The Adventures of Italian-American Man
When's the Best Time to Go to Belmont?
(June 4, 2008)
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In which Griffin tries to get us to go to Belmont Park the week after the Belmont Stakes.
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From: Griffin Masina
Sent: Tue 6/03/08 4:55 PM
To: Kyle Ahern;
hey guys,
Under the banner of "if you build it they will come", I am organizing the first annual week after the Belmont Stakes cool guys get together on Sat June 14 12:00 PM at beautiful Belmont Park in Elmont New York. You may be thinking "hey griffin, why not get together for the Belmont Stakes instead?" Four reasons:
a) You are not allowed to bring coolers to
b) there will be 100, 000 people at
d) June 14 is Bastille day.
Here is what you need to know
a) No glass is allowed. But you bring cans of ....... soda (beer)
b) bring food. Towels. Chairs. sun block. coolers.
c) you can bet as little as two dollars a race.
d) children under 12 get in free. (that means you, marc.)
e) admission for everyone else is only two bucks.
f) there is plenty of parking.
G) belt parkway to cross island. easy.
fell free to invite more people. I don't have Chewbacca’s or Moon Boots' e-mail. somebody let them know.
American Badass
P.S. – DiPaolo, every time I turn on my tv, I bump into Torchwood and Doctor Who. They look like the two worst shows of all time. Since you are a Doctor Who fan, I’m holding you personally responsible.
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Sent: Tue 6/03/08 7:31 PM
To: Kyle Ahern; B-Dog; Joe Essenhigh; David Litvinov; Griffin Masina; Smiley;
Hank Stewart
June 14 may be bastille day, but look at all the major historical events that occurred on June 7 (culled from some random website that comes up when I type, Historical Events June 7 on the Google search engine):
June 7, 1980 John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg for U.S. Open
June 7, 1780 Anti-Catholic riot in
June 7, 1557
June 7, 1839 Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed
June 7, 1990 Michael Jackson hospitalized for chest pains
June 7, 1982 President Reagan meets Pope John Paul II and Queen Elizabeth
June 7, 1798 Jews of
June 7, 1989 Wayne Gretzky wins his 9th NHL Hart (MVP) Trophy in 10 years
June 7, 1546
June 7, 1942 Battle of Midway ends: Adm Nimitz wins 1st WW II naval defeat of
June 7, 1929 Margaret Bondfield becomes 1st Dutch female minister (of Labor)
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P.S. – Steven Moffat is taking over creative control of Doctor Who in 2010, and Robert Carlysle will likely be the new Doctor, so the show will get better than it is now. Never fear.
P.P.S. – I haven’t seen Torchwood yet, so I don’t know if it is any good. The connection to classic Who, as I prefer it, seems tenuous at best. But there’s another spinoff, Sarah Jane Adventures, that looks good and traditionalist. And Elizabeth Sladen is God.
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From: Smiley
Sent: Tue 6/03/08 8:03 PM
To: Kyle Ahern; B-Dog;
a) July 14th is Bastille day
b) June 14th is flag day
c) live witness of the first triple crown winner in 30+ years with 110,000 is a different experience than betting with toothless Joe on the 14th
d) Smiley will be at Belmont Stakes on June 7th
e) Smiley has already booked a weekend in AC 4 the 13th and 14th
- Smiley
Voted “Coolest Fat Greek Man of all time,” 2008
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From: Griffin Masina
Tue 6/03/08 8:30 PM
To: Kyle Ahern; B-Dog;
Enjoy paying 7 dollars for a beer. Enjoy sitting in traffic on the Belt parkway.
Enjoy waiting behind a hundred people in line to place your bets. Enjoy it all.
you deserve it.
Inventor of aluminum foil
P.S. – DiPaolo, that was not an invitation to tell me the latest Dr. Who news. Learn to read between the lines.
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From: Joe Essenhigh
Tue 6/03/08 8:30 PM
To: Kyle Ahern; B-Dog;
I don’t care which weekend we go. Just don’t invite Chewbacca. I hate that guy.
- JE
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Tue 6/03/08 9:47 PM
To: Kyle Ahern; B-Dog; Joe Essenhigh; David Litvinov; Griffin Masina; Smiley; Hank Stewart
Actually, I can’t go on the 7th anyway. There’s a big conference on that weekend at Alvernia. Representatives of several Franciscan colleges will be celebrating Alvernia’s 50th anniversary on our campus. We’ll be discussing how to apply the teachings of Saint Francis to modern life. I expect to spend the weekend preaching the Gospels to my Tortoiseshell cat, Schon.
- Marc
P.S. – While old Dr. Who is better than new Dr. Who, the following new series episodes are fantastic, four-star extravaganzas: The Girl in the Fireplace, Blink, The Unquiet Dead, Dalek, The Empty Child, End of the World, School Reunion, The Idiot’s Lantern, Smith and Jones, Gridlock, Shakespeare Code, The Sound of Drums, Silence in the Library. The other episodes are mostly god awful, except for a middle-of-the-road Cyberman origin story and a pretty-good-Daleks-in-America romp.
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From: Griffin Masina
Sent: Tue 6/03/08 9:50 PM
To:
The 14th is when all of the cool people are going.
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Tue 6/03/08 9:53 PM
To: B-Dog; Marc DiPaolo; Joe Essenhigh; David Litvinov; Griffin Masina; Smiley; Hank Stewart
1- BYOB beer is better than bring your own cash for overpriced beer.
2- Smiley just jinxed Big Brown. Bet heavy on Casino Drive and Denis of Cork. You heard it here first. Never underestimate the Smiley jinx.
3- Toothlesss Joe (Griffin's Dad) is an Ok guy, will be there on the 14th and knows his horses better than Smiley.
4- Smiley will be at the Stakes. See item 2.
5- Stay out of AC on the weekend of June 14. Once again, see item 2.
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From: Smiley
Sent: Tue 6/03/08 11:03 PM
To: Kyle Ahern; B-Dog;
- Smiley
Mike Dukakis '08
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From: B-Dog
Sent: Tue 6/03/08 11:03 PM
To: Kyle Ahern;
Ah, Smiley. So calm, so tolerant, and not at all confrontational. Like a Buddhist monk.
(And here's where he starts lecturing me about the history of violence in Buddhism.)
Anyway, there's about a 65% chance that I'll be around. Sorry for the lame uncertainty; it depends, as usual, on a female and her impact on my schedule, not to mention my morale.
B-Dog
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From: Smiley
Sent: Tue 6/03/08 11:03 PM
To: Kyle Ahern; B-Dog;
Buddist uprising 1959 100,000 chinese nationals living in Tibet forced to marched over mountains in the dead of winter most died.
battle of Lahosa May 1959
Buddist forces killed 3,000 captured 10,000 Chinese People's Liberation army before the weapons stockplie was destroyed (likely by Chiense sympathizers tibetian buddists) and they were forced to surrender
Smiley
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From: B-Dog
Sent: Tue 6/03/08 11:03 PM
To: Kyle Ahern;
Clearly all true, as statistics must always be true.
But those were TIBETAN Buddhists, Smiley. Clearly I was comparing you to Theravada Buddhists instead. (Besides, you omitted the minor fact that China attacked first.)
And here's where he lectures me about violent adherents of Theravada. ;-)
B-Dog
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Subject: Good job
From: Griffin Masina
To: B-Dog
You're doing yeoman's work B-Dog. I'm in favor of anyone that gives a fool enough rope to hang themselves.Griffin MasinaEnthusiastic Observer
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