You have a Red Robin? I loved that place in Los Angeles. Clearly you wouldn't eat this, but their Royal Red Robin burger with a fried egg on top was awesome!

I agree with you, Will Forte is the Bush of choice. Best impersonation of Bush since Will Farrell. Hmm, maybe they should always let Wills do the Bush impersonations.

I LOVE Panera Bread. You should try their soup in a bread bowl the next time you get a chance.

That's the only thing that kept me from freezing to death during the crazy Pittsburgh winters when I lived there...thawed me out every time.

Happy birthday!!

Happy two days after your birthday!!!

Panera Bread is the bestest EVA!

It's funny (well, maybe not so)...that living where we have ALL of those nasty restaurants (and more) to choose from, that I do my best to stay away from them and "eat local" (well, now, that doesn't sound very good, does it??). I skip the chains whenever possible. Having stepped on on a broken limb on that one, I do love Panera....and their veggie to-do is really yummo (as Rachel Ray would say). All of that happened at Alderwood? Wow. I thought that just trouble hung out with their trousers down around their arses at Alderwood. We're you just trying to be one of the boys?

See what I miss on the weekends? Happy belated Birthday!

I concur with the Panera veggie sandwich. Had it on Friday. So good. The cilantro hummus... Now I'm hungry. Also, I feel very sorry that you don't have an Indian restaurant close by.

The skit with Manning as the basketball player = uproarious laughter.

Paneras are few and far between in fair Chicagoland. I usually have to hop a train up to Evanston, but it's always worth it--I will definitely have to try the Mediteranean Veg!
Oh so very anxious to hear the "gifted LOST episode" story. ;)
Glad you survived the big b-day weekend!

I totally missed your birthday.

I haven't added you to my blogroll(yet).

I might have given you "the clap" at TequilaCon.

The fact that you haven't banned my IP address is only testament to your ever gracious nature.

Hoo HOO !!! 211 emails !!! You are very famous !
Are you sure that Liz doesn't send you a email ? ;-)

Bon Anniversaire! (Only two days late, too... which is pretty good for me. Was it good for you, too?) Oh man, if you could find a way to bring a good Indian food restaurant to the valley... get working on that, would you?

I'll trade you one of our Chili's and one of our IHOP's for your Red Robin. I want to try the lemonade Kevin told me about.

As for Jason Sedakis, I want him to stop being Bush only because I find him sexy and Bush as Sex God makes me feel really dirty. And not good dirrty with 2 r's, but take a shower immediately to wash off the shame dirty.

Panera = love.

I swear that I eat there more than anywhere else. Foo and I almost accidentally cussed out a preacher there last week, eep!

Hilly, if you think Panera = love, you need to try Paradise Cafe & Bakery.

If Panera is an orgasm, Paradise is a multiple.

(Great veggie sandwiches, too, Dave.)

happy belated birthday, dave!

wow, and I thought *I* lived in bumfuck nowhere! at least we have chili's, olive garden and TGIFriday's!

oooh! oooh! me! hire me to be a ghostwriter! i could totally do it. i've always wanted to write a guest post on a legit blog anyway. of course, you really have no idea who i am and no reason to believe i wouldn't just eff up your blog and cost you readers, so i don't see this actually happening. but still, keep it in mind.

I love finding money that you didn't know you had - it means you can spend it on something frivolous - on a 'want' rather than a 'need'.

First off, Happy Birthday! :) Mmmm, Panera! I used to have one just down the street from me, but now there isn't one very close to me at all. They are all like 20-30 minutes away now. :(

Happy Birthday!

I missed it but it doesn't make the happy birthday wishes any less genuine. I hope it was great!

Looking forward to the aquamarine explanation. It's my birthstone, too, and I could give the reasons why it's a stupid and yucky stone but I don't want to steal your post.

There is nothing better than really good Indian food.

We have the same problem out here in the boonies and managed to eat two meals a day at the best Indian restaurant we've found in a long time while in Phoenix last year in July. It was only 116 during the day, and some of the dishes were even hotter, but god was it good.

Apparently folks like the Rolling Stones pop into this restaurant when they're coming through the area, and I can see why.

Dang, now I'm debating driving 9 hours one way just to eat there again. ;)

Um Dave. Panera Bread right down the street. On the same street as the best bookstore in the world. And a Newbury Comics. And so many other great places to eat and shop. Ahem.

You could come to Boston, right?

Hey!
Sorry I missed your birthday. I was in Barcelona with no computer.

Happy happy belated borsday!

What´s that app next to Mail in your dock? (The one to the right).

Happy belated birthday! for my birthday on tuesday i went to Panera and my "treat" to myself was an "I.C. Carmel" ice cream coffee beverage, soooo good. kicks Frappachino's ass. i try not to think about the fat content.

I also don't care for aquamarine as a birthstone. kinda pale and boring. I prefer February (amythest) or...anything except October (Topaz). I don't know who decided April was so worth of diamonds, though.