You can't be serious!!

John is that you?

2008-08-11T12:50:00.000-07:00

I can't really understand what all the fuzz is about in finding out John Edwards had an extramarital affair..........

I mean....not only you could seeing him frolicking around with a brunette and a blond playing Latin lover, but pretending to have a different family in a different town and also complaining about the scorching sun while enjoying the outdoor patio with a middle age looking babe.

Just get over it and vote for BHO!!

With great freedoms come great responsability

2008-07-26T12:33:00.000-07:00

Every day when i watch the news, or read the papers, or even surf the net i stumble upon more and more proofs that this country with it's almost unlimited freedoms is becoming a big Special Needs school.
People are not held accountable for their actions, mistakes or much less for their defects. Besides the almost-urban legends (almost because they are true) like the man who scolded his own genitals with hot coffee and successfully sued the purveyors for "lack of warning" or the Asian lady who tried to stop a train in NYC with her head while leaning on the path of an incoming number 6, "because she was picking up her Bible" and won 11 millions from the MTA, now a new array of lawsuits are striking the "middle-men" allegedly responsible to facilitate loan of money for mortgage purpose between big investment firms and private citizens because "they should have known that those people weren't in a financial condition to repay the debt, therefore condemned them to foreclosure". Well, i remember that when i was a kid and people borrowed money that they couldn't give back......they were pretty much held accountable for in unorthodox or less fashion. Somebody recently called America a "nation of crybabies" which i don't believe, but even if it was true, who turned The People to a bunch of lawsuits waging and damage-looking wolves? Did somebody just say "WE" ?

Air head hero!!

2008-07-18T12:09:00.000-07:00

The whole "Air guitar" phenomenon seems rather dumb to me if you are not stoned or 8 years old, but when you stumble upon this kind of news it really sets new records among the dumbest performance anybody can give.

Lady from Long Island City (my 'hood too!!) started her gig at a Williamsburg Air Guitar festival when she caught her toe in a chair, almost ripped it off and continued to "rock" for a while; when she decided that maybe was time to get medical attention was too late, and they had to amputate the toe.

She supposedly became an instant hero for the dozens of fans attending the show, because of her....stupidity is my guess.

Viva Cabrini!!!!

2008-07-07T15:52:00.000-07:00

Today July the seventh is the feast of Beato Benedetto XI, Pope for the Roman Catholics; Blessed Emmanuel Ruiz for the American Catholics; Venerable Thomas of Mt. Maleon for the Orthodox Church of America. But i would like to bring another saint under the spotlight in the day that celebrates her canonization: Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini the saint patron of immigrants (yeaaahhhh!!) and hospital administrators (????!!!!!). You can find the complete bio in here.

For New Yorkers her name is synonymous of cheap health care but for anybody from Chicago is a infamous Project Housing Building. So much for the good memory of a very kind soul like this!!!

Anyway, you can find her and other "odd saints" in here.

Smoking high prices

2008-04-20T09:28:00.000-07:00

This is an actual clip from Monday's New York Post business section:

What grinds my gears.

2008-04-09T16:26:00.000-07:00

I would just like to know why when you buy a coffee to go in New York City they have to fill it up to the rim like it was liquid gold.
I would definitely surrender 1 cent of java in exchange for the ability of drinking it right away without having to spill it out on the sidewalk or on my shirt as soon as i flip the sucker open.

Artistic animals

2008-04-07T22:26:00.000-07:00

Yo, take a look at this very interesting web site: http://www.woostercollective.com/
I'm not usually very excited about "modern art" but some of this things are very clever, even better you can sometimes stumble upon them walking in NY, like the "plastic bags polar bear" you can see here:

Fool is who the fool does....

2008-04-02T13:58:00.000-07:00

Yep, they almost got me this year with the April Fool's thing.......but not quite.

The American Mensa's New York Branch, to which i belong, sent the usual Event's calendar email for march and April, and one of the listing that caught my eye was about the Investor Day when all Mensan were invited to participate at the opening bell at Wall street.

I read it at the beginning of March, and i didn't pay much attention at the details, but i marked it on my calendar anyway, because i always wanted to have a tour of the New York Stock Exchange.

So yesterday i woke up early, dressed up in my best suite and i was ready to go, when i decided to re-read the email and of course i understood:

"Tuesday, April 1Investor's DayManhattan 9:30AM Join us for the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange at 11 WallStreet. Mensan's with ID will receive a complimentary 100 shares of their choice of the available stock certificates. This is sponsored by Dewey,Messwithem & Howe, the research department of Dareye, Utterunda, Mai,Breth & Duhmer. Please note: Berkshire Hathaway is already taken."

Well, at least i didn't show up like an ass in front of the Stock Exchange for nothing.....i wonder if somebody did?

Damn you Mensa, you almost got me!!!

Holy sticks!

2008-03-20T22:19:00.000-07:00

You have to give it to this woman from Ohio, she really knows how to make money!

As you certainly read from many sources a woman from Elyria, OH found some frozen fish sticks melted togheter as crosses and sold it on Ebay for 80 bucks! The most amazing thing about it is that somebody actually bought them for that money. Here is the sell pitch from the actual auction:

"Up for auction just in time for the Holy Days, a COMPLETE set of Good Friday Miracle Fish Sticks.It's not unusual to find a couple of fish sticks stuck together in each box. But imagine my shock when I poured out the contents of my Super Walmart brand fish sticks to feed my horde of "rhythm method" spaced offspring. I didn't find just one or two stuck together in any haphazard way. There were 3 sets of 2. And what was unusual was that they formed an almost perfect replication of the hill at Calvary on Good Friday.It was all I could do to keep the Catholic schoolgirl in me from falling to my knees and making the sign of the cross.I have been praying for a long time for a new van. Maybe that's why God sent me these fish sticks.Winning bidder will receive the complete set of Good Friday Miracle Fish Sticks in their original packaging (minus the other fish sticks my hungry children consumed). I will pack in dry ice in a Styrofoam cooler and ship the next day.Free Shipping."

Are you kidding me? She fed the rest to their children too! But my question is: did she get a new van?

Kitty, kitty, bum, bum.

2008-02-03T17:03:00.000-08:00

Is well known that Israelis are top notch with military training and weapon technology, but this video from Discovery Channel's "Future weapon" really makes you understand the wit of the State of David's brass in fouling the enemy.
Watch and learn America!!

Beeping hilarious!!!

2008-01-14T09:12:00.000-08:00

I'm a big comedy fan, movies, stand-ups, books, it doesn't matter the media i just love a good laugh. So i waited all week long to watch Katt Williams special on Comedy Central last night, as advertised abundantly on the same channel for quite some time. Guy is funny, nothing else is on Sunday night, i figured I'll call it a night laughing at some pimp from my couch. But after 5 minutes into the program i couldn't understand a single joke the diminutive comedian was hustling. Now don't get me wrong, i know the guy is from the south and has a very thick accent, but that was not the problem. The whole thing was censured with beep sounds. And if you know the guy I'm talking about, then you know also that he is not the cleanest dude on telly. But why bother broadcasting the thing at all? I mean, every other word was beeped and the jokes lost all their sense.
Now, i know that at 10 pm many kids are still around and the language used could be deleterious for the gentle little minds (yeah...) but for Pete's sake what is the freaking V-chip for???? And if you don't have a TV set from this century, cable and satellite service allow you to block certain contents if you decide so.......or as last resort (i know we should never recur to such a outdated form of protection, but hey!!) what about if the parents would for once give a dang about what junior is watching?
But i know that in this era of excess and vice we need big bro to shield us from possibly harmful influences, right? So why don't they just reverse the way that parental control works? Let me explain: why don't they censure ALL the content of cable TV and let us each customize the way we want to be insulted? And when i say insulted i don't mean from the foul language in TV programs, but from the networks that are insulting our intelligence treating us like retards.
I say let me decide if i want to be scarred forever watching George Carlin unleashed or if i want to become a renegade following Lewis Black advice. Oh please let me finally understand what is that make Chris Rock furious.
Give me some kind of warning colors indicating me what ring of hell i would end up in if i watch different grade of uncivilized entertainment something like:

TELETUBBIES KIND OF FUN
ROB SCHNEIDER PARTY POOPER
MARTIN LAWRENCE MAKE ME BLUSH
G#!%&IT M$^*%^*ER, YOU ARE KILLING ME!!

At least let me be responsible for my own mizeducation, biotch!!

Are you smarter than your toothbrush?

2007-12-13T19:16:00.000-08:00

Finally the time has come my comrades!!!! Oral-B, one of the leader manufacturer of dental hygiene devices has finally unveiled their latest achievement in technology: a toothbrush for dumb people!

If you have ADD or you are just plain TIDIDI' this is for you guys: an electronic (i almost said the blasphemous word electric) coupled with a wireless display that let you know in real time if you are brushing enough time for each section of your denture so you don't end up with a bi tonal smile. But that's not all, it has four preset modes just in case you need the extra speed or the super softy caress. Then it sports what they call "professional timer" so you don't have to be afraid somebody could complain about your childish method of timing your brushing sessions with the cu cu clock. Then it tells you when is time to spend another $14.95 for a replacement head with an ultra high pitched beeping that drives even your dog crazy so you feel compelled to obey instead of cheating for another week like usually, you cheap bastards!

But the feature that really elevate this device above all the others and make it the jewel in the idiot's crown is the "visual pressure sensor" which is, i quote:"a new way to learn when you're brushing too hard [...] visual signal appears when applied pressure goes beyond recommended level."

What's happened to the old good way to learn when you are brushing too hard, a.k.a. STOP IF YOU BLEED?

And for Pete's sake do i need criticism from my toothbrush at 8 o'clock in the morning?

Maybe I'm too harsh on this trend of babysitting you on every single task in your life like you were a retarded monkey, but look at this warning labels and tell me when i should stop banging my head on the wall:

http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.7023

It's a small world.

2007-12-11T14:19:00.000-08:00

I read once somewhere of a restaurant, said to be the smallest restaurant in the world, which had only one table, and it was booked for the next 3 years. I guess they didn't go after the money, because with hidden costs and the occasional cancellation i would be surprised if they lasted more than a year in business.

But last Sunday i think i discovered the smallest restaurant in New York City and it's in the East Village; Graffiti restaurant boost almost five tables for four people, i say almost because one is a small bench that can sit three people if they squeeze.

I know that there are pizza parlors and Chinese take out places with less than four table, but in this case i talk about a full service restaurant, and a very good one too.

The menu is inspiring and the prices, even thougth the portions are less than gigantic, are very affordable. All the wine is priced at $25 per bottle (so no more shame on ordering the chipest on the list) and they've got this great all you can drink program for the classic alcoholic new yorker for the bargain price of $35.

Don't miss the restroom, since to get there you have to pass through "the kitchen" and if you weight more than 75 lbs the cooks have to actually lean over the counter to let you through.

Bottom line is if you enjoy good ethnic food and you don't mind spooning with the guy from the table behind you then Graffiti is the place to be.

Thou shall not use balsamic vinegar

2007-12-06T09:30:00.000-08:00

Yesterday my mexican saladero Jesus gave forfait and didn't show up at work.

So we called the employment agency and an hour later the replacement showed up: Moses.

No, believe me, i couldn't make this up!!

Hey c'mhere c'mhere.....

2007-12-03T19:35:00.000-08:00

When i was a kid in Italy i was startled to see many places in my city where the walls were graffitied with the phrase "Dio c'e'" which means "God exist" but also "God is here".

It wasn't that my fellow citizens were that religious, but as i discovered later in life, that saying was meant to indicate places where you could score drugs.

So the other day i was in a building at 33rd street and Madison in Manhattan and i saw this sign in the elevator........some things are meant to bring you back to your youth aren't they?