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Monday, March 19, 2007
RAISING THE BAR

With construction delays (re: NO BEER) sapping not only our spirit and morale, but our bottom line as well, we’ve been thinking outside the box (trailer), trying to come up with temporary solutions to replace the Bel Air bar. Ideas have ranged from the practical…

Off camera: Bel Air regulars with folding chairs.

To the extreme…

All it's missing is a Pint Club logo.

But finally, we hit upon the ultimate solution to our construction woes. The cure for our poison, the mongoose for our cobra, the integer factorization algorithms for our cryptography, was waiting for us just north of the Manson Nixon line…

Fast builders, but you’d better enjoy drinking and dining by candlelight.

It’s time for a good, old fashioned “Amish Bar Raising”. Afterall, if they can throw a barn up in a day, how long could it take them to produce a bar? Unfortunately, transportation logistics proved to be a problem, as it would take longer for our plainly dressed, ant colony-like speed builders to get to Bel Air via horse and buggy than it will take us to rebuild the restaurant at our current rate of progress. (No letters, please! We have nothing but the utmost respect for the Amish community.)

We STILL have no new news to report, but next time… well, next time is “HAMMER-TIME”.

Wednesday, March 7, 2007
BIGFOOT

There is a folktale that has been circulating around the incubator for claustrophobia that we’ve called home for the last few months (see previous entry). Some say it’s the result of trailer fever. Others swear the stories of elusive creatures wearing hard hats and tool belts, (as rare in these parts as Bigfoot) lurking about the ruins of Bel Air are true.

There is no shortage of circumstantial evidence: String-thin blue chalk outlines, wood and metal shavings, nails and screws and the most promising, muddy boot prints. But no actual visual proof exists to confirm that we have indeed been “visited”.

No grainy black and white photos.

So far, this guy is easier to find.

No shaky blair-witch-in-search-of-zapruder-film-youtube-quality video footage.

She’s an attention whore by comparison

Not even a sketchy drunken eyewitness account from a quiet loner with a replica of Mulder’s “I WANT TO BELIEVE” poster from The X-Files on his bedroom wall. This is where you come in. Please report any sightings of anyone remotely resembling

a CONSTRUCTION WORKER to Duclaw corporate. We’re counting on you.

Still no date to report; still no new construction. But next time, we’re “RAISING THE BAR”, so be sure to check back soon.