They should make a movie with Rick Moranis.
via Times Online
Hosted by the NY Food Museum and the Lower East Side Business Improvement District, the Eighth Annual International Pickle Day takes place this Sunday on Orchard Street, rain or brine. Pickled things play a storied part in the last 400 years of Manhattan history, beginning when the island was “home to the world’s largest pickle industry” in the 17th century, and pickle barrels grew on trees.
Local talent at this year’s festival includes LES pickle stalwart Guss’, as well as the Big Three half-sour upstarts: Wheelhouse, Rick’s Picks, and McClure’s. Hauling mason jars from upstate is the exceptional Grey Mouse Farm; from Long Island comes newcomer Horman’s Best. Also making their debut is the collective of “young Jewish farmers” from Adamah, whose offerings include kosher kimchi. Roni-Sue’s chocolates will be on hand with a treat whose name contains two words that probably shouldn’t be placed together: “Pickle Truffle.”
In addition to tons of free pickles and pickle paraphernalia, this year’s festival also features canning demos, a “pickle science” event, and the space agey-sounding “multimedia tent for online pickle research.” Miscellaneous entertainment includes Shakespeare in the Park(ing lot), starting at 3 pm; the Festival provides free valet parking for bicycles all day. Lines are notoriously long, so get there early.
Sunday (September 14th) // 11 a.m-4:30 p.m. // Orchard Street (btw. Broome and Grand) // Free
During the 17th century in England, someone urinated in a jar, added nail clippings, hair and pins, and buried it upside-down in Greenwich, where it was recently unearthed and identified by scientists as being the world's most complete known "witch bottle."
"I would've made a good pope."
---Richard Nixon
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"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."
---Thomas Jefferson
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"I like men who behave like men---strong and childish."
---Francoise Sagan
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"When we got into office the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were."
---John F. Kennedy
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"I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket."
---Lyndon Johnson
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"You've got to be careful when quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it's called mudslinging."
---Walter Mondale
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"The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How's the President?'"
---Will Rogers
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"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."
---Plato
"Plato was a bore."
---Frederick Nitzsche
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."
---Leo Tolstoy
… buildings collapse all the time, right? So here's the spooky part. What movie is slated to film in front of this building later this week?
Hint: The movie has already racked up two freak accidents in the past week, a car crash on 7th and 50th that injured 8 and another in Times Square that struck 2 pedestrians and a Sbarro. Plus: A dry cleaners went up in flames on the same corner in Park Slope where this movie was being filmed.
In 1979 Kramer filed patents for his newly conceived Digital Audio Player, the IXI. The player was the size of a credit card with a small LCD screen and navigation and volume buttons and would have held data on a solid state memory chip with a capacity of 3:50 minutes worth of audio. 5 working prototypes were produced and one was unveiled in a trade exhibition in October 1986.
The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel is officially the world's oldest subway tunnel. This tunnel was built in 1844, under a City of Brooklyn Street. It is a half-mile long and accommodated two standard gauge tracks. The tunnel was built in only seven months, using the cut-and-cover method; only hand tools and primitive equipment was utilized in its construction.
It was built to provide grade separation for early Long Island Rail Road trains that lacked brakes good enough to operate on city streets. The tunnel eliminated vehicular and pedestrian traffic conflicts and delays.
It is now more than fifteen years since that fateful meeting on July 25, 1990 between then-US Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie and President Saddam Hussein that the Iraqi leader interpreted as a green light from Washington for his invasion of Kuwait eight days later.
The US State Department, which is said to have placed a gag order on Glaspie in August 1990 prohibiting her from talking to the media about what had transpired at that meeting, is apparently still keeping her under wraps despite the fact that she retired from the American Foreign Service in 2002. .
In all the years since her meeting with Saddam Hussein, Glaspie has never spoken about it to the media, never appeared as a guest on a TV talk show, never written an article or a book about her time as the US’s top diplomat in Baghdad. The question is: why? What has she got to hide?