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Friday, February 12, 2010

BRONX BOMBSHELLS

News from around the Yankees' home borough...

HOT PARTY: A Bronx restaurant hosted a Super Bowl party, during the Super Bowl!
The place to be on Super Bowl Sunday was at Tosca Cafe, 4038 East Tremont Ave in the Bronx, featuring a decadent free buffet of hot pretzels, popcorn, Miami Cuban sandwiches, fried yuca and wings. The waitresses & bartenders of Tosca enhanced the atmosphere by dressing in one of the Superbowl Team Colors and naming themselves the T-Birdies.
COLD OLDIES: There's so much snow, old people would rather starve at home than go out in that shit!
“They’re not shoveling at the corners, so you basically have to swim,” [a senior who wished to remain anonymous] said, adding, “And those motorists! They never slow down for people. We get drowned!
DUMB COPS: A man in custody for beating his girlfriend and assaulting a police officer escaped by pretending to be some other dude!
Yesterday morning he managed to convince court officials at East 161st Street that he was a different detainee, one held on a lesser charge, and they let him go... He's 22, about six feet tall, 180 pounds, with black hair, brown eyes, and tattoos of a red scorpion holding a heart with letters on the left side of his neck, and a star on the right side.
• MY GIRL: Sung by the funny and charming Bronx Subway Singer:

5 comments:

Geddy Lee said...

That guy can slap the bass!

Anonymous said...

I have seen the guy in concert many times. It only costs $2.25!

Anonymous said...

What happened to the countdown? I'm jonesing for the Master.

el duque said...

It's too early for the countdown.

Plus, we need one that looks more like a real baseball game clock.

dadlak said...

One of Rickey Henderson's lesser-known talents.