Archives for November 2006
There is a god
For years, we had a recurring dream that we woke up in a supermarket that sold only rice and curry. We’d cook a pot and add the marsala, but just as we put fork to mouth we woke up.
Until last night when we wandered into Kalustyan’s, with more than 20 varieties of rice, from Turkish to basmati to Japanese sticky–we swooned. We bought two kinds–sticky and Thai, plus a big bag of cashews.
For more fun, check out the carryout section [...]
Posted in Food & Fashion, The City on November 27th, 2006 | 
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Flash!
Atlantic Yards project plans two huge, mall-style “temporary” parking lots. Read about it in streetsblog.
Murders spike in NYC by 40%. Read about it on New York 1.
Rate Those Bastards! Want to find a broker who’ll make you rich? Start at Brokerate.com.
Can I get a job here? Google to open new HQ at gigantoid 111 Eighth Avenue. Read about in the Village Voice.
Why are we not surprised. A Long Island money manager (is that close to a hedge-funder?) defrauded elderly investors [...]
Posted in The City on November 25th, 2006 | No Comments »
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Beavis and Butt-head Do Wall Street
RECHARGER WANTS TO KNOW — ARE WE ALL SUCKERS? Can we not tell the difference between an Academy Award and a Nobel Prize in economics? Reading an account of the book When Genius Failed on Underthecounter.com, gets us thinking: could we, with the right canine grooming, a serious suit from Barneys, and a strong bark, make a $2 million Christmas bonus despite having led investors into one of the biggest debacles in financial history?
Take Myron Scholes, half of the [...]
Posted in The City on November 24th, 2006 | No Comments »
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A Dog Needs Karaoke Like A Woman Needs a Man
On a recent night, Recharger made his way to Winnie’s, Chinatown’s leading Karaoke club, downed two Jack Daniels for courage, and, when his song — the Righteous Brothers “You’ve Lost that Loving Feeling” — flashed on the screen, took the stage to deafening applause and belted out the pop classic with such electrice intensity, such explosive climax, such stunning truth, that he and many other young drunks were moved to burning tears. Everyone in the whole wide bar–except Winnie’s [...]
Posted in The City on November 23rd, 2006 | No Comments »
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Donuts vs. Terrorists
When Recharger was a doggy cop, he never pulled his gun, except when they charged him for the donuts. This is why he deeply doubts the police on the Manhattan Bridge will stop a terrorist attach. A terrorist in a van packed with diesel oil and fertilizer can, we imagine, drive unmolested onto the bridge and press a button. At the very least, the bomber would, in a matter of minutes, shut the entire city.
Can someone please explain what these [...]
Posted in The City on November 23rd, 2006 | No Comments »
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Great News: Jeter Loses MVP!
After tolerating the carnage in Iraq, the agony in Darfur, the assasination of Lebanese cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel, Recharger is thrilled to report a glimmer of justice: Yankee captain Derek “you made me drop the ball, A-Rod” Jeter has again lost the MVP award. This makes perfect sense. While Jeter’s numbers are respectable, his puerile behavior towards teammate Alex Rodriguez has been constant–blaming A-Rod for every dropped ball–and his attitude towards fans–having hecklers tossed from the stadium–despicable. Meanwhile the Yanks, [...]
Posted in The City on November 23rd, 2006 | No Comments »
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Why Are We in Iraq?
INSTEAD OF ACCIDENTALLY BOMBING WEDDINGS IN AFGHANISTAN, why can’t the U.S. military accidentally drop a big one on the way-too-long-running Jekyll & Hyde Club? While worthier eateries have fallen victim to high rents and stiff competition, this bastion of tourism lives on. It is not just the tourists and bridge and tunnel gawkers excitedly waiting to enter that annoy us, it is also the, um, theme.
With stunning inspiration, the owners of this shrinking franchise (outlets have gone bust in Chicago [...]
Posted in The City on November 18th, 2006 | No Comments »
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Food from Dumpsters Healthier, Tastier than McDonalds.
Ever since reading Travels with Lisbeth, the memoir by Lars Eighner, an obese college professor who spent three homeless years eating from Dumpsters, Recharger has understood that the poor are fatter. They also have more diabetes, according to a new report from The New York City Coalition Against Hunger. Obesity and diabetes rates are higher in poor neighborhoods because, says the NYCCAH report, instead of fruit and vegetable stands, poor people eat cheap, fried food from fast-food restaurants and bodegas.
Two [...]
Posted in Food & Fashion, The City on November 15th, 2006 | No Comments »
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Flash!
Not a suicide–murder: Actress and Queens native Adrienne Shelly did not, as originally thought, commit suicide. A 5-foot Ecuadorian worker has reportedly confessed to the murder. According to the worker, Diego Pillco, Shelly became enraged over the noise he was making, confronted him, then slapped him. Pillco then punched her. We’re not sure about the sequence of events, and we sure don’t condone violence, but we have to wonder (and, no, we are not blaming the victim), why did Shelly [...]
Posted in The City on November 7th, 2006 | No Comments »
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And donate my Christmas presents to Mike Bloomberg
Recharger has nothing but admiration
for ex-banker Christine Jennings who is running for Congress from Florida’s 13th District. Though Jennings didn’t graduate from college, she rose from bank teller to bank president. Better yet, she’s a democrat running for arch villain-Republicaan Kathleen Harris’s vacated seat.
Still, during an October 25th fundraiser at the posh Fifth Avenue digs of Christine Bacher, Jennings made a bizarre comment to the assembled, including Congressman Charlie Rangel, Congressman Jerry Nadler, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, and Senator Hillary Clinton: [...]
Posted in The City on November 6th, 2006 | No Comments »
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