No Country for Old Resturants

Another great "mom and pop" style diner has been forced to close it's doors. Eastside Fort Worth burger joint, Boogie Burger has closed down and yet another of my favorite places to eat is no more. I am reminded of The Trellis Rose, a small diner on E. Lancaster that closed down a few years ago. We frequented the Trellis Rose every Sunday after church and occasionally a few times during the week as well. We went there so often that our usual waitress began to remember what we each ordered. We all always got the same thing: chicken fried steak. We each got a different combination of side but the main course was always the same. I had heard that some of their other menu items were good, but nothing came close to the deliciousness of their chicken fried steak. I consider myself to be a bit of a connoisseur of the dish and I have tried a vast variety in my time. I've been to places known for their chicken fried steak and I've had it at mainstream chain restaurants as well. Of all of the various chicken fried steaks I've partaken of, including homemade ones, none of them came close to the perfection that was the Trellis Rose chicken fried steak.

I feel much the same out Boogie Burger. It was, simply put, a delcious burger. And now it's gone. This is what's wrong with this country. Great little family owed places can generate enough buisness to keep going despite their amazing cooking, yet places like Denny's are allowed to remain open.

Sports Center is at times genius

As you may know football has a two week break from now until the Super Bowl.

I was watching Sports Center this morning and the let off the show with this story about Tom Brady. Apparently he was caught by the paparazzi taking flowers to his super model girlfriend. This story is, of course, of no significance to anyone ever. However this is the story Sports Center was leading off with. The two host were debating what kind of flowers it was and whether or not that was the best choice of flowers. the even went to split screen to bring in another commentator's opinion. Apparently starting with this and debating the flowers was all staged (as in they understood the ridiculousness of it). Because after a good 90 seconds of this they cut away to someone else who says, "And this is the story we are going to be going with the next few days until we are able to talk about football again." Hilarious.

White men can't jump....

... but they can jump better than midgets.

At UTA the offer a basketball class as an athletic credit. You learn drills and plays and fundamentals and such. There is a midget in my class. He's about 4 feet tall or so and has a head the size of a basketball. He can't possibly be good. I'm going to feel bad every time I block his shot. It's like defending against a retarded person. But for some reason he has the notion that he can play basketball. So that may lead you to wonder if he is an exceptionally athletic or coordinated midget. Well maybe, but that doesn't matter when you have arms like a tyrannosaurus rex.