Sunday, June 6, 2010
Sad golfer
Waiting at the front door, for the rain to stop. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Fat Dog playing Alice In Chains - Check My Brain on QFM96 Cougar Night
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Friday, June 4, 2010
Richard LaMotta, Chipwich creator, dies
Richard LaMotta, who turned his childhood passion for dunking cookies in milk into the Chipwich - two chocolate chip cookies embracing a chunk of vanilla ice cream dotted with chocolate chips - died Tuesday at his home in Chappaqua, N.Y. He was 67.
The cause was a heart attack, his daughter Kayla said.
On May 1, 1982, Mr. LaMotta dispatched 60 street-cart vendors, each wearing pith helmets and khakis, to the streets of Manhattan to begin selling his 4 1/2-ounce concoction (including 3 1/2 ounces of ice cream) for what at the time was a pricey $1 each. A few hours later, all 25,000 Chipwiches had been gobbled - the start of something big.
Within two weeks, Mr. LaMotta was selling 40,000 a day. By the middle of that summer, the Chipwich plants in Queens, N.Y., and Lodi, N.J., were turning out 200,000 a day. It didn't hurt that Mayor Edward Koch posed for a publicity photo - for no fee - as he bit into a Chipwich.
Soon there were imitators, banking on the legal position that they could make a Chipwich-like product, using similar ingredients, as long as they called it something else; among them were Chilly Chips and Chips 'n' Chips.
"That's the way it works," a competitor told the New York Times. "One guy comes up with a good idea, and everybody rips him off. It's the American way."
Still, Mr. LaMotta did well. By the time he sold his company to Coolbrands International, a Canadian distributor, in 2002, more than a billion Chipwiches had been sold by approximately 3,700 vendors in 36 markets. The brand was eventually bought by Nestle, which stopped making the product because it competed with its own version, Mr. LaMotta said.
Richard Edmund LaMotta was born in Brooklyn on May 20, 1942, one of two children of Joseph and Mary Gibbons LaMotta. His father was a butcher. (His cousin was the middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta.)
Mr. LaMotta's first marriage, to Rosemary Tadlock, ended in divorce. In addition to his daughter Kayla, he is survived by his second wife, the former Elaine Nadel; another daughter, Marika; a son from his first marriage, Thomas; and a granddaughter.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
How To Destroy Angels - Free EP Out Now
Quote from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Destroy_Angels_(band)
How to Destroy Angels is a musical supergroup featuring Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor, his wife Mariqueen Maandig[1][2][3][4] and Atticus Ross.[5] Rob Sheridan is the group's art director.[6][4][7]
The group is named after a 1984 Coil single of the same name.[8][2]
The band's first release, a six-song EP[9][3] was released on June 1, 2010.[10] The band released a track from the album, "A Drowning", as a digital single.[1] A second song, "The Space In Between", debuted as a video on Pitchfork.com on May 14, 2010.[11] The video was directed by Rupert Sanders. Both tracks were released as multitrack audio files.
A third track, "The Believers", was made available through Wired magazine's iPad application, along with a dissection and analysis of the song, and through a free digital download from the official website.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Thunder and lightning in Columbus Ohio with a Tornado warning
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Listening to @leolaporte on iPad, while driving past accident
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