{"id":1852,"date":"2008-01-15T20:26:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T01:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/belichick-chemicals\/"},"modified":"2008-01-15T20:26:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T01:26:45","slug":"belichick-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/belichick-chemicals","title":{"rendered":"Belichick Chemicals?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, clients occasionally put me up in fancy-pants hotels<\/a> (where amenities include loaner laptops and goldfish) for press briefings.<\/p>\n

Yes, clients occasionally take me out to dinner in fancy-pants restaurants<\/a>.<\/p>\n

No, this hasn’t stopped me from hitting a halal street-meat cart for lamb & chicken rice platter.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Best line from the press briefings: When asked about about the rigorous process his company has for suppliers of chemical ingredients, one of the VPs told us, “One supplier sent us the chemicals in a cut-off sweatshirt sleeve.”<\/p>\n

Evidently, the supplier didn’t want to bother filling out proper certificates or taking care of traceability requirements, so they just . . . wrapped the chemicals in a cut-off sweatshirt sleeve and shipped ’em off to a global provider.<\/p>\n

“The supplier was based in an, um, evolving economy,” we were told.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Here’s a picture from the staircase in the restaurant:<\/p>\n

\"Staircase<\/p>\n

And here’s a picture of Greene St., running north of Canal:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, clients occasionally put me up in fancy-pants hotels (where amenities include loaner laptops and goldfish) for press briefings. Yes, clients occasionally take me out to dinner in fancy-pants restaurants. No, this hasn’t stopped me from hitting a halal street-meat cart for lamb & chicken rice platter. * * * Best line from the press … <\/p>\n

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