Friendo

It’s Thursday morning and I head over to the post office to mail a package. I love the post office in my town. A stately edifice overlooking a traffic circle that revolves around a monument to the town’s Spanish-American War dead, the building looks like a...

Golden Shower

Its Saturday night and I’m rolling around a urine slicked floor with a nurse. I know what you’re thinking but please, get your filthy, perverted minds out of the deep dark gutter they’ve just fallen into. Its not what you think. But since I work...

Anthony Bourdain’s Manhattan

As a teenager growing up just outside New York City, Manhattan – to Tony – was like living a dream. And there were institutions in that dream, some of which are still going strong, some of which are hanging on by a thread and some luck, and some of which have since...

Vegas Baby! Vegas!

I’m going to be in Las Vegas from March 10-15th to research my new book on tipping! While I have interviews lined up, I’m still looking for people in the following occupations to talk to! Casino Dealers Cocktail Waitresses Limo Drivers Cab Drivers Sex...

Tell Me Your Tipping Stories!

I am looking to interview individuals working in the professions listed below. Even if you are not in the geographic area I’ve specified, I’d still love to talk to you. The people I interview can remain as anonymous as they wish!  If you or someone you...

Tony in the Philippines!

In the next episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, we get to see a sensitive side of Tony. He recognizes his large Filipino audience and that the Philippines is a country and food culture that he really wants ‘to do right by.’ You may recognize one...

Valentine’s Day Stimulus

It’s Thursday afternoon and I’ve just finished a quick lunch at a favorite local restaurant. When I pull out my wallet and lay it on the table, my waitress, a slender brunette in her early twenties, catches my signal and delivers the check. “So you...

The Stink

It’s Sunday night and I’m lying on my couch watching television and sipping Gatorade. Remember my brother’s son being sick? Well, to be a good uncle, I decided to babysit my nephew and give his exhausted parents a break. I caught the stomach bug that...

Anthony Bourdain & Food Porn

Yes, I’m still Anthony’s boy. (Happily.) Here’s another sneak preview for No Reservations. Cue the PR writers….. Get ready for a treat this week with Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations: Food Porn. Tony is joined by some of the world’s most...

Dead Wood

Several months ago I took advantage of the nosediving economy and bought a 50 inch plasma television on the cheap at a soon to be defunct Circuit City store. I had initially planned to get a 42 inch screen but techo-lust overwhelmed my better judgement and now I have...