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Herd of 100 life-sized elephants take over this NYC neighborhood in ‘amazing’ art installation The “Great Elephant Migration,” one of the largest outdoor art installations to hit the streets of New York, has placed scores of life-sized wicker elephants throughout New York’s Meatpacking District.

DEAR ABBY: A longtime neighbor and friend has accused me of stealing a ring. I had been providing her with transportation to visit her husband while he was in rehab recovering from a broken leg. I also took her on other errands. One day, she was upset. She told me she had lost a bunched-up handkerchief that held something important, but wouldn’t tell me what it was. Eventually, she said she had a special ring wrapped in there, so we looked through my car several times. My neighbor later came to dinner with my family, and I gave her another ride or two. Then she made a threatening hang-up call. When I went to her house (with a food gift) to address the situation, she didn’t answer the door, although I am fairly certain I heard her inside. After that, I stopped replying to her phone messages asking for more rides and other assistance. I hoped she would find her misplaced item. Today, she knocked on my front door while I was out and gave my 13-year-old daughter an angry message that she wants her ring back. My daughter was very upset, as these are neighbors we have known a long time and were always friendly with. This is extremely distressing, and I am not sure how to respond, or how to resolve this. — INNOCENT IN COLORADO DEAR INNOCENT: Your neighbor may have interpreted your not responding to her messages as a sign of guilt. You can reiterate that you are innocent until the cows come home, because I’m guessing her mind was pretty much made up that you were guilty after she “subtly” accused you of taking the ring. Short of taking a lie detector test to prove your innocence, I doubt there will be anything you can say to convince her. It’s regrettable, but your long friendship with this woman is over. Even if she finds her ring, your relationship will never be the same. A SCREW LOOSE. PUT UP AN ELECTRIFIED FENCE BETWEEN YOUR PROPERTIES AND/OR BLOW THE BITCH AWAY NEXT TIME YOU SEE HER. DEAR ABBY: If you ask a guy out to dinner three times and each time he says he has already eaten, is it OK to stop trying to be a friend? I feel he could have been more honest about eating, and said something like, “Can I just get a soda or coffee? I would love to spend time with you.” Anyway, I stopped talking to him, and then he asked me why I wasn’t still asking. When I told him why, he said he’d told me to take him out on his birthday. You don’t want my company until it is convenient for you? Now I’m confused. I think I will look for a friend somewhere else. — IGNORED IN THE EAST DEAR IGNORED: When someone refuses three invitations, it means he isn’t interested. Do the poor guy (and yourself) a favor — quit trying to script your relationships and look for friendship elsewhere. YOU HAVE A SCREW LOOSE AND IF YOU KEEP CONTACTING THIS UNINTERESTED MAN, HE IS GOING TO PUT UP AN ELECTRIFIED FENCE AROUND HIS PROPERTY AND/OR BLOW YOU AWAY NEXT TIME HE SEES YOU.

Romping raccoons that ran wild in Alice and David Zaslavsky’s $1.2 million Brooklyn home pooped and peed everywhere, chewed through wiring and terrified the couple’s 9-year-old daughter before they were finally banished. And while the flea-bitten critters are now gone, the Zaslavskys are still not out of the woods. Contractors estimate the ninja furballs caused $100,000 worth of damage to the three-bedroom, 1,930-square foot home, and the family’s insurance company won’t cover the necessary month’s worth of repairs. “We have this tiny little clause in our homeowner’s insurance that says they do not clean up wildlife secretions which they deem toxic. Raccoon poo,” an exasperated Alice Zaslavsky told The Post of the AmGuard policy. The problem began more than two years ago after the city slapped a stop-work order on a neighbor two doors down at 194 Minna St. in Kensington. The owner, Majestic Holdings, was allegedly doing work without permits. The company left the house, which had been vacant for over a year, in a state of disrepair, with “numerous holes . . . to the outside,” the Zaslavskys said in court papers. “One night, [the couple] woke up staring into the face of a raccoon hanging down from one of the access panels pushed open by the raccoons,” according to a Brooklyn Supreme Court lawsuit filed in September 2023 and settled a month later. An exterminator found the critters were entering through 194 Minna, creeping through the connected houses and ending up in the Zaslavskys’ two-story home. The raccoons chewed through new HVAC ductwork, new electrical wiring, ate insulation, and defecated on and stained the ceiling, the family said. Living with the constant smell of toxic animal feces and knowing there were wild animals above their heads gave the family PTSD, they said. “It came to a head early one morning in September 2023, when the raccoons came busting through the HVAC access panel in our master bedroom and we decided it was time to take legal action,” Alice Zaslavsky explained. “Three appeals, and more than $30,000 in legal fees later, the final judge ruled the homeowner had to close up any access points,” she said. However, no damages were ponied up and the Zaslavskys ended up paying $1,000 for an exterminator. The exterminator caught five baby raccoons and their mom in the attic crawlspace. “They were . . . released back into the wild on Long Island,” Alice Zaslavsky said. In order to do the future repairs, the Zaslavskys have to temporarily relocate. “We have to pack up the second floor of our house as if we were moving. Everything has to go to storage. We cannot live in the house during that time because of the toxicity,” she said. “We’re left holding a pretty big bag of repairs. We’re still paying off our legal bills from last year,” she lamented. “We can’t do the repairs until insurance agrees to pay. We don’t have $100,000 liquid to foot the bill,” Alice Zaslavsky explained. “We’ve already appealed twice. We will continue to appeal until they do the right thing,” the homeowner said.

I have that scene.

Catching Up with the Legendary Tom Chase as He Talks the Golden Age of Porn, Embracing His Bottom Side & More December 1, 2021 In the 1990s, there was a smooth and clean-cut boy with dreamy brown eyes, a flawlessly chiseled physique, and yes, an 11-inch endowment that made him the first lifetime exclusive for Falcon Studios. In the 2000s, he reemerged at Colt Studios as a hairy and horny man’s man who loved to take it as much as give it. We speak, of course, of the legendary Tom Chase. Lots of the guys from this golden age of gay porn were hot, but Tom brought something else to the table (and elsewhere). Probably more than any other star of his day, Tom could combine being totally masc and aggressive with actually being tender and loving at the same time. It made for a viewing experience like no other in porn and his award-winning scenes all still hold up today. We are pleased to share that Tom Chase is doing just great and is more content than ever. He’s also still hot as fuck! Tom joined us for a revealing interview about how he’s been since leaving the industry, some memories of his career, and his plans for the future. How has your life been since leaving the industry? What have you been doing for the last ten years? TC: I left the industry in 2010, after making “The Big One” for Butch Bear Studio (now defunct), and I immediately started working on my emotional and psychological self, all of the work I had to put aside during my 20s and 30s in order to make quality porn. In 2010, I began the difficult work of confronting my anger, rage, disillusionment, resentment, and hatred. I let all of these negative emotions go, and I started to love myself for the first time. I cut ties with my toxic family and my toxic self (my old thinking, my old behavior). I cut ties with toxic friends and toxic clients. I grieved the losses (I cried every day for five years), and then I moved on with my life. For all of this uncomfortable work, I am happy and free. I am satisfied and fulfilled in life. And I am now capable of loving and receiving love, which I do in spades all day long. I am living my best life now, and I am proud of myself for doing so. How do you look back on your time in the industry? TC: I look back at my experience with great fondness and appreciation. I am proud of my work and the contributions I have made to the industry. I am enjoying being Tom Chase. The ’90s and early 2000s, (when you were one of the biggest stars of the industry!) are widely thought of as The Golden Age of Gay Porn. Do you agree and what do you think made that period so special? TC: I do agree, because of the timing and convergence of two things: the advances in video technology and the athletic quality of the models. By the 1990s, both had reached their zeniths. The combination was art. Any fellow stars of that time you consider favorites? Wish you had worked with? Still in touch with? TC: My favorite co-star is Mike Branson, hands down. Our chemistry was real, and it was passionate. We liked each other a lot, and we respected each other. We had a good brotherhood. Unfortunately, we are not in touch. After we both completed our contracts, we went our separate ways in life. I do stay in touch with most of my co-stars from my day. We are a family. What do you think was your best scene and why? TC: My best scene was with Matthew Anders in High Tide. We were not fond of each other from the start, and our scene was a tender, love-making scene. Our initial lack of interest in each other concerned me. On the day of the shoot, however, we both rose to the occasion and delivered our professional best. High Tide turned out to be my masterpiece. In addition to being my best scene, it is my favorite scene. It is the only scene I made for Falcon which truly represents me in bed. You have said it was a deliberate decision of yours to show on screen your progression from boy to man. How and why did you do that? TC: Yes, this is true. I felt the world needed to see a true depiction of the sexual and physical maturation of a gay man. Initially, as most gay men, I topped. As I matured and discovered my hole, I started bottoming. This is a typical course for a gay man over his lifetime, and I wanted to show that natural progression. Basically, I produced a documentary of Tom Chase growing up in the bedroom, and I used three porn studios to produce that documentary: Falcon, Colt, and Butch Bear Studios. If I ever have the opportunity, I’d like to continue the documentary into my senior years. Do you follow the industry as it is today? Any stars today impress you? TC: I follow it from a distance. I enjoy watching Austin Wolf and Tim Kruger. Sometimes, I wish I was John Thomas or Henrik Sommer. Would you consider a comeback? TC: Yes, under two conditions: the scene be bareback only, and I am the bottom. https://www.cybersocket.com/news-gossip/catching-up-with-the-legendary-tom-chase-as-he-talks-the-golden-age-of-porn-embracing-his-bottom-side-more/

Passengers on a recent Qantas flight from Australia to Japan were left gobsmacked after an inappropriate movie was played on every screen due to a technical issue. One shocked passenger said there was “no way to turn it off” and was floored by the racy nudity and obscene ‘sexts’ that were displayed on each seat’s screen. Qantas has confirmed the incident to news.com.au and stated that due to technical issues, individual movie selection was not available. As a result, Qantas said staff asked passengers what movie they would like to watch, resulting in the movie Daddio (2023) being played to everyone on the flight. The racy drama stars Dakota Johnson as a young woman returning home to her Manhattan apartment after a trip. She ends up conversing with her taxi driver, played by Sean Penn, about her affair with a married man, with the driver also revealing more and more about his life too. The film is rated R for its explicit sexual material and graphic nudity, including photos of exposed genitals and sexually-charged text messages. “Qantas played an inappropriate movie to the whole plane, there was no way to turn it off,” one passenger shared on Reddit. “So, I was on Qantas flight QF59 from Sydney to Haneda… and the in-flight entertainment system was down. “After a one-hour delay, the pilot decided to take off anyway, but the only option left was for the crew to play a movie on every screen. “It was impossible to pause, dim, or turn it off. Here’s the kicker: the movie they played was extremely inappropriate. “It featured graphic nudity and a lot of sexting – the kind where you could literally read the texts on screen without needing headphones. “It took almost an hour of this before they switched to a more kid-friendly movie, but it was super uncomfortable for everyone, especially with families and kids on board. “I’ve attached a few pics of the scenes (only from the sexting parts, no nudity). “How is this acceptable for a major airline? Has anyone else had something like this happen?” Qantas confirmed that when it became clear the movie was not appropriate for all ages, the crew attempted to fix the screens for customers who did not want to watch it. However, when they realized this was not possible, the film was changed to a children’s movie instead. “The movie was clearly not suitable to play for the whole flight and we sincerely apologize to customers for this experience,” a Qantas spokesperson told news.com.au. “All screens were changed to a family-friendly movie for the rest of the flight, which is our standard practice for the rare cases where individual movie selection isn’t possible. “We are reviewing how the movie was selected.”

Careless girl admits to cutting off tanker that spilled chemical in Illinois, killing 5: ‘Totally my bad’ A federal report on a tanker-truck crash a year ago in central Illinois that spilled a toxic chemical and killed five people includes an interview with a 17-year-old Ohio girl who concedes that the truck was forced off the road when she passed it with the minivan she was driving. The tanker slowed and pulled to the right to allow the minivan to get back in the right-hand lane and avoid a head-on collision with oncoming traffic on the two-lane US 40 in Teutopolis on Sept. 29, 2023, according to dash-cam video from the truck also released late Wednesday by the National Transportation Safety Board. “Oh, (expletive). Yeah. Oh, my goodness. Yep, totally my bad. Wow. Holy (expletive),” the girl said while watching the video from the ill-fated truck during an Oct. 4, 2023, Illinois State Police interview. The tanker truck was carrying caustic anhydrous ammonia when it jack-knifed and hit a utility trailer parked just off the highway. Five people died as a result, including three family members who were near the road when the incident occurred. The transportation board said its latest findings are merely a factual account and do not include analysis or conclusions, which are expected later. The girl, whose name is redacted in the transcript of the state police interview because she was a minor at the time, said she was traveling with her mother and brother to visit her mother’s boyfriend in the Illinois suburbs of St. Louis. An accident on Interstate 70 earlier that night diverted loads of traffic onto US 40, and she said she passed three trucks on the road heading west into Teutopolis. The girl said her pass of the tanker began in a passing zone, although a no-passing sign appears in the video. She said once she began passing, she realized she needed to accelerate to clear oncoming traffic and estimated she was going 90 mph when she pulled back to the right, narrowly slipping by an oncoming vehicle. She told investigators her mother was upset by the close call, but she thought she had plenty of clearance. However, she declined the police interviewers’ offer to show the dash-cam video again. “No, you don’t have to. It was totally my fault,” the girl said. “I’ve honestly in the past had times when I just don’t use good judgment in judging like distances and whether I have enough time for something.” Attempting to give the minivan space to get over, the truck moved onto the shoulder, lost traction on gravel and then hit a drainage culvert, according to the truck driver, who survived. Continuing west, the girl said she soon saw emergency vehicles coming east but did not connect them with her passing the truck. She said that before the family’s return trip to Ohio, when her mother was reading aloud news accounts of the crash, she had no idea it had happened. “Of course not,” she told investigators. “I told you that like three times.” When one of the investigators expressed disbelief that no one in the car noticed a truck turning over behind them, she doubled down. “Nobody said, ‘Oh, the guy behind you drove off the road,’ ” the girl said. “That would’ve been a huge deal for everybody. We would’ve been like, ‘Oh, (expletive), I just caused something really bad to happen,’ and then like our whole night would’ve been figuring out” what to do.

Offbeat, endearing Aussie rom-com created, written by, and starring Patrick Brammall (Andy from EVIL) and his wife. They take turns writing the episodes. I watched the first (8 episode) season in one sitting last night. One more season to go.

Tom Chase

It's basically because the Yankees stink, and because the Royals have strong starting pitching and good defense, and because most nights, if you score 3 or four runs, which the Yankee defense and bullpen basically give you before the game even starts, all you have to do is walk Aaron Judge at opportune times and you will hold the Yankees to one or two runs.

I have followed the NBA for 50 years and I don't think I have ever watched a game all the way through and I doubt I have even watched 30 games total. I just followed the standings, perused the box scores, and read articles. The last few years I have "watched" the box scores as they change, since there is much more action in basketball than baseball. I follow MLB the same way now... I sit in front of the computer for 3 hours and jump back and forth between box scores. I am more entertained by following all the storylines going on than by watching the Yankees and watching any other team would be me with my head down, scrolling through box scores on my phone the whole time. It's also somehow less nauseating how much athletes (and owners) make if you are just looking at box scores and not at the players. My sister and brother-in-law have had partial season-ticket plans for the Mets the last couple of years and have offered to take me to an occasional game and my response has always been thanks but no thanks. They have tickets for Oct 8th, which is game 3 of the series. If they make the NLCS they have tickets for Oct 17th. That's game 4 of the series. Then If they make the WS they have tickets for games 3 and 5 of the series.

They have the best rotation of any American League playoff team and their bullpen underwent an amazing transformation, even as the team fell apart, in September. It had been a weakness for almost the whole season and now has coalesced into a strength, even though it's not as good as Cleveland's and not as versatile as Detroit's. They play great defense. And they have Bobby Witt, Jr. They are built to win low-scoring games. As for the Yankees, he typed disgustedly with a sigh, they have the worst bullpen of any of the remaining teams in either league, a one man starting rotation, and an offense with seven stiffs and two superstars, one of whom doesn't hit in the postseason. Sorry… six stiffs, one decent to good offensive player who is horrific defensively, and two superstars, one of whom doesn't hit in the postseason. I'd love it if they pull off the most dominant sweep in baseball history and make me look like a colossal moron, but I don't think they have it in them. I certainly don't think it's impossible that they win; they just don't inspire much confidence for me. Talent-wise, they are the best team left in the American League. It's really just box scores and game recaps for me at this point, since the only game that I have watched since they were knocked out of the 2022 playoffs was Jasson Dominguez's debut last year. I was so disgusted by the greed on both sides during the lockout in 2022 that I didn't watch anything for the first quarter of the season, but that was the year the Yankees got off to an amazing start so I finally got sucked in and then when they fell apart and started playing like shit I was sucked in by Judge's pursuit of the Home Run record. But by the end of that season, they had gotten so boring and lifeless that for the last week or two I basically kept my television on with no sound, kept track of where the game was on my computer, and just went to watch his at bats, so that when they predictably got knocked out of the playoffs right away I just basically realized that I don't enjoy watching baseball anymore. I like following it, reading about it, talking and writing about it, but not watching it anymore.

Red Lobster’s new CEO knows he has a lot on his plate. The chain has been rocked by closures to multiple stores and a bankruptcy filing, but Damola Adamolekun is ready to nurse it back to prominence as he takes over as CEO. Adamolekun, 35, said one promotion meant to reel in customers failed when the chain offered $20 endless shrimp as a permanent item on its menu after previously being a limited-time option. Endless shrimp may return at some point down the line, says Adamolekun. If it does, he wants to make sure it doesn’t lead to the kinds of problems it did when it became a permanent menu item. “I never want to say never, but certainly not the way that it was done,” he said. “We won’t have it in a way that’s losing money in that fashion and isn’t managed.”

Who is murdering the Royals and the winner of the Det-Clev series? The Yanks will be the first team eliminated. Royals-Mets rematch of 2015. Or Royals-Padres.

I predict the Royals in four, the Padres in five and on paper, the guardians and Phillies in five, but in the actual games, the Mets and tigers in five. I don't think any remaining American League team would beat any remaining NL team, though KC has the best shot.

A new interactive Japanese-style hotpot restaurant has opened its doors in Flushing, providing an all-you-can-eat experience featuring premium cuts of wagyu steak. Mikiya Wagyu Shabu House launched with a soft opening at 135-41 37th Ave. in mid-August and became fully operational in September. The restaurant is part of the Chubby Group, a restaurant and hospitality group operating 30 locations across the US, including 12 dining concepts. Mikiya Wagyu Shabu House is Chubby Group’s first location in New York City.

Flushing welcomes Mikiya Wagyu Shabu House: An all-you-can-eat Japanese hotpot experience

Stat of the day… Corbin Burnes was removed after giving up a hit on the first pitch of the ninth inning yesterday. The last time a starting pitcher pitched into the ninth inning in a one to nothing loss in the first game of his team's postseason, the winning pitcher in the game was Babe Ruth. That was part of the babe's 29 consecutive scoreless inning streak in the World Series, which was the postseason record until Whitey Ford had 32 straight scoreless innings. The Tigers were 10 games out of the wildcard race on August 10. The Astros were 10 games out of first place in the AL West on June 18. Only one other time in history have two teams that have been at least 10 games out of playoff positioning during a season met in that postseason… In 1973, the reds were 11 games out on June 30 and the Mets were 12 1/2 games out in July. See if this sounds familiar… The Mets fall behind two to nothing in the first inning of a postseason game, then come back to take a 3 to 2 lead, only to blow that lead and fall behind again, then come back and win... With the winning pitcher being an up-and-coming 22-year-old named Nolan Ryan. The Padres have never had a regular season game in which they threw a shut out and had at least 12 strikeouts with no walks. Yesterday they became the first team ever to do that in a postseason game.

DEAR ABBY: My older sister had an affair with an old boyfriend that lasted several months. She was 58 and had been married for 38 years. Her husband, who is a wonderful person and father of their three grown children, forgave her. He’s a devout Catholic, and divorce was out of the question. She has made every effort to ask for forgiveness from her husband and children and fix the issues in her marriage. The lingering problem is her oldest child (a daughter, age 35) who is unwilling to forgive and seems to hate her mother now. My niece refuses to have any kind of relationship with her mom. This situation is so painful for my sister that it’s kind of destroying her. Please offer any advice. — SADDENED IN OKLAHOMA DEAR SADDENED: Your sister’s husband and the other two adult children have forgiven their mother for the affair. No one can force the daughter to accept that her mother, like so many others, is flawed. People make mistakes. Your sister will have to go on with her life and hope that as this daughter matures, she will learn to forgive as the Lord forgives most of us after we have repented A CHEAP SLUT. THE LYING WHORE MUST NOW REAP AS SHE HAS SOWN.

A beloved Ohio mailman was showered with appreciation and celebrations at nearly every home along his mail route on his last day before retirement. A heartwarming video filmed by one of his daughters shows neighbors greeting the local postal worker, Bill Buda, with balloons, lawn signs, posters, cards and lots of cheers and hugs. Buda, who first worked in corporate America, was a carrier for the United States Post Office for 31 years and was assigned to the same 12.2-mile route for 24 and a half of those years. He said he watched families on the block introduce newborn babies and then watched those babies grow up and graduate from high school and college in an interview with Good Morning America. “All of a sudden a sign shows up in the yard, ‘Congratulations, we had a boy!’, and the next thing you know it’s ‘Congratulations, I just graduated from high school!’ Then it’s, ‘Congratulations, I just graduated from college!'” Buda said. “So those whole things, when you watch start to finish, [it’s] unforgettable. Absolutely unforgettable,” Buda said with a wide grin. The dad of two adult daughters said many people wrongly assume the job is a “piece of cake” and don’t realize that it’s a lot more than sorting mail and delivering it to the right addresses. “They have no idea that you’re peeking in on your elderly; you’re checking if that garage door should be shut when the kids get off of school, and for some reason, it’s open,” Buda told the program. “[If] the mail [starts] piling up, you better go contact somebody.” In doing so, the mailman left a mark on the community. He got countless “congratulations” and “happy retirement” greetings from residents who snapped photos with him on his final day. “It really hit me that I just went through 31 years of my life [in] every imaginable inclement weather. All the little things,” he said. “Taking a second to draw with the kids on the sidewalk with the sidewalk chalk, that’s what a neighbor’s supposed to be for.” He called the send-off “absolutely awesome” as nearly every stop came with a warm congratulations. “I mean, I probably could have stayed out there until midnight,” Buda joked to GMA. Buda’s last day was made even more special as his family joined him along his route, meeting many of the people he had seen nearly every day for the past 24 and a half years. “People will NEVER forget how you made them feel,” his daughter Alexa Buda said of her dad in the caption of the video she shared on Instagram. The tearjerker clip has been watched nearly 700,000 times, with many viewers saying it made them cry. Several commenters shouted out their own mail carriers’ impact on their communities. One said that when their grandparents passed away, their former and current mail carriers came to the funerals. A few comments were from people along Buda’s own route. “Your dad was always so kind & I’ll never forget him congratulating me when he delivered my diploma from Kent State,” one woman wrote below the video. “Love this! Best mailman ever, our street will miss him,” another commented. Buda said he couldn’t think of a better way to end his 31-year career. “As soon as it was over, we — we kind of all just stared at each other and literally just said, ‘This is it,'” he said. “This was the best send-off there could be. What a way to walk off.”

I'VE HEARD THAT SOMEWHERE...

I doubt it -- it would be a bad look... refuse to let him in when he's alive but after he's gone and can't appreciate it, let him in? And if you break the #1 rule? No prob... you'll eventually be immortalized anyway. I say keep him out, although I admit my dislike of the man influences my opinion.

Pete Rose died. 83

Kris Kristofferson, beloved actor and country music singer-songwriter, dies at 88 Kristofferson died at home in Maui on Sept. 28.

I guess even when she's dead she works hard for the money.