Off the record, on the QT in WHB, and very hush-hush…
...being the second1 in what is furiously hoped will be a lengthy series of entries in the "Used and Useful" series.
During the "economic downturn" which none of the past three Presidents have been able to turn around, with more and more commercial properties in the Village lying fallow, it's grand to see signs of life in demised premises. More...
The New York Knickerbockers made official this evening what I had forecast on Wednesday, bowing
106-99 to the Indiana Pacers
losing their NBA semi-final conference series in six games.
Not that the Knicks didn't have help... there was More...
...to April 8, 1973 and a modest dinner party we were hosting for a pair of playoff games with the NHL New York Rangers and the NBA New York Knicks taking on, respectively, the Boston Bruins and the Baltimore Bullets.
Both pairings were between arch rivals, and as both were being televised I carefully set up the house's two 17-inch black & white TVs in the dining room so that we and our guests could follow the action while we ate. More...
...her enterprise and the father bursts with pride!
Conceived, created and a reality! Go Pegs, go!
Knew it a week ago last night right after their sole win (so far) in the second round playoff series against the Indiana Pacers, the one in which the Knicks went on a 36-4 2nd half run to win, 105-79.
My buddy Marty called when the game ended... we'll speak four or five times during the game... and talk about how the team we've been following since they played some of their games in the 69th Regiment Armory had finally awoken from their lethargy. More...
This is a subject I probably shouldn't be writing about, but it is a compelling one on so many different levels.
Angelina Jolie reveals she had preventive double mastectomy after discovering cancer gene
News of the 37-year old Oscar-winning actress' personal decision after learning that she was carrying the brac1 gene, suggests a variety of sub-head addenda, from the snappy... More...
...proprietrix Sandy Patterson, genial Rob Sheldon and the entire Post Stop Café crew as the lights at 144 Main Street were again lit this weekend, and once more there was a warm bar to belly up to, and some of our favorite victuals.
And this is where Jeanne chose to dine for Mothers' Day to enjoy something she's been craving all Winter long: the house specialty Cranberry Turkeyburger. More...
A month ago there was grave doubt as to whether the Detroit Red Wings were going to extend their North American professional sports team record of 21 consecutive seasons making it into the playoffs.
But they won their final four regular season National Hockey League games... two by shut-outs... and somehow finished seventh, and the opportunity to take on the team with the third best record in the NHL. More...
Rats! And rats again!
If that name is not immediately recognizable, older-timers should recognize the name "Traute" and the slender young fräulein who rode an "English" bicycle around the Village when the standard model velocipede was the heavier-framed "American" model like the Shelby Flyer, Monarch Holiday or Indian Model 1937. More...
(Striving mightily to keep OtBB PG rated!)
Smith fined $5,000 for Game 1 flop
(This is the play in question.)
I've hated "Flopping" since the Philadelphia Flyers (in the National Hockey League it's called "Diving") forward Bill Barber would wind up face first on the ice if anyone was within five feet of him anytime he had the puck and was headed into the offensive end. More...
...or, how I was schooled by Deputy Mayor Hank Tucker in front of a good-sized number of attendees at this evening's monthly Westhampton Beach Board Meeting.
It was awful! Since I was the one who rose to the lectern and posed the questions, I was obliged to stand and listen to him, and his two cohorts, Patricia DiBenedetto and Junior Palmer, explain their version of what they've been doing in service to the taxpayers over the past 11 months. More...
...as I drove down Sunset Avenue just now and saw that the late, much lamented National's store had an open door, it occurred to me that something positive might be happening at that premises, that maybe, just maybe, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company might finally be following through on their plan to do a thorough overhaul of the Waldbaum's not-so-super market next door, and even expand into that sadly vacated space. More...
...is very upset with me... distraught might be le mot juste... over an OtBB entry from 14 months ago; she actually telephoned me to suggest... no!, plead for a dispensation of Orwellean proportions.
(My suspicion is that this is a gal not used to hearing the word "no" from members of my gender.)
The item which has caused her such distress was from February 17, 2012, entitled "Adrienne Supino's airhead moment," and therein, it seems, is the rub. More...
Both of these photos were taken three minutes apart, one long block from one another on Montauk Highway.
Regular unleaded, pumped by an attendant, is More...
...especially when it's all about adopting cunning little puppies and kittens!
Which is exactly what was going on at Westhampton Pet yesterday afternoon when Jeanne dragged me up there to retrieve some wooden shipping pallets which Frank Bickley let's her have for her gardening requirements.
Held by the local animal welfare and rescue group More...
...two minutes and two seconds of thoroughbed horse racing surrounded by demi-celebrities... led by that über-weenie Bob Costas... in rapidly foundering peacock-land?
The most annoying trapping of the two-hour telecast was the omnipresence of the unfamiliar "yum!" logo... I mean it was everywhere!... on the jumpers of the track-walkers, floating in the corner of the television screen, the viewer couldn't escape it! More...
Knicks 88; Celtics 80.
This was a game of fits and spurts, ebbs and flows the likes of which I've never quite experienced!
During the extraordinary fourth quarter, I think I spent all but four minutes of it holding my throbbing temples or with my head in a waste basket trying not to hurl my dinner!
I'm too old for this... I can't handle the tension anymore!
...Neener neener neener!
Lindsay Lohan Flies To California, Breaks Rehab Plea Deal
A quick trip into the OtBB not-so-wayback-machine of less than a month ago:
"[T]his... promulgated locally by "Patch" an hour ago... will, like 90% of the "news" related to the Lohan family, prove untrue!"
No special powers here... this was a no-brainer! And our little Village escapes another media freak show.
Just what I wanted to hear from the Knicks J.R. Smith!
J.R. Smith: Series should be over
"Oh yeah, it would've been over. I'd have been playing golf today."
Smith, the swingman who'd taken a Flagrant Foul 2 in last Friday's Game 3 in Boston which resulted in a one game suspension, is of the belief that the New Yorkers would have swept the Celtics if he had been playing in Sunday's Game 4.
J.R., the next thing I want to hear from you is when you can say "Whew! Glad that one's over after my screw-up!"
Ms. Molinaro, we hardly knew ya, but Westhampton Beach's loss certainly is East Hampton's gain, and after the ridiculous antics you survived during your all too brief tenure here, 11937 should seem like a sunny week at the beach.
And with your years already here, Mrs. Lindtvit, there shouldn't be any surprises. I'm confident that your eyes were open wide when you made your decision.
Good luck, ladies! All the best!
...but it still doesn't absolve the New York Jets from immediately climbing to the very pinnacle of "Professional Sports Teams that Institutionally Stink!"
Here's why:
Tim Tebow waived by New York Jets after one season
I've no idea of how good a pro quarterback Tebow More...
Recent New York Newsday headline:
LIRR: 'Cannonball' run straight from Penn to Hamptons
(This is what passes for "clever" with their headline writers of today.)
The question is why wasn't this done decades ago?
I mean the "Cannonball" actually began life as an express train operating between Long Island City and Southampton 120 years ago, so the concept isn't entirely new. More...
Still, we had'em sweatin' the whole second half! If 'Melo just makes those free throws near the end of the 4th Quarter!
But as John McCabe... no, not Dr. John McCabe!... was fond of reminding folks throughout "McCabe & Mrs. Miller:"
"If a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his ass so much...."
Just so!
Now I know I hexed the Knicks!
Jeanne and I just got off a plane at Islip/Mac only to learn is that this year's Sixth Man Award-winner, J.R. Smith, the Knicks' number two scorer so far in the play-offs, is watching Game #4 in street clothes, having been suspended for a Flagrant Foul (2) in Friday's game. More...
Ray Overton, do not read this!
If the Knicks... our New York Knicks... decide to become the first team in the history of the National Basketball Association to lose a series in which they had been leading three games to none, I don't want you coming to my house with a carload of pressure cookers stuffed with kerosene and fertilizer because you think I put a jinx on their playoff series with the Boston Celtics by posting this before a clincher! More...
...and a night's solid sleep, I re-read Southampton Press correspondent Erin McKinley's coverage of the public portion of Wednesday evening's Special Meeting, and one quote in particular jumped out at me.
"We had worked on this resolution and discussed it two meetings ago and got some input from everybody. I'd like to see this happen considering that in a couple of days we are going to be with someone new, and we have always had someone to come and train the new person—or assist the new person—and work with them. And that is why I feel it is necessary." More...
Westhampton Beach Board Hires Former Clerk To Train New Clerk
"......Village Board members voted in favor of rehiring retired Village Clerk Kathy McGinnis to train new a new and as yet unnamed village clerk/treasurer...."
For the second time in a week, this was done as More...
Can't say what number last evening's "SportsNation" was in a series of mis-fires for "The Worldwide Leader In Sports," but it was downright painful to watch as the final two minutes of the telecast reveals.
(I just stumbled on it while seeking the Red Wings-Kings telecast, so all I saw was the very end.)
Revealing the results of an on-line viewers poll for who should be on the package cover for the 25th anniversary edition of Madden NFL for Xbox 360 and PS3 video game consoles, it demonstrated conclusively that ESPN should stick to what it does best: reporting sports scores, televising actual sporting contests, and creating fake More...
...in truth, I'd like to see anything happen in this particular location!
New Mediterranean Restaurant Could Open In Westhampton Beach
It would be a great boon to the downtown area on several counts. More...
...carpetbagger alert! If you found a glossy magazine in your mailbox lately and didn't immediately toss the sucker because of the large "Westhampton Life" across the cover, beware!
It has about as much to do with "Westhampton" or "life" in our area as "Harper's Bazaar" does with open air markets in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia... or, for that matter, bucks locking antlers on Aspatuck Road. More...
