The Burger Bar
There seems to be a new trend of restaurants called “burger bars.” They’re nice, posh restaurants that employ attractive servers and offer expensive drinks and expensive burgers on their menus. As far as I can tell, the concept was created when some dude had the following internal dialogue: “I totally want a burger for dinner [...]
St. Louis: A Gorilla-Free City
A recent study at the Addictive Behaviors Research Center at the University of Washington published the following in Applied Cognitive Psychology: “To show that people can suffer impairment after one drink, subjects were asked to count the number of times a ball was passed during a 25-second basketball video. When a person in a gorilla [...]
I Lived Through a Tornado That Touched Down 12 Miles from My Work: A Survivor’s True Tale of Survival Against All Odds
At 2:25 this afternoon, a deadly funnel cloud touched down 12 miles from where I work. 9 hours later, against all odds, I’m alive. I am a survivor. This is my story. I was sitting at my desk this afternoon at work, warily eyeing the rapidly darkening sky outside my office. I was hoping to [...]
Buy Me a Pizza Pi
Lately I’ve been infatuated with pizzerias that have stories behind them. Last Tuesday, a coworker informed me that a parishioner who used to live in San Francisco loved his local pizzeria so much that when he recently moved back to St. Louis, he bought the recipe for the sauce and opened his own restaurant here. [...]
