The last deep fried pickle
Monday, December 31, 2012
Monday, December 24, 2012
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas everybody. A perfect time to sit down and have a cannoli. Just don't have too many.:-D
Sunday, December 02, 2012
Well, this is sad -- saw in the Post yesterday that the Stage Deli on 7th Ave has abruptly shut its doors. I used to enjoy sitting at the counter on weeknights to stuff my gut with pastrami, chat with the unusually talkative manager, and sometimes they'd have the Mets game on the TV mounted over the register.
I was in there earlier this month and I could tell they were struggling. The reuben platter was not as good, and when Frank gave me the tab it had CASH ONLY scrawled on it. He said they'd been doing it that way for a few weeks already. Good thing I had a couple of $20s on me -- those sammiches were pricey.
Cookie is not as saddened by this as me -- he still prefers Katz's pastrami to Stage's. I've been avoiding Carnegie for the last few years.
I was in there earlier this month and I could tell they were struggling. The reuben platter was not as good, and when Frank gave me the tab it had CASH ONLY scrawled on it. He said they'd been doing it that way for a few weeks already. Good thing I had a couple of $20s on me -- those sammiches were pricey.
Cookie is not as saddened by this as me -- he still prefers Katz's pastrami to Stage's. I've been avoiding Carnegie for the last few years.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
A few (final?) words about the election… Or pop culture. Same thing. It's a shout-out to my depressed conservative comrades still moping around, muttering, "the country is over." My response to you: yeah, it is.
I'm not trying to construct a clever political argument. I'm just looking at the day to day functions of the central government, the one founded with a charter to do some very specific things. We must now forget those things; government's two self-assigned functions today are welfare and industrial planning. That's it. Everything else is subservient to those power sources. National security, criminal justice, accountability to the people -- to say they take a backseat understates how they've been co-opted.
I'll leave it to others to wax philosophical about the enormity of the slow-motion coup. The practical upshot is enough to prove the case: our ingenious original framework is out, replaced with… red tape... and unlimited welfare.
Restoration is going to be a steep uphill climb. It won't be televised. Our every effort will be denounced angrily. That part will be televised. Middle ground is vanishingly small. Bitterness is baked into the cake now, so stop expecting otherwise.
Anyway, that's how things look from the vantage point of the sovereign republic of Berea Rose. Foreign relations are tense, but the state of this nation is strong.
I'm not trying to construct a clever political argument. I'm just looking at the day to day functions of the central government, the one founded with a charter to do some very specific things. We must now forget those things; government's two self-assigned functions today are welfare and industrial planning. That's it. Everything else is subservient to those power sources. National security, criminal justice, accountability to the people -- to say they take a backseat understates how they've been co-opted.
I'll leave it to others to wax philosophical about the enormity of the slow-motion coup. The practical upshot is enough to prove the case: our ingenious original framework is out, replaced with… red tape... and unlimited welfare.
Restoration is going to be a steep uphill climb. It won't be televised. Our every effort will be denounced angrily. That part will be televised. Middle ground is vanishingly small. Bitterness is baked into the cake now, so stop expecting otherwise.
Anyway, that's how things look from the vantage point of the sovereign republic of Berea Rose. Foreign relations are tense, but the state of this nation is strong.
Monday, November 26, 2012
I see Fordham is once again covering itself in glory. Hey, no one is entitled to a speaking gig. But you better know your facts before you condemn someone's viewpoint. And if you're going to talk smack you better base it one principles that can be applied consistently. But who are we kidding?
Eh, Fordham lost my respect a long time ago. Let 'em squirm.
Eh, Fordham lost my respect a long time ago. Let 'em squirm.
Friday, November 23, 2012
Yeah, what better way to celebrate Thanksgiving with family than to gather round the old flat screen and watch a couple of slasher flicks. They were laugh out loud bad/funny. Had lots of the bare-breastedness typical of the genre, thus my having to keep my thumb on the FF button. But they also had... musical interludes? Also FF-worthy, but funny.
Last night on thanksgibling we watched the 2 worst thanksgibling movies. The movies were: Thankskilling and PoultryGeist. These movies were extremely messed up and we ended up fast forwarding through most of them. I have decided to comment on poultrygeist. The movie consists of a fast food place being built on sacred indian burial ground and some pulsating vein covered eggs. Since the movie was so messed up we saw no zombie chickens. The movie was so messed up that we only saw half of it. What we did see was just the pulsating vein covered eggs and the aftermath of chicken attacks.
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