Friday, December 30, 2016
O Carnegie Deli Adieu
O Carnegie Deli, Adieu
O Carnegie Deli, Adieu,
we'll see no more of you.
In year when so many noted others have left
New Yorkers will soon become pastrami bereft.
They'll no longer be able to fill their belly
with huge piles of it from the Carnegie Deli
piled incredibly high
within fragrant seeded rye.
So accompany me and shed a big tear
for the heart attack food of yesteryear.
HzL
12/30/16
Carnegie Deli, closing Saturday, serves its last sandwiches in NYC ...
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2 days ago - New Yorkers and tourists are lining up to say goodbye to the Carnegie Deli.
Marian Harper is the owner of the iconic deli. She inherited the restaurant from her father.
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"They know to come here hungry," says Harper. "They love the big portions. My father called it gargantuan sandwiches, he used that name."
The deli's oversized portions and over-the-top attitude made it an essential New York experience.
"The Carnegie is really the New York Jewish deli," says Ted Merwin, professor of history at Dickinson College, and the author of Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli. "It's a symbol for what I call the ethos of excess."
Merwin says restaurants like the Carnegie Deli and its longtime rival, the Stage Deli, played an important role in American Jewish culture.
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Thursday, December 29, 2016
In Olden Days
In olden days I suppose
that there must have been those
who were equally murderous.
More than a few were immortalized in glorious
glow, centuries ago
in iambic by Shakespeare
in full heat,
but I doubt much literary fame will greet
Mr. Sheen's idiotic tweet
of which the full text
follows next:
HzL
12/29/16
PS: And it won't require an encyclopedia
to interpret the ensuing reactions from social media
tweet was shared as the world reacted to the death of Debbie Reynolds
It read: 'Dear God; Trump next, please! Trump next, please! Trump next, please!'
Some social media users vented by urging police to arrest the 51-year-old actor
Others returned his death wish, saying Sheen should be the next celebrity to die
By Gareth Davies For Mailonline
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Charlie Sheen is facing a massive backlash after he took to social media to pray Donald Trump would be the next celebrity to die.
His tweet, which read, 'Dear God; Trump next, please! Trump next, please! Trump next, please! Trump next, please! Trump next, please! Trump next, please!,' was shared just hours after it was announced Debbie Reynolds had died in an apparent reaction to the latest huge name to pass away in 2016.
The post caused fury among mourners of the actress, with users calling him a 'scumbag and a 'useless cockroach'.
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Charlie Sheen attends the Snow Queen Cigar Smoker of the Year awards at Boisdale of Canary Wharf on December 12, 2016 in London, England
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Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Real Estatin in america: More and More
More and More
it's hard to ignore
the increasing cost of rent
to be a resident.
Will things get better with a billionaire as president?
Well, while I don't particularly want to shout it,
but I must say I that I rather doubt it.
So how will young people make a life
and earn enough to support a wife?
Not to mention seek artistic pleasure
or other pursuits requiring leisure.
For while it's bad enough to be poem-less
it would be even worse to be homeless.
HZL
12/27/16
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Monday, December 26, 2016
A Belated Fishy Carol
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Here's wishing you a belated
(pronounced berated)
Merry Christmas.
I think we'll have to take the word of those in Jappropriate Apparel
that this is really a Japanese Xmas Carol
and that the main performer of the Seal Band
isn't just nosing after a small fish in the trainer's hand.
12/26/16
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Saturday, December 24, 2016
An Irish expat's Xmas
‘In 30 degree heat you forget about Christmas jumpers’
Irish people overseas describe how they will celebrate Christmas this year
An Irish expat's Xmas
An Irish expat's Xmas
When it's 30 degrees Centigrade in December
that's Celsius not Fahrenheit,
an Irish Xpat again begins to remember
her childhood Yuletides bright
but now, instead of dashing through snow,
it's to the beach they'll go,
all in their Kombi Van,
according to plan.....
Despite an emotional price,
it's not too bad to miss the ice.
...and here in South Florid-a
this year it's just as torrid-er,
but Season's Greeting y'all,
whether or not you'll need a shawl.
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Dave Dillon, New Zealand: ‘My son can’t understand why Santa has such a big coat’
This will be my tenth southern hemisphere Christmas, but I’m not sure I’ll ever get used to them. Our four-year-old son is just mad for Santa and Christmas, but he’s growing up in New Zealand thinking that Christmas means summer holidays, going to the beach and cricket in the back yard. He doesn’t understand why Santa has such a big coat, or why Christmas stories invariably include snow.
The Kiwis have adapted many of the Christmas fairy tales and songs to suit their climate. We’ve a book called Kiwi Jingle Bells that starts “Dashing to the bay, in a Kombi camper van, Christmas at the beach, the family master plan . . .”
There is a lot to be said for a summer Christmas, though. I’ve established a tradition with the in-laws where we have an annual Christmas cocktail. It’s pretty enjoyable sitting in the hot afternoon sun drinking a mojito, with festive tunes playing and the tree twinkling in the corner. Who wouldn’t rather that to the rain lashing at the window?
But the tree doesn’t quite twinkle enough when the sun doesn’t go down until 9pm. Last year I had some icicle lights around the patio, but my son never saw them because he’s in bed asleep long before they get turned on. The lights are one of the things I miss most. When I see photos of Grafton Street, I get serious pangs of homesickness. And don’t mention the pubs, and the pints, and ‘packages o’ Tayto’.
But we’ve our own family here now, and we’re making our own traditions and memories as our son grows up living a fairly idyllic Kiwi life.
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Friday, December 23, 2016
A SEASONAL THOUGHT ?
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A SEASONAL THOUGHT ?
Oh if there could be less hateful invective
and we could have a sense of perspective:
By an exceedingly rare combination
of proper temperatures, chemicals and gases
life has arisen on earth and given rise to its proliferation
over eons in often overwhelming masses.
To study only some of its intricacies
has required the diligence of brilliant PhD's
working over several centuries.
Yet trying to live in harmony here
is all that is really asked of us:
Without love, Life in our crowded-- yet still lonely-- sphere
has become increasingly dangerous
and, as we all fear,
could even disappear.
MORAL:
Reconciling conflicts, with mutual respect and fun
is easily said, but much harder done.
Friday, December 16, 2016
OUR NEW FIRST FAMILY
Trump's 'first family' approach to governing: How unusual?
American history is full of first sons and daughters who did just about everything. But Donald Trump's situation appears unique. (Christian Science Monitor).
OUR NEW FIRST FAMILY
Human beings are such a complicated lot
it's hard to know just what you've got
after all those genes divide then recombine--
Sometimes it's horrible, others it's fine.
John Quincy Adams is a case in point--
he was admirable yet his brothers stunk up the joint.
It will certainly be interesting to see
what will happen to our new first family--
or, to be correct,
better make that" elect".
Assuming we'll have a future, as well as alsoTV,think of all the shows they're going to see--
some offspring may be admired
while others perhaps "fired"
to reviews that could be either bad or gushin',
depending on whether they're in
English, Chinese or Russian? HzL,
12/16/16
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Smart Toys for Dumb People?
NZE
BEAUTY
Attenti a quei giocattoli smart "Così spiano i vostri bambini"
Attenti a quei giocattoli smart
"Così spiano i vostri bambini"
Foto Sotto accusa due prodotti
La denuncia: raccolgono info
NZE
BEAUTY
Persuaders smart "toys So Spying On Your Children"
Persuaders smart toys
"So Spying On Your Children"
Photo Accused two products
The complaint: collect info
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Nowadays you don't have to be an Italian scholar
to read the newspaper.
Nor do you have spend a hard saved dollar--
Here's the caper:
Press the button
(Premi il bottone)--
and you don't have to take a test
because computers do the rest.
(e non c'è bisogno di fare un test
perché i computer fare il resto.
HZLo, 12/9/16
Monday, December 12, 2016
Welcome to the Universe?
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According to popular astrophysicists
whose outlook seems almost alarmingly cheerful,
if TS Eliot was right in his long term thesis
he should have have drunk at least another beerful
and saved his premature tears.
For while it's true that everything at length will go
it would be billions of years
before he could say," I told you so",
since it will take that long for our sun
to stop turning hydrogen into helium.
Unfortunately,
those once comforting many powers of ten
are being drastically reduced by men
And Mr. Eliot may soon be proven right
in a long and deadly radioactive night.
Welcome to the Universe?
whether a blessing or a curse--
Even though knowledge is progressing,
things just seem to be getting worse.
HzL
12/12/16
THE HOLLOW MEN: TEXT OF THE POEM
BACK NEXT
Mistah Kurtz—he dead.
A penny for the Old Guy
I
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us—if at all—not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.
II
Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.
Let me be no nearer
In death's dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer—
Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom
III
This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.
Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.
IV
The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms
In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river
Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.
V
Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
Sunday, December 11, 2016
The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep
According to
The Daily Mail,
ex-Playboy Hugh
is very frail.
He's no longer,
in their tale,
feeling strong
enough for chasing quail.
So, a year older than me,
at half past ninety
he now thinks it heaven
to be in bed by seven
with only an old movie
for company.
But, he said indignantly,
"I'm still not dead,"
unlike Bacall and Bogie
who'll now sleep forever instead,
though even they can still return electrically.
as we watch their love burn magically.
HzL
12/11/16
He was only watching The Big Sleep — he wasn't actually doing it.
Hugh Hefner has insisted he is not dead.
The 90-year-old responded to internet rumours that quickly spread over the weekend that he had popped his clogs.
No Big Sleep just yet: Hugh Hefner responded to internet rumours he was dead with a very apt movie selection
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He revealed via Twitter that he was actually watching the Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall classic instead, TMZ reported.
He posted a pic of himself alive and well with his 30-year-old wife Crystal, as well as a poster and scene from the 1946 noir thriller, based on the Raymond Chandler novel.
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Thursday, December 8, 2016
Bah Humbug
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Bah Humbug
It should not come as a great surprise
to anyone with discerning eyes
that Ebeneezer
rhymes with geezer--
like me,
you see,
and so with a shrug
I'll thereby agree
to decree:
Bah Humbug
to The Nativity.
For a Virgin birth
is not found on earth
among its so-called higher creatures.
Indeed, they were given other features
with with to propagate--
which there is no need now to enumerate
though they are mainly of two kinds--
at least to those of ordinary minds.
However, if you are unicellular like an amoeba
or perhaps a paramecium
or similar specium--
you may not need romantic fever,
for you could just split--
and that's it.
At least that's the way it looks up here,
though it could be different down in their biosphere--
perhaps they too may suffer derision
if they simply use their right to fission
and are never considered more than halfway great
unless they somehow manage to conjugate--
but I'll leave it to those who know much more about Lilliputia
to accurately determine such minutia
HzL
12/8/16
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
The AI Blues
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The AI Blues
Today I've got the AI Blues,
for no matter what I choose,
something does it better than me
both digitally and automatically--
which leads me to think
I may soon soon go extinct
and then perhaps die
yet no person would cry--
for emotions would be banned
and the music canned
during a Service random
to little fandom
as cerebration
ends in cremation,
or under a plow.
Anyhow,
a Caterpillar tractor
has no soul extractor.
HzL
12/7/16
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Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Humorous Longevity Poems
Humorous Longevity poems
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Humorous Longevity poems
One might think that one's longevity
whether it's of considerable length
or else relative brevity
might well depend on one's strength
both anatomic and economic
but wouldn't be a subject for levity.
But--and it may surprise you --
this isn't true.
So let me choose one or two
and you could make that three or four
or even, perforce, a Haiku
but, of course,
there are many more.
HzL
12/6/16
by Kobayashi Issa
Asked how old he was
Asked how old he was,
the boy in the new kimono
stretched out all five fingers.
by Mother Goose
The Old Woman Under A Hill
There was an old woman
Lived under a hill;
And if she's not gone,
She lives there still.
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Monday, December 5, 2016
Aging and Death
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Aging and Death
As we see our friends and neighbors
aging from day to day,
is it from meaningless cares and labors
that their life dwindles away?
Yet try as we might
to weigh what we do, drink and eat
and measure each delight
against what might longevity defeat
we will eventually enter that portal
because none of us is an immortal
except those
like a Chopin, Mendelssohn or Mozart clever
whose
work was so fine
that they live through art forever
even when dying at less than thirty nine.
As to a Moral I have none--
except to say--
on the way,
please, don't forget to have some fun.
Hzl
12/5/16
Sunday, December 4, 2016
In the good old days...
In the good old days
you'd have been a fool
to ridicule
those who rule
for they were not likely to forget
and had many ways to make you regret.
Even today, China's Xi
JinPing
might not find such hilarity
amusing,
Nor would North Korea's Kim Jong Un
also consider it to be that much fun.
We are fortunate to live in a society
that indulges us such impropriety
but as we satirize
we should also realize
that too often subtleties may get lost in translation*
so perhaps we should be gentler to protect our nation
and give the new guy some benefit of the doubt
before clamoring to throw him out
as some kind of joker or ridiculous slob,
because being President is quite a hard job.
hzl
12/4/16
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*Trump provoque un tweet-clash avec un imitateur
Le président élu américain n'aime pas les parodies d'Alex Baldwin diffusées dans une émission populaire. Samedi soir, il l'a fait savoir. L'intéressé lui a répondu.
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Friday, December 2, 2016
A long distance call to Pakistan
Hello, is that you, Nawaz old boy?
Just talking to you fills me with joy:
In a remarkably candid readout of the phone call, the Pakistani government said Mr. Trump had told Mr. Sharif that he was “a terrific guy” who made him feel as though “I’m talking to a person I have known for long.” He described Pakistanis as “one of the most intelligent people.” When Mr. Sharif invited him to visit Pakistan, the president-elect replied that he would “love to come to a fantastic country, fantastic place of fantastic people.”
The Trump transition office, in its more circumspect readout, said only that Mr. Trump and Mr. Sharif “had a productive conversation about how the United States and Pakistan will have a strong working relationship in the future.” It did not confirm or deny the Pakistani account of Mr. Trump’s remarks.
The breezy tone of the readout left diplomats in Washington slack-jawed, with some initially assuming it was a parody. In particular, they zeroed in on Mr. Trump’s offer to Mr. Sharif “to play any role you want me to play to address and find solutions to the country’s problems.”*
Fantastic, really fantastic and terrif--
That's how I feel about Mr. Nawaz Sharif.
And I know that he's very smart too,
for he's chosen not to be Christian or Jew,
since in his faith and life
it's considered on the up and up
to have more than one wife --
all without a prenup.
Of course, he still has buy them nice dresses
as well as do whatever else impresses--
Did you hear that Ivanka?
Now, please get me a Sanka.
HzL
12/2/16
A Seasonal Tweeting
A Seasonal Tweeting
Rejoice, rejoice,
lift your heart and voice.
For Republicans all over the Land,
the Xmas Season is at hand,
it's time to smile and not be bitter
and wait for Santa's chirps on twitter.
For He's got lots of gifts you will appreciate
as he prepares to make our country great
though let's hope there won't be too many scams
or really terrible traffic jams
because traffic is now bad enough
and Santa's just beginning to strut his stuff.
And just wait until you see me in my new Santa suit
it was all made here tax-free and fits like a beaut.
hzl
12/2/16
Report: Chris Christie looking at becoming GOP chair - Yahoo
https://www.yahoo.com/news/report-chris-christie-looking-at-becoming-...
16 hours ago - Chris Christie, who lost his spot as chairman of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team last month, is reportedly eyeing a new job: ...
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