Sunday night was my first real night off in weeks. So I enjoyed it with some new friends at Prime One Twelve in South Beach. We sampled a few dishes including Tuna Tartare with Quail Egg, Steak Tartare, Beet Salad with Goat Cheese and NY Strip. All of this was washed down with Champagne.
The restaurant is located in The Browns Hotel - back in 1915 it was Miami Beach's very first hotel. And I'm told that as recent as 10 years ago it was a crack house!
This was one crazy week. I worked more than 110 hours in the past 8 days... I really did stop counting. One stretch was 39 hours straight and another was 27.
Made the rounds last Sunday night. Hit several Miami spots with my coworkers and the gals of the O (the Oceanaire Seafood Room). We went to Finnegan's River, Ted's Hide A Way, The Room & Purdy Lounge for old school hip-hop nite.
Went to see TRANSFORMERS last night. The special effects were a little primative... and it could have used more action.
The date that Tupac Shakur will return to the world from his faked death. Tupac's number is 7 and July 7th, 2007 will be the ultimate date for the greatest rapper of all time to make the greatest return of all time. This theory has been disputed much but the original credit belongs to Dr. Gurusamy.
Though the Fourth of July is iconic to Americans, some claim the date itself is somewhat arbitrary. New Englanders had been fighting Britain since April 1775. The first motion in the Continental Congress for independence was made on June 4, 1776. After hard debate, the Congress voted unanimously, but secretly, for independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain on July 2 (see Lee Resolution). The Congress reworked the text of the Declaration until a little after eleven o'clock, July 4, when the twelve colonies voted for adoption and released a copy signed only by John Hancock, President of the Congress, to the printers. (The New York delegation abstained from both votes.) Philadelphia celebrated the Declaration with public readings and bonfires on July 8. Not until August 2 would a fair printing be signed by the members of the Congress, but even that was kept secret to protect the members from British reprisals.
John Adams, credited by Thomas Jefferson as the unofficial, tireless whip of the independence-minded, wrote to his wife Abigail on July 3, 1776:
Adams was off by two days, however. Certainly, the vote on July 2 was the decisive act. But July 4, 1776 is the date on the Declaration itself. Jefferson's stirring prose, as edited by the Congress, was first adopted by the July 4th vote. It was also the first day Philadelphians heard the official news of independence from the Continental Congress, as opposed to rumors in the street about secret votes.
