gritty musings...Bright Shiny Pennies

we had primaries here in fla...after months of the now "accepted form of negative campaigning" the two parties have found their men and women...i was pleasantly surprised with my own party for tossing aside the billionaire profligate banker...in favor of the embedded and corrupt politico from south florida...now you might ask how that was a better choice...and i figure it this way...the entrenched politician...taking a grand here for a vacation...using his amex card for car repairs and weekends in south beach or... or the man who made billions betting against under capitalized home loans...the same guy whose 110 foot mega yacht destroyed a Belize reef ...no brainer..why he is a democrat anyway... i have no fuckin idea...sounds like there just wasn't enough room on the republican ticket...now the republicans on the other hand...never cease to amaze me with their zeal to succeed...they elected the ex ceo of the largest healthcare company in the southeast...the same company

okay so the not so new kid on the block... is bringin your own wine to a restaurant...I suppose its a way to reign in the cost of a night out...you know... run out to the grocery store...pick up whatever is on special...an viola...a cheap alternative...what the fuck...okay so lets leave out...the ridiculous..." i'll pay you $10, 15, even 20 bucks to open my cheap buy from "the wine store"...that practice seems so predatory to me to be outright...inhospitable...but let me try to explain it to y'all...i have wines on my list that are 15 years old... most of you probably don't know that a supplier doesn't carry 15 year old wine...i bought that wine sometimes 17 years ago( if i bought vintage futures)...and then i have coddled that wine, air conditioned that wine... dusted and denied that wine any sunlight for 15 years...i can't turn my air off when i am on vacation or at night or on days off...the restaurant is kept at 59 degrees year round for that wi

time to beat feet...blow this popcorn stand...6 day work shifts approaching like the black clouds of the oncoming storm...5 weeks till no life...so where do we run to...the beautiful girl and i...is it "nawlins...for some abita and beignets...back to philly for a huge dose of family and friends...mexico again...nah probably not...or the old stand by...the keys...i just hate that drive...three hours of nothing from naples to homestead....beautiful girl keeps trying to convince me to stay in islamorada more than overnight...says its fun and that i am missing the small town appeal...maybe so...always on my way to key west...to the parrot and the schooner...cuban breakfast...mojitos...lunch at pepi's...or maybe something new...tried southbeach...missed the point...too urban...too tryin to be cool...maybe its just that the fakeness swallows up the scene...love the hotels...drinks at the delano...or lauderdale...beautiful water and great beaches...downtown has a cool ass food scene

just saw it on the tube...oil has miraculously vanished...skimmers are being withdrawn... bp has already stopped paying claims in florida...not so bad...a lot of chicken littles...bp execs already trying for the prize... "there's alot of oil down there...we're gonna hafta look into getting it...in the not too distant future...a government talking head saying..."after all the gulf is a huge body of water...never underestimate natures ability to heal it self"... are you fucking kidding me...an oil spill visible from space...an oil spill the size of three eastern states...millions apon millions of gallons of crude pumpted 24/7 for three months...are we that fuckin stupid...do they really think we will buy that load of bullshit...what about the destroyed wetlands...the gooey shallow sea bottom...the infected Sargasso sea...the billions of organisms now carrying petroleum or dispersant in their cells...they...the oil industry...our legislators are hoping to get that

elections are upon us...here in florida...literally the stupidest place on earth...the scum are motivated...they want change...what kind of change...i don't know you tell me...i mean really ...you TELL them...cause the huddled masses here in the sunshine state...don't have a brain between them...we have two mega rich scumbags trying to buy public office here...one from each party...neither has a lick of experience in government...they have outspent the "career politicians" by millions of bucks...i love the this new disenfranchised voter group...they want the old guard out...hey so do i...but i don't want them replaced by the new foxenfrancised un informed conservatives...these are not your dads conservatives,,,these are the haters...they hate...blacks, latinos, gays, europeans, muslims, the poor, i actually heard a guy say lets drug test all the welfare recipients...cause if they are taking our money ...i wanna know if they on drugggs...they poor, they ain't

a lot of time these days is being spent wondering what the next challenge might be...i mean to earn a living...not how do i regain my youth...flatten my stomach...stop growing hair in or around my ears...do something with my non existent ira...i mean do i keep cooking??? don't get me wrong...its been great...but it becomes less rewarding...feeding the rich and rewarded...i don't even go out to the dining room any more... sabotaged that with the wild hair and the hippie bando...bruce is obviously slightly concerned that his chef looks like a reject from a phish weekend...but no worries...i have done all the table massage i ever plan to...kinda been there done that...got way too many fucking tshirts...my partner, bruce, wants to build one last restaurant...a bigger space...a chance to do what we do on a larger, newer, shinier stage...the beautiful girl is tiring of pouring shots of jagermeister for post pubescent idiots...longs to be in bed by eleven...by choice...the "isla