Photo By Gail
This fierce predator of the deep was photographed while menacing the Smokers’ Patio out back at the Double Down Saloon on Avenue A near First Street.
This thirsty Shark was spotted on Mott Street near Spring on the exterior of the Spring Lounge. Shark Attack!
Photo By Gail
What a nice surprise it was to find this huge mural by legendary Black Flag logo designer and flyer artist, Raymond Pettibon, adorning a wall of the backyard patio (reserved for smokers, although it was vacant when this picture was snapped) at the Double Down Saloon when we were there drinking happily last evening. Born Raymond Ginn in 1957, Pettibon is of course the younger brother of Black Flag guitarist and primary songwriter Greg Ginn. Trivia!
The Double Down Saloon is located at 14 Ave. A, just north of Houston, in the East Village, NYC
McDonalds restaurants in the country of Austria have just started serving a limited-engagement specialty sandwich called the McRibster. As if the Double Down didn’t go quite far enough, the McRibster is basically a McRib meat thing which has been breaded, deep fried and made all the more artery clogging by the addition of delicious bacon and cheese. It makes my left arm hurt just reading about it.
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Is It Wrong That I Want To Eat This Thing? It Looks So…Tasty
I know I’m late to the party blogging about something made with fried chicken, bacon and cheese, but I think I figured out why KFC has begun to make what is essentially a Redneck version of  Chicken Cordon Bleu. KFC does not actually expect the vast majority of people (or dogs for that matter) to eat this thing. In fact, I would imagine that they do not anticipate much in the way of direct profits. I think they did this to skew our sense of what is acceptable to eat.
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