La Granja restaurant in Palatine, Illinois. (APS photo; see CinemaScope version.)

In a wide-ranging post-dinner discussion, Leah, Dick and I talk about our visit to La Granja, a new restaurant in the Chicago suburb of Palatine -- and then weigh in on topics that include (but are not necessarily limited to) "Three Days of the Condor," the Bradford Exchange, Fiestaware, Booby's restaurant in Niles and keeping guinea pigs as pets.

I also discuss The Three Stooges and that whole Shemp issue to describe my disappointment at the ribs I ordered at La Granja. Speaking of The Stooges, you can download a fun Modern Man song about Moe.

Oh, yeah. We also talk about this place, which now seems to have closed.

Read Leah's published review of La Granja here. For another view of La Granja, check out Lisa & Joe's February 3 podcast over at Cheap Date.

By the way, as I'm writing these show notes, I'm watching "Thelma & Louise" on cable. (They're just getting ready to pick up Brad Pitt right now.) Along with "Starman" and the original 1971 "Vanishing Point" (the first movie in which I ever saw a woman topless at the movies and I mean on the screen, but that's another story) this is one of my favorite road movies. Maybe it's because my family moved around a lot, but I could definitely identify with wanderlust and the call of the open road. Chris LeDoux and Steve Wariner were right.

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