China Doll, Alcohol, duality, mortality

 Mercury rules you and destiny fools you

Like the plague, with a dangerous wink
And there’s no time to think (Dylan)

as the country sleeps........xixi ping pong unleashed a plethora of fentanyl ...in 2022 200 Americans a day were murdered from fentanyl poisoning....over  250,000 have died since the pandemic......china is a communist country....you cannot visit your grandmother without the CCP knowing your every move.....the possibility of someone brewing batches of fentanyl and shipping them to mexico and ultimately the USA without the express written consent of Ping Pong is ludicrous .

Yesterday in a freshly cleaned San Francisco;  Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, Thanked XiXi ping for agreeing to stop the flow of Fentanyl........thank you for agreeing to stop murdering my people....we are a shadow of our former selves.....we are an embarrassment and a joke.....at the age of 81  Joe Biden should have said if you don't stop the Fentanyl flow, I will Nuke the entire fucking planet you slant eyed coscksucker .....i'll be dead soon anyway, but i'm gonna drag you to hell with me......how do you think the nips would react to that ? 

instead, the room was filled with American Businessman ...all too eager to pay 40K for a table and a chance to get their foot in the door in China....i'll print the names...remember their products....they are selling out your children for a quick profit......all great houses are destroyed from within...we are no different.

Apple

Blackrock

Blackstone

Nike

Pfizer

Salesforce

Bridgewater

Long Beach Sweater Night

Craicfest

Citadel

Tesla

Visa

2+3=BEEER  even in communist china

No time to choose when the truth must die
No time to lose or say goodbye
No time to prepare for the victim that’s there
No time to suffer or blink
And no time to think

There's something happening over here

 but what it is ain't exactly clear,

there's a man with a gun over there

telling me i got to beware (Stephen Stills)

we know that those who do not learn their history are doomed to repeat it.....but what about those that refuse to acknowledge their present? 

just over 30 days ago...through the beauty of technology and cell phone and go pro videos , the world witnessed a terrorist attack unfold live and in person on a desert concert on the Israeli-Gaza border...in the days afterwards WE ALL learned the horrifying details of women being raped in the streets,  the elderly torched-burnt alive in their homes.....infants being beheaded in front of their Mothers and hostages being dragged back to Gaza......until ....an astoundingly large percentage of the world's population decided to ignore, dismiss or dispute these facts and turn the table over on Israel.....declare the Jews to be the real true problem and accuse them of genocide......the funny thing ...although  it's not really funny is that the palestinian protestors and the simpleton US College students sing songs and chant phrases calling for the Jew Genocide....."From the River to the Sea"  the Israel borders....they want to wipe them off the map.........I Guess the Columbia-Harvard-Yale students are cool with Genocide as long it's the right Genocide...or they are learning from American politicians....just accuse your opponent of doing all the dirty deeds that you are guilty of, and the preoccupied voter will get confused and tune both sides out.

A 17 year old white male High School student in Las Vegas was beaten to death by a mob of black & latino thugs in a schoolyard after he intervened on behalf of a smaller friend that was robbed and dumped into a trash cans by the sambos and wetbacks...Jonathan Lewis...say his name? not so much....i had to go to Reuters to gather details....thanks American media for ignoring this story....even though multiple videos exist, the MSM doesn't wish to tell stories that go against the narrative.......talk about refusing to acknowledge your present.

we all saw all of this coming....but the one shocking element to me is the incredible pace of this decline....we are going down faster than the titanic.....that is IF you believe it really was the Titanic that sank....and not her dilapidated sister ship the Olympic that was secretly switched and deliberately sunk by JP Morgan for the insurance....

i digress........we used to joke in the 80's that someone was drinking like the Russians were in the tunnel........today my advice is to drink up like Xixi Ping Pong was in the Bay Area....because he is..

2+3=BEEER

We better stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look, what's going down?

observations from the bean Post window

 "look at this poor bastard waitin on a bus, don't he know it's a snow day"  (Dano)

on more than a few occasions, me and Dano would gather at the Bean Post on a snow day to quench our thirst and watch the productive members of society struggle on their way to work or running errands....it never got old from the warm confines of the front window,  with a cold goblet in yer hand......peering out the window hoping to catch the Greek or Macadoo passing by, so we could corral them in for a dozen cold ones.

I remember reading on the first business day after the October 7th Hamas terror attacks (Monday Oct 9) that Israel liquidated $30 Billion in foreign assets in preparation for the war that was to come......and yet the US Congress still acts like the IDF is pooling together loose change to buy a few bullets.'

That's the American way.....throw money at every problem, even if the problem doesn't need money.... and of course with that Money comes our Authority to weigh in on your problem and second guess your every move. 

Oh , and in the case of dementia Joe , he gets to "URGE" Israel to take a humanitarian pause and let the really badass hamas scum  escape into Egypt when the Jews take their foot off the gas.......you see...Joe and Kamel Toe are realizing that the Moosies ain't going to the polls next November.....they won't vote for Trump, but they will probably sit out the election...With the squad bashing the biden administration every day , it would take a miracle for them to about face in 12 months.... ....and some of the Jews might too....they are not happy with the current state of the elite US College Campuses, the anti-Israel protests being urged by Profs at Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Cornell etc etc...and the silence from the white house....they too will be reluctant to pull a lever for the DONN.....but they might send a message to the party by voting for Kennedy or sitting the election cycle out.

I have started watching the BBC news and going on Rueters website once or twice a week......they are the only ones willing to report the inconvenient truth that our NATO ally Erdogan and his Turkish Regime are openly supporting Hamas and accusing Israel of Genocide......you'd think maybe the American news stations might find time to report this (after marathon coverage of course)...but no.....we remain the republic with its head in the sand......if we don't see it or say it, maybe it will go away......if a tree falls in the forrest and nobody is there to hear it , is Nora Odonell still and ignorant irish slut ? yes, yes she is.

2+3=BEEER

Long Live Alvarez....hey cris, hey creees.....i drink a little bit of the Jack Daniels.

I may have to go to the Bean Post next snow day and have an imaginary conversation with Dano.

Big wheels keep on turnin'
Carry me home to see my kin

oh the time will come up

 When the winds will stop

And the breeze will cease to be breathin’
Like the stillness in the wind
’Fore the hurricane begins
The hour when the ship comes in (Dylan)

score one for the Whales......the two wind farm projects under construction off the Jersey Shore are.....well.....dead in the water. for the past 18 months average citizens in Monmouth and Ocean County were begging and pleading for a hault-pause or termination to these projects because of Dead Whales and Dolphins washing ashore in record numbers.......Peta and all the leftists activists were AWOL on the issue....suddenly they were silenced....others like Buck Tooth Murphy tried to rationalize that he good outweighed the bad......and that wind energy was worth the cost of a few dead whales........the same criminals that cry about the impact on the environment that fossil fuels have...well....they just didn't care to even consider the environmental impact the building of these massive wind farms would have on Marine life or migrating birds. Orsted...the Danish Firm that was just granted 1 Billion in Tax Breaks to build these murderous monstrosities has pulled the plug on both projects, citing cost overruns, supply chain issues and inflation as making the project unsustainable.....never mind the inconvenient truth that wind energy is limited and unreliable...

Blaine Stoughton, Ron Francis , Gordie & Nicky and all the Great Hartford Whalers are celebrating today as a victory.....All Hail the Whale......2+3=BEEER .

Oh the fishes will laugh

As they swim out of the path

And the seagulls they’ll be smiling

And the rocks on the sand

Will proudly stand

The hour that the ship comes in

Now he's hell bent for destruction

 he's afraid and confused

And his brain has been mismanaged with great skill
And all he believes are his eyes
And his eyes, they just tell him lies  (Dylan)

I knew it......I knew that SOB Trump was going to get us into WW III.....he's too unstable...always tweeting out nonsense. His son in law is Jewish, so of course he's gonna back Israel and stir unrest in the peaceful middle east.........he has a score to settle with Putin....he's going to provoke him into invading the Ukraine....and China ? he hates China....he only brokered that trade agreement as a smoke screen....his real intention is to taunt XiXi Ping Pong into annexing Taiwan ..........and he's so old that he doesn't really care about the long term ramifications of his actions or inactions.........he'll probably be dead or institutionalized before WE have to pay the piper..........

What this country needs is a return to normalcy , we need to put adults back in charge....we need the calming easygoing influence of a true moderate like Joe Biden. He's not too far left, he once sponsored a crime bill for goodness sake....he's a career politician , he understands how Washington works and he's not afraid to reach across the aisle to get things done.....he is a great unifier ...always has been. he's Amtrak Joe, a man of the people...he's not an elitist like that park avenue Trump...he spends his time at the beach in his shack with his dogs and his lovely wife (when she's not in surgery) .....yep, elect Joe and we'll get 4 years of financial prosperity and peace....not more of the chaos.

so I was watching the News and this Dude in Maine was in a hospital in July and he told the doctors he was hearing voices telling him to shoot up a military facility ....and they let him go home to his arsenal of weapons in 2 short weeks.......and my Dog Matteau said to me that he was amazed at how stable and sane i was compared to so many other fellas that served in the military.......so we cracked a few beers and continued our discussions.....Matteau also told me that 2+3= BEEER , and he thought i was premature in my assessment of the Rangers in general , and Alexis Lafrenierre in particular.....Blueshirts won their 3rd straight out west, blanking the Oilers 3-0 and Alexi has 4 goals on the young season.......

Oh, man is opposed to fair play
He wants it all and he wants it his way

Now, there's a woman on my block
She just sit there as the night grows still
She say who wanna take away his license to kill?

well, the Neighborhood bully

 he’s just one man

His enemies say he’s on their land
They got him outnumbered about a million to one
He got no place to escape to, no place to run
He’s the neighborhood bully  (Dylan)

And so this never-ending circle goes around and around. As Israel continues to pound Gaza, they are hopefully crippling Hamas...but they are absolutely ensuring there will be a next generation of disgruntled arabs (claiming to be palestinians) willing to die if they can take some jews with them. I suppose you have to expect if a kid loses his parents and his home to a bombing, well then he will grow hating the aggressors. Facts won't matter to a person that looses their family, siblings, friends and  entire hometown. Israel has the right to bomb the crap out of this shithole and the survivors have the right to dedicate the rest of their lives to avenging this.

It is still quite surprising how quickly the snowflakes in this country...(the ones who are afraid of words and ideas) have rationalized the beheading of infants and rallied behind Hamas......how do you go from a hamas rally and chanting Gas the Jews to another rally crying that the words penmanship and history are sexist ? 

funny story about the Sikh community in Queens getting attacked because they were turbins and people calling them hamas.....omitted from the story is the inconvenient fact that the attackers are ALL BLACK.....the only ones stupid enough to confuse the Ayotollah with Vijay Singh.

I am happy to say that I was wrong last week about the Hostages.......4 people were released this week.....but i am doubtful that many of the original ones are still alive.

It is time for someone like Fox ( the only network that would dare) to research and document the moves of the obama and then biden administrations. They need to research barry husseins dad and find out where he stood in the moslem conflicts betweens sunnis and shia's.....and then show how every action was a slight to the jews and a nod to the arabs........if this country survives another hundred years, historians will look back on this period and ask the question....How did that NOT see this coming ?.......HOW did the twice elect an iranian agent ?

anyway the phillies lost games 6 and 7 at home........the 2023 baseball season is a HUGE success......and now we advance to the Hoboken World Series......my olde favorite watering hole on Washington is all the rage......Texas Arizona......giddy up......2+3=BEEER

Well, he’s surrounded by pacifists who all want peace
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease
Now, they wouldn’t hurt a fly. To hurt one they would weep
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep
He’s the neighborhood bully

Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad
The bombs were meant for him. He was supposed to feel bad
He’s the neighborhood bully

The Hostages were trembling

 when they heard a man exclaim

“Let’s blow this place to kingdom come, let Con Edison take the blame”  (Dylan)

let's be honest.....two weeks in and we have not seen a single video of the hostages pleading for their lives and begging Isreal to stop the bombing and negotiate....one has to conclude that they are all dead. I hope i am wrong, but i think if the hostages were still alive we would be seeing images and videos on the news 24/7.....also .....brain dead Joe didn't even mention them in his address to the nation last night.....my guess is he knows they are dead...and he didn't want to look stupid like MOOchelle obama when she released that powerful photo of herself holding up a handmade sign that said "bring home our girls" when moslems in africa kidnapped every girl in some village in zibabwa, zaire, sudan or wherever...take your pick......of course the girls were raped for a year and converted to islam or had their heads cut off......who even remembers........they certainly were never brought home.......anyway i think the Detroit Redwings are back in business....i think this is year 3 of the Stevie Yzerman administration.......the last two years he dealt players for picks and drafted well......mainly homegrown ...with a few huge FA signings like Andrew Copp......he is doing for the Motor City exactly what he did for Tampa Bay....building a dynasty.......I envision a Coyote-Redwing Stanley Cup Final in 2025 or 2026.........and suddenly the Rangers look older, slower and average at best.......i'm not a big fan of Shesterkin......i admit he is better than queen henrietta.....but that's not saying much.....that heartless swedish swine was the biggest imposter in Broadway history..........anyway.....2+3=BEEER.....go isreal, beat hamas....and hezbollah, and syria....and iran...........

But Joey stepped up, he raised his hand, said, “We’re not those kind of men
It’s peace and quiet that we need to go back to work again”

keep on rollin to your paradise

 

you can't get bit by the same snake twice (Dylan)

curiouser and curiouser.....i sit here this morning listening to the Prophet Zimmerman on the ipod and the above song came on.....the title is "I ain't gonna go to hell for anybody" ...it was an unreleased gem from the late 70's i suppose....truth is even on his own website the lyrics and publishing information are blank......so i googled the lyrics and 3 or 4 different versions came up....none of which actually match the version i was listening to ( a live version from Toronto 1980) strange occurrences in the desert no doubt...although Dylan has always kept things interesting by changing the lyrics to entire verses to amuse and confuse.....anyway...i find myself listening to Slow Train and Infidels more and more.....he was spot on about the world 50 years ago....when others were too scared to speak the truth...he shined the light in their eyes.........case in point.

The United States Office for Palestinian Affairs called on Israelis to “refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks” in response to Hamas attacking Israel — then deleted the message.

yep, that's leadership....like Kylie Jenner and Instagram..first she supported Isreal and then she took that down quickly, i guess her interns weren't sure which side everybody else was on, so they deleted their post...like responding Yes to a party and then hearing that Rocco and the Cool Kids aren't going.......our first response was to tell the victim not to hit back....because we are a weak self-centered country that only cares about elections and rewriting history as it happens live in color. We are so weak it's actually surprising that China hasn't launched the missiles yet....one can only assume that they took my advice from last year and decided to stand back, save their ammo, and watch us crumble from within. The pathetic 80 year old Potus whispering and mumbling something about us standing with isreal was embarrassing....and then he said he saw videos of children being beheaded...and then the press office had to clarify that he DID NOT actually see the videos........like me in the schoolyard when i was 12 and i fell asleep in the 3rd quarter of the Monday Night game...and still swore i saw the Fantastic finish....unfortunately there is a little bit more at stake here....maybe.

so Friday did not turn into the day of jihad that was threatened, but that was probably by strategic design more so than our Intelligence and Police preventing anything. The truth is any sleeper cells that the PLO-Hammas-Hezbullah-Isis-Iran wanted to have in this country are already here.....our border has been open for 3 years....millions of got aways to go along with the common slob that surrenders......the frightening thing is, wondering what bigger plan these evil bastards have in store for us , that they did not show their face this week....must be something bigger and grander.........funny how the state dept can't seem to get planes into Isreal to evacuate Americans, but Schmucky Schumer can fly in on the taxpayer dime and pose for a photo with the Mayor of Tel Aviv......that email is being sent as we speak ...probably a great haul for fundraising..........in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is King and 2+3=BEEER

I see people who are supposed to know better standin’ around like furniture ,

There’s a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it

Tonight you got the power to take it, tomorrow you won’t have the power to keep it

i woke up to the sound of music

 Mother Mary comes to me

Speaking words of wisdom, let it be (lennon-Mccartney)

and today of all days my alarm clock went off at 3:55 to this gem by the Beatles.

Today i go into the office and possibly into battle.

My whole life i have been under attack from the moslems.

from bombings in Marsielle and Naples, to the invasion of my beloved Bayridge and the attacks on the World Trade Center....and by the grace of God i have managed to stay one step ahead......let's hope that trend continues.......but in the back of my head i hear Mr Dylans twang........has your luck run out she said to him, well i guess you must've known it would someday......i hope that day is not today.

stay safe friends......in an increasingly ugly and senseless world....stay safe.....i hope Mother Mary is with you all.

When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be

once there was a way

 To get back homeward

Once there was a way

To get back home  (Lennon-Mccartney)

we joke a lot on this blog, but i am actually stunned into a partial silence at the events of this past week..

not that Hamas attack .....the murder of civilians, the beheading of infants in front of their mothers before killing the moms. .....not the rape of teen girls and the parading of their naked bodies through the streets.....that is barbaric and yes shocking.....but no i am not stunned by anything these lowlife scumbag animals would do in the name of their pedophile prophet.

not the response of the Isrealis....not the bombing of Ghaza or the callup of 300K reservists and the upcoming invasion....no, that is to be expected..

It is the immediate and very well organized protests around the world that sprung up so quickly.....with beautiful signs displaying a clear and consistent message......."almost as if it were planned ahead of time"....not protesting the butchers of Hamas.....but protesting against the victim...ISREAL. 

From the expected slums of NY and LA ....to the less expected streets of London and that great penal colony in the south Pacific......AUSTRALIA..........and in the land down under they were chanting "GAS the JEWS"......

many of the protestors were not of arabic descent.......they were white college aged kids.....the same ones who need a safe space and are offended by comics like Andrew Dice Clay and Sam Kinnison .....now they seem to be honoring and echoing Adolph Hitler........I must admit this to me was stunning. I remember learning the golden rule as a child....that if you do not learn history , then you are doomed to repeat it......and i have warned on this blog that the censorship, whitewashing the dictionary and tearing down statues from the past that we did not like would lead to this......but i meant 50, 75, 100 years down the line.....i honestly did not think i would live to see this........24 hours after their infants were beheaded, the victims are the target of worldwide outrage and the verbal threats of Nazi Germany from the 1940's ......if there is a God on Pluto , Saturn or even Mars....maybe it's time he ends this little experiment on earth.

Golden slumbers fill your eyes
Smiles awake you when you rise

ticking timebomb

 

i am not a conspiracy guy....but this does not add up.....How is it possible that a country like Isreal, known for being overly protective; with security that is the envy of the free world , allow a concert to take place in the middle of the desert on the border with Ghaza...and NOT have the entire concert site surrounded by the Military ? 

Isreal has already denied reports that Egypt called earlier in the week to warn that their intelligence agencies were picking up chatter indicating that something bad was brewing.

perhaps...just perhaps.....Benji met with his inner circle last month and said we need to allow an attack....horiffic  enough to catch the world's attention.....then we need to tie it to Iran.......and then we need to once and for all wipe Iran off the Map.....because the USA and British are pussies and will do nothing........and if Isreal does not take Iran out after this....well then it is Isreal that will be Nuked by Iran with the next decade....and we ALL know that to be true.

side note....maybe the fraud FBI sb looking at the Palestinians celebrating in Times Square and Patterson NJ....instead of arresting someone for breaking glass on Jan 6th.....i know you are reading this....how do you sleep at night you traitors?

2+3=BEEER

you got a lot of nerve

 To say you are my friend

When I was down

You just stood there grinning  (Dylan)

as the death toll in Isreal rises to over 400 , you have to wonder how much nerve the Vegetable in Chief has to stand at the podium and say that America stands with Isreal. After all it was the money we just gave to Iran last month that funded this attack. How can we pretend that is not so ? How can the media report this story and continue to omit the obvious connection between us giving Iran billions $$ and Hamas suddenly having the funds to carry out such an attack? and our new york jewish community will continue to bury their head in the sand and accept no responsibility for their cousins being slaughtered. They had 1 ally in the white House in the last 50 years and that was Donald Trump......they worshipped  obama but he hates them with a blood red passion., he grew in Indonesia eating dogs and chanting Death to Isreal......they love dementia Joe and he too wants a stronger Iran in the middle east to keep Bibi in check.....and they refuse to see it or admit......the bible says you reap what you sow.....and that 2+3=BEEER....at least my version does.

 Yes, I wish that for just one time

You could stand inside my shoes
You’d know what a drag it is
To see you

went to see the Gypsy

 Stayin’ in a big hotel

He smiled when he saw me coming
And he said, “Well, well, well”  (Dylan)

well we know that Bob was talking about an encounter with Elvis Pressley , real or surreal; as Dylan himself has often said that he never met Elvis. Despite photographs of the 2 together and the story of Bob and George Harrison attending an Elvis concert in Vegas .....the song is generally accepted as the retelling of their introduction in the Kings after Party Suite of a Swanky Vegas strip Hotel.

Life will be even more confusing for the friends and family of our Navy and Army students this December. It has been reported that folks that booked rooms in the hotels around Gillete Stadium (Host of the Navy-Army game) have had their reservations cancelled. Why ? you might ask.....well because these hotels are now housing illegal aliens at the expense of the people that followed the rules and made a reservation. Yep, the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts has forced private business to accept these illegals and give the Boot to the registered and future paying guests of the Hotel. How far has this country swung in the wrong direction ? so far that i am doubtful we can ever swing back to normalcy.

2+3=BEEER

hockey prediction....the Coyotes are at the bottom of the stanley cup futures.....15,000 to 1......This team is better than that.....they will make the playoffs i believe....and they will make some noise......i may stroll over to the racetrack and put a few sheckles on my Yotes.

I went back to see the gypsy

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

Blind man runnin

 through the light of the night

With an answer in his hand
Come on down to the river of sight 
And you can really understand. (N. Young)

where were we ? ah yes....the sad disappearance of the watering hole. I have always thought of the Great American Bar as so much more than a place to get a drink. It's a place to get your news, interpret the news and discuss the news with your neighbor...both the temporary neighbor on the next stool and the lasting citizens of the town in which you imbibe.

When i started my second stint in the financial district (after having been chased to the Garden state in the aftermath of the collapse of the towers) I found myself at a firm that discouraged drinking at lunch every single day, and so on occasion instead of going to O'haras next door; i would venture across the pit towards J&R Records and rediscovered an old haunt i had not visited in a decade. The BEEKMAN Pub........the thing i loved most was a separation wall that stood around 4 feet high and separated the Bar from the dining room.....it had a ledge and barstools beneath......if the barstools were all taken (which they often were in the golden age of alcohol , before the financial collapse of 2008-09) you could get a pint, order a burger and sit at the ledge and not feel like a redheaded stepchild..... i used to drink with my boy Dano in here....sometimes planned and sometimes we would just run into each other at the ledge.....we were both drawn to this bar by the same attribute but for different reasons.....we used to laugh the Nobody will Ever find you in the Beekman.....lost at the moment was the irony that we both quite often did find the other at the mahogany cave across from the Hospital......the Guiness was grand, the food edible, the prices were reasonable......but it was the bar itself that held the magic......the little stained glass sign behind the till that shouted Welcome to the Beekman.....and when you approached from the streets there were times when you swore they must be closed.....but once you opened the door it was like walking onto the field at Yankee Stadium. I mourn the passing of these great Cathedrals ....i feel empathy for those that never got to experience the emotional rescue that these legendary haunts provided. She was established in 1936.......she witnessed a lot of NYC history ...just a stones throw from the base of the Brooklyn Bridge and down the block from city hall....across the street from the hospital and the constant wailing of the sirens of the dead and dying.......2+3=BEEER

Red lights flashing through the window in the rain
Can you hear the sirens moan?
White cane lying in a gutter in the lane
If you're walking home alone

Cold wind rippin

 down the alley at dawn

And the morning paper flies
Dead man lying by the side of the road
With the daylight in his eyes  (N. Young)

some of this may be news to some.......others know it all too well. The great bar rooms of the financial district are dead and buried....some died after 9/11 , others were killed in a long slow death by the China Flu shutdowns. Wall street used to buzz night and day with brokers and back offices side by side...and on pretty much every corner was a watering hole with a Mahogany alter....a place to do business or celebrate a job well done. A place to meet old friends and make new ones...some of those bars traced their origins to the great Depression and ultimately the end of prohibition. I used to love getting to these bara early in the day...and i would sit amongst the history and soak it in....i would let my mind wander and think about what tales and events these 4 walls witnessed......who was here when Pearl Harbour was attacked....and how many of them lived to raise a glass when we returned the favor on Hiroshima? Who came in off the street for a pint and a glimpse of the TV when they heard Kennedy was shot , and who spent an endless afternoon watching the Mets win the pennant over the astros in 86? Each bar had it's one place in my heart, united usually by the common thread of an old school irishman behind the bar.

I remember Monday august 23rd 1999......my first day at Instinet in the WTC.....i decided to walk North at lunchtime and ended up at the Reade Street Pub and could not believe that i had never been there before.....i remember they had a lunch special served only at the bar.....a burger with Blue Cheese and a pint of Guiness for $10.....a Black&Bleu .....i was in love......the woodwork cried out with the tales of 120 years.....the space at 135 Reade Street had been a bar since 1878...it became my favorite haunt....as i hired a team of friends around me at Instinet, i would take them to the Reade Street Pub for lunch on their first day...One time i brought a friend in for a pint and he stopped dead in his tracks as if he had seen a ghost after ordering a Guiness.....i asked if he was okay and he said the bartender was the spitting image of his father that had passed away years earlier....it was that kind of place, not scary, but the warmth of a million spirits seemed to float in and out......and i kept coming back....long after 9/11, if i found myself in that section of Manhattan i would stop in.......when Val and I would go to Wolfgangs for steaks at Christmas we would start with a pint at the Reade St......when i ran the Tunnels to Towers we would park on Reade Street and come back for rehydration after the race.....the space behind the bar along the mirror was a collection of memorabilia through the years....the last time i was there....pre pandemic.....amongst the patches from the first responders around the world...nestled in between the photos of various ticker tape parades was a green bumper sticker that stated SHAKEDOWN STREET.........yep, this place was dam close to home. I am sorry to report that in May of 2021 she closed her doors for good.........2+3=BEEER.........tomorrow i will share news of another gem that has fallen off the crown

Don't let it bring you down
It's only castles burning
Find someone who's turning
And you will come around

Mother doesn't go out anymore

 Just sits at home and rolls her spastic eyes

But every weekend through the door
Come words of wisdom from the world outside (Joe Jackson)

just some stories or extra facts that may not have made the print edition of your local paper......

Dr Fauci, a career civil servant; saw his family net worth double between 2019 and 2021 according to Nonprofit "openthebooks" watchdog. The Good doctor is now worth over $12 million dollars. So while the bartenders, waiters and millions of other Americans were living on Payroll Protection subsidies because of his draconian shutdowns, this Bensonhurst Gindaloon was rollin in the dough.

Heart breaking story ho hum from the South Bronx.....3 little kids poisoned by fentanyl at their Daycare center....shocked everyone is....who could know that illegal aliens would setup a daycare center as cover for a drug ring ? well a quick interview with the people that lived on the block shows that pretty much everyone knew.......day care signs were in the windows for 18 months but NO KIDS were ever seen coming or going...according to one neighbor .....lots of visitors at all hours of the night, but no kids until a few weeks ago. I wonder how many of these concerned citizens called 311 or dropped a dime to the local Police ?  Police ? fuck the Police...

a CIA whistleblower claims that 6 of 7 analysts on a team of investigators concluded that the China Flu originated from the lab in Wuhan...and the CIA paid them hush money to change their story. Let that sink in....how is that not the lead story on every news station for every day until the guilty parties are hung on the National mall? 40 years ago i sat in a high school classroom and learnt about the evil soviet union and how the CCP owned the airwaves and newspapers and disseminated and reshaped the news that was allowed to trickle down to the masses. Today we are the Soviet Union of the 1980's.

A 53 year old New England Patriot Fan was punched in the face and collapsed and died during the Sunday Night Football game at Gillette Stadium. This poor bastard wasn't even cold before they started throwing shade on him. Was he drunk, did he start the altercation, did he have a medical condition.....as if any of it mattered ....rest assured the NFL lawyers and brain trust are hard at work trying to paint this picture in a more favorable light, they can not/will not let their brand take a well-deserved hit in the forum of public opinion..this victim will become the villian..the hard truth is that sports and sporting events in this country have become too violent. Frustrated drunk Fans are chasing their youth, thinking somehow they are actually part of the team and living in a fantasy world where they care more about winning than the millionaires donning the team colors in the arena. I regret my involvement in this ugly progression. I allowed my years of frustration as a Ranger fan ( in the years before 94 ) fueled by too much alcohol to manifest into ugly behavior. I took it personally if a fan of the opponent sat in section 419 . I went out of my way to curse and make them feel uncomfortable. I wish i had carried myself differently. I do not anticipate going to many professional sporting events in the future. 

Biden was hard at work yesterday forgiving more student debt and granting temporary work permits to 400,000 illegal immigrants.........well one truth remains      2+3=BEEER

 

Sunday papers, don't ask no questions

Sunday papers, don't get no lies

Sunday papers, don't raise objections

Sunday papers, ain't got no eyes

i pulled my harpoon outta

  of my dirty red bandana

I was blowin' sad while Bobby sang the blues (Kris Kristofferson)

i had to search this blog to see what i have already said about the man in the red bandanna.....and either the search feature is not working properly or by some horrible omission i have yet to share his story. Maybe it is because September is the month where i think the most.....but write and produce the least......truth is it is a month of painful memories and every year i try to fill the calendar with events to keep myself distracted and usually wake up depressed and cancel my plans.....I suppose the fact that i am aware/concious  of my mood swings is a good thing......anyway , let me tell you one of a zillion of the critically important stories from the disgusting aftermath of September the 11th 2001.

Welles Remy Crowther was born in Nyack NY in May 1977....as a young boy he used to watch his Dad getting ready for church by wrapping a comb in a red bandanna and placing it inside his pocket. When he was 6 his Dad gave him his first banadanna.....and it became his trademark. he would wear one under his sports uniforms and carried one with him to school every day. At 16 he joined his father as a volunteer Firefighter. He attended Boston College where he played Lacrosse and graduated with honors in 1999. He took a Job as an equities trader for Sandler O'Neill on the 104th floor of the South Tower.

When a plane hit the north tower, Welles called his mother and left her a message stating he was okay and would be evacuating, that was the last time they heard from him. Survivors told the story of a young man in the South Tower that was carrying victims down the stairs to the 78th floor lobby. He took control before the FDNY arrived , administering first aid and extinguishing small fires.....He Instructed all of the injured ."If you can stand up, do so now and assist those that are not standing" (Instant triage and a brilliant way to identify the seriously injured from the shocked and and marginally injured) and the young man went back up the stairs to retrieve more of the injured. After the second plane hit he was spotted carrying another injured victim down the stairs below and through and below the impact zone......and then back up he went.......nobody knew his name , but a few months later the NY Times printed and interview with several survivors from the South Tower and all they all talked about the "Man in the Red Bandanna" , they were praying he somehow survived.......when Welles mother read the article, she knew who it was.

In March of 2002 Welles body was found along with several firefighters in a command room of the south tower rubble, his body was found in tact, no signs of burns or other injuries...the NYC medical examiner concluded he was assisting the wounded as civilian usher as the building collapsed. In his apartment his parents and sisters found his nearly completed application to join the FDNY.......in 2006 Fire Commissioner Scopetta acknowledged Welles as an Honorary Firefighter. One of his signature Red Bandannas is on display at the 9/11  Musuem. Boston College keeps his memory alive with an annual Red Bandanna 5K, the football team dedicates one home game each year and wears red bandanna inspired uniforms with FOR WELLES in place of their names on the back of the jersey. i am sorry it took me so long to share this story, hopefully anyone that reads this already knows of his Heroics.

As i look around at the shithole NYC and this country have become, i can't help but think about the truly wonderful, Heroic, Funny, Brave, Upstanding members of our society we lost that day.....with a subtraction of so much greatness it's no wonder they left behind a black hole.

Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose

Nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free
Feelin' good was easy, Lord, when Bobby sang the blues
Buddy, that was good enough for me
Good enough for me and Bobby McGee

Go out yonder

 peace in the valley
Come downtown, have to rumble in the alley

Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in (the Band)

in 12 short hours we will gather at the Temple Bar in the rear courtyard of the Dublin House, on the shores of the Navasink River in Red Bank NJ. Brought together by cold beeeer, comradery and the music of the BAND. We were all lucky to grow up in a rare period of time that was blessed with some of the greatest music the planet has ever enjoyed. I am not even swimming in hyperbole to say that. The era of Rock n Roll bands is surely over , the only pulse of that time is from carryover acts in their 80's like the Stones.

The music of the 1960's through the late 90's was so good and so plentiful that it has inspired cover acts to recapture the glory still today. The Boomers and Gen X have that incredible music in the fabric of our lives and it is a soundtrack to live by. I feel sorry for the kids of today , they were denied the opportunity to see the Dead, Stones, the Who, Pink Floyd, the Eagles, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Led Zepplin, Elvis Costello, the Talking Heads and the Clash......all in the same summer.....and a thousand other bands besides.....

I am just counting my lucky stars today and waxing poetic for a time gone bye , tonight we listen to the music of the Band and drift back to 73rd street and 3rd Avenue.

2+3=Beeer

I just spent sixty days in the jailhouse
For the crime of having no dough, no, no
Now, here I am, back out on the street
For the crime of having nowhere to go

they took all the trees

 put 'em in a tree museum.

And they charged the people a dollar an' a half just to see 'em (Joni Mitchell)

from the theatre of the absurd comes congestion pricing part 2 thousand.

It takes a lot for me to spit out my morning coffee....shootings, stabbings, raping's, murders..... hurricanes, earthquakes, Tsunamis, Fires.....all far too commonplace to register a raised eyebrow these days. 

This morning i heard something that forced me to rewind the TV to the beginning of the story, for surely i either misheard the interviewer or i was confused as to whom was being interviewed......nope....i heard it correct.

The Head of the Port Authority Union said that Congestion Pricing was UNFAIR to his members because some of them have to arrive at work , or end their shift ; in the middle of the night.....and Public transportation was NOT a viable option........take a deep breath......the head of the union that runs the PATH said that Public transportation is not a viable option after the evening rush......last time i checked the PATH runs 24 hours a day between Newark and the World Trade Center (albeit very sparingly after 1:00 a.m.) and it was PATH themselves that decided to suspend service after midnight on the Hoboken to 33rd street line ( who's fault is that)? 

Even still.....up until now if a regular slob complained about the sketchy , inconsistent and unsafe service on PATH after midnight....he was politely told to GO FUCK him or herself.....but now because the MTA is going to charge 2 arms and 3 legs to drive into manhattan, well we are told that the Port Authority Union is the real true victim.

so we can surely expect that the Port Authority Union will soon join the list of people/groups exempt from Congestion pricing.....along with Cops, Fire, Sanitation, Transgendered Hispanics, illiterate blacks, radical moslems and anyone who claims to be coming into NYC daily just to visit the Holocaust Museum. 

who's left ?  the evil white male of course.

NYC is also testing a pilot program on the upper east side.....noise activated cameras to catch and fine noise polluters.....the community is excited to welcome this new program of big brother spying and taxation through fines, punishment and shame......no official word on who will be exempt but I am sure all the Motorcycle trikes that terrorize the rest of the city will in line for immunity.

Can't wait until this backfires and an eventual moslem mayor uses these same cameras against the self loathsome heebs that helped install them. the only problem with history is that it takes so long for the pendelum to swing.....but swing it will.....swing it will......until then 2+3=Beeer

we were watching the news the other night and there was an in depth story about brain surgeons saving valuable time by feeding symtoms into a computer realtime during a biopsy and relying on A.I to suggest a diagnosis..........can't wait until the autopilot brain surgeon suggests that 2+3=Beeeer

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
(Ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop, ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop)

headin out to San Francisco

 For the Labor Day weekend show

I got my Hush Puppies on
I guess I never was meant for glitter rock 'n' roll ( Jimmy Buffet)

and so 45 years after that song was released, on another Labor Day weekend; Jimmy Buffet has taken his leave at the age of "76"....some would say that 76 is good age to die......as long as your last few months are enjoyable...as long as you can walk to the corner to pickup a coffee, an egg sandwhich and the NY Post, as long as you can enjoy the great outdoors with a cold beer and a jumpin tune........as soon as those things are taken from me.....well i too will take my leave.

Jimmy was an admirable character.....true to his image and he never changed his stripes. He was born on Christmas Day 1946 in the shipbuilding town of Pacgagoula Mississippi on the gulf of Mexico. I was fortunate to call Pascagoula home for 6 months in the spring of 1989. I fondly recall drinking in a laundromat called SUDS & BREWS.....a long bar on one wall....and washers and dryers on the other wall.......we drank ice cold bottles of DIXIE beer for $1.75 ......washed our uniforms and civilian clothes, and we watched Chris Jackson and the LSU tigers take on the likes of Dwayne Schintzuis and the Fla Gators on BIG Monday SEC basketball on local redneck tv  before ESPN ruined the world.......perhaps i digress.

Jimmy Buffet was a profound drinker and he wrote songs to tell us all about it.....he had a happy vibe.....it was impossible to be angry if his music was in the vicinity.......imagine a movie where a serial killer goes around slaughtering people while listening to Margaritaville ? it just wouldn't work.

In the early 70's he was playing his "country" music in the bars of New Orleans and Nashville when fellow musician and friend Jerry Jeff Walker took him to Key West for the weekend.......well.....salt meet pepper......if ever there was a match made in heaven this was it.....for the next 50 years his painted a beautiful portrait of this paradise....it is impossible to think of Key West without thinking about a Jimmy song

he had a great talent, his writing could make you laugh or smile and also bring a tear to your eye...sometimes in the same song.....sometimes in the same verse....and even the same line. He leaves a legacy behind that will not go anywhere soon, i think his music and message transcends generations and has a core value that most human beings can connect with (except moslems who don't drink...because after all the one true God wants us to be miserable and kill goats)  I was lucky enough to see him live , and it was fun to see parents and adult children singing along to his music and enjoying a cocktail and a laugh. He will be missed , but if you live anywhere near the ocean, the memories of him are everywhere if you look for them....after all there's Booze in the Blender.....2+3=Beeer

Haul the sheet in as we ride on the wind
That our forefathers harnessed before us
Hear the bells ring as the tight rigging sings
It's a son of a gun of a chorus

Where it all ends I can't fathom my friends
If I knew I might toss out my anchor
So I cruise along always searchin' for songs
Not a lawyer a thief or a banker

I'm just a son of a son, son of a son
Son of a son of a sailor
The sea's in my veins, my tradition remains
I'm just glad I don't live in a trailer