MC Horoscope

Here's a moving clip by a man who ended up for a while in the Bronx, Abraham Bomba. Try to see his entire testimony.

As much as I know I must watch the whole documentary I am not sure I can take it. If the price of the dvd goes to a good cause then it is no obstacle to me. It should be BROADCAST for everyone to see.

He was quite good in the movie Sweet Smell of Success with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis.

Very nice New Years Eve experience! prix fixe. best dishes were tom kha soup with galangal, catfish dumplings, and lime leaf, then the phat gapi pong garee (shrimp, glass noodles, sweet curry). wow the shrimp! wow! this was our first visit and i hope we go back soon. casual, relaxed, good service...really nice

Thanks. Was thinking of this wonderful place that somehow fell off our radar. Now we want to go again.

Yet they wonder where the people who break into homes and steal guns get them from! Thanks for practically arming our criminal class! I bet there are many more instances of criminals successfully stealing guns from homes and vehicles than there are instances of gun owners successfully defending their property.

Wish they had a better Cubano sandwich! Have you had the black beans lately? They were quite tasty Saturday!

I tend to stick with favorites like the oxtail and picadillo, while my wife likes shrimp and salmon dishes.

4 years since a post about this place? the beans went down for a while but now they are back up! The place has expanded space since 2013. Popular place! Get the oxtail! Wow! If there is a better version in the area then let me know! Rum cake and cafe con leche are still great!

I enjoyed IMDB's discussion boards but they were discontinued this year. I understand there was a lot trolling and bickering on discussions about contemporary movies, so they pulled the plug. I never looked at those discussions myself but at the ones on older,  more obscure films, and they were very cordial and informative!

Thanks for the report! A good friend who is pretty gregarious himself told me the natives were SO friendly when he visited.

Did you see this viral video that came out this week? Waiting in the airport for a delayed flight from Toronto to Newfoundland, passing the time?

Their Flight Was Delayed. So, They Broke Out An Accordion And Partied : The Two-Way : NPR

Possible to do some Cape Breton AND Newfoundland on one trip? Sounds like a stretch but we want to look into it.

He wrote Ruby,  Don't Take Your Love to Town, which was actually controversial for the line "It wasn't me who started that old crazy Asian war?"

Since we are in Blue Grass Country I post the performance by Flatt and Scruggs!

Then he was a co-author of this classic done here by Bobby Bare, Detroit City. It's another of those songs you can hardly even believe there was a time BEFORE it came along! Seems it came in the air! Songs like this aren't written so much as discovered.

Got on the waiting list at Restaurant at Patowmack Farm and it came through! Looking forward to it as we've only been there for brunch! Keep in mind for next year!

Can't teach that!

Spoiler alert

I love the scene at the end when she has returned to being princess and she is asked by reporters which city she enjoyed most. She begins to give the standard line "I loved them all" then she catches herself and declares "Rome! Definitely Rome!" Very touching for the reporters who protected her secret.

Yeah, I got this when it came out. I haven't been able to watch it again. Too hard to take.

You are right!

4 hours ago, MC Horoscope said:

We were fond of Blueberry Hill but even more fond of Walkin' to New Orleans, written by my townsman Bobby Charles Guidry (he performed under the name Bobby Charles) of Abbeville, Louisiana. They called it swamp pop but that was just marketing. We were on the prairie growing rice and raising cattle, not living in the swamp or the marsh and catching alligators!

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That's what we call a belly-rubbing song!

Bobby Charles lived as a recluse pretty much because he was so different from our small town people. His brother worked for the parish school board and was my first supervisor in the school system. Bobby Charles had lived in Woodstock when Bob Dylan and the Band were recording there at Big Pink, so when he moved back to the Abbeville area he had frequent visits from Band members Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, et. al.

Bobby Charles' best known song was Walkin' to New Orleans then See You Later Alligator.

Clifton Chenier version, Walking to Louisiana!

We were fond of Blueberry Hill but even more fond of Walkin' to New Orleans, written by my townsman Bobby Charles Guidry (he performed under the name Bobby Charles) of Abbeville, Louisiana. They called it swamp pop but that was just marketing. We were on the prairie growing rice and raising cattle, not living in the swamp or the marsh and catching alligators!

That's what we call a belly-rubbing song!

Bobby Charles lived as a recluse pretty much because he was so different from our small town people. His brother worked for the parish school board and was my first supervisor in the school system. Bobby Charles had lived in Woodstock when Bob Dylan and the Band were recording there at Big Pink, so when he moved back to the Abbeville area he had frequent visits from Band members Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, et. al.

Bobby Charles' best known song was Walkin' to New Orleans then See You Later Alligator.

On 10/26/2017 at 7:44 PM, MC Horoscope said:

I was a Colt .45/Astros fan from the beginning until 2005 when Montreal moved the Expos to DC. I switched my allegiance completely. Not even one NL team and one AL team as some people do. I root for ONE team period. Well this year with the early exit by the Nationals I would not mind seeing Houston win though I am really a NL man so I would not mind if LA won!

Wouldn't you know it? 2005 was the first and only time Houston went to the World Series, which was won by the White Sox in their first championship since before the Black Sox scandal when they threw the World Series to the Reds! It should have been seen as a historic win but it was so overshadowed by Boston's 2004 come from behind defeat of the Yankees and victory over St. Louis Cardinals. It's a shame. The White Sox are just not the national teams that the Red Sox, Yankees, Cubs, and Dodgers are. Houston is certainly not a nationally popular team.

Caught some games at the Astrodome when it was a real novelty! Had a team-autographed  baseball from 1968 til I eventually lost it!

Who could forget the Orange Crush uniforms of the 80?

Rusty Staub, le Grand Orange!

I was a Colt .45/Astros fan from the beginning until 2005 when Montreal moved the Expos to DC. I switched my allegiance completely. Not even one NL team and one AL team as some people do. I root for ONE team period. Well this year with the early exit by the Nationals I would not mind seeing Houston win though I am really a NL man so I would not mind if LA won!

Wouldn't you know it? 2005 was the first and only time Houston went to the World Series, which was won by the White Sox in their first championship since before the Black Sox scandal when they threw the World Series to the Reds! It should have been seen as a historic win but it was so overshadowed by Boston's 2004 come from behind defeat of the Yankees and victory over St. Louis Cardinals. It's a shame. The White Sox are just not the national teams that the Red Sox, Yankees, Cubs, and Dodgers are. Houston is certainly not a nationally popular team.

Caught some games at the Astrodome when it was a real novelty! Had a team-autographed  baseball from 1968 til I eventually lost it!

Who could forget the Orange Crush uniforms of the 80? 

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Rusty Staub (MC Horoscope)

He was in a strange movie co-starring Jane Fonda, Anne Baxter, and Barbara Stanwyck. He was a cowboy of all things hitchhiking with Fonda to New Orleans. But his best was probably Manchurian Candidate. 

For Washington Nationals I nominate Michael A. Taylor! Home runs in consecutive at bats for 7 runs batted in. We should have won Game 5 the way he carried us!

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The 2017 World Series (DaveO)

17 hours ago, Pat said:

Is there a psychological reason they can't have any manager last more than 2 years?  It's kind of crazy. Boswell has an article on how they're going to have a hard time finding anybody better. I would think the frontrunner might be John Farrell, whom the Red Sox dumped because he lost two ALDS in a row. (Or Jayson Werth. I will not give up my dream.)

Jayson Werth would be an interesting choice but in my experience he is too contemptuous of the press to suit the Lerners. (His contempt might even be part of his popularity among the players). Managers need to deal with the press and be more respectful to fans, even the annoying ones like me who critique everything. Actually I am not the back seat driver or second guesser some fans are online!

My overall impression is that neither team deserves to go much farther in the playoffs. That was just so mistake-filled and sloppy. The umpiring was terrible. The strategy (challenging on the very first play and losing?) had my sweet even-tempered wife yelling at the TV. That in itself was a bad sign. Up 4-1, then down by 4 and coming back. And it all could have ended with us winning in a walk off.

The Cubs were terrible. So many errors! We were just a little bit more, as I see it.

Louisiana native here will root for Houston for the rest of the playoffs. Harvey Tough!

Not even reading or following social media on the topic. What was it Rogers Hornsby told a reporter when asked what he does over the winter? "Sit looking out my window and waiting for spring!"

Yes, Inferno is great! We go about once a month. Love his tomato sauce and crust! We also like Pizza CS in Rockville. Has more options for toppings, like gorgonzola! We haven't been to most of the places on his list, but if he says pizza in the area is on the upswing I take his word for it. Would love to try Il Canale and Pupatella!

Lots of memories with this game! I don't often use the term epic so this one was more like sloppy and remarkable! If i were the  second guessing kind I would have gone mad from the first inning on. This one goes down in the annals of DC sports lore as "you got your money's worth."

Glad I was not on that last metro train out of there! No joy in Mudville.