highlights from this year's Dutchess County Fair…
- tons of animals you can pet, lots of baby pigs & cows
- fresh squeezed lime fizz drinks
- the wild energy, throbbing lights, loud music, and tweaked-out kid’s faces along the midway at night
- pig races, especially the hilarious giant pot bellied (that move so slow)
- scary old carny lady “fool guesser” (who guessed everyone’s weight wrong for like 5 people in a row) trying to flirt with the young dudes. in her scratchy cigarette voice “hey are you winking at me”
- fresh cut Idaho potato fries, served in a giant dog bowl (we loved them with mustard)
- wood smoked roast beef sliced super thin and pilled on a fresh roll with horseradish, onion and beef broth
- colorful, jamming mummer parade winding it's way around
- frozen bananas dipped in chocolate, fried dough, fresh strawberry shortcake, 4-H milkshakes and more
- overhearing a kid say to his Dad “this is the funnest day!”
- Charo rocking the house with her Vegas act and 50 year old jokes. a totally fabulous performance, singing to babies, dancing with people in the crowd. she entertained everyone young and old. and you walk away feeling Charo loves you.
- loved everything in the canine tent from rescue dogs to crazy agility shows
- all kinds of farm and agriculture displays, funny, educational, more baby animals
- watching the baby watch everything, love everything and want everything (baby wants a mustard fry, baby wants a monkey, baby wants Charo)
check out iamafriendofthesquirrles for an excellent in depth review and more cool photos. next up this weekend – the Columbia County Fair!! even more rural/farmy, with demolition derbies, tractor pulls and a party down beer tent
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION IN NYC: POLL
the Girl Party we threw at Babyland Bar in the 90’s... the party was INSANE. lots of dancing, late nights, hot women and sex. our boy Pete wanted the bar back job, so the trade off was that he had to wear a leather diaper and baby bonnet. turns out the girl we were talking to, Terri, has a cool band these days 
when you’re lucky it can move you to places where your heart’s pumping, your head's banging, and you really know you’re alive. here are 2 songs; from 2 of the most KICK ASS bands that ruled the New York underground punk scene in the 90’s. we got permission from a member of each band to post these, so download away - these songs will rock you hard…
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the Allen St Mall (the center island between the north and south lanes) was a virtual tent city of homeless people (with a heavy concentration of drug addicts and prostitutes) the main “city” was the area between Houston and Delancy (but trickling down all the way to where Allen becomes Pike and then hits the river) at this time the mall had built-in benches up and down on both sides. everything from tents and tarps to large cardboard boxes and construction debris were used to make make-shift homes. the city and police rarely, if ever, set foot in this area, and let the homeless be with no raids/evacuations. 
in the Allen St mall there was also a notorious entrance/hatch door to one of the deserted underground subway tunnels used by the homeless. we believe it was near the old, abandoned public bathrooms located right across the street from 
the Yemen guys who own the deli on Allen and Stanton had a homey fried chicken place on the corner across the St. in what later became the Living Room (coincidentally – we noticed today construction is going on in this spot and were told a new bar/restaurant is coming in)
a little off the Allen… Castillo De Jagua was the neighborhood food mainstay, serving up delicious cheap Latin food. they treated everyone who came in like family and fed everyone in the hood (you could eat and pay them back later if you were hurtin.) they still make one of the best and cheapest Cuban Sandwiches in the city. the then un-renovated, dark and dirty Sarah Delano Roosevelt park was hands-down the most dangerous park in all of NYC. and 
