there’s a really good documentary out there about a guy in the East Village who runs his small restaurant with his wife and 4 kids, been there for like 40 years and lets nobody tell him what to do.
he kicks people out, yells at customers and is generally a singular character who people travel to see.
it goes into his struggle to keep afloat with his business and family.
rob must know the restaurant since he lived in the LES.
“Maybe he can stop paying his suppliers, and then enjoy a few years fending off their collection efforts!!”
CGar, did you forget Gon Gon (my father in law) is Chinese? It’s an ALL CASH business. There is no such thing as invoices/bills/collections. Where’s M4L to attest to this?
“Did I tell you he’s moving in with us? He’ll be on the deck with you!”
That’s fine, Cobble, but Chip can set up his tent between the fire escape and the grill because I’m NOT relinquishing my prime real estate between the door and the A/C unit.
I assume Chip is once again heading up the Christmas Tree recycling effort this year at Cobble Hill Park??? He prefers to be called Chipper, right?
Jan. 6 (New York Times) — HONG KONG — Tsutomu Yamaguchi , the only official survivor of both atomic blasts to hit Japan in World War II , died Monday in Nagasaki, Japan.
The cause was stomach cancer, his daughter said on Wednesday. He was 93.
Mr. Yamaguchi, as a 29-year-old engineer for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, was on a business trip in Hiroshima when the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945. He was getting off a streetcar when the “Little Boy†device detonated above Hiroshima.
Mr. Yamaguchi said he was less than 2 miles away from ground zero. His eardrums were ruptured and his upper torso was burned by the blast, which destroyed most of the city’s buildings and killed 80,000 people.
Mr. Yamaguchi spent the night in a Hiroshima bomb shelter and returned to his hometown of Nagasaki the following day, according to interviews he gave over the years. The second bomb, known as “Fat Man,†was dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, killing 70,000 people there.
Mr. Yamaguchi was in his Nagasaki office, telling his boss about the Hiroshima blast, when “suddenly the same white light filled the room,†he said in an interview last March with The Independent newspaper.
“I thought the mushroom cloud had followed me from Hiroshima,†he said.
“I could have died on either of those days,†Mr. Yamaguchi said in an August interview with the Mainichi Daily News.
“Everything that follows is a bonus.â€
Japan surrendered six days after the Nagasaki attack.
Mr. Yamaguchi recovered from his wounds, went to work for the American occupation forces, became a teacher and eventually returned to work at Mitsubishi Heavy. He was in good health for most of his life, said his daughter, Toshiko Yamasaki, which is why he avoided joining in anti-nuclear protests.
“He was so healthy, he thought it would have been unfair to people who were really sick,†Ms. Yamasaki told The Independent.
“Afterwards he was fine,†she said. “We hardly noticed he was a survivor.â€
It is believed there were about 165 twice-bombed persons in Japan, known as “nijyuu hibakusha,†although municipal officials in both cities have said Mr. Yamaguchi was the only person to be officially acknowledged as such.
Ms. Yamasaki, who was born in 1948, said her mother also had been “soaked in black rain and was poisoned†by the fallout from the Nagasaki blast. Her mother died in 2008 from kidney and liver cancers. She was 88.
“We think she passed the poison on to us,†Ms. Yamaski said, noting that her brother died of cancer at age 59 and her sister has been chronically ill throughout her life.
In his later years, Mr. Yamaguchi began to speak out about the scourge of atomic weapons. He rarely gave interviews, but he wrote a memoir and was part of a 2006 documentary film about the double-bombing victims. He called for the abolition of nuclear weapons at a showing of the film at the United Nations that year.
At a lecture he gave in Nagasaki last June, Mr. Yamaguchi said he had written to President Obama about banning nuclear arms. And Ms. Yamasaki said he had recently been visited by the American film director James Cameron to discuss a film project on atomic bombs.
Among his benefits as an atomic bomb victim, Mr. Yamaguchi’s funeral costs will be paid by the government.
Gon Gon is very nice to his customers.
He’s sort of like the anti-(Won Ton) Soup Nazi.
Vox Pop seems to have a good business model for running a restaurant.
cgar,
there’s a really good documentary out there about a guy in the East Village who runs his small restaurant with his wife and 4 kids, been there for like 40 years and lets nobody tell him what to do.
he kicks people out, yells at customers and is generally a singular character who people travel to see.
it goes into his struggle to keep afloat with his business and family.
rob must know the restaurant since he lived in the LES.
“CGar, just remind me the weekend of Jan 16 if you can (I’m sure you can; you are amazing with the social event planning).”
I’m on it. Thanks for the complement, though I also know you’re happy to relinquish all the BlackBerrying!!
“He prefers to be called Chipper, right?”
Ha-yuk yuk yuk!!
Yes, you can keep your tent near the door, but we’re going to have to ask you to get a smaller model due to the additional weight of Chip’s tent.
“Maybe he can stop paying his suppliers, and then enjoy a few years fending off their collection efforts!!”
CGar, did you forget Gon Gon (my father in law) is Chinese? It’s an ALL CASH business. There is no such thing as invoices/bills/collections. Where’s M4L to attest to this?
“Did I tell you he’s moving in with us? He’ll be on the deck with you!”
That’s fine, Cobble, but Chip can set up his tent between the fire escape and the grill because I’m NOT relinquishing my prime real estate between the door and the A/C unit.
I assume Chip is once again heading up the Christmas Tree recycling effort this year at Cobble Hill Park??? He prefers to be called Chipper, right?
I wonder what Matt Damon would do.
Here’s an amazing story…..
Survivor of 2 Atomic Bombs Dies at 93
Jan. 6 (New York Times) — HONG KONG — Tsutomu Yamaguchi , the only official survivor of both atomic blasts to hit Japan in World War II , died Monday in Nagasaki, Japan.
The cause was stomach cancer, his daughter said on Wednesday. He was 93.
Mr. Yamaguchi, as a 29-year-old engineer for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, was on a business trip in Hiroshima when the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945. He was getting off a streetcar when the “Little Boy†device detonated above Hiroshima.
Mr. Yamaguchi said he was less than 2 miles away from ground zero. His eardrums were ruptured and his upper torso was burned by the blast, which destroyed most of the city’s buildings and killed 80,000 people.
Mr. Yamaguchi spent the night in a Hiroshima bomb shelter and returned to his hometown of Nagasaki the following day, according to interviews he gave over the years. The second bomb, known as “Fat Man,†was dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, killing 70,000 people there.
Mr. Yamaguchi was in his Nagasaki office, telling his boss about the Hiroshima blast, when “suddenly the same white light filled the room,†he said in an interview last March with The Independent newspaper.
“I thought the mushroom cloud had followed me from Hiroshima,†he said.
“I could have died on either of those days,†Mr. Yamaguchi said in an August interview with the Mainichi Daily News.
“Everything that follows is a bonus.â€
Japan surrendered six days after the Nagasaki attack.
Mr. Yamaguchi recovered from his wounds, went to work for the American occupation forces, became a teacher and eventually returned to work at Mitsubishi Heavy. He was in good health for most of his life, said his daughter, Toshiko Yamasaki, which is why he avoided joining in anti-nuclear protests.
“He was so healthy, he thought it would have been unfair to people who were really sick,†Ms. Yamasaki told The Independent.
“Afterwards he was fine,†she said. “We hardly noticed he was a survivor.â€
It is believed there were about 165 twice-bombed persons in Japan, known as “nijyuu hibakusha,†although municipal officials in both cities have said Mr. Yamaguchi was the only person to be officially acknowledged as such.
Ms. Yamasaki, who was born in 1948, said her mother also had been “soaked in black rain and was poisoned†by the fallout from the Nagasaki blast. Her mother died in 2008 from kidney and liver cancers. She was 88.
“We think she passed the poison on to us,†Ms. Yamaski said, noting that her brother died of cancer at age 59 and her sister has been chronically ill throughout her life.
In his later years, Mr. Yamaguchi began to speak out about the scourge of atomic weapons. He rarely gave interviews, but he wrote a memoir and was part of a 2006 documentary film about the double-bombing victims. He called for the abolition of nuclear weapons at a showing of the film at the United Nations that year.
At a lecture he gave in Nagasaki last June, Mr. Yamaguchi said he had written to President Obama about banning nuclear arms. And Ms. Yamasaki said he had recently been visited by the American film director James Cameron to discuss a film project on atomic bombs.
Among his benefits as an atomic bomb victim, Mr. Yamaguchi’s funeral costs will be paid by the government.