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New Year’s 2007 – The Uggliest Shoes and the Itchiest Top

Posted on January 7, 2008 by kelch25

As Diesel mentioned, we had no intention of celebrating New Year’s going through a long security line and being corralled with four million plus strangers in Times Square for several hours with little room to move and no possibility to go to the bathroom (those who know me know that my bladder has a mind [...]

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Another Trip to Little Odessa aka Brighton Beach

Posted on January 7, 2008 by eternal

Needing a little caviar for ourselves and even more for a friend, Kelly and I headed out to Brighton Beach. We’d heard that the cheapest place to buy these little, succulent fish eggs was where there’s the most competition: Little Russia. Being his hood, our friend dB offered to take us out for some classic [...]

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