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How can you go wrong with a free pizza after purchase of every beer… this place was fantastic… The Lounge.
A little fratty, with crocs and UFOs for decor but good taps of brew and a super fast pizza maker putting out pies every few minutes – Make sure you tip!
Happy Birthday Nicole!
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I’m early at JFK which these days is a fact of air travel because of the time discrepency every trip through airport security can present it self. I walked through the line quicker than I ever have but of course this round, I checked everything except my laptop. As I walked into the JetBlue terminal, I hear cheesy trance filling the open areas. Finding an open stool at the Deep Blue Sushi bar in the terminal, its apparent to me it’s the bartender’s iPod choice in music and from look, impression and music, I gather she’s a frequenter of the Jersey shore and South Beach, Miami… (I can say that because I find out later its the truth).
As I’m enjoying the free wifi, writing this post, and sippin on a level-n-cran the next track drops – “Motherfuckers gonna drop the pressure!” repeats the vocal over the Stanton Warrior’s Remix of Mylo’s “drop the pressure” (the best mix of this track in my opinion). My first thought is, nice ok the bartender has a smidgen of taste. Then I’m thinking is the sushi bar crowd and even the rest of the terminal concerned about “muthafuckas” too… I look around and no. It’s now obvious to me that the repetative boring trance has put all the awaiting passengers into a lull and they don’t notice 1) the infectious beat and 2) the plethora of “muthafuckas” shouting through the terminal. Or is it 3) this is JFK in New York the most forward thinking and international city in the states – there’s nothing that should be of concern here.
I’d like to believe its three and that some how some way this mentality could spread to the rest of this country… I can dream I guess
The video:
The Journal of Labor Research claims to have a proof study that shows all us alcoholics are better off than anyone else…. That’s right drinkers are better off than non-drinkers.
“Social drinking builds social capital,” said Edward Stringham, an economics professor at San Jose State University and co-author of the study with fellow researcher Bethany Peters.
“Social drinkers are out networking, building relationships, and adding contacts to their BlackBerries that result in bigger paychecks.”
The problem with this study is that this hypothesis is as they admit based on “casual observation and examination of scholarly accounts”. Which means just by watching drunks at a bar and observing their paychecks they’ve made the claim that drinkers are richer than those poor bastards that don’t go out and can’t afford the $10 cocktail and hence don’t socialize in those liquor fuels settings… hmmm… quite observant guys!
Funny how this article does not point out that socializing in bars under the influence is a direct result of the chemical reactions to alcohol – its called intoxication.
Mindless fun if you want to read the whole story:
Alcohol use helps boost income: study