Kempy Eats Pizza and Dumplings Too!

I invited the primo music journalist and my pal Rob Kemp to "Pizza Friday" last week. It was so nice of him to make the trek out to Brooklyn from his East Village pad, especially in the dreadful rain! Rob was a nice addition to the Shore Fire crew, he got along with everyone very well and we laughed a lot:) (below, l-r Lily, the top of Bianca's head, Diana, me, Rob)


It was the first time some of the Shore Fire peeps met Rob but Mark has been friends with him for a while (see Rob (L) and Mark (R) below). In fact Mark told us that when Rob was just starting at Time Out NY ten years ago, he called him up to say "Hey man, I really liked your story on Pearl Jam. Want to hang out?" Rob said it was the first time a publicist had ever invited him to dinner, he thought it was so cool. Mark took him to a dumpling place in Chinatown...Rob thanked Mark for introducing him to soup dumplings and said that it was something he'll never forget.

I can only hope that Mr. Kemp will remember his Friday pizza at Shore Fire as fondly as he does the Chinatown dumplings.