rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

i feel p bad that this girl submitted a cv to HIREMEGRANTLAND.COM and matt "wayne's world, manhattan, swingers" ford immediately assigned her a piece on why a "nice girl like her" lives in harlem and now the whole internet hates her

― difficult listening hour, Thursday, November 29, 2012 5:28 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark

this probably isn't how it worked

likely not but i'm just going by the preamble

really i think we should be focusing on the uncle who's lived in nyc for 30 years and remains haunted by the staircases from serpico

There was so much in that article that I found hilarious that it's hard for me to be too mad at her

i love that 40% of the staff immediately decided to reconsider being attached to a site called HIRE ME GRANTLAND the minute that people started paying attention to it

it says something about the VIRAL AGE that a few people who have actually worked (or currently do work) in media decided to try and circumvent the "build a profile and relationships" model of a career in favor of the "well maybe if i make an ass out of myself someone will throw me money" model

Quietly putting together one of the best resumes in Hollywood since 2009 – Inception, Midnight in Paris, Dark Knight Rises, Contagion, Public Enemies – Mademoiselle Cotillard is nailing down the “Not Bat-Shit Crazy Female Actress Who Is Not Just Hot But Can Also Act” niche previously occupied by Natalie Portman and never once occupied by Megan Fox.

i guess they went with Hire Me Grantland because Can I Please God Actually Turn Into Bill Simmons was too long

lol

guys: http://blogs.citypages.com/food/2012/11/chino_latinos_new_menu_criticized_for_racist_remarks.php

hey guys if anyone needs me tonight i'll be chilling in harlem, waiting for gaga

http://i.imgur.com/W3tdL.jpg

anything bad that happens to chino latino is alright by me

Standing in the in store barns and nobles starbucks with my pumpkin spice latte, i take a single sip, burning my tongue slightly. But i don't even mind. Harlem is the fire in which art is forged. "If I can make it here, I can make it anywhere." I say outloud. Nobody hears me, due to every single person in a 500 foot radius having iphone buds in

it's times like this i'm just so disappointed that google is unable to furnish me with a gif or macro of Tom Cruise saying "I'll see you in Harlem, brother!" to Kanye West

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn0KKtUMzuA

http://www.cmt.com/sitewide/assets/img/shows/sweet_home_alabama/season_1/men/MichaelChadwick-281x211.jpg http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-prn1/157926_123361431064733_1907757910_n.jpg http://therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Michael-Chadwick-192.jpg

Standing in the in store barns and nobles starbucks with my pumpkin spice latte, i take a single sip, burning my tongue slightly. But i don't even mind. Harlem is the fire in which art is forged. "If I can make it here, I can make it anywhere." I say outloud. Nobody hears me, due to every single person in a 500 foot radius having iphone buds in

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, November 29, 2012 8:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

hahaha

Even after Chino was ordered to pay $325,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit brought on by allegations of mistreatment of Hispanic employees, owner Phil Roberts brushed off comments from protesters by saying he hopes to keep the ads "rather outrageous," adding, "I really do want people to be offended." He has also referred to the people who decry the billboards as "bedwetting hippies."

classy

I went there years ago. Their meat tastes like it was boiled in dishwater. Their old fashioned is a fruit cocktail with whiskey dribbled over the top. I was offended. Good job, Phil.

Definitely gonna be borrowing the phrase "bedwetting hippies" in the future.

Phil has a notebook filled with phrases to describe the people who think he's an insufferable asshole.

I do not! I threw it away a few years after high school.

(I don't think you post in the threads I inhabit on ILM, so you probably didn't know that my real name is Phil.)

hahaha no

Nice to meet you, Phil!

Nice to meet you, Phil!

Nice to meet you, Phil!

Nice to meet you, Phil!

hey, if I don't keep angrily clicking, the computer will never sense my impatience and complete its operation in a timely fashion

almost went to that place once, glad I didn't

one of my friends ate this thing on a dare:

http://a2.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/57/7fbfdfc350944b97aee1b70428ef37e6/l.jpg

eating guinea pig was supposed to be funny, but it was mostly just stupid

now we know what happened to the original Mickey Mouse

Nice to eat you!

http://www.guineapig-rehoming-norfolk.co.uk/5733_628941025350_36913656_40348325_3506994_n.jpg

I have friends that have eaten them in south america, supposed to be pretty ok. Don't know if I'd trust a restaurant not run by people from that region to prepare it well.

Also, yes, they are adorable.

oh man that parasole group

mea culpa, i went to chino latino as recently as last week for happy hour with a friend (who, incidentally, was the one who alerted me to the racist ad via facebook). i guess it was more accurately a "girls night out," as i was the only guy there and all they did was talk about sex and stupid boys. i had a "reverse cowgirl" cocktail and jerk chicken wings, and, subsequently, GI distress.

i have always kinda liked the weird glittery facade.

but yeah parasole restaurants are something else...for a while i thought red stag and barbette were parasole, which totally didn't square up with everything else i knew about them

fuckin' chino latino

i forgot that place is still open, is it still busy? felt like a place that would have a short shelf life after it's period as a "hot spot"

but then again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMKZgt8qmgg

will fall for anything

i guess it was more accurately a "girls night out," as i was the only guy there and all they did was talk about sex and stupid boys. i had a "reverse cowgirl" cocktail and jerk chicken wings, and, subsequently, GI distress.

how to live, imo

red stag and barbette were parasole

those are kim bartman

http://www.citypages.com/related/to/Kim+Bartmann/
http://southwestminneapolis.patch.com/articles/kim-bartmann-invests-in-southwest-with-three-new-restaurants
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/print-edition/2012/05/25/industry-leaders-kim-bartmann.html?page=all

who's like the good-witch version of this imo

i kind of shudder to think how much money and time i put into bryant lake bowl alone

big fan of red stag

still never been to red stag, BLB is an occasional thing for me

barbette...look, it's irresponsible as a grad student, but let's just say that the waitstaff knows my name there

there's this guy who is a complete douche business owner in Des Moines and his MO appears to be that he finds a business that is doing OK, buys it, and then just uses the exact same concept to open more of them elsewhere. He bought what was a neighborhood bar w/food probably five years ago, then opened a bar in a suburb with the exact same name

so as I walked through mpls a couple months ago, I could only laugh: enjoy the Wellmans Pub, guys! (formerly Drink: The Original Party Bar)

i forgot that place is still open, is it still busy?

during happy hour on a saturday night (the first time i've been in years) the place was packed to the fucking gills.

oh god Drink. went there once with ex-gf (we had just had, and vaguely reconciled, an argument, it was the most ready to hand), i hated it.

i basically hate every bar in uptown proper, rip uptown

oh shit I forgot there was/is one in uptown

the one that's going to be Authentic Neighborhood Bar is downtown

what's that seafoood place that's multi-story in uptown? I saw a fistfight break out in the middle of a weekend afternoon on the rooftop bar there. yeeeah.

Does Barbette still have those lamb sliders? Those are really tasty. Love the fries and the house wine at happy hour.

stella's. the seafood is...not good

dunno about lamb sliders, i usually just get brunch (it's hella close to my house)

ILX, where eventually every thread turns into a thread about eating out in NYC...

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