This is TRULY warped.

I was talking on a message board today about how I'd like to go into the restaurant business, and if I did, I'd open a real Detroit style Coney Island, preferably one just like Uptown Coney Island on Jackson Road in Ann Arbor.  Good cheap food, and the best hot dogs ever.  Coney dogs, to be specific.

Michigan's most popular hot dog restaurants all contain the words "Coney Island" in the name.  The hot dogs are always natural casing beef hot dogs, with a certain kind of chili sauce.  Nobody owns the "rights" to Coney Island restaurants.  Most of them are individually owned, though I did find one company that franchises.   Ann Arbor has 7 or 8 Coney Island restaurants, and they all have different names.

Anyway, the best coney dogs are made with Koegel brand hot dogs from the Koegel Meat Company in Flint, Michigan.  A few years back I tried to find a place where I could buy them online but was unable to find anyplace.

But NO MORE! A place called Bud's Mail Shop sells them in partnership with the Koegel Meat Company.  Just head over to www.koegelmeats.com and order.  It's not inexpensive though.  I ordered 3 3 pound packages (24 dogs each, 72 total) and a 4 pound package of classic Flint coney sauce, and the total cost was $89.99 - which included shipping.

But I'm ready to have a serious cookout!

You want mustard and onions on that, don't you?  You know you do.

Is he overqualified for this job?

So, I've got this 80s playlist that I listen to a lot.  It contains some of my favorite 80s dance tunes.  This list is not meant to be an all encompassing list of great 80s songs.  In otherwords, no hair bands, no regular pop music (you know, Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, and the like)... I guess it's mostly new wave and club music.

What else should go on this playlist?  Sadly, Rhapsody doesn't have "The Politics of Dancing" so don't suggest it.  It'd be on there if they had it!

1. Oh Yeah - Yello
2. Pump Up The Volume - M/A/R/R/S - Colourbox
3. West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
4. She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
5. Don't Go - Yaz
6. Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
7. What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) - Information Society
8. Cars - Gary Numan
9. Chains Of Love - Erasure
10. Enjoy The Silence - Depeche Mode
11. Something About You - Level 42
12. I Ran (So Far Away) - A Flock Of Seagulls
13. Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell
14. Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung
15. Obsession - Animotion
16. Word Up - Cameo
17. Super Freak (Part 1) - Rick James
18. Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go - Soft Cell
19. It's My Life - Talk Talk
20. Blue Monday - New Order
21. Talk Talk - Talk Talk
22. Don't You Want Me - Human League
23. Our Lips Are Sealed - Go Go's
24. Let It Whip - Dazz Band
25. Freak-A-Zoid - Midnight Star
26. No Parking On The Dance Floor - Midnight Star
27. Rockit - Herbie Hancock
28. You Dropped A Bomb On Me - The Gap Band
29. Weird Science - Oingo Boingo
30. Walk The Dinosaur - Was (Not Was)
31. Friends - Whodini
32. Freaks Come Out At Night - Whodini