Headline in the NYT: “On This Oregon Trail, Pioneers Embrace Organic Wine“.
Oh, sure, organic wine is all fun and games, until you die of dysentery.
In other news, “The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick” is coming in two volumes. Also, Valdez is coming, but that’s another story.
Adding to the “Blood in the Streets” watch, two out of three of our local Fuddrucker’s have closed (Anderson Lane, and I-35 North, between 290 and 183 along the access road). I’m curious; if any of my readers live in cities with Fuddrucker’s (I believe the chain is primarily Southern), have any of your locations closed recently?
Edited to add: Brian Dunbar‘s comment prompted me to do what I should have done earlier. According to the Fuddrucker’s website (Warning! Audio!), they’re more spread out than I thought. And I’d never heard of the Koo Koo Roo chain. Additionally, it appears that Magic Brands LLC, who owned both chains, sold “substantially all of its assets” to Tavistock Group on April 21st (for $40 million), and, at the same time, filed Chapter 11.
As part of Fuddruckers plan to concentrate resources in operations with the strongest potential for growth, the company will use the Chapter 11 process to terminate certain leases and will close 24 corporate-owned Fuddruckers restaurants by April 30, 2010.
Here’s a link to Fuddrucker’s announcement of the sale and Chapter 11 restructuring.
Lawrence predicted a while back that someday, people would pay real money for non-existent (i.e. “virtual”) stuff. I don’t remember if he predicted phase 2 of that: real world lawsuits over rights to non-existent property.
What China needs: strict hammer control laws.
Friday Astros update: 8-13, .381 winning percentage, projected 61.722 wins.