Any idea what Chris Patternote is gonna do? I talked to him recently, but it was before Vin's closing. He is really talented.

I hope they know what they are getting themselves into by going to Power Plant.... The place really doesn't scream "serious food."

Since they own it, I think they know what they are getting into...

Patternote will land on his feet, he's got connections, and enough creativity.

PowerPlant Live: Where the Meatheads Meet.

If we ever have blog meet-up there, please let me know early. I'll have to run out and buy some hair gel.

IS this a permanent move? It doesn't seem like a good fit. VIN looking for new staff after opening? I'm confused.

Luckie's will be a perfect addition to Power Plant Live! A comfortable and inviting place with great food and live music.

Jason -- Vin's "temporary" closing was covered in this prior D@L topic. Whether it is not, in fact, a permanent closing was the subject of this subsequent D@L topic.

I am excited about Lucky's...serious food in a fun environment, I don't know anyone who wouldn't enjoy that.

Great food and great company...paired with beer and sports...I'm there!

Luckie's is going to be off the chain. I've heard a few things about it from some people who have been working on it and also got the opportunity to see the inside so far. I know a few of the guys that will be in the house band that is scheduled to play on the weekends and they are hilarious as well as being great musicians. There are also a few cool bigger bands that are scheduled to play. This place is going to rock...AND there's going to be beer pong tables!!!

There sure seems to be a lot of shills in this discussion.

I'm enjoying seeing how many. :-) EL

Can't wait for the opening! Fun, Food and Music. Way to go Cordish & Company!

The fun part about the shills is that every one of them makes it sound less attractive. Yay, drunken boys vomiting on drooling chicks over beer pong. I can't wait!

Not.

Can't wait for the opening! Fun, Food and Music. Way to go Cordish & Company!

Normally I would interpret statement as pure sarcasm. LQTM. I especially like the capitalization of cliches and two enthusiasm points! Why be so cynical? What we need is more ciphers blandly championing faceless corporations.

Beer pong tables? That has got to be a joke. Also, "off the chain" is hilariously dated.

I know a few awesome people that work there too: Anonymous, Frank, Elena, Dayna and Deborah Peterson. They are totally the opposite of tools.

When I think Power Plant Live!, I don't think great food as much as I do Axe body spray, fake tans, and date rape. Ah, good times.

Release the hounds!

Beer pong? What happened to "quarters"? I was accidentally watching Bravo for five hours this weekend and I saw the OCD sociopath house flipper Jeff Lewis playing quarters with his employees. I was deeply offended to see them dropping a quarter into a glass. You gotta bounce it off the table! That aside ... beer pong? Lame. Luckie's is now on my radar thanks to the grom shills. On my radar as being a place to avoid, since it will probably be filled with the Towson donkey-boys and their Jersey girls. SHOTS!!!!

Shills? Hmmm.... just because someone literally cheering for a corporation has the same last name as the GM? Nah. I guess if she used an alias she wouldn't get her Cordish Frequent Lackie Points for an all expenses paid trip to the first level of Hell, where there is lots of corporate Fun, Food and Music. Bad news: the Austrians are in charge of the Fun, the English the Food and Celine Dionne the music. Aaaahhhh-eeeee-aaaaaahh-yyyyyyyeeeeeeeee

Owl Meat & friends shoot! and score!!

I posted this below on the crab cake post
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/dining/reviews/blog/2008/06/where_else_to_get_a_great_crab_1.html
in response to hmpstd's great analysis of how to spot a shill, but it refers to what's going on here mainly.

Very astute analysis hmpstd. You put into words what some of us probably know intuitively. I think the interaction between commenters keeps this blog real. You really don't see that on other Sun blogs much. Sometimes they get a fair number of commenters but no interaction. It feels like a bunch of people shouting in their own wildernesses.

Places like CitySearch are useless because you are not allowed to interact with the others people who post reviews. And because SO many of them are done by shills and bitter current or former employees. Some of them are really obvious.

The shills here are pretty inept. Especially here where a gaggle of them show up at once for no good reason. They also have no voice. Byt that I mean they sound like they are writing voiceless, bland, generic advertising copy. Nobody takes the effort to write something on a blog they have never been to and have no specific reason. There are good shills, but they are like Canadians - they walk among us and blend in. Spooky.

They first time I heard about organized corporate shilling on the internet was around 2000. A music label hired an army of people pretending to be teenage girls to go into chat rooms and such and create buzz about a new singer they were pushing named Cristina Aguelera(sp?). They were more clever. They had them post leading questions like, "Have heard the new song X by Cristina somebody? My friend says it's off the chain..." Buzz buzz. I think the Blair Witch Project also posted TONS of false information to magnificent effect.

Work on your game Cordish shills. Just remember, info on the net is like pee in the swimming pool. You can't take it back.

Word to my peeps at Krueger Industrial Smoothing, Inc.! You provide a valuable service for a reasonable price!

WHAT is this blog about?

This is like the Thunderdome of blogs. It looks harmless from the outside, even dull: "Vin chef moves to the new Luckie's Tavern". That doesn't sound too interesting to me, but lo and behold.

Kreuger Industrial Smoothing? Brilliant. That's where George worked on Seinfeld. Their motto was "We don't care and it shows."! I get it, Rock Chiclet is pretending to be a shill for KIS. A lot more layers here than I expected. Who knew?