Wednesday, December 31, 2008

happynewyear

Happy 09, Happy year of the Obama. Happy Year of the George Ectomy. We enter, not only a new year, but a new Administration and hopefully we might begin an upward spiral economically, morally, spiritually and emotionally.
IN 20 days, we hopefully will eliminate the CANCEROUS BUSH Legacy, that put not only America in the toilet.....but the entire world. THE greed and evility of CORPORATE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX IS STAGGERING.....IT IS VERY SIMPLE, THE MID EASTERN WAR...WAS PLANNED FOR EXXON MOBILE, HALLEBURTON AND OTHER BIG COMPANIES. THE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES MAKING TOO MUCH MONEY, WHILE PEOPLE DIE FROM NOT BEING ABLE TO AFFORD MEDICINES.. even though they get government grants to develope these drugs. And the sadness of untol thousands of people who areloosing their homes......while the government helps giant companies....with out tax money, but let individuals loose their homes and bsuinesses.....while CEO from this giant corporations..get Million dollar and more bonuses....and when BANKS were asked where the billions went that they were given for the BAIL OUT...they have no answer....THIS IS MADDENING..... and then MADOFF was able to steal 90 BILLION DOLLARS>..my GOD, he is not in jail......but living with a bracelet ...in his 100 million dollar apartment.....with his maids, champagne and fine food...THIS IS JUSTICE? They put a kid in jail for marijuana....or stealing something at the mall.But steal BILLIONs, they slap your wrist...AM I MISSING SOMETHING????
NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS? WELL, SINCE I DONT DRINK,SMOKE OR DO DRUGS.....I DO NOT HAVE TO PROMISE MYSELF TO STOP ANY OF THOSE....BUT I MIGHT TRY TO GET THE ENERGY TO LOOSE WEIGHT.....WOULD BE GOOD FOR MY HEALTH....AND TRYING TO FIND A GOOD CHARITY TO SUPPORT......
I( am going to try to begin writing my blog,k and bring it back...funnier, more eloquent, better written...and more filled with piss and vinegar, venom,humor, insights.....I think that there is a touch of depression running thru my veins, which sucks the energy and desire to write.
Tomorroe....we are having our annual JAN 1 NOSH_A_THON...we have a sale and feed gthe people......but even my creativity in the kitchen has taken the same road..as my blog....The energy to cook, the creativity of inventing new recipes, the balance of flavors, seem to emulate the same loss..as my writing my blog. AND so goes my poetry..as my blog and food goes...so does my poetry. I think that it has been a very long time, since I wrote my last verse... I think that I need a vacation...so I get my energy,and creativity back.
I just too a nice brown turkey out of the oven....then I whipped up a batch of chinese butter chicken....a simple but delicious recipe...tha can be made in minutes...Cut chicken breasts in bite size pieces...dust with curry powder, salt,garlic powder..let set for 5 min.. The sautee in your favorite oil. When all sides are white, melt two 1/4 pound sticks of butter. When melted (at a low heat) add a tablespoon or more of curry powder, some more garlic powder ( a chopped onion is optional) Then add one large can of tomatoe puree.SAutee a a low heat until chick is tender....(taste test...add more of anything if needed) Serve over rice cooked with a bit of onion and garlic....and a few threads of saffron.
Then I made a simple Spaghetti with cheese,brocolii,sweet carrots. Drain spaghetti, add 8 to 18 oz of grated cheese, garlic powder, milk, parsley, salt and pepper...Heat till a creamy texture and add cooked chopped broccoli and shredded cooked carrots and peas....
Slice four pounds of Kelbasy..thin.. Add one large can of sauerkruat, cup of water, tablespoon of carroway seeds.....(sliced onion optional) bake in oven at low heat....Can of diced tomatoes optionals...
Large can of clams(industrial size) sauteed 6 cloves of garlic in olive oil...add a can of diced tomatoes, and add clams and sautee over a low heat for 20 min. Add oregano, parlsey...pepper...add tomatoe puree..test for garlic salt and pepper....thin out if needed with clam juice.. Serve over favorite pasta..
Boil miniature raviolis...(two pounts) drain... Added your favorite tomatoe sauce(premade) Victoria Brand is excellent) Add can of diced tomaotes....if for vegetarian....just add 8 oz of grated cheese and bake.....if not vegetarian,,,,add a pound or half pound of groud sauage and toss....
We are serving a simple roast turkey and sliced spiral ham....
A beet salaD...three cans of sliced beets drained.. half an onion chopped, bunch of dill finely chopped, one or two cloves of garlic, pinch of powdered cloves, salt and pepper, table spoon of balsamic or apple cider vinegar...toss and marinate for 30 min....then add a cup of yo..gurt...
Gorganzola cheese dressing for mixed salad;;;; Equal parts of mayo,sour cream and yogurt.. few cloves of garlice, salt pepper, shopped parsely...and 1/4 pound of crumbled gorgenzola cheese.....Let sit for at least an hour before serving....

Monday, December 29, 2008

oy

OY, I havent written again in some time....My energy level needs a power boost.. Well lets get some news discussed. Grandma SARAH PALIN, Born again schmuckess(that is the female for schmuck) now has an illegitimate grandchils, and a MACHATANES(yiddish for inlaw) that is in jail on COCAINE CHARGES....and she was the VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE for the Born AGAINs..conservative Republicans.....who, opened at least one scandle for abuse of power....then spending more money on clothes, than I spent on my house and car and truck put together......I think it sounds more like a BAD script for a late night soap opera, that would have been canceled for lack of reality..... The sad part....we just might here..some kid, seeing her face on TV with Todd..in 2012 "THEEEEERE BACK"!
I am supposed to be some kind of LIBERAL. Up till a few days ado, I did have a lot of sympathy for the Palestinians....who, were not in a good place since 1948..Being JEWISH, I have always supported my own, but when my own is wrong, I am not afraid to speak out..And many times in the times since 1948.. Israel has been wrong....maybe for survival. Maybe to fulfill a dream of many thousands of years...putting into effect, "Next Year in Jerusalem"
When the Jews were burning in ovens, and their ashes were floating in the air, over the landscape of the entire world, no one came to save them.Not even the United States, who thought ROOSEVELT was a friend of the Jewish people... So the JEWs who survived the Halocaust, forged a new nation themsleves.. "NEVER AGAIN" would be the tattoo that would have replaced Numbers given to them by the GERMANS, if they werent replused by the thought of having anohter tattoo of identification.
The plight of the Palestinians is a sad one, and I am not here tonight to get into theri sufferings and psychological problems...But my sympathy for individuals...innocent people, will never ain, but my empathy for their leadership and leaders has ended.
There was finally a truce.....untill HAMAS, who really doens not want peace, sent 100 pockets into ISRAEL, praying to their GOD of VENGENCE ALLAH, for them to do deadly harm. Israel, instead of immediately retaliating with a hail of rockets and bombs, gave warnings, that if they do not STOP IMMEDIATELY, they will seek revenge...or, another way of saying it...We will wipe out the nests of Terrorists, who have sent us these bombs. They warned and waited, but HAMAS didnt stop. They continued...untill, Israel had no other choice but to carry out their threat of retaliation. IF THE ARABS OVER THERE WANT PEACE....THEN THEY WOULDNT KEE[P STARTING UP TROUBLE. THEY DESERVE WHAT THEY GET,. AND I AM SAD FOR INNOCENT PEOPLE WHO ARE KILLED AND INJURED....BUT THEY HAVE NO ONE TO BLAME BUT THEIR LEADERS.....JUST AS WE HAVE NO ONE TO BLAME OTHER THAN OUR LEADERS, WHO HAVE INVADED IRAQ AND AFGANISTAN, KILLED THEIR PEOPLE...DESTROYED THEIR HOSPITALS, WATERWAYS, FOOD SUPPLY,INDUSTRY, ET ALL...SO WHEN THEIR PEOPLE COME HERE TO DO US HARM....AND BLOW UP BUILDINGS, AND OUR PEOPLE ARE KILLED, WE HAVE NO ONE OTHER TO BLAME BUT THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION AND THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.
jUST A NOTE...aol IS SO DESPERATE FOR NEWS, THERE IS A NON STOP TIRADE ON WHO IS PREGNANT, WHO IS GAY, WHO IS GETTINGMARRIED, WHO IS GETTING A DIVORCE, WHO IS TOO SKINNY OR TOO FAT, OR WHO IS GETTING A NIP AND TUCK, OR THEIR TITS ALTERED...OR THEIR NOSE OR ASS OR OTHER BODY PARTS....THEN THE HANDFULL OF MEDIA FAVORITES...AMY WHITEHOUSE, DRUG INFECTED eNGLISH SONGSTRESS, LINDSEY LOHAN, QUEEN OF THE YOUNG LESBIANS...WHO HATES HER FATHER/..WHO IS A DRUNK AND SLIMY CREEP, PARIS HILTON WHO VOMITS 15KARAT GOLD VOMIT IN HER PINK BENTLY, BRITTANY, HER EX NO TALENTED HUSBAND mr fetterline, BRAD PITT AND HIS FAMILY, TOM CRUISE AND HIS BROOD...AND ANOTHER FEW WHO ARE ALWAYS IN THE NEWS...I AM TRULY WONDERING WHO IN HELL GIVES A FLYING F--K ABOUT THEM. I DONT CARE AT ALL. I HAVE MY OWN LIFE TO LIVE....I WILL MAKE A DEAL WITH ALL THESE SO CALLED STARS...ALL ARE SO DISFUNCTIONAL.....MY DEAL, IS THAT I WILL NOT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THEM AND IN TURN, THEY DONT HAVE TO CARE ABOUT ME...I THINK THAT IS A FAIR DEAL.
I STILL AM BOYCOTTING WALMART.....THEY SUCK. THEY HAVE INFERIOR MERCH, AND TREAT THEIR EMPLOYEES BADLY...
ISNT IT NICE TO KNOW, THAT IN OUR SOPHISTICATED SOCIETY......THAT PIRATES ARE BACK IN FASHION, HIGHJACKING SHIPS, STEALING CARGO, PUTTING PEOPLE UP FOR RANSOM....BUT DID YOU KNOW THEY PUT THEM UP IN SWAKY NICE HOTELS,WHILE AWAITING FOR THE MONEY TO SAVE THEIR ASSES... AT LEAST THESE PIRATES HAVE SOME GLASS. THEY EVEN BATHE. NONE OF THEM HAVE WOODEN LEGS, EYE PTCHES, OR HAVE A PARROT SCREECHING....I WONDER WHAT THEIR PARENTS WOULD SAY.... PROBABLY ONE OF THEM MIGHT SAY "ALLAH AKBAR" WHICH i THINK IS gOD IS GREAT".....THEY HAVE mUSLIM pARROTS THESE DAYS....AND THE OTHER PARROTS, WHOSE OWNER HAS RADIOS AND TVS...PROBNABLY SCREAM "POLLY WANTS A RIZT NO SALT cRACKER" OR SHOUTS "SHUT THE FUCK UP" WHEN THE NEWSCATER ANNOUCNES HOW TERRIBLE THE ECONOMY IS.....tHE PARROT HERE ITS ON EVERY STATION A HUNDRED TIMES A DAY...AT LEAST THERESE BIRDS ARE SMART ENOUGH TO TELL THEM TO SHUT THE FUCK UP.
MY EYES HAVE BEEN CLOSED BEFORE I STARTED TONIGHTS BLOG. I AM SITTING IN THE DARK, AND CANNOT SEE THE KEYBOARD, SO...IF THERE ARE TOO MANY MISTAKES...I AM NOT STUPID, I CAN SPELL, I JUST CANT SEE. AND I AM TIRED.

A NEW SOUP....MADE IN A FEW MINUTES: TAKE TWO LARGE CHICKEN BREASKT WITH SKIN STILL ON THEM, CUT THEM UP IN SMALL PIECES AND BIOL THEM IN A POTTER BOWL IN THE MICROWAVE TILL ALL MEAT IS WHITE AND NOT PINK. TKE OUT CHICKEN...REMOVE THE SKIN(AFTER ITS COOKED) AND THROW SKIN AWAY. IN ANOTHER LARGE POTTERY BOWL HAD HALF A JAR OF SOUTH WESTERN STYLE SALSA....(I USE STOP AND SHOP MEDIUM ).. iT HAS BEANS AND CORN AND OTHER GOODIES IN IT... ADD HALF A JAR TO EQUAL AMOUT OF WATER, BUT PART OF IT SHOULD BE THE WATER YOU COOKED THE CHICKEN IN....IT MIGHT BE ENOUGH... SHRED THE CHICKEN AND PUT IN THE BOWL ADD ONE SMALL CAN OF CHICK PEAS..GRATE TWO LARGE CLOVES OF GARLIC OR USED GARLIC POWDER TO TASTE.TASTE FOR SALT...SHOULD BE SPICE ENOUGH...IF NOT ADD SOME OF YOUR FAVORITE HOT SAUCE OR PEPPER... BRING ALMOST TO A BOIL AND THICKEN WITH A FEW TABLESPOON OF MASHED POTATOE FLAKES...BRING TO A BPOIL AND STIR.
ADD CHOPPED PARSELY OR CILANTRO AND CHOPPED AVOCADO....AND A DOLLOP OF SOUR CREAM...ITS A GREAT SOUP.
OPTIONS: ITS GREAT SERVED COLD...BUT THEN ELIMINATE THE CHICKEN OR WATER BOILED IN..MAKE IT VEGGIETARIAN.....YOU CAN THICKEN IT IT ALSO WHEN COLD WITH AN AVOCATO CREAMED IN A BLENDER... sERVE WITH TORTILLA CHIPS....YOU CAN THEN ADD A TABLESPOON OF EXTRAVIRGIN OLIVE OIL, A LITTLE APPLECHIDER OR WINE VINEGAR AND COPPED ONIONS, AS YOU MIGHT DO IN GASPACHO...EVEN SOME COLD SEEDED GRAPES, ONION, MELLON ETC....

Friday, December 19, 2008

snowdec19

I spent my birthday enjoying the gift sent from the heavens....is not every birthday one gets a snowstorm....as a gift from the GODS.. The boys all came to work today, brought me coffee....and then when the snow began, decided that it would be safer to go home early; I agreed....SOon, the sirens from police cars and ambulances....were heard for hours.
I left the doors open, just incase some lunatic might have the desire to buy an antique. I sat at the computer for a long time, posting things for sale onh Craigs List...when, eventually, I heard the bell go off. SOMEONE ENTERED... No, it wasnt a customer...it was the POSTMAN. But an hour later, and a few inches of snow later, the bell went off again. This time it was a customer....a repeat one at that. A

Polish man, who bought a samovar from me about a year ago......and today, he bought another Samovar....in the middle of a blizzard. He told me that he got of rt 17 because it was basically stopped in both directions due to many accidents.....So, in the middle of a blizzard...I made a sale. Go figure.
The next paragraph might be difficult to write. I might have to grasp for words, grasps for explanations and feelings....grasp for understanding; The condition of America...the entire collaspe of businesses,....and the fear of everything in society caving in......reminds me of my own life... seems that America and I are hand in hand...slipping and sliding... The happiness of Obama wining the election one day.....elevated my own spirits....then hearing how the car companies are going bankrupt, then OBAMA will let a born again hate monger minister preside at his Inaugeration, is depressing me...for he is renegging already on his promises.....
It seems that horrible violence is on the increase, mothers are killing their children, people are killing cops,Gangs are killing innocents for acceptence into the group, everyone seems scared of the future....America seems to be failing and falling....Is this the begining of the DOWN FALL of THE NEW ROMAN EMPIRE, was Bush the reincarnation of NERO and the other Idiots who caused the expantion of ROME....to the point of loosing control

Thursday, December 18, 2008

66snowstorm

I cannot walk on water, I cannt sure the sick, so even thought Dec 19th is my birthday, it is not a relgious holiday... So say Happy birthday... We are now, waiting with baited breath for a huge snow storm...and, so it happened that I was also born in a snow storm, and the weather that day was so cold, that one of my Aunts almost got frost bite of her nose. And quite a nose it was.!! It for her entire life, had it stuck in everyones business.
I am sitting her typing on the computer... I just finished a few hours of posting online classified advertising for the business....,while listening to the NJ News, repeat itwself for the past few hours. I can almost repeat verbatim...everything they have said.....The storm should start at 6 in the morning...and means, this although business is bad...the storm will make the final weekend before XMAS and CHANUKA even worse....
I am fucking pissed at OBAMA.. He chose a NAZI BOrn Again Hypocrite to give the opening prayer at his organization..... The man is another creep like Jerry FCAlwell. Another HOMOPHOBIC bastard, who said that gay marriage is in the same catagory with Pedophila, A man marring a child, and Multiple marriages and other criminal activities.. But, I am going to still give OBAMA a chance. We did get rid of most of the REPUBLICAN crooks and NAZIS...I really do overuse the term NAzi, but it gets my feelings out.
NEW RECIPE......for the vegetarian...A mideatern casserole of CHICK peas to serve over rice....I ate a double order of it and its great....
Most of my recipes are for a quick meal, to have a gourmet flair....
1) open a can of mushroom soup (asparagus would be good too)
2)add 1/4 cup cream or half and half
3) a few tablespoons of white wine
4)1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon of garlic powder
5) teaspoon dry mint leaves
6) 1/2 teaspoon of saffron(cheap version)
7)teaspoon dried sumac (buy both saffron and sumac in mnideastern store)
8)black pepper to taste
9(tablespoon of balsamic vinegar
10)tablespoon virgin oilive oil(optional)
11)small can of sliced or chopped mushrooms
12) OPTIONAL:capers,olives, artichokes,peas,kvery very fine shoped celery,
13) very very finely chopped onion or scallions(can be sauteed)
14 Salt or ADOBO to tast
15 two tablespoons (or more) of Sesame Tahina(sesame butter)

Put all items into a pottery or microwave bowl. Cook for 4 to 6 minutes...to heated..serve over rice of your choice...Rice should be salted priot to serving..

If you do not want a thick and creamy sauce....eliminate the cream,and mushroom soup and use beef, chicken or vegtable stock...make it think something like cous cous vegetable stew....You can add carrot,pimento,green pepper,turnip ,potaotes.etc

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

recipesETC

I still cannot get back into writing blogs each day, religiously....when I know there are very few people reading it...I must try to find my old readers, who were lost when AOL.....the NEO NAZIs of free speech, threw me off..ALl their blogs were canceled soon after...but I lost my mailing list, adress book.....et al.
I have much to day about so many things, from THE LAME DUCK or Crippled PATO...Pato is duck in Spanish, but it also means Faggot, QUeer, HOMO....and seep down, I think the Lame duck.....really has a double meaning..in the case of GEORGE...and he really is LAME. Evil... The most horrible president this country ever had....Other bad presidents didnt hurt the entire country like BUSH did...I never thought I would welcome NIXON.....compared to this evil piece of crap. He did nothing good...yet he tried to tell the country today his LEGACY after 9/11 was the country was safer...what a laugh...under his WATCH we were attacked....my personal belief his group planned 9/11 ,long before he was elected, or selected (or stole) the Presidency.Yes, Bush and Cheney planned 9/11. The reason there were no more attacks, is that BUSH didnt plan any more....BUT, his war...is what caused the terrorism increase all over the world...His war killed so many innocent people...we really are the NAZIs.....He caused the terror, not stopped it...
5 MINUTE INCREDIBLE GOURMET SHRIMP DISH;
Ingredients: 1/4 cup chopped parsley
1/4 cup chopped pimentos
tablespoon capers
1 can Cream of Shrimp Soup
18 medium size precooked shrimp
2 cups cooked rice
1 small can chopped mushroom pieces
salt,pepper, garlic powder
1/4 cup dry white wine
1/4 cup half and half
Combine all items except the rice and chopped parsely...put in a porcelain or pottery bowl...microwave for about 4 to 6 min....do not let boil for more than one minute....taste for salt and pepper and wine..adjust if needed...our over rice...sprinkle the parsely on top.
You can add frozen peas, artichokes,choppd water chestnuts,etc. Surprisingly one of the most delicious dishes that can be made almsot during a commercial.
If I had the energy, I would write a composition of electing Carolyn Kennedy to the NY Sneate to replace HILLARY.....my mind travels back at the speed of light to seeing her and JOHN JOHN at ther fathers funeral, with her Mother standing up strong....and as I watch the funeral, sitting in CLAYS Restuarant in Lexington Kentucky....I cried. I creid for Kennedy, I cried for his family, I creid for my country, and I cried for my own personal and emotional loss.. And now that little girl, just might become a political figure, and possibly,....if the future would have it....the first WOMAN PRESIDENT of the USA...which is what I predict. Her brother had annouced, that he might run for president...and those who do not like the KENNEDY family.......made sure that his plans were stopped...especially when he made the comment he would find out who really killed his father and uncle.
Some quick comments.....The Government.....can spent a trillion dollars on a war, but cannot save homes of people who are loosing them becuase BUSH ruined the economy.......and are putzing around saing the car companies......which wouldnt need saving if they would have made better cars with better mileage...but those in power...who are aligned with the oil companies...didnt make such a car. YET!

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

BIGLAUGH

tHIS MIGHT BE VERY FUNNY.....OR, MAYABE ONE OF THOSE SITUATIONS THAT YOU JUST HAD TO BE THERE....jOHN(SECOND IN COMMAND OF GRANNYS ATTIC) ROBERT...FREINDS AND ANTIQUE DEALER THAT HAS BEEN a freind for 43 years...had dinner at Charley Browns Restaurant in Washington Township. Robert told us that "the CHINESE" have bought the chain....and all kitchen employees are now Chinese, and there are no MExicans here...Theyu ship the Chinese employees over illegally in containers....(how horrible). Wll when the meal was done and I had devoured all the meat off the bones of a rack of spareribs, I joked with an Asian Bus Boy,, to take the bones back into the kitchen and put more meat on the bones and bring them back.....not realizing, this poor soul, who had a very radient smile...didnt understand very much ENGLish...he brought a doggie bag back....with just old bones.!! No more meat on them....alas....He msut have thought I wanted the bones...but I was just joking...well, John and I alsmot fell off our chairs laughing.....A Doggy back of rib bones..
The TV commercial results has been underwhleming.....although we did buy one very nice armoire from a Person who saw the commercial and called us.But I am very optimistic that it will work...and have plans for other commercials....and in different areas....
I am still impressed daily with Obamas choice of Cabinet people....and There is almost a MINION .....(the required number to Adults Jews required to hold services)..I think there are 8 Jewis so far on the lsit....if not, its a rumor started by another antique dealer frie of mine...Obmana can always put on a nice white yarmulka and be a stand in.....He would look very strinking.....as a JEW...he can say he is from Eiothopian stock...who are black, but with very white features.. Obmas daughters look Etheopian....anda re really gorgeous....Eithiopenas are good looking people. It is very late, and the quality of my blogs for the past three months has diminished..becau of the late hours..when I write them..Its almsot 2am in the morning now...
Soon I will start posting photos of my house that I am interior decorating.....and it might be wild. I have the ideas in my head...but sometimes reaity...and ones fantasy differs.....when the dream becomes the real deal.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

cryingagain

It seems that the older I get, the more sensitive I am getting. Not on a personal level...I dont give a crap what people say about me, or think....but the sensitivity lies in other areas...It seems that certain events that are on a positive note ..happy things, good things,..events that are posisitve for mankind and or the planet. And then sad things, like reading about children who are terminally ill, people suffering from disease, starvation, national disasters....animals in distress...I now over reasct more than ever..Is it normal? Probably not....but what is normal....and who wants to normal anyway. If the 402 percent of the American population who voted for MCCAIn and that Alaskan Witch Sarah Palin...are considered normal, good Americans..Born Again religios people...NOrmal people...Please do not include me as being a normal person.
Tonight, I accidently turned on a movie about a young man, who although severly suffering from turrets syndrome, wanted to become a teacher... I watched the first half hour of what he went through... When he was in middle school, during a concert....his noise became disruptive (Imusic made it wose). The principal called him up to the stage...He asked the boy (BRAD COHEN) if he enjoyed dispsrupting the concert.. He said NO. Then the principal asked why he did it.. Brad explained he couldnt help it. That it was a neurological problem that he couldnt control, that the wiring in his brain sort circuits. It seemed that the principal was making fun of him and would punish him..by embarassing him. But it ended with the principal explaining to the rest of the assembly, that BRAD is no different from them..and they should treat him nicely,.....etcetc... The group finally applauded both Brad and the Princip[al...and that moment was a positive one in BRADS life. I CRIED....I supposed its partially personal....gaining acceptence at an early age... LAtger on when he tried to get a job teaching, and most places wouldnt have him....when he finally got a job I CRIED> But when the first commercial came on, and it was HALLMArk sTATION....i REALIZED THAT IS ONE OF THE STATIONS THAT I AM SPONSERING THIS MONTH ON tv...AND SOMEHOW THE CONNECT made me cry??? THESE TEARS WERE TEARS OF JOY....THAT THE "UNDERDOG" SUCCEEDS. JUST AS i CRIED WHEN OBAMA WON THE ELECTION....JOY, NOT SADNESS.
This week end was very boring and very slow business.....SAT and SUnday together didnt add up to even one decent day....blame it on the Season, the economy, the weather...got to blame it on something...
Last night I watch ANNIE HALL w/Woody Alan and DIANE Keaton.....It brought back memories of the past..it was one of my favorie movies with classic lines...and I once ran into both of them at the Continental BAths....when we were all there to see Bette MIDLER....what an evening... Xavier Hollander, the "HAPPY HOOKER" was there with three of her "girls", who all satin the night club completely naked....after they came out of the labyrnith of a steam room..chaswing out a bunch of naked screaming Queens....who were screaming "TITS...oh my GOD TITS" After the screams of Tits subsided, Bette Midler appeared, with her piano player, who turned out to be an unheard of newcomer named BARRY MANILOW.
The highlite of this weekend was eating....Spaghetti Putenesca (home made) and tongiht, I made curried kidney beans and rice....which was a rare treat....Meals do not have to be very expensive...contain tings like filet mignon or lobster, rare herbs and truffles, or exotic French sauces...to be good. Here is a very simple recipe that will tickle your taste buds...
Saute a few cloves of garlic and one onion in olive oil till soft. Add 1/4 cup of fresh cilantro chopped. teaspoon or so of curry,....saute all of this for about ten min on a low flame. Add one can of kidney beans(although any beans will be good) and one can of tomatoe puree. SAlt and pepper to taste.. Let cook on a very slow flame of ten to 15 min. Taste to see if you want to add more curry or pepper etc... Pour over rice. Rice should be cooked: saute garlic and oil, tumeric and paprika until garlic just about turns brown..Throw in the rice, and cook in oil for a minute or two...Then add water....and cook according to directions on box. Put half cup of finished rice in a soup bowl, and top with beads.....hmmmmmmm

Thursday, December 4, 2008

IAMBACK

sINCE nOV 28TH, i HAVENT BEEN IN THE MOOD TO WRITE A BLOG....NOTHING TERRIBLY INTERESTING WAS WORTH REPORTING... and....I have been busy putting on advertising each night on Craigslist.... but since then, we have added a new area in the store called Bergen Pines. That was the old name for the Bergen County Mental Hospital, Which since has changed its name to Bergen County Regional...(something or other)Our Bergen Pines,m which was named that...very tongue in cheek, is mostly antique Pine country furniture...and country accessories...I am very happy to say, that Last Sat was the first day it was opened to the public, and a fine 8ft pine farm table was the first thing to be sold SAt morning..., and then Sunday..a pair of Paintings in the "Philadelphia ROOM (all original Early American furniutre..on the formal side) was sold to a collector. So now we have three more room settings: Philedelphia, PARIS(guess what in there?) Yep Fine French antiques) and now Bergen Pines...
We had a very good week last week, and this week was sort of ok so far.....I would say, last week and this week, is probably better than last year at the same time. I was hoping that after the elections, people whould be in a better mood...and so far, so good.
I aM IMPRESSED WITH OBAMA, more than I expected... I am happy to see that he chose Hillary and Bill Richardson to be in hiscabinet.. I wasnt sure if he was confident enough in himselof and his other followers to invite to former running mates. It was smart, and shows character.. He knows our Nation needs to be fixed, after the disasterous 8 years of the Bush legacy. Bish and Cheney and Rumsfeld shoul dbe tried was war criminals and traitors..for what they did to America, its economy, its warriors, its reputation......and what the effects of this has had on the rest of the world. How many deaths can be blamed on them...and how much pain and suffering....and now ad on the psychological pain he has caused to a million people. I do not belive in heaven or hell..and I dont belive in praying (but I pray anyway-just incase)...and I do not want to sound like a vegetarian eating a BIB MAC, but I pray there is a hell, that they should rot in.
Last week, we made a television Commerical....Took 6 years, but we finally did it..and None of us were in it, not even the BUDDYDOG. Maybe the next one....my normally funny stchick was eleiminated, becuase in 30 seconds, you cant say to much, or show too many pix...but tonight, we were shown the edited copy...and its a go!!! wE WILL BE ON 68 TIMES A WEEK....tHEY WILL BE SHOWIN ON THE naTIONAL geographic sTATION, ANIMAL PLANET,tHE dISCOVERY PLANET, LOGO, AND THE FAMILY STATION(OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT) ITS ONLY ONON bERGEN cOUNTY...IF IT SHOWS ANY PROMISE, WE MIGHT GO INTO ROCKLAND, AND THEN ON TO NEW YORK......BUT ONE STEP AT A TIME. THE LAST TIME WE TRIED THIS...WAS DURING THE OJ SIMPSON TRIAL....AND WERE ON ALL THE WRONG STATIONS....AND HAD ALMOST NO RESPONSE...WE WILL TRY 3 MONTHS...AND AT TTHAT TIME WE ONLY HAD 4000 SQ FEET, NOW WE ARE ADVERTISING THE LARGEST STORE IN THE
"known universe"..(SO IF THERE IS A BIGGER ONE SO WHAT?" i WAS GOING TO SAY, INSTEAD OF THE LARGEST STORE IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE....."THE LARGEST STORE, THIS SIDE OF URANUS" (THE PLANET) BUT i THINK PEOPLE WOUL DGET THE JOKE?
TONIGHT I WENT TO AN EVENT.... it was to raise money for a 100 women in a village in UGANDA that were loeft husbandless after political unrest....They are talented women who make beads.....andsell them to support themselves. One of my custoemrs is envolved with them, and this event, was held in RIDGEWOOD...as a Holiday Boutique...to buy jewelry made with the beads, and to raise money for sending them money to dig wells, for they are in need of clean water...and money to buy mosqito nets...this area, people are still dying from malaria... Poverty in these villages, is nothing like the poverty that we have in the USA. Our poor people would be considered rich and well fed, compared to these people, who do not know where their next meal will come from, or their next jug of water, or even clothing. Many dress in veritable rags, as photos there showed.
The event was wonderfull It was held in a Salon, or a spa, a small storefront, where massages are given, eyebrows trimed, pedicures and who knows what else. Customers of the spa, and others congregated, noshing on health foods donated by WHOLE foods ,which is across the street from them, and A PLATTER OF gREEK APPETIZERS FROM THE WONDERFUL "ITS GREEK TO ME" ONE OF MY FAVORITE PLACES.....ONLY TWO BLOCKS AWAY. THERE WAS SUSHI, CHEESES, BREADS, FRESH FRUIT SALAD(BUT NOT SOAKING IN LIQUID) NICE FRESH CUT UP FRUITS, NUTS, AND POMAGRANATE AND VODKA MARTINIS. WHILE I WAS NOSHING, AN AFRICAN DANCE SCHOOL from Spring VAlley entertained..There were drummers from GHANA...that were outrageous.....and the dancers included children and adults in Native Africa Costumes...and let me tell you..they were all very good. The vibrations of the drums, and the dancing..made the vibrations of all our spirits blend into one happy event. There wasnt anyone that wasnt smiling...there wasnt anyone who wasnt moving their body to the music...and eventually, some of the women, which predominated the group, got up and danced and wiggled.....and those who did do this..wore tight clothing, and I think, planned on showing their stuff.
The vening was very special...A room full of happy,smiling people, sharing a cultural experience most foreign to their own ..But if we trace our ouw culture,,we eventually will trace all our roots, alll our DNA..back to Africa. Adam and Eve, my dear readers were black. National Geographic did a vast DNA study....a backwards journey into history....and we all came from Africa.. WE ARE ALL BLACK!!! on the inside.. Only the exterior changed with the migration and climatge changes. So HOW in hell can we even remotely be prejudiced? Unfortunately most people do not know this yet, and even when they do, they will not belive it...Try teaching this to a trailer park crowd in the hills of Appalachia....
Now this dance school has extened programs..Besides teaching Afridcan Dancing, Drumming, storytelling, mask making, and Rites of PASSAGE schooling...I think, although they do not mention it in their brochure, it might include CIRCUMCISION..which is perfromed in front of a GROUJP AT 13(OR AT PUBERTY)..IN AFRICA, THAT IS. I remember seeing it on TV...they are schooled in what ever it is that they have to learn. Then in front of the tribe, their MOHEL(that is the yiddish word for the one who performs ritual circumscism) performs the "operation" and the young man isnt even alowed to wince,show emotion, cry, scream..or show ANY REACTION AT ALL. Now, I do not think they do this in Spring VALLEY....that way...I dont think anyone brought up in this country, could hold back reaction to getting their weny sliced at age 13...OMG how that must hurt.. When people...have that done after infancy, its usually performed in the hospital.... but this DANce School/Cultural SOciety does have RITES OF PASSAGE SCHOOLING.....I am goping to go and visit a few of their classes......on the premise I am writing a book (...
I was parked outside and forgot to shut of my lites....I was almost ready to leave,when I saw a Police Car, with flashing lights,,,,,in front of my car outside...OH SHIT,,something happened....and I forgot my lights and the battery is proberly dead....I walked out side and I heard my name...."MAURY"""" i seemed to becomeing form the cop car...."I thought I was hearing voices, and would have to start on medication.." I heard it again, with this time my last name added to the first.....The window of the car went down...I bent down and the cop SAID....Its BOBBY JAMES....I am a customer of yours. I ran yhour plates, and was almost ready to give a ticket, but when I saw it was you.......Now I was in the African event...and guess what....Officer James is a black man...Hew and his wife had been to the store a few times and we hit it off.....
RECIPE TIME: I had bought a bunch of meat out of the back of a truck..a package deal...the meat was from old cows, and not USDA grade A..but edible..Here is a recipe for a nice steak''' A few table spoons of soy sauce, a few tablespoons of corn oil, two cloves of garlic all mashed up, tablespoon of balsamic vinegar, and a few tablespoons of molassas. Let sit in the refrigerator over night...and broil or bar-b-que as any other steak...You might faint...Its that delicious... It will have turned black from the molassas..
We have been getting in so much stuff..This week a wonderful breakfront..the best in captivity...another banquet table matching the mahogany breakfront..abotu 12feet long, a mahog BR set, TWo DR room sets, one shabby chic painted whicte except the top is Pecan or fruit wood and the chairs have carved pineapples in the back..the other set is 12 feet long, 1880 oak, with 8 carved chairs newly reupholstered..A custome made 2 door curio, 5ft wide, with glass shelves, greek columns and all nice mahogany...mirrored back, a 18Century ornate Italian secretary bookcase, Louis 16th Tapestry Fateuil(arm chair) vanity bench, organ bench , all kinds of glaqsswhere, chandelirs,Decorative dishes, Collections of ROSE MEDALLION>..et