Ralph Macchio is 42 today



Ok, kiddies, if that didn't make you feel old, how about this? My redhead and I took a lovely stroll near the water yesterday and stopped in a deli to get some water. We stood there completely astonished when we came across an actual package of Jiffy Pop popcorn in the foil container. You know, the one you had to shake and wiggle over a stove top? I swear I could almost hear my knees and back creak like Hagatha the old Strega right then and there. We walked away and promised we'd take our geritol together. Yeessh...



And please, I beg of you, if you're in NYC, please vote NO on referendum 3 today. This question is a thinly veiled plot to not only destroy the two-party system we have in place, but it will guarantee that those with loads of money will win elections again and again. Do we want more Bloombergs? I sure as hell don't. I also don't want any Ahhnolds, either. Republicans want to change the rules instead of changing the problems if it doesn't suit them. This is bratty bullshit. They know damn well they can buy their influence and power. The problem is not an ideological difference between the two party electoral process, it's the fact that mothers can't find daycare. The middle class is sliding into poverty and will soon be dead. The poor are worth something, why can't the schools teach this very fact? Gentrification is destroying not only mom-and-pop stores, it's wrecking the livelihood of older residents who cannot afford $4,000 per month rents. People make neighborhoods, NOT condos. There isn't enough parking as it is, why knock down houses that were foreclosed to build ugly brickfests with shitty windows so five more Lexxus's can cram in? Let someone else move to this house and have a lawn, a garage, a rose garden in their front yard. These are the problems, not the fact that these fuckheads want all the power and glory. Bloomberg's doing a good job? In a pig's ass he is.



Rise up, people! Your vote counts. Polls are open until 9 pm. Remember: it's not who votes that counts, it's those who DON'T vote that counts. Scary indeed.