I grew up in New Rochelle, NY which is half Jewish, half Italian and 20% other groups. We had 3 of the best Italian restaurants that any of you have ever eaten in. When I and Howard Mom moved to Metro-Phoenix we couldn't find decent Italian so I asked for advice at the poker table, we tried it and it was terrible, I did that a few times and then I realized what was happening and the conversations became:

'Anybody here know of a good Italian restaurant?'
'You should try Cosimo's House of Pasta Supremo.'
'Where do you come from?'
'Montana.'
'Shut the **** up, just shut the **** up, I should give you a slap.'

So far have found a few Italian places that are ok but not like from back home.

I can't remember the name of the Italian restaurant that one of my customers used to like in Tempe. We went there for lunch most of the times that I came to town. It reminded me of a classy nursing home lunchroom, but it is important to note that everything in the area reminds me of a nursing home.

Pittsburgh has some decent Italian food.

Sicily has a few good Italian restaurants. I sampled a few and they seem authentic. The waiters even spoke Sicilian. A dialect I can’t speak but hand gestures help to convey some meaning. My Sicilian friends help in translation.

Colonoscopy the other day. (btw, you old farts, you should be doing this every 5 years). It turned out that I had appendicitis which he cured from the inside, no operation necessary, a likely benign polyp and, run-roh, a hernia which he couldn't fix. I have a consult w/ Dr about that next week.

If I disappear from here I want to be referred to as 'that unlucky **** managed to die of a hernia!'

I’ve had two colonoscopies; I’m still alive and survived the vile liquid you have to ingest the before day the procedure. What a fun exam. I’ll do one more at 70 and call it good. You don’t want to live too long. Aristotle made that mistake to his everlasting shame.

@ Howard, in New Rochelle could the Jewish Gangs hold their own or were they continually beat up by the Irish Thugs?

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately; and reading Books. And also maintaining my liquid intake at a perfectly sustainable quantity.

I've had three and need another one this year. Given family cancer history, doc put me on a three year cycle. The prep is indeed vile, but it's 1000x better than colon cancer.

ITALIANS! I must've gotten into 10 fights in High School mostly Jews v. Italians when we tried to crash their parties and vice versa. I'll tell you that having garbage cans thrown at yourself is coming it pretty high, imo. Italians, those garbage can throwing bastards! I also ended up w/ a gigantic black eye which was both good and bad: the high school kids all knew that I was willing to fight, but, otoh, I had a huge black eye which lasted a couple of weeks.

Ok we will wait until technology can detect it from outside and no thank you until then. Ok kidding will have to do at some point but screw that or wait i didnt mean it that way just dont. Just find a way to erase all the memories or develop technology you are the only witness to it and they watch the internal video only not anything else disgusting and remotely operate the device to cut things when needed. Screw that too. On second thought let me just die damn it. But dont listen to me. You know better. In scientific society the test is performed by female doctors team that are also sexual maniacs and when they finish their ritual in all scientific clinically boring glory (separation of sex and state) the tables are turned and you are the boss hmmm (now its their sex time to help forget forget forget damn it...). Suddenly the operation becomes number one hit! Because its party time in scientific society. And when the technique improves to not be invasive the party still happens lol.

I had NO idea that masque dropped acid.

2020 at it again
(my parents will understand better than i ever did maybe)

(i will drink the moon tonight)


(from 1968 movie mermaids and dudes)

(i will drink the moon tonight
and i will get drunk
and say since you feel pain for another
throw me a knife to cut myself
and when the knife cuts me
you will tell me in regret
take the moon's tears
and wash from the blood.
take the moon's tears
and wash from the blood.

And i will too cut the moon,
i will place it in your hair
and if we lay together
i will have the sky in my arms,
and when we wake up
and go back to the old hangouts
think how beautiful you will be
with the moon in your hair...
think how beautiful you will be
with the moon in your hair..")



(a love for the summer)


(A love for summer I will be too
to keep cool your hand
and to kiss you.
You will love me like summer
and as a child,
but you will be gone with the wind
and rain.

A love for summer
I will be too
to keep cool your hand
and to kiss you.

And as the summer will be gone
and I ask for you
a star will only remain
to look at.

And as the summer will be gone
and I ask for you
a star will only remain
to look at.

And as the summer will be gone
and I ask for you
a star will only remain
to look at.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giannis_Poulopoulos

Uhh.. so my phone still has battery. Just enough to send out this SOS.. currently glamping with the girlfriend.

Glamping- it’s like camping were you need to drink an excessive amount of alcohol to tolerate the conditions, except it has the added tribulation of your girlfriend requesting pictures the whole time because the campsite is “cute”... it’s horrible... got bit by eight mosquitos writing this wish me luck!

You should drink excessive* amounts of alcohol while camping because it is the right thing to do.

*excessive = right amount drunk and no more and no less.

Pics or it didn't happen IMO.

Last night I watched some armed people defend a dumpster that was on fire from some other people who wanted to roll it down the street and then shortly after, two ****ing murders. Of course, there are more details to the story but for a brief time I was trying to process that I just saw people get shot over a dumpster fire. Literally, they were protecting a dumpster that was on fire.

Live-streamed 2020 is like the extra-potent variety.

I also watched stuff last night.

Camping definitely makes excessive alcohol a must. Like being homeless.

My mouse is telling me I should change its battery. I don't see the need to do that when it's still working. Of course when it stops working it won't be telling me I need to change the battery any more. I guess I'll just have to figure that out myself when the time comes.


PairTheBoard

To make your day:

Then there is the humour which depends on the impossible. Innumerable stories could be quoted. One concerns a baby in a pram just inside a window on the ground floor. A burglar approaches and starts scratching at the window and making signs with the idea of suggesting to the baby that it should lift its hand and open the latch. The baby takes no notice for a time but at last it says, “Don't be a damned fool, I can't walk yet. “

-A. P. Herbert

One tab the other night would you believe. Havent seen it in 6 years. Mild. Expected more. Interesting nonetheless. Wont see for years again i suspect. Two i would have aquired if i had known better.

P.S i love you was the film she threw on. I found it interesting solely for the purple flowered fields of ireland ironically.

I upped the ante and put on sinister. By then i was down but imo is the greatest horror or at least up there with the shining.

Haven't done any in over 30 years. The Feds ought to be handing it out like candy for medicinal reasons during these trying times.

If you add 3 of something to 1, does the result have to equal 4x the original quantity?

If you add 3 shots of whiskey to one glass, you still have one glass

Try it with velocities.