The Bear eats The Box Lunch

Joy Young Restaurant:
High on flavor low on price.

The Magic city's first "Oriental" style restaurant reviewed by our favorite connoisseur and glutton Bear Bryant.

The sweet smell of opium and egg rolls whiffed through the air as me and my lovely dinner companion entered the new "far eastern" style restaurant at 412 20th St. North. Candy, a buxom prostitute I picked up in Centerpoint, and I, have never eaten together, at least not food.

I ordered fried chicken and Candy asked for a cheeseburger with an order of fries. We were dumbfounded when we found out that these Orientals don't eat regular food, but rather snails, noodles and crap like that. The waiter told me that his kind doesn't eat cheese, they find it repulsive. His kind? I know what his kind is, a bunch of commies. That's what they are.

So I ordered a number 1 and Candy shot for the moon and had a number 2. When the food finally arrived we were drunk to the gills. Not that the service was necessarily slow, but rather that we started early and drank fast. I was surprised that I wasn't served man's best friend. "I thought you people ate dogs," I politely remarked. The waiter must have been hard of hearing. He didn't respond.

I guess if you like weird foreign food it was all right. But we're going to stick to barbecue from now own.

Bear Bryant

Kaintock stole this from The Birmingham Free Press /www.birminghamfreepress.com/

Vulcan's Spear

Vulcan"s Spear 


When the film is shot. This story will begin with an aerial shot of Vulcan's rear and the cityscape of Birmingham. Think Wim Wenders aerial shot of the statue of Christ the Redeemer which overlooks Rio De Janero in Wings of Desire.
As the chopper circles Vulcan, we see two men talking on the observation deck. The camers zooms in. We see an older asian man holding a green 10 oz. bottle of Coke. The other gentleman, good looking late thirties in a charcoal suit, is pouring salted peanuts into the elder man's Coke.
Due to the roar of the chopper, we cannot hear what is being discussed, but it seems serious. The camera slowly zooms out and we cut to the helicopter pilot's perspective. The chopper spins and heads north to downtown Birmingham where it hovers with local news helicopters over the Jefferson County court house.

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