Doris Day
one of the great crushes of my youth
Bob Hope said she had the best behind in Hollywood
I have an autographed photo of Doris that I won in a raffle (the raffle was rigged, but in my favor, so I'm all for it)
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
don't hold my breath
Read a small item in the paper the other day- This past June was the hottest on record.
Don't know about records yet, but this July seems pretty darn hot.
I still have yet to hear anybody who jumped on the fact that we had a blizzard this winter (which proved beyond doubt that there was no climate change) crack wise about the heat.
Maybe I just missed it
Don't know about records yet, but this July seems pretty darn hot.
I still have yet to hear anybody who jumped on the fact that we had a blizzard this winter (which proved beyond doubt that there was no climate change) crack wise about the heat.
Maybe I just missed it
Monday, July 19, 2010
you say......
As previously stated I enjoy the world of food- eatin, reading, watching the TV, (oh PBS showed "A Hot Dog Program" the other night, one of my all time favorite food shows. I watch it every summer- a trip around America discovering the nuances and subtlety of all things frankfurter. If you can watch this show and not want to jump in the car and o to every place they feature- you have no soul.)
I do stop shy of callin myself a "foodie" There is something a wee bit too precious in that name. I love fresh fruits and veggies and few things make me happier than a nice salad but I am always put off by the messianic zeal of the locavore and/or farm to table crowd.
Yeah, Yeah, I get it fresh food = rapture, factory farm stuff= the spawn of satan. It is a bit tiresome to hear a hipster extol the virtue of an heirloom zucchini grown in community farm located in what used to be a parkin lot in Brooklyn.
That said- I have a few plants growin in containers on my deck in the back yard (a Roma tomato, a grape tomato, and a japanese eggplant). I water them everyday but mostly they are on their own. A bunch of the grape tomatos were all ripe the other day, I picked a few to put in a salad. Oh my dear god in heaven! These things were amazing! They barely made it into the kitchen- I was eating them like jelly beans (could you imagine if jelly beans grew on trees? )
I still will not align myself with the locavore mafia -but I get it.
A quick tomato aside: years ago the cesspool at the house overflowed leaving a puddle of "muck" in the backyard. The words have not yet been coined to describe how foul this was- but it was cleaned up and eventually forgotten.
The next summer, lo and behold, there were a bunch of tomato plants growing in the back yard! "Isn't that funny?" no one planted tomatos but, here they were.
AS summer went on the plants grew and the tomatoes looked like something out of a cookbook , big and red and ripe. Just as the harvest was about to begin, two and two were put together. Tomatoes-that no one planted- growing - in what just eight months before had been a puddle of cesspool muck.
I'm sure you were way ahead of us figuring that one out.
Needless to say none of the magic tomatoes made it to the table.
ps the G key on the computer is bein stubborn -so any missing G's are a mistake and not an attempt to be folksy
I do stop shy of callin myself a "foodie" There is something a wee bit too precious in that name. I love fresh fruits and veggies and few things make me happier than a nice salad but I am always put off by the messianic zeal of the locavore and/or farm to table crowd.
Yeah, Yeah, I get it fresh food = rapture, factory farm stuff= the spawn of satan. It is a bit tiresome to hear a hipster extol the virtue of an heirloom zucchini grown in community farm located in what used to be a parkin lot in Brooklyn.
That said- I have a few plants growin in containers on my deck in the back yard (a Roma tomato, a grape tomato, and a japanese eggplant). I water them everyday but mostly they are on their own. A bunch of the grape tomatos were all ripe the other day, I picked a few to put in a salad. Oh my dear god in heaven! These things were amazing! They barely made it into the kitchen- I was eating them like jelly beans (could you imagine if jelly beans grew on trees? )
I still will not align myself with the locavore mafia -but I get it.
A quick tomato aside: years ago the cesspool at the house overflowed leaving a puddle of "muck" in the backyard. The words have not yet been coined to describe how foul this was- but it was cleaned up and eventually forgotten.
The next summer, lo and behold, there were a bunch of tomato plants growing in the back yard! "Isn't that funny?" no one planted tomatos but, here they were.
AS summer went on the plants grew and the tomatoes looked like something out of a cookbook , big and red and ripe. Just as the harvest was about to begin, two and two were put together. Tomatoes-that no one planted- growing - in what just eight months before had been a puddle of cesspool muck.
I'm sure you were way ahead of us figuring that one out.
Needless to say none of the magic tomatoes made it to the table.
ps the G key on the computer is bein stubborn -so any missing G's are a mistake and not an attempt to be folksy
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Brutal
Oh it was hot yesterday and it's going to be hot tomorrow (tamale , for you fans of the old joke)-but to day it was HOT. The hottest day in 9 years said somebody.
You kinda forget that it gets this hot and humid and oppressive and just plain nasty.
I got in my car around noon today (the windshield had been facing the sun all morning long) ouch! I went to a local hardware store to get one of those "aluminun foil looking, put in the windshield so the inside of the car don't heat up like the kiln back in junior high thingys" they were sold out. ouch.
oh by the way I watched a lil' bit of news tonight, just to see if any of those trusted newsmen who mocked global warming because we had a big snowstorm this winter commented on the record breaking heat . I must of missed that part of the show.
You kinda forget that it gets this hot and humid and oppressive and just plain nasty.
I got in my car around noon today (the windshield had been facing the sun all morning long) ouch! I went to a local hardware store to get one of those "aluminun foil looking, put in the windshield so the inside of the car don't heat up like the kiln back in junior high thingys" they were sold out. ouch.
oh by the way I watched a lil' bit of news tonight, just to see if any of those trusted newsmen who mocked global warming because we had a big snowstorm this winter commented on the record breaking heat . I must of missed that part of the show.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
If.........
If there is a god--
The fact that he created Fireflies proves he has a delightful sense of humor
The fact that he created Fireflies proves he has a delightful sense of humor
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Summer (the first time)
A few months back I got an email from my friend Kate- she told me that she had just seen the movie "On The Town" for the very first time. This is without question one of my favorite movies- and I was happy that she enjoyed it.
I will also admit that I was a bit jealous. That's right I'll admit it- jealous. Y'see although I can close my eyes and remember dozens of memorable moments form the movie (the fact that in the opening song "New York, New York", filmed on location all over the city, each time the sailors sing "The Bronx is up and the Battery's down" they point in the correct direction) - I felt a slight pang of regret that I couldn't see it again for the first time.
There are movies and recordings that I cherish because they are like a part of my DNA- I watch Annie Hall or Taxi Driver and beyond knowing the story and the lines ,I know every breath , every pause, which shot comes next. I adore that.
But there is also a special thrill of discovery when you experience something for the first time. A few weeks back I watched the Tommy Lee Jones movie ,"The Three Burials......" and it was amazing- I had no idea where this story was going next- and now weeks later I'm still playing it in my head.
These thoughts were prompted by a show on PBS tonight- Carol King and James Taylor at the Troubador. The two of them trading songs back and forth, impeccably performed, a story or two along the way- and then a break as pleas for cash are made- and then back to the music.
James Taylor sang "Fire and Rain", of course he did, that song is like wallpaper, you've heard it so many times it doesn't even register. But tonight I was given a gift- for some reason , I heard it for the first time.
a perfect song. perfect.
Last year I was walking into K mart- parking lot noise turning into crowd noise, yelling kids, and a TV for sale blasting away.... and a song playing on the store PA , years ago it would have been Muzak but now they play music. Something about the arrangement of the song caught my attention, this wasn't any anonymous pop song , this was the real deal. What is that? Who is That? It took a second to focus and then there it was- The Beatles " A Hard Days Night"... for the first time
perfect.
ps Summer (the first time) - is an Old Bobby Goldsboro song. wanna be amazed?Listen to that for the first time.
I will also admit that I was a bit jealous. That's right I'll admit it- jealous. Y'see although I can close my eyes and remember dozens of memorable moments form the movie (the fact that in the opening song "New York, New York", filmed on location all over the city, each time the sailors sing "The Bronx is up and the Battery's down" they point in the correct direction) - I felt a slight pang of regret that I couldn't see it again for the first time.
There are movies and recordings that I cherish because they are like a part of my DNA- I watch Annie Hall or Taxi Driver and beyond knowing the story and the lines ,I know every breath , every pause, which shot comes next. I adore that.
But there is also a special thrill of discovery when you experience something for the first time. A few weeks back I watched the Tommy Lee Jones movie ,"The Three Burials......" and it was amazing- I had no idea where this story was going next- and now weeks later I'm still playing it in my head.
These thoughts were prompted by a show on PBS tonight- Carol King and James Taylor at the Troubador. The two of them trading songs back and forth, impeccably performed, a story or two along the way- and then a break as pleas for cash are made- and then back to the music.
James Taylor sang "Fire and Rain", of course he did, that song is like wallpaper, you've heard it so many times it doesn't even register. But tonight I was given a gift- for some reason , I heard it for the first time.
a perfect song. perfect.
Last year I was walking into K mart- parking lot noise turning into crowd noise, yelling kids, and a TV for sale blasting away.... and a song playing on the store PA , years ago it would have been Muzak but now they play music. Something about the arrangement of the song caught my attention, this wasn't any anonymous pop song , this was the real deal. What is that? Who is That? It took a second to focus and then there it was- The Beatles " A Hard Days Night"... for the first time
perfect.
ps Summer (the first time) - is an Old Bobby Goldsboro song. wanna be amazed?Listen to that for the first time.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
How sick are we???!!!!
We are so sick that-
Get on Montauk Highway (the main drag by where I live) head east for five miles. Make a list- CVS, Rite Aid, Thornhills (oops that was a local pharmacy, they're gone) Walgreens, CVS, CVS (not a typo) Walgreens and finish at.... you guessed it, CVS.
We (and by we I mean somebody , not me) take a drug Like Pristiq. Pristiq , a drug that in the official description states "Pristiq is thought to work by.........." Thought to work? That's the best they can do?
I will say that the TV commercials for Pristiq feature that little wind up ,tin "depressed lady" toy, that I would add to my toy collection in a second if I ever saw it in a store.
Get on Montauk Highway (the main drag by where I live) head east for five miles. Make a list- CVS, Rite Aid, Thornhills (oops that was a local pharmacy, they're gone) Walgreens, CVS, CVS (not a typo) Walgreens and finish at.... you guessed it, CVS.
We (and by we I mean somebody , not me) take a drug Like Pristiq. Pristiq , a drug that in the official description states "Pristiq is thought to work by.........." Thought to work? That's the best they can do?
I will say that the TV commercials for Pristiq feature that little wind up ,tin "depressed lady" toy, that I would add to my toy collection in a second if I ever saw it in a store.
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