Comments on: Parking problems, a departure, a new pub

By: cliff bostock

cliff bostock — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:53:43 +0000

You’re so right, Jane. I owe it to PR firms to give them good PR. Shoot me.

By: jane

jane — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:05:15 +0000

What a waste of time to bash pr firms in the city. don’t you have anything better to do? Guess not if you are spending your time eating & blogging!

By: Chris Lopez

Chris Lopez — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:58:26 +0000

There are some really great PR groups in the city…Liz Lapidus always is at the top of my list.

By: Kali

Kali — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:55:54 +0000

Am I bovvered?

By: Cliff Bostock

Cliff Bostock — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:24:44 +0000

@Kirk: You know, I noticed Wednesday night that I seemed to be able to eat three WITH an order of fries with no difficulty. I’m not sure if this is because my appetite has grown or the contents of the buns have shrunk. I think I’m in training.

@Jim: Aren’t you kinda making Dick Cheney’s argument that revealing the evidence of an accusation strengthens the enemy?

@Bill: “Babe” is the new (diner-style) “dollbaby.”

@Chef Bour: COME HOME!

Anyway, the Reynolds Group is not any worse about the excess of adjectives than most other PR folks around town. My first communications job was with a PR agency and my boss would have shot me if I had used any adjectives of this sort. Of course, he was a former newspaper man, as I recall.

Maybe PR agencies are paying their writers by the inch like we used to at the weekly papers I worked for in rural Georgia. The “community correspondents” preceded every noun with an adjective in order to increase their pay.

Oh, and here’s a great piece of Irish culture from the brilliant Catherine Tate that I posted on Facebook today. It has nothing to do with food but it’s very funny in a gay sorta way:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifUQq5p5i2g

By: Nicolas Bour

Nicolas Bour — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:39:37 +0000

Anyone who has ever been to a pub in Ireland would know that after the Guiness has “flowed” the conversation becomes the antithesis of smooth. In many ways this is what makes the Irish so awesome. Including the ebb of fists that invariably fly when the conversation has “smoothly” progressed to a heated argument.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:39:34 +0000

I’m not surprised by the Reynold’s Group press release. While in college working as a server, they represented our restaurant. I was not impressed. They were attractive blonds who flirted their way through every situation. While setting up shop, I could overhear every stupid ideas pitch. We, the lowly servers, were not impressed. When we were slammed and I was waiting on them, they would insert either “sexy” or “babe” at the end of every request, in order to ensure prioritized service. They’re an incredibly vapid and base firm.

By: Kirk L

Kirk L — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:04:45 +0000

Finally made it to the Shed for $3 sliders last night and was very impressed, although I’m guessing the size of the sliders as decreased since your first review (I split 7 of them with a lady friend, and I could have easily eaten another). Angus beef, Portobella w/Goat Cheese, Barbacoa, and Meatball were all fantastic. Pork Schnitzel was interesting – it was actually quite sweet, which surprised me, but I liked that it was different. Pork Belly BLT was good but seemed to be missing something. Pulled Pork with Jalapeno Slaw was surprisingly bland.

By: NG

NG — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:29:23 +0000

Yeah I mean, if you even Google “how to write a press release” EVERY single page you visit explicitly warns against doing that.

By: JIm

JIm — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:24:11 +0000

Wait – the PR folk will increase their chances of having it published by writing less floridly? Didn’t you just PUBLISH IT to make that point?