Set the Tone: Let it Go

“Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.” - Will Smith

Set the Tone: Take Risks

"Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing". — Leo Buscaglia

I'm a Clay Brained Gudgeon

"You're stupid and you're stupid and he's stupid and she's stupid! Those people over there are stupid! These people over here are stupid!" - Travis LeBlanc as TravLeBlanc on Twitter.

I went to my Republican Uncle's FB page to find one thing to comment on or to like... Sarah Palin for President to anti-Obama?: Nada! Wow. I wrote Happy Father's Day and ran outta there...

Samsung Galaxy 3S is smokin' since I tinkered in those settings that I tweeted at about 4AM... Yeah, I was up that early... Nuts!  

Timothy Burton's Dark Shadows DVD is available on Amazon for $5.99... Got mine. Meantime, I'm re-watching the 1960's Jonathan Frid series an episode a time on Hulu Plus.

Got a huge bunch of fresh kale for $2.50 at the Greenmarket at 57th and 9th Ave yesterday. Had a huge kale salad for lunch, and have enough Kale left for many more meals.

 "Resilience is one of the most valuable characteristics you can develop in life." - Russell Simmons

I'm a Clay-Brained Gudgeon... What are YOU? See Shakespearean Insults.

“The humor of New York is brilliant. Brilliant.” - Elaine Stritch

Clinton Community Garden 2013

First morning run to Clinton Community Garden. Was so early, it hadn't been unpadlocked yet... interesting angle from the other side of the fence...

TGIF: Step Back Into 1986

A pop culture nostalgia trip to the year 1986.

Check em all out at: remembervideos.blogspot.com

Set the Tone: The Best of the Way

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way
things turn out". - John Wooden

Opening Number of Tony Awards: Brillaint

The First Week in June 2013

“Identity is something that you are constantly earning. It is a process that you must be active in.”  - Joss Whedon.

Coolish today after a coolish and wet week. Read the weekend New York Times in my local Hell's Kitchen park late this afternoon. The drunk homeless dudes throwing broken boom boxes and screaming expletives were notably absent there today. Hm. Temperature check: At Noon, it was 73 degrees at Central Park.

First tropical storm of Atlantic hurricane season, named Andrea, formed this week over the Gulf of Mexico. Here we go...

The cool little cicadas' NYC visit won't happen in 2013 after all. The perils of a generic Gmail address.

Joan Rivers is 80 today! Jerry Stiller is 86! Rest in Peace, Esther Williams, 1921-2013 

I don't like the new changes to the Gmail Android app... Trying to look and act like Facebook. Why can't we all just get along?... I like email to feel like email... In other news... Google releases a keyboard that seems to be a direct ripoff of the great Swype keyboard app... In Gmail Android App, I'd like to go down the line and check blocks to archive and delete a few emails at once. Looks like its gotta be one at a time? Although I can swipe each listing aside to archive it... Prolly should just do that... How to turn on and off contact images in the new Gmail.

Had to go into settings and re-set silence as default on my Facebook phone notifications. It was set that way before, but devious Facebook snuck in a change to my settings in the last update. Pinterest took similar liberties with their last upgrade. Stop it, all of you!  

Jon Stewart weighed in on Citi Bike: "The idea of New Yorkers sharing anything other than STDs is wackadoo" Thanks to the New York Post.

The RCN Internet service is great... Download Speed 50.90 Mbps. Upload Speed 5.85 Mbps with RCN Corp. Grade A. Faster than 86% of the USA.


"For the record, the Government has been reviewing my phone and internet for years and I'm only suspect of posting too much about my cats". - Todd Sokolove said that.

Everything's Archie? Archie, Reggie and Jughead Headed to the big screen? According to The Daily Beast.

"Not only is my short term memory horrible, but so is my short term memory." - Bill Murray

And Now a Word from Our Sponsors...

Cheerios... Isn't this inter-racial TV commercial great? Makes me wanna buy Cheerios...

Set the Tone: Do a Little

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little". — Edmund Burke

New York: Summer of 1939 in Color

From Romano-Archives. Filmed in 16mm Kodachrome by Jean Vivier, a French tourist, it captures street scenes and city views from New York in the summer of 1939.

Hot Thursday

Gonna be 90 today... Even higher tomorrow... Here we go... Damn, if I don't have some pretty screwy insane circadian rhythms lately... I must see Behind the Candelabra soon. How to master mindfulness at work. Will hit 20,000 tweets soon on ToddHellsKitch Twitter page. can you believe this nonsense?? ... I gotta go to work... Have a good day...

Quote: Sky's the Limit

"Don't put a ceiling on yourself". - Oprah Winfrey

A Few of My Thoughts This Week

"My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them". -- Mitch Hedberg

 It's been ten years since Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired her final episode?? Ten?!?!

Speaking of years... What year do you guess this photo was taken of Times Square. I don't know the answer. Just wondering.

I may need to put a sign on my apartment door that reads: "This is NOT the elevator"  

Shuler Hensley and Julie Halston star in Ferenc Molnár's "The Guardsman" dir by Gregory Mosher at The Kennedy Center.

Congrats to Diatribes And Ovations blog on their 100,000 milestone this past week.

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates

Stop Puppy Mills... It Starts with You  

Anthony Weiner wil burgemeester NY worden...Just sayin.

The GrowNYC station is open at Hell's Kitchen Greenmarket 57th/9th for your green kitchen scraps for composting!

"I've had great success being a total idiot." - Jerry Lewis

Greens, greens, greens at Greenmarket at 57th and 9th Avenue.

Support Joe the produce guy: Bok Choy, Brocc Rabe, Collards, radishes, and more...

They say that Demi Moore's boyfriend has a pearl in his dick. I must confess I sometimes find myself wondering about Ashton Kutcher's dick.

"Just do good, and we'll find a meeting point" - Pope Francis, on atheists, this past week.

Just remembered my childhood neighbors once had a cat named Nicodemus

"Boy Scouts Again Deny Harvey Fierstein the Opportunity to Be a Scout Leader." Said Mr Words Worth

Unusually cool Memorial Day Weekend. This makes me happy.

Weiner for Mayor

What do you think?

Blogging Updates

Fell asleep at 7pm last night. Up at 3:30am. The early morning hours give me some time to do some good things... while still full of energy... Evenings are completely drained of people-pleasing energy from the j-o-b combined with the summer heat...

"It's not the work, it's the stairs" once said the retiring prostitute to Elaine Stritch's father.. But I digress...

Here on Postcards: I removed the old "referrer widget" and abolished all "The Rings" including the Rail and the Ageless Rings which served no purpose in this day and age (that I could detect)... These thingies probably sent some spambots my way... lol... Nicomar can let me know if this alleviates his malware alerts... (anyone else getting malware alerts? If so, tell me the details so I can pinpoint the faulty code)

Should I be annoyed that Flickr dishonestly took my money two short months ago for a two year Pro Account while plotting to open up the entire Flickr service for free?

Yahoo is buying Tumblr for a Billion bucks... Reminds me that I used to have a Tumblr: http://toddster.tumblr.com/ started in 2008 when it was all new!

So why did I drop the Tumblr and stick with the Blogger? I dunno...

Really, Twitter is the most rewarding in so many ways... https://twitter.com/toddhellskitch

And Facebook plods on...  Though I fear it will soon crash into MySpace oblivion... It feels too Republican to me on there...

Now MySpace... that's one I never even bothered with...

Friendster? Remember Friendster?

God, I'm old...

The Magic Number for Today is...

4

Set the Tone: Appreciate

"When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have".  
- Stephen Hawking

Sunday in Late May Round Up

Spring cleaning.... Scrub those floors, tote that bucket, lift that couch. Great day for Spring Cleaning... Been at it a couple hours since early morning already... And most of yesterday... Not that there's any cool blue sky sunshine beckoning me to drop the wash rag.

Do you need a Spinal Meningitis vaccine?

Don't forget: At Roseland: 16th Annual NYC Tattoo Convention features tattoo artists from around the world Sun 12N-8p... Doesn't look like I'm gonna make it this year...

Disappointed at Ninth Ave Food Festival this year. Uncle Nick's didn't even bother to set up shop on the avenue this year. No calamari, no pig on spit, no ouzo garden. Tradition lost... If you want to see plenty of the same ol, same ol Street Fair Vendors, come to Ninth Avenue Food Fest... Used to be a fine chance to sample ethnic foods from all the Ninth Ave small ethnic restaurants of the 1970s, 80s, and 90's. All a samey plethora of beer and sports bars now... Yawn.

These poor Men of Broadway can't even afford shirts. Join me in pitying them.

Another insane week on tap... My year at work as been unrelenting in pressure... And late May is no exception... Promises to keep me going at full throttle skidding into the end of the fiscal year...

Three day weekend for Memorial Day to be especially appreciated this year...

Day at a time....

The 40th Annual Ninth Avenue International Food Festival

 

 The 40th Annual Ninth Avenue International Food Festival. Saturday and Sunday May 18th & 19th 2013 12:00 noon - 5:00 PM 9th Avenue 42nd - 57th Streets Rain or Shine!! A New York City tradition you can't miss! Every Spring, The Ninth Avenue International Food Festival welcomes guests who gather to celebrate New York City's most prosperous and diverse food culture and cuisine against the picturesque backdrop of Legendary Times Square. Experience the delightful taste of various cuisines from different countries: Poland, Italy, Spain, Greece, Japan, Thailand and many others. Games and fun activities for the children. There will be live stage entertainment of international music and dance at 55th Street on Saturday May 18th & Sunday May 19th. NO ENTRANCE FEE! Sponsored by Ninth Avenue Merchants Association.

Great Old New York City Photos

Check out New York 1971 Color

And also check out  New York 1971 Black and White.

Thanks to Jeremiah's Vanishing New York for bring these two above by The Gentle Giant to our attention!

Also, here's Chinatown photos from before you were born...

Set the Tone: Great Things

"You don't have to pray to attract great things, because great things are attracted to you already. Pray that you won't throw them away once they get here". - Marianne Williamson