Manhattan Offender

UES Coffee Jitters on Gay Pride Day

Fifth Avenue co-ops stopped boarding up their façades for the Gay Pride Parade after Mayor Bllomberg gave them a stern warning—and promised additional cops—in 2005. But that doesn’t mean the entire Upper East Side will stay open for business this year on the day of the parade. Via Quadronno at Madison Avenue and 73rd Street, where hedge-funders, socialites, and media moguls—including Martha Stewart — get their $4 espressos, closes for just four days each year: Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s, and a certain summer day. A spokesman claims coincidence. “We close that day every year for internal construction,” he says. “The last Sunday of June.” The Gay Pride Parade is on that day each year. “They tell you the day before—they whisper it—‘Don’t come tomorrow,’” a well-heeled regular says. “The clientele starts clucking a few days beforehand, ‘This weekend, you know … ’"

NOTE:  The above is a plagiagory.  Copying a story verbatim except for switching some words to make a point, or a funny, or a random.  At first, the author thought he had a funny point, but upon a re-read, it seems more a random.

A letter from "Rich Wrangler"

From the MO Mailbox:

From:     Imhotmale@aol.com
Subject:  hey this is rich wrangler

remove your June 28 blog about me
or you will be visited by nyc police for inferring that i do drugs
enough said
your comment that i am tweaked inferrs that
and if you do not remove it ????? well you figure it out
thank you

The above is in reference to this post in which Wrangler's amateur porn movie, featuring his self-insertion of a jeep stick shift, is described.  Also of note are Wrangler's comments on that post which demonstrate that he is obviously very impassioned about his non-use of drugs.  Unfortunately the video (which was not-safe-for-life) is no longer up on x-tube, although there are (also NSFL) other videos around. 

As a fair person, I've stricken the word "tweaked" from the original description of Wrangler.  (Really, all he had to do was ask.)  The twittery/jittery laugh, bugged eyes, and jaunty movements could be characteristic of anything:  excessive happiness, mental illness, hyperthyroidism, et al.  For me to guess their nature is simply something beyond my station.

His well-crafted, level-headed requests display the shy flower that he is, worried about his public perception in the towns of Hatfield and Pottstown, Pennsylvania from which his IP addresses generate.  So, Rich Wrangler, sleep easily tonight.  Your request is granted.  You are no longer described as "tweaked" in these pages.  Blossom little flower, blossom.

So clever

From dictionary.com:

clev·er     /ˈklɛvər/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[klev-er] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –adjective,  -er, -est.

1.	mentally bright; having sharp or quick intelligence; able.

2.	superficially skillful, witty, or original in character or construction; facile: It was an amusing, clever play, but of no lasting value.

3.	showing inventiveness or originality; ingenious: His clever device was the first to solve the problem.

4.	adroit with the hands or body; dexterous or nimble.

I've just managed to delete every message in my inbox, over 1000 of them, by hitting the wrong button at the wrong time.

Clever is not the way I'm feeling.