http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_cracked_rocket So it appears that Lloyd's Rocket may not be dead after all. While passing the former gas station the other night, a blood-red neon light read that the place was open, and inside I saw a cook cooking for nobody and a bartender tending a bar without people. Lloyd's refusal to die, its commitment to a long and slow death that has no end in sight, reminded me of the last part of Baudelaire's poem "The Cracked Bell." And when in sorrows, it wishes to people the cold air of the night with its songs/ Often it happens that its... Copyright 2008 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:43:21 -0800 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:53:15 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss It's LLOYD not LLYOD, Charles. You spell it wrong every time.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_cracked_rocket#c686572 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_cracked_rocket#c686572 Chow Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:52:47 -0800 sorry about that error, els. sorry.

]]> charles mudede http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_cracked_rocket#c686579 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_cracked_rocket#c686579 Chow Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:56:58 -0800 I heard a rumor that one of the former owners (not Dino) of Chocolate City opened it as a new bar.

]]> Ryan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_cracked_rocket#c686620 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_cracked_rocket#c686620 Chow Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:21:55 -0800 I was going to post something about this and forgot. We drove by last Friday night (on the way to the ER, unfortunately) and it was not only open, the parking lot was full of cars and there were a bunch of people inside. So maybe it's not that dead after all.

]]> litlnemo http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_cracked_rocket#c686960 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_cracked_rocket#c686960 Chow Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:53:15 -0800