January 2010
37 posts
Why yes, watching Jersey Shore does make you a bad...
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Cost Dispute Halts Airlift of Injured Haiti Quake... →
gilmoure:
You stay classy there, U.S.
Maybe we can send them somewhere civilized, like Canada. I hear our northern neighbors don’t profit off their sick citizens.
Meatstravaganza at Stamna, a Greek taverna →
Gigantic platters of meat and seafood speak for themselves. They say, “eat me.” At Stamna in Bloomfield, your protein fix is not only delicious, but a bargain as well. Where else can you get…
playing catch-up →
I missed a lot of movies in 2009 and I’m playing catch-up. Here are some worth seeing: Moon Milky brought this one over; I’d wanted to see it, but he got it first. This is perhaps one of…
keep on truckin' →
Foodies know that truck food is where it’s at. El Imperio is a cart that parks by the Grove Street PATH station in Jersey City at times. They serve tacos and Mexican sandwiches. They do us a…
The Running Man →
“SubZero… now plain zero!!” I love bad Arnold movies. This is miles ahead of Raw Deal but behind Commando. In a prescient future, the government depends on reality shows to…
Ibby's Falafel →
Delicious, creamy hummus; crunchy, light falafel; smooth, rich baba ghanoush. These are the treasures that await you at Ibby’s Falafel in Jersey City, near Grove Street. It’s a small…
They voted for the wrong retard →
What’s Wrong with the ’90s?
For one, Forrest Gump beat Pulp Fiction for best picture of 1994. In that year, as Norm MacDonald put it, Jodie Foster and Tom Hanks were competing for a…
Zuzu Peddles food for thought
“There is a needlepoint sampler on the wall of the Bailey Building and Loan, in George’s office. When there is a run on the bank, before he goes out to address the people, he pauses a moment and looks at the portrait of his father, and under it is a needlepoint sampler that says, ‘All you can take with you is that which you’ve given away.’ Too bad our bankers of today...
one hell of a decade →
When I looked over my IMDb ratings to find my favorite movies of the decade, my first list had 86 entries. I don’t like “top tens” but 86 is a bit much. So these are the movies I found most important…
Sully, remember when I said it was my last post? →
short but sweet →
Here are some short reviews of movies I liked this year, but missed reviewing. District 9 This one lived up to expectations as a surprisingly good science fiction story that incorporated…
Now there's some golden globes. →
Paranormal Activity →
I had high hopes for Paranormal Activity, partly because of all the hype, and partly because when I was a kid, I happened upon a book of demonology and witchcraft that spoke of these…
Worst hot dog I've ever had →
Sonic has been teasing New Jersey for years with commercials, when the nearest one was in Ocean County or Pennsylvania. Now they’re popping up in north Jersey like flies, and sadly most of…
Smash Burger Brothers →
Five Guys, you better watch your back. Smash Brothers are coming to jump on you like a goomba. Smash Burger is a chain that hearkens back to the smashed sliders of classic joints like the White…
Sumo Soup →
MMA fighters agree: chankonabe, otherwise known as “sumo wrestler’s soup,” is good eats. We had some after viewing the Art of the Samurai exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC a…
and the lovely blogs did gyre and gimble in the... →
Ivan over at The United Provinces of Ivanlandia has gifted me with another Major Award! He’s got quite a lovely blog himself, funny and insightful film reviews over there. Go read…
All for One, and One for All →
“I need a bath. I reek of England and Calvinism.” Two of my favorite films of the ’70s are Richard Lester’s films, The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers starring … well, pretty much…
Biscuits & Sausage Gravy →
If you’ve been down South, hopefully you’ve experienced the delight that is biscuits with sausage gravy. When you order it up north, usually is lacking in the sausage. In fact, even Cracker…
1999 was better →
My best of the year in no particular order: 1. Up in the Air 2. Up 3. Watchmen 4. (500) Days of Summer 5. Inglourious Basterds 6. Public Enemies 7. District 9 8. I Love You, Man 9….
long beautiful hair... →
Firecracker took me to see a bunch of naked dirty hippies on Broadway the other night. The revival of 1967’s controversial show Hair is especially prescient now that we’ve finally gotten out of…
Yesterday's Burger →
Yesterday’s is a local bar & grill in Clifton that’s been around for well over 20 years; I’d heard they do a good burger, but never got around to going there. I regret waiting so long-…
it used to grind toilet seats... →
The industrial robot N7331227 has been used to grind toilet seats – repetitively, monotone and precise. Each of them perfect, each of the similar. Now that its working days are over, Illutron equipped the Robot with new attributes, which spot light on the robots limitations as a machine and the humans need of emotional attachment to things.
N7331227 is superior, when it comes to accuracy and...
New York, New York My ASS!
supportskate:
femme-sole:
Listen up, just because you’re from NY doesnt make you the baddest of the litter. Yeah we all know that NY isnt all bright lights and streets paved with gold like Jay and Ms. Keys wanted us to think. We know there is beat down streets and roughed up neighborhoods but guess the fck what…..thats everywhere in the damn world. We here in CALI ooohhh yes I said CALI have...
Up in the Air →
To your dismay, my resolution this year- along with the usual eat less, save more, and try not to explode with anger at the discourteous terminally oblivious jackass that has become my fellow New…
Happy New Year! →
The Apartment is one of my favorite films. Before “Mad Men” it captured the Manhattan office vibe and made the perfect triangle of cad, nice guy and a smart and beautiful woman. Instead of…
