Mothers Day Memories

I tried to close my eyes and bring up memories of the past mothers day. The first thing I think about is that Lilly of the Valley and Lilacs are both in bloom....at mothers day...and when Mom was living in FLORIDA, I would visit for Mothers day...and fly down with a bouquet of Lilacs..from my huge bush in my front yard..The plane always smelled so fragrant.....And both flowers, had her name in it..Lilly and Lil(ac).....Lillian....and her middle name was ROSE.....a Mom, a flower..and so sweet!!
The second memory was a Mothers DAY buffet at the ALEXANDER HAMILTON HOTEL in PAterson....when I ate my first clam...and nearly choked to death on it....Somehow, I coughed it up out of my wind pipe and lived!!!!!
The third Memory that I conjured up was Mothers DAY dinner at Burns Country INN, on Piaget AVE CLIFTON......and I remember the menu was vey odd. The had Venison, and BEAR STEAKS....I cant remember my attitude back then, if I thought it was something that I would venture to try...or it grossed me out..killing such a wonderful beast....the answer is probably somewhere in between...the horror of shooting a big animal and the curiosity of tasting it. Although I am not a veggitarian....I still have not tasted anything more exotic than Venison....(the last time being in Hungary...on top of a mountain, over looking Slovakia.....the venison was cooked with fresh blueberries, juniper berries and...brandy...

Scams from 1931(expose coming) NEW merch, The news..

I am working on a little story, that I will be posting here very soon. Its about scams...Now so many of us think that the world is filled with brilliant scams today...From Madoff, those on Ebay and Craigs List..with Checks(that are fake) and Western union....Return of partial payments of overpaid items...to a million silly things. But in the 1920,30 and 40's they ran rampant...and no one stopped them. There were no watch dogs..and there were so many, that every magazine was filled with them. Many of them were offerring....home instructions, or work at home, or selling things....that were paid for and never sent, to rediculous things like "make a FORTUNE IN YOUR HOME< RAISE GIANT BULLFROGS, or sea horses... A mail order ventriliqust course...and more. Watch for my story soon.
The last two days we bought out two apartments filled with wonderful furniture...not arare antiques, but very well built and classy Mahogany furniture..some lighting, glass and china..and a few treasures....Tomorrow we are expecting a third apt and SATURDAY still another.....About time we got some good deals, but business, is still krappy.
When it comes to the NEWs, I would like to see a format, that has continuations of stories...daily. Updates on the Afgani War, Iraqi War, and individual stories until completed.....as in trials, bbattles, etc. I would like to know what Our forces do each day, how many killed or wounded...They should have daily updaes on the Taliban or AL queda.... I would like to have an update on that piecxe of crap that thew the baby out the window..and killed it......and cant wait to here that the General POPULATION in prision beat him half to death.....
Yes daily updates on all big stories....including the eocnomy...where it gets better wor worse....and they should show things that are priomising, not only negative issues.

Schmekelectomy Revisited, BOB fell down, Business is aggravating(NU?)POT LEGAL?

John Wayne Bobbit....the handsome moron, who became a porn star, after his wife cut off his schmeckle, it was found in the street by a cop, returned and sewn back on......and, although I neer saw his porn movie, it still worked...after being reattached................................he and his exwife Lorena, are getting back together..... THIS IS THE MOST EXCITING NEWS OF THE DAY...I AM SO HAPPY...FOR THEM, I BET THE NEWS IS SO GREAT, THAT IT WILL AFFECT TOMORROWS STOCK MARKET.....STOCK WILL GO UP, JUST LIKE HIS SCHMECKLE!!! This is news..in America....it shows the intelligence of the average AMerican....and what they want to read. Yesterday we read in the headlines on AOL, the man who threw his exgirlfreinds baby out the window of a car and left him to die in the road.....and then we read about the LADY with the new face......,last week or two, all the murder suicides...people killing their families.....Although these did happen, and cannot be hidden, I do not think they are the most important things in the world, that they get the status of front page news...To me front page news is the WAR, The eocnomy, How big business is screwing us...How the Credit card companies are killing us, how the Pharmaceutial companies let people die if they cannot afford medicine...The Insurance companies that wont pay for medical treatments.....News should have preventive medicines....but the newspapers...and AOL and other online news....have news that have to be approved by BIF BUSINESS>.who are their sponsers.. If they dont like the news...they dont advertise.So you see, the censors...are the ADvertisers...not the Government....The MEDIA SUCKS and getting worse...but the general publicapproves. How can it be, in a world with billions of people.....more than half of the newspapers are ads and SPORTS? Very little news.
Tonight....Glen and I went to BOBS..to cook him dinner, and cook for the dogs and prepare their food for tomorrow. After dinner....Bob went to the BAthroom, lost his balance and fell down, and banged his head on the wall. It scared the crap out of me, but I left a half hour later...and I really think he is ok. I am trying to get him to hire someone tostay with him for a few weeks....he is so damn stubborn.
Another dismal day..little business, annoying people bargaining....and annoying me...and finally, after a day of huge nothingness....some guy comes in to sellme a used coffee table..It was nothing very special....He thinks it might be 50 years old..who knows or who cares...Marble top,with faded marble legs and a few machine carved flowers....If I was lucky we could sell it for 175-225 after cleaning it up. I offered him 75.00 which was really too much.....but he went balistic....that I was cheating him,,,,,,low balling.....he thought 500 and I could sell it for 1000. I showed him a very nice marble top bombe chest with inlay, and bronze hardware...that was priced 425. I tried to explain this piece is worth three times his table....he continued to bitch and moan. I finally said, its not an antique....and I really dont even need it...and look, you DONT HAVE TO SELL this to me..take it elsewhere if yo think it is so great.....

Happy Cinqco De Mayo,.......

Happy Cinqco De Mayo....in Honor of the French getting their asses kicked in 1862,,,,the Mexicans winning the battle....We had an celebration today...eating Mexican Pizzas....with olives,jalapina peppers,onions, all kinds of cheese......and they used this time, the hottest peppers this side of the Rio Grande. It was a purple pill day for everyone...except Eddie, who added MORE hot sauce....If eddie keeps up the use of his extra hot sauce.....eventully he will have to have his anus relined.....maybe with tile...or glass, which is unreative to hot sauce....
Every day isnt exciting.....every day isnt always filled with drama....and since BUSH is gone, you have noticed, I have laid off politics. I find the present adminsitration is trying their best to first figure out..exactly where we stand as a nation..economically, politically and in the world's eyes. They they have to try to fix things.... They are at least trying....and hopefully they will eventually make things turn around. Our President is a decent and articulate man, who knows a lot about MANY things, as opposed to our last president, who didnt know shit from SHINOLA...and belive me, I wouldnt take the chance to smell his shoes. I cannot poke fun yet at Obama....or the rest of the adminsitration..None of them are evil enough to condemn and make fun of...so my material for jokes...isnt coming from WASHINGTON.
I was so bored today, I bought a bunch of stuff from a woman.....stuff I didnt need....but just the action of buying got me out of my chair, where I was falling asleep. She had a BRASS RAYON OIL LAMP, that head been electrified...with a milk glass shade...2 civil war oval walnut picture frames with needlepoint flowers in it, some kinds of bedspreads..white on white fabric...ancient...a medicine cabinet with a beveled mirror C 1880, some kind of stupid table..made from two differnt tables....glue together and some other crap....
Then I went to cook supper for BOB, whose "cook" took off to go to some event.....There was a package of chopped meat there for a few days. It was time to use it or throw it away... After smelling it to make sure it was still fresh and good. I looked into the cabinet..to see what I could throw into it to make it tasty.
So, there goes the recipe....8 large olives with pimentos chopped in 8 pieces each, two eggs, two cloves of fresh garlic, Worstershire sauce,half of an onion sauted in faux butter, salt and pepper, some chopped fresh parsley. Formed them into burgers and let stand for flavors to mix, while I prepared other things...
Sliced up a can of whole potatoes, sauted them with salt and pepper, fresh garlic and chopped fresh cilantro....sprinkled a bit of sweet paprika while cooking...cooked them untill some were brown and crispy on the outside....
Boiled a bunch of asparagras...drained them. I made a sauce out of a can of celery soup, small jar of cut up pimentios, a hit of garlic powder, a splash or two of worstershire sauce....put in microwave to heat up.....
Can of spinach...drained dry....saute in faux butter and of course chopped onion and garlice....cook until garlic and onion soft.....
Make nests of the spinach and arrange hamburger on top.....put potatoes on one side of the plate and the asparagus on the other..Cover both burgers and aspargus with the celery sauce....

Now nothing here was amazing...yet...it turned out to be a very delicious and quick meal...that I improvised from jsut looking what was in the fridge...the hamburgers tasted very different than regular burgers...especially on the bed of garliced spinach....

Sunday & The rains Came,Childhood Memories Return,&other Nonsense

So the forecast was rain...GREAT...that is when the crowds come to browse and buy. Well, it rained. The crowds didnt come. They were afraid the rains might be toxic, and they might melt. Or whats worse, they might break down and spend money! GOD FORBID!
Well, luckily, we had a "BE BACKER" In business, a be backer is a person who browses and buys nothing and says "OH, I will beback" and you might see them in 40 years, if you are lucky. Most "be backers never ever return..they just evaporate into thin air...I was begining to think, that all the "be backers over my 43 years in business, either were zapped up to "be backer heaven" and kept prisoner their by some "retail spirit", or they all were a fig newton of my Imagination....they really were hallucinations....and all dealers of antiques are familiar with "these be backers"
BUT... low and behold (what ever the hell that expression means) yesterdays be backers were back.....The woman said she would bring her husband...and that she did...and he loved what she loved and they made an early morning purchse of a gorgeous bedroom set. Another "bebacker" soon arrived to pick up a BEDROOM SET she bought last SUNDAY....(I am not sure if she is considered a be backer...becuase she only returned to pick up something she bought.....but her friend who was with her the first time....CAME BACK (that makes the friend a be backer-right? who bought a roll top desk"....so two bebackers and two sales....the day was off to a fabulous start....then two young ladies bought some glassware......and then...IT DROPPED DEAD by 1PM.....until 5, when a regular bought a nice chinese table.... The interim was filled with deadly silence. You could here the rain, playing a tune on our tin roof...it was empty...we could have run naked thru the store for hours and no one would have seen it to call the police for public indecency.... I guess if no one saw it...it wasnt public... or indecent?
Glen and I went to visit BOB at home for the second night. He was more cheerful..and getting stronger every day. He cracked his first joke...since he got sick....
Then GLEN and I went to the NEW FAIRWAY SUPERMARKET IN PARAMUS...They advertise they they are cheaper than any other supermarket anywhere. BULLSHIT. They do have a few bargains. But Chicken is more expensive...and you cant buy rice in the LARGE SIZE..so you have to pay 2.68 a pound for the small box, when its more like 1.66 a pound if the large...so I will assume, that is their game...you cant save by buying in quantity.... The store has a fabulous array of veggies and organic veggies and displayed in such a way.....it is ART. Prices seemed good...... They have a very large and unusual coffee and tea dept....and the aroma if breathetaking....as if the fish department......they had shrimp large enough to power the Queen ELIZABRTH..or at leas harness these shrimp to pull the ship like a tug...The were as long as a dollar bill and very thick..and only 25.00 a pound.
They have the largest selection of OLIVE oil I have sever seen...litterally hundreds of different brands and type of olive oil..in small jars and tins...to barrels...and some are very very expensive...especially those that were hand squeezed by vestil virgins atop of Mount Olympus, while wearing gowns spun from real gold and platimum..well the expenisve ones have a story why they are so expensive..and as rediculous as my story
I got home to find an email of my upcoming 50th annivery of my highschool graduation....my immediate response was that I dont want to go..who cares...then, a sadness set in, and I almost felt like crying....where in hell did 50 years go? What things didnt I accomplish that I set out to do? DID i waste my life? The what is life all about? and my mind becasme w hirlwind of thoughts and emotions....and then it boiled down to wondering how much time is left to fulfill what ever it is that I am supposed to do....and exactly WHAT AM I SUPPOSE TO DO?
tHEN, WHEN I SETTLED DOWN FROM THIS SUDDEN RUSH OF EMOTION AND THOUGHT....I REALIZED... that my own definition (if I would read my own writings) is that the meaning of life (as I proclaim to others) is what ever you want to to mean. And to me, I want it to mean, that I leave the planet a little better than it was when I was born. Now, I am not that egotistical enough to think I can change the entire world (hey you never know?) but make some changes.....touch some people, make some people more educated (as I did as being a teacher) Make some people more sensitive...to the needs of others, the plights of others,,(which in my life time included animals-supporting sog shelters almost singlewhandedly) ......write books on poetry and philosphy....and a NOVEL.....so I guess, I have made some accopmplishments, none of which are earth shattering (yet),but I am working on it.. If my Novel gets published.....look out world.
You see how I can go off on a tangent...back to the 50th reunion of my highschool graduating glass. Clifton High School 1960. 1100 and something kids graduated..... A few of them had their emails sent to me....and there was one, of a GRAMMAR School friend, that I was told died of cancer years ago. His name was Bob Bonamini...we were friends from Kindergarden.......one night, when we were in the 7th or 8th grade, we decided to be very naughty.....I stole a pack of PALL MALL cigarettes...from my mothers drawer... and we went down to the park....NASHPARK..to smoke our first. I didnt know how to smoke, nor had I watched and studied other people how to smoke and inhale.....or even an explanation why people smoked.....nothing made sense....I only did it because...we would be emulating our parents...and to do something forbidden was wonderful and fun filled. After two cigarettes, it tasted like someone crapped in my mouth and I wanted to puke. I was green... Bob and I went back to house.... My mother, somehow new we had her cigarettes and when she saw me, the color of SHREK......she made some funny comment....I admitted taking the cigarettes....she just said that she would have given them to me had I asked....there was never a need to steal anything..She and my DAD were very cook about it...Then they took me to their liquor cabinet.....they asked me if I wanted a drink...I said no. I didnt like the taste of it....in the past at BAR MITZVAHS they always let me taste their drinks..and I didnt like them....so the last lecture of the evening...was that if I wanted to drink ...just ask,, and they will give me what ever I wanted......
So...from that day forth, I never smoked again....I just didnt like it....I had their permission to smoke....and I probably saved 100,000 dollars in cigarettes and myh right lung. And as far as drinking......I drink a little now and then..and when I say a little....very little....
Back to my smoking friend BOB.....Time went on and we went to high school. We moved to the other side of town, and I made didferent friends in the neigborhood....and we drifted apart..we then had different things in common, and lived on opposite side of a large town,and didnt have the same teachers or classes....50 years later, I saw his name...with an email. I thought he had joined out maker long ago....but I just got an email, and unless they have computers in heaven, Bob is alive and well and on a hunting trip in NY State....he emailed me back immediately....so he probably had schlepped his wireless computer inside his tent....life and technology is amazing....
Then, if that wasnt shocking enough, minutes later, I get an email from a college friend...that I havent seen since my days at Fairleigh Dickinson in Rutherford...C 1960-1962,,,,,,and she mentioned named of my other freinds that I havent thought of in all those years....how wonderfully emotional....two people from the distant past in a matter of minutes. FACEBOOK another wild way of finding friends.....
ANd then....let me catch my breath, an employee of over 25 years ago contacts me ,also from FACEBOOK.......3 people fom my past...all good memories...in a matter of minutes... My smile is from ear to ear......

Virgin Mary on Griddle,Elevator Works, Girls cuts foot in store, BOB is home,Business sucks,

The news....Aol NEWs ...prints all the importnat stuff...that if we didnt know ....the lack of such knowledge would be no loss what-so-ever....Todays big news that in a restaurant.....an image that somewhat resembled the outline of the Virgin Mary appeared. The image, compiled of burned fat and food......stretches the imagination...and I am sure, the headlines will bring the Restaurant owner, crowds of demented people, to make a pilgramige to his establisment...and I am sure while they are their...they will fill their stomachs with high caloric non religous yummies......and will consume lots of UNHOLY water.....sodas, coffees, teas, and juices....none of them which was blessed by His Holiness the POPE.
I wonder if the Pope was interviewed, and asked his opinion....what he would say about people seeing Mary...in griddles,trees, tacos, potatoechips, and melted cheese sandwhiches. My opinion, even though I am not a Catholic....I feel that so call sightings is very disrespectful to the MOther Of Jesus. Dont you think an entity...as wonderful and powerful as MAry....wouldnt waste her time, making guest appearances in Cheese Sandwhiches, pancake grills, and potato chips.. I do not hink she would do this..IF anything, she would make a grand appearance in the sky....in cloud formations, in Redwood Forests, and in beautiful natural formations...But logical doenst work with relgious people...they want to belive anything that they can twist and turn ANYTHING that they will think proves their faith....regardless of reality.. I think MARY, if her spirit is alive and well, would be spreading love in others ways.....like healing..and making people learn how to get along with each other......Please give her some credit...she wouldnt waster her time in a sandwhich.

A little girl somehow cut her foot on a step....she must have tripped and banged it on the edge...her father went beserk, blaming us.....saying the step is dangerous.. The landlord 7 years ago welded a piece of iron to each stop so you cant see thru it...(it was iron mesh) all the work in the building was ok'd by the Building Inspector.....The DAD was rally horribly nasty..as we might have puposly done this..and we knew...it was dangerous..Well, we didnt know....that the edges were sharpe.....because there was no need to check, nor did we think to do so, since the work was ok'd by the town. The little girl wasnt crying at all, there was almost no bleeding at all....and she was skipping and hopping minutes later.....But DADDY, was seemingly bent out of shape....(not the mothers) he used phrases like "her leg is all ripped up" which is wasnt...I think he is preparing instantaneously for a law suit..for a cut. I was upset....by his behavior..such over reacting. He said he didnt like my attitude.....(I said that her leg is not ripped up-which is wasnt)

Bob is home....Hooray.. The drama has slowed down...4 weeks ago, I didnt think that BOb would return to his home. I thought he would be called home by his maker.... I had to pray over time...yep, me the atheist...prayed every night for him, My sisters Gall bladder, and Glen;s unknown illnes...flue like.: There is legend that has it, that people who are ill..and people pray for them, somehow have a better chance of recovery.....(I am not sure who did the study of this..but I figured...praying cant hurt...right?) Well regardless why....BOB recovered, and he was minutes or hours from death when he entered the emergency room...(the DR told me this)...and my sister was home and on the Phone a few hours after Gall Bladder surgery.....and Glen is feeling better.....so maybe.....I had an 800 line to the BIG GUY UPSTAIRS...who knows.... I think praying works better when you pray for other people.....and not yourself....why? Because high powers like it that way!!!!!!
Bob is still week and needs some rehab to gets his arms and legs working better....and he is depressed..and that needs some work too...He really suffered...but luckily, he remembers very little.....
There are billions and billions of people on this ferkockta planet....less than 200 people have died from this flue...and if I am not mistaken, that many people die anyway every few weeks from Pneomina and other forms of flu....so how is this miniscule amount of death called PANDEMIC? They are trying to shake us up....and I wonder why?
Well, after a month of being out of Service....our elevator is working again. They fixed it....once, then again, then again, and then again...hopefully...it will work for a long time without having to call up and kvetch to them.... The workment really worked very hard......first problem there were not parts....second problem, when they finally sent the part is was the wrong one, next time when it arrived and installed, it was a defective part....then they waited for another part...then it was installed...but it still didnt work right...both hydraulic jacks....need to be "equalized" to work i unision.....that was done...then it still didnt work right...well, finally....they fixed what ever the last issue was...and AMEN...its working...

Episcopal Mitzvah,I did an auction ,Foodaholic,etc

Today I dontated my time to a group of people holding a chairty auction in RAMSEY at the EPISCOPAL CHURCH. It seems that an auctioneer, who promised to do their auction backed out...at the last minute(probably when his wife told him, there was nothing of value there....the wife was hired to do appraisals.....and of course, these people are not my favorites....but I wont go into that.
The offered to pay me before I accepted...but I refused....I thought that the goodwill that I could generate, would be better...than to charge a few dollars...and why not, do a few good deeds now and then....
They had a little buffet...which included kosher pigs in the blanket, even though,most people are boycotting everything to do with pigs..because of the paranoia of the swine flu.