Thursday, July 1, 2021

Hey I ain’t no wealthy guy!


 But we were staying in a place where rich people live. This was in front of Barry Allen’s place. You wouldn’t think the Flash would be rich but I hear he makes a lot of dough showing up at Bar Mitzvahs. 

Lisa’s friend is blue collar like us. She was born to n Bensonhurst and went to Saint A’s like the wife. Her late husband just made a barrel of money in the telecommunication game. He invented something to do with cell phones or something and they became multi-millionaires. Unfortunately he passed from cancer and she was left alone.

She had been bugging us to come for years and now she is selling to move closer to her daughters so we bit the bullet and went. Now I personally hate traveling. But I did it to make the wife happy. Of course this is what she packed for two days:


It was originally supposed to be one night but we extended it down to three. Of course she had enough outfits to last another week with matching shoes. I ran out of underwear. I spent my time cooking. Her friend had come over the last time I made rope vieja and requested I make it for her.


So we ate on the porch to eat it with a little ice tea. I find that eating well is the best revenge.

It just doesn’t agree with my clothes. Those bastards just keep shrinking on me.

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Life from the porch


 The thing about Long Island is you have to be near the water. It’s what makes it worth living there. I mean I every place has something. Wisconsin has cheese. Minnesota has looting. Carolina has a live and let live attitude about sex with your first cousin. Florida has….well… Florida man. Long Island has the water.

People from the city make the trek to the giant state park Jones Beach that was built by Robert Moses. There are other great beaches like Long Beach, East Atlantic beach, the Rockaways and Lido Beach. It is the beaches out at the Hamptons that are really special.



Our friends house is in the Moriches which is Hamptons adjacent. The house is on an inlet with a dock where they keep their boat. The bought it three years ago for around 700 and refurbished it. She is an interior decorator and the place is a showplace. I am a big clumsy oaf so I have to mince around carefully so I don’t break anything. Now they sold it for 1.2 so they can go on to the next one. But right now it is set up perfectly.

We extended our stay a couple of days since this is the last of Sheila. The wife went antiquing with her friend and I am drinking coffee on the porch and relaxing.

It don’t get much better than that.

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Summer time and living is easy!




 We decided to take a few days off for in the heat of the summer. Seatuck the bed and breakfast we used to go to had been closed for about five years now. The owner turned it into a private house.Luckily we had an alternative.

One of Lisa’s friends from grammar school has a beautiful house on the water near the Hamptons. She invited us several times but we never had a chance. However now she has sold it so it is now or never. So we packed up like we were invading Normandy and went for two days. 

I have spending my time cooking and writing. Making some old and some new favorites. Lisa and her friend are sitting near the dock relaxing with some wine and I am on the porch.


It’s a pretty sweet deal. There is a sea breeze cooling me down and I am sipping iced tea and writing while I have a pot full of ropa vieja simmering on the stove.

Life is good. You have to be in the moment.

You never know what you are going to learn when you go on a walk

So we had to take the mother-in-law to a doctors appointment on Sunrise Highway which is a main drag in Long Island. They only allow one person at a time to accompany the patient so the wife went with her and I was at loose ends. Normally that is great. I would wander off to a pizzeria or diner or hamburger stand and have something to eat without the wife bitching at me that there was too much salt. So Trooper was happy. Not so fast loser.

I starting walking which nobody does in the burbs. I figure there must be a food joint close by. I mean what the fuck we are always passing them when we drive down Sunrise Highway! Well for four blocks in either direction there is nothing. No Burger King. No McDonalds. No diner. No Dunkin Donuts. No IHOP. No pizzeria! No shit!

All there was were home stores. A kitchen cabinet place. A window treatment place. A store totally devoted to shower doors. What the fuck… shower doors! I mean I could go in and order a shower door with extra cheese! Hey put more Mayo on those Levelor blinds. What a fucking letdown!

That is not even the worst part. As I was walking by cursing and talking to myself I saw my reflection in the window.  I said to myself “Self I recognize that guy. But who is it?”

Then I realized it! I look like the silhouette of Alfred Hitchcock!

I am one fat fuck!

Monday, June 28, 2021

WLEM FM


Chrissie Hynde claims that she wrote this song for/and about a lonely fan, but I think she's fibbing; she wrote this for Ray Davies of The Kinks. Whatever, it's beautiful song and I'm glad that she gets credit for songwriting. I never saw the original Pretenders before half of them died, but I did see the second incarnation, The Pretenders, and the treat was that she was playing her hometown of Akron, Ohio. Some co-workers and I drove over from Cleveland to see them in 1984. To me, the song is about letting go of a special someone you can't have today, but maybe tomorrow or someday. 
 _____________________ 

Added: The electric version with the original band members from the good old MTV days:

 

Sunday, June 27, 2021

The Song Is Ended

 . . . but the body parts linger on. A box turtle and a cicada wing:

I'm guessing the turtle has eaten the rest of the cicada. I have to say, I miss the Brood X Wall of Sound.


Thursday, June 24, 2021

WKRLEM: Stick to your own kind


And learn to swim bitch.

Sign of the times



New York Post June 24, 2021:

 The father of a Texas woman who vanished from a house party said Thursday he’s “terrified” to find out what happened to her — and believes that her boyfriend, former NFL player Kevin Ware, knows “something” about her mysterious disappearance.
Taylor Pomaski was last seen at her home in Texas on April 25, 2021, according to authorities.
The family filed a missing person’s report on May 10 but are still searching for answers in her disappearance.
Harris County Sheriff's Office

“If he’s not responsible, he has to know something,”  Stephen Pomaski said of the disappearance of his daughter, Taylor Pomaski, 29, news station KTRK reported.

Taylor was last seen at a party on April 25 at a home that she shared with Ware, a former tight end for the San Francisco 49ers, authorities said.


Marilyn’s Diary


My Aunt Lily was very sad when my Uncle Herman left us to run away with Carol Herman. She couldn't understand why he would give up on their marriage when they had been happy for 257 years. But the heart wants what it wants.

I couldn't understand why he would leave my firm young nubile teenage body. But he did. For a senile old bat who was obsessed with some guy named Ricky Branch. 

Aunt Lily went a little crazy for a while. Wild parties. Sex. Drugs. Rock and Roll. But finally she got very depressed. She would just sit in her rocking chair with her cat. Rocking back and forth. Petting her pussy.

There are worst ways to live.

We still missed my Uncle Herman.

Trooper York’s Word of the Day

pander
[ˈpandər]
VERB
(pander to)
  1. gratify or indulge (an immoral or distasteful desire, need, or habit or a person with such a desire, etc.).
    "newspapers are pandering to people's baser instincts"
    synonyms:
    indulge · gratify · satisfy · cater to · give in to · fulfill · yield to · bow to · humor · please · accommodate · comply with · go along with
  2.  to wear a mask to satisfy the karens of the world.
NOUN
  1. dated
    a pimp.
    synonyms:
    procurer · procuress · go-between · brothel-keeper · madam · souteneur · ponce · hoon · panderess · mack · bawd · a  fouchi 
 

Smell your finger Little Joe


 "You know it felt so good when you put your hand up my gingham. I had to touch myself too."
"It sure was fun Ellie Mae. Say do you want to do it again?"
"Why surely I do Little Joe. Say why do they call you Little Joe? I hope it's not what I think it is?"
"You know it's not Ellie Mae. Say I know what this smells like."
"What?"
"That parmesan cheese they have in then new Eyetalian restuarant."
"You are a strange man cowboy."

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Time for Pasta salad!


 It’s time for a simple summer pasta salad!

Take a pound of gluten free fussili cook it up and drain and run under cold water. Pour on a generous amount of olive oil. Cut up six ripe plum tomatoes and add to a mix. Toss. Then cut up a block of ricotta salada cheese. Actually I crumble it add to the mix making sure it integrates with the olive oil and the tomatoes. Add some fresh basil for flavor. Serve cold with maybe a dash of pecorino Romano cheese that you grate over it.

Great with a chilled glass of Sangiovese.

Finally… Something to listen to!


 We have finally started our own podcast. We have been threatening to do it for along time and now we have finally started it. It is on Spotify but we are going to go on YouTube soon enough once we figure out the video bullshit. I think this link will work:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/459DWmAwjp1nj6LUTCc5th?si=FkQ7KfM6Qh2lN1Qaf5R6GQ&dl_branch=1p

It is going to be a general life style podcast where we talk about stuff that interests us. The current one tells some stories about the TV show and when  Lisa met the Long Island Medium and all the bullshit that ensued.

Check it out and let me know what you think.

Harmony and Understanding?


Music is very important to me. I am not much for quiet. I like to be listening to something while I am doing something else. Cooking. Reading. Scratching my balls. I like to multitask.

I have talked about Pandora before. It is the music service that lets you set up a "Station" that plays songs from a genre or type of band if you mention a singer or a group or specific song. It will play that song and a bunch of other songs of the same genre or style or period. So if Sixty wants to hear "Baby Got Bach" or Nick wants to hear "The Theme from Barnaby Jones" a whole station springs up.

I was teasing Lisa and I said "the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter has aligned with Mars" and she said what the fuck are you talking about. So I put the song on and it was hilarious. Then I set up a Pandora channel with the Fifth Dimension and it was great. All  the great cheesy songs from the sixties and seventies were on it. You know the songs that they performed on the Sonny and Cher hour or the Glenn Campbell Holiday special. The Carpenters. Tom Jones. The Captain and Tennille. Mac Davis. Tony Orlando and Dawn. Diane Warwick singing the early hits of Burt Bacharach. Classic cheese.

A good time was had by all. 

If you don't like it you can have the Moon align with Uranus.