6.30.2007

HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION

How I Spent My Summer Vacation (1967) (TV)

Robert Wagner is a man who completes compiling a dossier on a mysterious billionaire begins to get the feeling that he is becoming the victim of a conspiracy

One of the first made-for-TV movies


One on the most memorable scenes in the film is when Wagner and the rich man are on a yacht at sea and the rich man is shooting skeet with live pigeons.

The Wagner character is saying quietly, fly away little birdy, but the pigeons - as they are wont to do - circle a few times to get their bearings before flying away. In that time the rich man has much time to shoot them out of the sky.



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6.27.2007

REJECTION NOTE OF THE WEEK

"Thanks for the poems. We will not be using them for (our ezine), but do send them elsewhere. There's nothing about them that reek of works which will go unpublished. Best of luck."

It was nice of them to write.


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6.25.2007

NIGHT SWIM

It's not that you go swimming after dark, it's from the Way Back Machine.

When you were a kid, and you spent the day swimming at a cousin's back yard pool, or a day at the beach in the waves or swimming with the fishies in the lake, you came home sunburned and exhausted.

And all night long you swam and swam in your bed.

Or, so I'm told.

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6.20.2007

ZAMBONI, OUR CHOCOLATE LABRADOR RETRIEVER

Zamboni!

OK, you can stop sending in the emails, here is a current photo of Zamboni, our chocolate Labrador Retriever.

He loves to eat peanut butter, and vaseline, and paper products.

He loves to run around with my shoes.

He loves to have his belly rubbed in the morning. And anytime you've got the time.

He loves to sit under the desk as I type things like this.

His favorite trick is to slam the keyboard tray shut so I have to stop typing and play with him.

Zamboni will be five years old in July.

I'd let him say hello to you, but he has no idea how big he is.

He loves to sit in your lap and rest his head on your lap.

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6.19.2007

CALL IT BREAKFAST

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The coffee/cake vendor near Exchange Place in the morning has been using these airline promotional bags for my two large coffees.

When I walk in the office, someone is bound to ask me if I just flew in on Continental Airlines.

I say, maybe the bag did, but I've been here all along.

BTW, those are healthy, raw carrots in the bag at left! And the Cheerios have yogurt in them, so, they must be good for me, too!

And that cup you see has milk in it because the coffee from downstairs is so HOT HOT HOT!

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6.17.2007

I Met My Father When He Was A Young Man

More than a decade before I was born my dad wrote letters from the South Pacific to his best friend back in Belleville.


Then, long after dad was dead, and the friend past away, those old letters surfaced in a trunk in an attic and that's where I met my father when he was young man.

Already in his 20s, he was one of the older guys on that troop ship chugging through the Panama Canal.

"I always wondered how these things worked," he wrote.

And, of course, he teased his friend at home that even if he told him where he was stationed, his friend couldn't find it on a map!

In August 1942, he was working the artillery supporting the Marines at Guadalcanal. That was when he confided in his friend that he might be home for Christmas.

Little did he or any of the other GIs know it, but it would be years before he got home.

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6.15.2007

OF COURSE, A NEW CAMERA!

Copyright © 2007 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.Speedy Cruise Boat

The latest photos were shot with the Fujifilm FinPix S700. As you can see, this digital camera doesn't lose the action with its lag time. And with a 2.0 GB card, you can cram 1100 quality pictures in one go round!

Photo taken on Flag Day in Jersey City on the Hudson River. Background is lower Manhattan.

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Uncle Tonoose on the Loose in Jersey City

J. Owen Grundy Park Pier

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6.08.2007

Death Is Philadelphia - AARP

I guess if anybody would know, it's the folks at AARP The Magazine.
The group's July & August 2007 issue has a story on Things To Know By 50.


Number 42 is How To Stay Married.

This article in "the world's largest circulation magazine" instructs poets to "pretend your relationship (marriage) is a road trip. Your wedding was the Holland Tunnel. Your life is the New Jersey Turnpike. Death is Philadelpia. Pretend there are no exits, only rest stops."

I've actually been to Philadelphia and I don't think it's that bad.

The Holland Tunnel a wedding. Wow. I know I'll never make it as a poet now.


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6.04.2007

COSTCO FATHER'S DAY: Quiken WillMaker Plus

It seemed a bit incongruous to me, but then what is Father's Day about besides getting the old man something he wouldn't spend his own money on.


Why do you think so many ties are given on Father's Day. It's like a fruitcake.

So here is the ecatalog from Costco.com and they are offering Free Shipping on the Quicken® WillMaker Plus 2007 Software by Nolo for $34.99 Item # 195411.

Gift card - saying remember me when you fill this out, Dad - sold separately.


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6.01.2007

A Niggardly Priced Wop Burger

Finally, you can buy a niggardly priced wop burger. Thank God for the Blue Parrot in Louisville, Colo., wherever that is.

I've been waiting fifty years for a niggardly priced wop burger and now I can visit some hillbilly town in Colorado and eat niggardly priced wop burgers to my heart's content.

What, you may ask, goes into a niggardly priced wop burger? Well, if you break down the name, it should be obvious.

niggardly - means stingy, or well priced for the money

priced - means what you pay for what you get

wop - means, what? It's an acronym.
Wetbacks on Ponies?
Women on Prednizone?
Wild on Patagonia
With Out Papers?

burger - that's a character in most every 18th Centurty English novel.
or a patty made from the carcass of a dead cow.

So, now that you know what a niggardly priced wop burger is, and where you can get it, you can check out Louisville, Colorado, and order up your own niggardly priced wop burger.

Does that come with a wetback salad and omerta desserta?


Wopburger--"If you were born in New York or some place maybe a wop was derogatory, but not here," said Bob Bush. "We love being wops."

Restaurant To Keep Burger Name With Ethnic Slur
Wopburger Sparks Controversy
At Family-Owned Italian Restaurant


POSTED: 11:30 am CDT May 23, 2007

LOUISVILLE, Colo. -- There's a controversy brewing in Colorado over the name of a burger at a family-owned Italian restaurant.

Survey: Change Burger Name?

The Blue Parrot in Louisville has a burger on its menu called the "Wopburger." To some, the name has a negative connotation, but to others, it's no big deal.

The Blue Parrot owners, Joe Colacci and Joan Riggins, said since the restaurant opened in 1919, it has never had a controversy quite like this. However, despite the controversy, they said the name of the burger is going to stay.

An Italian American customer argued that the name "Wopburger" was offensive and is an ethnic slur, while others said the complaints are political correctness gone too far.

"He was giving my grandson a hard time about this Wopburger," Colacci said. "He said, 'you have to take this off the menu.'"

According to Dictionary.com, the term "wop" comes from the word "guappo" meaning "swagger or pimp."

The owners said they considered changing the burger's name, but their customers told them not to.

"All over the country people have called -- I've been on a Baltimore radio station -- and they have all been very supportive," Riggins said.

Because of the controversy, the owners said the Wopburger has become one of the most popular dishes on the menu.

"If you were born in New York or some place maybe a wop was derogatory, but not here," said customer Bob Bush. "We love being wops."

"It's just a wopper. It's just a sandwich," said Riggins. "If I out and called you 'a dirty wop,' then that would be a slur. That would be a problem."


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