phxated_wyman… Alice Cooper is not a “shock rocker”.

He, uh, stopped doing that thirty years ago. Now he’s a vague cartoon no one outside of Arizona has thought about in thirty years.

Many readers, however, may find Young Martin’s wise-beyond-his-years careful and authoritative ranking of celebrity-themed restaurants useful.

Cooperstown, you might not know, is Cooper’s jarringly conceived sports bar cum goth restaurant. It’s on Jackson just behind the basketball arena.

The waiters wear funny eye makeup but the rest of the place is all sportsy.

It. makes. no. sense.

They have a menu item there called a “‘Caesar’s’ Salad.” We couldn’t figure out why the word “Caesar’s” was in quotes.


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Once when we were there someone ordered some sort of “super wiener” and the poor staff had to run around while sirens blared to deliver it.

How goth. How … “shocking!”

Anyway, Young Martin Cizmar, Discriminating Celebrity Restaurant Aficionado™, says that Cooper’s place isn’t as good as Carlos Santana’s Maria Maria, but that he would “concede it’s better than, say, a Planet Hollywood.”