3/26/2015: pommes frites lightning bolt

I haven't been back to NYC for a couple years and I am pondering flying there in a few days. I decide to look at the "Pommes Frites" menu on Caviar (restaurant delivery site) because I was thinking about fries and aioli and Pommes is my favorite fry place in the country and they have a big selection of aioli dipping sauces.

The next day, the building Pommes Frites is located in...EXPLODES:

At the time, I didn’t realize I would be creating this site eventually and wanting to provide as much concrete proof about what I'm illustrating as possible. So, I did not screenshot my browser history to show me surfing Pommes Frites on Caviar on the 25th. But, here is my original Evernote file from 2015 to show the time stamp of when I created the entry about it happening, which was the day of the explosion:

I specifically went to Pono (Santa Monica) because I was trying to find local places to get decent fries with aioli and was looking at Pommes Frites (NYC) the day before. The news of the Pommes fire/explosion happened at 4pm, literally two hours after I ate my lunch at Pono.

Here is a screenshot (added while proofreading this entry in 2023) showing Pono is ranked #1 for aioli in Santa Monica by at least one source:

Here is my CC statement showing the lunch I ate at Pono, which again, happened right before Pommes blew up:

And just for the hell of it, here is the plane ticket I bought the day I was surfing Pommes on Caviar (3/25) (you can see it directly above the Pono charge in my statement above). I was trying to decide that day whether or not to go straight to NYC from Santa Monica or to visit Austin Texas for the first time, in between. I chose to go to Austin and bought a ticket that day:

(I know this entry would be even more concrete had I bought a ticket directly to NYC, but what can I say? I chose Austin first. BUT...here's the ticket I bought to go to NYC, while I was in Austin):

So, I think about Pommes Frites for the first time in years and it's as if a lightning bolt was created that then struck and burned down the place.

OR maybe it was me deciding to go enjoy fries with aioli from a different restaurant the next day. Could that have caused emotional harm to the entity know as Pommes Frites, hence it blew itself up?

OR maybe someone/something was trying to give me a coded message that they clearly just didn’t want me to go back to NYC and Pommes Frites to eat those delicious aiolis.

Any way you slice it, just another example of my terrible, manipulated reality, where I just sit here day by day trying to figure out what just happened.