Preppy is the New Hipster

My friend, Steu and I haven't had the chance to catch up recently, based on busy schedules and my total laziness. Yesterday we finally get to over dinner, at Hakkasan with a friend of his who is in town. As we are waiting at the table for our two other dinner companions to join us, Steuart mentions that Lee(his friend) is a sort of larger than life character. This was the understatement of the evening.

Dinner was delicious. The duck and mango starter was particularly good. But, the meal was really over-shadowed by Lee, who at 6'6" must over shadow a lot.

Among other funny shenanigans of the dinner, which included some mild verbal abuse to the waitress, and random spotting of a female friend of his that must be a super high-class prostitute(how else would you pay for that body), was the international sex symbol for mid-western-stay-at-home-moms was the highlight of the evening. Lee is apparently best friends with Fabio. Yes, Fabio of the I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Butter celebrity. When faced with the rest of the table's doubt, Lee decides to get Fabio on the phone. The dashing milanese himself is on speaker-phone for a while, saying hello, proving Lee's point. Then Steuart proceeds to talk with him for about another 15 minutes on God-Knows-What? Butter substitutes? Hair styles? Lee also claimed to be friends with the original Greg Brady(real name unknown), but didn't want to call him because apparently he is going through a messy divorce.

All in all it was hilarious, but I am not ashamed to admit that the c-list star name-dropping session outside of the dim mahogany glow of Hakkasan seemed kind of sad and pathetic. Admittedly, part of that could have been simply because I feel like DFW would have never wanted to be at that dinner.

Anyway, in light of that random occurrence, I am starting a poll: Would you rather have dinner with Fabio or Jackie Chan? You can go for an opt-in and write the original Greg Brady if you so choose.