The (Most) Nabobist

Counter as in contrary wherein one opens an underground restaurant and iterates "family style" to the n boundary. The name is Hebberoy(sort of), the place is Portland.

The Great British Pork Pie, A fat bloke on his day off

Promising thread here at egullet.

Theater - city block

TV - living room

Computer - lap

It was once true that people gathered to watch, first in the darkened caverns of the theater with its velvet festoons. Cinema paradiso, et al. These moving images were projected onto massive screens that swallowed a hundred eyeballs at a time. And if you were to analyze each divisible second you found a frame made up of chemically etched forms each as recognisable as the next. But it scaled and we shared it all even with the frequent coughs. TV…