Yelp is great, but sometimes you just want someone to make a decision for you when you’re looking for a restaurant. I’ve been really enjoying Immaculate Infatuation as I’ve started to research where to have dinner on my birthday. Their categories are quirky (if not slightly douchey..) including: Day Drinking, Impressing Out of Towners, Full on Pork Indulgence etc) and their listings for Brooklyn aren’t bad. If not extensive, they are pretty accurate.

I agreed with their post on The Grocery – where we went last weekend – and it was freaking delicious. Super tiny place, simple, cute place on Smith Street in Cobble Hill. I had fried artichokes and pork loin and I am still thinking about it. Great place to take parents or go for a special occasion – their chefs even come out and see how you’re doing which makes you feel like you are the king of the world.

So, where should I have my birthday feast? In the running we have: Buttermilk Channel, Prime Meats, Frankies Spuntino, and Flatbush Farm, none of which I have been to yet.

Kanye West lyrics rewritten to be about food. Via Kim Cho facebook.  I love this, but I want to hear the songs.  I guess I’ll have to sing them with the new lyrics myself!

Sorry I’m late.

That doorknob is fucking huge.

and more..

Economics of Seinfeld pairs clips or entire threads from Seindfeld episodes with financial concepts. Some of connections are more effective than others however. The clip below illustrates “cost benefit analysis” and “externality.”

A Kenny Rogers Roaster restaurant opens across the street from Kramer. He can’t stand the red glare from Kenny’s neon sign, and moves into Jerry’s apartment. But he becomes hooked on Kenny’s chicken, and eventually accepts the red glare in exchange for access to the chicken. When Kenny’s shuts down, the lights go out, and Kramer’s overall welfare falls—the benefits of the chicken outweighed the cost of the glare.

Elaine wasn’t about to let some hot flashes get in the way of balancing the checkbook with the abacus.

Elaine was not amused by Gary’s passive-aggressive response to her request to “garnish the cocktails.

UPDATE:: so i thought the giant abacus was ABSOLUTELY ridiculous and that maybe this was an obscure decorating Norwegian catalog or something but CB2 currently has a giant color abacus in their online catalog- see here.

Bea Arthur. Mountains. Pizza.

Thistle:

Dixie

Exeter people, remember the brochures in all the train statios for the hedgehog rehabilitation center (near Newton Abbott!)? I wonder if Thistle went there.