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When I heard I’d be going to a place called the “Jolly Pumpkin Cafe“, my heart sank. I had been punished from someone in the main office for going to too many provocatively-named, minimalist-interior bistros serving carefully manicured salads in the center of large white dishes. My sentence: what was sure to be a trite, cliched family theme restaurant – just replace mid-meal rainforest sounds with Halloween costumes.“The Jolly Pumpkin“. Chew on that name. It’s fun. It’s playful. It’s cute. There … read more

There are two kinds of boot people in this world: the love ’ems and the leave ’ems.The love ’ems take special care to research the leather, research the oil, research how best to apply oil to leather, and then photograph every step of the process to make sure their boots clean up as well as they did last time. To them, cleaning is an hours-long, cathartic process that restores their boots – their investments – to proper upkeep.The leave ’ems take their boots off, and, they leave ’em. A well-worn … read more