Day: July 13, 2004

Major League Baseball All-Star Game on right now. What the heck was going on with that top of the first inning? Pitcher Roger Clemens giving up all these runs; his nemesis Mike Piazza catching him, but definitely not making Clemens feeling very comfortable. Crazy stuff that the NY baseball fans/NY media will feed on…

What’s with that annoying “Jeopardy” winner, Ken Jennings? Will he ever finish his never-ending run on the show? How I miss the days back when champions were not allowed to stay on longer than a week.

The passing of Isabel Sanford, best known to tv fans for her role as Louise “Weezie” Jefferson. Salute to a tv icon (I don’t have TV land or other rerun channel, but I spent way too much of the 1980’s watching stuff like the “Jeffersons,” a true sitcom classic. Like, remember the weird Halloween episode where Weezie, George, and the rest of their gang had to stop a murderer? Ah, there goes that theme song: the Jeffersons, livin’ way up in the sky…movin’ on up…).

When is a Chinese wedding not a Chinese wedding? When it’s at Rudolph Valentino’s house at Caffe on the Green in Bayside. Excellent food and fantastic service; I’d go back again — check out the photos. Except for the alleged January bias incident between a group of Chinese women and a group of Family members earlier this year, if you get what I mean. More detail at this website.

On Law & Order SVU episode “Angels”, someone must have been a friend of someone else or won a contest, because in the morgue shot, the coroner introduces the cast to their “forensic odontologist” (a.k.a. the guy that does your post mortem dental work), Dr. Nova Cain. That was really bad, folks.

It was a dark and stormy night…. except for the realization that the Borough of Kings has finally arrived — 24 hour Duane Reed in Downtown Brooklyn! It’s just as expensive as in the city ($1.19 + tax and deposit for a 16 oz. bottle of Coke), but there it is in all of its neon and fluorescent glory on the corner of Fulton and Smith, which is around the block from my house. Actually, there appears to be at least 3 – 24 hour locations in Brooklyn; CVS in the Kings Highway region is also 24 hours. Now at least if I’m in need, I have somewhere to crawl in the middle of the night.