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...who should be watching this one East of the Canal with great interest?

Southampton Village Supermarket Law Takes a Pummeling, May See Revisions

While developers Bob Gianos and Andrew Mendelson will be clocking this one like hawks, the Westhampton Beach Village Board needn't concern themselves since a formal application has yet to be received.

...of television shows, but I'm what my cousin Charlie calls "a pussycat" compared to The New York Times' Neil Genzlinger in his review of "All Star Dealers."

The new series debuting this evening at 8:00 pm on the Discovery Channel, has a local connection, but whether it's Westhampton or Westhampton Beach is unclear. More...

The East End Eruv Association seem to have suffered enough of the gum-flapping and foolish posturing of Marvin Tenzer and engaged the services of high profile Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf.

The principal of Sheinkopf Communications lists among his clients past and present Bill Clinton and Eliot Spitzer, and has been a registered lobbyist for numerous unions (Team­sters Local 237, various AFSCME chapters) plus corpor­ate entities like the New York Yankees, Verizon and More...

...of a 2011-2012 networks TV season which which has already seen the cancellation of "Charlie’s Angels," "The Playboy Club," "Man Up!" and "Allen Gregory," NBC telecast the final two episodes of "Prime Suspect" last evening in a slot against the nail-biting end of the Giants-49ers game.

Clearly this was done because the suits at 30 Rock would only risk something they'd already deemed moribund against Fox's telecast of the NFC Championship More...

...to our friend Susan Johnson O'Rourke who was stricken on the New London Ferry en route to Vermont on Saturday.

Susan has served as Secretary to the Westhampton Beach Zoning Board of Appeals and Planning Board for the past several years.

Amid hours of conflicting reports of his condition following a two month battle with lung cancer, legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno has succumbed.

The encomia will be widespread for the rest of this week, and most will cough discreetly and avoid focusing on the sexual abuse matter one of his long-time coaches involved him in, but I will remember the bons mots he delivered during the final days of the Nixon Administration. More...

...but O for the love of Red Holzman, it's become impossible to watch the New York Knicks brand of professional basketball this season!

After more than a decade of ineptitude both in the front office and on the court, the Knicks began showing signs of turning it around when they signed free agent Power Forward Amar'e Stoudemire before the start of last season, and dropped him into a roster full of prom­ising young players. More...

...but why are you there at all, on network NBC in "Prime Time" Wednesdays?

Jeanne and I enjoy the late night "Chelsea Lately," cablecast on E!, from which I timeshift the 2:00 am edition.

(My wife loves anything with "rude humor," and of neces­sity I contrive to sit next to someone else when we go to a comedy club, 'cause she does carry on!) More...

Sparsely attended mid-month meeting... the usual media types, and concerned residents (my fellow Ethics Commit­tee member Carol Matthews) and of course ex-Trustee Joan Levan with her psychic knitting needles.

Village Clerk Rebecca Molinaro reported that reinburse­ments of approximately $48,000 have been received from FEMA toward the just over $55,000 expense incurred due to "Hurricane Irene" at the end of last August. More...

Updated 01/17/2012 – 01:16 pm

...when I watched last evening's edition of "Hawaii Five-0" as CBS turned the clock back more than 50 years.

(Yeah, I know I said I'd given up on the series last Fall, but for want of other boob tubery, I tuned in.)

Most people today won't recall the time when advertising agencies owned and produced the shows that More...

I've followed the cable Showtime series "Californication" since it debuted August 13, 2007.

Lead character Hank Moody, an alcoholic priapic writer, is played by "The X-Files" alum David Duchovny as if it were his second skin, and was endlessly fascinating to watch. More...

Those "screen-crowding distractions of huge robotic figures" on the Fox NFL telecasts was discussed here six weeks ago.

Just now the network hit a new low with those moronic animations when they began the 4:30 pm Giants-Packers game with their introductory graphics followed by ten seconds of the damn'd robots.

Then we had the briefest glimpse of a B1 Lancer bomber just after its over-flight of Lambeau Field for the end of the National Anthem.

Fox, you still have fatheads in your control booth!

...as in really screws the pooch with:

Video: Polar Bear Plunge In Westhampton Beach

...with the lead:

"Westhampton Beach Trustee Sue Farrell led More...

From the online edition of The Wall Street Journal:

"Earlier this year, 23% of 680,000 doctors surveyed by market research firm SK&A said they refused to even see drug reps."

It would be extremely useful to know how many of those ±156,400 principled physicians are in the 119xx, or even 117xx, Zip Code that I might look into using them.

It was, as the old Harold Tucker Webster1 newspaper cartoon panel used to say, "The thrill that comes one in a lifetime."

When I was laid up in an Army post hospital for a time in the late '40s, my regular companion was a little red Montgomery Ward radio... AM only, of course... on which I listened to whatever was available. More...

...a less exciting BCS title game than the one just completed between Alabama and LSU, won by the Crimson Tide, 21-0!

The previously undefeated Tigers, who had handed 'Bama its sole loss, 9-6 in overtime, on November 5th, were out-coached and out-played from the opening kick-off. More...

...and I have no idea what to make of it, with "it" being the Google Alert for "Westhampton Beach" which arrived this morning.

I'm not familiar with Sweet Andy’s Cookies, but I recall that Andy Terry had made an application for a bakery there, so my best guess is that "136 Riverhead Road" is the site of the former Mexican Hut. More...

For unexplained reasons, the first meeting of 2012 started late and ended at 7:44 pm, so wasn't all that long consid­ering that the Holiday Lighting Contest Award-winners were to receive their plaques and monetary prizes.

It was over even faster since only one of the recipients showed up, my neighbor at 220 Main Street, and at the end of the evening, there were plaques and envelopes upclaimed at the front of the room. More...

...make my case for who really should have won the 2010 Oscar for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role" last February, and why.

I've never made any secret of the "who" part: Jennifer Lawrence, so sublime in "Winter's Bone" as the 17-year-old Ozark Mountains woman, quietly and desperately struggling to keep what's left of her immediate family together! More...

...here's hopin' I won't miss ya!

At this very moment, Cablevision channels 146, 408 and 719 Versus (née Outdoor Life Net­work in 1995), have evolved into NBC Sports... and I'm hoping against hope that this will be a good thing. More...

...Charles Palmer, who had been in poor health for a number of years, passed away yesterday. Condolences to his widow Carol and the entire Palmer family.

Visitation with be 2:00-4:00 pm and 7:00-9:00 pm January 2nd at Follett & Werner Funeral Home, with a Mass at Immaculate Conception on Quiogue, 11:00 am January 3rd.

I'm not even sure how this little video crossed OtBB's radar, but when I played it, I was, you guessed it, "totally charmed!"

I'm only vaguely aware of either Zooey Deschanel or Joseph Gordon-Levitt who, following a little research at the world's greatest Website, I discover have both just entered their 30s and have an impressive list of film and television credits. More...

...the "city of Westhampton Beach," starting with, of course, the startling and sudden upgrade in its municipal status.

And if one were to trust the accompanying map, while Gary Vegliante was otherwise engaged, crafty ol' Con Teller annexed the entirety of West Hampton{sic} Dunes!

The link was thoughtfully provided by Google Alerts, and you'd be amazed (and sometimes appalled) at what that service turns up on any given subject you might specify.

...in the Summers, this was how the Texas-born, Kansas-educated young woman appeared in a family portrait during her late teens.

She began her celebrated entertainment career as a dancer and during the Roaring '20s wound up at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway before the cameras of Hollywood beckoned. More...

...can you come off looking any less like airheads than in this latest Patch item?

Internet Talk Show Host 'Occupies' Waldbaums{sic}

I mean, really! More...

...as it pertains to Westhampton Beach, is now available, indexed, on the Village's Website.

It's a reasonably thorough documentation, from the eruv chatzerot as originally proposed in early 2008, to what ap­pears to be the most recent version. More...

Or, as the cliché popularized by Al Pacino in the (dreadful) movie of the same name goes: "On any given Sunday...."

On paper... as always, it's "on paper..." the smart money was on the undefeated Packers and against the winless Colts. More...

Being a follow-up to yesterday's OtBB entry....

Premature expectation...

...of the Cow Palace Butcher Shop being open for business today! It ain't! More...

Where to start... where to start?

Let's stay local with suddenly high-profile Webcastrix Lisa Fox and her plan, announced on her 'Net show last evening, to "occupy Waldbaum's."

"I will be on the sidewalk, protesting." More...