Carol Channing: Happy 92nd Birthday

Carol Channing performs for Her Majesty The Queen at the 1979 Royal Variety Performance, held at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.

Miss Channing is 92 today!

Carol Channing: Larger than Life documentary film opens in theaters this week...

This Is Too Warm

Temperature at 4pm today in Hell's Kitchen and Vicinity: 61.8 °F

Set the Tone: Control What Goes On Inside

"You cannot always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside."
-- Dr. Wayne Dyer

Who's On First? Starring Mitt and Newt

Night of 100 Stars - Red Shoes

13 minutes long... But worth it!

Thanks to Nicomar for sending....

City Crab With Comments

Had lunch the other day at City Crab.

The one down near Union Square...

All the drizzled sauces look mighty pretty but they mask the delicate crab natural flavor.

Sooo... Next time? I'd order no drizzling...

Also, next time, I'd smuggle in my own saltines.. Gotta have saltines with Maryland Crab cakes...

As for the Maryland Crab Soup? Perfect... Although, it could have arrived steamier...

Gotta say the service was excellent...

A big improvement to my last visit a while back...

TGIF: Sh!t Native New Yorker's Say

Shut Up About That!

One Facebook fracker from high school days posted this week that he's gonna become a grandfather in August... We're the same age, for Chrissakes! Talk about a "Timeline"...

I prefer living in denial.

I've removed all the mirrors in my apartment... And no one can take a photo closer than 20 feet away.

On top of a dear friend dying suddenly last week I'm feeling very near my own expiration date lately...

Maybe its all a sign that I should get my Will together...

Day at a time, folks... Day at a time...

Warm Up Wednesday: Calvin Klein Underwear

Happy National Peanut Butter Day!

Happy National Peanut Butter Day!

Here's five reasons why Peanut Butter is healthy, too!

1. It's Heart Healthy
2. It's High In Potassium, The 'Good' Salt
3. It Keeps You Full To Prevent Weight Gain
4. It's A Cheap Source of Good Calories
5. It Could Keep You Sharp (Peanut butter has about 4.3 milligrams of niacin per two-tablespoon serving, noted for preventing cognitive delay!)

Read the entire article.

Set the Tone: Everything You Want

“Everything you want in life is right outside your comfort zone” 

~ Robert Allen

Reflections on Paul Cadmus

I went out to see the following three events/exhibits (and a few old friends) at the Brooklyn Museum yesterday...

Discussion: "Reflections on Paul Cadmus"

Jon Andersson, longtime partner of Paul Cadmus, whose work is included in the exhibition HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, spoke to scholar and author Philip Eliasoph about Cadmus’s life and work.

Jon recalled meeting Cadmus for the first time in Nantucket and how their relationship developed over the 35 years that they were in partnership.

Afterward I visited the following exhibitions at the museum:

Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties

HIDE/SEEK: Difference in Desire and American Portraiture

(Luigi Lucioni (American, 1900–1988). Paul Cadmus, 1928. Oil on canvas, 16 x 12 1/8 in. (40.6 x 30.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 2007.28)

Caught up with many old friends that were in attendance including: Jon Andersson, Philis Raskind, Sue Renee Bernstein and Eric Stephen Jacobs.

Below is one of the Cadmus drawings of Jon that was discussed in the afternoon interview:

Snowy Saturday Morning

No bigee. A light dusty snow was still falling at 6am when I went out for coffee... The kind that, with a little wind, stings when it hits your face. And it's still dark at this hour. And one of Hell's Kitchen's sidestreets still has their seasonal night lights up... So I snapped this shot with my smartphone... Actually, am posting this to Blogger using apps on my smartphone too. Such is the smartphone on a snowy Saturday morning....

Oppose SOPA and PIPA

Tell your Representatives that you oppose SOPA and PIPA.

Why? SOPA and PIPA would put the burden on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the unnecessary blocking of entire sites. Small sites won't have sufficient resources to defend themselves. Big media companies may seek to cut off funding sources for their foreign competitors, even if copyright isn't being infringed. Foreign sites will be blacklisted, which means they won't show up in major search engines. SOPA and PIPA would build a framework for future restrictions and suppression.

In a world in which politicians regulate the Internet based on the influence of big money, Wikipedia — and sites like it — cannot survive.

Congress says it's trying to protect the rights of copyright owners, but the "cure" that SOPA and PIPA represent is worse than the disease. SOPA and PIPA are not the answer: they would fatally damage the free and open Internet.

Warm Up Wednesday: Jim Palmer

Remember

MLK, Jr.

(January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)

Set the Tone: Say What You Want

"You say potato, I say whatever the hell I want"

-- Darth Vadar, @darthvadar on Twitter

All to the Good

Halfway through the Three Day Weekend...

It's a cold one...

I'm snug inside in a sweatsuit, drinking hot coffee, scented candles fired up, warm music on the Bose Wave.

All to the good...

Just changed my Desktop Theme to Ice Water... Ice and water go together like Astaire and Rogers, cookies and milk, and all the other great teams: beautifully. Each on its own is nice, but together they create something with extra sparkle. Add glamorous images of this all-time great team for free to your Windows 7 desktop.

Clearing off icons...

Need to fire up the iPad they gave me for work...

Pruning more apps on the Android...

And hopefully will hopefully really, really, really make my way to the hardwood surface of my Great Grandfather's Writing table... Through all the tear sheets and paper scraps...

Wish me luck...

Now where's that second coffee that just beeped off in the microwave?

Three Day Weekend Looms

Just one more work day til the Three Day Weekend! (MLK, Jr day)

I'm ready!

Incandescent light bulbs are headed the way of the Dodo Bird... Does that include the colored ones for parties and decoration too?? I guess I better stockpile a few in my favorite colors before it's too late...

Why don't building supers realize when it's warm and humid that you don't have to pump the heat up the same way as if it's 13 degrees and dry? I'm going through Carmex like they are going through heating oil... I need a new tub...

Where does all this paper come from?? It never ceases to amaze... I mean, I'm really very good about paperless options to billing and such... And am pretty damned assertive about halting junk mail! So why is there a never ending pile?

Harry's Shoes had Rockports on sale this week...Good, as I needed a black pair of shoes...

Even the shoebox is nice... A charcoal gray. Firm. With a fitted lid... It stacks nice...

Great for putting all these papers into! So now there's plenty of room for a brand new stack to form!

It never ends...

Warm Up Wednesday: Buster Crabbe

As winter progresses, Postcards from Hell's Kitchen provides another Warm Up Wednesday...

Vintage Pinup Fella: Buster Crabbe. (February 7, 1908 – April 23, 1983.)

Swim star and Flash Gordon actor Buster Crabbe couldn't help becoming a gay icon.

"If the role required it, I guess I'd strip... If you have the body, you do it."
Buster Crabbe - After Dark interview, 1972.

Oh, Buster...

Grom Hot Chocolate

Incredible. Rich. Smooth. Hot. I got the dark. Medium. $5.50. A perfect winter treat. Makes an ideal carrot on a stick to get through a tough winter work day! Fabulous.

As Long As He Needs Me by Judy Garland

Set the Tone: The Main Thing

"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing". 

~ Steven Covey

Thirteenth Day of Christmas

"The initial high of romantic love is not an illusion that inevitably crashes into reality, so much as reality that crashes into an illusion". - Marianne Williamson, said that this morning on Twitter.

Am digging Maoz Vegetarian lately for hearty veggie lunches...

Today is to be so-called *gorgeous" with temps in mid 50's. Knock it down another 20 degrees and I'll agree with the adjective... Personally, I much preferred the seasonal teens earlier in the week.


Jeers to Bouchon Bakery for dropping the Tres Chocolate croissant log thingie from their menu... Idiots!

Julie Halston is currently in rehearsals for her imminent entry into Broadway's Anything Goes!

Sweater vests make one look fat! Like a big Santorum frothy mix of fat... Ew... We wore those fashion debacles way back in the seventies...

New Danny Yoffee photo show opens in Ridgewood this weekend.

"I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you." ~ Andy Rooney


It's the thirteenth day of Christmas... Final Holiday Party of the season is later today... And the Christmas tree has been removed from the lobby of my building...

Congratulations to Brian Blackburn and David Estreich Architects on their new 2012 website design. Most impressive.

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sprayed Olive Oil Pam on dry microwaved popcorn so that the salt and Parmesan adheres to it... Works good.

Hoping Charlie Rose's new puffy CBS Morning News gig doesn't cut into the quality of his cool PBS show... This week's programs included fascinating interviews with Barney Frank and George McGovern.

Have you tried Evernote yet??? I highly recommend it! A great tool for getting organized in the New Year!!

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." - Walter Winchell

Had a great meal recently at Joe's of Avenue U! Their Linguine with White Clam is the finest on the planet... Ditto for their Broccoli Rabe... Thanks to Nicomar for turning me onto that place... I find myself jonesing for it from time to time...

Have a great weekend!

New Daniel Yoffee Photo Exhibit Opens this Weekend

Checkout The Ridgewood News:  Ridgewood's Stable Gallery Hosts Daniel Yoffee's Photography Exhibit... By Eileen La Forgia.

"It was my grandmother’s dream that all of her grandchildren visit Israel," said Daniel Yoffee...
Yoffee, a native of Orangeburg, N.Y. is inviting Jewish organizations from Bergen and Rockland County as well as the community to come to the Stable Gallery and enjoy his journey to Israel.
His interest in photography began as a young teenager capturing Kodak moments with family, friends and pets. He says he was fascinated with a device that created a permanent image that could be shared and appreciated over and over.
"My passion is to share my way of viewing a scene that others may not see."
He took photography classes in high school, college, continuing education and at the International School of Photography, Edward Hopper House, Santa Fe workshops and attended the National Geographic Travel Photography Seminars.During the past year Yoffee’s work has been shown in group shows in White Plains, Teaneck, West Nyack, Manhattan and Tenafly.
He has had solo exhibits at the Pearl River Library and Park Ridge Library.
Yoffee has traveled widely to Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico, across the United States and also on a Mediterranean cruise, always taking photographs.
An artist reception will take place on Jan. 8, from 2 to 4 p.m. The Stable Gallery is located at 259 North Maple Ave. in Ridgewood. "My Journey Through Israel" can be seen Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and by appointment. For more information, call the Ridgewood Recreation office at 201-670-5560.

For more information see DanielYoffee.com and DanielYoffee.Smugmug.com, and the Living Life for Two blog.

Friday

It's Friday, thank you!