Angels & Monsters

Sorry Dan Brown fans this isn't a sequel to Angels & Demons but one of my favorite "under-the-radar" stories that has popped up recently. It turns out that the head of one of the world's largest drug syndicates is on the run & happens to be...get this...a former Colombian model. She was using models to traffic drugs from South America to Mexico & Europe... since no one would suspect a beautiful young girl of doing such a thing. Of course not...like when do beautiful young girls do anything wrong or immoral?!? Regardless it was working out great until one of the models was caught in an airport in Argentina. Most likely beautiful...but with a bad girl thang going on which was picked up by Argentina's elite airport security forces. She sang like an emaciated canary(too thin to spill her guts).

Now how exactly did young Angie go from modeling to a life of crime you ask...? She learned the trade from her ex-boyfriend a notorious drug-lord known as "The Monster". Broke-up with him(most likely by text from another country if not continent)) & started her business to rival his. I'm sure he handled it well & felt proud that he encouraged her to find a more fulfilling calling in life then just being shallow & posing for pictures. What exactly is in the water down there that produces such drop dead gorgeous stunningly beautiful women & such vicious blood-thirty men that when they are not wiping out each others families they run family businesses...selling drugs. And how does a girl who becomes a top model...become a drug dealer...and who takes care of the hits...the models?!? The La Chica's de las Machette squad(Tarantino or Roth if you're reading this & make the movie I better get a cut & opening night passes or I will go Vlad the Impaler medieval on you!!!) ?!? I have no idea...so call me old fashioned but I prefer my beautiful model hot woman modelling, acting, hostessing, waitressing, bartending(looking to be discovered for modelling & /or acting) working reception at financial firms, etc & not running drug empires & ruining the lives of young girls...that's what boyfriends & husbands are for...

P.S. Angie if you read this...call me...

Mmmm...Mmmm...Balls...

Delicious meatballs...I went to the new The Meatball Shop on Stanton btwn Allen & Orchid www.meatballshop.com over the weekend. I thought it was more of a storefront with primarily take-out but it's actually a mid sized restaurant with a very long bar, They have a choice of 6 different types of balls...meat, spicy pork, chicken, Salmon, Veggie & Special of the week(Lamb w/mint & walnuts when I went)...4 different sauces, a handful of carb sides & handful of veggies that can come underneath the balls or on the side. You can get your balls naked(in a bowl) as a slider or on a hero. I went naked meat with spicy sauce & sauteed spinach on the side for a test run & they were mouth-watering and awesome. Nice wine selection, a few beers on tap & full selection of coffee's. My Americano was really good. For desert they have ice cream(numerous flavors) sandwiched between 2 cookies...they looked great...but I'll wait till it gets warmer. This is just another case of why did'nt this place open years ago?!? Great food, moderate to cheap depending on what you order in a cool atmosphere. Again...I'm really hoping more & more of these places keep opening & stay open when we finally get out of this recession. I'm not looking forward to the re-emergence of essense of foamed pigs feet over a sea-urchin ragout with beet cabbage broth for $42.00. Of note...the place gets busy...even at 2:30pm I had a 15-20 minute wait so keep that in mind...but it's more then worth the wait...& it has a very friendly staff...that includes a pretty red-headed bar-tendress with some rather interesting body-art...