There are a lot of good people with good ideas here in Richmond.  One of the better ones being Strange Matter which recently opened up at the Raygun’s old spot.  The concept is awesome.  Affordable food, beer and arcade games.  I’m talking real, classic arcade cabinets here people, not a Nintendo 64 hooked up to an old TV with a zip-lock bag full of games (though I do appreciate it, 821).  Granted, if this were a video game blog we could argue the value that some of these games have at a Barcade.  Just plain old SF 2?  You couldn’t try to get Turbo or one of the Alphas?  I can’t play this shit!

The point of this post does have some relation to pizza.  I spoke with “Krusty,” the owner of the old Krusty’s Pizza place that closed down a couple years ago next to The Lost Sock laundromat.  I really wanted to do a full on interview with him, he spoke so passionately about his wood-fired brick oven pizza and all I wanted was to do my part in getting his pizza gospel out there as much as I could.

Well, he never called back but he did briefly mention working his pizza mojo in the kitchen of Strange Matter.  Think about that for a while.  How much more rad would this place be if you could buy slices of pie while hanging with your bros (or hos)  and trying to beat Bad Dudes or attempting the Million Dollar Dream on your friend in WWF Superstars?  I think it could get none more better.

We’ll see if this ever happens, because frankly, having an adult version of Chuck E. Cheese in town would make me a much happier lad.