Showing posts with label Hurricane Sandy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hurricane Sandy. Show all posts

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Happy Thanksgiving, and don't drink and drive

A younger cousin and his family living in the so-called eastern seaboard of the US survived Hurricane Sandy and lived to tell the story. He shared this telling picture taken of some other family there. It represents him, I guess, and  in a way our family and other relatives here in the homeland who also survived the last habagat rains. 

Whatever can be said about our families there and here, we know our priorities and at all times, in whatever circumstance, we always, always keep this sense of priorities and our sense of humor and the absurd intact.

Thanks, Cousin Boysie, for sharing this and your thanksgiving message to the world.

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Have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday,  all!
Remember, don’t drink and drive. Absolutely no texting while drinking and driving.
Be prepared! Bring a 4’x8’ plywood platform wherever you go.  Keep it handy. You’ll never know…
Our Hurricane Survival Kit
Toilet Paper........................................check
Bud Light...........................................check
Keystone Ice........................................check
Budweiser....... ..................................check
Red Dog.............................................check
Misc. other bottles of alcohol......................check
Piece of plywood to float your old lady and booze on ....... check
PRICELESS!!!
Have a great Thanksgiving holiday!
Be safe.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

'Eat out, tip big'--Bourdain

As someone who loves to move around and try different things through my sense of taste, I agree with Anthony Bourdain  (do read his Medium Raw for the inside dope on the food industry in the US) on how visitors to and residents in New York City can help the food business there recover, post-Sandy.

Visit this site and read how he makes his pitch for his beloved city: http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2012/11/05/anthony-bourdain-nyc-restaurants-after-sandy/?iid=article_sidebar

Bourdain's is the voice of experience. Before he wrote his mega bestseller Kitchen Confidential and later hosted his own TV shows ("No Reservations" and "24-Hour Layover" which my daughter Kimi and I never tire of enjoying in the TLC Channel), he served as a line cook who suffered burns and deep cuts on his fingers. He wrote in his latest essay, "Restaurant people are good people. They’ve chosen to do a very hard thing, with a very limited statistical probability of ever making any real money: serving food to people.

"They are not just in the 'pleasure business' of making people happy, but in the nurturing business. At the end of the day, the restaurant’s job is to feed people. And that’s something they have done throughout every crisis."

Eerie photo of New York central station grabbed from my daughter Ida's collection of NYC images