I had hoped the food in Tennessee would be really good. Well, it wasn't. When you ask someone where to eat for the best food, they recommend a restaurant chain. " oh y'all kin go ta Olive Garden for some EYEtalian food". Then some local recommended Calhoun's for BBQ. Turns out Calhoun's was a chain . The food sucked. They fry everything. Even corn on the cob fried. I'd show ya a picture, but I haven't learned how to post pictures yet. friend okra, fried green tomatoes etc. The people here think Mac n Cheese is a vegetable. The menu says pick your main course, such as ribs, chicken fingers etc and choice of vegetable. The list has friend corn on cob, friend okra ,, macaroni and cheese. Do they grow mac n cheese on their farms? Amazing place this Knoxville. i think i'm gonna go tubin' in a tire tube down the river.
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Monday, June 18, 2012
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Rainy day in the projects
We lived in a 6 story building in the Boulevard projects in East New York. Everyone in the building knew each other. People didn't even lock their doors. Things have changed a whole lot, people have 3 locks on their doors now. If they were allowed to have dogs, they would have pit bulls. When it was nice weather we had lots to do outside. You knew it was Spring by the sound of the metal roller-skate wheels on the concrete. We wore Union Hardware brand skates and changed the clamps from the little ones to the big ones. We all wore skate keys round our necks. Skating backwards was a lot of fun, so was roller hockey and roller derby. On rainy days we had a few favorite games. Blindman's bluff was a good one. We would blindfold one person , and he would have to grab someone and say "blind man bluff 1-2-3 3 times. The game was confined to one floor of the building. We couldn't have someone be blindfolded and chase us down the staircases. That would hurt ,, We would also play something like dodgeball with a rubber ball like a Pensie Pinkie or a Spalding. We'd throw the ball hard and if it missed the person you were aiming at it would hit Eddie Napolitano's living room wall. Eddie would come out yelling at us and we would run up to the 3rd floor. We would eventually be on the 6th floor after being chased all day. It was a good way to make a rainy day pass. Another thing we would like to do was to go in the elevator and pull that door open from inside when between two floors. When you did that, the elevator would stop. You would reach in and press the latch inside the space on the upper right. That would release the outer door and we would push that door open. We all would jump out onto safe ground. If we missed we would be dead. it was good fun. We sometimes would do it between the 1st floor and the 2nd., and jump out on to the first floor. This would allow us to jump down to below the 1st floor. Someone would keep the door open and the other person would collect any money dropped down their. There were 2 big thick springs at the bottom, i guess to stop the elevator from crashing if the cables broke. if someone didn't keep holding the door open , the elevator could move and there would be a chance of being stuck or trapped down there. Another alternative but crazier was standing on the handrail inside of the elevator and pushing open the ceiling panel then climbing on top of the elevator. There was a lot of electrical and cables up there, and it was not comfortable. It was downright scary and dark. and when it stopped at a floor, while riding the top of the elevator, it shook and made a jolting stop on the floors. It was scary but fun.
Other games in the hallways, were spinning tops, playing crack top, where you try to split the other guys wooden top in half with your top. Tops were fun and came in two kinds, the rounded ball bearing point and the sharp pointed diggers. The digger was better for crack top , the ball bearing was easier to spin it and do some tricks.
Lastly, baseball cards flipping was a favorite. We would play "off the wall", this was a game where you held a baseball card facedown with the long edge against the wall or hold the card flat against the wall. Whomever went first would hold a card against the wall and let go the cards would spin to the ground. The 2nd person would hold the card either edge or face against the wall and if it landed on a card he would keep it. If he missed the other guy kept it. Then we'd do it again , switching who went first. We would also flip cards. Maybe 4 cards and the second guy had to flip their cards and match the heads and tails to win. Usually if you held a "head" outward , you would flip a tail. That is once you had the power factor down. Some cards were easier to get than others. Pete Runnel's on the Senators and Richie Ashburn on the Phillies were easy. Don Drysdale on the Brooklyn Dodgers and Mickey Mantle of the Yankees, were harder. We would also play "closest to the wall" with the cards, You had to toss the card toward the wall. Throwing it kind of like a "backhanded linoleum throw". You would try to get close to that wall, or even better , throw a "waller" that would stand up flat against the wall. that was pretty much a guaranteed win. Basball card games were fun. Collecting them was fun too. Nowadays, kids buy the whole collection and never even touch them. They keep them mint to increase the value. We would touch them flip them , bend them. We would buy a pack of 5 or 5 cards with bubble gum in it. Topp's made them. We would have check lists and get the set 2 , 3, or 4 times We would trade them, it was awesome.
Sometimes we would play the closest to the wall game with coins. Same rules. You could win some good money , if you were lucky.
I guess the last game was , ring someone's bell and run away. We used to do that to people we didn't really like. Especially, Tigerlady , in 6 B,, she was a little crazy and would chase us and curse at us really loud.
So much for fun in the rain. After the rain I would like to leave the building through the 2nd floor hall window, go out on the the 2nd floor roof, hang on the fence below and swing down . It was something that would make the parents panic that someone would fall and get hurt. We seemed to like danger. Then we would go to the curb and look at the rainbows formed from the puddles of rain, mixed with motor oil ..I liked those colors,,,, That was a ghetto rainbow. Hey, it looked nice.
Other games in the hallways, were spinning tops, playing crack top, where you try to split the other guys wooden top in half with your top. Tops were fun and came in two kinds, the rounded ball bearing point and the sharp pointed diggers. The digger was better for crack top , the ball bearing was easier to spin it and do some tricks.
Lastly, baseball cards flipping was a favorite. We would play "off the wall", this was a game where you held a baseball card facedown with the long edge against the wall or hold the card flat against the wall. Whomever went first would hold a card against the wall and let go the cards would spin to the ground. The 2nd person would hold the card either edge or face against the wall and if it landed on a card he would keep it. If he missed the other guy kept it. Then we'd do it again , switching who went first. We would also flip cards. Maybe 4 cards and the second guy had to flip their cards and match the heads and tails to win. Usually if you held a "head" outward , you would flip a tail. That is once you had the power factor down. Some cards were easier to get than others. Pete Runnel's on the Senators and Richie Ashburn on the Phillies were easy. Don Drysdale on the Brooklyn Dodgers and Mickey Mantle of the Yankees, were harder. We would also play "closest to the wall" with the cards, You had to toss the card toward the wall. Throwing it kind of like a "backhanded linoleum throw". You would try to get close to that wall, or even better , throw a "waller" that would stand up flat against the wall. that was pretty much a guaranteed win. Basball card games were fun. Collecting them was fun too. Nowadays, kids buy the whole collection and never even touch them. They keep them mint to increase the value. We would touch them flip them , bend them. We would buy a pack of 5 or 5 cards with bubble gum in it. Topp's made them. We would have check lists and get the set 2 , 3, or 4 times We would trade them, it was awesome.
Sometimes we would play the closest to the wall game with coins. Same rules. You could win some good money , if you were lucky.
I guess the last game was , ring someone's bell and run away. We used to do that to people we didn't really like. Especially, Tigerlady , in 6 B,, she was a little crazy and would chase us and curse at us really loud.
So much for fun in the rain. After the rain I would like to leave the building through the 2nd floor hall window, go out on the the 2nd floor roof, hang on the fence below and swing down . It was something that would make the parents panic that someone would fall and get hurt. We seemed to like danger. Then we would go to the curb and look at the rainbows formed from the puddles of rain, mixed with motor oil ..I liked those colors,,,, That was a ghetto rainbow. Hey, it looked nice.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Relatives of mine
I had an aunt with a beard.
I had an uncle named Juice because he drank a lot of orange juice.
I had a grandmother with no finger nail.
I had a grandfather who spoke only Russian and liked to throw handkerchiefs and call them birds.
I had a mother who played high school basketball. She also used cigarette ashes as her secret ingredient in her cooking.
I had a father who taught me to use leaves when out of toilet paper. he also taught me to pee on cigarette butts and split them apart.
I had an uncle who made my aunt fall wherever he saw broken sidewalk or floor or step near a store, Then he would call the lawyer and sue the store.
The same uncle could take the grass or blood stains out of your clothes, he was a spotter at a dry cleaners.
I had an in-law who was named Willy the Horse, he died at the racetrack and was a mobster.
I have a nephew who stole bikes and hid them in my mom's basement.
I have a brother who cut his pinky off while doing arts and crafts.
I have a sister who hid a guy in my mom's basement for 6 months before anyone found out.
I have another sister who took my address book and went off to Europe at age 15 and visited all my friends there.
I had an uncle who was an undefeated pro boxer, but quit because he had good teeth.
I had an aunt who was a great artist.
I had a cousin Chonka, who I never met, all anyone knew of her , was she lived in Arizona.
I have several relatives in Argentina, that haven't been met.
I had an uncle named Juice because he drank a lot of orange juice.
I had a grandmother with no finger nail.
I had a grandfather who spoke only Russian and liked to throw handkerchiefs and call them birds.
I had a mother who played high school basketball. She also used cigarette ashes as her secret ingredient in her cooking.
I had a father who taught me to use leaves when out of toilet paper. he also taught me to pee on cigarette butts and split them apart.
I had an uncle who made my aunt fall wherever he saw broken sidewalk or floor or step near a store, Then he would call the lawyer and sue the store.
The same uncle could take the grass or blood stains out of your clothes, he was a spotter at a dry cleaners.
I had an in-law who was named Willy the Horse, he died at the racetrack and was a mobster.
I have a nephew who stole bikes and hid them in my mom's basement.
I have a brother who cut his pinky off while doing arts and crafts.
I have a sister who hid a guy in my mom's basement for 6 months before anyone found out.
I have another sister who took my address book and went off to Europe at age 15 and visited all my friends there.
I had an uncle who was an undefeated pro boxer, but quit because he had good teeth.
I had an aunt who was a great artist.
I had a cousin Chonka, who I never met, all anyone knew of her , was she lived in Arizona.
I have several relatives in Argentina, that haven't been met.
Monday, April 30, 2012
thinking thoughts
today I realized Mr. Smileyface :) doesn't have a nose. It makes me wonder how could he smile and know he has no nose. Would a smileyface with no eyes and no nose ) be happy too. I guess we should all be really happy that we have noses. o o
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Nuts, allergies to nuts. It's nuts that people are allergic to peanuts and say they are allergic to nuts.Packages must say "may contain nuts" if made in a factory with peanuts. Also, people allergic to peanuts are not allergic to peanut oil, but they think they are. The last nutty thing is that peanuts are not nuts they are legumes. By the way , coffee is not a bean it is a berry.
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A woman had her cell phone stolen and she was beat up by transvestites. How scary is it that in the West Village by Christopher St. there are Transvestite gangs. That is really scary.
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Nuts, allergies to nuts. It's nuts that people are allergic to peanuts and say they are allergic to nuts.Packages must say "may contain nuts" if made in a factory with peanuts. Also, people allergic to peanuts are not allergic to peanut oil, but they think they are. The last nutty thing is that peanuts are not nuts they are legumes. By the way , coffee is not a bean it is a berry.
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A woman had her cell phone stolen and she was beat up by transvestites. How scary is it that in the West Village by Christopher St. there are Transvestite gangs. That is really scary.
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Sunday, April 15, 2012
the U.S, Mail
My new mail person started on this route last fall I think. She is not doing a very good job, to say the least.
I used to get mail everyday , even if it was junk mail or bills. Now, I get mail maybe twice a week.
Perhaps she is trying to do me a favor editing what mail I should get. Who wants junk mail and bills anyway? One day I saw her 2 blocks from my house, it was a week that I had not gotten any mail yet.
She recognized me. She recognized me because I had complained to her, when she first started and i didn't get mail at all for 2 weeks. When I finished complaining, her answer was "oh, I thought you moved". Ummmm WHAT??!#$%0&*%. So I assured her I didn't move. So when she saw me a few weeks later and recognized me, as i was saying, she handed me a pile of mail. She said " here, I have some mail for you ", I never heard of a mailman / woman doing that. It's like I have the female Newman. "hello Newman" from Seinfeld. On occasion, I am so happy to get mail, that I don't care that she gave me my neighbor's mail by mistake. I take what I can get. Maybe i should have given her a Xmas present. I dunno. I was thinking of mailing myself 10 letters a day , everyday ,,and seeing how many I get. Also put a note inside, in case my neighbors get my mail, " hey that's not your mail". So we will try that and see what happens.
I used to get mail everyday , even if it was junk mail or bills. Now, I get mail maybe twice a week.
Perhaps she is trying to do me a favor editing what mail I should get. Who wants junk mail and bills anyway? One day I saw her 2 blocks from my house, it was a week that I had not gotten any mail yet.
She recognized me. She recognized me because I had complained to her, when she first started and i didn't get mail at all for 2 weeks. When I finished complaining, her answer was "oh, I thought you moved". Ummmm WHAT??!#$%0&*%. So I assured her I didn't move. So when she saw me a few weeks later and recognized me, as i was saying, she handed me a pile of mail. She said " here, I have some mail for you ", I never heard of a mailman / woman doing that. It's like I have the female Newman. "hello Newman" from Seinfeld. On occasion, I am so happy to get mail, that I don't care that she gave me my neighbor's mail by mistake. I take what I can get. Maybe i should have given her a Xmas present. I dunno. I was thinking of mailing myself 10 letters a day , everyday ,,and seeing how many I get. Also put a note inside, in case my neighbors get my mail, " hey that's not your mail". So we will try that and see what happens.
Friday, March 30, 2012
Frog is back
Frog is back. I have to get back in the groove. Being in St Martin and Sint Maarten, was interesting in that the French Side was definitely French. People spoke French, signs in French etc. The Dutch side however, did not have anyone who spoke Dutch, no Dutch signs, no Dutch people, no Dutch food. Hmmm why in the world do they call it the Dutch side. They should just call it the "other side".
Red neck Inventions
I went to a convention where they had inventors. One guy was a "red neck" inventor.
There were some pretty good stuff. He had alot of ropes and net inventions. Nets that turn into rope so you can secure your rifle in back of your pickup truck. Hooks that clip on to the vinyl siding on trailer to hang stuff. Nets that can protect you from snakes if your campin out and hunting. These nets turn into ropes to tow your truck out of the mud. Aluminum foil to stick in your grill to make it hotter , that's for grillin'. Even plastic teeth for chewin'. Anyway, it sure was interesting.
There were some pretty good stuff. He had alot of ropes and net inventions. Nets that turn into rope so you can secure your rifle in back of your pickup truck. Hooks that clip on to the vinyl siding on trailer to hang stuff. Nets that can protect you from snakes if your campin out and hunting. These nets turn into ropes to tow your truck out of the mud. Aluminum foil to stick in your grill to make it hotter , that's for grillin'. Even plastic teeth for chewin'. Anyway, it sure was interesting.
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