Italian's are fans of bans...

E BASTA COSI!!! (enough is enough)

Italy is bugging out. hardcore. a beach near Venice has outlawed sandcastles. what's next - pails and shovels carried by 3 year olds?

if you are caught displaying any type of PDA in car, you are smacked with a 500 euro fine in Eboli.

in Vicenza, a man recently got fined for laying down in a park to read a book. clothed. no, it wasn't a Playboy man, it was The Alchemist.

in Capri, you are not allowed off the beach in merely a bikini.

any groups of two or more people in Novara, are forbidden from lounging around in parks at night. right, so one person can go, but three cannot.

in another town, you cannot mow your lawns on the weekend.

wow, it makes living in China sound like a cake-walk.

box-ing up The Box.

so I have to say...for a spot to be open for only a few months - not charge at the door, and then start, is tacky. i mean i liked the old door dude who opened the spot. and i have been, aplenty. but - when revenue is tight and they take it out on us, that is way ghetto.

so ghetto in fact, it's too ghetto for me.

upon walking up to the door last night, with the new 'uneasy in his own skin with no door experience' door guy wimply holding a bogus clipboard. he questions everyone if they have a reservation, then when they say 'no' he says (with the cartoonish finger-to-lip 'wondering' face) :

"give me a second" and turns to pause, then a dramatic re-entrance into the club; bouncer holding door open, him spinning on one foot, to 'pretend' and go ask someone. and then...the dismissal, poor souls.

over it people. the box....should be a cardboard one. with that dude inside. that's that.

i mean, i went in, but...still.

THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX....