Tom's Restaurant Keeping Kramer Poster

2006_11_toms.jpgFor anyone wondering, Tom's Restaurant, immortalized as "Monk's," the diner where Jerry and the gang met and noshed in Seinfeld, has decided to keep its poster of Kramer. Tom's co-owner Pete Pappas told amNew York, "The picture we have on the wall is a character of a fictitious show." Plus, he's spoken to his customers about Michael Richards's racist rant, and the customers agreed with him about keeping the poster: "If I felt that it was offensive to a lot of my customers, I would take it down."

The poster hanging there is the painting of Kramer from the episode, The Letter. (Art collectors on the painting: "I see a parasite." "A sexually-depraved miscrient, who is seeking to gratify only his
most basic and immediate urges." "He is struggled, he is man-struggled. He lifts my spirit!" "He is a loathsome, offensive brute, yet I can't look away."
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Great. Now I'm gonna have that Suzanne Vega ditty in my head all night!

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Tom's is ok, but the real seinfeld diner is Westway on 9th Ave. That is where Jerry and Larry came up with the show.

That line about man's struggle doesn't sound right. I always thought she said, "His struggle is man's struggle."

I've just been staying at home waiting for something to happen, but I don't care. Basically nothing seems worth thinking about. I can't be bothered with anything recently.

I haven't gotten anything done recently. I've just been hanging out doing nothing. I haven't been up to anything these days, but it's not important. Today was a total loss.

I just don't have anything to say. Not that it matters. Eh. I've just been staying at home doing nothing, but I don't care. That's how it is.

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