Cool Stuff For Stiffs Like You: Outdoor Flying Banners & Flag Banners

Cool Stuff For Stiffs Like You: Outdoor Flying Banners & Flag Banners

Remembering Leme

Leme is at the northern most end of Copacabana beach in the city of Rio De Janeiro. It's onr of the most beautiful places I have ever been. The shops are fantastic. The food and the bakeries are incredible. One of my favorites was Sylvia's, a seafood steak resturant. But there's also Marius which is a churrascaria or brasilian barbaque.

But one of my favorite ventures has always been exploring around Leme through it's streets and variety of small shops along side the numerous high rise apartments everywhere. The streets are miniture coblestones that are always breaking loose which someone like me can pick up as a token reminder of the trip.

By day, I'd go get something to eat and a coffee and then beach it until late afternoon or evening. My freinds and I would sit at Senne's on the beach. Senne had a small canvas cover like tent where he fried fish and made sandwhichs. You get a free chair and an umbrella if you need one. You can sit, eat, drink, look at the ocean and watch girls.

Usually around 4ish, we'd head over to Mab's and bullshit with all the mostly European male tourists for hours. Then it's off to a nice nap followed by a shower and then out for a nice dinner. Usually around 10PM. Sometimes later. Chase a few girls around and then off to bed to rest for the next day all over again.

Sounds simple? It is. Leme is simply a laid back place with people the greet each other on the street and girls that are approachable.

Outdoor Flying Banners & Flag Banners

These free standing banner stands are all over the place. I went to the grocery store where there is a Radio Shack and a cell phone store that both had these type banners outside directing attention. I personally think they are innovative and fabulous. But what got my attention was they are also colorful and fun!
Flying banners such as teardrop banners, feather banners, kite banners, sail banners, wing banners and many more appear to be the trend in contacting eye contact with potential shoppers and customers. Moreso they have become a truly affordable advertising tool alongside their uniqueness.

Dyer's Burgers

As you can probably tell, I have had food on my mind all day. Well, anyway. I was watching the travel channel today and watched this incredible piece on Dyer’s Burgers on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee. When I used to live in Memphis, I remember Beale Street was referred to as the square and there were several cool places to eat along with banner entertainment. back to the travel channel.

I watched this clip on travel channel and my mouth began to water. They were deep frying these burgers in grease they had recycled since something like 1935? Anyway, you’ll have to watch this YouTube clip and see for yourself. I’m off to the store to get some buns, meat and Crisco!

Watch this video!

Grill A Steak!

It’s time to grill a steak! If you want to fry yours in a skillet or broil it in an oven, that’s your business. But for me, I’m going to cook mine in the manliest way possible: with fire! And my fire won’t be just an ordinary fire. This fire will be the fire of the Gods. The fire that melts metal, burns villages and succumbs little to any of the elements. The very fire I propose, primitive man used to warm himself before any real dwelling became known to him other than a cave. And as for the meat, it will be the most precious of tender cuts, luscious with articles of fat and yet will have all the attributes of its mammal like origin including a bone! Along with my main course will be all the usual suspects like ,perhaps potato salad or a baked potato and maybe some beans, bread and salad.

Let’s go step by step to influence our effort to the sterling heights of it’s ultimate conclusion. Let us enjoy merriment and fellowship as the event ascends upwards to the majestic heavens. We shall spare no effort nor expense in our crusade for perfect bliss and certain flatulence.

Make your fire so hot your neighbor yells from over the fence “you’ve singed my wife’s eyebrows”!

Beans with dignity. Heat up a nice pot of beans with stuff you’ve added from the fridge. Things like barbeque sauce, ketchup, A1, hot mustard, jalapeños and anything else you can muster up.

Slap dat bitch potato salad with real mayonnaise, garlic, red onion, paprika, ground pepper, oregano and sea salt. Use new potatoes because the meal demands the first born of all species!

If you prefer a baked potato, don’t forget the cheese and the bacon. Your palette demands taste and girth. You need big potatoes like the ones that Irish village you conquered earlier can provide. Pile heaping samples of cheese, sour cream, green things and bacon. If you can still see any evidence of a potato underneath your bacon heap, you haven’t fried enough bacon.

Select some nice thick monster steaks that are not only big but mighty! Get a small mallet or small hand held sledge hammer. Don’t just tenderize. Brutalize! Season with spices like humans have never known. Braze your selection on the open fire allowing enough time to cook on each side but without loosing the juices within. I like mine medium rare.

Drink from the Chalice of the Gods. Drink the blood of the saints. I prefer a nice mineral water turned to red wine by Jesus himself.

The villagers and peasants are outside praising your conquests and await your next command.

Use the very brawn of both your hands and tear off a big piece of bread. Beat your right fist on the table once and yell at your women. Don’t use words because that only confuses the message. Simply yell: ahhhhhhhhhhh. This tells the female to quickly fetch butter to be melted and poured on your head!

Now eat. The day was good. You have a bounty of heads to shrunken later and you have hundreds of limbs of the offenders you conquered. Their livestock is now your livestock. Their peasants are now under your command and you are feared throughout the land.

Get some of the very juices this animal has died for on your beard and on your clothes. Look on with wild eyes and raised cup to the others that share in this feast.

Have your woman ignite the large image box so you can watch Grog and his cohorts get mutilated and dismembered by their opponents for your pleasure and amusement.


And now for a sensibly thinning yet decadent desert……

A Day In The Life

I went to New Jersey for a few days to see a friend in the hospital. The trip was fare and all I can say is I'm really lucky not to be him.