BILLY STOPLESS
there was this awesome (looking) strip club a few blocks away from where i used to work.
it was called BILLY'S TOPLESS.
when Mayor Rudy was busting all the strip club's balls about being, er, strip clubs, they changed the name to

BILLY STOPLESS

to avoid being harassed by the man. i never went to it (i think Willhelm did). but it had that great super dive bar look to it... and would probably be along the same lines as the wonderfully retarded CLAREMONT in Atlanta (and when i say retarded, i mean, they are literally retarded. at least the clientelle).
Billys shut down last year and is now a half-assed bagel shop.

but enough about that...
on CitySearch, they haven't changed the listing for it, so people are beginning to post reviews as if the new bagel shop is a strip club.
i wrote one after a long time of job hunting and being frustrated.....



Disappointed in Brooklyn
(1 star)
Posted by Dan Chambers

My Neighbor told me all about this place being the best, old-school strip club. Well, that was the last time I listen to him - even though they didn't charge me a cover, it was THE worst strip club I have ever been to.
Note to the owner: the "deli/bagel shop" theme is so Y1K.


some of the others......


Bagels are good, service is rude
(5 stars)
Posted by woo hoo on Jan. 04, 2002

This is a classy joint! Their bagels are absolutely delicious. The lady behind the counter wouldn't give me any beer or show me her chest though. She actually acted all offended that I asked.



top notch
(5 stars)
Posted by DC on Jan. 10, 2002

Ask them that you want to shmear cream cheese on the ass of the lox girl ala howard stern- wheel of sex style. you will get a response that's unforgetable. tell them DC sent you.

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about the bagel shop
to be honest, i was happy to see a bagel shop open up there. at that time, i was slowly tiring myself with the mostly lame delis in that neighborhood. it was funny, one would have great coffee and horrid bagels, and the other would be the opposite. i never found a place where i liked the food AND the coffee. so, this bagel shop opens and i am thinking, "a BAGEL shop. that is all they do.. bagels. perfect".
but they weren't. i went there three times over the course of a few months and the continually made crappy coffee and served me dry, moisture absorbing bagels every time. and there were some other problems, like it was really confusing to figure out where to actually order... i would walk in and would stand with 3 or 4 other people and no one knew how to get anyone's attention or order anything. i am sure the owners are nice people, but i don't think they spent more than 5 minutes in another bagel shop to get ideas on how to run their's.


geocities
everynow and then i will make a dumb little fun site on GeoCities about something, and i always keep track of them, but i have lost the last one i made. it was funny. and i want to share it with some people. but i done lost it.



conservation with my *lover* (sorry, i hate that word)

RachRocket: 2 things I just heard on npr
ME: ok

RachRocket: 1- about radio warnings from the 50s. They guy interviewed mentioned hearing a warning and thinking his wife and kitties were at home.

RachRocket: 2- The reason that Mandy Moore movie looks so strange - it's a christian movie
ME: ah!
ME: kitties?

RachRocket: kitties!!
ME: what were his kitties doing?

RachRocket: he was worried about his wife and kitties at home and was hoping they got into the bomb shelter ok- it was just sweet to hear this old man was thinking about his kitties, along with the wife
ME: can i quote you on this?
ME: she's from Florida, too!!

RachRocket: mandy is?
ME: yes

RachRocket: "later moved with her family to Orlando, Florida. "O-Town! I never realized that's what O-town meant"
ME: ow. what is up with flordia and dumb music?

RachRocket: stoopid
ME: in a review, she is described as the "Pretty Ugly Girl" in the movie

RachRocket: awesome


background: the movie posters for this mandy moore movie (A Walk to Remember) all over the subway, and something about them is really odd. and we have been talking about this for weeks... "what is it about these posters?"
so not to dis christianity, but i suspect there something related between a 'faith based movie' and weird poster design.
actually, this is probably due to the lack of cleavage on a teen-movie's poster. a first, i know.
here are some great reviews of it posted on her fan site.


flash
i really don't like flash. i think i am now realizing that happyrobot is the opposite of your basic flash site... having more content (good or bad) over stupid flashing morphing stuff. i know that there is some really cool flash designed sites, but... well, you know.
when we were looking up mandy moore stuff, i was on the site for her movie, and it's use of flash was pretty stupid.



faith and illustration
back to the last part about poster design. there is a definite religous graphic design style out there. walk through any church and look at the pamplets and see for yourself. it has nothing to do with the subject matter... it's a very obvious style difference (this may have contributed to my dislike of sunday school as a child). one of my pers






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