that 2 bottles of beer appear.

Shortly thereafter, we ordered an appetizer combo called “Coop’s Combo”. On the plate were wings, skins, chicken tenders, pork sliders and fries. All pretty good, but nothing spectacular. For entrées we ordered a Ceasar’s Salad with chicken, a Fitzies Fish Sandwich and a Kid Rock Rib Combo.

The person with the salad reported that the chicken was rubbery and “fake” tasting. My fish sandwich was fine, no complaints, and the waiter screwed up the Kid Rock Rib Combo by omitting the ribs. That’s correct. The rib combo was served sans ribs. As soon as he brought the plates we inquired about the missing ribs and he said he’d bring em right out. About 20 minutes later we asked again. We finally got the ribs added to the to-go box as we were leaving.

It also bears mention that our server never bothered to clear any empty bottles or used plates from the smallish bar style table. We found ourselves stacking dirty dishes on an ajacent table just to make room.

Alice Cooper’s Town has some cool memorabilia on the walls and that’s about all it has to offer. Stop in sometime to walk around and kill 10 minutes in the museum like lobby. All in all not a HORRIBLE experience, but definitely not worth a second trip. The food is of the same caliber as any other sports bar in America, but more expensive, the service was barely adequate, and parking is a pain in the ass too as the restaurant has no parking lot of their own. Our bill for one appetizer, three entrées, and a few drinks came to $95 before tip. I can think of many, many places that I’d rather spend $32 for a meal. I suggest leaving Alice Cooper’s Town to the tourists.

I talked a good friend of mine, illustrator and fine artist Jon Arvizu, into letting me put his bio and some samples of his work on Wikipedia. He forwarded me a modest bio, which I placed up on the site.

Within minutes it seems, the page was flagged for deletion for the following reason:

It is proposed that this article be deleted, because of the following concern:

Does not meet WP:BIO, no sources - only 49 Google results.

What?! Only 49 Google results?! That’s their reason?!

I find it a little troubleing that a serious artist with a real bio gets flagged for deletion, yet Bridget the Midget, with a few sentences that appear to be written by a fan with a 4th grade education, seems to have firmly secured it’s place in the online encyclopedia.

To her credit though, “Bridget the Midget” does return 172,000 results on Google.

I wonder what Jon would think about doing a series of midget pinups?

These things are amazing. Fried corn mash droppings uniformly coated with concentrated artificial cheese powder. The words “Krisp Delicious” that adorn the front of the package don’t even begin to describe them.

I grew up with the fluorescent orange fingers that Cheeze Kurls provide. I found out about a year ago that Cheeze Kurls are only avilable in a very small portion of the country, basically near the factory in Grand Rapids, Michigan

About a week ago, I received three bags of these in the mail from my mom. I planned on giving 2 away. Yea.

I just opened the third and final bag today. I can’t help it. I’m like Tyrone Biggums, but I have orange shit all over my mouth instead of white! I’m an addict and my mother is my dealer.

Please send more!! C’mon moms! I’m sick!

With the help of my conceptual brain trust, I have a concept for my Flash class midterm project. I cannot reveal too many details just yet, but I will tell you that it involves a rocket, sock monkeys, and a flying cigar smoking pineapple. Stay tuned.

I tell ya what… after a couple install and configuration projects with b2Evolution, this Wordpress thing is a snap!

The install really does take only 5 minutes and the interface and admin tools are super clean and simple. It only creates 10 tables in your MySQL database. I do however recommend that you immediately set up a different images folder than the way the install wants to run it.

I’m sure b2Evolution does lots of cool stuff that Wordpress doesn’t, but for setting up a simple blog like this, Wordpress rocks!!

This is the first post to my blog. I decided to write a blog because A, I don’t like the results Brasic returns in Google and B, everyone needs to know what I’m thinking.

The banner pic at the top of the page was taken from the top of Camelback Mountain on Saturday morning. Nice day for a climb it was. The full picture is below…