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Nicknames 9 Jun 2013 | 06:32 am
In boxing, everyone has a nickname. Cool ass nicknames like ‘the machine’, ‘lightning’, or ‘terminator’. I’ve got a nickname. It’s not a cool nickname. It’s the kind of nickname you dread earning. ...
Pain is my Concubine 18 May 2013 | 11:01 pm
Every morning I wake up to her. Sometimes she lies with me, quietly, and helps me ease into the day. Most times she is impatient, insistent. She won’t accept anything less than the complete enforc...
I Coulda Been a Contender 22 Apr 2013 | 09:14 am
Day one. Aprons for Gloves tryouts and a solid beating received. This guy looked about 6’6″, 230, and mean. The session starts with me doing 50? situps, one minute on a heavy bag, and then sprinting...
The Hunger Games 28 Apr 2012 | 02:21 pm
Why being broke is the best start-up strategy there is. Startups are hard, but not because entrepreneurs don’t have an appetite for hard work. Rather, it’s the constant rejection, the inability to c...
“All women are squirrelly” 15 Feb 2012 | 07:47 pm
“All women are squirrelly” a very close friend of mine once told me, “but the trick is to find one that’s the kind of nuts you can live with”. I had become so obsessed with this restaurant life and a...
Mad Men…. 12 Dec 2011 | 04:21 pm
Matt Walsh was Michael’s partner in the Crime Lab, and the willing straight man to Michael’s crazy. The first night I met Matt was when he and Michael held their staff Christmas party at Fiction. Th...
Crouching tiger, hidden drunken monkey 24 Nov 2011 | 10:55 am
I first met Michael sitting on the bar at Fiction. I was working my usual shift behind the bar, chatting with locals and regulars, blissfully unaware of the insanity that lay lurking in my not so dis...
A Different Kind of Crazy 22 Nov 2011 | 02:14 pm
Chef Andrey and I had numerous chances to wax poetic on so many random topics, and I embraced every one eager to peel back layers of the onion on his bombastically crazy, wickedly talented, and deeply...
Laws of energy, and entrepreneurs 19 Nov 2011 | 09:25 am
Momentum is an awesome power. Newtonian Laws weren’t written to explain entrepreneurial inspiration and perspiration, but they may have been influenced by the same understanding. The idea that a bod...
Debauchery, thy name is Lucy… 5 Nov 2011 | 03:13 pm
Restaurants are typically families more than they’re businesses. Dysfunctional, flawed, self-destructive families held together by a common desire to be better than themselves, by nature of their bes...
