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I think Rosie Perez should play Maya Rudolph's mom in 'The Maya Rudolph Story.' Or Maya Rudolph's mom in 'The Minnie Riperton Story.'

Was Diane Keaton still in it?

Methinks he resembles that remark. 😇😁😇

Right, and then I said I moved back in, early in 2003.

It must be all the drugs you took during those ski trips in the '60s.

No, it would make the building about to celebrate its 62nd.

That must have been an awfully BIG nut! I was 6 months old, its certificate of occupancy was 25 months old.

Not really. We only get raises every few years, and they're not enormous. When there's a budget shortfall they just do an assessment. No, it had just begun 'the terrible twos.' Its certificate of occupancy arrived 19 months before I did.

Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1969. No. Title Artist(s) 1 "Sugar, Sugar" The Archies 2 "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" The 5th Dimension

It's been that rate since I moved back in, early in 2003 (I originally moved into the apartment when I was 6 months old, after conducting a long, exhaustive search).

Not all sugar is bad for you...

Colts interim head coach Jeff Saturday said Nick Foles will start Monday night. The plan is for Foles to start the rest of the season. Foles has not thrown a pass this season and threw only 35 with the Chicago Bears last season. He has been on four teams in the five seasons since winning Super Bowl MVP. He was added to the Colts mainly due to his resemblance to the team logo. How appropriate!

Several companies are putting a new twist on candy canes with unconventional flavor offerings like hot dogs, brisket and sardines. While the holiday treat typically comes in a minty flavor, now other varieties such as ketchup, brisket, cherry, bubble gum, clove, mango chili, sour cream and onion, and Caesar salad have all hit shelves this year. After the 2021 peppermint shortage, many companies are attempting to produce candy canes with a variety of tastes, reported Axios. The shortage, which was caused by a drop in peppermint oil as well as supply chain issues, forced manufacturers to expand flavors and create a wide-ranging variety of non-peppermint candy canes. One company, Archie McPhee, really thought outside the box and developed a sardine-flavored treat — and, yes, people eat them according to the company’s president David Wahl. The company is also responsible for other odd flavors like macaroni and cheese, pickles, bacon, kale, hot dogs, sour cream and onion, and butter. Wahl said the pickles-flavored candy cane is their best seller. “My dream would be just like Willy Wonka to do a full meal of candy canes, where you started with the appetizer and worked your way to dessert,” Wahl told HeraldNet. https://nypost.com/2022/12/21/candy-canes-now-come-in-brisket-sardine-flavors/

Couples slated to tie the knot at a popular New Jersey wedding venue are getting cold feet after sneaking a peek at the venue’s drastic renovation on social media. The Madison Hotel in Morristown has long charmed locals with its enchanting gold and beige-hued ballroom, resplendent with shimmering chandeliers. Now, management is receiving fierce blowback from booked-in brides-to-be after swapping the classic look for a more modern, funereal black-and-navy blue scheme, revealed in a surprise announcement on the venue’s Instagram feed last week. Betrotheds who’ve shelled out thousands on the venue appear to be less than thrilled, with some livid over what they see as an unforgivable deception, NJ.com reported. “Please say this is a joke. No one mentioned black walls when I booked my wedding,” one bride commented on the Instagram post. Another scoffed: “These colors are [not] for a wedding venue. I cannot comprehend how ownership would think this is a good move or look. I feel for all the brides that are already booked.” Others inquired about whether or not the venue would refund brides and grooms who secured the space before the reviled renovation, to be completed early next year. The Madison Hotel’s previous ballroom was light and bright with gold and neutral hues. The Madison Hotel Morristown, NJ One bride, Victoria Tow, expressed how “extremely disappointing” it was to see the venue change from its gold and neutral hues to a midnight color scheme, taking to the venue’s Instagram to lash out. “We booked the ballroom for its gorgeous gold accents … and loved the aesthetic when we saw it in person. We do not understand the move towards black, especially for weddings nor do we like the blue carpeting that will clash with our theme,” Tow said. Jon Kline, the CEO of Clearview Hotel Capital, LLC, which purchased the hotel six months ago, told The Post that management has been in touch with the scheduled parties and is negotiating with them privately. “We’re trying to make everyone happy. Not everybody loves everything. The majority of people we’ve shown the design, including people who are having events in the future, are hugely positive,” said Kline, “We bought this hotel in June from a family who built it and owned it for multiple generations.” “We saw an exciting opportunity to honor and respect the tradition of the hotel and make it way nicer,” Kline said of the planned renovations. The ballroom’s new, darker interior is slated to debut in 2023, to the dismay of many unhappy brides who booked the venue on the basis of its previous décor. The Madison Hotel Morristown, NJ The new ownership will have their work cut out for them, judging by the number of miffed commenters expressing their feelings publicly. One bride, Bethany Hanna, made the point that wedding parties had planned their wedding party color schemes around the ballroom’s previous colors and will now be left scrambling at the last minute to make it work. “This is absolutely absurd,” Hanna wrote on the venue’s Instagram page. Another bride who reportedly toured the venue earlier this year before signing a $30,000 contract said she felt deceived by the renovation, noting that a hotel staffer did mention changes to guest rooms but said there was no mention of the ballroom’s redesign, NJ.com reported. “It’s super frustrating because it feels like I was fooled. I feel deceived. They are just literally ripping the carpet out from under us,” she complained. Similarly, another bride-to-be reportedly shelled out $25,000 for a contract with the venue for her wedding that will occur after the renovations are complete, according to NJ.com. The bride reached out to staffers, voicing her concerns about her décor clashing with the new room, but it’s unclear if she will be offered a refund. “I have everything — the decorations, the colors — the new ballroom clashes completely with my theme,” she said, according to NJ.com. “We have been in contact with the managers the whole time. They could have let us know in enough time that I could have changed the colors of my wedding, but they didn’t.” https://nypost.com/2022/12/21/wedding-venues-absurd-goth-makeover-has-couples-freaking-out/ Why not have the decor black and depressing? It prepares the newlyweds for the reality of married life.

FCC proposes record $300M fine for ‘auto warranty’ robocalls https://nypost.com/2022/12/21/fcc-proposes-record-300m-fine-for-auto-warranty-robocalls/ My computer says it's 41 degrees out. Naturally, my a/c is on and I'm in my undies.

I saw that whilst on a work trip in NC. It was on a double feature with 10 Things I Hate About You, which starred Heath Ledger, whom I heard was also once part of a cinematic gay couple. Two bits of trivia- Scott Wolf is the cousin of comedian Josh Wolf (best-known from CHELSEA LATELY) and Jay Mohr is engaged to the owner of the Lakers.

Man with WWI explosive lodged in his rectum sparks bomb scare, hospital evacuation should I have posted this in the Fetish Forum?

Steve Cohen obviously bribed the Giants' doctors to say they found something questionable during Carlos Correa's physical so his deal would be voided and the Mets could sign him.

Matt 'Now I Can Regrow My Beard' Carpenter signed with San Diego.

not to mention oral as well as anal.

Molly Ringwald will reunite with her Breakfast Club costar Ally Sheedy in a Season 2 episode of Single Drunk Female, according to EW.com. Ringwald will guest-star as Alice, sister-in-law to Sheedy’s Carol.

Talks for MLB, the NBA and NHL to acquire the nation’s dominant owner of regional sports networks are faltering — raising the likelihood of a bankruptcy filing that could hasten a nationwide migration of sports fans away from cable TV. Diamond Sports Group — which operates 21 Bally Sports-branded regional sports networks, or RSNs, that account for more than half the local broadcast markets around the country — has been in talks this fall to sell itself to the sports leagues for as much as $3 billion including debt. But Diamond — a unit of Sinclair Broadcast Group — surprised investors on Nov. 28 by slashing its outlook for this year’s profitability in half as cord-cutting continues to dog the industry. Accordingly, the leagues no longer are willing to pay a premium in a buyout — and creditors are instead bracing to take their chances in bankruptcy court in the first half of next year, according to sources close to the talks. That means Diamond’s slew of unprofitable broadcasting contracts will likely be rejected — and its decades-old, cable-TV-based business model will go out the window as deals are cut to stream lives games online, sources said. MLB could potentially step in as a temporary platform next year, but the streaming rights are expected to eventually end up with Big Tech companies like Apple, Amazon and Facebook, sources said. “Right now, there is chaos. But we’ll be able to look back and say this is when a large tech company really entered the regional sports market,” an MLB team owner told The Post, asking not to be identified by name. “Right now, there is a large amount of people who don’t see games in their home markets. That’s not good for the sports leagues.” Tech companies during the past few years have made inroads into live sports streaming. Amazon Prime, which hosts a handful of New York Yankees games exclusively, cut the biggest deal yet with a September deal to air NFL “Thursday Night Football” all season. Facebook and Apple TV+ also have acquired exclusive rights to some MLB games. But a Diamond bankruptcy could open the doors for new level of dealmaking — and some insiders hope it will change the way people consume sports for the better. Many younger fans can’t watch games now because they don’t have cable, and some cable providers don’t even carry sports, the MLB owner griped. “Ultimately, it will be one device everywhere,” the team owner predicted. “Twelve years from now it will be all three sports all the time and on one channel.” Diamond has the rights to 14 Major League Baseball teams like the St. Louis Cardinals; 16 National Basketball Association franchises including the Miami Heat; and 12 National Hockey League teams including the Detroit Red Wings. None of the New York City teams are on Diamond networks, though Diamond owns a minority stake in the YES Network. Creditors are expected to use the courts to reject Diamond’s slew of unprofitable contracts with teams, where it has long been paying more for media rights than it gets from cable distributors and advertisers to broadcast their games. Diamond, for example, is currently locked into a money-losing contract to pay the San Diego Padres $60 million a year through 2032, two sources said. Most of Diamond’s MLB contracts are unprofitable, while maybe half its NBA deals are losing money and a handful of its NHL agreements are in the red, according to a source. Insiders warn it could be a bumpy spring for teams and sports fans alike if the talks don’t go smoothly. MLB is preparing to arrange new media contracts with teams Diamond rejects in bankruptcy and to directly air their games in their local markets, two sources said. Presently, MLB airs out-of-market games nationally but has no local rights. “They feel they can get the games up and going quickly. However, they cannot tell us it is 100% guaranteed,” a source close to the situation said. Diamond’s soured talks with the leagues have surprised sophisticated investors including hedge fund Angelo Gordon, which this fall owned some of the Diamond debt and was hoping for a sale to MLB, according to a source close to the situation. It has now sold its investment at a loss and is no longer involved, the source said. The leagues have hired bankers as they try to navigate the discussions. MLB has hired investment banks Morgan Stanley and Guggenheim Partners. The NBA retained Allen & Co., and the NHL is now seeking a banker, sources said. MLB, the NBA and NHL declined to comment. Angelo Gordon and the San Diego Padres didn’t respond to requests for comment. Diamond this month hired David Preschlak, a former president of NBC’s regional sports networks, as its new CEO. He is already meeting with MLB as he tries to build a better relationship with the leagues than his predecessor, sources said. Paul Caminiti, a spokesman for Diamond Sports Group, said, “The idea of rejecting MLB contracts is unequivocally false. DSG is committed to enhancing and strengthening our relationships with the MLB, NBA and NHL by fulfilling our contractual obligations and acquiring more rights.” He declined to comment about a potential bankruptcy. Blackouts and carriage could be a risk and many team owners also could lose lucrative revenues, warns Greg Bouris, director of Adelphi University’s Sports Management Program and a former communications director for the MLB Players Association. “This Diamond bankruptcy may accelerate what the future of the sports broadcasting market looks like and there may be a hiccup first before a more permanent solution is found,” Bouris said. “It may be in the best interest of the leagues to include the players in discussing this situation because there might be a temporary economic hit.” Nevertheless, he adds, the industry is ripe for restructuring. While sports used to help cable companies sell subscriptions, broadcasts increasingly have become mired in carriage disputes amid rampant cord cutting. Increasingly, the risk is that younger viewers tune out of sports altogether. “I think the sports leagues have to recalibrate the distribution of games, the scheduling of games and the blackouts of some games,” Bouris said. “I think there are solutions tied to distribution and production innovations which are technology based.” Fortunately, the Yanks are rich enough to have their own network, & I'm on all of my sister's TV subscriptions, so whatever happens, I should have access. That's all that really matters, of course. https://nypost.com/2022/12/18/mlb-nba-and-nhl-unlikely-to-save-tv-regional-sports-networks-sources/

Christina Haack shared a “Self-Care Saturday” post via Instagram over the weekend, which showed her listening to a meditation podcast while receiving photon LED light therapy on her face. “Been super exhausted lately so [I’m] on a kick to get back into my body. I’ve had some unexplained health stuff for years, and now I’m considering the thought that this could be breast implant related,” Haack, 39, wrote in part. “Does anyone else have any experience with this subject?” she asked. “I’m curious on all the ladies take on this.” The HGTV star went on to name her extensive list of health struggles, which includes inflammation, Hashimoto’s disease, Raynaud’s syndrome, polycystic ovary syndrome, unexplained skin rashes, joint and muscle pain, dry eyes, acid reflux, brain fog, swollen lymph nodes and adrenal fatigue. “For now just working on detoxing and positive mind set,” she concluded the post. all this time I thought she was a natural beauty

The Cubs got better looking today.

LAW & ARDOR Two NYPD recruits were suspended Friday after they were caught having sex in a bathroom at the department’s training academy in Queens, sources told The Post.