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OK, people, "happy thoughts" on Monday:
"Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things . . . "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irhroQ14Ufo
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 9:19 AM
Anyone go on the tour? I had to sub for a mother at a school thing & had to miss it.
Posted by: Arkady at October 5, 2009 9:21 AM
Good morning folks! What's shakin'?
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 9:24 AM
the what;s saturday OT really raised the bar on pathetic.
Posted by: randolph at October 5, 2009 9:26 AM
Snappy! How're you doing?
Posted by: Arkady at October 5, 2009 9:26 AM
If anyone is looking for a renovation project, you MUST see this house on St Marks...
http://www.mmmgmt.com/brokerwebsite3/code/buildingsale_detail.asp?listing_id=21450TH,27087TH,26617TH,&index=1
It needs a kitchen and all new bathrooms, the first floor would be a rental unit but needs a total renovation. Top floor isn't all that great but livable. The two floors in between have more natural mahogany than I've ever seen....really beautiful and the floors are in great shape as well. There's some water damage to the bay at the back of the house on each level but aside from the kitchens and baths, it's livable. I also believe the wioring is all new as I saw remote circuit boxes on some of the floors.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 9:26 AM
i couldnt do the tour because i had to wait on saturday, basically ALL day, for the cable guy to show up. he shows up and he didnt even need to come into the apartment. he unlocked some box in the hallway rearranged some wires or something, then locked it back up and then the cable and internet were back. he also REEKED of marijuana lol
*rob*
Posted by: Butterfly at October 5, 2009 9:29 AM
DIBS, what are you view of the renov estimates for that st marks place? wasn't it a 1 family - ie carving a rental out would be a CO change or an illegal rental?
Posted by: more4less at October 5, 2009 9:31 AM
Arkady, I'm still nauseous :-( I sipped some of the flat ginger ale this morning and it just made me feel more queasy. I think I'm gonna have to go back to water and soup.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 9:32 AM
Snappy, glad to see you're back on your proverbial feet.
Ditto what Dave said about the St. Marks house. Unbelievable. The house is huge. The woodwork and all the detail that went into is unreal. Original pocket shutters never painted. Original stained glass windows. Walk-in china cabinets on the Parlor and Garden floors. And it would be very easy to convert the middle room on the 2nd floor into an en suite bath for the Master Bedroom!
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 9:32 AM
Dave...can you tiny url that?
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 9:32 AM
dibs - can't tell - is it a corner building?
Posted by: Arkady at October 5, 2009 9:33 AM
this quote from that idiotic flart of a writer..
"Park Slope has a unique combination of leftist values, affluence, and insane people. You put vegans, breeders, ballers, gays, lesbians, and dog-lovers all in one area and it makes for a lot of comedy"
wtf is a "baller"?
*rob*
Posted by: Butterfly at October 5, 2009 9:35 AM
I missed the tour - son's doc appointmt ran late and the scatter shower forecast got me leary
Posted by: more4less at October 5, 2009 9:35 AM
Testing...greetings from a free internet kiosk in the Tallinn airport.
Posted by: jessibaby at October 5, 2009 9:36 AM
Hiya Jessi! How goes the travels?
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 9:39 AM
Here you go Snappy http://tinyurl.com/y9kgh5c
DIBS, wasn't that discussed a while back? I think Montrose Morris had some nice things to say about it?
Posted by: the chicken at October 5, 2009 9:39 AM
Hey Jessi! How was Stockholm? Sorry I didn't have any more tips for you from my Danish friend.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 9:40 AM
Rob, a "baller" is a junior investment banker who's just got his first bonus - goes out and drops some dough on models and bottles and acts like a player.
Posted by: the chicken at October 5, 2009 9:40 AM
DIBS,
859 Smax already was HOTD: http://bk.ly/Jc
Posted by: brownstoner at October 5, 2009 9:41 AM
Thanks Chicken
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 9:42 AM
It's not a corner. The house next door has a driveway. it's landmarked. The top storey exterior needs some work, it was poorly done at some point.
It needs whatever you want to spend for a kitchen and 2-3 bathrooms. And it needs the garden level to be completely renovated including a kitchen and bath. You could put the kitchen in the back side portion of the parlour floor where they show a bathroom and rip out that extra rear set of stairs that the "servant" would have used. No need for two sets of stairs to the second floor. You could do the top floor at a later time, liveable but not as nice as the others.
Except for that back alcove/bay on the two floors, it's fine as it is if the wood were polished and the walls painted. It's incredible.
It's an S-3 multi unit but for some resason I'm having a problem accessing the Cert of Occup page.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 9:42 AM
Arkady, it's not a corner house, but there is a decent size alley separating it from the house next door (which, by the way, has a phenomenal carriage house in back).
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 9:43 AM
Hiya Snappy, hiya CGar. Things are good. Pastries are yummy, sites are interesting, and the dollar sucks balls. My hotel last night looked lovely, but smelled of sewer.
Posted by: jessibaby at October 5, 2009 9:43 AM
quote:
Rob, a "baller" is a junior investment banker who's just got his first bonus - goes out and drops some dough on models and bottles and acts like a player.
lol. and those types exist in park slope? huh?
*rob*
Posted by: Butterfly at October 5, 2009 9:44 AM
Mr. B reads the OT?
And is still talking to us? :-)
Good morning, PLUSAs.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 9:44 AM
The pics DO NOT DO IT JUSTICE at all.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 9:45 AM
Eek! That's no good Jessi!
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 9:45 AM
Seriously, Snappy! It brought poo mist to a whole new level.
I'm glad you're feeling better. Did i read that it got so bad you ended up in the hospital?
Hiya Biff!
Posted by: jessibaby at October 5, 2009 9:48 AM
"lol. and those types exist in park slope? huh?
Posted by: Butterfly at October 5, 2009 9:44 AM"
I wouldn't have thought so. They work the juniors insanely hard so they usually live within 15 mins of the office.
Seems like the author of the article just pulled out a bunch of demographic stereotypes and slapped them into a paragraph.
Posted by: the chicken at October 5, 2009 9:48 AM
Did anyone hit up the Antic yesterday? I need to live vicariously through you. Please give details of sausage and pepper sammiches and beautiful antique dressers :-)
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 9:49 AM
Jessi - Hope you're at the airport en route to a new hotel!
Posted by: Arkady at October 5, 2009 9:50 AM
Hey Jessi! Big shout out from The Death Star. I hope you're having a blast.
Snappy, great to see you back here. Hope you feel better.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 9:50 AM
Dave is right. The third picture gives you an idea of what the coffered ceilings on the Parlor Floor look like (spectacular), and the fifth picture gives you an idea of what the banisters and wainscoting look like, but you really need to see it in person.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 9:50 AM
how'd you know that, Chicken?
Glad you're feeling somewhat better Snappy.
Posted by: Petebklyn at October 5, 2009 9:50 AM
Unfortunately yes, Jessi. I've got a bad strain of flu that messed with my lungs and caused a really really bad asthma attack that I'm still recovering from. Walking from the bedroom to the kitchen is like running an 8 minute mile :-(
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 9:50 AM
Biff, did you take the Champettes to the Atlantic Antic yesterday?
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 9:51 AM
"how'd you know that, Chicken?
Posted by: Petebklyn at October 5, 2009 9:50 AM"
How'd I know what?
Posted by: the chicken at October 5, 2009 9:52 AM
Thanks Biffy and Pete...I'm slowly getting there.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 9:52 AM
"Did anyone hit up the Antic yesterday?"
Snappy, I was there with the Champs. It was really packed and a ton of fun. I didn't realize it is the biggest street fair in New York. Apparently, over 1 million people attend. Champs had a great time, especially by all the Transit Museum stuff and I was dying to try all of the food, which looked delish, but had dinner plans with Mrs. C.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 9:52 AM
Big up to ARR OH TEE DUB!!! WHAT THE FUCK IS UP!!!
Tried to log on to his blog but company server said "hell no! ('fuck outta here!)".
***Bid half the fuck off peak comps***
Posted by: Brownstones Half Off at October 5, 2009 9:54 AM
I loved all the old buses that the Transit Museum brought out for the Antic. Even apart from the size of the antic, it's not your typical street fair - I didn't see a single vendor hawking spices or tube socks.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 9:55 AM
Snappy, that is terrible! I'm so sorry.
Arkady, yes. i'm on my way to the jumbo hostel for my last night in Europe. it's an old jet that some funky Swedes converted into a hostel. Should be cool though admittedly a bit dumb to pay money to sleep on a plane that isnt flying anywhere.
www.jumbohostel.com
Posted by: jessibaby at October 5, 2009 9:55 AM
This is the first year I missed the Antic. But, I couldn't risk falling out in the middle of Atlantic Ave...not even to smell sausage and peppers :-)
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 9:55 AM
Drat! Wish I'd gone instead of working on a door. Next year, Snappy!
Posted by: Arkady at October 5, 2009 9:56 AM
...lechacal and DIBS riding shotty on a regular! You can take 'The What' out of brownstoner but...
***Bid half off peak comps***
Posted by: Brownstones Half Off at October 5, 2009 9:56 AM
Hey...I look forward to the tube sock man at street fairs! Thick and ugly men's tube socks are my fave in the winter.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 9:57 AM
Jessi - That looks neat. Did you book it yourself or is it an 'event'?
Posted by: Arkady at October 5, 2009 9:58 AM
Snappy - There's a guy outside CitiBank on 7th Av. who sells those socks every day.
Posted by: Arkady at October 5, 2009 9:59 AM
guess I need to see this st marks place next time I visit children's muesum.
Posted by: more4less at October 5, 2009 9:59 AM
how'd you know what a baller is? or did you make it up and are just busting ours?
Posted by: Petebklyn at October 5, 2009 10:00 AM
CGar, you read my mind!
Speaking of dinner, I went with Mrs. C to Saul last night. I hadn't been there. It was very good. I had the seafood chowder and aged ribeye steak with slow cooked beef short ribs. The seafood chowder was outstanding and the main course very good. I also had a very nice 750ml bottle of a Belgian beer whose name is escaping me now. It was lovely.
Mrs. C had the grilled homemade merguez sausage and pork loin entree with a baked Alaska for dinner. She drank red wine.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 10:01 AM
Booked myself. Wait, what is an 'event'?
Posted by: jessibaby at October 5, 2009 10:01 AM
I'm just sayin' Snappy, you can get tube sox and spices at any street fair, but what I like about the Antic is how unique all the vendors are, and that the local shops and restaurants along Atlantic and throughout the area set up booths.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 10:01 AM
Snappy...that guys prices are no good...at the street fairs..especially the one on 5th Ave in the summer are the best. You catch them at the end of the day and you get like 15 pair for 3 bucks! (granted at least 2 pair have holes in them, but hey...for 3 bucks I can't be too picky!)
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:02 AM
Very true Cargar...the Antic is a very refined street fair. I love the atmosphere.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:03 AM
You had a ribeye AND short ribs???
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 10:04 AM
Oopps...that should have said "Arkady...that guys.."
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:04 AM
AAAUGH! RIBS! Arkady and I briefly discussed ribs last night. I want some! Were they tender? Juicy? Succulent? Sigh.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:04 AM
As soon as this whole yuckiness in my tummy is over, I'm taking myself out for ribs and beer. ooooohhhhh
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:07 AM
Pete - see urban dictionary def of baller:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=baller
Posted by: jessibaby at October 5, 2009 10:07 AM
Biff, was the Belgian beer Lindeman's? It's one of my favs. The framboise is best but the peche will do in a pinch.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:08 AM
Snappy, we noticed you were talking to yourself, but figured you're still a little delirious!
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 10:09 AM
okay, im out. people here in estonia are giving me the stink-eye waiting for this free internet kiosk.
Posted by: jessibaby at October 5, 2009 10:09 AM
Biff, I was out of town and missed the antic. Did you guys happen to catch Les Sans Culottes (faux-french pop)?
Jessi -- have you found the wine bar cave?
rob -- I guess me and my basketball pals don't count as "ballers." BTW, didn't know DH was a cable repairman.
Snappy -- wow, that really sucks. Have they diagnosed a strain (H1N1 or something else)?
cobble -- hope you are back today. I have to admit, I still only understand about 1/3 of what happened, but I agree with the call for a hiatus on sock puppets and a return to (near-)civility.
Posted by: slopefarm at October 5, 2009 10:09 AM
When I hear the word 'baller' I automatically think of that old rap song..."I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller, I wish I had a girl who looked good I would call her..." Damn. Now I'll be singing that all day.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:09 AM
"how'd you know what a baller is? or did you make it up and are just busting ours?
Posted by: Petebklyn at October 5, 2009 10:00 AM"
Ah...it's fairly well known phrase in the financial services industry. Like all good slang, it's considered complementary by those within the stereotype and derogatory by everyone else!
Posted by: the chicken at October 5, 2009 10:10 AM
Hi people, glad you enjoyed the house tour. The St. Mark's (aka MY house) house is indeed magnificent. Dave, don't you dare use the words "tear out" anywhere near it, unless you are referring to completely redoing the bathrooms. There should be a clause in the deed that will prevent anyone from thinking it would make a great 4 or 5 family house, because the first things that would go would be those dressing rooms, which are, after the parlour floor, the most interesting and spectacular things in the house. The carriage house next door at the Montrose Morris houses is an extra bonus of gorgeousness to look at, as well. There's nothing I don't love in that house, and would gladly take on the work if I had the money.
I'd love to hear what everyone thought of the rest of the tour, and I'm glad I ran into a whole bunch of Brownstoners (that I know, anyway): Brooklynista, DIBS, Cobble and DH, CarGar, Dave and BF, and CG ups, and of course bxgrl and Amzi, who both volunteered. Thanks for the support!
Posted by: Montrose Morris at October 5, 2009 10:12 AM
"You had a ribeye AND short ribs???"
DIBS, it's all one entree...a sampling of both. The short ribs were excellent. Must have been marinating all day.
I know you said you wanted to go to Saul to try the foie gras and sweetbreads. Did you ever go?
Snappy, I'll try to remember what the beer was.
I still can't get over how flavourful the clam chowder was. Unlike any I've had before. And the baked Alaska was dreamy. We went to see The Informant after at Cobble Hills cinema and were both very disappointed by it.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 10:12 AM
Jessi,
it's since been adopted by the financial services industry.
eg
http://longorshortcapital.com/how-to-be-a-mini-baller.htm
Posted by: the chicken at October 5, 2009 10:13 AM
Hiya slopey...they aren't sure what strain I've got, but I'm scheduled to get a regular and swine flu vaccine on Friday, but only if I'm better by then. I can't get them while I'm still sick because the doc says it will make me worse than I am now.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:13 AM
Cobble Hill theater, that is. Cobble Hills? Ouch.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 10:13 AM
oh i heard a new derogatory term for babies this weekend. "f*ck trophies" lol
*rob*
Posted by: Butterfly at October 5, 2009 10:14 AM
"Cobble and DH"
Montrose, are you trying to create a scandal?? :-)
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 10:14 AM
Rob, now there's a good way to get yourself banned again.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:17 AM
MM, at some point you are going to have to put in a bid on this house!
Posted by: the chicken at October 5, 2009 10:17 AM
Biff...one of the best short ribs I've ever had is at Scopello in Ft greene...on a bed of risotto swimming in the au jus.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 10:18 AM
MM - Maybe you could get a grant or publishing advance & write a book on restoring the house. You've got credentials & credibility such that someone might fund you.
Posted by: Arkady at October 5, 2009 10:20 AM
Where are my restaurant divas and dons? Who can recommend a good rib joint - not a frou frou one...I want a plate o ribs and a pile of wet naps. No pretentiousness!
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:21 AM
So you wanna be ballers, shot callers who be dipping in the benz with the spoilers.
Posted by: jack slade at October 5, 2009 10:22 AM
Ok, ok, I meant BH, BH. I had a long day on Saturday, give me a break.
Posted by: Montrose Morris at October 5, 2009 10:23 AM
Now there's a better "ballers" rap song. Thanks Jack :-)
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:23 AM
Snappy must be well on way to recovery if dreaming about food like that.
Posted by: Petebklyn at October 5, 2009 10:24 AM
I know it will be frowned upon by the foodies but I've always had a great dining experience at Dallas BBQ.
Posted by: the chicken at October 5, 2009 10:24 AM
DIBS, did you ever try Saul? Service was excellent too, which was nice as I read a few reviews indicating some people weren't impressed by it. The decor could use some updating though. I'm not big on very plain ceiling fans twirling overhead.
Anyone ever go to the Smoke Joint in Fort Greene? It's supposed to be quite good.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 10:25 AM
MM, personally I think the St. Mark's house is screaming for a gut, ultra-modern renovation. ; ) Enjoyed the rest of the tour as well, but the St. Mark's house was the favorite. Also really like the renovation the owners did of 12 Hampton Place - the mix of modern and original details really seems to work there.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 10:25 AM
I love the texas size drinks at BBQ :-) I've never had their ribs though. How are they chicken?
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:26 AM
Snappy, the one I asked about in Fort Greene is supposed to be excellent.
http://www.thesmokejoint.com/
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 10:26 AM
Pete, dreaming gets me through!
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:27 AM
Thanks Biff
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:27 AM
Hmmmm...they don't serve beer and their collard greens are meatless. No real southern cook would ever *EVER* attempt collards without a neckbone, hamhock, something! Shit!
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:29 AM
"Who can recommend a good rib joint"
Blue Smoke, East 27th Street, between Park and Lex. The bad news is it's in Manhattan. The good news is it's only 2 blocks from the Museum of Sex. I also like Virgil's in Times Square.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 10:29 AM
Hi All,
I went to see the 417 Macon this weekend, the one that's going to be auctioned on Tuesday. The house is listed as a 2 family but actually there's an owners duplex on the bottom and the top two floors each have a studio and one bedroom apartment. If you were to buy it what does the CO mean for you when you go to rent the apts?
Posted by: Tdeezy at October 5, 2009 10:30 AM
you got it snappy!
Posted by: jack slade at October 5, 2009 10:32 AM
I've had Virgil's...it was ok, but not good enough for a trip to Manhattan. Any Bk recommendations?
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:32 AM
Never beeen to Saul's.
Smoke Joint is the same owners as Peaches and the Peaches ribs come from smoke jpoint. They are very good.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 10:33 AM
snappy, smoke joint is good, but I thought the portions were huge. Macncheese is quite tasty.
Posted by: DeLepp at October 5, 2009 10:33 AM
CGar, no fair! I was going to say Blue Smoke but thought Snappy wanted something in BK. And now that you've mentioned it's proximity to the Museum of Sex, she'll never choose mine over yours.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 10:34 AM
LOL Biff!
DeLepp, this may be southern sacrilege, but I hate Mac & cheese. Disgusting!
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:36 AM
Snappy, take it from Biff and me: Make a day of it. The Museum of Sex followed by dinner at Blue Smoke.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 10:36 AM
Hey, DeLepp! Sorry you didn't make it to CHN Saturday. I hope everything went well.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 10:38 AM
DeLepp, my first choice for our dinner last night was Keen's, but Mrs. C wasn't in the mood last night for a big slab of meet (have at that, PLUSAs).
I know you're a fan of Keen's and was hoping to go and report back to you about it.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 10:38 AM
Hi all- I'm still away and had to create a second log in because i stupidly could not remember my password. that's what happens when you get lazy and let the browser keep you signed in :-(
Did the Cloisters Ren Fest yesterday- what a blast! Next year all us Brooklynites need to hie ourselves up there in renaissance drag and have fun. I was working for a friend, with my sister. There must have been thousands of people- all having a wonderful time.
Posted by: bxgrl2 at October 5, 2009 10:39 AM
Are they really that good? I'm that Brooklyn girl who hates leaving the boro...
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:40 AM
Hey there everyone.
Snappy, I'm a fan of Brother Jimmy's but not the one on the east side. Gotta go Upper West (Amsterdam & 81st).
Posted by: TownhouseLady at October 5, 2009 10:40 AM
CarGar, funny, ha ha! Gut reno.
Arcady, I'm trying to find a publisher now, got one acceptance, one rejection. Had to take a break to concentrate on the house tour, as well as make some dollars, but will be sending out materials again starting this week. If anyone has any publishing house suggestions, please chime in. It would need to be places that accept unsolicited manuscripts, without an agent, in the topics of architecture, history, art, design, etc. Very willing to go private email on this one, montrosemorris@yahoo.com. Thanks.
Posted by: Montrose Morris at October 5, 2009 10:41 AM
PS re: the CHN House Tour. We were starving, and it started to rain, so we went for lunch. We walked down to Tavern on Nostrand (renamed Crow Hill Bistro) at about 2:15, but it was closed (turns out it doesn't open until 5pm on Saturdays). Dave knocked on the window, and I started waving my arms, and they were so incredibly nice as to open the restaurant and the kitchen just for us! Another great meal there.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 10:41 AM
I think Tennessee Mountain is the best ribs in Manhattan
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 10:42 AM
THL...that's far! I'm lazy! LOL
By the by...I caught The City yesterday....oooooh! Love that Olivia is getting the smackdown at Elle.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:43 AM
"I love the texas size drinks at BBQ :-) I've never had their ribs though. How are they chicken?
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:26 AM"
I really like them and the whole menu is such good value. Makes for happy times.
Posted by: the chicken at October 5, 2009 10:43 AM
Tennesse Mountain is the BOMB! Love that place, but havent been in years. They put a ton of food on the plate. I took my parents there years ago and they still talk about that dinner!
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:44 AM
Snappy, what's wrong with leaving BK? There's lots of places in Manhattan that you can get to easier than some of the remote parts on Brooklyn.
Posted by: the chicken at October 5, 2009 10:45 AM
Chicken, that's true...I've never had a bad time at BBQ...the drinks help :) I think that place must be the cheapest eats for the money ever.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:45 AM
ooops...meant most eats for the money!
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:45 AM
Oh please, everything's close once you're on the train.
Oh yeah, that girls got her hands full. Seems miss priss has met her match.
Posted by: TownhouseLady at October 5, 2009 10:46 AM
bxgrl, thanks for the heads-up on the Cloisters a few days ago. We just couldn't fit it into our fun filled packed weekend, but I would love to go next year.
"Dave knocked on the window, and I started waving my arms, and they were so incredibly nice as to open the restaurant and the kitchen just for us! Another great meal there."
Reminds me of the Brady Bunch episode where they saved up a bunch of stamps to get a TV or something like that and were all knocking on the store window to let them in to get it:
From tv.com: The Brady family learns that a trading stamp company is going out of business. A fight breaks out over who should get all of the saved stamps, the boys or the girls. If the girls get them, they plan to buy a sewing machine. If the boys get them, they plan to buy a rowboat. But who will get them? The winners are decided in a match to build a house of cards.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 10:46 AM
- a big slab of meet (have at that, PLUSAs).
I think some PLUSAs would rather have a big slab of meat.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 10:46 AM
I used to eat the Tenn Mtn. when i worked in Soho- you're right snaps. Great food, tons of it.
Posted by: bxgrl2 at October 5, 2009 10:47 AM
Trains! Eek! I'm a bus girl :) I'll have to suck it up though and hop that silver limo into the den of iniquity.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:49 AM
"Reminds me of the Brady Bunch episode . . ."
Well, if they hadn't spent so long building that damn house of cards . . . only to have Tiger knock it down!
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 10:50 AM
Tennessee Mountain dished out food like it was going out of style! It was always spilling off the plate. My dad told the waitress, "Damn! You should put this shit in a trough!" So. Embarrassing.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:50 AM
"I think some PLUSAs would rather have a big slab of meat."
It's not all about the size, jokester
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 10:51 AM
Speak for yourself CGar.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 10:52 AM
"I think some PLUSAs would rather have a big slab of meat."
It's not all about the size, jokester
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 10:51 AM
No, it's about the spilling.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 10:52 AM
"No, it's about the spilling."
As we've already discussed here at length, spillage is easily avoided.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 10:54 AM
oh dear!
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:57 AM
Where is Legion? I've got a medical question. Has he been officially named PLUSA Staff Doctor yet?
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 10:58 AM
Is Legion a MD???
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 10:59 AM
I meant, it's about spelling.
Anyone know where I can get Cactus Pear in Park Slope without depleting my bank account.
That prickly fruit will cost you.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 11:00 AM
Dave, yep
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 11:01 AM
I used to love Tenn. Mt, too. I always took friends there when they met me down in Soho, where I also used to work. (and where bxgrl and I met, at the same job light years ago) I was sorry they closed, as the building was a wonderful piece of history itself, and the food was ridiculously well priced and abundant. Now Soho has nothing but overpriced bistros where you get a leaf of organic lettuce with a teaspoon of something on it, with balsamic vinegrette drizzled in a circular pattern on an enormous plate for $27.00
Posted by: Montrose Morris at October 5, 2009 11:01 AM
"Now Soho has nothing but overpriced bistros where you get a leaf of organic lettuce with a teaspoon of something on it, with balsamic vinegrette drizzled in a circular pattern on an enormous plate for $27.00"
True x 100 :-(
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 11:04 AM
biff, as for keens there is lots of smaller gems on the menu. 4 of us usually share the Chateaubriand Steak for Two. Plus too much food gets in the way of my drinking. The pub menu is terrific for small platters.
c-gar, despite the moving breaking down on 80, all went well and she's quite happy.
Posted by: DeLepp at October 5, 2009 11:05 AM
DeLepp, very glad to hear it.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 11:07 AM
brownjokester, my Mexican bf always brings me Cactus Apple or, as they call it in Mexico "Tuna." He gets it at brooklyn terminal market which unfortunately is too far for you
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 11:08 AM
is anyone else excited for Mo'Nique's new talk show starting tonight at 11PM on BET? Now I can watch Wendy Williams at 10 and then Mo'Nique at 11 before going to sleep yay!
*rob*
Posted by: Butterfly at October 5, 2009 11:11 AM
Oh, how I want real food.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 11:11 AM
DeLepp, Mrs C and I are a big fan of Chateaubriand for Two and will get that for sure when we finally make it to Keen's. I hear what you're saying re: other things on the menu, but I'm set on getting the steak you recommended when I go there. Going to Keen's and not getting steak is like going to Trout and not getting a Pork Slap!
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 11:13 AM
I listen to Curtis Sliwa at night when I go to bed.
Posted by: infinitejester at October 5, 2009 11:13 AM
Hey, jester! What's up?
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 11:14 AM
biff, here ya, just get the tomato sald too, they get the best ones in the city.
pork slap? sounds like a blue movie.
Posted by: DeLepp at October 5, 2009 11:15 AM
I listen to my partner say NO before I go to bed.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 11:16 AM
Snappy- when i ate there it looked like the fries were committing suicide so many of them fell off the plate from lack of room! And I loved the building there were in- one of the last woodframes left in Soho.
Definitely biff so the ren fest next year. kids were running around in dress, knights, unicorns, people with faerie wings and dragon wings- it was a hoot. I kept thinking the cops were laughing hysterically at all of it. I tired to sell a tiara to a Park cop- big big woman with a badge but not in uniform. I told her if she wore it to work, not only would she get more respect, people would bow to her.She was wiping away tears of laughter as she walked away. So sad- the gold tiara even color coordinated with the badge- some people have no design sense :-)
Posted by: bxgrl2 at October 5, 2009 11:17 AM
I love Wendy on the radio, but her tv show is a complete and utter train wreck. Can't bear it. I tried too. After like 10 minutes I was horrified. She needs to stick to radio.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 11:17 AM
for all the gay brethren here that can afford HBO - Outrage is supposed to be on tonight I think - great expose on closeted politicos that exploit anti-gay sentiment to advance their careers. (I know, ROb, too political for you).
Posted by: Petebklyn at October 5, 2009 11:17 AM
Hiya CGar. I got up this morning and thought, "I love Monday mornings, walking to work, stopping for coffee along the way."
Posted by: infinitejester at October 5, 2009 11:17 AM
"it looked like the fries were committing suicide so many of them fell off the plate from lack of room!"
ROFL! That is the perfect description!
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 11:18 AM
since we are on food and restaurants - I need to know a casual place in GV for very early drink light dinner tonight..like 6pmish.
Posted by: Petebklyn at October 5, 2009 11:19 AM
Thanks Dave. Where is Brooklyn Terminal Market?
I've found them in Park Slope, just ridiculously priced.
Anyone have suggestions where to get Cactus Pear.
Hurry and tell me before the season is over.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 11:19 AM
What's now in the building that used to house Tennessee Mountain?
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 11:19 AM
I don't have HBO. Damn. Maybe I'll order it for one night and then cancel it in the morning.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 11:20 AM
bxgrl, the Champs would definitely find that very cool. Just make sure if doesn't conflict with the Atlantic Antic next time, if you have any say in it!
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 11:21 AM
Cafe Reggio but they don't serve alcohol.
Posted by: infinitejester at October 5, 2009 11:22 AM
Pete, walk over to Cornelia Street, between West 4th & Bleeker. There are like 6 great, casual restaurants to choose from on the same block.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 11:24 AM
Ok...since Legion is MIA, anyone know if a body temp of 94.3 is a bad thing?
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 11:25 AM
jester, I don't like Mondays, but I love crisp Fall mornings.
Pete, is Outrage the show with the hot guy on the poster I see all over the subway?
Speaking of HBO, is anyone else enjoying the "Seinfeld Reunion" on Curb Your Enthusiasm?
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 11:26 AM
"anyone know if a body temp of 94.3 is a bad thing?"
Not if you're in a meat locker!
Snappy, at least haul your tuchas over to a drug store and speak to a pharmacist. They're often better (and faster) to speak to than a doctor.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 11:27 AM
Oh right. Sure. Dear Mr. Cloisters, please put your ren Fest on a different day from the Atlantic Antic because I, bxgrl, wish it so. (Like they are going to let a traitor to the Bronx have a say :-)
Actually- didn't the Atlantic antic used to be held in September?
Posted by: bxgrl2 at October 5, 2009 11:27 AM
CGar, my fellow Jedi just told me that the first Curb YE episode was hysterical, with Larry David stabbing away at a new GPS system all wrapped up in that impossible to open hard plastic casing.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 11:29 AM
Biff, it takes all my energy to shuffle along inside my small apt. Going to a pharmacy is out of the question! Besides, why leave the house when I can tap the endless PLUSA knowledge from the comfort of my bed :)
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 11:29 AM
snappy- where are you? On an artic ice floe? do what biff says!
Posted by: bxgrl2 at October 5, 2009 11:30 AM
bxgrl, I've heard you can be very peruasive ; ) The Antic has been in October for as long as I can remember.
Snaps, I usually have the opposite problem - I tend to run very high fevers whenever I get sick (104, 105), even as an adult.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 11:30 AM
Yes, traditionally it was September. What happened?
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 11:30 AM
I don't think so CG...here is info
http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/outrage/index.html
Posted by: Petebklyn at October 5, 2009 11:30 AM
Biff, that was hysterical. And last night they just started to get into the "Seinfeld Reunion", which is shaping up to be very funny, and I believe is the central "theme" of this season of Curb.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 11:31 AM
Cargar, I had the highs last week. I'm wondering if this is a bad thing too. I have the heat on and I'm under a blanky, but feel a bit chilled.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 11:32 AM
Brooklyn terminal Market is at the south end of ralph Ave but most of those produce places are wholesale only, I believe.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 11:33 AM
Thanks, Pete. I have to figure out what show I'm referring to. Clearly, I've been focused on the guy on the poster and not the name of the show, LOL!
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 11:33 AM
I like Sparks for slabs of meat.
Term Mkt is in Canarsie - bordered by Foster Av. Av. D & Ditmas.
MM - Have you approached Clem (something) who started Old House Journal (but is no longer w/ it). He has all kinds of ins w/ publishers & groups interested in renovation.
Posted by: Arkady at October 5, 2009 11:33 AM
Anybody got a favorite Mexican Restaurant on the Upper East Side?
Posted by: TownhouseLady at October 5, 2009 11:36 AM
Snappy - Bundle up in blankets & drink lots of hot things. If it isn't better in an hour or two go back to ER
Posted by: Arkady at October 5, 2009 11:37 AM
Mama Mexico on 49th btwn 2nd and 3rd.
Posted by: infinitejester at October 5, 2009 11:38 AM
Terminal Market is open to all. I always get pumpkins there for Halloween, xmas trees, plants & gardening stuff. There're also some food outlets altough the facility is smaller than it used to be.
Posted by: Arkady at October 5, 2009 11:39 AM
MM Clem Labine.
Posted by: Arkady at October 5, 2009 11:39 AM
THL, favorite no, but I typically end up going to Rosa Mexicano on 58th & 1st. I like the guacamole they make at the table.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 11:42 AM
I had a very bad dinner at Mama Mexico a few months ago. I used to go there a lot in 2006 and it was good but was awful last time.
My favorite closed in 2006....Manana up on 1st ave...they had been there 44 years!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 11:44 AM
bxgrl, LOL, but I'm sure the Cloisters are open to suggestions and have an email address you could send a note to. As mentioned, the Antic draws one million people - it is huge, not just another weekend "Street fair" - many of whom come from Manhattan and the Bronx, so I think it is worth them trying not to conflict with the Antic as I wouldn't be surprised if it takes away some of the crowd that would otherwise attend the Cloisters shin dig. On another note, are you still holding me to the promise of tights?
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 11:45 AM
all this food talk is getting me super hungry on this long conf call - luckily I have some chinese style pork ribs to much on later
Posted by: more4less at October 5, 2009 11:47 AM
Dos Caminos...3rd & 50th
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 11:48 AM
El Rio Grande at 38th and 3rd is decent, but the real draw is their margaritas. They have a bunch of different flavours. I prefer the traditional kind, on the rocks, no salt. Two of those are usually enough to give anyone, including me, a buzz.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 11:51 AM
THL, I haven't been there in awhile, but I used to really like Zarela on 2nd Avenue, between 50-51st Streets.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 11:53 AM
THL asked for UES - clearly you people don't know an upper when see one.
Posted by: Petebklyn at October 5, 2009 11:53 AM
Biff- YES! Tuchas in tights :-) By the way, all you women- it was an eyefeast - I kept singing the Men in Tights song from Mel Brook's Robin Hood in my head. Snappy- you would have been happy too- all those tight push up bodices and lots of very heavy women wearing them so that their busts were practically coming out of their ears :-)
Posted by: bxgrl2 at October 5, 2009 11:54 AM
Thanks everyone.
I'll be in the upper 80's this afternoon and I have a guacamole fixation lately that I can't seem to shake. I think I think I may need to move to Los Cabos for the remainder of my pregnancy. I ate guac. with every single meal when I was there.
Posted by: TownhouseLady at October 5, 2009 11:57 AM
I forgot about Dos Caminos on 3rd & 50th - I've had good meals there. Only drank, but never ate, at El Rio Grande. (Pete, East 50s is the best I can do for UES Mexican.)
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 11:57 AM
Don't think there were a million but there were literally thousands- of course it is in a much smaller area. And the crowd was so mixed- I loved it. Vendors and help had to be in dress- but nearly everyone who came to the show came dressed up as well. There were 2 women who attend all the Ren Fests in the most amazing historically accurate period costumes they sewed themselves. These costumes are not sewn- they are built. The women are very big and they look like magnificent, ornate ships as they walked around. Beautiful!
Posted by: bxgrl2 at October 5, 2009 12:00 PM
If you're in the eighties, Zocalo is excellent....82 bet Lex & 3rd
Also Zarela on 3rd bet 50 & 51 but can be noisy, very noisy.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 12:00 PM
So where can a man buy period appropriate tights these days, notwithstanding the concession stand at the Medieval Times Theatre?
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 12:00 PM
check online. Did i mention the codpiece you need to have?
Posted by: bxgrl2 at October 5, 2009 12:02 PM
Dave that's perfect! I'd seen the place in passing but never stopped to eat there.
Anyone watch Family Guy or the Cleveland show last night?
Posted by: TownhouseLady at October 5, 2009 12:03 PM
Keep up, Dave! I recommended Zarela 7 minutes ago! ; )
Biff, try some of the stores in Times Square catering to actors. If you all want to be blinded by a vision, imagine that I was forced to wear tights when I went to acting school in the mid-80s (though I was far more svelte back in the day).
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 12:05 PM
LOL- Zolcalo has been closed!
Posted by: TownhouseLady at October 5, 2009 12:05 PM
bxgrl, I meant a million people were at the Antic.
Cod piece? I better look that up. I have a feeling it's very similar to a certain piece of equipment that is a critical part of a hockey uniform.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 12:05 PM
UES Mexican:
Maz Mezcal on 86th b/w 1st and 2nd is pretty good. Only one I can think of in my old 'hood.
Posted by: etson at October 5, 2009 12:12 PM
You're all good at recommending restaurants & bars but not fruit markets.
Oh well. I'll eat an apple.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 12:17 PM
Looks like DIBS pulls one back today
Posted by: the chicken at October 5, 2009 12:20 PM
Btw, sorry I missed the house tour. Glad it all went well. My mom is in town & we could not make it over there.
Posted by: etson at October 5, 2009 12:25 PM
Looks like DIBS pulls one back today
Posted by: the chicken at October 5, 2009 12:20 PM
I don't understan what that means.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 12:25 PM
Chicken, how did the fight go? or it's coming up?
Posted by: more4less at October 5, 2009 12:26 PM
And I'm just sitting at my desk eating a ham sandwich now so it doesn't mean something dirty like first entered my mind.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 12:27 PM
Rule 1. Don't talk about Fight Club.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 12:28 PM
9 days M4L, week on wednesday.
I've got my technique down and punching like a hammer now but still need to improve my fitness.
Posted by: the chicken at October 5, 2009 12:28 PM
market down v market up DIBS
Posted by: the chicken at October 5, 2009 12:29 PM
biff- depending on the period, you might have to get to that is perpendicular
Posted by: bxgrl2 at October 5, 2009 12:31 PM
- Rule 1. Don't talk about Fight Club.
Rule 2: Don't respond about Rule 1.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 12:32 PM
market down v market up DIBS
Posted by: the chicken at October 5, 2009 12:29 PM
DIBS, per me making "this round goes to Chicken" last Fri when you two made divergent forecasts where this mkt was heading.
Posted by: more4less at October 5, 2009 12:32 PM
didn't realize we recruited you two into the fight club. what's your style, specialty?
Posted by: more4less at October 5, 2009 12:34 PM
bxgrl, you mean the period of day or the period in history I'm representing? On second thought, better not answer that!
:-)
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 12:36 PM
Who is this bxgrl2 and why should we respond to her????
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 12:36 PM
Oh....didn't see that bxgrl forgot her login password.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 12:37 PM
"Zocalo is excellent"
There's a Zocalo on Broadway and Marcy in the Burg - awesome!
Posted by: dirty_hipster at October 5, 2009 12:37 PM
dibs- this is what the loss of brain cells does. Not to mention, why the hell didn't I just come up with a simple password that would be easy to remember? Noooooooooo- I have to play Homeland Security (like my brownstoner account would be hacked by terrorists).
Posted by: bxgrl2 at October 5, 2009 12:45 PM
- Who is this bxgrl2 and why should we respond to her????
It's polite to respond to new posters.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 12:46 PM
The St Marks house has a C of O for 1 apartment in basement and first floor AND 8 furnished rooms and 3 living rooms on second, third and fourth floors. The DOB website says "No" as to SRO
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 12:47 PM
except I'm not new- I'll go back to the old log i when i get home and use this when I'm away so my overtaxed mind can remember the new easy password :-)
Posted by: bxgrl2 at October 5, 2009 12:49 PM
DIBS, so net sounds like that st marks place is an all-cash or 50% down type deals?
Posted by: more4less at October 5, 2009 12:54 PM
St. Marks has been on the market for a long time. They started at over a mil and the brokers don't seem to want to spend much time on it. they are based in Harlem. The family lives elsewhere and i bet a great deal is to be had. The location is wonderful and the houses along that row are slowly being bought and renovated. In a few more years it will be the primo block in CHN.
Posted by: bxgrl2 at October 5, 2009 1:00 PM
bxgrl, don't get mad at me for flirting a little with bxgrl2 in the "Arsenic & Old Lace" thread ; )
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 1:07 PM
- bxgrl, don't get mad at me for flirting a little with bxgrl2 in the "Arsenic & Old Lace" thread ; )
Change your name to CarrollBensoned and she won't mind the flirting.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 1:11 PM
Hi folks;
I'm in Orlando,Florida. I have to give a presentation at a trade show. I'm here in a suit, surrounded by rugrats in Mickey Mouse ears!! I'm jealous: they're on vacation, and I'm not.
A few things to say:
-Montrose, sorry I wasn't able to make the tour. My wife had a down day.
-Let's go back to some of the old-time action on the OT. I'll be happy to light the fuse.
Here is a link to Michelle Obama's speech in front of the IOC committee.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-091002-michelle-transcript,0,3883054.story
Note the following:
a) she uses the words "I" or "me" 34 times, in 16 paragraphs.
b) she recalls sitting on her dad's lap watching Carl Lewis compete in the Olympics. Michelle Obama was born in 1964. Carl Lewis' first Olympic appearance was in 1984, at which time Mrs. Obama was 20. Heheheheh. Dad must have had some pretty strong knees there!
Memo to the Obamas:
i) as a peron in sales, let me give you some advice. When you are trying to sell a product, please emphasize the benefits to the consumer, not to yourself.
ii) the campaign is over. Please do not always assume that you are speaking to true believers who are seeking a political messiah and are swept away by tales of your "life's journey" and charm.
iii) hard-nosed business people can do the math.
OK, that should do it. See you later!!
Posted by: benson at October 5, 2009 1:17 PM
"she recalls sitting on her dad's lap watching Carl Lewis compete in the Olympics. Michelle Obama was born in 1964. Carl Lewis' first Olympic appearance was in 1984, at which time Mrs. Obama was 20"
I have to admit that's pretty funny, benson
"as a peron in sales"
PS, benson, which Peron are you, Juan or Eva?
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 1:21 PM
CG;
Whoops! Just call me "Juan"
Don't cry for me, Orlando....
Posted by: benson at October 5, 2009 1:24 PM
Like the Olympic Committee cares who Oprah is.
Posted by: infinitejester at October 5, 2009 1:27 PM
Yeah, right, jester? Certainly not if she wasn't giving each member a new car.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 1:33 PM
Funny, Benson. I'm not going to get into an ideological dogfight over the olympic bid. You are right about salesmanship, and accuracy does help with credibility. Not sure anything could have been done to win the bid -- I think Rio was pretty close to a lock. I think the Obamas tried a hail mary play, knowing the bid was probably going down, but they didn't look great doing it.
Actually, the olympics she would have been on her dad's knee for would have been '68. Imagine the blogosphere and radio talk if she had fondly remembered watching John Carlos and Tommy Smith (I give it 72 hours before Rush or Beck says that is in fact what she said).
Posted by: slopefarm at October 5, 2009 1:34 PM
Feels like the US and Europe get the Olympics a disproportionate amount of the time anyway. Glad it went somewhere else.
I don't get the sense there's much excitement in the UK for London's Olympics in 2012.
Posted by: etson at October 5, 2009 1:35 PM
slopey, I agree with you. I think Rio was a lock this year. Hard to believe that the Olympics have never been in South America (or Africa for that matter).
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 1:36 PM
Maybe Michelle Obama was confused and meant to say she recalls sitting on her dad's lap Al Lewis as Grandpa on The Munsters in 1964?
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 1:39 PM
^^^^^^^^
"watching" Al Lewis play Grandpa...
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 1:40 PM
blessing that we lost the olympic bid. this country too broke to host it and it's more than likely we would be hugely cashflow negative hosting it.
Posted by: more4less at October 5, 2009 1:41 PM
"I think Rio was pretty close to a lock. I think the Obamas tried a hail mary play, knowing the bid was probably going down, but they didn't look great doing it. "
Slopefarm;
If it was close to a lock, then it makes the whole thing even more disgraceful for the POTUS to put the prestige of his office into the thing, especially at a time when the war in Afghanistan is unravelling, the economy is in toilet and his own party is in disarray on his signature piece of legislature (health care: 5 DEMOCRATS voted against it on the Senate Finance Committee).
Moreover, he should learn a piece os wisdom from a previous president: the President of the United States calls on NO ONE.
The Iranians, Russians and North Koreans learned a valuable lesson on this one.
Posted by: benson at October 5, 2009 1:41 PM
"I don't get the sense there's much excitement in the UK for London's Olympics in 2012.
Posted by: etson at October 5, 2009 1:35 PM"
I can't recall the last time I talked to anybody here about the Olympics. Granted it's still over 2 years away but there does seem to be an enormous amount of apathy.
Posted by: the chicken at October 5, 2009 1:44 PM
Well then, let's talk about the crowing of the Republicans who cared more that Obama made a bid and didn't get it. how childish and sad that they had to try to mae it a slap in Obama's face. One wonders what they would have said if chicago had gotten it? In the overall scheme of things, we all have more to worry about than the Olympics. The republicans are getting a real rep for being the party of No, can't do, won't, and hate.
Posted by: bxgrl2 at October 5, 2009 1:48 PM
The renovation is going well. The electricians started Tuesday and the dust is flying. They are almost done wiring the top two floors. Meanwhile, I have been trying to corner the market on primitive light fixtures as fast as I can, and was lucky enough to find a Victorian box entry light in my favorite color.
I also found this, the most extraordinary light fixture in the history of the world, and I have to share it with you. I call the style Victorian Viking d!ldo. Probably go great with the plushie couch in this weekend's NYT design mag. What do you think?
http://www.seattlebuildingsalvage.com/ZenCart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=266
Posted by: mopar at October 5, 2009 1:49 PM
Maybe people have more important things to worry about- the Olympics? Not so much.
Posted by: bxgrl2 at October 5, 2009 1:50 PM
"Al Lewis as Grandpa on The Munsters in 1964"
ROFL, Biff! You and I clearly watched too much (of the same) television growning up! BTW, did you ever see Al Lewis in person when he had his restaurant, Grampa's Bella Gente, on Bleecker in the Village? He looked exactly the same as he did in the Munsters.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 1:51 PM
I like to watch a lot of the foreign athletes.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 1:51 PM
benson- forgot to add, hope your wife is feeling better.
Posted by: bxgrl2 at October 5, 2009 1:51 PM
benson,
I know we tend to disagree about almost everything, and I don't expect to persuade you. but I just don't see that the stakes were so high on this. It's his (adopted) and Michele's home town, it's a sales pitch, it took a day, he's not the only one in his admin working on those other problems, and our national security wasn't at stake. It makes a great right wing talking point, but I don't buy it as reality. But I agree, he shouldn't have bothered. Were you for or against NYC's 2012 bid and do you think W should have gone to bat for it?
Posted by: slopefarm at October 5, 2009 1:53 PM
mopar...where did you buy?? Roughly speaking.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 1:53 PM
Bxgrl;
Ah, always trying to pin it on the Republicans. Wait, I got it: this failure was a sinister plot by Palin and Bush! Yes, that's it. It's Bush's fault, once again!
By the way, I didn't know that Saturday Night Live was controlled by those hateful Republicans. Did you see SNL last Saturday? If you didn't, I suggest that you go to Youtube and check out the skit they did about the President. A little bit more scornful than anything Rush or Beck are saying these days.
hehehehehe.
Posted by: benson at October 5, 2009 1:53 PM
mopar,
That's absolutely Wagnerian, dahling.
Posted by: slopefarm at October 5, 2009 1:56 PM
Actually, if you watched Chris Matthews yesterday, you'd think it was all Hillary's fault that Chicago lost its Olympic bid. That man never misses (or fails to fabricate) an opportunity to hate on Hillary.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 1:57 PM
Slopefarm;
I was neutral regarding the NYC bid. I believe it is beneath the office of the POTUS to make an in-person sales pitch for the Olympics.
By the way, what was the carbon footprint of sending over three big jets (that's what his entourage required) to make this sales pitch. Damn, I have to stay in a Hampton Inn tonight, and take shuttle buses to save money and carbon!
Posted by: benson at October 5, 2009 1:57 PM
Uh oh, benson used the "P" word.
Everyone please ignore it!!!
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 1:57 PM
benson- SNL is satire. You take it with a grain of salt and a sense of humor. And please don't put words in my mouth. If I was going to blame bush for the Olympic bid failure i would have said so. I am not blaming them for the loss of the Olympics (which I hardly care about)- I am blaming them for the immaturity and virulence of their reaction. It's not even a tempest i a teapot- it's like beating the teapot to death. ridiculous.
Posted by: bxgrl2 at October 5, 2009 1:58 PM
I'm probably in the minority, but I was hoping New York would get the Olympics.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 2:00 PM
"what was the carbon footprint of sending over three big jets "
benson- why do you care? I thought republicans didn't believe in global warming anyway :-)
Posted by: bxgrl2 at October 5, 2009 2:00 PM
Slopefarm, you're so right. Whoever installs this must also perform opera all day long on the plushie couch.
Dave, we're your new neighbors. Bit of a hike though.
Also went to the Crown Heights tour. Arrived thoroughly soaked at 3:40 after getting lost for an hour in Fort Greene on my way to the Flea after visiting with Eddie Hibbert and his doors. I just saw the three places on Prospect before they shooed me away. Sorry I missed the beauty on St. Mark's. Whole thing was well organized and all the guides were super knowledgeable and fun to talk to.
Also went to first party in Bed Stuy (someone I met on Brownstoner). So fun!!!
Posted by: mopar at October 5, 2009 2:04 PM
"benson- why do you care? I thought republicans didn't believe in global warming anyway :-)"
SNAP
SNAP
SNAP
You go, bxgrl.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 2:06 PM
enuf about Obama's Benson. You want to go off on a rant...read the NYTimes articles today about Simmon's Mattress and Tribune Co. and tell us how those financial types, LBOers, GoldSac scum are helping this country and how the good working people of this land are better off because of gov't dereg.
Posted by: Petebklyn at October 5, 2009 2:06 PM
Mopar, don't tell me you bought or thinking of buying that light. That baby is a budget killer - it forces you to renovate & decorate the place in equally expensive looking stuff. nice looking though
Posted by: more4less at October 5, 2009 2:07 PM
Sorry benson, but that is a cheap shot. I can think of about 100 things that the Shrub did that were more embarrassing to both himself and the office of the presidency than the Obama's trying to get the Olympics. The Russians, et al certainly did learn a lot about us in the previous administration. Just because Obama couldn't convince the Olympic committee to choose Chicago, a committee which had already made up its mind to choose Rio, long overdue, too, I might add, that has absolutely NOTHING to do with his standing in the world, or his ability to negotiate with other nations, or get his agenda through. The crowing of the right wing over this "failure" is from a bunch of people who would give themselves coronaries laughing if he slipped and fell on ice. They hate him so much, they've lost all perspective. If he HAD gotten Chicago chosen, they'd be burning up the airwaves bitching about how inappropriate it was for him to even go, and what a bad thing it would be for the country and for Chicago. He can't win, no matter what he does.
Posted by: Montrose Morris at October 5, 2009 2:08 PM
mopar- that light is a hoot! biff- you should buy extra codpieces - mopar will want them as lightbulb covers.
Posted by: bxgrl2 at October 5, 2009 2:11 PM
benson, I might agree on the dignity point, but i just don't see it as a big issue. I think the Obamas get a bit of a pass for the home-town thing. Not so sure W would have stayed put if it were Houston or Dallas, and I wouldn't have held it against him if he went to make the pitch.
Meanwhile, make sure to hold onto your borsalino on space mountain.
Posted by: slopefarm at October 5, 2009 2:11 PM
hi popping in to say that the CHN house tour was fantastic! congratulations MM, it was wonderful. people were so hospitable and i was knocked out by the architecture. made feeling like coming back to CG feel like looking at cat poo. though the rain was rough going, it was well worth it. thanks!
ps. i missed a bed stuy party? :(
Posted by: CG_ups at October 5, 2009 2:12 PM
A party in Bed Stuy hosted by a brownstoner and I didn't hear about it??????? I should have typed that in ALL CAPS.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 2:13 PM
I thought only Democrats whined about global warming.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 2:14 PM
Agree with MM. If the Chicago bid is the only think Obama doesn't accomplish, we'll be in great shape. It's done, they tried. No big loss and no big deal.
Posted by: bxgrl2 at October 5, 2009 2:14 PM
(Psst. Benson? Mission Accomplished here. Yours, not Dubya's.)
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 2:14 PM
it wasn't you dibs? i was about to "j'accuse!" :)
Posted by: CG_ups at October 5, 2009 2:14 PM
Hmmmm, seems like alot of people are touchy. Hmmm, wonder why???
Hey, how about the POTUS getting lectured the other day by the president of France about acknowledging reality, in front of the UN Security Council? I never thought I would see THAT in my life - a POTUS being told by the president of FRANCE to wake up and man up, at the UN of all places.
Actually, seriously speaking, his foreign policy is on a crash course with disaster. There is more and more discussion about Israel dropping a bomb on Iran's nuclear plant, because they've sized up Obama and believe that he doesn't have the balls to deal with these guys. The Israel's don't mess around.
Gotta go for real - time for my presentation.
Let's discuss tomorrow.
Posted by: benson at October 5, 2009 2:14 PM
also thank to amzi and bxgrl! sorry i didn't get to see you bxgrl, i asked amzi and he wasn't sure which house you were at.
Posted by: CG_ups at October 5, 2009 2:15 PM
Crash course with disaster? I hope you aren't begging for a comparison with the really disastrous foreign policy of the previous POTUS. I love the republican attitude- if it can't be our way, burn the country behind us. (Klugman wrote a great column on it today).
think we're touchy benson? maybe you should try a better approach You get a lot more flies with honey than vinegar.
Posted by: bxgrl2 at October 5, 2009 2:22 PM
benson, when we actually do work here at the Mutant Hedge Fund, LP, we've been looking at evidence for about 3-4 weeks that points to israel taking premptive action against demand. For one was the Netanyahu visit to Russia and then Obama's backing away from the Eastern Europe defense shield (at a time when he needed the republicans in Congress) all so that Russia might stay out of anything that Israel would do to Iran.
With Iran's loss of its ONLY AWAC I bet isreal is chomping at the bit to get this done.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 2:22 PM
sorry i missed you too, CG ups! I was at Sue Rock's- she is a one woman force of nature.I heard amzi was brilliant over at St. mark's.
Posted by: bxgrl2 at October 5, 2009 2:23 PM
So glad you're all appreciating that wonderful light fixture. M4L, we couldn't buy this light fixture -- Montrose might need it for an upcoming renovation.
Re party, none of you know this person even though we did meet on this site.
Posted by: mopar at October 5, 2009 2:23 PM
"against demand"....sorry, typing before thinking. "against Iran."
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 2:24 PM
"Klugman wrote a great column on it today"
bxgrl, Jack Klugman wrote a foreign policy column today?
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 2:28 PM
While we're being political, are there any other pinko commies out there whom would want to see Michael Moore's Capitalism movie with me?
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 2:28 PM
yes dave- and what will happen? I bet all the Middle Eastern countries and everyone else is praying behind the scenes that Israel does their dirty work for them. That way they come up smelling like roses, Iran's nuclear capability is done and its good for at least 5 years of screaming at and condemning the Israelis. who at the moment are run by right wingers and religious fundamentalist. My people or no, I find the present government extreme and bordering nutso. caving into illegal settlers- gee, that does so much for the cause of peace. Not.
Posted by: bxgrl2 at October 5, 2009 2:29 PM
Mopar, sorry I missed you. I was floating around all day, relieving door monitors, but not on Prospect Pl. Glad you were able to see a couple of houses, and Prospect had a couple of the best, although all were great. The broker at the St. Marks place told me the house was off the market for a while, although the interest from the house tour may change their mind. If I can't get it, and it would literally take winning Lotto to make that happen, I hope it goes to someone who keeps it as a one family, or as a B&B, or does a very, very careful subdividing and doesn't ruin a one of a kind masterpiece. It would be a crime to have someone take out those dressing rooms for a kitchen, for example, or wreck the stairs trying to close off each floor.
M4L, you are very funny.
Posted by: Montrose Morris at October 5, 2009 2:31 PM
whom? I meant to say "who"
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 2:31 PM
whom? I meant to say "who"
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 2:31 PM
Rewrite: "no one"
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 2:33 PM
I have a big dayglo pinko commie stripe running right up my back and down my front and not afraid to show it. And I can't wait to see Moore's movie. At least he has sense of humor.
And I can't wait until tomorrow when Benson enlightens us on what should be done about Iran...I'll forward it on to the Obama. He just can't find any mideast expert.
(more seriously to his dig - is exactly how different policy of past admin would have been or if that old guy had been elected what exactly would he have done differently).
Posted by: Petebklyn at October 5, 2009 2:34 PM
I love literal video versions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yJ2yWvGnkI&feature=related
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 2:35 PM
Biff, I'm down for that.
hi.infinitejester at gmail
Posted by: infinitejester at October 5, 2009 2:36 PM
MM, just dont forget to laugh when you see the shiny steel door (along with matching shiny still window bars) on that beauty. kidding aside, it's going to be tough to find a non-developer to buy it. all-cash deal, big renov budget = developer. that was kind of the reason I didn't see it last time when it was HOTD
Posted by: more4less at October 5, 2009 2:41 PM
jokester...I couldn't stop watching all of the other literal videos that pop up
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 2:41 PM
I'd like to see all the men PLUSAs sitting in a row at the movies. See which one pulls the "popcorn trick."
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 2:42 PM
jester, cool. Let me see who else might be interested. I'll keep you posted.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 2:43 PM
Wouldn't you.
Posted by: infinitejester at October 5, 2009 2:44 PM
Queation: Do any of you breeders have children that shop at Hot Topic??? We're buying this stock because of the sequel to twighlight which is coming out in November, New Moon.
For those of you who have no idea what it is, they sell clothes to 12-20 year olds and a lot of it is kinda "goth." Stock had a good run when twighlight came out.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 2:46 PM
Benson and Bxgrl should go see Moore's movie together.
They'll have lots to fight over after.
No popcorn trick there.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 2:46 PM
er, I meant discuss after.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 2:47 PM
DIBS, I tried the popcorn trick on Mrs C during The Informant last night. She was too wise and/or uninterested to fall for it. Either that or I didn't make enough of the dent in the popcorn container for her to notice.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 2:48 PM
rob...you there???
Answering your question in the HOTD thread, I've never had an "gentleman callers." Had delivery boys, masseurs, thugs and all sorts of riff raff but never "gentleman callers."
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 2:50 PM
If the big O hadn't gone to pitch the Olympics & Chicago hadn't gotten it, everyone would've been all over him for not showing even though Rio was a shoo in from the get-go. Also the prexys of all the other competitors were there & he'd've been dumped on for not rising to the occasion.
As to foreign policy, we wouldn't be in the current mire if GWB hadn't started that b.s. war in Iraq. We'd also have a lot more resources for dealing w/ real trouble spots.
Yeah, Krugman this a.m. was terrif.
Posted by: Arkady at October 5, 2009 2:50 PM
Maybe Amy Sohn will buy it.
Posted by: mopar at October 5, 2009 2:50 PM
- I didn't make enough of the dent in the popcorn container for her to notice.
I thought I knew what the 'popcorn trick' was, but now I'm confused. I didn't realize that the amount of popcorn had anything to do with it.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 2:51 PM
speaking of movies, skip the bruce willis surrogate move. it'll be in the rental aisle pretty soon
Posted by: more4less at October 5, 2009 2:51 PM
Dave, Hot Topic was doing really poorly for a couple of years but now sales are back up again.
Posted by: mopar at October 5, 2009 2:51 PM
Dave, I used to shop sometimes in that store back in my long hair skateboarder days. I never rocked Goth but some of the accessories they sell went well with the skateboarder look.
New Moon is supposed to be a big deal, getting good feedback from critics and mags. Goth scene is kinds of dead though. Used to be much more prevalent but not these days among those age groups.
Posted by: Kensingtonian at October 5, 2009 2:51 PM
I believe Aunt Jenny in Arsenic and Old Lace may have had gentleman callers.
Posted by: mopar at October 5, 2009 2:52 PM
Maybe Amy Sohn will buy it.
Posted by: mopar at October 5, 2009 2:50 PM
What??? The popcorn???
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 2:52 PM
Speaking of Goth, maybe some Hot Topic outfits would go well with the light fixture. See, More4Less, not everything has to be quality.
Posted by: mopar at October 5, 2009 2:53 PM
The house on St. Mark's!!!!!
Posted by: mopar at October 5, 2009 2:53 PM
My first OT post:
Popcorn trick = Mickey Rourke in Diner?
Posted by: Brokedeveloper at October 5, 2009 2:54 PM
- My first OT post:
Someone please wake up the Cut and Paster of the Welcome Speech.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 2:57 PM
Speaking of light fixtures, DIBS, thanks for those lights - more perfect than I realize as I strolled the rooms deciding which suits which room
Posted by: more4less at October 5, 2009 2:57 PM
i've never eaten a yellow apple before!! im eating one right now, it's So good. it tastes like apple sauce! UGH! one of my coworkers told me the apples werent washed (they were picked this weekend) and im already 3/4 of the way thru.
*rob*
Posted by: Butterfly at October 5, 2009 2:57 PM
"I didn't realize that the amount of popcorn had anything to do with it."
Of course, for some of us lesser blessed individuals, unless there is very little popcorn left in the bucket, nobody would even notice what we are "up to".
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 2:57 PM
Dave! There is this wonderful Mexican restaurant on the UES where I ate twice and couldn't remember the name and have been trying to find it again to no avail. I think it was Manana! Oh no!!!! It was great. Why did they have to close? Was it long and narrow? With maybe a step or two down in the middle?
Posted by: mopar at October 5, 2009 2:57 PM
"My first OT post:"
Quick, where's Cobble with the form letter???
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 2:58 PM
mopar, I used the Google. The characters are Aunt Martha and Aunt Abby. Aunt Jenny? Aunt Jenny sounds like "Little House on the Prairie" or "Lassie"!
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 2:58 PM
Did the two aunts in Arsenic and Old Lace have Cats?
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 2:59 PM
"i've never eaten a yellow apple before!! im eating one right now, it's So good. it tastes like apple sauce!"
Rob, did you accidentally step on it first?
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 2:59 PM
- Quick, where's Cobble with the form letter???
You call her Cobble, I call her Cut and Paster.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 3:00 PM
I haven't been able to summon Cobble, and her files are locked so I can't post the "Welcome Letter".
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 3:01 PM
ha dibs! yes hot topic. im pretty sure my sister and brother shop. it's very big in jersey ahhaha. tho i do remember people making fun of people who shopped at hot topic, even both sets of people were wearing/doing the exact same thing. i guess it was who was more "real" and shopping at hot topic was always kind of seen as being a poser, even when i was in high school.
*rob*
Posted by: Butterfly at October 5, 2009 3:03 PM
"It was an accident, I swear to god."
Welcome to the OT, brokedeveloper. That was as good an entrance as anyone has ever made here. You should have posted the youtube link though.
Someone get this man an initiation kit.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 3:03 PM
Kens, the Goth look would totally suit you. How are you feeling today?
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 3:03 PM
mopar, yes, it was Manana. They lost their lease. It was a terrible loss. THE BEST NACHOS EVER. And my favorite dish was the higados (chicken livers.) They made great Margharitas too. I probably ate there hundreds of times from 1995 - 20006.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 3:05 PM
mopar, i couldn't believe it when the owner (the older lady) tolfd me they were closing. I asked them how long they had been there and she said 44 years.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 3:07 PM
Thanks CGar. Skateboarder look didn't really suit me but back then I though it totally did. I am feeling better, thanks for asking.
Posted by: Kensingtonian at October 5, 2009 3:09 PM
Kens, give your boards to DH cause he still looks to be skaterboy eligible - age & looks wise
Posted by: more4less at October 5, 2009 3:17 PM
Hey guys...
Quick question...I just realized I was missing Gemini's posts...was she one of the people who got disenfranchised and left or am I just missing her posts or maybe she's away...?
I always enjoyed reading her comments...
Posted by: 11217 at October 5, 2009 3:22 PM
11217, I don't think G10 got disenfranchised, probably just busy.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 3:27 PM
"Kens, give your boards to DH cause he still looks to be skaterboy eligible - age & looks wise"
I was on a skateboard once and almost killed myself - never again!
Posted by: dirty_hipster at October 5, 2009 3:37 PM
DH, the new look man. that's a whole new incremental babe market that is not addressed currently by you. Now don't tell me you don't like an expanded mkt for babes
Posted by: more4less at October 5, 2009 3:40 PM
Wait, did CGar just get ANOTHER TKOTD award?
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 3:41 PM
Skater girls are a subsection of hipster doofus.
Posted by: dirty_hipster at October 5, 2009 3:44 PM
at this rate, might as well name the award after him. I couldn't even get the award when I came out begging people to not post till after I get it but no, someone (the prez) had to post.
Posted by: more4less at October 5, 2009 3:46 PM
CGar is like the anti-Susan Lucci. He can't seem to avoid winning the award.
M4L, it's no fun watching someone win who is asking for it.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 3:49 PM
George C Scott would never accept an Oscar. Some of you should learn such humility.
Also, m4l, glad the chandeliers worked out.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 3:52 PM
Thanks a lot Biff! But DH saved me.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 3:52 PM
Dave, 44 years -- it's hard to believe there were any Mexican restaurants in NYC that long ago. If you have any recommendations for any other UES restaurants, other than Grand Sichuan of course, we could use another.
CarrollGardened, thank you. I was Aunt Martha in my high school play. I think I've come full circle now. All I need is the high-necked black lace dress.
Posted by: mopar at October 5, 2009 3:56 PM
So when we said 10 minutes of silence after a post, it actually has to go from 3:27 to 3:38?
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 3:56 PM
- But DH saved me.
If there was a seconds counter next to the time we'd know for sure. Otherwise, it's a toss up.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 3:56 PM
Oh, M4l, you got Dave's lights! Nice! And surely a good deal.
Posted by: mopar at October 5, 2009 3:56 PM
Though of course not as completely ideal as the Viking you know what look.
Posted by: mopar at October 5, 2009 3:57 PM
mopar...East River Cafe on 1st across the street from the Bed Bath & Beyond is very good, very reasonably priced and never seems to be crowded. It's mostly Italian and they make an excellent spaghetti carbonara.
For about 5-6 years there was this most incredible Tuscan place next door called Cantina Toscan...I would die over the baby eels and the pappardelle with wild boar. The original owners sold it and the new guy just let it go downhill. Such a shame.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 4:02 PM
A friend of mine emailed me photos of her two dogs in their Halloween costumes.
One will go out as a cop and the other as a criminal (striped outfit and handcuffs around it's paws).
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!?!?!?!
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 4:04 PM
"So when we said 10 minutes of silence after a post, it actually has to go from 3:27 to 3:38"
Precisely. 3:37 is the 10th minute past 3:27, 3:38 the 11th. But who are we kidding? I'm going to be the Meryl Streep of TKOTD Awards no matter what measure you use, so I'll just accept them graciously and put them in the Trophy Room.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 4:07 PM
for halloween, i once saw a man dressed as a dog with a plastic dish around his neck, like dogs have when they get stitches or something and are not suppose to bite or lick it. it was hilarious.
Posted by: bodhi_brooklyn at October 5, 2009 4:08 PM
brownjokester, if you have learned anything around here, it should be to never question the attachment to and fondness of pet owners for their pets. It's not usually rational, but we just deal with it and pretend it's normal.
:-)
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 4:08 PM
Nope CGar, official ruling is, without a second hand, going from 3:27 to 3:37 DOES mean a TKOTD award. Congratulations, another one for your mantle. You might have to build an extension.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 4:09 PM
"at this rate, might as well name the award after him"
m4l, great idea. We have the Oscar, the Emmy, the Tony, and now "the CGar".
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 4:09 PM
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"mantel". Don't hurt me, Arkady.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 4:10 PM
CarGar, i don't understand why you get TKOTD awards. you are the nicest person ever! biff, as president i feel it is your duty to determine why cargar gets TKOTD'ed on the regular. create a widget analyzing the content of his posts?
Posted by: bodhi_brooklyn at October 5, 2009 4:10 PM
It's official. this round goes to DIBS over Chicken. After 2 rounds, the judges have it 1-1 tie. This is a 12 round championship match.
Posted by: more4less at October 5, 2009 4:11 PM
Thanks, bodhi! I love you, too! (And the injured dog Halloween costume is hilarious.)
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 4:12 PM
"CarGar, i don't understand why you get TKOTD awards. you are the nicest person ever! biff, as president i feel it is your duty to determine why cargar gets TKOTD'ed on the regular."
bodhi, the diplomatic answer would be (and this is why I'm the Prez) that CGar's posts are either: a) so thought-provoking that we all need time to digest the monumentally brilliant comments he makes or b) so convincing and persuasive, that nobody feels it's necessary to add anything further to the discussion.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 4:14 PM
very true. nice one biff. i knew you were the POTPLUSA for a reason.
Posted by: bodhi_brooklyn at October 5, 2009 4:17 PM
i dress my dog up every year. last year he was a biker (not the lame kind that wear spandex and call themself cyclists, im talking about those scary biker people dressed in black and chains and stuff.) he didnt like the costume, barely was able to keep it on him. the two years before that he was a pimp. big purple hat, purple over coat, etc. got both of them at ricki's i think dog costume section. im not wasting another 30 dollars on a costume for him again this year tho. i must glue a stalk to his forehead, paint his nails pink, and have him go as a unicorn or something.
*rob*
Posted by: Butterfly at October 5, 2009 4:17 PM
or c) so moronic that there's simply nothing more to say
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 4:17 PM
- brownjokester, if you have learned anything around here, it should be to never question the attachment to and fondness of pet owners for their pets. It's not usually rational, but we just deal with it and pretend it's normal.
If any of my friends had sent me photos of their cats in costumes. I wouldn't have said anything. I thought dogs were fair game around here for trouncing on.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 4:18 PM
I shut down the Boerum Hill thread after saying I missed the porno theater that was on Court st. But on OT - would only get you people started.
Posted by: Petebklyn at October 5, 2009 4:22 PM
Biff, you're so diplomatic!
There's also a c)
I dare not say it, but it includes 'dull', 'posters fall asleep'
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 4:22 PM
biff and c-gar, the benny goodman and victor borge of the blog!
Posted by: DeLepp at October 5, 2009 4:22 PM
I would rip on CGar but he said he's already scared of me so I leave him alone.
Posted by: more4less at October 5, 2009 4:23 PM
Dress you up.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgnDJ07GexI
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 4:23 PM
"biff and c-gar, the benny goodman and victor borge of the blog!"
Benny Goodman or Henny Youngman? I suspect the latter, since I never played the clarinet.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 4:24 PM
Pete...still a few good places on Eight Ave in Manhattan. But nothing like the days of old!!!!! Remember the Gaeity on 46th around the corner from the HoJo.
You don't have to admit to knowing any of this.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 4:25 PM
Are there any of those 'booths' left in NY? I always wanted to see what that was about.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 4:29 PM
yep, getting my benny and henny backwards. Where's expert textpert for the re-write
Posted by: DeLepp at October 5, 2009 4:29 PM
Yes, brownjokester, along Eight Ave in the 40s. Perhaps we could arange a brownstoner crawl some evening.
You know what a "buddy booth" is???? These places have gotten creative around the law and now you pay a flat fee to go "upstairs" and it's a whole different scene.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 4:32 PM
Or so I've been told.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 4:35 PM
Dave, pray tell, what's a "buddy booth"? Anything like a restaurant booth?
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 4:37 PM
Well, CGar, only to the extent that you can get some nice meat in both of them.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 4:38 PM
If a Buddy booth is a place I can go watch old clips of Buddy Hackett, I am SO in! If old clips of Buddy Ebsen, not so much...
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 4:40 PM
Thanks, Dave, for the restaurant suggestions. Damn, it's hard to find a decent place to eat on the UES. No doubt another reason to move to Brooklyn.
Posted by: mopar at October 5, 2009 4:40 PM
gaeity never. that was kinda burlesque place with dancers and the like. an institution but never went. adonis was my favorite. but i say too much. those booth things seemed too dirty and reminded me of convessional things at church but always wanted to go to one of those live sex shows on 8th they used to have.
Posted by: Petebklyn at October 5, 2009 4:42 PM
- Yes, brownjokester, along Eight Ave in the 40s.
Really?!?!? They're still around. That's exciting!
When that street was lined with them. I always wanted to go check them out. To see what you got for .25cents.
I imagined that you go into a booth, you draw open a curtain and a woman would be dancing naked about 10 feet away for 1 minute.
Am I right?
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 4:43 PM
Petebklyn would argue with me that those places in the 50s & 60s are UES. I think it was him arguing about where the UES started. Maybe it was actually dh.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 4:43 PM
Do you remember Stella's, Pete??? Or Rounds???
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 4:44 PM
- always wanted to go to one of those live sex shows on 8th they used to have.
Why was this city cleaned up?
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 4:46 PM
Rounds , sure. Actually was decent place to eat.
e53rd used to have male streetwalkers, especially by 3rd avenue. I was so flattered one night, I was walking down 2nd and some guy thinking I was one trying to make a deal.
Posted by: Petebklyn at October 5, 2009 4:49 PM
If I mention Cats, is that keeping on topic or changing the topic?
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 4:49 PM
lol it's turned into the gay male version of the Golden Girls in here
*rob*
Posted by: Butterfly at October 5, 2009 4:50 PM
Ummmm, not the ones I go to, brownjokester. There was one of those on Eith bet 43 & 44 until about 2 years ago. Just like in the Madonna video....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5OwOSfwk1M
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 4:50 PM
"I follow you around but you can't see
Too wrapped up in yourself to notice."
Posted by: infinitejester at October 5, 2009 4:52 PM
Pete...I flew into NYC Jan 1990 on a friend's Lear Jet from Chicago for New year's Eve. We all stayed at separate hotels. His conceirge at his hotel was able to get us into Sparks for dinner and then we all went to Rounds. We spent a lot of money that night.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 4:52 PM
Cats are never off topic & are always contextually correct.
Posted by: Arkady at October 5, 2009 4:53 PM
Where'd brokedeveloper go???? He waltzes in here with popcorn trick comments and then disappears.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 4:53 PM
hmm, which one would I be Rob? Sophia?
Posted by: Petebklyn at October 5, 2009 4:55 PM
"I follow you around but you can't see"
jester, that's 'cause you're usually inching your way along the floor
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 4:55 PM
I am really only good for making and deciphering movie references.
Posted by: Brokedeveloper at October 5, 2009 4:56 PM
Rounds was the classier place on that block. I can't remember the others names.
Posted by: Petebklyn at October 5, 2009 4:57 PM
there's a whole section of sunset park that's called Lil Times Square. i take a cab there to buy porns and lube every once in a while. it's kinda sketchy tho, but not really.
*rob*
Posted by: Butterfly at October 5, 2009 4:57 PM
*rob* = Rose
Dave = Blanche
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 4:57 PM
OMG, I was right! Just like a imagined.
Except that dancer (Madonna) was on there for about 3 minutes.
I would think that for .25cents, you'd only get about 1 minute if that much. I would go with my laundry change in my murse to rack up time.
I'm to shy to go alone. Anyone want to go? I'll give you .50cents.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 4:59 PM
Any of these quarter booths in Sunset Park?
I'd spent more money taking the train to the city then at the booth.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 5:03 PM
I went to those stores in Sunset Park once - it is decidedly not very sketchy. The selection is the only thing sketchy. I had to order online the ones I really wanted.
Posted by: Lowhearts at October 5, 2009 5:06 PM
the Ramone's had song named 53rd and 3rd ....guess what was about.
Posted by: Petebklyn at October 5, 2009 5:13 PM
I realized I am beginning to sound sleazy.
I'm really just curious.
btw, I'm female. Maybe that will change my image from the above. Maybe it'll make it worse.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 5:18 PM
8 minutes and counting.
Someone please post!
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 5:26 PM
What killed it? When I mentioned I was female?
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 5:30 PM
hi
Posted by: dirty_hipster at October 5, 2009 5:30 PM
brownjokester, I don't know how it happened, but you just beat out CGar for the TKOTD. If you had some of our personal emails, you could have shot someone a message to save you, although the rules committee does frown on such behaviour.
Congratulations, I believe that is your first award. Feel free to make a speech. I promise to keep the orchestra quiet until you are finished.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 5:40 PM
hi, dirty.
And welcome to the club. You can sit between CarGar and myself.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 5:41 PM
Oh wow, I didn't know DH snuck a TKOTD in there as well.
I'll have to have someone put in an extra order to the trophy shop this week.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 5:43 PM
Biff,lLook over there, it's Wild Bill's Soda.
pssst, everyone.
Next time Biff posts. Don't post for 10 minutes.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 5:46 PM
Oh, NOOOO!!!!!
7 minutes and counting.
I'd like to use my email life line please.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 5:54 PM
How deliciously ironic: in trying to pwn me, brownjokester won an unprecedented second TKOTD award.
And the best part is, now that it is past 5:51pm and the TKOTD eligibility ends at 6pm EST each day, nobody else can win the award today.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 5:58 PM
I'm taking pity on you, brownjokester.
Posted by: bxgrl at October 5, 2009 5:59 PM
Wait! Me!!I win!! (Jeez, I finally win something!)
Posted by: bxgrl at October 5, 2009 6:00 PM
Am I too late to the party to win something?
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 6:01 PM
bxgrl, how to you reckon you won? I think we need to send you to a PLUSA refresher course.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 6:02 PM
Note to self: Do not try to humiliate and/or PWN the self proclaimed president. He is adored.
I will prepare two speeches.
CarGar, wanna help; since you have so much experience on these occasions?
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 6:03 PM
Am I gonna be the thread killer now? 400
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 6:04 PM
- Posted by: bxgrl at October 5, 2009 5:59 PM
Password recovered?
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 6:04 PM
H(after how many "I"m 500!" awards you and biff have, allow me this small victory :-)
Posted by: bxgrl at October 5, 2009 6:05 PM
BJ- am home now. Could look it up :-)
I was trying to get in under the wire for the TKOTD award by 6.You guys ruined it for me :(
Posted by: bxgrl at October 5, 2009 6:07 PM
- H(after how many "I"m 500!" awards you and biff have, allow me this small victory :-)
Who wants to burst her bubble?
Not me!
But someone should really tell her.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 6:09 PM
Snaps! How're you doing? What's your temp? Did you get some yogurt?
Posted by: Arkady at October 5, 2009 6:09 PM
sniff...sniff.....SOB!....
Posted by: bxgrl at October 5, 2009 6:11 PM
- sniff...sniff.....SOB!....
Sorry, I didn't want to break it to you.
And whom are you calling a Son of a Bit*h?
I'm going to assume, the person who got 400.
How deliciously ironic.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 6:13 PM
Arkady...I'm having a setback. I called the doc and I'm heading in in the morning. But she did say that if my temp keeps rising to go to the E.R. tonight (temp is now at 101.4). 103 is my cutoff before they ignore my pleas and hospitalize me for a few days until they figure out what's happening to me.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 6:15 PM
"Who wants to burst her bubble?"
I'd be happy to. Bxgrl, I was 500...again.
"I will prepare two speeches."
BJ (so much easier than spelling out the full name, thanks bxgrl), we promise to get a restraining order against Kanye West to ensure your speeches go as planned.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 6:16 PM
er....that was SOB! as in weep and wail. Ha- feeling a hair guilty? :-)
and did I really say Klugman, not Krugman earlier? I need to hide my head in a chair for awhile. While I'm weeping over my TKOTD award loss.
Posted by: bxgrl at October 5, 2009 6:16 PM
**there there Bxgirl** (sending virtual hugs!)
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 6:16 PM
Biffy, you are going to call a woman "BJ"??? Shame on you!! LOL
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 6:17 PM
You are going to need 2 codpieces to ever get on my good side again, biff.
Posted by: bxgrl at October 5, 2009 6:17 PM
- I'd be happy to. Bxgrl, I was 500...again.
And tell me what my future holds.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 6:17 PM
sniff.....sneeerrrcckkkk..sniff...uck.... *in teeny voice* thank you snappy.
Posted by: bxgrl at October 5, 2009 6:18 PM
Snappy - Let me know if you need help.
Posted by: Arkady at October 5, 2009 6:19 PM
Oops, ok, I was 400, but still...
At least I didn't "win" TWO TKOTDs today!
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 6:19 PM
Thanks Arkady. I'm hoping to avoid the hospital---fingers crossed xxx. If I have to be miserable in bed, I'd rather it be my own bed.
Bxgirl, I've got plenty of kleenex...have some :)
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 6:21 PM
a big zero, BJ if I have anything to say about it ;^)
Posted by: bxgrl at October 5, 2009 6:21 PM
Wow- and you made fun of me, biffers? ha ha ha ha ha
Posted by: bxgrl at October 5, 2009 6:22 PM
snaps- let me know what's happening. If- G-d Forbid you need to go into the hospital, I can help with the kitties.
Posted by: bxgrl at October 5, 2009 6:23 PM
What can I say. I'm trying to be a winner around here.
btw, what every happened to Quote of the Day?
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 6:25 PM
Thanks Bxgirl. Let's pray for no hospital stays - I swear I'll whine and cry like an infant if I have to go!
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 6:27 PM
"what every happened to Quote of the Day?"
It got boring as Montrose won it basically every day.
Speaking of which, maybe I should revive the Feel Good Video of the Day (FGVOTD) some day.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 6:28 PM
Biff, what happened to your CVS rant of the day? Surely those gum cracking nimrods haven't become competent all of a sudden!
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 6:31 PM
Snappy, if you need something delivered to your home if you can't get out, please let me know. I would be happy to help you out.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 6:31 PM
Do a special Feel Good for Snappy - she needs it!
Posted by: Arkady at October 5, 2009 6:33 PM
"what every happened to Quote of the Day?"
What every happened to good grammar? :-)
Snappy, I've been avoiding CVS. Maybe I should go back soon so I have another story to tell here.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 6:33 PM
Thanks Biffy :) My first order is for a small water gun (darned cats!), tube socks and chapstick! LOL
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 6:33 PM
I think Snappy would rather have a black thick bodied woman do a feel good for her (or a good feel to her).
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 6:34 PM
Your cats wear tube socks and chapstick?
I'll do a FGVOTD tomorrow just for Snappy. Hopefully, she'll survive to see it!
Ok, I'm outie.
Nytol.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 6:34 PM
Yes, Biff. That is your mission, should you choose to accept. When I return from the doc tomorrow, I'd like to have a special FGVOTD for me. I like dancing babies, dancing cats, maybe a combo of dancing cats and babies?
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 6:34 PM
Biff, if you want a really good story, first go to CVS, then the Atlantic Center Pathmark on a Saturday, then ride the B41. That should keep us all entertained for a few hours at least!
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 6:36 PM
- What every happened to good grammar? :-)
What every happened to being nice to newbies?
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 6:36 PM
Pia actually likes chapstick! Have to fight her for it.
Brownjokester...you've so got my number on that one!
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 6:37 PM
- dancing cats
If the dancing cats are in costumes. I WILL NOT TUNE IN!
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 6:38 PM
What happened to the adult porn shop talk?????? Just got home.
BTW, they cost $1.00 today, not quarters.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 6:41 PM
DONT MAKE ME A THREAD KILLER! SOMEONE SAY SOMETHING!
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 6:42 PM
Phew...avoided that disaster.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 6:43 PM
What about dancing cats dressed up like babies? :)
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 6:43 PM
Dave, you weren't here to continue it.
I have a dollar. And a dream.
Anyone wanna go?
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 6:44 PM
Do any of you ever have a premonition in the evening of what you want to eat for breakfast the next day??? I just had one. I want a glazed donut. I have these premonitions all the time. Am I psychic, psycho, psychotic. I am a sad, sad little man.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 6:44 PM
BJ, what part of Brooklyn do you live???
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 6:46 PM
- disaster
Disaster??
One person's disaster is another person WIN!
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 6:46 PM
I've seen personal ads on craigslist and other places where people guys have set up little booths like that in their homes for some sort of fantasy. I don't know how I would incorporate that into my brownstone without all sorts of flak from shillstoner about the appropriateness of the original floorplan.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 6:49 PM
WOW...Gourmet Magazine along with Modern Bride (who cares) are shutting down!!!!
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 6:52 PM
True, true...it could be a win. Maybe tomorrow. Back to bed for me. Nitey nite folks :)
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at October 5, 2009 6:52 PM
I live in a neighborhood where I don't fit the stereotypes.
#1 - I don't own a stroller.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 6:55 PM
A friend of mine dressed her pit bull up as Little Red Riding Hood for Halloween and sent around the picture. It was adorable but the look on his face was priceless, surround by that frilly hood. Cats in costume are much rarer although another friend used to stick those antlers on her cat's head for Xmas. My cats are just not that amenable.
Posted by: bxgrl at October 5, 2009 6:56 PM
Whaddaya mean it got boring because I won QOTD every day? I did not! Boring? Humph!
Posted by: Montrose Morris at October 5, 2009 7:03 PM
Ahhhh, the good old days, MM...when the What called you a PBA!!!!
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 7:14 PM
Dave, you could be a star! Go for it.
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/tfr/1386685020.html
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 7:14 PM
Anyone still out there?!?!
Posted by: dirty_hipster at October 5, 2009 7:18 PM
Just a few losers....watching Jeopardy.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 7:27 PM
Haha for the record I'm stuck at work
Love Jeopardy. Watch it every night.
Posted by: dirty_hipster at October 5, 2009 7:30 PM
Snappy, this sounds serious. I hope you get better soon.
Posted by: mopar at October 5, 2009 11:18 PM
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