He may have learned a lesson not promising a block party to celebrate local politics if he wins, but one thing he hasn’t discovered is loving America (or at least pretending) is key to holding office, especially in a blue collar small town. Day after day we’ve passed this scene, hoping it wouldn’t always be the case but we finally snapped a picture of the flag twisted up, stuffed and closed in the front door of his empty office as it's been for weeks. While Cupo should just take the flag down, we're hoping after a loss today he'll just close shop instead.
Meanwhile over on Chilltown Lunch, we have a new post on where to dine like a Hudson County politico.
Jasmine Moy, the former Soho House server turned lawyer oft quoted in the Daily Beast and Observer - and it turns out, close friend of an ex-girlfriend - is the anonymous blogger behind "Jazz... in strange places." This was a mystery we long sought to solve after, so thank you Twitter for being so good to us so many times over.
Last year was the first Music Marathon to have a press and artist's lounge full of free sneakers and jars of pomade but it failed to feed with an on-site Chipotle to serving starving musicians and bloggers for only one afternoon. This year's lounge is an improvement, with L'asso serving pies from 12 - 6 all week long then ending the week with two nights of semi-private pizza parties featuring the restaurant's favorite bands and comedians on hand to celebrate their five year anniversary. You can RSVP here for the festivities.
Diane Birch is also performing Saturday night, sinking her AM radio hooks into the only CMJ show this year being held at City Winery. Tickets are still available.
Until we got this Tweet:
We can't believe people still confuse us, but only because it was brought to our attention, we're compelled to bring it to yours. The real RG went on a three-day post-NYCWFF detox she's chronicled on her blog. We're not sure what's more amusing, that she only bothered to write three posts the first day and give up on it, or that she wrote these sentences:
"Apparently, I'm not be alone because Blueprint Cleanse just came out with a "juice with dinner" cleanse."
"Mustard and onions are started to seem appetizing on their own."
"Not most the productive day."
In other news, the Daily News has a new slate of food bloggers, here's her replacement.
Taking a break from writing about Jersey City lunch trucks for a day, we thought we'd catch up with what's going on across the river. Will Goldfarb came back big this year selling liquid nitrogen online and pulled pork on Wall Street but now that the summer sun's set on Battery Park and Picnick is closed up for the season, Goldfarb is back in Bali. The breakout success of two month old Picnick Smoked must have been enough for him as the business is now solely in the hands of Kevin Pomplun. That means no liquid nitrogen milkshakes anytime soon unless of course you'd like to try your hand making them at home.
UPDATE: To clarify what's written above. We said 1.) Picnick is closed for the season. 2.) Will Goldfarb is in Bali. 3.) Will Goldfarb is no longer involved in the preparation of food or day to day operations of Picnick Smoked leaving it in Kevin Pomplun's hands. No one disputes this! No controversy! And we like Kevin! Everybody calm down and get yourselves some liquid nitrogen ice cream at Lulu & Mooky's.
