Todd "toddybear" M.'s Profile

This place is great!  I used to work as a bartender and this is the place we used to take all of our bar towels for weekly laundering.  While picking them up, one day, I discovered they had bundle service.  I inquired and they were very helpful.  That was two to three years ago.  Since then, I have been taking my laundry there for my personal use.  They charge roughly .75 cents per pound.  That's way cheaper than the $1.00 per load at my apartment building!  You can take them 50 lbs of clothes, and its only about 37.00 to 42.00-ish.   They fold, button, match sox, and will include hangers (if you want) for no additional charge. I went out of town for about two weeks once, and totally forgot about my laundry.  I went in with my claim slip, and they still had it, neatly folded and bagged in plastic for me!  These guys are great!  I haven't done laundry in about 3 years!

Ok, so some of the reviews are mixed.  But, entirely, it's all a matter of perspective.  If you're attending the Kennedy Centre Honors in NYC, then NO...don't buy you're jewelery at Sam Moon.  If you're like me, a female impersonator, and some of the jewelery you're gonna wear is to be fabulous, but probably only worn a couple of times before it turns your skin green, then Sam Moon is fantastic!  Consider it disposable Glam!  In an age when drive thru dinner is the norm, and almost everything is disposable, why would Sam Moon be any different?
   I did a Halloween show, two weex ago, and impersonated Sylvia Fine, Fran Dreschers mom from The Nanny, ( see photo) and the earrings, rhinestone necklace, brooch, and everything else was terrific, and didn't cost me an arm and a leg.  I was actually able to order a two piece ladies suit, in salmon, from Loehmanns on-line, with the money I saved on shopping at Sam's.
  As a sidenote, I think it's really funny that most of the people who shopped at Sam Moon's and thought it was tacky, or in bad taste, are regular shoppers at Wal-Mart.  Yeah.  Like THEY have great jewelery.  I've been to a Wal-Mart Wedding in oklahoma,....NOT PRETTY.
   Now then.  Purses!!!!  This is Purse Paradise.  From the tackiest large peace-emblem-embossed, jewel encrusted, shoulder tote thing that could hold a small child, to the $249.00 jewel encrusted evening purse by Chanel, ... they have it all!  I found the simplest elegant, color clutch in black patent leather, and then went back and got it again in hot pink, bright orange, soft grey, white, yellow, blue, and ....I'm still looking for it in green.  At only $12.00 each, you can't afford not to have your favorite bag in every color.

First, let me say, this review isn't for the location in Lewisville, it's for the location on Wycliff Ave. just south of I-35 near downtown Dallas.  
    These guys are great!  This is a situation that really requires you visit often, b/c they get deliveries about 3 times a week.  If you see something on Monday, DON'T PUT IT BACK, thinking you can come back and get it, b/c it'll be gone!  They rotate stock frequently, and things move quickly.  They have a great selection, and most items are around $8.00 They have stuff that's stylish that comes in around $39.99 or $19.99 but they eventually get moved down, and become $8.00.  They have great colors for the holidays, and recently a new shipment of faux furs.  
   The staff is awesome.  During my shopping for a halloween costume, (I went out as Sylvia Fine, Fran Dreschers mom on the Nanny), they helped with foundations, and undergarments without making me feel embarrassed.  If formal plus sized attire is what you need they even have a great selection of matching colors in hats and purses.  You'll leave having spent around $50.00, and have an armfull of clothes that at other stores would've cost around $150.00 to $200.00.  Try 'em....you'll like 'em!

I've had great subs (short for submarine), and I've had good subs.  Great American Hero sadly doesn't quite live up to it name.  Logically, if you're going to call yourself Great....anything...you should see signs of striving to live up to that standard.  Don't get me wrong, their subs are ok, and since I live in OakLawn, they're close by, for a quick cold cut sandwich with everything on it.  If you want a really great sub sandwich, with the ambiance that is better, try Great Outdoors.  They're better, and not so cluttered.  When I walk into Great American Hero, it's so cluttered that I wonder if they really do any cleaning.  It's crowded, and I wonder about their cleverness.  They don't take pennies, and claim to be "centsless" a play on "senseless"? Well, apparently. It would serve them better to use their creativity to clear away the clutter, and make it more customer friendly.  See you at Great Outdoors for an Outdoorsman, #6, and  a Sobe lizard juice.

Illusions. A great place to be yourself...should read, Illusions. A Place to be someone else!  Why would you go somewhere to be yourself, when the place is crawling with drag queens who obviously, AREN'T themselves!  The bar staff changes more frequently than my underwear, so the disclaimer that they know all their customers by name is BULL! I went there tonight with a friend, and again, the bathrooms were out of order.  The DJ (if you can call him that) was sitting at the bar getting drunk, and there were probably 6 people (counting me and my friend) in the place.  The bartender never did introduce himself. According to some of the patrons, the DJ has ADD and about 1.5 minutes into any song, he switches to another song.  How lame is that?  The bartender got into an argument with a patron, b/c he had less than a complete 1 oz. shot in his bottle of Canadian Club and refused to make his requested drink.  I've worked with TABC and I know that you're not allowed to have less than a full shot in a bottle that holds 20 to 21 shots per bottle.  That means the bartender is over pouring!  This place is lame and I'll be surprised if its still around 6 months from now.  They're shitty to the customers, and don't understand the concept of customer service.  Unless you're trash, stay away, in case someone sees you coming out of this place.

I like Tapelenders a lot!  In fact, I rent movies about twice a week, and they have a great selection.  Sometimes I wonder how they stay in business.  They have very liberal extended hours being open until midnight every night, and they seem to fall prey to the patrons of surrounding gay nightclubs.  If you need to return a video anytime after 9pm, forget it, b/c all the alcoholics and drunks have taken all the parking in the back for the retail business owners, AND the local bars, and plan to "camp out" at their watering holes 'til closing.  They offer some of the best GLBT titles in town, and are always getting new titles.  Their gay pride offerings are a little stale.....circa 1982? They have awesome gift ideas, some of the most beautiful glassware, kitsche,  and novelty light fixtures I've ever encountered.  Excellent aromatherapy section, and a selection of hanging glass  votive candle holders that no one else can rival.  An awesome assortment of sex toys, videos, condoms, birthday cards, calendars, "coffee table boox",  and accessories.  If you can't find it, they'll order it.  It took about 2 weex, but they secured a limited edition dvd of Torch Song Trilogy for me, and called me when it came in.  I recommend them!!!!!!!

I have been part of the gay "scene" for quite a while, and Pub Pegasus has always been a quiet, neighborhood bar with lots of great characters, with lots of great stories.  They recently have added wifi, free for customers, and have redecorated.  I have thoroughly enjoyed this place, and it was a regular weekly place to meet my friends.  I felt so much a part of this place, that last year at Xmas, I brought a gallon of my homemade chicken enchilada soup in, to share with my friends during our annual gift exchange, and had plenty to share with everyone in the bar.  They all enjoyed it, and it really seemed to hit the spot for a lot of people.
     Recently, Russell, stopped working there,(not his decision, b/c he was a great guy), and some punk named Mark is working there.  He was out on the patio smoking when i pulled up, and I didn't even know he wasn't a customer.  He starts in, "oh, I love your car.  I think they're so neat! "  Then he starts pulling up and down repeatedly, on my cars door handles like he's 8 years old!  I go inside, find a seat to order and wait for my friend to order, and he comes inside, and HE'S THE FRICKIN' BARTENDER!!!!  I remarked that I never suspected he was the bartender, b/c he wasn't mature enough to "play with the grownups".  The night went on, and my friend and I had equal numbers of drinks.  He had mixed drinks at $5.50 each and I drank Miller Lite, domestic beer.  In the end, the tab was $61.00! My friend drank 6 drinks at 5.50 each or approx. 31.00.  If we drank the same number of drinks, then my tab for my 6 beers was 31.00?  That means that "Mark" charged me $5.50 each for domestic beers?  He's a ripoff artist, and doesn't  know how to take care of customers.  Call the bar in advance and find out who's working when you go.  If it's Mark, go somewhere else, or be rich enough to afford to be ripped off.  Oh, yeah, he bitched about the lack of tip, on top of everything else. The only reason I gave this place a single star, (b/c of Mark), is b/c this site doesn't allow for a 1/2 star rating.  If you're reading this, and you're one of the bars patrons/ or an owner, get rid of Mark!!!!!

I went into Souper Salads looking for an alternative to burgers, tacos, enchiladas, and the like.  I thought, $10.00 for an all you can eat meal, including drink, not bad.  The salad bar is seldom ever maintained, cleaned, or looked after.  I had to ask the manager on duty if they were going to put out any more lettuce. Why would a salad bar restaurant run out of lettuce at 6pm?  The customers in the store evidentally thought I wanted to babysit their kids for them, b/c they were running rampant in the restaurant, and mom and dad, (or any other adults in the place) were so busy stuffing their lower middle/class faces with free ice cream and pudding, they couldn't have cared any less about their kids getting into trouble.  It's really hard to put together a decent meal, when you're trying to avoid being in the flight path of some roudy kids.  The lady in the soup line ahead of me, was so busy skimming the broth off the top of the soup, so she could have all the "guts" of the stew, that she wasn't aware that there was anyone else wanting to eat behind her.  The server brought me my diet coke, and I guess I was supposed to make it last, b/c that was the last time I saw her.  When I left, someone hollered "have a nice evening", and I answered, "too late." By then, my day had been ruined.

I can't believe the number of boring tasteless people who think this place rocks.  It's horrible.  The delivery service is terrible.  They apparently don't have what it takes to teach their staff how to deliver to a controlled-access high-rise apartment community.  They don't know how to follow instructions concerning the call box, and I frequently have to walk down to the front of the property to retrieve my pie.  Such as hassle!  If you're going to offer delivery, then teach your people "how to deliver"!!!  I've tried their pizza by the slice, and its awful!  The pizza never has enough sauce.  If you ask them to put enough sauce on it, they want to charge you for extra sauce. Bad Call! Otherwise, you get toppings on orange bread. Yuck!!! Don't waste you time trying to go inside and eat something italian off of the menu, b/c they don't know what they're doing.  I ordered Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo, and they brought me a Chicken Alfredo Pizza!  Then she acted all, "forgive me, I don't know what I'm doing" when she had to cancel my credit card and re-run it for the correct entree.  They're totally useless, and clueless!!!  When I finally got the correct entree, it was flavorless, and bland.  Save yourself the trouble, and order from Pizza Hut, on-line.

I realize that this is fast food. But even fast food can be good enough to recommend.  This place sucks.  I was shopping at other venues on Maple ave, and stopped in for a quick combo.  I went to the restroom to wash my hands, and suddenly this underage (teen) fat, loud, black kid, started in telling me I had to use the ladies restroom b/c the mens was out of order, and locked.  He kept on, and on, about it, and was loud, annoying and obnoxious.  He wasn't in any type of uniform, and obviously didn't work there.  I asked him who he was talking to, and he got mad when I told him to mind his own business.  During my attempt to place my order, he kept on about" somebody is gonna get their ass whooped".  It was at that moment, that  the large (300 lb) woman behind the counter in a JB uniform, exited through the door, and apparently told Junior to shut up.  He then comes to the counter, pushes his way past me, and "demands" an order of onion rings from the Male Mgr. who was taking my order.  My conclusion is that Junior got suspended from school, or at 2:30pm he wouldn't have been there harassing the customers. Apparently, the only way for his "mom" to watch him was to bring him to work with her.  I've babysat newborn puppies with overactive bladders that were less trouble that this teen was.  They don't have their stuff together, as managers in this unit, and you can do way better elsewhere.  They aren't interested in living up the the Jack in the Box brand, but rather, are more interested in being a "gansta" hangout, for drug dealers, and Future Carjackers of America.  The only reason I gave it a star is b/c yelp doesn't offer a half-star rating that I know of.