http://theblogcabin.com/homebase/bapar Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:37:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last Friday, I roved over to The Terrace Club on Route 6N in Mahopac to catch Class Action, a popular Yorktown rock 'n' roll cover band fronted by Gary Cusano, a lawyer by day and fierce rocker by night. Gary and Company have been very generous and kind to our ... http://theblogcabin.com/homebase/bapar/2010/03/10/156/ I'm working out in gym Monday night, iPod plugged firmly in ears, as ever.  I take occasional peer at bank of TVs to see on Snooze 12 a clip of skit from Saturday Night Live, then next thing I know, on screen is Peekskill Mayor Mary Foster. What the ---?! ... http://theblogcabin.com/homebase/bapar/2010/03/09/snl-kills-with-peeks-kill-gag/ Last week was not a good one for my lofty claim that I write a daily blog. Posted Tuesday, then not again until past midnight Thursday, then skipped the weekend altogether. Clearly, I gotta get this blog thing down pat. Speaking of Richard Nixon, my pal and ... http://theblogcabin.com/homebase/bapar/2010/03/08/nix-on-nixing-nixon/ I've heard tell that people get contact lenses so they don't have wear to glasses all the time, thus dispensing with all those old, lame jokes about "Four Eyes," which nobody ever really hears anymore anyhow, but we're talking here about seeing, not hearing. Well, I'm not those people. I'm people ... http://theblogcabin.com/homebase/bapar/2010/03/05/how-i-went-from-4-eyes-to-10-eyes-in-one-uneasy-lesson/ There is a page elsewhere in this blogosphere of mine titled "It's Enough to Make You Sixty."It's enough to make you sixty to decide a decade past your half-century mark that contact lenses might be a good idea. I acquired eye lamination for the first time in my life yesterday, ... http://theblogcabin.com/homebase/bapar/2010/03/02/its-enough-to-make-you-sixty/ [A photo gallery of the William Gerstenzang Brunch at Murphy's Grill on Feb. 28 hosted by Yorktown Republican Town Committee can be viewed at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=148732&id=178555436935&saved#!/NCNLocal"> The Yorktown Republican Town Committee is a collegial bunch that always is reaching out to let people like me know what they are up ... http://theblogcabin.com/homebase/bapar/2010/03/01/an-honorable-brunch/ Up at 7:20. Clock flashing 2:35. We lost power, my powers of deductive reasoning tell me. We regained power, ditto the deduction, kiddo. Yippee. Out bedroom window. Wow, it's weally white out there, wifey. Wifey: "Yes, I know, you wuss, where were YOU at 6:00a when you shoulda been shoveling ... http://theblogcabin.com/homebase/bapar/2010/02/26/the-incredible-whiteness-of-snowing/ To no one's surprise in medialand, there was a rash of emails flooding our inboxes today that started with the fateful phrase, "Due to inclement weather ...  is cancelled." Except for one such email that stood out -- for the wrong reason.  In fact, it almost caused Grammar Geek to gag ... http://theblogcabin.com/homebase/bapar/2010/02/25/weather-wimps/ [TO SEE NCNLOCAL-TV VIDEOS OF ALL SIX PERFORMANCES BY FINALISTS VANESSA RACCIOPPO AND MARYANN RENZA, GO TO http://www.facebook.com/NCNLocal] There were no losers Tuesday night (23) at Augie's Prime Cut Restaurant and Bar in the Mohegan Lake hamlet of Yorktown. (One of the myriad beauties of life in Yorktown is ... http://theblogcabin.com/homebase/bapar/2010/02/24/147/ [For the prequel to this blog entry, see Oh, MOMA! Part I posted Feb. 21, 2010] When we checked Museum of Modern Art's website Friday in anticipation of visiting the venue the following day, we were crestfallen to find the popular Tim Burton exhibit sold out. [Note from Grammar Geek: there is no ... http://theblogcabin.com/homebase/bapar/2010/02/22/oh-moma-part-ii/