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  • Eat it, don’t tweet it; gratuitous food porn video shot of the day

    Posted: March 28th, 2012 - 3:23pm by Doug Powell

    As the usual suspects weigh in with ol’ timey public relations strategies and superficial observations of social media in the , it’s good to poke fun at all things foodie. Satirical takedowns of the pretentious and pompous never go out of style, regardless of the medium.

    From Eater, a cautionary tale for this modern life: the below anthem from The Key of Awesome! warns against the perils of tweeting before eating. A send up of Pet Shop Boys songs, it features "culinary paparazzi," a lobster and a cupcake posing like super models, and an unhappy ending. For the next time you think, "it's unthinkable to dine out and not record it/Want the world to know I can afford it."
     

     

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  • Tia Keenan live tweets a DOH inspection at Brushstroke in NYC

    Posted: September 11th, 2011 - 1:41am by Doug Powell

     Tia Keenan
    We are the well-heeled and we are PISSED that the Health Dept. is disturbing our dinner at Brushstroke. Tsk tsk.

    Not everyone responds well to an inspection by health types.

    Eater NY documents the live tweets of cheese guru Tia Keenen who had her meal at upscale David Bouley restaurant Brushstroke interrupted by a DOH inspection. Excerpts include:

    @kasekaiserina
    Tia Keenan
    This crowd is not accustomed to enduring the petty injustices of Bureaucracy! They don’t wait for anything! Take your walk-in temp and gtfo.

    Tia Keenan
    Oh god the inspector is taking the temp of a custard.

    Tia Keenan
    Our meal has stopped. RT if you know the NYC Health Dept is an extortion racket.

    Tia Keenan
    Obligatory bow-tied wasp yelling at inspector “Leave! We don’t want you here!”

    Tia Keenan
    Sassy waiter at Brushstroke last night told us if we didn’t like something we could go across the street to Ninja!!!! So awesome.

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  • Tweeting for toilet paper, handwashing in urinals

    Posted: May 17th, 2010 - 12:42pm by Doug Powell

    As I’ve said before, when Chapman got his first Blackberry he was so proud he sent me an e-mail from the crapper.

    “Dude, I’m on the toilet, and I’m e-mailing you,” or something like that.

    Last week, the apparently popular Tokyo DJ, Naika_tei, who also apparently doesn’t know to check for toilet paper before laying logs in a public bathroom, discovered the TP shortage after completing his business. The tei played it cool in the electronics store and sent out this tweet:

    "[Urgently needed] toilet paper in the 3rd floor toilet of Akiba Yodobashi."

    Five minutes later, he sent another desperate tweet.

    After 18 minutes, he tweeted again:

    "The toilet paper arrived safely! Thank you very much!"

    No amount of tweeting would help the fellow in the video, below. According to one of my language correspondents, the folks in this clip are speaking Dutch, and the dude tried to wash his hands in the Pissoir -- the portajohns were apparently there for the women. When she asks: For the record: is that the pissoir? The guy in the red shirt says: yes, a pissoir.

    The blond with the microphone says she is speechless.

    At least when I was a kid and went to Maple Leaf Gardens when Toronto had a winning hockey team (yes, I am that old) the communal urinal trough was level with the floor, not at handwashing height.

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