we survived the march of the penguins and a hurricane warning....now it's time to dodge some lightning strikes and maybe an Avalanche in the finals......sure is fun watching a young team like this come of age.....however far they go, this experience that they are getting will serve them well in the years to come....
you know it's gonna get stranger, so let's get on with the show.
Matteau Matteau Matteau
still many unanswered questions from texas, i want to be careful not to judge or condemn anyone until the facts are known. We do know that the shooter was inside the school and the first responders were outside for over an hour before entering the classroom. Perhaps they were assessing if this was a hostage situation, but the initial explanations seem to center around confusion as to who was in charge, and they were waiting for backup.
I grew up in a colorful neighborhood with hundreds of thousands of funny, crazy characters. (just like so many neighborhoods in the 5 boroughs) some of them have been celebrated on these pages. I try to share funny stories and then get on my soapbox and complain about the government. On a very serious note though , i am grateful to the men and women of the NYPD. I have always felt safer when i saw a Police car or an officer on patrol....and on those rare occasions they were coming to arrest or ticket me, i always knew i would be treated fairly.(most of the time)
I am convinced that if this school was located in the 5 boroughs that this shooter would have been engaged and stopped within minutes......some Police Officers might even have to die to stop him....but stop him they would. It IS what the NYPD does....they take pride in their duty to serve and just like the FDNY they go willingly into danger because they believe it is what is expected of them.
In Parkland the armed security officer stayed in his golf cart and refused to enter the building.
In Vegas the Cops stood in the hallway of the hotel while the shooter mowed down concert goers below for an agonizing amount of time.
In NYC the first Irish, Italian, Asian, White, Black or Puerto Rican cop on the scene would have stormed that school, taken on gunfire and killed that motherfucker dead in his tracks or died trying....and then his or her partner would have been next person up.
just like in business......wall street firms often leave for the cheaper greener pastures of Florida and Texas.....but there is a special quality that New Yorkers have that you just can't get elsewhere...and these firms often find that it takes 2 normal southern or midwestern workers to do what 1 crazy bastard from Brooklyn or Queens does regularly....and they are not as funny.
obviously i am biased.......and obviously i am RIGHT.
Gets switched to overload
And nobody's gonna go to school today
She's gonna make them stay at home ( Bob Gelfodd-Boomtown Rats)
just some observations from the world this day....i'm exhausted just recapping
Mayor Eric Adams called out Jamie Dimon by name.....said we need him to ride the subway to work to set an example for everyone else.....on Sunday morning around 11:00 a.m. a Goldman Sachs employee boarded a Q train in Park slope on his way to brunch in Manhattan and was shot to death as the train crossed the Manhattan Bridge.........although the suspect has yet to be apprehended the media rushed to call him a "deranged" man.....because black on white crime is not racist.....it doesn't exist....it is either some poor african american trying to feed his family or the perp was mentally Ill and the system failed him......he is the victim, not the white corpse.
Monkey Pox is a real threat and all americans should be very concerned....so says the president
Gas prices are Exxons fault, inflation is on Putin, and the baby formula shortage is because only 4 plants produce over 95% of our supply.......the buck stops here.........the great unifier and chief....never mind that the demonrats drowned big business in a pool of government regulations and blame corporations for all of our ills.....never mind that they are constantly looking to punish and tax success and want to break up Amazon and everyone else that builds a profitable enterprise....why would anyone in this day and age in America take a risk a start a new business ? God Bless them for trying
Dementia Joe patted himself on the back for increasing the military budget by approx 3%......inflation is around 8% so that's actually a cut in real spending......if that's not bad enough this jackass is promising to defend Taiwan with force....really ? if his reason for not sending troops to Ukraine was because it was a costly escalation against a Nuclear power , then what is different with Taiwan and China ? we can discuss or argue about what our position should be, but however you feel; you have to scratch your head at the hypocrisy.......if this wasn't bad enough i saw a commercial the other day (actually a PSA) about kids jumping in to a lake even though they didn't know how to swim ( 61% do this, we really are a nation of morons) but the kicker was in the closing seconds....the speaker reminded everyone to learn how to swim BEFORE you get into the water.....this life saving advice brought to you by the United States Navy..................um, okay sure.......cut the defense budget and waste time and money making a PSA .....our military is being derailed from the top on down......they too are a victim of the Tee Ball nation (everyone gets a turn and nobody keeps score...we all win, yipee) If i was Tsai Ing-wen i would be very nervous.
Georgia.....last year MLB removed the All-Star from Atlanta because they didn't agree with their new voting policy....the called it racist and said it would severely limit black participation in state elections because blacks could NOT be expected to have a photo ID........Coca-Cola jumped into the fray and condemned their home state,( they even shared a video with their employees on how to be less white) the same state that had given them the opportunity to bloom into a world wide soda conglomerate...thanks for nuthin....and dementia said it was equivalent to Jim Crow on Steroids...and it was Jim Eagle ( as if that stupid analogy makes sense to anyone but his fellow senile pant poopers) ....never mind the fact that the new law made it easier to vote and harder to cheat....the demonrats claimed this would be the end of elections in Georgia and were an assault on Democracy....fast forward to this week where Georgia's early voting totals shattered previous records and participation is at an all time high for "Primaries". think old joe or the White House will walk by his comments ? think Rob Manfred will apologize to the people of Georgia for embarrassing them and labeling them racists ? Think coca- Cola will have anything at all to say ?
the world sucks and every time you try to drink outside it rains.....oh well....at least we still have the RANGERS.
Sweet sixteen, ain't that peachy keen
Now it ain't so neat to admit defeat
but it's getting there ( Dylan)
society is both collectively numb and equally nonplussed ......it is a race to the bottom and the stock market is following suit .
an 11 year old girl was shot in the stomach on a Bronx street corner on Monday afternoon.....she lay crying on the pavement , saying over and over..."it hurts".....her last words.......she died right there in the street....
the other night an EMT was shot by a patient in the ambulance on the way to the hospital on Staten Island.
last month a 15 year old girl was at a Dallas Mavericks game with her father.....she went to the bathroom and never returned.......10 days later she was found in an oklahoma city motel room.....she was being used like a rag doll for prostitution and the filming of Porno movies...for 10 straight days.....does anyone think for a moment that her life, her basic right to exist on this planet mattered to anyone involved ...of the eight people arrested (white, black, latino and asian.....a regular UN of scum) 6 of them were women......hands off my body , but we'll do whatever we want to a 15 year old kid.
and Joe Biden went to Buffalo to condemn white supremacy.....still hasn't uttered a word about that evil red van that mowed down all those white grandmothers at the Christmas parade.
Joe Biden says he needed a crystal ball to see the baby formula shortage coming.....but his Press Secretary says they have been monitoring the situation for months....months mind you............and just the other day they announced 1 plane load of baby formula was on the way from europe...cause for celebration they say...guess who is getting priority ?
today on the hallowed grounds atop Bliss Park in Bayridge....the gay alphabet will hold a festival and try to rename the high point of the park "Pride Hill"......they are referring to the neighborhood as Gay Ridge....they are having Tranny Performers and promising fun for kids of all ages....it's a celebration of all things LGBTQIA..LMNOP........maybe the PLO will show up and both sides will suffer mass casualties...
and today they will run the Preakness.....my pick.....perhaps my sentimental feelings and nostalgia are clouding my judgement, but i don't think so.......i was very impressed watching Secret Oath win the Kentucky Oaks and so i am going with the Philly trained by Mr D Wayne Lukas........we shall see
Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb
I can’t even remember what it was I came here to get away from
Don’t even hear a murmur of a prayer
It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there
but my city was gone,
there was no train station,
there was no downtown. ( Chrissie Hynde)
it hurts to share this story..........but i just heard some disturbing details from what transpired in my beloved Bayridge on what used to be a wonderful Norwegian Day of celebration. I wasn't there but spoke to one or two of the 11209 holdouts.
.seems the PLO was staging their monthly protest against Isreal, Trump, Covid or fill in the blank, on 5th ave between 71st & 72nd........there were Police there so we can assume they had a permit.....but maybe not...because the Norwegian Parade was slated to start at 80th street and 3rd...and cross from 3rd ave to 5th ave at Bayridge Pkway and continue along 5th ave to Lief Eirikson Park....obviously both things can not occur at the same time..........so apparently the Parade changed their route and decided to stay exclusively on 3rd ave.....disgraceful but understandable.......5th ave was once the Glorious road for this Viking Stroll....but just like the St Patricks Parade before them, the organizers decided to move it to 3rd ave.
not good enough for the PLO......desperately seeking attention and or altercation they left their barricades and decided to march up 5th ave towards the bridge.......no permits , no police barricades and NOBODY to stop them..........they just marched down the middle of the ave and traffic was forced to divert.......they then apparently turned onto 86th street......once a throughfare of business anchored by Century 21 but now sadly a wasteland of fast food franchises and storefronts for rent.........still seeking that attention they turned onto 3rd ave and marched back towards to the 70's......the same stretched that housed the Norwegian Parade a few hours earlier........until they came to the Salty Dog and a post parade celebration of Civilized America......they had the bullhorns with them and they stopped and demonstrated in front of the Bar........obviously hoping for a fight that they could tape, edit and deliver to the evening news....the Dog Closed their Front doors and urged their customers to stay inside.
apparently this is a pretty common occurrence in my old hometown...... i saw it coming in the 90's......i clearly remember the local police telling my friends to cross 5th ave and NOT walk on the public sidewalk past the Mosque at 68th st because it was their holy day and my friends were possibly inebriated........i knew it was time to go and i am grateful that i did........but it still stings to think these miscreant slobs and cockroaches have devoured the corpse.......after Sweater Nite 25 i may be done with Brooklyn for life.
I was stunned and amazed
My childhood memories
Slowly swirled past
Like the wind through the trees
Ay, oh, way to go, Ohio
those were the words of Eric Reed , he was speaking to his father as they watched their Horse "Rich Strike" make a bold move around one of the derby favorites (Messier) on the home stretch......well, unless you just crawled out from under a rock you know the rest of the story.....he did more than hit the board, he blew past the leaders and WON....the longest shot to win the derby in over 100 years.....the superfecta paid 321K...i always play my birthday in a superfecta 3-2-6-5-....sometimes i put $5 straight on the big races.......can you imagine winning 1.6 million on a $5 bet ? ......even though i did not have so much as a half penny on him, it was still a feel good story...oh, but there's more.
in 2016 a lightning strike ignited a massive fire at Mr. Reeds horse farm in Lexington , KY. He scrambled in the middle of the night to get his horses to safety.....sadly 24 of the 36 horses in his care were lost in that fire. For a man and his wife that both come from a long line of horse trainers, the impact of the fire was almost too much to bare.....he thought seriously about walking away from the sport and his profession.
I had the good fortune to catch an interview he did this morning around 6:00 on Fox News.....humbled before God he was....a modest gentleman.....no speeches about nobody believed in me....or me against the world, or any of the nonsense we hear spewed by athletes after pedestrian accomplishments.....no sir....this guy said when he got home last night his neighbors and friends wanted to celebrate with him....and they stayed up till 2:00 drinking wine .....he said he laid in bed for a few hours but couldn't fall asleep , so he got up and brewed the coffee and sat in his kitchen.....until it was time to drive to the barn for his interview with Fox.......he said he's still haunted by the fire , but he thanked God that his Father was still alive and was at the derby with him yesterday.
I joked yesterday about that horse being jacked up on something , but now i regret even joking about that....this guy restored a small slice of faith in humanity.....a decent man in a horribly corrupt sport. I think about the years i spent riding on Bob Bafferts coatails and all the tickets i cashed....and i do feel bad.....the sport is dangerous enough without trainers injecting horses with anything they get their hands on, just to shave a few seconds off their time....
anyway, i dodn't win a penny yesterday.....and knowing what i know NOW.......i'm glad.
It was nearly early dawn
The gypsy’s door was open wide
But the gypsy was gone
And that pretty dancing girl
She could not be found
So I watched that sun come rising
From that little Minnesota town (Dylan)
now, we all know that Bob was talking about a chance encounter with the KING, Elvis Presley; but it still resonated with me when i read the New York Post the other day. The Post did a nice job of explaining a seemingly senseless murder and shedding some reasonable light on the trigger man.
a 51 year old woman was gunned down inside her Ozone Park home at 2:30 wednesday afternoon as she answered the front door.....seemingly random attack...but NO.
the shooter claimed that the deceased put a curse on him and he was marked for death by the Tarot Cards....."she was a witch" the shooter calmly told Police and she put a death spell on me. It seems the deceased did work as a tarot card reader and the shooter was indeed one of her clients....i'll sleep better knowing it wasn't a purely random attack........ahhhh yes.....NYC in 2020's..it all makes sense to me now.
Outside the lights were shining
On the river of tears
I watched them from the distance
With music in my ears
when i awoke this morning i was freezing my ZOZOS off, it felt mo like MO DONEGAL than the EPICENTER it's supposed to be, but i can still SMILE HAPPY because i know that SUMMER IS TOMORROW and soon we'll be drinking tall glasses of TAWNY PORT and carrying on like a HAPPY JACK. I was running low on TAIBA tequila and jumped into my new electric vehicle...the ZANDON will get me where i need to go as soon as i CHARGE IT....I was surprised to see the ETHEREAL ROAD was scratched from my directions and google maps suggested i take BARBER ROAD and then get on the CLASSIC CAUSEWAY.....yep google maps TIZ THE BOMB , it's a SIMPLIFICATION to an otherwise thorny dilemma..it navigates like a PIONEER OF MEDINA guiding the CROWN PRIDE to boooze....like MESSIER always says , if you have to go under the CYBERKNIFE , you better first go to the WHITE ABARRIO for some quality tequila.
and that's how i am going to play it.....White Abarrio up top........coupled equally with Messier & Cyberknife in exactas and triple boxes......kudos to Mr Cangilosi fm the Poat for directing my eyes towards cyberknife.....the more i read, the more i agreed that he may very well be peaking at the right time.....ah, but it is still gambling, so play those birthdays and anniversary combos......theres a lot of money out there.........side note, don't be fooled by the fact that Tim Yakteen is listed as the trainer for Messier.....this is a Baffert Horse ....Bullet Bob is serving a suspension, but we all know he is still calling the shots.(no pun intended)
Good Luck, drink up, stay dry.
Walking through the streets of SoHo in the rain
He was looking for the place called Lee Ho Fooksat first i heard the story about the chinamen delivery guy in queens that was shot dead on his moped...it sounded like another senseless killing in our beloved NY.....but thankfully the NY Post has shed some light on the matter and it turns out it was quite justified.......you see the shooter knew the deceased...in fact they had been arguing for months.....turns out the dead guy was shorting the shooter on Duck Sauce when he delivered his food from the Great Wall restaurant.....i can empathize...seriously; who amongst us can say they never wanted to kill a delivery guy who skimped on a condiment or napkins or untensils....whatever....kudos to this guy for acting on his anger....maybe now the next delivery guy will put extra noodles and Duck Sauce in every bag......at least we can hope.......of course i jest, the deceased sounds like a really decent human being, it's not surprising in 2022 that he was murdered over something so trivial....makes you wonder if there really is a higher power....can you imagine standing at the pearly gates and telling the guy next to you in line that you were killed over a beef about Duck sauce ?
my new favorite hobby is answering all these spam calls that come to the house......i let them go through their opening speil and then i start demanding to know "what they know about Hunters laptop"....i start getting louder and louder....i tell them " you called me, what do you know about the friggin laptop"? i want answers God dammit.......they usually hang up right about then.....so much fun.....i get 3 or 4 calls a day.....never gets old.
Hockey playoffs started with a bang.....i almost forgot how intense , fast and furious this sport is when you get into the elimination stages......the first 20 minutes of Rangers action had my blood pressure up about twenty points......i was pacing my bar and talking to myself by 7:30 .......Thank God it settled down for 2 more periods and triple overtime...........honestly...a long playoff run really takes a toll on the human body......and i'm talking about the fans, can't imagine what the players are going through.
i was a big winner Monday night...........I LOVED the Oilers and Tampa Bay ........but thankfully i put my phone back in my pocket and bet Nothing.......addition by subtraction...i'm getting wiser in my old age.
derby saturday......i may shy away from Mo Donegal after he drew the #1 slot......starting to lean towards MESSIER......hmm....no surprises there.......i also like White Abarrio...but it's still too soon whippersnapper.
and of course Shadoobie is playing the Redrock this Saturday right after the big race, but it is an outdoor show, so it's weather permitting.
I saw a werewolf drinkin' a piña colada at Trader Vic's
His hair was perfect
Ah-hoo, werewolves of London
