Larson, now 21, is the sole employee at Rare Earth Goods Café in Ishpeming, taking every order, cooking every meal, washing every dish, and balancing the books.... He works without a stovetop or full-sized oven, relying instead on a small electric griddle, a four-slice toaster and a countertop convection oven. On busy days, customers wait up to 45 minutes for their breakfast and lunch meals....
Doctors later diagnosed him with Tourette’s at age 8.... “I was noisier or a bit more, I don’t know, just louder than other people.” Larson said. “I was like, shouting in class. And when I got excited about something, my first word would be like, yelling at you. Sometimes, it would scare people.”
You may remember the chef with Tourette's from "Curb Your Enthusiasm":
"Maybe one day I'll get a chance to do something good for somebody like that."
By the way, the reason I'm blogging this article is that I am interested in Ishpeming.
I know it as a hard-to-say name on roadsigns encountered when sojourning in the Upper Peninsula. It is also the setting for "Anatomy of a Murder," arguably the best movie depicting a trial. It's the birthplace of John D. Voelker, who lived the role played by James Stewart and the movie and also served as a Michigan Supreme Court Justice. Ishpeming was also the childhood home of the illustrator William Henry Bradley, who drew lovely posters in the Art Nouveau style. Like this:
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The best part of this story is the kindness of the customers.
There’s a nonprofit here in the dc area that trains handicapped people, including mental disabilities, and hires them out, mostly to government agencies. My agency’s training center used them as groundskeepers. One guy with Tourette’s had the job of running the big industrial lawn mower. It was the perfect job: he could swear his muthafuckin balls off and no one would hear it over the noise of the mower. CC, JSM
There was a client with Tourette's on LA Law all the way back in the 80s. It was played for laughs - he involuntarily called people fatty and baldy. There might have even been some racially insensitive remarks.
Why is the naked woman in the water wearing black arm bands?
Idle hands, and minds, too. Traditional wisdom.
If his restaurant was nearby the wife and I would give it a shot. Michigan UP is a bit far yo drive.
BTW, I’m sensing a theme. And it’s not about strange syndromes.
I think that Gov. Newsom should consider this, it might be a good career move for him and help him cope with his learing disabilities.
On busy days, customers wait up to 45 minutes for their breakfast and lunch meals....
Huh? That's difficult to imagine.
His Facebook site says on April 23, 2025:
Thank you for the views and interest!
We did close down and Rebranded to Elements & Bodywork.
Unfortunately, I will be giving back everyone's original art back to them and not continuing with selling locals art and other goods.
Thank you to two locals who donated their goods. You know who you are. I appreciate the support!
Due to the social dynamics in Ishpeming and the fact that I've reached my maximum potential income here, I will also be moving the massage practice out of Ishpeming at the end of 2025.
I seem to recall Oliver Sachs writing about a surgeon (brain surgeon ?) with Tourette's. Sadly, from what we're discovering about Oliver Sachs, he may have made it up.
The restaurant with no stove would be health violation in most places. I bet there was no sterilizing dishwasher either.
Leora said..
The restaurant with no stove would be health violation in most places. I bet there was no sterilizing dishwasher either.
that's what i thought too.
sounds less like a restaurant, and more like a lemonaide stand
"sounds less like a restaurant, and more like a lemonaide stand"
That people wait 45 minutes for? Sounds positively progressive.
Early in my marriage, I thought my new brother-in-law had Tourette's. I later learned he just watched a lot of MSNBC.
Believe that Venn diagram is identical.
I am going to claim Tourette's at work now. Not only can I say what I really think, but they can't fire me without being sued.
I bet there was no sterilizing dishwasher either.
Fu*kin’ paper plates! Dammit.
Prisoners in the AZ state prison system who claim Tourettes cannot be punished for shouting obscenities at guards. Though I've been told that they often get a good beating later on.
One never… TITS!!! knows what one will encounter at the Althouse site… DALMATION DICK!!!
Doesn't keeping busy cure most everything?
"Why is the naked woman in the water wearing black arm bands?"
Modesty.
Humans and all animals are 'happy' when they hew close to their biology. That means keeping busy, that means social interaction and group coordination, and that indeed means when women are actively engaged with children and caregiving.
Before Democrats fell into the TDS-era radical view that "every human is a fully malleable blank slate", they spoke of making the best of unchangeable characteristics and flaws. Strong social support was considered a key pillar of mental health.
I never learned the distinction between art nouveau and beaux arts, I think one is a psychedelic poster and the other is a building. But the Chrysler building is art deco. Very complicated and very important.
Josephbleau,
It's not clear to me what you are recommending to Governor Nuisance: opening a solo restaurant, or developing tourettes.
And all of you guys referencing sterilizing dishwashers, don't you mean sanitizing? "Sterilizing" would be the very next thing to an autoclave, if not an actual autoclave. I don't think most commercial dishwashers get quite that hot.
If I had to wait 45 minutes for my breakfast coffee, I would end up trashing the place in a fit of caffeine joneses. Sorry, kid. Nice place you had here.
As a medical student, I watched two ENT residents cut and pull the wires off the upper and lower jaw wires woven between his teeth. A little guy, it was his second broken jaw from a bar fight. He cursed nonstop with pain, rinsing with ice water and spitting now and then to control his pain and bleeding. The residents went to the next room, leaving me to send him on his way.
I asked him how he got in bar fights. He said he just sat there drinking, minding his own business. He kept up his cursing while we talked. Like he did in the bar, drinking by himself. Tourette’s! Sent him to the Neuropsychiatric Institute. Hope they told him to drink at home.
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