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TEXT SLANG for Baby Boomers -Thursday’s Top Ten

August 12, 2011 by pbenjay

In the New Yorker this week,  William Sorensen wrote an article titled “Text Slang for Baby Boomers“.  Gail (thank you dear friend and blog supporter) sent it to me just in time for my Thursday’s Top Ten.  Being a Baby Boomer myself and a “texter” I was anxious to read it.  So if you receive a text from me with some NEW text abbreviations, you might refer to this list.  Here are my top ten picks:

  1. WWIS – What was I saying?
  2. IV-NV – My kid is going to a big name college, neighbors are jealous.
  3. 3dickPM – Read three detective novels this afternoon.
  4. WILMA – Lost my keys
  5. X2EZ – crossword puzzle too easy
  6. 80/20 -wife doing more and more of the talking.
  7. NPR – sleep aid, no prescription required
  8. TN2WMP – Trying not to wet my pants.
  9. PNP – peeing in pants
  10. {——-} – another funeral today, can’t play poker, bridge/Scrabble

    oh my god, laugh out loud, talk to you later

    OMG

 

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Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, Orly files AGAIN!!

August 10, 2011 by pbenjay

I was rooting around for a conspiracy theory tonight on the internet and look what I found!  A site that proclaims to be the be all end all place to go to read about Obama Conspiracy theories, in fact the title of the blog is Obama Conspiracy Theories.

Gotta give credit where credit is due and this blog has a great post about the latest lawsuit initiated by none other than Orly Taitz and what is she suing and pursuing?  Why she wants to see a certified copy of Obama’s birth certificate.  And I thought this half -ass, half-baked theory had been laid to rest.  Guess the major newspapers are not delivered in Moldova.  Well there’s no reason for me to reconstruct this information, I’m going to re-post it here.

Queen Birther, Lady Liberty or bat-**** crazy, Orly Taitz (pictured right) can still draw a crowd.

Her antics yesterday in Hawaii generated enough traffic at The Fogbow to take the site down, as well as spawn some brief outages here at Obama Conspiracy Theories. The number of visits here doubled from the day before, and what is more significant, “new visitors” achieved pre-long form levels of 50% of total traffic.

Local Honolulu TV station KHON2 even gave a short mention of Taitz on its web site under the “most popular story” section. The station quotes Taitz:

We were able to get to the bottom of Watergate and it’s time to get to the bottom of Obama forgery-gate, or Obama fraud-gate – it’s time,

and Hawaii Deputy Attorney General Jill Nagamine from a letter:

You are seeking disclosure of privileged or other protected matter, and there is no exception that applies to allow disclosure to you.

Visit Dr. Conspiracy at http://www.obamaconspiracy.org/

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A BLACK WASP! Is that an Oxymoron???

August 10, 2011 by pbenjay

Well not really because he isn’t even black after all.  The little creature in question is actually a purple blue iridescent.  Murray has been out and about and ventured to Roosevelt Island which really is an island off the island of Manhattan.  He came across some great gardens and took fabulous photos of yellow jackets, flowers, bees, hornets and wasps.  Today we are all about the Great Black Wasp aka Sphex Pensylvanicus.

The great black wasp lives across most of North America, the larvae feed on living insects that the female paralyzes and brings to the underground nest.  Wicked huh? Why is always the female that does the dirty work and makes sure everyone is fed??  The following is from Wikipedia:

Adult females of S. pensylvanicus build an underground nest which they provision with various orthopteran insects,[6] particularly of the genera Microcentrum, Amblycorypha and Scudderia.[3] Prey are stung three times, once in the neck and twice in the thorax, and are paralyzed by the wasp’s sting, although they can survive for weeks.[1] The prey are then carried to the nest. While collecting their prey, the females are vulnerable to kleptoparasitism, in which birds, including the house sparrow (Passer domesticus) and the gray catbird (Dumetella carolinensis), steal the prey that the wasp has collected.[6]

As you can see, Mother Nature has provided a food chain for all God’s little creatures – I wonder who eats the wasp?

great black wasp, sphex pensylvanicus

LOOK at this tiny little creature!!!!

Roosevelt Island, sphex pensylvanicus, great black wasp

"Pollinating is my life"

sphex pensylvanicus, great black wasp

Hanging On With One Leg

great black wasp

Look closely to see the wasp in action

sphex pensylvanicus

Great profile!

great black wasp

"And now a little from this flower"

The Great Black Wasp

All photos are courtesy of Murray Head

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Gazpacho or This is WHY I LOVE JERSEY TOMATOES

August 9, 2011 by pbenjay

Tomato

Luscious Jersey Tomato

I think I have to do a blog post to pay homage to the Jersey Tomato, one of God‘s blessings on the Garden State.  But not tonight because I’m too tired to think creatively and clearly.  However, I made Gazpacho Sunday night, a dish that is truly a celebration of the fruits of the summer. Tomatoes are the main ingredient and I used some of the best beefsteak tomatoes Jersey has to offer.

And there’s a back story to the Gazpacho recipe.  A few years ago there was a health food store on Third Avenue that made the BEST Gazpacho ever! I would call them from work and ask that they put aside some for me. Once I even served it as a first course at a dinner party! And I would also bring some to New Jersey to give to my friend, Jane.  I never made Gazpacho before so I did some serious research and read several recipes until I found one I that sounded like what I remembered the store’s version to be.  I was RIGHT!!  I’m happy to share it with all of you.  It is easy to make;  the only real work is the prepping of the veggies.

6 tomatoes, cored, peeled and chopped

1 red or green bell pepper, seeded and chopped

1 purple onion, diced

1-2 cloves garlic, minced

2 stalks of celery, chopped

1 cucumber, peeled, seeded and chopped

1/2 cup olive oil

1/2 cup red wine vinegar

2 TBS fresh parsley, chopped

2 TBS chopped chives

2 TBS lemon juice

2 tsp sugar

4 cups of tomato juice

1 tsp Worceshire sauce

6 drops of Tabasco sauce

Combine all ingredients in food processor.  Refrigerate overnight so flavors can meld.

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Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words-Thursday’s Top 10

August 7, 2011 by pbenjay

Last week, I published 10 A words and am thinking I’ll just cruise through the alphabet.  So stick around and check back, hopefully I’ll get back to keeping this list thing going for Thursdays.  Pretty funny since it’s now 12:29am Sunday morning.

  1. Baggywrinkle  – a frayed out rope used on ship rigging to prevent chafing.
  2. Barmecide – a false benefactor.
  3. Backberand – a thief caught with the goods.
  4. Bauchle –  an old shoe or one with worn heels.
  5. Bandoline – a smelly hair goo made from boiled quince pips.
  6. Bedswerver – an unfaithful spouse.
  7. Billingsgate –   coarse or abusive talk.
  8. Bonnyclabber – coagulated, sour milk.
  9. Bradyyarthria – slow talking.
  10. Breastsummer – a beam or girder set over an opening, as a doorway

Unusual? Definitely, Obscure? Of course, Preposterous? Ay-yeh

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President Obama WANTS Medicare to Go Bankrupt!!!

August 3, 2011 by pbenjay

Official photo of Congresswoman Michele Bachma...

Michele Bachmann

CONSPIRACY THEORY WEDNESDAY

Did you think I had abandoned this subject?  Seems so, I know, but I think it’s just that the flux of conspiracy theories had subsided somewhat.  But not for long…. Michele Bachmann, the erudite congresswoman from Minnesota came up with a doozy in June.  I have been remiss by not bringing this up sooner, sorry about that!

Maybe my timing is perfect, now that for at least the moment, the country isn’t going bankrupt.  No thanks to the Tea Party Republicans, that lunatic fringe group which has engulfed the Republican party.

Michele, a wannabe candidate for the Presidency (oh my dear God!) delivered the following diatribe accusing President Obama of secretly wishing Medicare would go bankrupt because then retirees would be forced to choose Obamacare.

“This hasn’t been talked about very much – the president’s plan for senior citizens is Obamacare,” Ms. Bachmann told party activists here. She added, “I think very likely what the president intends is that Medicare will go broke and ultimately that answer will be Obamacare for senior citizens.”

Are you f_____g kidding me?  I thought Sarah was one of the dumbest women ever to speak in public, shame on the Republicans for allowing her to make a mockery of a campaign for the Vice-Presidency AND now this idiot – HOW did she ever get elected???  You know the old adage, “if you haven’t got anything nice to say, don’t say anything”?  Well Michele should take this to heart and insert the word intelligent for nice.  With that montra, she would’t be able to speak for quite some time. Amen to that!

Steve Benen of the Washington Monthly said the following about Bachmann: “Bachmann’s principal problem is that she combines the worst of two important traits: she’s strikingly ignorant about public policy and she’s paranoid to the point of delusion.”

I literally can’t write anymore about her, she is an affront to my intelligence and that of my readers.

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A One Night Stand on Fifth Avenue

August 3, 2011 by pbenjay

I’m not sayin’ that peacocks are easy or amoral but although he spent the night, he left right after breakfast.  Oh wait, he never got breakfast, maybe that’s why he left!

Central Park is lovely place and one would think that if you lived there and someone fed you every day and let you roam around, you wouldn’t want to leave…BUT yesterday, one of the zoo’s peacocks literally flew the coop!  Some people didn’t know peacocks can fly but they can, God didn’t give them wings just so they could put their head under them.

Perched on a narrow ledge of a 5th floor apartment at 833 Fifth Avenue, the peacock spent about 20 hours attracting hundreds of New Yorkers, aka gawkers. 

Tonight on the news, there were photos shown of the wayward peacock returning home.  Well, he was almost home because for some reason, he missed the aviary and landed in the goat’s pen.

Fifth Ave, Central Park, New York city

Proud Peacock

Photo by Murray Head

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Six Word Memoir Monday – Late AGAIN!

August 3, 2011 by pbenjay

Keyhole Sand Dollar (Mellita quinquiesperforata)

Sand Dollar

I think it’s because it’s summer.  You know those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.  My brain must be on vacation, I’m not able to keep on schedule.  However, I don’t receive any irate emails asking me why I have abandoned the Six Word Memoir Project, and this week I received only one reader contribution – SOOOOOoooo I’m thinking it’s like everyone else is on vacation too!

Thanks to Gail, we have the following:

Hot Town Summer in the City – Gail

Searching the shore for sand dollars – Me

Kitchen heat, I am lobster meat – Me

In spite of lack of reader response, I shall endeavor to go forward –  now doesn’t that sound lofty?  And try to stay on track.

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WHY are New Yorkers So Fascinated By Pale Male???

July 31, 2011 by pbenjay

Who knows, and quite frankly, who cares?  Certainly not I!!! I’m not interested in why fors or whatevers – I think my personal fascination comes from a deep appreciation of all wildlife, flora and fauna.

There have been numerous articles about New Yorkers and the life and well-being of Pale Male and his former mate, Lola.  We all have heard the story of the building’s maintenance crew destroying the nest of the two Red Tail hawks, invoking the wrath and retribution of thousands led in a crusade by Mary Tyler Moore!  Rallies were held, committees were formed, newspaper articles written, and all the usual Big Apple hoo-ha you can imagine.   FINALLY the nest was re-installed but it was not quite right;  rumor has it that a spike from the pole it sat on was poking through, ugh, but who really knows.  The upshot of that was several years of failed mating- no eggs or at least no survivors, a shame.  A universal or at least City-wide mantle of guilt and shame lay on the shoulders of the citizens.  Man had interfered with nature and now look what we did!

But that was then, and this is now.  Lola is gone! She disappeared from the nest; old age? death? illness? Whatever, she was gone.  Pale Male still the stud hawk he has always been found himself a new young mate (the trophy wife) and this season they produced two eggs that were studiously watched over by both parents and onlookers, not to mention the obsessive bird-cam addicts online.  And lo and behold, two fine young Red Tail hawks were born and are now growing youngsters.

Here’s a peek at these two fine young Red Tail Hawks.  If they have been named, I’m unaware as of yet.  There’s a striking resemblance to their parents, one looking like Ginger and one in the image of Pale Male;  however, for all I know they’re both males or both females – time will tell.

red tail hawk, Pale Male offspring, Ginger offspring, Central Park,

The Kids!

red tail hawk, Pale Male offspring, Central Park,

Is This A Chip Off The Old Block?

Does She Look Like Ginger?

red tail hawk

Yippee!!

red tail hawk, New York City

A Beautiful Bird

Central Park, Pale Mail offspring, New York city

Feet First Landing

red tail hawk

Nice Mani-Pedi

All photos courtesy of Murray Head

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10 Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words

July 28, 2011 by pbenjay

THURSDAY’S TOP TEN

I have found a book, well rather Peter had this book squirreled away in the archives of our apartment and when I saw it I knew immediately it was a great source for blog posts.  I think I’ll go through the alphabet; so here are 10 crazy-who-ever-heard-of-these words!

  1. abbey-lubber:  a lazy monk pretending to be ascetic; any loafer.
  2. abscotchalater:  one in hiding from the police (slang).
  3. absquatulate:  to leave hurriedly, suddenly, or secretly
  4. abuccinate:  to proclaim, like a fanfare
  5. abrosia:  fasting.
  6. abulic:  pertaining to a lack of will power; also aboulic
  7. abligurition:  extravagance in cooking and serving.
  8. abigeus:  a cattle rustler.
  9. abbozzo:  a rough draft or sketch.
  10. abacinate:  to blind by putting a red-hot copper basin near the eyes.

Now, I mean really, did you know any of those words?  OMG we only touched on the A’s as far as “ab” , can you see how far we can go with this???

Leonard Da Vinci Abbozzo

A Leonardo Da Vinci Abbozzo

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