What a pisser

We just had lunch at one of our favorite places. We’ve been enjoying their food since we moved here 11 years ago, and we’ve become friends with the owners; who have in turn watched our kids come and grow.

The place looks a bit like a throwback to the fifties, although I suspect it may have been a Dairy Queen or similar in a former life.

With tears in her eyes, the owner told us as we paid our check they are closing next week. Thirteen years building their business, and the people that own the building refused to renew their lease. I suspect it is part of the same deal that is bringing a high-rent and high-rise condo project a few doors down, but we won’t know that for a while.

Dammit.

Dog gone it

No, this isn’t about the pooch that escaped at the airport (who probably didn’t want the body cavity search, ya know? Who can blame him)

ATHLETE WITHOUT COMPELLING PERSONAL DRAMA EXPELLED FROM OLYMPICS

A member of the U.S. Olympic ski team was disqualified from competition today when it was learned that he did not have a sufficiently compelling human storyline to exploit on the NBC telecast of the worldwide sporting event.

Tom Klujian, the expelled skier, was not raised by a single mother, never had a career-threatening injury, and did not overcome a personal tragedy of any kind before making the Olympic ski team, U.S. Olympic officials revealed today.

“Had Tom been involved in an organ donation, as either a donor or a recipient, that would have been acceptable to us,” ski team spokesman Sandy Harnofsky told reporters. “However, he was not.”

(more at link)

(this is a joke, btw)

(seriously. This isn’t serious. And stop calling me Shirley)