Oh, man, stop it already. Restaurant rage owner Vadim Ponorovsky of Meatpacking District foie gras eatery Paradou, you're making the bloggers' jobs way, way too easy. Naturally, I haven't subscribed to Paradou's email list, which is at the center of Ponorovsky's controversy: It was in one of those emails that he raged at his employees in the most visceral way possible, and then, after being battered by the press for doing so, refused to seriously acknowledge any egregious misdeeds, lashing out again at the press. So, of course, how surprised could I be when Paradou's infamous email newsletter showed up in my inbox today, with warm, press release-ish Thanksgiving joy. Observe. My email inbox suffers, so you don't have to.

Well, when we last checked in on the hands-down winner for Restaurant Rage of the Year -- Paradou owner Vadim Ponorovsky -- he was still fairly unrepentant about his debatable management style, which peaked when he sent a scathing, pejorative-laced email to his staff (to put it kindly). So, what happened since it went down hard on Friday? Well, for one thing, I knew somebody who was actually headed there.

Okay, here's what happened: one of the three night editors at Gawker, Ravi Somaiya, went live around 7am with a post of a leaked, uh, memo from Meatpacking District restaurant owner Vadim Ponorovsky, to Paradou's staff, berating them for not collecting guests' email addresses for the Paradou's online mailer. Sample sentence: "You sit there bitching about how you make no money, remember its because youre fucking lazy motherfuckers. YOU SHOULD ALL BE FIRED IMMEDIATELY!!!!! ALL OF YOU, INCLUDING THE HOSTS!!!!" The post broke 10,000 hits, the rage of the masses ensued. Ponorovsky maybe tried to sneak into Gawker's comments to defend his actions. We contacted Ponorovsky for quote. So did Daniel at Grub Street, and Amanda at Eater. Both posts are worth reading. And here's what he told me.

End of season, East Coast style.