There's a new blog in town, Sympathy for the Restaurant Industry. It's anonymous, "meta-fictional," and kind of good? Also, everyone thinks it's written by Abbe Diaz.

For those who love crazy tirades about the restaurant world but hate punctuation and capital letters, Abbe Diaz's non-anonymous PXThis is a real boon. That forum brims with Ms. Diaz's invective-laced bromides against what she sees as the perfidious backstabbing restaurant world. She writes about it with Napoleonic pizazz and an almost Cummingsian disregard for punctuation. Observe!

I've been chilling the last couple days with a few F&B type peoples (fuck this noise i'm a little tired of modesty today) hardcore preeminent major fucking restaurateurs...

Now there's Sympathy for the Restaurant Industry. Mediabistro and New York magazine both think that Abbe Diaz is writing the posts on "Sympathy" that consistently impugn Eater's jefe Ben Leventhal, Balthazar owner Keith McNally, Morandi chef Jody Williams and Page Six's Corynne Steindler.

Is it the work of Abbe Diaz? Let's analyze some text!

There are two basic arguments for the blog being penned by Ms. Diaz. One is the pure unbridled crazy batshitness of it all. Who but Diaz would carry feuds to the point of constructing poorly masked pseudonyms? Also, the protagonist of the stories is often a woman named Gabby. Get it?

The major argument against Sympathy being written by Diaz is the use of punctuation and capital letters. In Ms. Diaz' lexicon one is apt to find ejaculations like, "hahahahHAHAHAHHhahaha mutherfukkers. viva la revolucion." That expressive style is wholly lacking in Sympathy for the Restaurant Industry.

Now this leaves us with two options. Either Diaz is actually secretly capable of stringing together words into sentences using syntax and grammar, or there's another someone out there bursting with the same vitriol and petty anger and all the same enemies as Ms. Diaz but who is maybe a little more cognizant of the English language. Either way, we savor the creation of more crazy in the world.