To Spit Or To Swallow?

I just received a note under my door from the landlord.  It reads as follows...

Dear Tenant,

It has been brought to our attention that tenants are smoking and spitting in the common areas of the building.  Smoking in the hallway is prohibited by the NYC Fire Code and subject to penalty.  Further, spitting is unacceptable and this disgusting habit must case immediately.

Please help us keep you building clean and habitable.

Ahh, yes, there is nothing like the classy people that live in the average NYC walk-up building.  While I don't know who the spitter is, I do know that the smoker is an older woman who smokes in the hallway because she doesn't want her granddaughter to inhale the smoke.  How lovely that she sends it to the rest of us.

(Loyal Rubinville readers might remember that a few years ago I wrote about how once when I saw her smoking in the hallway she hid the cigarette up her sleeve and then it literally looked as if her body was in fire as the smoke poured out of her jacket.)

Alright, that's about it for me.  Have a nice weekend.  Oh, and in case you didn't understand why I chose the picture above, those are llamas, natures most notorious spitters...

Keep Your Chin Up (Or Down)

This has been a very basketbally week here in Rubinville. This particular clip is actually quite informative, as it goes to show that if you can't dunk without a trampoline, you just shouldn't even try...

More this afternoon...

Oh, Joe!

VP Joe Biden, who I like, and not just for the verbal gaffes, had quite a brain freeze this morning on CBS' Early Show. Enjoy...

I'm not sure what "number" Joe was talking about, but I still think it was a closer word than anything John McCain would've come up with...

iTopical

Topical #33 was just posted and I think it is one of our best.  Mike Singer, Shawn Hollenbach and I discuss a bunch of stuff from the stimulus package to 5 Hour Energy to trying to disconnect from the internet when you're on vacation.  Click the link below, and listen in...

Click Me:  Topical 33

I Love This Game

If you didn't see how the Nets-Sixers game ended (oh, who am I kidding, we all know you didn't), then you need to see this bonkers shot that Devin Harris hit to end the game. There's nothing quite like seeing a pro do what they do best (along with a healthy amount of luck)...

Full post after I hit the gym to work the arms. You never know when I might get an opportunity to hit a shot like that...

Oscar Stuff, etc...

Any gay person, or friend of a gay person, or family member of a gay person, or human of decency, humanity or equality should watch to Milk screenplay winner Dustin Lance Black's acceptance speech from tonight's Oscars.

While I'm sure you can find a clip of it YouTube, in the meantime enjoy this interview I did for Talking About with JC Alvarez on Queens Time Warner Cable this past Friday...

Ouch and OUCH!

Check out this nutty video of the Milwaukee Bucks mascot first getting hit in the nuts by a basketball and then actually falling through the hoop. It would be more hilarious if he hadn't torn his ACL, but I guess that is the risk when you sign up for the gig...

My Big Lizard

So, despite my rejuvenated and refreshed self, it has been a little hard getting back into the swing of things here in NYC.  I keep thinking about the beach, the pool, the sun, and this lizard, who I met right behind the apartment.  He was with a friend, an even bigger, greener lizard, but that guy scampered off before I could snap a good pic of him.

Speaking of animals, everyone is going bonkers over this chimp that mauled a woman.  The big rumor now I'm hearing is that the owner of the chimp gave it Xanax and wine before the incident.  Now, I'm not saying I would or have mixed those two things before, but they do kinda seem like the last combination of things that would make you maul someone.

If we were talking wine and weed, well, then that's a whole other story.  But apparently, this chimp stopped smoking weed after the Michael Phelps thing.

A headline right now on FoxNews.com reads, "Pope Tells Pelosi To Reject Abortion."  Wow, I can't believe the pope banged Nancy Pelosi.  Can you picture that?  Horrible, right?  I feel like her vagina is even botoxed.

Okay, I'm gonna take a Xanax, have a glass of wine and walk my lizard...