I’ve been toying around with it since and am proud to finally show off the first Coolness!!! photo to post from it.

Those are budding blooms of my butterfly bush set against the dusk sky and the shot was taken in my backyard.

I’m really digging the in and out of focus between the forefront and different levels of background there…TOTAL COOLNESS!!!

Storms rolling over the skyscrapers of Midtown and the Upper East Side. 

While at home the skies gave me a spectacular lightning show, and brought with them the ocean air to my neighborhood.  Each day it was nothing but salty air in the mornings and I have to admit that there was something quite thrilling about walking through wet and salty air to start my day. 

Now that the storms are all gone the weather feels almost perfect.

As a big fan of delicious cloudy wheat beers and with a pallet that despises Guinness I wasn’t sure what to expect from the deep brown slightly golden ale of Chimay. 

My take on Chimay after a couple of sips…

“It’s like drinking a smoldering log from a fire on a winter evening.”

Yes, it was THAT delicious.  I know that smouldering log isn’t the best way to describe something delicious and good, but it makes sense in this case.

After two glasses of Chimay (which has higher alcohol by volume than most beers) I was asked if I still thought it tasted like a smouldering log and I could barely remember having said anything about a log, fire or winter. 

After two glasses my take on Chimay was…

“mmm, yeah, Chimay is flippin’ delicious!”

Thank you, Chimay, for a wonderful evening and from now on I promise not to be scared off by your giant bottle in the supermarket - I’ll buy ya!

If they are the too short, only at crotch level and/or filthy you know you’re at a classless institution, however, if you find yourself looking at clean gut to floor urinals like these…

You know that you’re in a classy joint - and if you find a pile of ice at the bottom of urinals like this you know that you’re in the classiest of the classy of places.

These gut to floor urinals make a man feel like a gentlemen, and there’s no better public bathroom experience than getting the satisfaction of peeing on ice.

The knapsack was mostly filled with ten plus years of junk - random papers, pens, wash up wipes, unused/forgotten/expired condoms, a shirt that I forgot I even had, a half filled bottle of Gatorade that looked to have jellyfish living in it, and this old flyer…

I remember this flyer! 

This F*ckable show was run back in fall of 2001 by my OG pal Janice aka Girlbomb from the blogroll. 

I’m pretty sure that I was actually at this show and that this was the show that had angry stuck up lesbian couple that stuck around after the show demanding a refund of the $10 due to the ”offensive” performance of Curtis Scagnetti.

With a show titled “F*ckable” how could anyone really plead a case for refund saying that they were unaware that edgy material would be performed?

Needless to say Scagnetti kicked performance butt that night by having had a great set and I am very good at procrastinating.

Everything that gets sucked up and into it goes into a container that then spins around, and sometimes when I go to empty the container the vacuumed up contents look like this…

That’s two weeks worth of bathroom, Tony Bennett Room, and bedroom (including comforter cover) cat hair and whatever other miscellaneous lint things and whatnot.

And I personally can’t help but find her to be doing one hell of a Quagmire impersonation. 

Giggity Giggity Goo!

Kelly, please get off that unhealthy looking diet of yours and bring back your curves while keeping up this whole classier wardrobe about you, thanks.

It looked too delicious to pass up and it was actually quite enjoyable with the burger being of better quality than what they usually serve.

While eating this I figured it was basically a cobb salad and burger combo since the dressings looked exactly like what I usually get with a the cobb salad down there.

Then I looked up what a cobb salad is according to wiki, and since I don’t really know if what goes into a cobb salad I’ll assume that wiki is correct, and well…I’ve apparently been lied to repeatedly by my Aramark cafeteria as to what a cobb salad is supposed to be.

Not only that, but I’ve also apparently never even had a real cobb salad, and it is supposed to have bacon and avocado in it - I love bacon and avocado!

So yeah, I’m a native New Yorker who has never been to Florida and has never had a cobb salad so I guess that this all makes me just about the weirdest and lamest person about the city.

My top pick to be the next person to portray Joker is the one and only, Lee Mazzilli!

Hear me through on this one…

He has acting experience, having starred in an Off Broadway hit after he retired from MLB baseball - Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding - and he really looks as though he has the perfect face and upper body to portray the role even darker (if need be) than Ledger’s version of Joker.

WE WANT LEE! 

WE WANT LEE!

WE WANT LEE!

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