ATTENTION, PASSENGERS! THIS IS YOUR (NEW) CAPTAIN SPEAKING…

This is to notify you that my partners and I at ZERO POINT ZERO (maybe you know them from such shows as…mine) are hijacking this Facebook page. 

 
     868,000 “likes” on Facebook as of this writing. That’s a lot of people. And up til now, I have had absolutely NO involvement in either the editorial content, links, or answers to questions. Nor has anyone who I know personally been in charge of maintaining, updating or providing material. Which might explain the profusion of bizarro promos for “Dream Vacations” and solicitaions from”Busty Estonian Models!” . Whoever has been shepherding this page—in whatever lonely cubicle—has done, on balance, a good job. They were careful to distinguish their entity from mine, were responsive to queries, and did their best to not bring shame on our house. Thank you!

     But things will be different soon. As step one in a vast, multi-platform attention grab, my partners and I will be wresting control of this Facebook page, its editorial content, its links—and soon after, the NO RESERVATIONS twitter account as well (and tumblr, too). What does this mean to you? Loyal fan? Occasional viewer? Angry crank?

Meet Helen Cho.


     Helen is one of the brighter, stranger and more promising additions to the zeropointzero team over the last few years. Her first jobs were providing “actors” to play dead prostitutes and “crackhead rodeo clowns” for one of our shows. She quickly graduated to writing fake letters from insane superfans for another show. This was something she did with extraordinary skill—demonstrating a feel—a can we say..empathy…for overenthusiastic viewers with an obsession with minutia. Soon, Helen was out on the road with us, mopping up blood stains left by certain camera persons who shall remain nameless, and paying off local law enforcement officials to remain disinterested in our activities. This, too, was something she did with extraordinary skill.So we have decided to hand her control of the vast NO RESERVATIONS on-line presence,which means SHE, Helen Cho, real person, will be the identifiable and accountable persona behind this page (and soon Twitter and Tumblr).

     Which also means that unlike before, if you write or post, or tweet a question or a comment, I MIGHT ACTUALLY ANSWER. See…Helen actually knows me. I actually see her a lot in the office. I even like her. So, if there’s a big question or an interesting comment that Helen feels I should deal with personally, she knows where to find me. She can chase me to the bathroom, corner me like a trapped rat until I provide an answer or some fresh “content”.


 There will be a lot of big changes, and interesting additions and links to this page in future. We are hoping, in time, to do with this page what we have done with the show, to make it as creative as possible, to present a moving target, to—even when we fail—do so audaciously. This will involve not just regular updates from the road and on upcoming events, but a continuous dribble of cool links to books, movies, other sites, stuff we’re thinking about and think you should know about. In short, a living breathing page with definable, recognizable personalities and a real connection to the people who actually make NO RESERVATIONS.So bear with us as we figure this all out and build what we need to build. Hopefully a much more entertaining and representative future.


 Thanks for all our fans who’ve visited here so far.
—Anthony Bourdain