I got a call today from Gabrio Tosti, my friend (still?) who owns De Vino down in the Lower East Side. He broke my balls for two reasons.
1. I didn't mention that he came to the beginning of Lisa Qiu's Official Mondosapore Groupie coronation. I apologize, Gabrio. He made a special stop before his dinner engagement just to see Lisa ("see" = "check her out"). Mea culpa and all that.
2. He was really pissed about the hard time I gave him in the mention of a certain wineshop owner and blogger having been invited to participate in an Asimov NYT tasting panel. He claimed I was jealous of his sudden ascension to fame and influence-wielding, if not exactly to untold riches.
I am no such thing. I think I can rise above such fleeting sensations of anger, envy, hatred and the desire for revenge. I mean, I'm only half Irish and one-sixteenth Jewish.
Considering the post and the pic you posted I GUESS I WAS RIGHT!!!!!
And yes we are still friends especially now that you seem to be wittier then ever.
See you soon my friend...and back stabber :)
Posted by: Gabrio Tosti | January 12, 2008 at 05:09 PM
BTW Looking and your groupie I was also right to come and "see" her :)
God gave us eyes might as well use them no????
Posted by: Gabrio Tosti | January 12, 2008 at 05:14 PM
Heh heh heh heh.
Just because I resent you doesn't mean I don't love you.
Remember when Devo sang, "Love without anger isn't love at all"? There you go.
Posted by: Terry Hughes | January 12, 2008 at 05:15 PM
Where have I seen that face before? Oh right, Barbone! Where else?
Posted by: Marco | January 13, 2008 at 03:32 PM
Keep yer eyes in your sockets.
Posted by: Lisa Qiu | January 15, 2008 at 03:14 PM
"We are not men. We are Devo." lord have mercy, do you not listen to music made NOW?
Posted by: Fredric Koeppel | January 16, 2008 at 01:33 PM
Jesus,fk, why?
I AM hip enough to get crunk with my groupie.
Posted by: Terence | January 16, 2008 at 03:52 PM