Living in New York has made me very suspicious of giant, looming cranes. Sure, it's partly because they have a tendency to fall down, but it's also because the presence of a crane signifies a new high-rise billion-dollar piece of crap is about block out the sky. But then along comes something like Dinner In The Sky, a "what won't the rich spend money on" idea wherein the crane helps celebrate the sky by hoisting a table full of diners up into the air and serving them a luxury meal. What dinner wouldn't taste better while dangling 500 feet above the ground? What says "I Love You" more than suspending your family and friends over a treasured monument? And what screams "our company has more disposable income than yours" quite like an evening floating in the air with the Board of Directors and a bunch of Star Wars characters?
And what is the perfect food to eat in this situation? I say there's a certain yin and yang purity to eating foods up high that were dredged from the depths. Yes, sushi!
I notice that "Dinner in the Sky" does not include a "restroom in the sky." I guess the patrons are expected to utilize a little mind over matter or the rest of us must utilize little tyvek suits.
Posted by: bartleby | July 18, 2008 at 11:50 AM
Nah, just use a stilsuit.
Posted by: Sean Daily | July 18, 2008 at 06:05 PM
This may be a very very polite way to enter and conduct yourself in a sushi shop, but I very very rarely see this happen, at least in the prefecture which I live in.
Sushi is mostly 100 yen sushi shops and people just waltz on in.
As funny and strange some parts of this video is, and although its a little over-acted in parts, it does pretty much sum up a lot of Japanese people.
Nice video. I enjoyed watching it.
Posted by: patrick | November 23, 2008 at 02:00 AM