This may all be just a crazy theory, and lord knows I have my share of those, but I think Frank Bruni experienced 3rdarm.biz sensations and the crazy vibes turned him on to biz-blogging. When I say Frank started up a biz-blog I do mean he musta saw my biz-blog and the idea just clicked in his head to get smart about biz-blogging. His new one is called “Diner’s Journal” and it will be new New York Times blog about what he does for his business, which is dining & writing about it as far as I assume from our personal comunications.

On my own biz-blog, which you must currently be reading, I certainly do write about the bread & butter business I do from the other side of the table as well as my cosmic business with the being I call the One Eleven, and my affairs street hustlin’. I also offer fresh analysis of the Dow 3000. It all ponies up to be quite a stallion, and I blame Frank not one iota for stealing the whole set up and slapping his name on it. I can prove that Frank Bruni stole my whole life:

1.) I have him on mp3 saying that he stole 3rdarm.biz (This is not true, I don’t have this.)

2.) I have an important package coming in the mail and I signed for it and left the ringerslip round my doorknob but they either wouldn’t leave the package unattended or I think Frank Bruni took it.

3.) I used to have almost 400 towels and now I only use a couple that aren’t really mine. Frank.

Psychological damage caused by the traumatic shock of reading bizarro 3rdarm.biz on Frank Bruni’s biz-blog the last three statements may be, as probably Yoga would say. In any event, I will now demonstrate passages in Diner’s Journal that reflect the stolen essence of my biz-blog:

“I’ll post new entries several times a week. They may be accounts of short telephone or electronic interviews with newsmakers in the restaurant industry.” I have a short telephone snippet of Frank Bruni leaving me a message up on mp3 and plan to do more with the idea, when I get a phone that records straight to mp3. And I post new entries several times a week!

Okay I think I am now recovering from this weird bubble of thought on Frank stealing my blog, which I can’t really prove yet definitively. I am happy that Mr. Bruni is blogging and podcasting, embracing technology is good for everyone. Really good karma… I caught some man looking dirty at his date on Valentine’s Day and he saw me & said, “Isn’t it horrible?” and I said, “I’m not the karma police I just serve the food here.”

Frank’s web design is clean & good and he does make several intersting points in his first couple of entries. In the entry title Early Frustrations & Late Saves Frank is biz-blogging about how his friend called a restaurant and they wouldn’t accept her reservation over the phone but she obtained it using Open Table on the internet.

At Turner Fisheries the restaurant I used to work at they had Open Table and I believe they were putting a premium on Open Table reservations as well. I vaguely remember asking why and they said that internet customers were very loyal. I bet the real reason is that Open Table wasn’t big business for them, so they could afford to keep this gateway to reservations open because those few weren’t a problem. Either way, I hope Frank Bruni gets to the bottom of it.

Reading Frank’s new blog had me amused that here he was blogging about reservations, while the first time I blogged about him specifically was when I called him out on misquoting me on the East Coast Grill reservation policy.