Sneakeater

Unlike Kristi Noem, I like all the goats.

Shoulda been Foxface!

Osteria Morini was still open! https://ny.eater.com/2024/5/15/24157521/osteria-morini-altamarea-michael-white-closing-may-2024

You coulda said “North American”.

Notchoes.

At least SOME things are working!

Exact same.

A giant of American culture Seriously.

@splinky thank you.

For $1200 I’d want a whole roll.

I was there She said so.

Oh come on Duane Eddy COULDN'T have still been alive.

A monster.

Before my wife died (hers was permanent), she saw lights. I'm disappointed to say that I did not see lights.

I hope I can still have them!

It's pretty cool that one space was a hangout of Frank Sinatra, Joseph Brodsky, and Phillip Roth.

Oh THAT'S where it was?

Glad this worked out in the end!

No, you shouldn't.

One interesting aspect of this experience is that during the rather elaborate surgery that would have cured me if it hadn't been discovered during surgery that my cancer had metastasized (rendering it incurable and causing them to abort), I (as I understand it) actually technically died -- and then somehow pulled myself back. You would be amazed how much street cred that gives you at a hospital. One doctor who seemed to be considering removing my epidural responded to my threat that he'd face a big fight if he tried by saying, "oh, sir, I don't think I'd want to try to fight with YOU." One orderly just came and sort of stared at me. This makes me feel like The Phantom: The Ghost Who Walks. But what I really wanna know is, am I now technically a newborn?

Thanks, guys. I mean REALLY.

(I don't mean to seem to be playing "can you top this?". Sorry.)

I have cancer. It isn't curable, and it may or may not be treatable (and any available treatment may or may not be worth the downsides). I'll have a lot of thinking to do. I'm surprisingly unafraid. The prospect of not living can be less scary than the prospect of living. It can almost be a relief.