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Bionic Poster
Amazon has a choice way to remind us we have a chance to heal wounds that threaten the life of humanity in the 21st century:
Before the Danish beauty that is now MrsB convinced you to put a ring on it you were forced to put a raincoat on it???Recently went through a big Adidas bag full of barely used tennis shoes, found a pair of Diadora Boris Becker shoes still with some red clay from Denmark in the early or mid 1990s, and there was an unopened pack of Trojans in one of the shoes for reasons unremembered...
I like the last "telling jokes" part, but the mention of the current, unprepossessing Penn Station fills this NY'er with a touch of melancholy at the architectural gem that once was Pennsylvania Station that I never got to see (this when the 'Old Garden' MSGIII was well north of it between 49th & 50th):The current Madison Square Garden is located atop the busy Penn Station railway hub some 10 blocks or so from the original sports venue at Madison Avenue and E. 26th Street.
I was a Dashing Dan commuter on the Long Island RR, who made my way into Manhattan and work five days a week from Port Washington on the North Shore of Long Island. On cold and/or wet days, I subwayed the remaining distance to the office all underground. On nice days, I walked the 12 blocks.
My most memorable night in The Garden was a Queen concert on the "We Are The Champions" tour but I saw quite a few other great acts there and even got to see a couple of NY Rangers hockey games courtesy of a Czech-born coworker with season tickets.
My most memorable moment in Penn Station happened due to a delay in service back out to LI. A platform level bar was packed with stranded Dans and Danielles so I moseyed in and wound up at a table next to a guy telling jokes rather badly. I offered a better funny tale, which agreed with the pseudo audience enough that I was immediately asked for an encore. Forty-five minutes later and several free rounds the better for my time and talent, I made my way to the right platform for the next train out and returned to my usual anonymous persona. I did get a phone number hastily scribbled on a cocktail napkin from a cutie pie Danielle who liked my dirty jokes and smiled like a Billy Joel song character so I didn't remain totally anonymous for long.
God, I wish I had known Sewretch back then...would have made for a career path like Seinfeld or Larry David!
Are they as heavy as Sewretchian balls? If so, she may have retired from the tour to avoid a worn out shoulder from having to hold them up every ninth game???Roland Garros does not use Penn tennis balls.
Maria Kirilenko holds a pair of balls:
Our friend @r2473 went to the Rose Bowl this past January to find a great joint serving delicious dishes of bacon and to cheer his Iowa Hawkeyes to victory over Stanford. I hope he was able to find some bacon so that the trip wasn't totally wasted.The Rose Bowl in Pasadena is a great venue for watching football, though Cal only seems to experience this when they play UCLA in Los Angeles...
And then what happened?...went to canter's (ffax) afterwards for some matzo ball soup. Met the girl from a jeans ad with a partridge family song.
"Galaxy Quest" with Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver and Tony Shalhoub??? Sounds quite the spoof with them playing the cast of an old TV show about space travel but now living off their former fame at mall openings and fan conventions.There was a sciFi parody film with Tim Allen in the Early 2000s. Pretty funny. Saw it with friends in west los angeles and went to canter's (ffax) afterwards for some matzo ball soup. Met the girl from a jeans ad with a partridge family song. Memorable night.
"Galaxy Quest" with Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver and Tony Shalhoub??? Sounds quite the spoof with them playing the cast of an old TV show about space travel but now living off their former fame at mall openings and fan conventions.
Hope the jeans gal encounter led to something interesting in your Hollywood night.
The Dresden Room is relatively nearby, and they filmed scenes for "Swingers" there.Ok...that night at Canter's...then some dive nearby....felt like a scene out of Swingers.
Like the Swiss flag, these two ladies are a big plus!
Like the Swiss flag, these two ladies are a big plus!