Worst restaurant in the Panhandle...possibly Texas

On Valentines day I was very excited about trying the supposed fancy schmancy restaurant in Vega. The owner was on the Food Network, and even featured in Bon Appetit magazine, but as far as I am concerned she is all hat and no cattle. For starters the Valentines day menu had a total of four entrees. Chilean Sea bass, Tilapia, Filet Mignon, and Shrimp with Filet mignon. Well let me tell you if you tried to order any thing but Tilapia you were out of luck. We arrived at eight in the evening, with reservations, to a mostly full restaurant. When I placed my reservation the young women who answered the phone explained to me how booked they were and the earliest time I could get was at eight. So me, being the math major that I am, assumed that several other people had reservations, both before and after mine. This is important to remember because of the fact that the restaurant had run out of steak by 8:00 p.m. Now wouldn't one prepare for a large number of steaks to be ordered when out of 4 dishes 2 contained steak? Furthermore, fish is not a favorite for many people...namely my date. We ordered our drinks, and appetizers and placed our orders, at which point we were told that it would be a minimum of 45 minutes before they could even cut the steaks then judging by the speed at which people were being served around me, another 30 minutes on top of that. I am sorry but no steak is worth an hour and a quarter of campy old west atmosphere. Much to my surprise the appetizers were tastless and bland, not bad just nothing. We ordered green chile chicken wontons, sounds like a nice dish, but it tasted like air...nothing at all. So I finished my two luke warm beers, Summer finished her glass of ice tea, which by the way was served in a mason jar, we paid our tab and left. We drove back to Amarillo, ordered a pizza, it was delicous, ten times what we had to eat at Boot Hill. I understand why people in othere areas of the world would like the campy old west atmosphere, but not so much for me. And if you are going to charge nearly thirty dollars for a steak...have the damn steak, and make your beer cold, don't use mason jars, this is not the old west, and work on your customer service. And for the record making your wait staff dress like extras from Broke Back Mountain is a nice touch. On a scale of one to ten, I would give Boot Hill a 2, and the only reason it got that high of a rating is due to the fact that my grandparents are from Vega, if not for that this sorry excuse for a restaurant would not have even scored at all. So stay away from this place unless dissappointment is your thing. You may be offended but who cares... I for one don't.
More to come, I have been so busy I fell behind blogging but I am back at it.
sc

Paging Dr. Freud...and the rest of the psychological community.

I just recently watched a television news show 20/20 or Dateline, not really sure which one it was. But it was one of the most disturbing documentaries I have ever had the displeasure of watching. It was a story about women who breast feed for an inordinant amount of time. The first woman was still letting her child suckle at the ripe old age of 5. I am no expert but I do know quite alot about medical procedures and protocol. And this is way to long to let a child get milk straight from the tap. To compound the weird out factor, the next mother on the episode had a child breast feeding at the age of seven. I understand in foreign countries this is not uncommon due to the fact that there are not many other options for food for a young child. That being said, this is America, we don't have to substitue breast milk for food becasue we have the food to feed our children. When asked why they liked to still breast feed the children said it made them feel closer to their mothers. To me this demonstrated quite the Oedipal complex. One young boy was actually begging to have his mothers breast in his mouth. I can only imagine the amount of confusion and therapy that this child will have to deal with in his young adult life and potentially even longer than that. Just thought I would share this with you guys. Kinda bugged me and I wanted to get your reactions. More to come...Steven

It has begun! More anti Christmas news.

NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WECT) - A caroling controversy involving a well known reindeer and a local school is getting national attention.
Fox News is giving viewers across the nation a glimpse into what is being called, "A War on Christmas."
It began when a parent was upset her child was told to sing "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer." The parent is concerned the words "Christmas" and "Santa" hold religious meaning.
This complaint prompted the Murrayville principal to pull the song from the school's holiday concert.
After the New Hanover County school administration and lawyers caught word of parent complaints, they determined the song was secular - Santa and his reindeer are non-religious figures.
"Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" is back in the line-up for the holiday show.
The mother tried to have a Hanukkah song added to the holiday show, similar to other schools in the area, but was denied that request.
Her daughter will not participate in the concert, and school officials say that's okay since the performance is not mandatory.
As parents debate the issue, so do network newscasts and a long list of bloggers.
The song was not part of the featured program at Tuesday night's concert at Murrayville Elementary, but the students sang the song on the way back to their seats after the show ended

Why I love Wal Mart...he said sarcastically

If you ever want to get a glimpse of americana, spend some time at your local wal mart. Make a day out of it. Pack a lunch, bring a coke and enjoy the show. It never ceases to amaze me at how people will allow themselves to be seen in public. Nowhere else in the world would anyone allow themselves to be seen in such a state of dishevelment. It is almost like some kind of fashion worm hole opens up when you decide to go to wal mart and transports you to a world where good taste and fashion sense are out the window. I was touring my local store on a pleasant Sunday afternoon recently and I was shocked at what I saw. I saw a woman wearing a shirt that had printed in big bold letters "Be careful, you might get dirty". Where else in the world would you see this kind of couture. I have also be witness to a wide variety of shirts displaying distaste for car companies. Nothing says "I'm captain success" like a silk screened cartoon of a spiky haired young boy urinating on a Ford or Chevrolet emblem. I don't have enough dislike for anything to put it on a t shirt, let alone have someone pee on it. I often wonder who in the world makes those stupid t shirts. They tapped into an often overlooked demographic; the piss t shirt group. I don't specifically blame Wal mart for these shirts, but I blame them for providing an outlet for them to be worn. I'm off topic, back to wal mart. Wal mart is responsible for more innappropriate clothing decisions and bad taste than anyplace in the world. You never have to worry about you appearance at a Wal mart, because 9 out of 10 times, there is going to be someone who looks worse than you. So dress down, break out the mullets and puple eyeshadow and go buy some cheap chinese made crap for five bucks and enjoy the show. More to come.
Steven

Just like the Fonz... America has jumped the shark.

Okay, I have never seen a more blatant example of political correctness run amok then what is transpiring in the state of Washington. Festivus was a joke on Seinfeld. It was a JOKE, and now it is becoming recognized as a holiday. Maybe the terrorists are right! America needs a pimp slap right across the kisser. Here is what Wikipedia has to say about festivus. Festivus is an annual holiday adapted to modern times by writer Dan O'Keefe and introduced into popular culture by his son Daniel, a scriptwriter for the TV show Seinfeld.[1][2] Although the original O'Keefe Festivus took place in February 1966 as a celebration of O'Keefe's first date with his wife, Deborah,[2] many people now celebrate the holiday on December 23, as depicted on the December 18, 1997 Seinfeld episode "The Strike," or on other dates in December.[1][3] According to O'Keefe, the name Festivus "just popped into his head."[2] The holiday includes novel practices such as the "Airing of Grievances", in which each person tells everyone else all the ways they have disappointed him or her over the past year. Also, after the Festivus meal, the "Feats of Strength" are performed, involving wrestling the head of the household to the floor, with the holiday only ending if the head of the household is actually pinned. These conventions originated with the TV episode. The original holiday featured far more peculiar practices, as detailed in the younger Daniel O'Keefe's book The Real Festivus, which provides a first-person account of an early version of the Festivus holiday as celebrated by the O'Keefe family, and how O'Keefe amended or replaced details of his father's invention to create the Seinfeld episode.[4]
Some people, influenced or inspired by Seinfeld,[2] now celebrate the holiday in varying degrees of seriousness; the spread of Festivus in the real world is chronicled in the book Festivus: The Holiday for the Rest of Us.[5] So shine up the water skis find a lake with a shark and get to jumpin. I am going to get my own holiday recognized...so please send me your suggestions and we will make enough noise, just like these people and get our own started. I am thinking about calling it Shark day. What do you guys think? More to come.
Steven

First Crack at This.

As anyone who knows me can tell you I am a very opinionated person, and sometimes these thoughts offend people...but I DON'T CARE. The last time i checked this is still The United States of America and we have the right to say whatever we want. The first amendment to our constitution is being trampled on in the most egregious way. We are no longer free to express our thoughts or beliefs without offending someone. Over the past several years it has become clear that the majority of Americans can no longer express themselves without causing a social upheaval. The most noticable example of this, to me, is the term Happy Holidays. I am in no way anti semetic, nor do I have a problem with anyone's religious beliefs. As far as I am concerned if you are able to find joy and peace by worshipping our Heavenly Father; then please do. Life is hard enough. So please take pleasure and comfort by exercising your faith. That being said, here we go. For those of us who are Christian, it is the season to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. The son of God. Christmas. Not holidays. 83 percent of Americans identify themselves as Christians. That means the believe in the immaculate conception, the crucifiction, and the resurrection of Christ Jesus. However, the term Merry Christmas has fallen out of the vernacular in America. The phrase is often preferred when it is known that the receiver is a Christian or celebrates Christmas. In the late 20th century, as Christians in increasingly multi-cultural societies continue becoming more sensitive to and respectful of non-Christians and non-Christian faiths, the phrase has become somewhat less ubiquitous than it was in the rest of 20th century. The nonreligious sometimes use the greeting as well, however in this case its meaning focuses more on the secular aspects of Christmas, rather than the Nativity of Jesus. The term happy holidays is becoming the large, and dangerous, elephant in the room that no one will talk about due to the fear of reprisal from 17 percent of Americans who do not celebrate Christmas. Our country was founded, in part, on the belief that Americans were free to worship their religion in peace. I was not a math major in college but I am pretty sure that 83 percent is larger than 17 percent. That being said, how is it that this small majority of people have managed to get their wishes shoved down our throats? Majority rule in our country is no longer the norm. In the late 2oth century it became popular to say happy holidays instead of Merry Christmas. It is Christmas time, not holiday time. Thanksgiving is a holiday, Chanukah is a holiday, and of course Christmas is a holiday. But we can't recoginze it as Christmas time. It has become holiday season. NO sir, this is an affront to Christians the world over. A very small percentage of people are bothered or offended by this term. I don't care! How in the world has such a small majority of people gained such a large power base? This group, a very small group, has attacked the idea of Christmas and gotten us to remove it from our lives. In the current climate of political correctness everyone's feelings must be taken into consideration. 83 percent vs. 17 percent. Wouldn't it make sense to consider the feelings and beliefs of the larger group. Why do we have to bend our lives and beliefs to suit the 17 percent? I have never met a person of the Jewish faith who was offended by Merry Christmas. I am not offended by saying Happy Chanukah, so who is to blame for this? A very small yet very vocal group of Americans has stepped up and made enough noise to get their views listened to and for lack of a better term, taken over America. They complain that they are being persecuted and how unfair it is to have someone else's views forced on them. Doesn't that seem a little odd? We can't practice our religon or celebrate how we choose, but they can practice, or not practice, whatever they want to. The direction of our country, the greatest country in the world, has taken a potentially fatal turn. It baffles the mind how such a small group can get so much power. How in the world did this happen? We need to stand up and put a stop to this. Someone is always going to be offended by something. So DEAL WITH IT already. Get over it. If you don't like me our anyone else saying Merry Christmas, cover your damn ears. I won't complain about anyone not practicing religon. I don't worry about offending you. I will not allow this group of people to change the way I feel or what I believe. And you don't have to change how you feel or what you believe to suit me. Just shut your mouth and leave us alone. Don't mess with me and I won't mess with you. That being said, Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah. And God bless you and your family. More to come later...Steven