Redundant and Repetitive

No I'm not talking about Mayor Nagin's questionable characterization of City Council inquiries into the workings of his administration. Instead I am referring to the eerie phenomenon which has Magazine Street denizens suffering a "browbeating" from a succession of "redundant" businesses. I referred to this a few weeks ago when Table 1 closed. But now that it's going to reopen as the THIRD SUSHI JOINT ON THE SAME BLOCK, that old line between sublime and ridiculous has just been trampled across. Really. What the hell is going on over there?