Readers familiar to F&D’s web site know that one of the digital editor’s most enduring of pet peeves is the way that language has been corrupted by the imperative of making money on/from/in the internet, even if he misses those colorful e-mail messages from Nigerian royalty with fortunes to claim.
Topping this listing of grievances is the practice of enticement with non-specific clickbait headers. Yes, I understand that William Randolph Hearst is long dead, and with him journalism as we knew it. The name of the game is directing iPhone traffic to invasive and insulting advertisements.
It doesn’t mean I have to like it. In fact, I detest it; to be perfectly honest, I’d prefer that my IQ remain right where it is.
However, today is Thurby (for curmudgeons like me, a fairly annoying term in its own right), and if everyone else gets to take the weekend off and glide, I’m entitled, too.
The venerable New Albany restaurant in question?
It’s the Tumbleweed Tex Mex Grill at 2005 State St., and while chains and franchises aren’t our publication’s bread and butter, Tumbleweed merits a New Albanian exception because its original incarnation dates to 1975 in a building across Vincennes St. from New Albany High School.
For many of us, Tumbleweed was a first glimpse of “Southwestern” or “Tex Mex” cuisine; admittedly, the thought of it being 50 years ago gives pause. Is Geritol still a thing?
Michael L. Jones offers a few words about Tumbleweed’s State St. demise at Louisville Business First. Ironically, having decided to gently send up LBI for its clickbait headers, with this one they threw a fastball down the middle of the plate. Insert the “shrug” emoji, I suppose.
Small Plates: Tumbleweed Tex Mex Grill closes one of its Greater Louisville locations
Tumbleweed’s remaining Southern Indiana restaurants are located at 3005 Charlestown Crossing in New Albany, 718 Highlander Point in Floyds Knobs and 2784 Jefferson Centre Way in Jeffersonville.
