Posted
by Frank Tankard
August 27, 2008 at 1:37 p.m.
WORD AND NEW P(&)LACE I LOATHE! VOL. III
Transplant. "Everybody, meet Jenny, our new Assistant Bullshit Coordinator. She's a California transplant, like Ron in Concrete Mixing." Unless you're talking about the hair you bought at the Rogaine store for your balls, Mr. Transplant Popularizer, I don't want to hear it. How about the simple way people used to introduce a stranger: "Everybody, meet Jenny. She's from California." People like "transplant" because it implies taking root in a new place. But taking root shouldn't be so easy. It should take years of coldness from your new neighbors until you're gradually, but never fully, tolerated. Jenny, this is Kansas, the home of sunshine, sunflowers and sons-of-bitches. This is our place. We live here and it is ours. We don't take kindly to your kind here. That's a fact you're just going to have to get used to.![][1]In other news, I went to Westport Friday night and the Power & Light Saturday night. The good news is that the Power & Light is one giant suck for every schmuck in the bi-state area who wants to buy $4 bottles of Bud Light and stand in line for four hours in front of some place called Mosaic that has a VIP list, three beefy bouncers and a rope. And so Westport, which merely a year ago was highly infested with these people, is cleared of them. The bad news is that there are only four people left, three of them are architecture students from UMKC, and all they talk about is how much cooler they are than the people at the Power & Light while buying $3 bottles of Bud Light.By the way, if you go to the Power & Light [website][2], a flash animation plays with the words, "Leave your inhibitions in the minivan." Did they hire the Las Vegas marketing team? [1]: http://media.lawrence.com/img/blogs/r... [2]: http://www.powerandlightdistrict.com/
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dolores2175 (April Fleming) says…
i'm a p&l hater myself. at least they don't charge to get into westport on the weekends anymore.
godjilla (Jill Ensley) says…
traaaaaansplaaaaant.i've used it liberally in the past few weeks, so fuck you, mang."diaspora" is far worse.
matt (Matt Armstrong) says…
Dude, c'mon. Power and light rules. Why would I want a bar that spends years developing a clientele and an image, when they can just install one? Is there big hair and Bon Jovi? Then you know you must be at the "rock bar"! It's so easy, they've saved you the trouble of finding your orbit.Also, early this spring we went to check it out, and I couldn't go in because I had a hoodie on. Fuh real. Dress code in full effect, ya'll.