There have been times when friends brought over vino that is great, but needed to breath for a while, so I popped it open at the beginning of the night and announced that we would drink it in an hour at the earliest.  

We went to dinner at Vetri, a swanky restaurant that for some god-forsaken reason is popular with millennials, Since I was the only one wearing a collared shirt and blazer and my wife was in a dress, we were seated in a cave downstairs near the kitchen and were promptly ignored by the wait-staff during the course of…

A passenger next to me was assigned the middle seat and I was on the aisle. She wanted the aisle seat and asked if we could swap and she mentioned some half-wit condition. I said no and settled in. She was fidgety as we prepared to leave the gate and asked the flight attendant to move citing her faux condition and the…

My dad was deployed along the wall in 1952 in West Germany. They gave him 3 rounds in his rifle. The sergeant told him and others in his platoon, that “we aren’t going to start the WWIII.”

what’s with the shot of a VW in front of the old GM building in Detroit? Not that anyone would actually know or care that it’s the old GM building. Or is that the old train station? 

Dude, Tom Bolaris! Local weather forecaster, makes an amazingly bad prediction on an incoming winter storm - which doesn’t pan out. Goes to Miami to sulk. Get’s roofied by Russian hookers, loses his money and his fucking job.

It’s a movie prop from the 4th version of the movie and was destined for the trash pile. Now people are lined up all day long to take a photo of it with their friends and family.
I don’t get it.

I established a gym routine after I had a mid-life crisis. I was over 50, overweight, had gout and none of my clothes fit. I tried 1-on-1's w/a trainer, but doing it on own faded, so I took classes - specifically HIIT classes and it worked like a charm. Dropped 40lbs in 8 months, kept it off for 7 years, no more gout…

nice. now if I could only make my work email which was a google account disappear. By mistake I linked it to my personal gmail account now my old work email account pops up. I can’t stand it. 

don’t drive a commercial vehicle on designated parkways on Long Island. The overpasses are too low for anything other than a car or SUV to pass under. That was a deliberate design element insisted by Robert Moses to keep the riff-raff from inhabiting the ‘burbs. 

Beat me to the punch. the same people who drink bleach are the same people who believe the world is flat, chemtrails, global warming is a hoax and Jeffrey Epstein is not dead but in Israel.  

Going to a fancy-schamcy restaurant that has high visibility and prices can be an underwhelming experience. The staff will treat you like a one-and-done patron, professional but not personal. The prices will give you sticker shock and the booze will astonomical. Expect to wait a very long time between courses and even…

When Russia was the Soviet Union, I was riding the Red Star from Moscow to Leningrad. The train leaves promptly at midnight and arrives at 8am the next day in Leningrad. As we were getting organized, the national anthem of the USSR came on. Everybody and I mean everybody stopped what they were doing and came to…

Lots of women had the hots for Bob Redford back in the day, until they realized that he was short - way south of 5'10"

I have an app called SkyView. It tracks a couple of satellites, specifically the Hubble Telescope and the space station. Hopefully, it can be upgraded to include the lightsail.

I’ll take Stage Diving Divas for $200, Art! 

Prior to the production, the performer is given a release to sign and read aloud while recording. I’m sure it’s a tense situation and there’s a lot of good cop/bad cop role playing going on to get a reluctant performer to start performing. The script states that she is doing this of free will and not being coerced.…

You got that right. 

It’s a real phenomenon. People transition out of what they were listening to by their late 20's/early 30's and either move on to something else or listen to the music that gave them joy. It’s not an abrupt thing, it’s just there’s less and less popular music that becomes relatable.

You know what? The Democrats keep putting out ‘centrist’ candidates to appeal to a large audience. Yet the GOP keeps putting out more and more extreme right wing candidates, and when those chuckleheads get elected they destroy everything that the centrist Democrat worked to enact. It sucks. We keep tacking to the…