Idle Hands
A4 and I are obviously very busy this morning, as this email exchange shows:
From: BRY
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 11:35 AM
To: A4
You doing anything for lunch? My lunch plans punked out on me.
From: A4
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 11:35 AM
To: BRY
Yeah, I’m going to Ise with some Finance people. Sorry (fn1)
From: BRY
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 11:36 AM
To: A4
Cool. Ise is the best restaurant in NYC!
From: A4
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 11:37 AM
To: BRY
You forgot about Bull Run, punk
From: BRY
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 11:38 AM
To: A4
Yeah, well you're forgetting about Applebees!
From: A4
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 11:40 AM
To: BRY
Well la dee da. I've been dying to go to Applebees all summer. My only chance so far was when I persuaded some associates to give up a Friday afternoon to go there, but then a partner called and I had to cancel.
From: BRY
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 11:41 AM
To: A4
Hahaha! I've gone to Applebees 3 times already. Those people who have been to Nobu 3 or 4 times think they're cool, but they've got nothing on me!
I realize I may be the only one who finds this exchange amusing/interesting. This is similar to Peter King's "Factoid of the Week That May Interest Only Me" in his Monday Morning Quarterback columns. fn2. This is the "Random Mildly Amusing Email Exchange That May Interest Only Me."
Meanwhile, I'm still without lunch plans, but I don't really mind. Until I can find someone to take me to Balthazar's, Gotham Bar and Grill, Spice Market, Jean Georges, Craftbar, Gramercy Tavern (again), Asia to Cuba, or someplace else that I really want to go, I am not that motivated to pursue lunch plans. I mean, it becomes an exercise in pursuing overly busy associates to take you to a good but not great lunch at Bull Run or something, during which you will talk a little about work and a little about other slightly personal, but mostly non-personal, topics. If someone offers, I'm in, because it's a free lunch. But I'm not really that into doing the legwork anymore.
1. Disregard the positive reviews of this restaurant posted on MenuPages. It is clearly an inferior restaurant -- trust me.
2. If you are a football fan and do not currently read Peter King (on SI.com and syndicated on Yahoo! Sports), you need to start. He gives good analysis, has good contacts within the league/teams, and is pretty entertaining. He is, next to SI's Dr. Z, the best football writer out there. He used to come in second place to Gregg Easterbrook (who writes Tuesday Morning Quarterback, formerly on ESPN's Page 2, now on NFL.com), but TMQ jumped the shark awhile ago and is just too difficult to keep up with. I think TMQ lost its readability about the time that Easterbrook decided that every team needed a meta-nickname. Of course, that's kind of what we do here on BRY, so maybe we'll suffer the same fate. Time will tell.
From: BRY
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 11:35 AM
To: A4
You doing anything for lunch? My lunch plans punked out on me.
From: A4
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 11:35 AM
To: BRY
Yeah, I’m going to Ise with some Finance people. Sorry (fn1)
From: BRY
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 11:36 AM
To: A4
Cool. Ise is the best restaurant in NYC!
From: A4
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 11:37 AM
To: BRY
You forgot about Bull Run, punk
From: BRY
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 11:38 AM
To: A4
Yeah, well you're forgetting about Applebees!
From: A4
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 11:40 AM
To: BRY
Well la dee da. I've been dying to go to Applebees all summer. My only chance so far was when I persuaded some associates to give up a Friday afternoon to go there, but then a partner called and I had to cancel.
From: BRY
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 11:41 AM
To: A4
Hahaha! I've gone to Applebees 3 times already. Those people who have been to Nobu 3 or 4 times think they're cool, but they've got nothing on me!
I realize I may be the only one who finds this exchange amusing/interesting. This is similar to Peter King's "Factoid of the Week That May Interest Only Me" in his Monday Morning Quarterback columns. fn2. This is the "Random Mildly Amusing Email Exchange That May Interest Only Me."
Meanwhile, I'm still without lunch plans, but I don't really mind. Until I can find someone to take me to Balthazar's, Gotham Bar and Grill, Spice Market, Jean Georges, Craftbar, Gramercy Tavern (again), Asia to Cuba, or someplace else that I really want to go, I am not that motivated to pursue lunch plans. I mean, it becomes an exercise in pursuing overly busy associates to take you to a good but not great lunch at Bull Run or something, during which you will talk a little about work and a little about other slightly personal, but mostly non-personal, topics. If someone offers, I'm in, because it's a free lunch. But I'm not really that into doing the legwork anymore.
1. Disregard the positive reviews of this restaurant posted on MenuPages. It is clearly an inferior restaurant -- trust me.
2. If you are a football fan and do not currently read Peter King (on SI.com and syndicated on Yahoo! Sports), you need to start. He gives good analysis, has good contacts within the league/teams, and is pretty entertaining. He is, next to SI's Dr. Z, the best football writer out there. He used to come in second place to Gregg Easterbrook (who writes Tuesday Morning Quarterback, formerly on ESPN's Page 2, now on NFL.com), but TMQ jumped the shark awhile ago and is just too difficult to keep up with. I think TMQ lost its readability about the time that Easterbrook decided that every team needed a meta-nickname. Of course, that's kind of what we do here on BRY, so maybe we'll suffer the same fate. Time will tell.
posted by N at 12:22 PM
2 Comments:
My dear N, you have much time on your hands...your posts abound!
I do have too much time on my hands. Although right now I do have actual work to do....I just don't want to do it due to the feelings that will be induced by doing it.
But yes, posts do abound. I have to keep the people happy, ya know?
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