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[angel]

wed 12.06.06:

... some peoples sent e-mails about brian-mcnally... i asked him personally about this rumor going round of him opening a "wine bar" on greenwich ave next to the Fiddlesticks and he totally denied it. so there you go.

oh haaa that reminds me. i saw him again at theWaverly last thursday night he was dining with bob-deniro (sweating me) and a bunch of other peoples and ummm a couple of asian hookers. ahhahahaa oh i'm KIDDING.

i saw sean-penn (sweating me) and andre-talley there at theWaverly that same night too. i'm just sayin.

OH that reminds me. i distinctly recall i was perusing the crowd hanging around the bar there that night and suddenly this profound thought just popped into my head like: "wow holy cows."
i mean
look i am not trying to sound pompous or anything (believe it or not) but if you are the "type" that is forever running around to these new "hott" joints trying to beg or plead or con or cajole or argue or hassle or muscle your way into the frikkin dining room, and you have NOT yet read PX This--
you are really really really seriously doing yourself a maaaad injustice.
ohmylord trust me on this one. it's totally worth the $30 investment to somebody like you and i am not just saying that cuz i wrote the fucking thing. no joke.


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[angel]

sun 12.10.06:

urgh. see
this is why "the media" is just so fucking retarded sometimes

yah so---> http://www.nypost.com/seven/12102006/enter...rong.htm?page=2

TABLE HOPPING AT 'THE WAVERLY'
Unofficially open to the public, yet inducing cases of bill panic in its West Village neighbors with $55 truffled mac 'n' cheese, Ye Waverly Inn has already spawned a nickname by those privvy enough to get in.
On any given night since its nonopening, the small, unassuming eatery is filled to the brim with literary types in corduroy blazers and turtlenecks waiting "at least two hours"for a table.
Among them have been several well-knowns who sit immediately, including Elton John, Ingrid Sischy, Liev Schreiber, Naomi Watts, Eric Goode and Sante D'Orazio - all at the same table.
In the center of the restaurant are the leather banquette power tables where the fabulous flout anit-smoking laws and preen for fellow diners. Some of the exclusive few have included Robert DeNiro, dining with restaurateur Brian McNally, Ellen Barkin with Julianne Moore, Graydon Carter with writer Fran Lebowitz, and Andre Leon Talley, Calvin Klein, Anna Wintour, Ronald Perelman, and Sean Penn with unknown guests.
- reported by Abbe Diaz


yeaaah.
first of all: i aint no goddamned "reporter," everybody knows that. reporters get PAID for their shit. MUTHER FUKKERS

yah and so now here it is bright and early sunday at 9am and already my phone has been ringing with peoples taunting me all morning like "ohhh you called this in to The Post?!"
NO i didn't "call this in" THEY called ME. and the only reason i answered was because i thought i was getting a "byline" that specifies pxthis.com those jerkfaces.

secondly: whatever happened to the "seating chart" they sent me ? i spent a decent chunk of time trying to decipher that slapped together crayon doodled "map" trying to put all the right "boldfaced names" in all the right fucking places. if alls i had to do was list them, then i could just as easily have responded instead "READ THE BOOK, FUCKWITS. IT'S ALL THE SAME SHIT."

and lastly: maaaan the press is stupid.
you know they left out like half the names i mentioned, right. more specifically, they left out the names of all the restaurateurs whom i spotted dining there on several different occasions. like for example silvano&marisa-marchetto & giorgio-deluca & kurt-gutenbrunner & sean-macpherson --although they did mention eric-goode & brian-mcnally(of all fucking peoples) so figure that shit out-- & sasha-muniak & marc-bagutta[who represents Cipriani and was dining with ron-perelman].
i mean

did graydon-carter write this shit himself or what. because he didn't want the names of REAL restaurateurs up there along with his own (making him look all irrelevant an'shit) ?

that's so ghetto....



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[angel]

tue 01.02.07:

HAPPY NEW YEAR

i hope yalls enjoyed your holiday break, mine was great fascinating too.
lots of stuffs happened. someday maybe you'll hear all about it. i think you would get a kick out of the retarded assed shit i somehow manage to get myself all caught up in, it's straight out of fucking Melrose Place no joke.
i think maybe i will just leave it at that because already i feel my blood starting to boil. and this is supposed to be a HAPPY new year, yes ?
feel free to reserve your advance copy of PX This Too today


anyways. i spent some time in miami beach, it was nice....

... theRaleigh <--- you can click them to see a "panorama" [warning: audio] ---> theSetai ...


... oh yah and i saw jason-binn [sweating me, he even said i'm "stunning"] and boris-becker [also totally sweating me, he even called me "...this beauty"] and zaha-adid [ha ahaa i dunno call me crazy but i think she was sweating me too] and the bazillionaire i'm not allowed to mention all staying there at theSetai. so that was fun too.




mon 01.08.08:

oh my lord this has been such the week. i can't even
[ ah ha haaa actually, i can. reserve your advance copy of PX This Too ! coming someday ]

no seriously now. on gloomy dreary funky days like this where everybody keeps yapping their stupid nonsense getting all up in your grill sticking their fat ugly uninvited faces smack in the middle of your business for absolutely no plausible reason whatsoever
there really really is only one thing you can do:
slap on your big fucking headphones...



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[angel]

thu 01.18.07:

oh my gawd last night is without a doubt going down in my own little personal history as one of the FUNNEST nights i have ever had...


eehheehheheee hhaha hahaaa check this shit out:

yah so last night was dinner at WaverlyInn. i invited leigh-haber to join me for a nice evening out because i was having a really shitty week and i totally deserved a respite (and also i wanted to celebrate leigh-haber's Modern Times!).
anyways
somewheres amidst the bottle of Montagny and the fantastic conversation and the massive pot pies and the jon-bon.jovis & karolina-kurkovas & andre-harrells & graydon-carters & brian-mcnallies & eric-goodes & sante-d'orazios & sean-macphersons & jimmy-mccaffreys etc etc etc i tap leigh-haber on the elbow and declare, "hey look it's nick-denton."

leigh-haber takes one glance at nick-denton and responds, "oh. hmm. should i say something?" and before i even have a chance to completely execute my shrug, leigh-haber is out of her seat and across the room ohmygoodness i was so fucking proud of her she's like totally my hero.


apparently leigh-haber said to nick-denton (right there smack in front of six other dinner companions GO GIRL): "ya know, last week i was promoted [because i worked my ass off and i'm finally getting some dues] and it should have been a nice day for me, but instead of feeling good about it, i had to feel miserable, because i was both promoted and eviscerated on the very same day, by a bunch of people who have absolutely no inkling who i am."
[or something like that, i admit i'm paraphrasing but i know the word "eviscerate" was definitely in there.]

nick-denton then evidently replied: "i didn't see the item."

so then leigh-haber retorted something like: "well as the owner of Gawker, i believe you bear a certain level of responsibility."

nick-denton conceded.

and then leigh-haber came back to the table and i was positively BEAMING for her...


... a little whiles later, as we were strolling out of the restaurant, theWaverly higher-powers decided they wanted to buy us a round of drinks, they insisssssted we sit down again at a front bar table and enjoy a cordial or digestif.
so leigh-haber and i accepted, we got nice and cozy in the corner by the fireplace and let them kiss our fucking rings.

so then of course leigh-haber and i were afforded a lovely view of nick-denton leaving after dinner, but pausing for a minute (following a quick glance thrown our way) to tap at his Blackberry(?)Treo(?)Sidekick(?) whatever.

i turn to leigh-haber and i guffaw: "look, maybe nick-denton is texting his editor about you right now! aahahahHA HAHAHAaha ahhahahahaaa...."
and then nick-denton was out the door.



so then leigh-haber and i sat for a while and enjoyed our drinks and the sparkling witty banter of The Little Dog Laughed's douglas-carter.beane (who just happened to be seated next table over), and right as leigh-haber was lamenting that perhaps being called "the next judith regan" wasn't "exactly the best compliment..." --
GUESS who walked into the restaurant.

judith fucking regan i SWEAR TO GAWD. ha ha hah hahhahh ahahahhahahaa you think i can make this shit up, i can't.


so. today i just want to extend a really warm and heartfelt thank you to leigh-haber. for making my evening just the bestest night ever.
and also to say i'm sorry but i just couldn't resist.
even though leigh-haber sent me a gracious and lovely e-mail this morning asking me to please not comment on our night out together on my silly little blahggety blahg thingie--
sweetie you're smoking crack there was NO WAY IN HELLS i was going to keep this one to myself.



ANYHOO
the other thing for which i wanted to thank leigh-haber (and i bet she doesn't even realize this) is that last night she really opened my eyes and helped me with something of a little internal dilemma.

see. i have been sort of struggling with this here blahg thingie lately. it just so happens i am lucky enough to have been offered a couple of small investments from some very nice (and apparently brilliant, with astoundingly remarkable foresight) peoples who, for some reason, think possibly there is some $$ to be made here somehow (selling ads or some shit). but
i have been ruminating to myself just HOW in gawd's name will this be possible-- i mean
do this EVERY DAY ?? how could i possibly, i'm not that fucking interesting.

and so lately, my consistent inner turmoil has all been due to the persistent pressure of asking myself:
should i use the mountains and mountains and mountains of nightlife industry "insider" 411
(ahahaaa scratch that. 411? bitch please-- i gots google all up in this mutherfukker no joke)
that is fed and spread to me incessantly-- the kind of stuffs i think other web bloggetty bloggies would kill for--

[like for example how Morandi is set to open like any millisecond now but already there's a shade of drama in the kitchen i can't wait to see how that shit plays out... and how BoweryHotel is looking GOOD... and how LafayetteInn is looking even better and all their "pre-opening" guests are faaaabooolous... and how ChinatownBrasserie had better make that dimsum shit work, boy... and how masaharu-morimoto & stephen-starr just might be beefin with each other and maybe they'll get divorced pretty soon... and how alan-yau is making ian-schrager's life a little bit of hell... and how theCoreClub is ummm maybe not exactly impressing their members so so much... and ya know. stuff like that. oh but i digress.]

--but are told to me unwittingly. in casual conversation. by my friends and acquaintances and "colleagues" and other peoples i love and admire and respect.

i don't want to be frank-bruni or adam-platt or alan-richman or steve-cuozzo with their frikkin (obnoxious) one-star three-star go-here don't-go-there they're-worthy/unworthy let's-shut-this-fucking-place-down bullshit.

i don't want to go peeking in the cracks of the plywood trying to expose projects that haven't even fucking started yet.

i don't want to go sticking my fat obtrusive face in peoples' businesses just to say mean things about them, because it's "funny."

and i definitely don't want to go clamoring for ugly photographs of "celebrities" (hell everybody takes a bad photo sometimes yes even someone as totally smokin as me) just so i can make them look stupid and then exploit them.


well
last night with leigh-haber i realized i don't have to. hells my life is pretty darned amusing sometimes. and no, i'm not a "business"-- i'm an ARTIST goddammit.

ee heee don't yalls love how i can take just about anything in the universe and make it all about me?

thanks leigh-haber. and thanks to you too BigGuy





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[angel]

fri 01.19.07:

... sigh

no seriously now. there has GOT to be some kind of personal shit going on here-- like, did someone (or a friend or lover or family member or household pet or some shit, of someone) over at gawker.com used to work for leigh-haber or something? because this nonsense is starting to get really ridiculous. [but goddamn THREE mentions in like four days, wow leigh-haber is totally famous!]

check it:

Leigh Haber Takes Her Complaints Right To The Top
Unintelligible, lamedropping-addicted "blahg" PXthis has an intriguing anecdote today concerning the travails of one "leigh-haber," who we wrote about when, in the wake of her promotion to head of her own imprint at Rodale, Page Six called her "the new Judith Regan." Leigh had an interesting run-in at Waverly Inn last night...


aaahahahhahhaahaaa now let's start with the stuffs i find utterly hysterical:

• un·in·tel·li·gi·ble - Show Spelled Pronunciation [uhn-in-tel-i-juh-buhl] –adjective
not intelligible; not capable of being understood.

okay well. if i'm so "unintelligible" then how do you know what the fuck you're even responding to, huh Gawkers?
and the only reason i'm "unintelligible" is because you guys are totally lacking skillz in Zen and the Art of Italics and Line Breaks and your font is mad fucking ugly.


• oh and "lamedropping" eeheee that's a good one [no really that's a good one i love it.]
"hi Pot ? this is Kettle. my gawd you are so totally black it's not even funny."

yeah well, hey Kettle. this is Pot. at least my black is shiny and sleek and purty. and oh yah, nice try and all but this right here tooootally takes the sting out of your black-envy:
Lockhart Steele <****@curbed.com> to me show details 1:59 pm (9 hours ago)
Genius? Genius.

Nick says hi.

Lock


• "it's on like Gray Poupon!"

ha ha ha ha hahahahaha i loooooove that. yah it's on bitches !! bring it.
oh but i'm pretty sure it's GREY Poupon.


• now. as for that Fametracker shit
oh maaaan lemme just find those files-- yalls will have to tune back in (in a day or two) to get the whole lowdown on that. if you actually give a shit i mean. i can give you the synopsis though:

it was i dunno i guess about a year or so ago, i thought i was doing a good thing "adopting" the 1,200 or so "Fametrackers" who got kicked out of their cyber-home because their current parents couldn't fucking stand them anymore, after four years of dealing with their juvenile nonsense.
so then i was their foster mother. for about four days. and then i couldn't fucking stand them either. so i tossed their sorry asses out too.

as a result, i got 46 really egregious nasty vile reviews on Amazon from a bunch of jerkoffs who never even bothered to read the book but still posted things like "it sucks" and "it's crap on a plate" and other such stuffs i can't recall right now. needless to say, Amazon wiped that shit clean in like two days.
then TWO Fametrackers felt really badly for me and actually bought and read the book and gave me REAL reviews. which you can read right here. yah that's right bitches. "LZ" and "DRyan" are former FAMETRACKERS, they aint friends of mine. so nyeeeaah in your fucking face.

but seriously though. check back with me in a couple days, and you can see how it all went down with your very own eyes. just lemme dig them shits somewheres out of my spare hard drive.


• "PXThis is the most illegible bachelorette in town. As well, the forefathers of modern typography roll collectively in their graves."

oh brother i am so sick of this tired old lame assed "complaint" it's not even amusing.
try thinking OUTSIDE your little box there. douchebag.



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[angel]

wed 01.24.07:

... peoples have been advising me forever now (thank you!) "abbe abbeeeee get a MySpace where's your MySpace how come you don't have a fucking MySpace" etc etc etc. and all this time i have been all: yah yaaah it's coming it's coming geezus what the hells you think i have nothing better to do with my day? and i'm not even sure i know how that stupid thing works anyways

well guess what. this morning i got up bright and early and i finally did a MySpace thingie. here it is:
http://myspace.com/px_this_abbe_diaz

aha hahahmmm. "abbe diaz has 0 friends...."






fri 01.26.07:

... yah so wednesday night (the24th) was dinner at theWaverlyInn... and ohmygoodness it was so surreal i wish i could describe it here. but i can't. [sorrrrry!--reserve your advance copy of PX This Too! (coming someday)]
alls i can say is: i think of it and it happens, it's totally trippy...

whatever. here's what i can tell you: i saw robert-deniro & sarah-silverman & anne-bass & michael-eisner & john-waters & cynthia-rowley & anh-duong & of course graydon-carter...

anyways, i know it sounds really lame but the three names i CAN'T mention were there too. because i summoned them with my powerful psychic energy. hahha hahhaaa yah go ahead laugh now. you'll see....




tue 01.30.07:

... hey did you see this ----> Field Guide: Leigh Haber



isn't that cute (?) that's Gawker totally yanking my pigtails on the playground. because they are sooo crushing on me they looove me they want to have like 10,000 of my babies.

hi Gawker. call me we'll do lunch ! -xoxo




thu 02.01.07:

last night was CiprianiUpstairs and so i got to suck some luck out of both piddy-diddy & damon-dash. yay

actually damon-dash was really cool about it, he didn't seem to mind i sucked his luck at all. he even said "it's all good" when i remarked "i hope you don't get hit by a bus or something." i was trying to explain how awesomely powerful is my luck vacuum when i really set my mind to it.
leonardo-dicaprio got his shit all fucked up the last time i did this, remember?

oh and hopefully i got some out of giuseppe-cipriani too. he's tan. and he was wearing a tuxedo.

karim-amatullah was also there last night. ha hah ahahahhaaa...
... oh i think i recall him commenting something about how he's looking forward to reading about himself on "some blog" today.
yah. here ya go, bitch....



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[angel]

fri 02.02.07:

... as you may or may not know... i've been working to rearrange things around here a little bit....
okay so here's one more step-- please consider this the official announcement for the "launch" of the pxthis.com "forums"

COMING SOON: The FORUM @ PX This.

got it? great!
here is how it will work. much in the grand tradition of everything faboolous in "nightlife"

• the forum will be "Members Only" -- original members will be invited/selected/determined (whatever) thusly:


- if you are anyone who thinks you are anyone in the "industry," chances are i already know you. you're in.

- if you have been or are currently in Proprietorship and/or Management of a restaurant/bar/club/hotel, you're in.

- if you have served in any capacity a minimum of ONE YEAR's time in a "real" restaurant/bar/club/hotel, you're in. if i have to explain to you what a "real" restaurant is-- take your silly pleated khaki slack buttoned down polo shirt "flair" wearing suspenders sporting ass over to eGullet or bitterwaitress or some shit.
[oh okay i'm kidding-- we'd love to have your tiny paper umbrella propping cheap polyester clad ass too. you're in.]

- if you have absolutely ZERO experience in the F&B/H industry but you have been referred by an "original member" because you're really really really good-looking, you're in. (we alllls know that's how the industry works!)
and no, you do NOT have to (or have any desire to) work in the industry, you can come and just chill no problem. we can't blame you-- we know we're the shit we'd want to hang out with us too.

- you CAN maintain total anonymity, if desired.

please by all means e-mail me or phone or whatever effective immediately so i can start putting you on "the list...."


anyways...
i look forward to hearing from you.

... oh yah that reminds me. if you fit any of the above criteria, you're in. yes, even if i despise you to death and can't fucking stand your ass. even frikkin lois-freedman is invited for fuck's sake.
how fair is that.



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[angel]

sun 02.10.07:

... i missed Fashion Week, right? my bad.
no okay i caught a little bit. here:

<--- click! (backstage) [warning: audio]

<--- click! (rehearsal) [warning: audio]

<--- click! (the show) [warning: audio]

<--- click! (the finale) [warning: audio]

<--- look it's patti-labelle

now you caught some too. yay



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[angel]

mon 03.12.07:

... i've been a bit busy trying to get the new PX This Forum thingie all together... no really though-- this should be fun...

... just as a prime example of how totally stoked i am i no longer have to be the one who decides which of the "tips" from 'the industry' i am going to address or divulge or confirm or whatever [now you'll get to gossip like a bunch of sewing bee bitches all on your own. hooray!] --

this is one of several comments i received yesterday, for instance:
"... [The NY Post] stole your stilo... but... no mention of you..."


sigh.
now. if you go ahead and read that shit you...
... might wonder HOW in the world a serious upstanding reputable reliable trustworthy globally renowned bastion of information like The New York Post could possssssibly miss something as pertinent to this article as [the "BIBLE" of the nightlife industry] pxthis.com

well. lessee if i can somehow break it all down for you

oh i know. it goes a little something like this:
see-- sometime last week i found this in my inbox, apparently it's some kind of "bcc:" or some shit:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: ***<***@gmail.com>
Date: 06-Mar-2007 13:31
Subject: Morandi
To: eater@curbed.com
"Hey, here is another review of Morandi to add to your list of good/bad reviews. BEST ONE so far, and also the most honest! I used to work with [withheld] and she is a nightmare. Ypu know everyone is saying she won't last 6 months
http://pxthis.com ..."


and then it goes on to quote my entire entry from mon 03.05


- needless to say, my "review" does not appear anywheres on eater.com
even though lockhart-steele himself sent me an e-mail last week saying i am his "biggest addiction on the internet" or whatever. [isn't that sweet?] i'm just sayin.

- anyways. maybe you have or haven't noticed that (up until right now) not one peep has come out of eater.com since then, about either Morandi or the stupid fucking Gansevoort billboard. even though everybody was all swinging from keith-mcnally's dick for like months before Morandi opened its doors and then for like days and days and days after it finally did.

- suddenly, boom here comes this quote from The Post:

"That’s where you’ll find workers griping about [blah blaaah]... or how Gusto and upstart Morandi quarreled over staff after chef Jody Williams quit Gusto and went around the corner to Keith McNally’s new eatery.
'Food bloggers are the gossip columnists of the restaurant industry,' says Hall. 'Before they became popular, people would come and go from restaurants and nobody would really report on it. Now these blogs are there to spill the beans on everything that goes on in the industry....'"
[with absolutely no mention of pxthis.com at all, you recall.]

- now check it. a quick lookeeloo of every single one of the "restaurant blogs" mentioned in that article reveals what ?? lo and behold
NOT ONE comments anything of the sort, about this so-called Morandi vs. Gusto "feud"


mhmmp.

this is where my blood starts to boil just a little bit.
CLUELESS ASSED MUTHERFUKKERS

wanna know the real deal for a change ? [instead of this publicist driven (or whatever) back scratching ass slapping circle jerk bullshit that's constantly being spoon fed to you as if they actually know what the fuck they are talking about?]
PX This has got yer back bitch. never fear, the "BIBLE" of the industry is here to keep it real. the "Forum" is coming. and it's allllll for yoooou
it's allllll for yoooo oooo.

but since it aint here quite yet. i'm a just tell you straight up what i think. ya know-- based on the way i heard it, i mean:

bear in mind now, restaurants don't ever "quarrel" over staff-- staff comes and goes wherever the fuck it pleases. [usually it's ben-franklin & ulysses-grant & andrew-jackson doing all the "quarrelling," yea?]
now
if Staff happens to actually like where it already is, i guess that means maybe Staff aint going nowheres. which maybe means: whoever needs Staff really badly is shit outta luck.

hmmm. i wonder. did anyone at The Post bother to pick up the phone and maybe call Gusto to see just which Staff it was "quarrelling" over exactly ? did anyone bother to ask Staff what he/she thinks ? where, pray tell, is this poor war-ravaged Staff these days anyways ? wow i would just loooooove to give Staff the mike for a change-- go head papi, sing me a little sumpn sumpn.


maaan i could go on and on and on with this shit. but quite frankly i don't really want to. NOW I WON'T HAVE TO.



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[angel]

mon 03.19.07:

ugh. FINALLY [sorry for the delay!]

... yah so here it is. pxthis.com is proud to introduce ----> theForum @ PX This.


the first round of invitations/announcements and whatnot will be going out progressively throughout the day. you can check the "Members" list to see if you have been pre-registered. or just e-mail and ask, if you're too damned lazy to check for yourself.

can't wait to "see" you. enjoy

xoxo




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[angel]

tue 03.20.07:

brook
Group: Validating
Posts: 1
Joined: 20-March 07
Member No.: 116

Mar 20 2007, 04:20 PM

I worked for hair plug muniak and it is going to be a pleasure to see him fail. Proper question on Gusto is why didn't the new chef change the menu? Obviously Williams will cook what she learned in the 6 years she spent in Italy (only self taught female Italian chef in America) and just like Giorione and Il Buco, Gusto will not be about the food for long.

wed 03.21.07:

Dirt Alert: Grasshopper Found in Mangia Wrap? (You Decide! Edition)
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
First came the rats; then the glove salad. Then more rats. Now, it seems, we have the grasshoppers. Maybe. The above image was sent to the Eater Department of Foreign Substances, Forensic Investigations Unit with the following note:

"My coworker discovered a grasshopper in his sandwich wrap from Mangia (the location on 57th between 5th & 6th)--it was still alive! I've found unsavory things in my food before, but this seems especially gross."

Alright, friend....

I think someone should mention that Sasha "Hair Plug" Muniak ("the Mangia mogul"-- New York Magazine) also owns Gusto, and was Chef Jody Williams' former employer.

Oh, I guess I just did!

The Greatest Hits - The Forum @ PX This.

[angel]

thu 03.22.07:


Launches & Releases: PX This "Members Only" Forum
Thursday, March 22, 2007

Abbe Diaz, self-proclaimed "former maitre d' to the stars," girlfriend of Gusto and Mangia owner Sasha Muniak, current Waverly Inn staffer, and the proprietor of resto insider website PX This, launched a "members only" forum today on her website today. Here, apparently, she and her circle of industry friends will dish on the people and places of NY nightlife. We're no closer to understanding this than you are. Let's go straight to the press release for this puppy:

"Former maitre d' to the stars" and (restaurant industry "bible") PX This author, Abbe Diaz, has launched a virtual Members Only "club" via her website, pxthis.com. Modeled after "everything faboolous [sic] in nightlife," membership to the online "club" cum "forum" requires having served a reasonable stint in any capacity in the nightlife/hospitality industry, or to be referred by an existing member.

The day-one to-do is about Morandi—Abbe, again, dating Jody's former boss, seems to be accusing Jody of planting that grasshopper in the Mangia wrap, in addition to leading the charge of posters proclaiming Morandi to be a terrible. Do click through. You'll only understand every fifth word, but its the closest you'll ever get to the Waverly Inn locker room.
· PX This Members Only Forum [PX This]
· Morandi [PX This]

[angel]

fri 03.23.07:

jo
Group: Administrators
Posts: 95
Joined: 16-March 07
Member No.: 3

Mar 23 2007, 11:53 AM


The link from Eater.com: http://eater.com/archives/2007/03/launches_releas_4.php

Abbe Diaz, self-proclaimed "former maitre d' to the stars,"

- A quick Google search of Abbe Diaz reveals: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22abbe+dia...cial&hs=DST

- And in Italian, as well:
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari...-8&oe=UTF-8


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girlfriend of Gusto and Mangia owner Sasha Muniak, current Waverly Inn staffer,

- Diaz does not, nor ever has, worked for The Waverly Inn. The press release states:
"She has manned the podiums for such illustrious restaurateurs as Jean Georges Vongerichten, Brian McNally, Jonathan Morr, and current Graydon Carter partners, Eric Goode and Sean MacPherson."

and the proprietor of resto insider website PX This, launched a "members only" forum today on her website today. Here, apparently, she and her circle of industry friends

- The current list of invited Members includes: Brian McNally, Charles Milite, Serge Becker, Giuseppe Cipriani, Marisa Acocella-Marchetto, David Rabin, Karim Amatullah, Jeffery Jah, Richie Akiva, Ronnie Madra, John Gulager, John deLucie, John McDonald, Mark Baker, Laurent Saillard, Patrick Coston, Steven Lewis, James Kazakoff, Thomas Juul Hansen, Sasha Muniak, Marc Bagutta, Maxwell, Gary Dourdan, and Fisher Stevens.

- As well as the current GENERAL MANAGERS of: G-Spa, Bette, Stand, Chinatown Brasserie, Indochine, Gusto, Dennis Foy, The Waverly Inn, The Modern, The Bar at Hotel QT, The Clift Hotel (San Francisco), and Blue Hill at Stone Barns.

That's quite a "circle" of industry friends.

will dish on the people and places of NY nightlife.

Well, yes, that's what happens in "Forums" sometimes.

We're no closer to understanding this than you are.

Then let me explain: It's a Forum for the employees, managers, and proprietors of the F&B/Nightlife/Hospitality Industries, and their guests. Is that better?

Let's go straight to the press release for this puppy:
"Former maitre d' to the stars" and (restaurant industry "bible") PX This author, Abbe Diaz, has launched a virtual Members Only "club" via her website, pxthis.com .Modeled after "everything faboolous [sic] in nightlife," membership to the online "club" cum "forum" requires having served a reasonable stint in any capacity in the nightlife/hospitality industry, or to be referred by an existing member.

The day-one to-do is about Morandi—Abbe, again, dating Jody's former boss, seems to be accusing Jody of planting that grasshopper in the Mangia wrap,

-Where, exactly? Unless of course, Chef Jody Williams is admitting she is the "Validating Member" signed in as "Brook (?)."
Diaz hereby admits to responding purely on instinct, and requests to be acknowledged as such.

in addition to leading the charge of posters proclaiming Morandi to be a terrible.

- The member known as "Dick Johnson" led the thread proclaiming Morandi to be terrible. Steve Cuozzo of The New York Post may have been "led" by Abbe Diaz, but we can't say for sure.

- In the Mon03.05 entry at pxthis.com, Diaz states:
"...okay look don't get me wrong now, for a minute there i considered disclosing more, hells i think at one point i even wanted to. but then i realized: what for-- most likely everything i say will be dismissed anyways [since we alls know Gusto's sasha-muniak is a close friend of mine, and i already looooves me some daSilvano].
so PLEASE by all means go and try that shit for yourself and make up your own goddamned mind...."

Do click through. You'll only understand every fifth word, but its the closest you'll ever get to the Waverly Inn locker room.

- How flattering.
- You might understand the other four words, if you bother to read them.

The PX This press release in all its barely intelligible glory is next. >>

- "Barely intelligible" glory? It's perfectly intelligible, if you happen to be literate. Since clearly it was unreadable (based on all your inaccuracies) to you, perhaps next time we'll send an audio version on CD, instead.

"Members Only" Virtual "club" -- Launched

"Former maitre d' to the stars" and (restaurant industry "bible") PX This author, Abbe Diaz, has launched a virtual Members Only "club" via her website, pxthis.com. Modeled after "everything faboolous [sic] in nightlife," membership to the online "club" cum "forum" requires having served a reasonable stint in any capacity in the nightlife/hospitality industry, or to be referred by an existing member.

The inspiration for said forum has been Diaz's recent experience as a consultant for several restaurant/lounge ventures under consideration in New York and Miami Beach.
"The hardest aspect after securing a viable location and liquor license has been staffing," explains Diaz. Most of the 'best' of the industry are already employed, but it doesn't necessarily mean they're happy in their current situation. I think it's incredible how many good, hardworking, and dedicated people would love to negotiate a new position, where they're stimulatively challenged and their skills and experience are sufficiently appreciated, if they only had the necessary connections, means, and information. 'Headhunters' in this industry are a big joke; they know nothing. But a lot of potentially great multi-million dollar projects are depending on them, and finding their prospects woefully inadequate. A knowledgeable and conscientious staff is the most durable foundation and solid backbone on which any establishment can rely. It's far more important than massive square footage and fancy architecture."
She adds, "We have to call it a 'club' because we anticipate a lot of after-work commiserating. And drinking. It's BYO."

Abbe Diaz knows of what she speaks. She has manned the podiums for such illustrious restaurateurs as Jean Georges Vongerichten, Brian McNally, Jonathan Morr, and current Graydon Carter partners, Eric Goode and Sean MacPherson. She appears as a "BFF" in Marisa Acocella-Marchetto's (wife of Da Silvano owner Silvano Marchetto) Cancer Vixen, has been "internet-rumored" to be romantically linked with Giuseppe Cipriani (due to a recent week-long visit to his private estate in Punta del Este, Uruguay, which she asserts was "purely business." Diaz laughs, "He wishes."), was engaged briefly to (celebrity shopping haven) Bagutta/BaguttaLife proprietor and Phat Farm co-founder (along with Russell Simmons), Marc Bagutta, and is currently dating Gusto and Centro Vinoteca proprietor and "Mangia mogul," Sasha Muniak.

Perhaps if you weren't in such a rush to counteract (?) the Gawker item, you may have had time to peruse the press release, Member List, and Google search more thoroughly.

Thank you for your time and consideration.




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